The Exegetical Thesis as (Digital) Storytelling

Posted on January 30, 2012 by anummabrooke

The “exegesis project” is a The Big Project for masters students in a biblical studies course. Usually, it’s a paper, of course. This term, I hope to encourage students in my “Book of Daniel” to consider doing the project in the form of “Digital Storytelling.” I realize that this calls for a two-part explanation: What [...]

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RBoC: Not-Yet-End-of-Term Edition

Posted on April 12, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: Busy, busy, so it’s RBoC for you.

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What Would You Ask a Prospective Online Student?

Posted on March 16, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: Not everyone is equally prepared for online learning. What would you want to ask of a prospective online student, to help her make a no-B.S. assessment of whether distance learning is for her? If you have been an online learner, what do you know now about “what it takes” that you didn’t know then?

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Closed Captioning for User-Generated Video (via ProfHacker)

Posted on March 11, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: ProfHacker posted a blog entry about how to produce closed-captioning for your videos using the site Universal Subtitles. Here is my first effort at closed captioning. What experience do you have with closed captioning, whether needing it or producing it? What issues should I know about as I continue to closed-caption my videos?

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Modern Israeli Music in Hebrew Class

Posted on February 18, 2011 by anummabrooke

Summary: a little Israeli rock with an indie aesthetic for the second-term Biblical Hebrew class: ladies and gentlemen, Rona Kenan.

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Links for SBL10 Workshop Presentation

Posted on November 22, 2010 by anummabrooke

“‘To Those Far and Near’: the Case for Community at a Distance.” The Background: A Community of Scholarship, Emory’s Candler School of Theology. Episode CXXVIII of the Endless Thread, Pharyngula. Losers of Friday Night on Their Computers, Twitter search. [link fixed] SBL Annual Conference 2010 (#sbl10), Twitter search. [link fixed] Intro to OT Online Group [...]

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Open Access Intro to OT

Posted on July 24, 2010 by anummabrooke

Summary: toward a particular kind of open-access Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).

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Discussion: Trible’s Tasmanian Tigers

Posted on June 14, 2010 by anummabrooke

(With its two companion posts, this is a discussion exercise for some of my students, while our course management system undergoes an untimely upgrade. Other readers may choose to chime in, but please let the students “own the space,” and remember that I’ll delete off-topic or disrespectful comments and replies. This post will only accept [...]

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Discussion: Gunkel’s Gray Wolves

Posted on June 14, 2010 by anummabrooke

(With its two companion posts, this is a discussion exercise for some of my students, while our course management system undergoes an untimely upgrade. Other readers may choose to chime in, but please let the students “own the space,” and remember that I’ll delete off-topic or disrespectful comments and replies. This post will only accept [...]

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Discussion: Wellhausen’s Wildcats

Posted on June 14, 2010 by anummabrooke

(With its two companion posts, this is a discussion exercise for some of my students, while our course management system undergoes an untimely upgrade. Other readers may choose to chime in, but please let the students “own the space,” and remember that I’ll delete off-topic or disrespectful comments and replies. This post will only accept [...]

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