The Bible in Church and Academy
Posted in Academia, Gadgets, Open Access Scholarship, Technology on Sep 11th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Academia, Open Access Scholarship, Technology on Sep 10th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Academia, Bible, Open Access Scholarship on Aug 25th, 2009
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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 [...]
Posted in Academia, Open Access Scholarship, QOTD on Aug 25th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Academia, Culture, Open Access Scholarship, Technology on Jul 19th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Academia, Blogging, Open Access Scholarship on Jun 3rd, 2009
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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 [...]
Posted in Academia, Blogging, Open Access Scholarship, Publishing on Jun 1st, 2009
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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 [...]
Posted in Academia, Culture, Open Access Scholarship on May 19th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Books, Culture, Open Access Scholarship on Apr 20th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Lectures, Open Access Scholarship on Apr 13th, 2009
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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