Ashley Matthews Presents on Tech Tools for Flipped Classrooms

Ashley Matthews presented at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction’s (CALI) annual conference (CALIcon) on Thursday, June 15. Matthews’ presentation, Flipping the Script: Tech Tools for the Flipped Legal Research Classroom, provided an overview of mobile apps and websites faculty and librarians can leverage to create videos and other e-learning tools in flipped law school classrooms. During the presentation, she offered instructors tips on how to utilize these free and low-cost solutions to create engaging and professional content tailored to law students. Approximately 50 conference attendees participated in the session. Slides from the presentation are available on the conference website.

CALI is a non-profit consortium of law schools, law libraries, and related organizations. CALI focuses on applied research and development in computer-mediated legal education and creates tools that increase access to justice. Scalia Law is a CALI member and frequent conference participant. CALI usually hosts its annual conference at a member law school. The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School hosted this year’s conference on their Philadelphia campus. Additional information about the conference is available on the CALIcon website.

Matthews is the Reference and Instructional Services Librarian at Scalia Law and works in the Law Library’s Reference Office. In addition to providing students and faculty with outstanding reference and research services, Matthews also oversees and creates content for research sessions in the 1L legal research and writing program. Students frequently praise her engaging and informative research classes.