Amar, Vikram D. and Robbennolt, Jennifer K., The Role of Lawyers and Law Schools in Fostering Civil Public Debate (March 3, 2021). Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2021, University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-06, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3797189 “Partisanship can make policy discussion and civil debate difficult.… Continue Reading
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Would you notice if fake news changed your behavior?
Computers in Human Behavior Volume 116, March 2021, 106633 – An experiment on the unconscious effects of disinformation – “A growing literature is emerging on the believability and spread of disinformation, such as fake news, over social networks. However, little is known about the degree to which malicious actors can use social media to covertly… Continue Reading
Librarian, Market Thyself
Via LLRX – Librarian, Market Thyself – Caren Luckie, Research Attorney at Jackson Walker LLP, acknowledges what so many of us know, that during COVID work from home we have all been very busy, and in many cases, even more than in past years. With no direct, in person contact with customers and clients, Luckie offers… Continue Reading
How to quickly create a word cloud using PowerPoint
Tech Republic – “A word cloud is an image of a cluster of words in different sizes, colors and orientation. The more often a word occurs in the source text, the larger—therefore, more important—the word appears. You can use them as images in your presentation, but there are technical uses as well. For instance, if… Continue Reading
Zoom’s new meeting option could make your video calls a lot more interesting
ZDNET – “Zoom has released a new feature for free accounts that places up to 25 people in the same virtual room, such as an auditorium, classroom or boardroom. The new Zoom feature matches Microsoft Teams Together Mode, which it released in July and brought to Skype in December, using AI segmentation to put participants… Continue Reading
NIH Preprint Pilot Update
“Ten months into the NIH Preprint Pilot, more than 2,100 preprints reporting NIH-supported research on COVID-19 are now discoverable in PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed. Through early April 2021, these records have been viewed more than 1 million times in each of these databases (1.4 million in PMC; 1 million in PubMed). Of the preprints… Continue Reading
Counter-friction to Stop the Machine: The Endgame for Instructional Design
Hybrid Pedagogy: “If you had asked us in early 2020 about the state of instructional design within higher education, we would have told you it was suffering; much of the field, with its roots in military training, had evolved into a landscape of prescriptive models based on a poor understanding of human learning. Private companies… Continue Reading
Why Informal Information Sharing is Holding Your Organization Back
Via LLRX – Why Informal Information Sharing is Holding Your Organization Back – This article by Mary Ellen Bates is an excerpt from her recent presentation “The Strategic Value of Copyright Licensing Solutions,” to which she also provides a video link. Bates discusses ways published information is being used throughout organizations that you may not have… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 24, 2021
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 24, 2021 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly… Continue Reading
The intentional use of silence at work
Via LLRX – The intentional use of silence at work – Chris Marcell Murchison describes how impactful intentionally using silence can be as useful first step in coming to terms with our own feelings during difficult times. Continue Reading
How to connect to people within a Google Doc
Tech Republic – “Learn how to add contact links to provide context and encourage connections by mentioning a person with a Google account in a Doc…” Continue Reading
Adding information from your law blog to Wikipedia
Kevin O’Keefe – Lexblog: “via an existing entry or a footnote makes good sense. Contributing to the advancement of the law. Making reliable and credible legal information more accessible to legal professions and the public. Wikipedia appears on page one of Google’s search results forty-six percent of the time. Others are citing legal blogs, and… Continue Reading
