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Library Research Guide to Supreme Court new term

As the U.S. Supreme Court opens it new term, I thought you would find to be helpful the Research Guide (link below) to Supreme Court research and current awareness sources compiled by Maggie Stewart Adams.

http://libguides.law.widener.edu/scotus

If you have any questions or if the Law Library staff can assist you in any way please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Thanks,

Michael Slinger

Library Staff List of Resources

The Library Staff has created an extensive list of resources on Law School Teaching, Curriculum and Course Design including Bar Pass Instruction, Academic Success, Experiential Learning, Online Learning, Professionalism Training, Assessment and Teaching with Technology.

The bibliography can be found here.

As always, the library staff is eager to help you research these and any other topics. If you have suggestions for articles to include or need help locating a resource please contact your library liaison or the reference desk for assistance.

 

Online Forms Available For Media Services and Classroom Problem Reports

Two online forms have been created to make it easier to request Instructional Media Services assistance, and to report technical problems in the classroom.

An online form is available for you to request assistance from Instructional Media Services.  This is the green form.  By using this form, you make it easy for IMS to confirm your request, and it helps us keep track of what needs doing so that each task can be properly staffed.  Please fill out the IMS request form here.  Bookmark this form page so that you can easily access it.

The second online form is available to report problems that you experience in the classroom.  If you have any issues in the classrooms, from dead batteries in the clicker to major power failures on the computer system, please let us know right away what the issue is.  By using this form, we are able to keep track of when and how often problems occur, and it also allows us to track problems and make sure they are resolved in a timely manner.  Please use this form to report the problem, even if you call and report it, so that we have a written record of what you experienced. Fill out the Classroom Problem Report form here, and bookmark it for future use.

Thank you for using these forms.

Technology and Scholarship Programs

The Delaware Law School library educational program committee sponsored two technology programs this fall.

The first program, presented by Barbara Mindell, showed faculty how to insert videos into a PowerPoint presentation.

The documentation from that presentation can be found here and is linked from the documentation menu on this site.  Click here to view a recording of the event.  If you would like assistance adding video to your PowerPoint, or would like other tips and assistance, please contact Barbara Mindell.

In the second program, Maggie Adams showed us how to use the web-based Zotero Citation Management tool that allows you to save, organize and share bibliographic information from the research sources you gather.  The documentation from that session can be found here, and you can  view the recording of that session here.

If you would like more information on either of these programs we would be happy to assist you.

Update your Panopto Video

Panopto’s most recently released version of their recorder takes advantage of HTML 5 and eliminates the need to use Silverlight.  This is a great thing as Microsoft has discontinued support for Silverlight, and there has been increasing difficulty playing Panopto recordings created with the older unsupported Silverlight versions.

The newest version also includes inline quizzing.

With the new version of Panopto this problem not only goes away, but Panopto has given us a way to update our old recordings so that they continue to play in the new format.

Open the new document Converting_Panopto_Videos for instructions on downloading the new version, and converting your old recordings to the newer format.

If you have not updated your panopto by July 21, 2017, you will be asked to do it when you go to make your next recording.

Supreme Court Media Preview 2015

The annual Supreme Court Media Preview that we do here at Delaware Law School is now available to view.

Mary Allen, Barbara Mindell and Dave Vallee gathered together one day last month to videotape 6 of our esteemed faculty discussing the cases that are already before or likely to come before the Supreme Court this year.

We recorded Dean Rod Smolla discussing Fisher v University of Texas at Austin (affirmative action) and Evenwell v Abbott (one person, one vote); Professor John G. Culhane discussing the current state of abortion cases; Professor Judith L. Ritter discussing various Kansas cases on death penalty sentencing and Montgomery v Louisiana (sentencing of juveniles); Professor Leonard N. Sosnov discussing Luis v US regarding the right to counsel; Professor Michael Goldberg discussing Friedrichs v California Teachers Association regarding unions and free speech; and Professor Kenneth T. Kristl discussing Florida v Georgia & Mississippi v Tennessee regarding water rights.

Please take a look at the finished video which is now on You Tube at http://delawarelaw.widener.edu/supremecourt2015.