Hevel.org: A Chasing after Wind

Yesterday I posted:
It is clear to me that Apple now needs an iTune U app for the Touch and iPhone. The content I have grabbed through iTunes U is still mixed in with other videos and audio files in my Videos and Music applications. In Music, they are not even with the podcasts, but rather [...]

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Apple has quietly been putting together one of the best resources for higher education on the web, their collection of university sponsored and uploaded content called iTunes U. I have bragged on it a couple of times, as have many other bloggers. The new iTunes 9 software, however, is a game-changer. For [...]

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This is exceedingly good news.  Here is the press release:
Society of Biblical Literature Receives NEH Award
August 17, 2009
Atlanta – The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) has received a National Endowment for the Humanities planning grant to develop an interactive website that would improve public understanding of the Bible and its contexts. This website, “The World [...]

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Wayne Booth, in his presidential address to the MLA in 1982:
When we fail to test our scholarship by making its most important results accessible to non-specialists, we also lose our capacity to address, and thus recreate in each generation, the literate public who can understand its stake in what we do.
Now take the idea of [...]

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If you haven’t explored iTunesU, you’re missing out.  There is a ton of great academic content on there, including course material and recordings of public lectures.
If people had access to a comprehensive collection of well-produced, engaging, and accurate teaching about the Bible, there would be a lot less need for this debate.  My experience has [...]

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Via the if:book blog, you should definitely check out this post by Noah Wardrip-Fruin about his experiment with open peer review of an academic manuscript via blog comments.  He used the CommentPress plugin, which lets readers associate comments with particular paragraphs of a blog post, to solicit peer review of his manuscript, Expressive Processing, forthcoming [...]

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I have spent some time here thinking about “scholarly communication,” and particularly about the philosophical and ethical aspects of profit-based academic publishing.  The recent biblioblog conversation about blogging however, immediately jumped to my mind when I saw this article on how electronic media changes the nature of writing itself, or at least the writing market [...]

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This is from Gideon Burton’s inspiring post about being a public intellectual rather than a private scholar:
I don’t want to be complicit in sustaining a knowledge economy that rewards its participants when they invest in burying and restricting knowledge. This is why Open Access is more than a new model for scholarly publishing, it is [...]

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When it comes to the promise of e-books and electronic publishing, Steven Johnson ‘gets it.’ In an insightful article today for the Wall Street Journal, Johnson ponders “how the e-book will change the way we read.” Journalists and scholars often talk about e-books as if the issue were simply one of distribution and [...]

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Jeremy Thompson over at FreeOldTestamentAudio.com has posted a link to a series of lectures that Brueggemann gave in 2004 at the First Presbyterian Church of Knoxville. [Jeremy has a bunch of other helpful links, so be sure to browse around his great site.]
I’m listening to Leviticus as I type.
Thanks to Prof. Brueggemann and [...]

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