Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Teaching/Education
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Both MS Word 2007 (Windows) and MS Word 2008 (Mac) claim to have citation and bibliographic features for writers who need that support – though with a limited set of bibliographic styles. Does anyone have any experience working with them or compared them to a third-party add-on like Endnote? If you only used the supplied…
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I enjoy seeing the different ways that libraries use to promote reading – the recent NZ libraries ‘Inspire me!’ campaign using some well-known faces is a good example. Here’s one from the American Library Association that uses Alex Ross comic book watercolor artwork (and a couple of others) to promote reading. See Comics Should Be…
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Various books on the go at the moment. Some good, some not so. Random comments follow. “Metal Swarm” by Kevin J. Anderson (Book 6(!) in the “The Saga of Seven Suns” series). Should be right up my alley – ancient powerful alien races continue ancient wars while plucky humans (with strange alien sometime allies) strive…
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A couple of times I’ve found it useful to use Marc Prensky’s concepts of the digital native and digital immigrant to make points in things I’ve written. As one reviewer noted of one of these pieces, these are helpful concepts but can’t be realized as absolute categories, which I agree with entirely. The adoption or…
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Brief article on designing a computer games to allow students to explore ethical issues. In this case, you play an ‘Igor’ assistant in a Frankenstein scenario. Sounds intriguing. See Universities bring video games into classrooms | CNET News.com.
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The other week I borrowed a friend’s copy of “a genuinely educated ministry”: Three Studies on Theological Education in the Uniting Church of Australia by Andrew Dutney, principal of Parkin-Wesley College in Adelaide. It’s a collection of Dutney’s three research projects submitted for a course at Flinders University designed for educational administrators and managers. As…
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In the wake of PhD submission and graduation I’ve been interviewed a couple of times by the University of Auckland about being a theology PhD student. In particular, having four PhD graduates in September from a such small school/faculty has been reported on the front page of the university’s fortnightly internal magazine, and then the…
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Here’s a PDF of collating all the Finishing the PhD material. tribulationorrapture.pdf
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(Part 10 of 10) To finish the thesis you have to want to finish it, and be prepared to sacrifice time and energy to get there. As a friend once told me, doing a PhD is 90-99% perseverance (and much less brilliance). Once you’re committed to finishing you just have to get on and do…
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(Part 9 of 10) Fairly simple point, but harder, perhaps, to get right. When someone reads your thesis can they clearly distinguishing you and your arguments in there. It’s all about communicating your own contribution clearly. In the midst of citations, quotations, footnotes and comparing/contrasting ideas it’s important to be heard clearly. Are my views,…