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Reflecting on blogs in assessment
(University of Sunderland) outlines the use of blogs on a first year LLB module. Chris is interested in hearing about other law schools’ experiences with blogs – perhaps by forging partnerships with other departments a national or ultimately international online blogging…
Web 2.0 and unconventional sources: paradigm shift for law student essays?
temptation automatically to dismiss sources as blogs and the like, and need to appreciate that they may constitute valuable source material. Examples were given of blogs written by authoritative and well known academics which were extremely pertinent and current, often constitut…
Ladders 2 Law: e-mentoring aspiring lawyers
weblog The e-mentoring takes place on weblogs, online journals enabling mentors and mentees to discuss a range of topics. A secure communications framework is used to ensure that only named users can gain access to the blogs, with mentors and mentees authorised following appr…
Contact UKCLE
You can contact UKCLE by mail, phone, fax, e-mail or by visiting us. UK Centre for Legal Education University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL Tel: 024 7652 3117 Fax: 024 7652 3290 E-mail: ukcle@warwick.ac.uk We are based in the School of Law at the University of War…
Adapting law school learning to the 21st century: constructing improved learning environments
In this paper presented at Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008 Catherine Dunham and Steven Friedland (Elon University School of Law, USA) advocate greater use of e-learning, particularly in the classroom and via podcasts, as a way of meeting the challenges of legal educati…
Julian Webb
scholarship of legal education. Julian blogs at hEaDspace. Julian’s recent publications Boon A & Webb J (2008) ‘Legal education and training in England: back to the future?’ Journal of Legal Education 58(1):79-121 Burridge R & Webb J (2007) &…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
demonstration and discussion of their use of blogs, wikis and gaming in the teaching of law, introducing the idea of creating conceptual spaces for learning to foster creativity. Blogs and wikis can aid teaching and learning by: encouraging collaborative learning suppo…
International website for teaching ethics and professionalism
education and professional learning design. He blogs at Zeugma. …
Making VLEs more interesting
automate the checking for new content on blogs and wikis: UKCLE’s Digital Directions PanGloss (online privacy and security law) TechnoLlama (technology law) Zeugma (legal education and more) …
Developing research-based learning and teaching approaches through the innovative use of technology
Scholar) and learning journals (WordPress blogs), plus widgets to allow students to connect to resources using their own personal toolset (such as via Facebook). The new module will be rolled out to all first year students at the start of the 2010-11 academic year and will be …
Wikis: a tool for distributive writing
software’ – other examples include blogs and applications such as Slideshare, MySpace, Facebook, and the like, where users interact and share data. Wikis have a specific function, though. Where a blog tends to focus on a set of entries written in chronological order …
Qualified Lawyer Transfer Scheme (QLTS): client-centred assessment of qualified lawyers
a Fellow of the RSA (www.thersa.org). He blogs at http://zeugma.typepad.com. Jenny Rawstorne is the Policy Executive in the Education and Training Unit at the Solicitors Regulation Authority with overall responsibility for the review and implementation of the Qualified Lawyer…
When and how should legal ethics be learned?
a Fellow of the RSA (www.thersa.org). He blogs at http://zeugma.typepad.com. …
Ethics and legal education
What’s new in ethics Preparatory ethics training for future solicitors – the recommendations of the Economides & Rogers report have largely been endorsed by the Law Society and the Solicitors Regulation Authority; see Promoting ethical lawyering for a summary …
Second guessing: is there a context for Second Life in legal education?
He is an executive member of BILETA and blogs for UKCLE at Digital Directions. Michael’s work on online discussion boards is funded under the Caledonian Scholars and Associates Scheme. Martin Jones is director of the LLM programme at Glasgow Caledonian’s School of …
Getting started with e-portfolios: University of Westminster
create new records of learning (thoughts, blogs, action plans, achievements, experiences, portfolios), as well as to upload other evidence. The most common uploads were Word documents, but some students uploaded video clips, YouTube links and music files. These records of lea…
Will video kill the manuscript scrawl? The impact of video feedback on students’ perception of feedback
felt that the use of podcasts, wikis or blogs by their tutors was helpful to their learning (Bone, 2009). For this project, the creation of a podcast of a generic feedback/revision session (such as that used by Almond (2009), was considered but rejected because of the desire for…
Legal education in Scotland
News and Scottish Law Reporter – weblogs Scottish Law Online – portal; includes a Scots Law Students Zone …
Using e-portfolios in legal education: key themes
advanced functionality on offer, perhaps using blogs to publish their work. They did have initial difficulties in becoming accustomed to the software, but most managed to operate the main functions within a fairly short period. Most of the ‘teething problems’ were of…
Open educational resources: why they matter
education and professional learning design. He blogs at Zeugma. Open educational resources (OER): why they matterView more presentations from UK Centre for Legal Education.…
Teaching in virtual worlds
Thinking about getting into Second Life? Here Mark Childs (Coventry University) provides an introduction to the issues raised in teaching in virtual worlds. Mark (SL Gann McGann) is currently undertaking a PhD into learners’ experiences in mediated environments – see…
Evaluating e-portfolios in law: 2007-08
functionality – I enjoyed doing the blogs, writing about my experience and giving examples was something I couldn’t do before. Reflection Students valued the opportunity to reflect on their achievements and performance. They commented that the portfolio gave me …
A time for learning and teaching? Making the most of the sabbatical
sabbatical to participate through webpostings/blogs A familiar complaint from students is that research takes staff away from the classroom. Lack of tutor availability is thus seen as a problem and sabbaticals as a disruption to the teaching year. Our research uncovered wa…
Learning in Law Annual Conference 2008: (Dis)integration...designs on the law curriculum
teaching platforms, course webs, webcasts and blogs. Courseware is being produced and innovative teaching ideas, including role play and multi-disciplinary approaches to law, are being introduced, raising inevitable questions about the relationship between new technologies and t…
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