Summary: On January 9th, I received my first unit of Code Year, a one-year, weekly lesson in Javascript programming offered freely by CodeAcademy. Take ten minutes in the evenings, and learn the language used to create on the Web.
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Along with everything else in life that you’ve been missing, the Day in the Life of Digital Humanities (“Day of DH”) 2011 came and went a couple of weeks back. What are the “Digital Humanities,” you ask? You could settle for me telling you that it’s humanities accomplished digitally, or you could ask the Wikipedia [...]
Filed under: Links, Research, Social Web | Tagged: academia, digital humanities, media, open access education, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment »
Summary: Michael Wesch asks students to tell him through YouTube videos what they “see” today: literally, from their seats, and also how they envision learning. Profs, how do the vids speak to you? Students, what do you see from the places where you are expected to learn?
Filed under: Education, Social Web | Tagged: academia, being a student, culture, learning, video, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
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?
Filed under: Education, Hebrew Language, Social Web | Tagged: academia, accessibility, distance learning, Hebrew, language, media, video, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
“‘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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Summary: Ideas for a site, “Ask a Biblical Scholar Anything,” on analogy with the successful “Ask a Biologist Anything” site.
Filed under: Education, Old Testament, Social Web | Tagged: culture, history, learning, New Testament, teaching, Web 2.0 | 13 Comments »
Summary: Lisa Halverson is Tweeting the Lord of the Flies with her students. With what kind of shared reading community might you try the same?
Filed under: Education, Social Web | Tagged: learning, reading, teaching, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Leave a Comment »
Summary: my paper about “community” in online learning has been accepted by SBL. Are you skeptical about online “community,” or do you find that you already experience “community” online?
Filed under: Education, Research, Social Web | Tagged: culture, distance learning, learning, SBL, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Summary: this blog is one today!
Filed under: An Informal Word, Social Web | Tagged: blogging, collegiality, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
I will write more substantively on this later on, but for now, just take a look at Joseph’s post and its comment thread. Short version of my response: I very much like the idea of a Bible translation that is subject to the Wiki’s ways.
Filed under: Links, Social Web, Stubby | Tagged: Hebrew Bible, New Testament, translation, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
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