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The theme for this year’s conference is "Some Assembly Required."

We are constructing our future, here in the present. We have many excellent technologies, but figuring out how to use them to serve the educational, scholarly, professional and public service missions of law school is an ongoing challenge. This year’s theme is a double entendre meant to explicitly evoke that our future is not pre-packaged or purchased from a vendor – some assembly is required to make the pieces fit into our institutional cultures. (Read More...)

Because of technological, economic, and market pressures, the way we practice law is rapidly evolving. Law students, are you prepared for these changes in law practice? Law faculty, are you preparing your students? CALI is offering a FREE nine-week online course on Topics in Digital Law Practice to help address these issues starting Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2pm ET.

Register here.

I have a box of tissues on my desk that’s decorated like a bookshelf. My mother jokingly gave it to me when I started at CALI just in case I started to miss being surrounded by books all day. The thing is, though, I’m still surrounded by books all day.

Another new CALI Lesson feature: print a score certificate outside of a lesson at cali.org, even after the lesson has been finalized.

We start the Spring semester with a surprise new feature for CALI Lesson users: lesson resume. Here’s a quick tour:

• The resume feature is automatic. If you leave a lesson by any means such as closing the browser or turning off the computer, you’ll be able to resume later…that is, unless you complete and finalize (more on that below).
• There’s an Exit & Resume Later link in the upper right that has the same effect as above.
• To resume a lesson in the same spot with the same score, login to cali.org and click “My Lesson Runs“ in the right hand menu.
• When you get to the end of a lesson, you’ll be given the option to complete and finalize your lesson. If you take this option, you cannot resume that lesson. You can, of course, run the same lesson again from the beginning. There’s also a “Complete the Lesson” link in the table of contents if you’d like to finalize your score prior to hitting the final screen.

Here’s a more detailed FAQ on the new CALI Lesson resume feature.

If you’re attending the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, join us Friday morning for breakfast and a brief presentation about CALI’s work in electronic casebooks, new online teaching tools, technology to integrate practice into teaching, and other innovations in legal education and access to justice.

To reserve your place at the breakfast, please RSVP by December 28, 2011.

I bet the overlap between CALI Conference attendees and those who played with Leg…

Wait. Oh, hi Deb, CALI General Counsel and colleague with whom I share an office wall...

 Recently, the Colorado Supreme Court posted a proposal for adding public domain citations to Colorado case law. As part of the proposal, they asked for comments from the public. CALI submitted a response – which includes some suggestions for changes to the proposal – that appears below.

CALI is extending the deadline for the Administrative Law Fellowship to Friday, January 13, 2012. Details about the Fellowship are here.

The air is getting crisp, Starbucks changed from their white to red cups and law students are running around in a frenzy trying to get ready for their fall finals.  Yes, it truly is  the most wonderful time of the year.

I recently had the opportunity to attend the 8th annual Open Education Conference in Utah along with CALI’s Executive Director, John Mayer.

Last week was all about education. True, every week in my job is about education. But last week it was about education on the road. My teachers were 8th graders, paralegal educators and The Big Bang Theory.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE CALI BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CALI Lessons are created using CALI Author, a software that faculty and staff at member schools can use freely. We just released CALI Author 4.1.8. CALI Author's AutoPublish feature lets you customize an existing CALI Lesson or create your own original, self-publish your creation, share it with your students, and track its usage. Read about AutoPublish improvements.

Our authors create CALI Lessons using special software built by CALI: CALI Author. The software is free for staff and faculty at CALI member schools, and we just released CALI Author version 4.1.8 this month.