CALIcon 2016: “The Year of Learning Dangerously”

CALIcon is coming. In fact registration for the June 16-18 conference taking place at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta is now open. I haven’t had the opportunity to attend CALI’s* “Conference for Law School Computing” but very intrigued by their theme this time around: “The Year of Learning Dangerously.”

One of the nice things about CALIcon is the availability of sessions from previous conferences including a YouTube archive grouped by year. These are full one hour sessions with abstracts, video and often slides and other documents. I took a quick look at last year’s offerings and thought I’d share this batch of titles that piqued my current interests.

• Adjusting To the New Legal Research Paradigm: Best Practices For Search Engine Optimization For Legal Scholarship / Todd Venie, Avery Le, Taryn Marks.
  http://conference.cali.org/2015/sessions/adjusting-new-legal-research-paradigm-best-practices-search-engine-optimization-legal-schol
• Curiosity, Creative Play, and Proactive Innovation / Chris Bombardo, Jamie Wilson.
  http://conference.cali.org/2015/sessions/curiosity-creative-play-and-proactive-innovation
• Enough to Be Dangerous: 00000110 Things Every Beginner Needs to Know about Coding / Jason Tubinis, Leslie Grove.
  http://conference.cali.org/2015/sessions/enough-be-dangerous-00000110-things-every-beginner-needs-know-about-coding
• I Was Told There Would Be No Math: Basic Data Analysis for Lawyers, Librarians, and Other Chronic Math-Avoiders / Joshua Pluta.
  http://conference.cali.org/2015/sessions/i-was-told-there-would-be-no-math-basic-data-analysis-lawyers-librarians-and-other-chronic-
• Mind Mapping: A Tool for Clinical Professors in Training the 21st Century Attorney / Brett Stohs.
  http://conference.cali.org/2015/sessions/mind-mapping-tool-clinical-professors-training-21st-century-attorney
• Pedagogy & Practicality: Teaching Legal Tech to Law Students at the Legal Information Institute / Craig Newton.
  http://conference.cali.org/2015/sessions/pedagogy-practicality-teaching-legal-tech-law-students-legal-information-institute
• Prep It, Scan It, and Describe It: Production Tools and Techniques for Description and Rapid Digitization of Manuscripts and Texts / Steve Chapman, Paul Deschner.
  http://conference.cali.org/2015/sessions/prep-it-scan-it-and-describe-it-production-tools-and-techniques-description-and-rapid-digit
• Rutgers Law Library Goes Open Source: The Switch to Koha / Caroline Young, John Joergensen, Joy Nelson.
  http://conference.cali.org/2015/sessions/rutgers-law-library-goes-open-source-switch-koha
• Taking up Slack: Renergizing Group Communications in the 21st Century / Elmer Masters.
  http://conference.cali.org/2015/sessions/taking-slack-renergizing-group-communications-21st-century

Plenty of others to explore!

* The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction.