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BILETA Conference, Legal Education 3
I’m chairing AND presenting at this session on our iPad project, iLEGALL, so reeeally scrappy. But here goes. I’ll post my slides later onto this site. I was introducing mobile learning generally. Jonathan and Rebecca Mitchell were up next, talking about the pluses and minuses of student use of the iPad. Slides will be up…
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BILETA Conference, Richard Susskind keynote
Richard Susskind now on giving his keynote lecture — ‘What are we training young lawyers to become?’ Overview: the past biletas… three drivers, case studies, lawyer…? and finally legal education. Richard has given 3 bileta keynotes: expert systems (1980s), shift in paradigm (1990s), online legal service (2000s). His work reflects predominant concerns of the decades.…
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BILETA Conference Legal Education 2
Second session, and I’m chairing so this will be a bit scrappy. First up, Emily Allbone, law librarian at City U, talking about her excellent Lawbore project. Originally a gateway project created by Emily, it’s now much much more. She has topic guides, a hub, the Future Lawyer blog, and Learnmore. The last is a…
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BILETA Conference, Legal Education 1
Live-blogging of our conference has begun! Dean Kerrigan of NU Law School opened the conference — Gavin Sutter is our new Chair and we’ll be breaking out into small groups. I’m going to join the legal education session for most of the day. Sefton Bloxham is in the Chair, and announced that HEA is offering…
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BILETA2012: conference essay
‘Too many laws, too few examples’. Our conference theme is a quotation from the French revolutionary, Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just. It goes to the heart of a long debate about regulation – how best to regulate human activities, and inspire good conduct. Saint-Just was in no doubt: he states the case in words…
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LETR draft literature review now available
We’ve just made public the draft version of the literature review for the Legal Education & Training Review — see the Literature Review page on the LETR project website. More information below the fold.
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Tasks and conversations
Good post over on the Best Practices blog, Before you ban – empirical data on student laptop use, blogged by Kevin Ramakrishna, from Prof Kim Novak Morse’s doctoral dissertation (how refreshing to see someone’s area of expertise described as ‘legal writing’). The laptop use is of course in-class (I guess what we’d call, in the…
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Gloss & (we)blink
Idle thought for a seminar: describe glossed literature, show examples + gloss tools. Issue folio or better still A1 sized sheets, and ask folk to begin to design textura and gloss, in small groups. Then the pages are passed around, and others add to the glosses. Go online: do the same with a wiki: compare…
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Liveblogging
Liveblogging an event is basically where you do just that — blog it as it happens. Nice post, via Stephen Downes’ Oldaily, from Matt Thompson over at Poynter, on how to do it and why he likes doing it. Stephen summarises it well — – a liveblog forces you to genuinely pay attention – it…
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Winter
Officially here, at last, with the first major snow sighting from the Glencoe SSC Hut cam, below, and snow levels in the Highlands at 300m over the weekend. Can’t wait to get out there. Or here — Caucasus, I think, from around 10,500m, on the way back from Australia. …
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Interpretation, narrative, sim learning
You know how it is: you talk about things at a seminar or workshop, and then you rehearse it afterwards, the things you should have said, directions you might have taken but didn’t. One of the things I should have talked about in the optional APLEC workshop, if there had been time, was the power…