Academic continuity

Posted by Pablo Molina at 4:51 AM - Categories: Technology resources

Starting in 2009, some of our faculty and students, snowed in the nation's capital or stranded in Europe due to an Icelandic volcano, listened to class recordings and joined web conferencing lectures. In business and in academic continuity, conventional wisdom is that periodic training and awareness helps people prepare for emergencies. Visit our Academic Continuity page at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/ist/continuity.cfm to learn more about web conferencing and class recording services available to Law Center community members.

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Managing Diverse Organizations

Posted by Pablo Molina at 1:34 AM - Categories: Technology resources

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Ethics and Technology

Posted by Pablo Molina at 5:25 AM - Categories: Technology resources

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More Macs on Campus

Posted by Pablo Molina at 1:18 PM - Categories: Technology resources

Computerworld's Robert L. Mitchell writes about the arrival of Macs in the enterprise and cites interesting developments at Georgetown University. Click on Apple: Kicking Down a Back Door to the Enterprise to read this fascinating news piece.

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Vista Release

Posted by Pablo Molina at 12:12 PM - Categories: Technology resources

With the release of Vista, and soon a new version of Microsoft Office, we begin an aggressive deployment schedule. We continue to test how well the systems that we use work on Vista, examine the spread of Vista in higher education and the general market, scrutinize reports from technology experts, listen to the recommendations of our strategic software and hardware vendors, and start planning the rollout of Vista. Although we follow a standard replacement cycle for computers at the institution, we must ensure that new community members, particularly new generations of students, find that our public computers have the latest technologies. I was quoted recently on Bloomberg News about adopting Vista. Bloomberg News Vista Quote

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The future of legal education

Posted by Pablo Molina at 5:12 PM - Categories: Technology resources

A key component of the new strategic plan for technology at the Law Center is how legal education will be transformed in the next two decades, partly because of technology developments. Some of our faculty members envision walking into a classroom where they can request aloud that the system show the Godfather film clip in which Don Vito Corleone makes an offer you cannot refuse. Others would like to type their names or those of their colleagues and have their entire intellectual production one-click away. Some students dream about laptop computers without hard disks that can operate for many hours on their batteries. Others believe that sophisticated mobile phones with voice-recognition will make computers obsolete. Administrators envision teaching sessions in which students and faculty members seat in different continents. How do you see the future of legal education?

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New Academic Year

Posted by Pablo Molina at 9:46 AM - Categories: Technology resources

Every year I am overcome with the excitement of a new academic term. The next few months will be very dynamic on account of all the new technology developments that are becoming available to the general public. Google, one of the most active technology companies, continues to release amazing software packages and services to manage information and communicate: Desktop, Earth, Talk, Scholar, Print, etc. Apple keeps expanding its share of the higher education market in general, and the legal education market in particular, with its laptops and music players. Microsoft is working hard to release a new version of its web browser, Internet Explorer, and its flagship operating system, Windows Vista. Creative Internet technologies, such as Veepers or the Facebook, are becoming increasingly popular.

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