The Bible in Church and Academy
Posted in Books, Ignorance, Technology on Feb 23rd, 2010
I wrote some articles for the first couple of volumes of the NIDB, and subscribed to the series with my author’s discount. It was still expensive, but one perk was that I received the final CD-ROM version of the set. My disc arrived today.
Imagine my frustration when I saw the “Powered by Nextpage” and “Windows [...]
Posted in Teaching, Technology on Sep 15th, 2009
Mark Goodacre continues his innovation and trend-setting with a public “office hours” conversation via Duke’s Ustream channel. I’m looking forward to this one. Be sure to tune in at noon on Friday, September 18th.
Does anyone know of other uses of live streaming for higher education? What if a professor streamed her whole course via Ustream, [...]
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 Gadgets, Technology on Sep 10th, 2009
I just posted about iTunes U, but I wanted to add one complaint to the mix.
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 [...]
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 Culture, Language, Technology on Aug 5th, 2009
It is imperative that Apple stay in the platform business and stay out of the content business. When they opened the iTunes store a few years ago, they became a music retailer like Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart. Like the first two of those (and unlike the third), they did not attempt to moderate or [...]
Posted in Politics, Technology on Jul 29th, 2009
Friend and Furman colleague Brent Nelsen has announced his candidacy for the SC State Superintendent of Education position. He is a highly respected teacher and scholar, and a man of unquestioned integrity. Regardless of one’s position on political issues, in today’s climate it is nice to see someone of such high principles and competence running [...]
Posted in Academia, Gadgets, Technology on Jul 25th, 2009
Abilene Christian University began a program last year to outfit students and faculty with iPhones and iPod Touches to be used for academic and social purposes on campus. TUAW has a year-end report here. Those who were part of this year’s program were very happy about it:
On the faculty side, about 65% of the 167 [...]
Posted in Academia, Teaching, Technology on Jul 22nd, 2009
In case you didn’t see it, be sure to read Chris Heard’s post about the effort to remove certain kinds of technology from the classroom in favor of other kinds. Dekstop teaching stations encourage professors to use Powerpoint along with other visual media to augment their lecturing, or at least that’s the intention. Anecdotal evidence, [...]
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 [...]
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