As someone with hearing loss, closed captioning is an important topic to me, not only for myself but also to remind others about its importance. Zoom recently released its Live Transcription feature for Pro, Business, Education, and Enterprise accounts and …
How many of us have referred to ourselves with machine terminology? I know I have, in phrases like “my bandwidth is overloaded” or asking coworkers “do you have any bandwidth right now?”. You can find any number of articles comparing …
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Guest Post by Jason Tubinis Using software to transform yourself in a Zoom meeting is so simple you can do it by accident! Just ask Rod Ponton, who appeared in a meeting with the 394th Judicial District Court of Texas …
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Hi everyone – it’s your Secretary/Treasurer here with another update on what the LIT-SIS Executive Board has been up to. The main topic of discussion was our proposed merger with the Digitization and Educational Technology Special Interest Section (DET-SIS), which …
LIT-SIS is proud to announce our upcoming panel on Advocacy & Accommodation in the Digital Environment, and we welcome all AALL members to attend. Join Kenton Brice, Mari Cheney, and Rena Seidler for a conversation with Amanda Watson as they …
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In legal research, we’ve all gone down rabbit holes: we start researching contracts and end up in wills; we start in landlord/tenant issues and end up in torts. It happens to the best of us, even those of us trained …
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Looking for a last-minute holiday gift to give your tech-loving friend or family member? From high-tech to low-tech and even tech-adjacent, you’ve come to the right place! Here’s last year’s list in case you want to expand your options. From …
The LIT-SIS Executive Committee met last Tuesday, December 1. Here’s what we talked about: DET-SIS Merger The biggest agenda item was our proposed merger with the Digitization and Educational Technology Special Interest Section (DET-SIS). Some quick background: because of the …
I had used Zoom several times before 2020, but not nearly as often and certainly not in all the ways I have used it since the pandemic. Prior to 2020 my major experiences in Zoom were testing our law school …
Guest post by Amanda Watson, president of LIT-SIS, Director of the O’Quinn Law Library, and Assistant Professor of Law the University of Houston Law Center. It’s official! CS-SIS is now LIT-SIS: Legal Innovation & Technology SIS. Two years ago, our …
