This semester I am teaching a new course in the University at Buffalo Law Librarianship Program: Teaching Legal Research. No, it’s not an Advanced Legal Research course: its all about learning to teach legal research. We’ll be working with a wide variety of teaching techniques, from classroom lecture and discussion, to audio and video, to online instruction using CALI exercises, blogs, and wikis.

Class 1: Reading: Paul Douglas Callister, Beyond Training: Law Librarianship’s Quest for the Pedagogy of Legal Research Instruction, 95 Law Libr. J. 7-45 (2003).

Overview of course

  • Two parts to each class
  • How to find the readings

Three projects and a final project

  1. Lecture/demo
  2. Podcast (audio or video)
  3. Online instruction (blog, wiki, Google Docs, Zoho)
  4. Final: Legal Research Clinic

Grading:

  • Students will be grouped in two or three for each project
  • All students in the group will receive the same grade

TLR-01.mp3

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