Posted on February 8, 2010 by Patty Salkin
Note: This is a continuing weblog describing my experiences teaching an on-line course in government ethics.
The on-line government ethics course this semester has already benefitted from a number of internet-based resources as well as teleconferencing. With one of my early organizing goals to keep the “virtual class” as interactive as possible through the use of [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2010 by Justin Myers
The conversation that follows reminds me that when we, those supportive of the Best Practice model, use words like “innovation” and “engagement,” what we really mean is effective innovation and efficient engagement. When venturing away from the traditional delivery methods in the name of engagement and innovation, the most effective and efficient delivery methods must [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2010 by Patty Salkin
After setting course learning outcomes for the on-line government ethics course, I had to revise my syllabus to better match my goals and desired outcomes mindful of the on-line format, and I had to develop creative strategies for creating a vibrant virtual discussion that would satisfactorily create a functional equivalent of an in-person classroom discussion.
To [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2010 by Patty Salkin
With the recent focus on outcomes for learning, I decided to provide students taking the first on-line course at Albany Law School with written goals for the semester. The following was posted for the students:
COURSE GOALS:
By the end of the course, students who participate fully should be able to:
1) APPLY acquired knowledge of government ethics [...]
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Posted on January 14, 2010 by Justin Myers
For the better part of the last decade, students in Albany Law’s Domestic Violence Prosecution Hybrid Clinic have used a computer program called “You Be the Judge” to help them sharpen their evidentiary objections. It takes about forty-five minutes for students to complete a simulated trail during which they must object to various pieces of evidence [...]
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Posted on January 12, 2010 by Patty Salkin
There are many technical issues to explore when setting up an on-line course. The most important resource with respect to all aspects of technical course design was our superstar instructional technologist at Albany Law School, Darlene Cardillo (here is a link to her technology blog: http://albanylawtech.wordpress.com). What follows are some of the important issues explored [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2010 by Patty Salkin
This semester I will be teaching the first all on-line course at Albany Law School. The topic is government ethics. The desire to experiment with the course format and new technology is due in part to the fact that each spring semester we send students to Washington, DC for a semester in government program (in [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2009 by Mary Lynch
(Continuing Report on U of Maryland’s 3/6 Conference)
The third panel presentation organically and beautifully modeled how to teach and communicate in accord with Best Practices. (I will post the webcast to the Events tab above as soon as I receive it so you can view the discussion and interaction).
First, CUNY Professor Sue Bryant led an interactive [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2009 by Mary Lynch
Darlene Cardillo, instructional technologist at Albany Law School, sent me the link to her article entitled, The Use of Clickers in the Law School Classroom, which was recently published in THE LAW TEACHER (pp.13-14). http://blog.engaging-technologies.com/2009/02/cps-clickers-in-law-school-classroom.html
Darlene has written an excellent article about Professor Daniel Moriarty’s use of clickers in his 1L Criminal law class and how [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2008 by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Since I shared the first couple of emails in the current debate at UNM about laptops, I asked Alfred Mathewson if I could share his response. He is working on using the lap tops as a teaching tool!
“I am probably moving in the opposite direction of most of my colleagues here and in most law [...]
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Posted on June 22, 2008 by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
My colleague Rob Schwartz is addressing the laptop issue in New Mexico this summer while teaching in the Pre Law Summer Program for Indian Students (PLSI) run by the Indian Law Center. Here is his response to Sergio Pareja’s email (described in my last post).
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Posted on June 20, 2008 by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
One of my colleagues from the University of New Mexico, Sergio Pareja is here in Guanajuato teaching International Business Transactions. He wrote the following email to our faculty about laptop use in the classroom. I thought it would be of interest to other classroom teachers, so I asked him if I could share it with this [...]
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Posted on June 4, 2008 by Darlene Cardillo
At the conclusion of our second year of using “clickers” (the CPS system from eInstruction) in several classes at Albany Law School, I asked students in the Criminal Law class what they thought…
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Posted on May 29, 2008 by Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
More synchronicity in the slow but steady march to transform legal education. This email floated across the family law list serve. This is an exciting project!
Dear Colleagues:
We are pleased to announce a new initiative to help us address the integration of family law and family practice in the classroom. In this email, we describe our [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2008 by Darlene Cardillo
If you were uable to attend this conference, you can view the PowerPoint slides from a Presentation by Paul Maharq and Liz Li:
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Here’s more about the conference:
Paul’s Blog: http://zeugma.typepad.com/zeugma/2008/02/the-future-of-l.html
Law School Innovation’s”Live Blogging” – http://lsi.typepad.com/lsi/2008/02/liveblogging-th.html
PPT Slides from some of the Presentations – http://lsi.typepad.com/lsi/2008/02/more-stuff-from.html
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