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
Category: Legal Tech Class
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
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
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
Class Preparation: Objectives!
While staring at that list, I began pondering what I wanted the objectives of the course to be. Ideally, I wanted them to be SMART, but I find that measurability can seem arbitrary if you set a specific number. For example, I do not believe the objective “students will be able to explain various ways technology Read More
Class Planning: What to teach?
I was ecstatic when I was offered the opportunity to design and teach an online legal technology course. I have loved technology as long as I can remember. I was six the first time I “helped” my father build a computer. However, I am aware not everyone was exposed to tech and the idea that this current Read More