What We (and better yet, our students) L earned From Using All the Toys in the Toybox
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What We (and better yet, our students) Learned From Using All the Toys in the Toybox Jill Smith University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
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What We (and better yet, our students) L earned From Using All the Toys in the Toybox. Jill Smith University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Background. Facts. Challenges. Half-semester, 1-credit class History of minimal in-class interaction - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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What We (and better yet, our students)
Learned From Using All the Toys in the Toybox
Jill SmithUniversity of Maryland
Francis King Carey School of Law
Background
Facts• Mandatory class• Taught 2d semester 1L year• Half-semester• Semi-“Flipped” classroom
Challenges• Half-semester, 1-credit class• History of minimal in-class
interaction• Library faculty were
unknown quantity
Choose you own adventure!
Low-VoltageTech Videos & Quizzing
Review Exercises
Spin the Wheel!
Clickers
CALI Lessons Student Narratives
In Class Exercises
What we learned
• Habits are ingrained – don’t fight them, use them– Start with Google– Lead on to Google Scholar
• Modeling behaviors• Value of switching up techniques• Where are the gaps?
What they learned
• Go beyond search– Use tools– Switching techniques and the 15-minute rule
• Polish• Self-knowledge re: gaps • Print works – not so scary
• “The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
– Alvin Toffler
Creative Commons licensed image of Alvin Toffler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alvin_Toffler_02.jpg by Vern Evans
Flexibility and Problem-Solving
Questions?
Jill Smith & Camilla TubbsUniversity of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Spin AgainQuiz
Skip a T
urn
Student Narrative
Cruise
Socratics
$40$100Lo
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llTenure
Print 2.0
New Car
Clicker
Skip a TurnCALIlesson
Socratic Method and Legal Research
CALI Lessons
Review ExercisesJames, a Vice President at Brookline Corporation, located in Beltsville, Maryland, purchased a tract of land near corporate headquarters in 2008. At the time of the purchase, Brookline was considering expanding its headquarters; however, a decision on the location had not been made. James thought he would either sell the land back to the corporation if it was needed for the expansion or build a house on it for his family. Brookline recently announced its expansion plan which includes acquiring James’s property. The property is still a vacant lot but the value has skyrocketed as a result of Brookline’s announcement. James would like to sell the land to the corporation at its current value. You have been asked to research whether James’s purchase of the land violated his fiduciary responsibility as an officer of the corporation.
Question: An article in the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law available in Lexis cites to this section in a footnote. Is the source shown in this screenshot (select all that apply):
Print 2.0
Print is dead? Not so fast…
• More than 50% of firm lawyers report using print materials regularly for research *
* 2012 American Bar Association Legal Technology Report, V-25.
“Because legal research instruction focuses on teaching how to use the two main electronic legal research platforms, Westlaw and Lexis, rather than on how to understand the structure of law, new lawyers do not understand how to research the law conceptually. The danger in all of this is that in their search to find the “perfect” case, new attorneys either fail to retrieve or overlook key authorities and therefore miss the fundamental principles governing the issue.”
Clickers – pollev.com/jaslawlib
A. KittenB. PuppyC. I can’t decide!
Which animal is cuter?
What type of authority is being displayed here?(A) Primary (B) Secondary
Georgia Code Annotated, § 10-1-761§ 10-1-761. Definitions(3) “Person” means a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership,
association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other for profit or
not for profit legal or commercial entity.
(4) “Trade secret” means information, without regard to form, including, but not limited to, technical
or nontechnical data, a formula, a pattern, a compilation, a program, a device, a method, a technique,
a drawing, a process, financial data, financial plans, product plans, or a list of actual or potential
customers or suppliers which is not commonly known by or available to the public and which
information:
(A) Derives economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and notNam
e th
at A
utho
rity!
What type of authority is being displayed here?(A) Primary (B) Secondary
Georgia Code Annotated, § 10-1-761§ 10-1-761. Definitions(3) “Person” means a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership,
association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other for profit or
not for profit legal or commercial entity.
(4) “Trade secret” means information, without regard to form, including, but not limited to, technical
or nontechnical data, a formula, a pattern, a compilation, a program, a device, a method, a technique,
a drawing, a process, financial data, financial plans, product plans, or a list of actual or potential
customers or suppliers which is not commonly known by or available to the public and which
information:
(A) Derives economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and notNam
e th
at A
utho
rity!
Identify the Dicta!“We find that the spotted owl is protected under
the Endangered Species Act. If we were discussing the common white-tailed deer, its great numbers and tendency to eat my garden plants would require a different result.”*
*Not from a real case
Student Narratives
Launch Video
In Class Exercises
