Services for Law Part-Time Faculty: Educational Technology
Steve Donweber (donweber@bu.edu, x3-8854) serves as the law school’s Educational Technology Librarian and is available for consultations on the use of technology in the classroom. Steve serves as the library expert on the use of Blackboard 8, student response systems (“clickers”), web portals, blogs, wikis, and podcasts.
Blackboard 8
The library offers resources for Blackboard 8 to aid in the building and maintaining of law faculty sites. The library has created a test site that may be used by all faculty members to experiment before creating their sites. Please contact Stefanie Weigmann (sweig@bu.edu, 353-8855) to obtain access to the test site. The law library has created two tools to help you use Blackboard 8: a basic guide and an interactive tutorial. Part-time faculty may request course pages/technical support for Blackboard 8 by visiting Blackboard Help. The librarians are also available to locate course content and may create a Library Resources tab with selected resources for your course.
Student Response Systems (Clickers)
Student response systems (clickers) may be used to survey students in class. Law faculty members incorporate clicker use to promote participation, take opinion polls, and to obtain feedback on current class topics. The law library owns 150 clickers that may be borrowed for use in law classes. Please contact Terri Geiger (tgeiger@bu.edu, 353-8881) for loan details.
Tutorials
The library provides over 40 tutorials on electronic resources and research techniques. The legal information librarians would be happy to create tutorials for use in conjunction with classes. Please contact Stefanie Weigmann (sweig@bu.edu, 358-4997) to request a research tutorial for your students.