TMSL faculty corner

Here are some handy resources for students and faculty at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law who have questions about some of the instructional technology we use.  For more assistance, please contact the TMSL Technology Department at 713-313-1120 or TMSL-Help@tsu.edu.

ExamSoft for Students:

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Per TMSL’s strategic plan, a sub-committee of the Curriculum Committee has been developing a curriculum mapping initiative during the 2014-2015 academic year.  Our working group includes doctrinal professor Marguerite Butler, clinical professor Maurice Hew, as well as Docia Rudley and Kris Chrishon of the Office of Assessm...

Some of what we offer to help students maximize their success:

1. Prep For Law Pre-1L Summer Program

2. Tutors and Writing Advisors

3. Personal Diagnostics During 1L Orientation

4. Individual Learning Skills Consultations

5. The Center For Legal Pedagogy Website

For more information about any of these programs, p...

As a part of a condensed curriculum mapping project at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, the Center for Legal Pedagogy, the Office of Assessment, and members of the Curriculum Committee will be interviewing TMSL professors about what skills they currently teach and how.  The project has posed a number of challenges, inc...

I created a couple of videos demonstrating and describing in more detail how and why I created the responsive survey instrument I described in my last post, Better Surveys Through Boolean Logic: A Responsive Instrument For Faculty Interviews.

In the video below, I explain the rationale for and advantages of this electronic v...

In the above video, I explain the mechanics behind the design of the responsive survey instrument I described in my recent post, Better Surveys Through Boolean Logic: A Responsive Instrument For Faculty Interviews.  I also show how I used the (free!) Google Forms app to create the survey, stepping you through the basic crea...

Although I am a big fan of electronic calendar and scheduling apps likeGoogle Calendar, there are times when a stand-alone document for a calendar or schedule would be useful.  (And some folks prefer a slightly older-school, traditional option.)  Of course, you can make your own from scratch using a table in Word or Excel....

On Friday, July 7, I wrote an article on Above the Law called “When Bar Scores Plummet, Who Will Examine The Examiners?”  In the piece, I describe how bar passage rates in jurisdictions across the country have dropped significantly for the July 2014 bar exam, compared to the July 2013 test.  I also describe how scores on t...

The National Conference of Bar Examiners next administers the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) on Saturday, November 1, 2014.  So, thousands of 2L and 3L law students around the nation are spending this week slightly distracted from their ordinary study routines as they cram as many of the Model Rules of...

In her article for Faculty Focus, Stephanie Smith Budhai offers an innovative alternative to in-class student presentations.  In “Maximize In-Class Time by Moving Student Presentations Online,” Budhai writes:

As a faculty member, I am always challenged with finding pedagogical techniques that allow my students to connect wi...