Time is almost up to suggest entries for the May 2009 Biblical Studies Carnival, to be hosted at Ketuvim. See the carnival’s home page to learn how to submit an entry; additional options for submissions by the host himself. The most recent Teaching Carnival, at Bethany Nowviskie, is already eleven days old. The roughly semiweekly [...]
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As fiction writers use “phlebotinum” to advance their plots, purveyors of pseudo-scholarship (or “woo-meisters”) misuse honest jargon as phlebotinum to create misleading accounts of the real world.
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A short introduction to iTunes University and YouTube/EDU
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John Hobbins wrote up a translation and some commentary on a Hebrew poem by Shimshon Meltzer. When I tried to comment, TypePad declined to accept my data. Presumably, I had too darned many tags in my comment, what with my endless italicizing of stressed syllables. So, I am posting my comment here and linking to [...]
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The cords of Grading are wrapped around my neck, The snares of Grading confront me. I have gone where there is no blogging Nor memory of blogging. Until the LORD brings me up alive from Grading, Restoring me to life from those who go down into the Office, You may as well stop by Four [...]
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Michael Berubé has been back at it for months, it turns out.
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Asynchronous collaboration at a distance, such as that common in an online learning environment, can produce results of the same quality as traditional, synchronous, face-to-face collaboration. This is the result of a study published in the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. (H/T to the Teach Online blog). The controls on the study look good [...]
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Features shared between Ugaritic and Israelite religious expressions challenge a reflexive human tendency to deny overlap between our theological convictions and those of the “Other.”
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Good blogs being noticed by good readers.
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Christopher Hays commented on my link to PaleoBabble, and my answer became convoluted textured enough that I thought I’d bump it up into a post. Chris writes: …imagine Dan Brown sitting on the deck of his Malibu home (or wherever he lives off all the money his craptastic books and movies earn) laughing about all [...]
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