Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Teaching/Education
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I use Scrivener to write with. I love most things about it, but there are a few things that I either don’t like or haven’t been able to figure out yet. This blog looks like it will be helpful for the latter. Here’s an example about creating distraction free writing space: The Omm of Scrivener.
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The Tertiary Education Commission’s 2013 Tertiary Education Report is now available on their website, along with a set of interesting info graphic summaries of Tertiary Education in New Zealand 2013 – infographics (PDF, 117 Kb) Māori in Tertiary Education 2013 – infographics (PDF, 256 Kb) Pasifika in Tertiary Education 2013 – infographics (PDF, 109 Kb)…
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Trying out the MarsEdit blogging tool to put together a few highlights from 2014. Works okay, on the whole, but doesn’t have the ability to easily embed YouTube videos or do Amazon lookups etc. Most enjoyable books of 2014 Didn’t really have have a lot of time to read much this year but the following…
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One of my tasks for getting the blog back up and going is to look at how software for the Mac, Windows and iOS has progressed over the past few years. I like using a client to write blog posts, rather than sitting in the WordPress editor in the web browser. It allows me to…
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Paper copy of this book just arrived for review. Looking forward to reading it on the plane in a week or so’s time. “Transforming Theological Education” (Perry Shaw)
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Just the kind of encouraging thing to read first thing on a Monday morning… [From Killing Pigs and Weed Maps: The Mostly Unread World of Academic Papers – Pacific Standard: The Science of Society]
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A couple of interesting posts on online academia. The first looks at how PhD students might use online resources and networks to promote and resource their own research, while the second looks at developments in online theological education. The online scholar: A guide for PhD students After initial skepticism, online theological education growing
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Mental health amongst academics doesn’t really get talked about to much. Constant change within the tertiary sector, continual creeping (and often accelerating) bureaucracy, and an ever increasing audit culture can and do reduce space for collegiality, fulfilling a sense of vocation and developing a kind of work life balance (e.g. spending your annual leave doing…
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With more students using web-based/cloud-based software to write their work up in, this looks like a useful addition for Google Docs – See EasyBib Bibliography Creator – Google Docs add-on. PaperPile does something similar but it isn’t free, RefWorks (if you have access to that) can sort of fake doing it too.
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Laidlaw College is advertising for a full-time permanent Senior Lecturer in Mission Studies. More details at: Senior Lecturer in Mission Studies. Please pass the link on to anyone you think might be interested.