{"id":471,"date":"2018-06-18T21:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T01:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/h2oharvard\/?p=471"},"modified":"2018-06-18T21:40:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T01:40:57","slug":"h2o-at-calicon-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/h2oharvard\/2018\/06\/18\/h2o-at-calicon-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"H2O at CALICon 2018!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I had the pleasure of giving a few presentations at this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/2018.calicon.org\/\">CALICon conference<\/a>, located at American University. The first conference I went to after starting at the Harvard Law Library was at American University, making this a homecoming of sorts: In 2014 I gave a 7 minute presentation on H2O at the LegalED conference; this year at CALI I gave two 1-hour long presentations on Perma.cc and H2O.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Discussing H2O was a natural fit for CALICon &#8211; \u201cComputer-Assisted Legal Instruction\u201d conference &#8211; given the H2O redesign\u2019s focus on legal textbooks over other concentrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/h2oharvard\/files\/2018\/06\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-472 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/h2oharvard\/files\/2018\/06\/image001-e1529369861189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/h2oharvard\/files\/2018\/06\/image001-e1529369861189.jpg 480w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/h2oharvard\/files\/2018\/06\/image001-e1529369861189-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The session was fruitful, and I had the time to dig into a few different areas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s1\">The core precepts we considered integral to H2O as a platform: easy to read and access, easy to build a casebook on, ability to clone and remix others\u2019 content, and ability to export the content as a potential print-on-demand text.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s1\">Changes that we\u2019ve made so far on the redesign, including \u2018draft mode\u2019 and the simpler user dashboard: while H2O\u2019s old dashboard served as a collection-place of various items, H2O&#8217;s new dashboard serves as the launching point for users to access their casebooks.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s1\">What\u2019s next for H2O: <a href=\"https:\/\/lil.law.harvard.edu\/projects\/caselaw-access-project\/\"><span class=\"s2\">CAP<\/span><\/a> integration, improved export, and other enhancements such as the ability to share edit access to your casebook.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><span class=\"s1\">Finally, challenges to H2O use and adoption: the workload required of an instructor interested in creating a new casebook (and how to ameliorate that); the continuing interest in paper texts despite the digital option, and how to keep up support for non print-on-demand users.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There was an good back-and-forth on what sort of faculty are more or less interested in digital, open casebooks, as well as helpful feedback from CALI member Elmer Masters (who&#8217;s been a part of CALI&#8217;s related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cali.org\/elangdell\/about\"><span class=\"s2\">eLangdell<\/span><\/a> project for some time).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thanks to everyone that came out and shared their thoughts &#8211; and see you next year! -Brett<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of giving a few presentations at this year\u2019s CALICon conference, located at American University. 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