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James McGrath – Revelation Course Blog, Needs Comments
Posted by Joel in Biblioblogging on November 30, 2010
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I am copying this completely:
This semester, students in my course on the Book of Revelation had as one of their assignments to evaluate a web site and post their evaluation on a blog set up for this purpose.
I’ll be reading their posts over the coming days, but I wanted to share a link to the blog so that you can do so as well.
Your comments will be welcome, both for my benefit as I seek to evaluate not only what students produced, but also the value of this sort of assignment; and also for the benefit of the students, for some of whom this represents their very first steps towards contributing to that online pool of information that is the internet.
via Exploring Our Matrix: Evaluating Online Sources Online: Revelation Course Blog.
I’ve read several of the blog posts – I think that you might find it interesting some of the takes on Revelation….
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A Friendly Request to all of my Fellow Bibliobloggers
Posted by Joel in Technology on November 30, 2010
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For the past few months, I’ve been using Zemanta’s plugin for WordPress.org. WordPress.com has it as well, by the way. It saves a lot of time looking for pictures and others links…. and… it allows me to add links from other bloggers who are writing about something similar.
So, here is my request. Go register with Zemanta. Put your feed in the feed of the company feeds the bloggers. Seriously, I should be a parody singer. But, I digress.
This will allow me to link to more of your blog posts. See below….
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Using Social Media in Order to ‘Effectively Evangelize Digital Continent’
Posted by Joel in Technology on November 27, 2010
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We live in a digital world and I’m just a digital girl, ur, I mean, well, um… Look, just ignore what you just read. Back to the story.
Stuart notes that the US Catholic Bishops are taking the far front in using technology to reach the masses. In preparing RFP/T’s for various State governments, I’ve noticed that many governments are wanting to make use of Social Media to spread their message or to interact with their citizens.
I am here today to suggest that you should not allow yourselves to be fooled by its appearance. Social media is proving itself to be a force with which to be reckoned. If not, the church may be facing as great a challenge as that of the Protestant Reformation.
That sounds like more hyperbole, doesn’t it? But the numbers are compelling.
There are more than 500 million active users on Facebook. If it were a nation, only India and China would have more citizens. The American Red Cross reported that it raised more than $5 million dollars, $10 at a time, through a text messaging service. One out of eight MARRIED couples in the United States say they met through social media. It took 13 years for television to reach 50 million users. After the iPod was introduced, it took only nine months for 1 billion applications to be downloaded.
Pope Benedict XVI calls the world of social media a Digital Continent, with natives, immigrants, and even missionaries. He encourages Catholics, especially our priests, to approach this culture of 140 characters and virtual friendships as a great opportunity for evangelization. We are asked to respect the culture of these Twitterers and Facebookers, and to engage on their terms to bring Christ into their “brave new world.”
Read the rest on Stuart’s h-blog-t.
I believe that with the advent of technology, it behooves us to use it to effect our deliverables. Whether the Gospel or Scholarship, politics or anarchy, if we fail to use technology properly, then we will soon become archaic and pass away….
(psst…. and NO Jeremy, while I appreciate what Bishop Herzog is saying, this in no way means I’ll end up Catholic.)
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Don’t Forget your Favorite Bibliobloggers on Cyber-Monday
Posted by Joel in Biblioblogging on November 26, 2010
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This is a repost, but since the Monday after Black Friday is usually the day for cyber deals, or Cyber Monday, I thought that I would repost it.
I love to buy Southern Gospel songs from James McGrath’s Amazon Store. I don’t know why, but it makes me smile.
Sure, sometimes I cheat on Jeremy’s store and go with McGrath’s for books (but I promise, Jeremy, it is only by accident), but I need to also spend some money at Jason’s and T.C.’s and maybe even Fr. Stephen‘s. And don’t forget about Jeff. And have you heard about Chris’? And the other Chris (Brady)?
Why? Because bloggers with stores get some commission money when someone buys something from their store. This helps with self-education or buying things for others, etc… So, as the holidays approach , and you go to Amazon for your shopping pleasure, be kind and visit Amazon through one of these stores, or mine which is on the right side bar. Go through one of these stores and anything you buy will route some spending cash from Amazon to your favorite biblioblogger’s pocket.
Now, ask yourself – if you have to spend money at Amazon, why not do it in such a way as to help out bibliobloggers?
A digital future for the Humanities?
Posted by Joel in Technology on November 25, 2010
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Read Dr. Cargill’s SBL paper here and here. Then, the press release about something…
Colourful 3D reconstructions of ancient monuments, virtual galleries and a multi-screen ‘intelligent’ classrooms will transform teaching and research in the Humanities, thanks to a new Digital Centre at The University of Nottingham.
The Centre will give students and staff instant access to a wide variety of digitised images, multimedia and 3D models of ancient artefacts and will make the use of traditional slides and 2D screen presentations like ‘Powerpoint’ a thing of the past.
Work in the Departments of Art History, Classics, and Archaeology, as well as Music, Philosophy and Theology, has in the past relied on lantern slides and printed versions of thousands of images, objects and texts.
Now the new Centre will make available a wide variety of the latest visualisation technologies and equipment, setting new standards for the study and teaching of the Humanities in the digital age. And it will be truly cross-disciplinary with colleagues in the Faculties of Engineering and Biomedical Sciences also making use of the equipment and exchanging expertise with Arts and Humanities.
The new technology will be installed in several locations in the current Humanities premises but the Centre will eventually have its own bespoke space in the new Humanities building, currently under construction on University Park and due to open in September 2011.
Among the new resources available to staff and students will be an equipment pool including photo and video kit, design and editing software and a state-of-the-art 3D scanner. New digitisation equipment will be used to create a vast digital archive of thousands of slides and photographs, and objects. Art History alone has more than 80,000 slides in its image library.
Dr Katharina Lorenz from the Department of Classics said: “Digital technologies are dramatically changing the appearance and delivery of our teaching and research. The Humanities are ideal disciplines to engage with these new visualisation methods because most of the sources we deal with are highly fragmented — to bring them to life, sophisticated technologies and methodological rigour are required.”
Art History’s Dr Mark Rawlinson added: “New digital technologies are capable of producing high-quality scans of individual artworks which help preserve originals whilst simultaneously offering access to students, researchers and members of the public from anywhere in the world. 3D modelling also enables the recreation of art exhibitions from the past, creating a new kind of visual archive and offering the opportunity to take virtual tours of historical art shows.”
Dr Will Bowden from Archaeology said: “The 3D modelling of objects will have a direct benefit for our research projects and will also stimulate new developments in teaching, for example allowing students to undertake detailed examination of objects that would be otherwise unavailable to them, or allowing multiple students to simultaneously examine and discuss a single object.”
In collaboration with the University’s Centre for Advanced Study and the Digital Humanities Network, the Centre will also provide a meeting hub to exchange ideas and develop projects in the area of Digital Humanities. Further details and enquiry form can be found on the Centre’s website at www.nottingham.ac.uk/digitalhumanities
Twitter account: NottinghamDigi
Photographs of the launch of the Digital Humanities Centre can be found on Flickr account
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More thoughts on the #SBL10 Biblioblogging Section
Posted by Joel in Biblioblogging on November 24, 2010
Jim West who?
First, James McGrath updates a list and has some thoughts as well:
Jim Davila, Chris Brady, and Michael Barber have shared their papers online. (I should mention that it is not only bloggers presenting in this session who have done this – Ben Witherington has shared his paper from the Paul and Scripture seminar)
Mark Goodacre and Jared Calloway are among those who posted about the session…..
Read his post here, and then, read them all –
Exploring Our Matrix: Bloggership: The #SBL10 Session on Blogging and Online Publication.
Dr. Jim Linville was a great guy to hang out with and talk politics! He shared some brief thoughts before he boarded the 80 hour so flight to Canada!
Steve showed up for the (first) Biblioblogger dinner (we actually had another one the next day and a smaller get together that evening).
Dr. Cargill has shared his paper in two parts. This is important, actually, and not to be taken lightly. I want to address both his and Chris Brady’s proposal next week. (and really, really, really look at the picture there)
Daniel Kirk has a spot on the biblioblogger section you should check out as well. And Jared as well. I was able to meet both Jared and Daniel, chatting with them for a while.
Some of the most enjoyable time I spent at SBL was with James Spinti who provided a great spirit, great conversation, and some thoughts for me to ponder on.
And Edward Cook…Peter Head…although really about the SBL…
And Jim Davila has a list of total SBL thoughts…
And Scott Bailey… And Bill Heroman
There was a great sense of community at the biblioblogger session and other events, even for a non-scholar such as myself. No elitism, no ivory tower. They didn’t exclude or talk down to me, etc… A great bunch of honest to goodness people in real life. I admit, that I get star struck at times… I mean, when it comes to biblioblogging, some of these people are like tv stars. And then, you meet them in real life… authors, bloggers, teachers, etc…
Yep, nerd-crush, I have it.
A New (to me) Theoblog – Galadriel’s Mirror
Posted by Joel in Biblioblogging on November 24, 2010
The author of this book has a blog, although admittedly, he hasn’t posted on it for a while.
This blog make no claim to be oracular (see the forthcoming post on “The Internet as Oracle”). I make no pretense to having mystical powers like Galadriel. But I do like the idea of a blog providing discussions that challenge and test the hearts and minds of those who click on the site to have a look. It appears to me that a blog serves (quite insufficiently!) as a “table”–a table over which friends and strangers banter as though with coffee mug in hand over matters both important and whimsical.
I prayerfully hope that “Galadriel’s Mirror” @ abyers.wordpress.com will offer conversations (both bidden and unbidden!) that penetrate the interlocutors and readers and inspire us to stay the course, namely, the Course that is straight, narrow, and most costly. And most rewarding…. (here)
Now, with his upcoming book, let’s hope he returns to blogging….
