If you care about something, you want other people to know about it. This means that the way you present your information is important because it can mean the difference between true communication occurring and boredom or confusion. Unfortunately, many presentations (especially at conferences) fail miserably at this task. If you think your content is [...]
Here are some great science links that I was told about today from the Science Online 2010 conference (being held in Durham, NC this weekend).
Fold It: Contribute to science research by playing protein folding games (very cool)
Science for Citizens: the source for science you can do
Mindmeister: Real-time Brainstorming
A bit of humor: The Soul Storage Company
Routes [...]
Chris Heard has put together two screencasts demonstrating how to setup and use your Mac to type in Hebrew. You might want to be sure you have the unicode SBL Hebrew font installed before you watch the videos. The font is available free for download here. Be sure to also download the keyboard driver and [...]
I just returned home from a couple of weeks on the road. While traveling, I put some new apps for my iPhone through their paces. Here are a few that I’ll be keeping.
WordPress 2.0 for iPhone. This was absolutely amazing. I could post to my blog from my iPhone. Upload photos, edit previous posts, save [...]
Below are links to material from my SBL session entitled, “Examining our Exams: What to include, exclude, and revisit for Biblical Language Exams.” These links have been added to my SBL 2009 Pedagogy page (link in toolbar above). A summary of my presentation, as well as links from other presenters will be added soon.
Ideas for [...]
I’ve updated my SBL 2009 Pedagogy page with the following links from Taylor Halverson:
Taylor Halverson, Brigham Young University
Effective Uses of Discussion Forums for Biblical Studies Courses at a Distance (20 min)
Discussion Board Rubric (PDF)
Distance Education and the Bible Presentation Outline (Word doc)
Effective Uses of Discussion Forums for Biblical Studies (PowerPoint)
Today I was one of the presenters in the following session:
22-201 Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies
11/22/2009 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Studio 9 – MR
Theme: Distance Learning: How to teach traditional topics in a non-traditional format
I’ve posted links to some of the resources mentioned in my portion of session below. An updated list [...]
I could not be at the SBL Bible Software Shootout session between Logos, SESB, BibleWorks, Accordance and Olive Tree but I did follow some of the SBLtweets. So I’m putting a roundup of the tweets from that session here. If you were there and have anything to add, please leave a comment, thanks!
UPDATE (for a [...]
It’s been a whirlwind of activity here in Grand Rapids. Our consultation came to an official end this afternoon, and then we had a terrific dinner at the home of one of hosts. We had a Brazilian BBQ (the meat just kept coming) and Brazilian side dishes (that I can’t remember how to pronounce) followed [...]
John Hobbins gives his list of “very best online resources for students of biblical Hebrew.” Check it out!
Today was a full day.
The alarm went off too early (or so it seemed). A quick breakfast (the Prince Conference Center had set out “the works” for us: omelets, biscuits, cereal, fresh fruit on skewers, pastries, juices, yogurt, and of course coffee). We walked over the highway via the enclosed pedestrian walkway which takes you [...]
Just found out about Media-Convert, an online, totally free (no registration even) document conversion site.
HT: Darwin Glassford
I am pretty good at getting my Hebrew fonts to play nice on my computer. I use Mellel for wordprocessing most of the time. Scrivener does a decent job handling the mix of R->L and L->R text that I create. I’ve come to accept (after a great deal of weeping and gnashing followed by much [...]
Update for Snow Leopard: 10.6.2 is out! MacStories lists the full changelog:
The 10.6.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for:
an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly;
a graphics [...]
