Our friends over at Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers just posted links to Ignite videos that were filmed during their 5th Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyer’s Conference last October. Ignite is a wonderful conference or teaching tool which forces presenters to synthesize their message into 5 to 6 minutes presentations with quickly moving accompanying PowerPoint slides.
This year’s handy and informative videos span a wide spectrum of ideas including a really helpful curriculum design and faculty support resource from Thurgood Marshall School of Law’s Professor Charlene James, a report on a three year survey being conducted at University of Denver about student’s experience with “experiential learning”, and Mitchell-Hamline’s experience with Integrating Professional and Career Development across the curriculum. Videos also addressed learning outcomes, assessment tools and assessment experiences. All of the videos are worth a quick review.
The Ignite series starts with a presentation from yours truly, and two of my colleagues from Albany Law, during which we describe how we incorporated information gleaned from community and employer focus groups to assess our opportunities for student learning and enhance our curriculum. In the accompanying PowerPoint, Professor Nancy Maurer provides sample handouts and other useful ideas. Professor Christine Chung examines the business, tax, financial, and transactional curriculum to exemplify how to use focus groups, faculty guidance and national data to enhance curriculum.
The last Ignite presentation by Suffolk’s Vice Provost Professor Jeff Pokorak raises important questions regarding professional identity and misunderstandings between the legal professoriate and legal profession which will appeal to anyone who ever struggled in this space or has ever enjoyed a Star Trek episode!
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Great resource, Mary. I added the experiential learning video to my Google Doc experiential resources list!
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