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Educating the Digital Lawyer
Long hiatus — got caught up in writing deadlines gridlock which I'm still not clear of. Plus I'm uneasy with the direction that Typepad are taking their blogging software (too commercial for me) and am looking for alternatives, probably WordPress, combining this with a more substantial site with publications etc. Still planning that. Meanwhile, am…
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Sensus communis: experiential learning and the law school curriculum
This is a plenary presentation being given at the IJCLE Conference at Northumbria Law School. Keynote slides at the usual place. It focuses on the place of Francis Hutcheson in an alternative tradition to that of the liberal law school, calling on Dewey and others; and is a version of a chapter I've written for…
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Webcasts: pace & rhythm
Been thinking about this, since we're engaged in a project that incorporates them at Northumbria Law School. Talking to staff today it was borne in on me yet again how much lectures are culturally more sophisticated events than we tend to think.
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Research Day, Student Law Office, Northumbria U.
The Student Law Office (SLO), or law clinic, is one of the most fascinating elements of Northumbria's Law School. I'll be writing about it more in the future, but yesterday we held a research day, where we discussed directions for research on clinical and experiential learning. Carol Boothby and I led it — a mix…
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HEA conference, roundup
On the train, back to Newcastle. Reflections on the last two days…
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HEA conference, day two, nomadic devices
The blurb for this session — 'we will discuss how nomadic technology will utterly transform learning' — is irresistible. Stuart Smith (3 Sheep Ltd, in association with MIMAS), started by defining nomadic learners pretty broadly as anyone with mobile devices + travel + working & learning. He started with the example of a hairdressing…
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HEA conference, day two, Simshare session
No surprise that I was at this session since I was part of the team delivering it, with Karen Barton and Patricia McKellar. Lots of ideas re SIMPLE and other sims, Simshare and OER slides in 30 mins… Questions were taken, eg about the sustainability of digital resources — good point, though it goes beyond…
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HEA conference, day two, mobile learning
Linked to HEA IMPALA. Good to see IMPALA as the basis for this work — really good project. Session on mobile learning by mobile devices and educational context, by Don Vinson, Simon Padley and Joanna Hardman, U. of Gloucestershire. Physical sciences disciplinary context, but in many ways applicable to almost all disciplines. Three examples were…
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HEA conference, day two, Panel
Quality was the agenda for the Panel session. What sort? Quality based on diversity, of students and institutions was Aaron Porter's answer. But, he warned, if students are going to be paying more for that experience, there needs to be a better experience. They can't be expected to be given the same at a higher…
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HEA conference, day two
Attended session by Sue Watling on 'Gutenberg to Google: access denied'. Interesting points on disability and access to digital data — she compared access to physical access, lowered kerbs, etc. One basic point was that the shift to a Windows GUI was a setback to access because of the visual cues it introduced to the…
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HEA conference, day one
Am at the Annual HEA conference, this year being held at the U. of Hertfordshire, de Havilland campus. On budget day. Folk are checking the plasmas in the breakout areas, not for the football/tennis results, but to see how bad it will be for education. Subdued atmosphere, in spite of the blistering weather. Keynote by…
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Relax, focus, shoot: the Altman approach to legal education multimedia
Hugely busy so this is the first post in ages… Recently I was reading a review of a book on Robert Altman, one of my top ten film directors of all time. As an Arts student in the seventies I was affected by his films more than most others – to this day I’ve never…