Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Teaching/Education
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Over the past year or so I’ve been using an older model iPad in my tertiary education environment to access various information and learning management systems and have, on the whole, been disappointed. The iPad works well for consuming media (provided it comes from a ‘kosher’ source), for reading email (but less so for responding…
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Pottering through a number of books this summer break – dipping into them for a bit before moving on to another book for a while. On the go at the moment or just finished include: “Happy Hour In Hell” (Tad Williams) So far not as good as it’s predecessor, “The Dirty Streets of Heaven”. It…
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Two links here which both connect to the idea of ‘world-building’ – in the first case on the importance of fiction in engendering imaginative, thoughful people, while the second contemplated different ways in which one might deal with religion in fantasy writing. Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming | Books…
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Finishing up working somewhere provides an opportunity to look back at what’s happened during that time. Today I was thinking about the different courses I taught in the School of Theology at the University of Auckland. Some of the courses below (e.g. Theology 100) I’ve taught in every year, others like PTHEO 221/321 and 222/322…
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Last day at the University of Auckland School of Theology today – now on leave until January. Odd kind of day – pretty much no one in the building at all after 1pm when our departmental coordinator left, so when I left at 4pm I locked everything up and turned the lights out. A lot…
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Will have a look through this later. I remember filling out the questionnaire a while back, but had forgotten about it until it came across my email today. The Global Survey on Theological Education was designed to gather data and perspectives on all forms of theological education from every Christian tradition in every part of…
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A link to Universities Australia response to proposed copyright reforms in Australia and how that might affect higher education. http://www.alrc.gov.au/sites/default/files/subs/754._org__universities_australia.pdf
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Looking forward to following this. Always on the lookout for better ways to make progress with my writing. See Writing Wednesdays: The Foolscap Method.
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This popped up in my Facebook feed the other day and reminded me that while we have spent a lot of time, money and resources on course structures, content, delivery and evaluation, and even what should be in a course outline or syllabus, the actual document is just plain (boring). It doesn’t really engage students…
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The ANZATS web site (www.anzats.edu.au) doesn’t seem to be linking to the ANZATS conference registration form. Just gives a broken link. The correct link to register is: https://laidlaw.worldsecuresystems.com/en/news-and-events/anzats-registration-form Accommodation details and contacts are there too.