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U of Dayton Law Launches 2 Year Degree Program

Looks like Dayton becomes the first school to take advantage of changes in ABA standards that changed how long it takes to get a JD. Now if someone would just step up and take advantage of the DE changes that the ABA put in place at the same time.

UD Alumni News: Two Year Law Degree
“A new, accelerated curriculum has attracted national media attention and helped to trigger the highest application volume in a dozen years and the best entering test scores since 1994 in the School of Law. Nationally, law school applications are down.“

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SWFTOOLS – Utilities for Having Fun With SWFs

Thanks to John for pointing this out. A number of interesting things here, including generating a SWF from a WAV file. Nothing that directly converts PPT though:)

SWFTOOLS
SWF Tools is a collection of SWF manipulation and creation utilities written by Rainer Böhme and Matthias Kramm. It is released under the GPL.

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NYT Article on the Collapse of the Educational Software Market

Once a Booming Market, Educational Software for the PC Takes a Nose Dive – New York Times
“In 2000, sales of educational software for home computers reached $498 million, and it was conventional wisdom among investors and educators that learning programs for PC’s would be a booming growth market.

Yet in less than five years, that entire market has come undone. By 2004, sales of educational software – a category that includes programs teaching math, reading and other subjects as well as reference works like encyclopedias – had plummeted to $152 million, according to the NPD Group, a market research concern.“

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Law Lists Is No More

I remember Law Lists, put out by Lyonette Louis-Jacques, now at the U of Chicago Law School Library. Sad to see it go, but then I also remember when there was a list of all the known websites in the world…

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