Instructional Technology - Other Technology Tools
Blogs
A BLOG is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Blogs often provide commentary on a particular subject. The term "blog" is a contraction of "Web log."
Law-related Blogs:
- ABA Journal - a directory of Legal Blogs
- Blawgs - a directory of Legal Blogs
- Law Professor Blogs a network of blogs designed from the ground-up to assist law professors in their scholarship and teaching. Each site focuses on a particular area of law and combines regularly-updated permanent resources and links, and daily news and information of interest to law professors.)
- U Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
- Georgetown Law School Faculty Blog
- Concurring Opinions (The Law, the Universe and Everything)
- Prawfsblawg (6 profs from various law schools express their views)
- FSU College of Law Library Blog
- RSS Feeds for Legal Topics
- Classcaster (a course blogging system that provides faculty of CALI member schools with a new way to interact with students and communities.)
Albany Law School Blogs:
- Instructional Technologist's Blog
- Law of the Land - Blog by Dean Salkin
- Under The Robes - Blog by Prof. Queenan for her Lawyering class
- Same-Sex Union in the Conflict of Laws - Blog by Prof. Clark
- Community Benefits Agreements - Blog by GLC Attorney Amy Lavine
- IBT News Blog - Blog by Prof. Ota's International Business Transactions Seminar
- Best Practices for Legal Education - Blog by Prof. Lynch et al.
- Schaffer Library Blog
More blogs coming soon...
Wikis
A WIKI (contraction of "wiki wiki," the Hawaiian term for fast) is a type of website that allows the visitors to easily add, remove, edit and change some available content. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring.
Resources on Wikis:
Law-related Wikis:
- Legal Wikis Are Bound to Wow You" - post about legal wikis and a list of many law-related wikis
- WiKi-Law
- A course Wiki at Harvard Law School
- Northeastern Law School Wiki
- Lawguru.com
Albany Law Wikis:
- Prof. Armstrong's Lawyering Class Wiki (Fall 2007)
- Prof. Armstrong's Civil Procedure Class Wiki (Fall 2007)
Podcasts
A PODCAST is a multimedia file distributed over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. A podcast is generally analogous to a recorded radio series.
Albany Law Podcasts:
More podcasts coming soon...
Other Law School Podcasts:
- U of Chicago Law School
- California Western Law School
- Lewis and Clark Law School
- Newark Law School
- U Denver Law School
- Hofstra Law School
- Rutgers Law School
- Duke Law School
- Dedman School of Law
A Teaching with Technology White Paper on Podcasting published June 2007
John Mayer's talk on Podcasting in Law schools at Educause 2006
Podcasting for Lawyers Podcast
Results of Law Student Survey on Podcasting
How Law Students Use Podcasts to Get Ahead
TWEN
TWEN
is an online extension of the law school classroom. Using TWEN, professors can create and manage courses online, access and post course materials in document pages, create assignments that students can receive and submit, organize and participate in class forum discussions, administer online quizzes, exchange e-mails with other professors and students, and more.Journal Article: Using Course Webpages to Fill Gaps Within Traditional Law School Instruction
Videoconferencing
A videoconference
is a set of interactive telecommunications technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously.Videoconferencing at Albany Law School - Albany Law School offers real-time, interactive video conferencing using H.323 IP (Internet Protocol). Recent renovations have equipped several rooms with this videoconferencing capability. The goal of this equipment is support distance learning, guest lecturers, and experts and to support Law School teaching and research. Requests for videoconferencing service need to be made at least two weeks before the scheduled conference. Upon receiving a videoconferencing request, the staff schedules a test connection with the remote site ahead of time, trouble-shoots any possible problem and establishes connection with remote site on the day of video conference.
- U343 currently has a Tandberg 6000 which is able to conduct IP videoconferencing (our IP is: 209.177.52.100 )
- Dean Alexander and E115 will have IP videoconferencing capability by the Fall of 2007
- Albany Law School no longer supports ISDN connections.
- Each participating site must have a CODEC unit capable of transmitting compressed video/audio over IP (Internet Protocol).
Resources Related to Videoconferencing
- Florida State University College of Law and St. Thomas University School of Law team up to go high tech
- Washburn University School of Law's inventory of videoconferencing capabilities available at law schools
- CODEC's (Consortium for Distance Education from CALI) Introduction to Videoconferencing -
- Distance Education At A Glance
- Videoconferencing Cookbook
- Videoconferencing for Learning
- Advantages of Videoconferencing Grow with Use (a study by Federal Judicial Center)
- It's Prime Time for Videoconferencing in Court
Virtual Worlds
A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment intended for its users to inhabit and interact via avatars. Two main 3-D classroom platforms exist for law schools: Second Life created by Linden Lab, and There.com, from Makena Technologies.
CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion is a class jointly offered by Harvard Law School and Harvard Extension School in the world of "Second Life." Currently, New York Law School cosponsors an offshoot of There.com: the State of Play Academy, or SOPA, an entire academy built in a virtual world. Users can take courses in patent law, copyright law, virtual world law, and municipal WiFi policy, among others. The classes are scheduled at a wide variety of times; law professors, journalists, and technologists line up to teach them.
Resources Related to Virtual Worlds:
- State of Play Academy
- Blog on the Legal Issues that Impact Virtual Worlds
- The journey of a First Year Property Law course (at Seattle University School of Law) investigating Second Life
Adobe Connect
Adobe Connect is a web based system that also has the capability to broadcast live audio and video any place where the student has high speed access to the Internet. To participate in this option, a student only needs the free Adobe Flash plug-in installed on his/her computer. A microphone and webcam is optional. At the present time, the Legal Profession course is taught using this software. More courses will use this technology in the fall.
Resources related to Adobe Connect:
MediaNotes
MediaNotes is a video/audio tagging application which allows a professor to analyze/annotate student video/audio performances. This service will be used primarily by professors teaching Clinic courses.
Resources related to MediaNotes: