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6TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR LAW SCHOOL COMPUTING
Wednesday, May 29, 1996 Thursday, May 30, 1996
Friday, May 31, 1996 Saturday, June 1, 1996
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
565 West Adams Chicago, IL 60661
YEAR OF THE ELECTRONIC AUTHOR
If you are publishing an electronic casebook, writing a CALI lesson,
posting class materials on a Web site, interacting with students via email,
or are involved with the support, maintenance and development of these
activities, then you are participating in ELECTRONIC AUTHORSHIP.
This conference has something for faculty, technical staff, librarians,
educators, support staff and anyone who is involved with computing in law
schools. The name of the conference has been changed to reflect this
broader mission and the pervasiveness of computing in legal education. I
hope you join us!
Our online 1996 Conference brochure will be updated continually as more
complete descriptions of conference sessions become available. Point your
browsers to http://www.cali.org/96conf.
We would like to express our appreciation to the conference's corporate
sponsors:
LEXIS-NEXIS Microsoft
West Publishing
Little, Brown & Co. Matthew Bender Shepard's
John Mayer, Executive Director, CALI
jmayer@kentlaw.edu
* This is a TENTATIVE SCHEDULE subject to change without notice *
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29
Lexis-Nexis Electronic Authors Workshop
Who Should Attend This Workshop? FACULTY who are writing their
own electronic course materials. FACULTY who are thinking of writing
their own electronic course materials. FACULTY who are planning to
use electronic course materials in the 1996-97 academic year. Attendees
are encouraged to bring works-in-progress or materials to experiment with
this new medium.
* The morning session will be an introduction to electronic publishing
with the focus on how to use the Lexis‘-Nexis‘ Faculty Office to
create or customize electronic course materials.
* Find out how to integrate CALI lessons with your electronic course
materials. The morning session will include a presentation by CALI
on integrating CALI lessons.
* The afternoon sessions will be devoted to hands-on and individual
instruction. Expert students and staff will answer your questions and
get you started on publishing your own works.
Space is limited to 60 participants
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 30
Legal Education Publishers Track
Lexis-Nexis and West Publishing will present their technology services and
products for legal education Thursday morning.
* West Publishing will demonstrate and discuss a variety of new
electronic products for law schools. The West Education Network
has been used this school year by over a hundred professors and
thousands of students at test schools across the country. Electronic
textbooks and course materials from West and Foundation Press will
be available at schools next year and new electronic authoring tools
will be available to professors. West's new outlining software,
InfoDepot, will enable professors and students to better organize the
materials they collect from a variety of sources. You are cordially
invited to participate and provide feedback on these and other
products at West's Thursday morning sessions.
* Lexis-Nexis will present programs on the actual use of electronic
course materials in the classroom. Professors who have authored
and used electronic course materials in the past year will talk about
their experiences and offer advice to those who are just now
venturing into the new medium. Lexis-Nexis will also discuss author
services and products including an update on the Millennium
Initiative, the Student/Faculty Office, Lexis-Nexis Electronic
Author's Press (LEAP) and Law School's Online.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 30
Legal Education Publishers Track
* Matthew Bender will present "Authority," its new line of Folio
driven electronic publications for law professionals.
* Technology advances in CD-ROM, online services and the Internet
can and will generate significant changes in legal research techniques
and opportunities. Mr. Gary Spivey, Vice President of Electronic
Product Development for Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, will discuss these
changes and the impact on legal education focusing primarily on the
citations approach to research.
* Little, Brown & Co. will present its electronic casebook series, a
high-quality electronic product for legal education, and introduce you
to its home page on the World Wide Web
(http://wwwlittlebrown.com).
CALI Track
* Experience the new features in CALI-IOLIS and see demonstrations
of the winning entries in the Donald Trautman CALI Lesson Writing
Competition.
* Find out more about the "exam processor": CALI-EXAM which
contains multiple choice questions from hundreds of exams collected
by the Institute for Law School Teaching at Gonzaga University
School of Law.
Novices
* Has the hype of the World Wide Web passed you by? Here's an
intro for complete beginners.
* Is your school using your local network to its fullest capacity? Do
you understand what a local area network is and how it works for
you? This session is for folks new to network computing.
Additional Sessions
* It's time for SGML . . . no, REALLY!
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, MAY 31 and JUNE 1, 1996
Keynote Speaker from Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
Friday Afternoon Plenary: Arthur Miller of Harvard Law School
Saturday Closing Plenary:Bridging the Gap: Leadership in Information
Access
The Internet and computer technologies open up new possibilities for
improving access to legal information and reducing costs to government
and public interest disseminators. Law schools can help in the
development of these possibilities and, not only increase the quality of the
learning experience at the law school, but play a key role in determining
public information policy. The law school community has an opportunity
to help design the future and create the models that will lay the foundation
for a new era in access to legal information.
Tech Track
* Which operating system - Win95 or WindowsNT is best for your
desktop?
* Microsoft Word is bidding to unseat WordPerfect as the most
popular word processor for legal education. What features drive this
bid? What benefits are to be gained?
* Microsoft is putting the Internet into all of its application software.
Find out more about Microsoft's family of Internet products for
communicating, searching and publishing on the Net.
* The great debate! Three experts duke it out. Which is the best
network operating system for your institution? WindowsNT v.
Novell Netware v. UNIX.
Electronic Faculty
* Experienced faculty discuss integrating electronic course materials
and e-mail into their classes. Two case studies followed by
discussion with the audience. Participation encouraged!
* How is multimedia being used in the classroom? What software and
hardware is best? The presenters have surveyed faculty and report
their results.
* Using Technology to Teach: Using document assembly software to
teach advanced legal drafting and using CALI lessons in academic
support.
Educational Technology Track
* Are you considering developing multimedia educational materials, or
using multimedia products in your teaching? You won't want to
miss this program. David Arfin and David Simon of the CLE
Group, distributors of The Interactive Courtroom‘ and the cle.Net‘
Web site, will present a session on multimedia production and online
delivery of multimedia. David Simon will talk about technical issues
in the development of multimedia products. David Arfin will talk
about multimedia's advantages and how to use multimedia most
effectively. Mr. Arfin will also answer questions about managing
multimedia projects.
* There's more to writing a CALI lesson than you think. This session
delves into the tricks and traps of creating effective and exceptional
legal courseware.
* (Moved from last item on Saturday) What tools are available to
extend the classroom experience? Use of electronic mail, Internet
news and Web technology will be examined as an integrated support
system for virtual classrooms.
Legal Research and Support Track
* How effective is legal research on the Internet? A panel of
experienced law librarians discuss using the tools available on the
Internet to find the law.
* Several law schools including Emory, Villanova, Pace and others
have been aggressively posting or pointing to source legal materials
on the Web from the judicial circuits and the federal government.
This session presents an overview of their efforts and other resources
on the Web for legal education.
* How big is the Web? How any people are using it? What are they
using it for? There have been quite a few serious surveys conducted
in the recent past. This session will present overview results of
several of these surveys and will examine their methodologies and
how the information is gathered and analyzed.
Cyberlaw
* Bring your legal questions!! CALI's legal counsel, Mary Dicig of
Gardner, Carton & Douglas, and Joleen Willis of Wildman Harrold
Allen & Dixon, will provide an update on the ever-evolving world of
cyberlaw.
Law School Computing Track
* See two popular Web servers installed before your very eyes. This
session will also cover installation and maintenance issues regarding
Netscape's Commerce Server product.
* Use Web technology to deliver information within your institution.
These are called "Intranets." This session will look at how you can
gain greater efficiencies and benefits using the World Wide Web
within your own local world.
* How do you deliver CD-ROMs to DOS, Windows and MacIntosh
clients over both TCP/IP and Netware networks. The answer is
LINUX! This session will present a case study of how LINUX can
be at the center of a network resource delivery system.
* Do you have a strategic plan for your information technology
initiatives? This session will examine how strategic planning can be
accomplished and how it will benefit your institution.
* Are you building a new facility or upgrading the one you are in?
New construction is a fantastic opportunity to introduce new
technology into your institution. Find out what issues and
opportunities are available.
* Client/Server technology is the way to go for your new
administrative computing projects. This session is a case study of
how this can be accomplished followed by discussion.
EXTRA-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Thursday Evening, May 30 - PAINTBALL!!
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted
armed men long enough and like it, never care for anything else
thereafter.
-- Ernest Hemingway
This game is particularly for the ladies. There is nothing wrong with
splatting a few men in the face, is there?? It's time to take out those
aggressions, on each other. The Chicago Paintball Factory is designed as
an abandoned city -- complete with cars, car wreck scenes and more. All
players are fully equipped and trained by the facility's personnel. It's an
absolute must. Play will begin once the forces gather after the CALI
Chicago-style Pizza Party and Vendor's Nite.
Friday Evening, May 31, 7:00 p.m. - DINNER THEATER, TONY N'
TINA'S WEDDING
Attend a wedding, at a CALI Conference?!?! But wait, this isn't just a
wedding. This is improvised madness. Okay, yes, so, it is a typical
wedding. Nonetheless, this is the wedding you've always talked about,
snickered about, imagined. Tony 'n Tina's Wedding satires an Italian-
American wedding. The audience attends the ceremony at the "Chapel of
Love," goes through the receiving line into the rambunctious reception at
"Vinnie Black's Coliseum," participates in the champagne toast, has dinner
surrounded by decor exuding the ultimate "tacky" banquet hall, and shares
in the wedding cake. It's improv, so as the champagne flows, the
wedding party may get sloshed, the bride could kiss the wrong man at the
cutting of the cake, Sister Albert Maria may dance to the International
Medley, and the audience is part of it all. Italian buffet, champagne and
dessert included.
Saturday Evening, June 1 - DAVE & BUSTER'S
Good food and a vast array of fun, games and excitement. Dave &
Buster's Million Dollar Midway features over 300 electronic simulators
and games of skill. The Midway is both a blast into the future and a blast
from the past. It has the latest in virtual reality and electronic simulators
as well as a collection of classic, tried and true favorites. There are even
some sports games-of-skill. And, CALI has reserved D&B's 19th Hole,
an indoor golf simulator featuring several PGA Tournament Players
Courses, for our group. The Grand Dining Room provides casual
elegance in a comfortable atrium atmosphere. Four-course meal and
tokens to play the games included.
Registration Form
Questions about registration?
Call Janis Jawny at 312-906-5348 or jjawny@kentlaw.edu.
Mail or Fax this form to:CALI Janis Jawny
c/o 1996 Conference 312-906-5338 - fax
565 West Adams
Chicago, IL 60661
Please use one form for each registration.
Name:
Title:
University, Company or Institution:
Law School:
Address:
City: State: Zip:
Voice Phone: Fax:
Email:
PLEASE CHECK ONLY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
[__] I will only attend the Conference for Law School Computing
(Thursday - Saturday)
[__] I will attend *BOTH* the Conference and the Electronic Casebook
Authoring Workshop on Wednesday.**
PLEASE CHECK ONLY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
[__] I will be attending the conference at the CALI member rate of $195.
[__] I attend the conference at the NON-CALI member rate of $495.
[__] I will be attending the conference at the Corporate Rate of $995.
[__] I am speaking at the conference, waive my registration fee.
Continental breakfast and lunch on all days are included in the cost of
registration. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided Thursday night.
Dinner on Friday and Saturday nights is optional and requires prepayment
as indicated below. PLEASE MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO CALI.
PLEASE CHECK ALL THAT APPLY:
[__] I will be joining my colleagues on Thursday night for an evening of
PAINTBALL at a cost of $25.
[__] I will attend the Dinner and Theater at Tony and Tina's Wedding on
Friday night at a cost of $50.
[__] I will attend Dinner and Gamesmanship at Dave & Buster's on
Saturday night at a cost of $30.
Hotel Information: We have reserved a block of rooms at the following
hotels. Make sure that you mention that you are attending the CALI
CONFERENCE in order to get the discounted rate. Bus service will be
provided between the hotels and the conference site in the mornings and
evenings and to and from extra-conference events.
Executive Plaza Holiday Inn Mart Plaza
71 East Wacker Drive North Orleans
Chicago, IL 60601-3706 Chicago, IL
800-621-4005 800-HOLIDAY (800-465-4329)
312-346-1721 - fax 312-222-9508 - fax
** The Electronic Casebook Authoring Workshop is limited to 60
participants. Registrations accepted first-come, first-serve.
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John Mayer voice (312) 906-5307
Executive Director fax (312) 906-5338
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction 565 West Adams
JMAYER@KENTLAW.EDU Chicago, IL 60661
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