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Seeking Volunteers for the Cool Tools Cafe at AALL Annual Meeting

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Hi Everyone,

As you may be aware, we are hosting another installment of the Cool Tools Cafe where CS-SIS members and others demonstrate new and/or useful tools and technologies that we can all use in law libraries.  It consists of 5-10 minute demos at tables around the convention hall room and attendees can wander from demo to demo as they wish.

This year, Cool Tools Cafe is during the I Session time (Program I2, Tuesday, July 24th, 10:15 – 11:45  am) in HCC-Room 309.

Would you be willing to demo a technology?  Prep time is minimal since all that is needed is a brief explanation and demo of the tool and a 1-page handout to post on the web.  If you would like to help but can't demo we could also use a couple of people to help direct people to the various demos and answer questions.

So far, the following people have offered to demo: 
Cindy Bassett – Mindmapping w/ Mindomo
Tom Boone – Sigil (a wysiwyg e-book editor)
Melanie Cofield – LibGuides
Karina Condra – Zoho (online database creation software)
Debbie Ginsberg – Mindmapping tools generally (web & iPad)
Wilhelmina Randtke – Adobe Acrobat Professional (little known useful document and file organization functionality)
Carli Spina – iBooks Author (iBook or book format PDF creation)
Vicki Steiner – Mobile Apps tbd
Amy Towell – Docket Navigator (patent litigation tools)
Robert Truman – Instructure Canvas (web and iPad based alternative to TWEN/Blackboard/LN Web Courses/Moodle)
Roberta Woods – iThoughtsHD (iPad mindmapping ap)

We are looking for presenters to demo any suggested apps (multiple demos for the mobile apps are OK because the screens are small) including:

  • Legal Research & Courtroom/classroom Technology or Productivity Apps for Android
  • Legal Research & Courtroom/classroom Technology or Productivity Apps for iPhone/iPad
  • RDM+ (remote desktop for your iPad) 
  • ADA assistance software (such as Virtual Magnifying Glass)
  • Comparison of Video Creation mobile and/or web apps (such as ShowMe, Jing)
  • Download Managers (such as Instapaper, DownThemAll, Dropbox)
  • Citation Managers supporting Bluebook (such as Zotero, EndNote, RefWorks)
  • Firefox Productivity Plugins (such as CiteGenie, Jureeka, Fireshot)
  • Capturing and Manipulating Images (such as Owly, Fireshot, Picnik)
  • Google Apps
  • Prezi (presentation editor)
  • Transmiti (a Google translator for Windows)
  • This is just a suggested list; so if there is something so cool and new we don't have it on our list let us know and we'd be happy to consider it.

Byo gadget/laptop is strongly preferred, but let me know if that is not possible and I can try to find an alternative.

You can volunteer by emailing me at kcb@umich.edu. 

Thanks.