I have had the privilege of teaching Law Practice Technology for FIU for a second semester. Developing this course has been an iterative process. Since this semester had four more weeks to fill than the summer, I took this opportunity to retool the course and redraft the assignments. One significant change I made was to Read More
Year: 2018
Design Thinking & Librarians
There has been an increasing amount of discussion about design thinking and the law. However, there seems to be a dearth of parallel conversation in the law library circles.* We have already proven ourselves resources for legal technology initiatives. It is vital that we also become knowledge leaders in this related area. Design thinking is Read More
Open Access Advocates in EU Call for Support
In April, the EU set the fox to guard the henhouse by subcontracting Elsevier to monitor Open Science. The open access push in the EU and its advocates have had issues with Elsevier for a long while. It is not surprising that the community reaction to the news was negative. According to the complaint, a Read More
KIND of a Big Deal
I am planning to write a full review of the Latino Caucus’ ribbon fundraiser for Kids in Need of Defense, but I wanted to provide a quick update as everyone was so excited about it. We sold every one of the 300 ribbons (including the one on my badge) and far exceed my original hope of $150 by Read More
Mid-Course Review – pt 2
I’ve included some of the legal tech course staples, like a time-keeping assignment and weekly discussions. However, I’ve tried to find ways to encourage students to take charge of their own learning as much as possible because this is an online class. Part of that effort is the group discussion lead assignment. The group discussion Read More
Mid Course Review – pt 1
Several assignments are now in and graded, and we are over halfway through the semester, so it seems like a good time to review how the course is going so far. I’ll be teaching it again in the fall, and I have already identified some things that I’ll keep and some that will need to Read More
Tech Competencies For Librarians
Edit: This like was updated to direct to the open preprint. Over a year ago, I responded to a call for proposals to the Journal of Academic Librarianship. I was just a few months into my new job and fresh out of library school. I was pretty sure I would get rejected, but I thought it would be Read More
For Family
Every story I read about the children separated from family hurts my heart more, and I feel as though it is a bit more difficult to breathe each time. It hits me deeply as my Abuela had to leave two of her four sons, my tios, behind in Cuba in order to build something for everyone Read More
Class Preparation: Assignments & Syllabus
My goal when I was trying to decide what assignments to give my students was to make mimic tasks they might have to perform in practice. This made a timekeeping assignment an obvious choice, but I wanted to challenge them more. More specifically I wanted them to practice skills and advanced their own skill set Read More
Display the Tech
Law school technology courses are becoming ubiquitous. There are several sessions at AALL, CALI, TechShow and most regional law library association conferences. There are websites for sharing materials and discussions threads about best methods. All this is part of the push to graduate more tech competent lawyers. The best part of this movement is that Read More