Every now and then I ponder what happens to people’s different online presences when they die, but I hadn’t realized Facebook has a memorialization function for their accounts. See Social networking for the dead | Alan Wilson | guardian.co.uk.
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If you liked Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and you like comic books then you might be interesting in this coming out from Dark Horse - Dr. Horrible (one-shot).
You can read an interview with the writer over at Newsarama.com : [Zack] Whedon’s DR. HORRIBLE: DHC’s Latest One-Shot Wonder.
I’m wondering about setting a photoessay as an assessment for a postgrad class next year (to try and break the mold of everything being lots and lots of words), and was wondering if anyone knew of some good examples of how to do that?
An online game from the University of North Carolina Greensboro getting students to think about academic information and sources.
A while back I wrote a piece for Candour, a Presbyterian eZine, on some of the different ways religion and comic books interact. A few months later I needed to lecture in that area for my Bible in Popular Culture course, and so had all the notes prepared. I love it when a plan comes together.
The article looked at:
- How biblical material gets directly transfered to graphical media. (e.g. a graphic adaptation of a gospel)
- How spiritual and religious material might occur in ’secular’ comic books.
- How comic book material might be used for tracts and polemics, and to support a faith-community.
- And finally, how the comic book format might be used as a theological or spiritual source (e.g. wrestling with theodicy).
The next step would be to take each of these sections and turn them into academic articles in their own right. I always wanted a job where I’d get paid to read comic books 
Picked up some good materials at Armageddon at the weekend to help with this.
Having just set a couple of exams recently and wondering about how students used to typing everything would go with handwriting mini-essay answers, so this post over a Derek’s blog seemed pertinent. See Derek’s Blog » Do we learn to hand-write simply to sit exams?.
Personally, I always hand-wrote detailed lecture notes, particularly as I could also add in diagrams etc. and connect ideas on the pages far more quickly and more effectively than notetaking on a laptop. During exam time I would put the computers away and hand-write my prep notes etc. This served me well in exams as I could write fluently (if not always coherently) for extended periods of time. Times change though, I guess.
James McGrath notes a couple of documentary series about Jesus of Nazareth available to watch online. I knew about the PBS FRONTLINE: from jesus to christ - the first christians, but not the National Geographic material available here at Jesus: The Preacher.
Related link: PBS Empires: Peter and Paul and the Christian Revolution
I recently picked up a copy of “Scared Sacred” which is in the ‘to watch’ pile. This looks like this movie might join it there, once it comes out on DVD. See: :: Oh My God - Movie ::.
Seen on Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools blog - Cool Tools: The Geek Atlas - a book about a large number of different places to visit that have special geeky significance. I wonder if it’s on sale here?
Some of these are quite clever. Others not so. See Biblical Tweets
A couple of short pieces from Harvard Business School about social networking
- Understanding Users of Social Networks — HBS Working Knowledge
- Social Network Marketing: What Works? — HBS Working Knowledge
I particularly liked the quote, “Online social networks are most useful when they address real failures in the operation of offline networks”.
Important to know this stuff
See What’s Inside a Cup of Coffee?
I’m intrigued by the various ways that different theological institutions are using digital media to communicate what they do, and also the content of some of their teaching. Recently I came across Fuller’s biblical studies courses taught by John Goldingay which are available through Fuller on iTunes U. While they provide audio of the lectures which is pretty typically, the course outline/curriculum is also uploaded which is an excellent idea, I think.
One of the things we’ve touched on briefly in the Bible in Popular Culture course is the intersection of politics and religion in popular culture. This link demonstrates one particular way that might occur - One Nation Under God.
I don’t know if something like this (In-App Sales and iTablet: The Killer Combo to Save Publishing? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com) would work, but I really like something like that to buy and read comics and graphic novels on. If the screen was the same size as a printed comic book page and in colour then I’d be first in line to buy one. (Plus I wouldn’t have to worry about the plastic bags etc. for keeping the comics in).
You can put the number of possibilities for grant writing and theology in the NZ context down to a very small number. Outside of applying for grant funding within an institution or to a denomination there aren’t really that many opportunities (unless you’ve involved with an interdisciplinary project). But this piece by Lynne Clark on grant writing is still useful, as are her reflections on the US tenure system.
See lynn_s_clark: Notes on Grant-Writing and lynn_s_clark: Tenure!.
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