INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR TEXAS LEGAL RESEARCH
In teaching the course TEXAS LEGAL RESEARCH I would like to incorporate the following instructional strategies:
1. INTERVIEW A CLIENT VIA VIDEO CONFERENCE
I would ask a few professors for assistance. I would ask these professors to act as clients who can meet only through video conferencing. Students would would be assigned a partner and would be required to set-up a video conference to interview their clients. Students would be expected to communicate to clients on how to use video conferencing. I would then ask students to develop a set of questions to ask clients to gain as much information as they can from initial client interview. Students would then be required to research the legal issue to determine whether their clients have a case. |
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2. CREATE A VLOG: "HOW I DEVELOP A RESEARCH STRATEGY"
I would assign a research project to students and ask them to create a 5-10 minute vlog on "How I develop a research strategy." Using their phone or iPad, students can easily record themselves developing a research path. Because the law school has a program that allows students to upload and save work on the network drive without the public viewing videos, they could store their work there. This would allow students to refer back to the video at the end of the semester to compare how much they have learned.
I would assign a research project to students and ask them to create a 5-10 minute vlog on "How I develop a research strategy." Using their phone or iPad, students can easily record themselves developing a research path. Because the law school has a program that allows students to upload and save work on the network drive without the public viewing videos, they could store their work there. This would allow students to refer back to the video at the end of the semester to compare how much they have learned.
3. DEVELOP A LIBGUIDE
I would also have students create their own research LibGuide page either on one primary or secondary source. Before developing the page, I would ask students to search the internet to get ideas on how to create a good LlibGuide. This assignment would require students to think about the organization of information. Many pages would require linking websites but a majority of LibGuides require building page-by-page. The picture on the left-hand side of screen is borrowed from the UCLA Law Library and is titled, "Online Legal Research: Beyond LexisNexis and Westlaw."
I would also have students create their own research LibGuide page either on one primary or secondary source. Before developing the page, I would ask students to search the internet to get ideas on how to create a good LlibGuide. This assignment would require students to think about the organization of information. Many pages would require linking websites but a majority of LibGuides require building page-by-page. The picture on the left-hand side of screen is borrowed from the UCLA Law Library and is titled, "Online Legal Research: Beyond LexisNexis and Westlaw."
4. CREATE A RESEARCH TUTORIAL
For students' final project, I would ask students to create and record a tutorial using PowerPoint or Prezi. This tutorial would have to be of good quality and would be hosted on the TTU School of Law Library's homepage. I would provide the following YouTube example as a tutorial that would be of acceptable quality. Students would choose one source to cover and record their tutorial. The tutorial would need to be less than 7 minutes long and have to cover the important points of the source.
For students' final project, I would ask students to create and record a tutorial using PowerPoint or Prezi. This tutorial would have to be of good quality and would be hosted on the TTU School of Law Library's homepage. I would provide the following YouTube example as a tutorial that would be of acceptable quality. Students would choose one source to cover and record their tutorial. The tutorial would need to be less than 7 minutes long and have to cover the important points of the source.