Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Teaching/Education
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A while back I wrote an increasingly long list of (predominantly Mac-based) writing tools – Greenflame · Thinking about writing tools. Fernando has recently written some more on than theme and on one of those tools (Scrivener), including some comments on how it helps manage his writing processes. See Fernando’s Desk » Getting It Down…
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A selection of links that intersect around the role of new media in educational environments. Henry Jenkins has an essay (in two parts) that looks at the tension between participatory media and traditional educational models, and in particular emphasises the critical application of the following skill set: Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge…
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AKMA has some gentle reminders about the need for typographical simplicity when selecting typefaces, and has some helpful links to some related typeface resources. See AKMA’s Random Thoughts: Type Trove.
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Over the years I’ve used lots of different text and word processors to support writing I’ve needed to do: nroff and similar on UNIX systems for writing documentation View on the BBC Microcomputer in the 1980s Something on an Apple II+ which only displayed 40 characters per line WordStar, MS Word and WordPerfect under MS-DOS…
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Jo pointed to this article about Google Books. Food for thought. American Historical Association Blog: Google Books: What’s Not to Like?
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Does anyone know if Sente from Third Street Software is any good for managing bibliographic data and handling citations in word processing documents. I’m currently locked into the MS Word/Endnote system, but I wouldn’t mind having the option to try out Mellel for academic writing (which Sente supports as well as Word).
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I picked it up here at Faith and Theology: Footnotes or endnotes? but it started here at Frankly, Mr Shankly: TF Torrance, footnotes and endnotes. Then it evolved to here to Aaron Ghiloni’s poll pointed to by Faith and Theology: The footnote controversy. At the end of the day – “Endnotes – just say no!”
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Having returned from holiday with more books (see Greenflame: Back from holiday (with books)) we all went out a few days back to one of the local secondhand bookshops with a box of books to exchange. A successful trip with all 6 of us finding something amongst the volumes. To my delight I picked up…
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I see that EndNote now has a basic style for SBL which would have saved me grief a while back. Only problem I’d need to upgrade EndNote to a new version that requires a G4 as minimum. The poor old G3 iBook doesn’t make the cut even though it word processes just fine with EndNote…
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Nice summary of a talk given on the influence of Google (and like) upon the identification of critical and helpful knowledge, particularly within the academic world, over at planet telex » Blog Archive » The University of Google – Speed Searching and the Killing of Knowledge. A problem that I come across regularly when marking…