Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Teaching/Education
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I printed this out yesterday to have a look at it, after I was forward the link to it the other day. Looks really helpful, and a good resource for something like the General Education course “Bible and Popular Culture” (old blurb about it here) that I’m teaching next year. See Bitemybible: The Bible Style…
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Rap and particle physics collide in this interesting YouTube presentation: YouTube – The Large Hadron Rap When particle physics and hip hop collide – 02 Sep 2008 – NZ Herald
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A couple of related recent web links about online publishing. The first, Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm | Epicenter from Wired.com looks at some recent initiatives relating to creating accessible (from a cost point of view) text books. Similarly, Tensegrities » Blog Archive » Digital media and civic learning, notes that MIT have released…
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Damaris have a philosophy and ethics model for schools available as a free sample at the moment, based around The Cosmological Argument. I’m going to have a look because next year I should be teaching a theological ethics course and I’m interested in how other people are approaching teaching philosophical and ethical in engaging ways.…
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This looks interesting Students who use ‘clickers’ score better on physics tests. I’d like to do some in-class polling of students (probably for the large General Education paper I’m teaching next year) – to be able to elicit a poll on a subject in order to spark discussion or emphasise a point, and also to…
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Various learning management systems (LMS) like Moodle allow you to create online activities like quizzes and polls as part of the course content and engagement. But what do you do if you need something like that but you don’t have access to an LMS that does it or you need to put that content in…
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Who owns the intellectual content of lecture notes you take in class? And can you sell them? Lawsuit Claim: Students’ Lecture Notes Infringe on Professor’s Copyright
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To add to my mostly Mac OS X based list of writing tools – Bean: An OS X Word Processor. (Oh, and I think I left NeoOffice (based on OpenOffice) off the original list too.)
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Some more links relating to the recent bibliographic software postings – mostly Mac related. Firstly, TidBITS – Endnote, Bookends, Sente, Zotero, oh my, which looks at possible alternatives to EndNote on the Mac by an ecologist – with follow up comments by others. Then there’s a review and a follow up at on the SBL…
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Tim’s recent post SansBlogue: Referencing for the financially challenged generated a few comments, so he’s followed it up with SansBlogue: Zotero is brilliant, and integrates nicely which includes some movies of how Zotero works in practice. I have Zotero installed on the old iBook and it’s integration with MS Word v.X for Mac is quite…