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Archive for February, 2010

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NZ On Screen – Music Videos

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

While looking around the web for the ‘Sierra Leone’ music video (by 80′s band Coconut Rough) I stumble across this really cool archive of NZ music videos. There goes the evening.

See NZ On Screen – Music Videos.

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Terry Pratchett on ‘assisted death’

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Terry Pratchett on why ‘assisted death’ should be seriously considered – see Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal | Society | The Guardian.

Of all the topics in ethics class last year, this one was the one most hotly debated by the students. Touches nerves on so many levels, I think, and not just theologically or spiritually.

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A bunch of religion and popular culture links

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Vampires appear to be the order of the day, starting off with:

And then all the recent religion and popular culture posts about Twilight and Mormonism:

And then, in general:

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Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Seeing as how questions about how course management systems and learning management systems relate to teaching in the university crop up all the time at work, I’ll be taking some time to look at this article:

Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching
by Lisa M. Lane
First Monday, Volume 14, Number 10 – 5 October 2009

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Sport and the Sabbath

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Sermon today was on ‘keeping the Sabbath’ which made this article in the Guardian (Six Nations: ‘Rugby is not what fuels my happiness,’ says Euan Murray) more relevant than it might have been another day.

Hat tip to The GA Junkie – an interesting blog in the vagaries of Presbyterianism around the world.

An interesting recent podcast on faith and football can also be found here: BBC – BBC World Service Programmes – Heart And Soul, 06/01/2010 Faith and Football

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Back (for a while, at least)

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Okay, the blogging break ended up being a little bit longer than anticipated, and I’m still trying to decide what to do with blog. It’s been going since August 2003, developing from the previous phpWebSite-based site, through various incarnations. It was really helpful while writing the PhD and in the post-PhD period but I haven’t quite figured out what I want to do with it now – especially when I don’t have a lot of energy for it at the moment.

Still, inspiration might strike…and the blog break has been good in the interim.

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