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- Æ is for Effort
Reading Time: 9 minutes The semester is over. All going well, my grading will be done by the time this post appears. I am looking forward to the student evaluations, which I made a very pointed pitch to have them complete. It is the second skills-oriented class I have taught and reinforced for me ho … Read more »
- The Inbox and the Desk Chair
Reading Time: 9 minutes I was sick recently and had to miss some days of work. This meant that my email inbox was filling up. Even as we move into the holiday-end-of-semester-holiday period, I can see more than 50 emails a day. A handful of those messages matter—colleagues on a shared project, staff … Read more »
- Blog Post Rescue Mission
Reading Time: 5 minutes I posted recently about how, despite there being a great opportunity, blogs seem to remain a niche information source. I mentioned the LawProfs network, which hosted a couple of blogs I followed (Academic Success, and so on), as coming to the end of its life. I had reached ou … Read more »
- Dog Fooding the LMS
Reading Time: 9 minutes The University is moving from Anthology’s Blackboard learning management system to Instructure’s Canvas. It looks like it’s just in the nick of time. Our full cut over isn’t until fall 2026 but, both because I’m the person responsible for our instructional tech team and becau … Read more »
- Scholarship Clout Chasing
Reading Time: 8 minutes I had a sales pitch from a program inside Elsevier’s SSRN unit. The idea was to create a Research Paper Series that showcases the law school’s scholarship. The Dean pitched the cold call over to me and so I followed up. I was interested to see that part of the pitch relied on … Read more »