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Category: Teaching/Education

  • Bootstrapping My Way Into the Ivory Tower

    Really good article by Rachel Wagner over at Ithaca College on her journey into academia and the financial and other stuggles pressures that entailed (and continues to entails) for her. Sobering stuff. See Bootstrapping My Way Into the Ivory Tower – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education BTW – I’m looking forward to her…

  • OurSpace: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World

    Over at Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins there a link through to the Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World project. This project aims to develop a set of curricular materials “designed to encourage high school students to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their participation in…

  • Student Evaluations

    Interesting article on student evaluations at: How to Read a Student Evaluation – Do Your Job Better – The Chronicle of Higher Education Institutions develop a myriad of forms and processes for measuring teaching and learning effectiveness in the classroom. Some of these are formative, targeting student understanding and learning during a course, while others…

  • Amazon, OverDrive, Kindle and libraries

    Given the shift towards public and institutional libraries moving towards the eBook work, this raises some interesting questions. See Amazon, OverDrive, and Kindle! Oh my! | The Digital Immigrant. (P.S. Not entirely convinced by Auckland Library’s Overdrive link up in terms of pragmatics – just too fiddly and unfriendly to struggle with.)

  • enabling e-Learning – Ministry of Education

    Ministry of Education’s new e-learning support site. See enabling e-Learning – enabling eLearning Hat tip to: Derek at Core-Ed: New online ICT-related education hub launched

  • Dean’s position at Bishopdale Theological College in Nelson

    Bishopdale Theological College in the Nelson Anglican diocese is looking for a new dean (The current dean Tim Harris is heading to a bishop’s role in Adelaide. See: Bishopdale dean off to Adelaide). Details are available here (PDF & Word). Applications close 30 August.

  • On dissertations and books

    Some helpful advice on academic publishing for new academics. From Dissertation to Book – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education It’s a Dissertation, Not a Book – Advice – The Chronicle of Higher Education

  • Random educational links

    Clearing out various links – here are some related to education. Blog U.: 10 Guidelines for Running Synchronous Web Teaching Sessions – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed How to add EPUB books to your Kindle, take advantage of Google’s massive free library « Ernesto Burden Tweeting Students Earn Higher Grades Than Others in…

  • Introductory text book on contextual theology

    While I’m meandering through study leave I’ll be on the look out for books that might serve as text books for classes in 2012 and 2013. Currently I’m looking for a good, introductory text for first-year undergraduates studying contextual theology. These are students who will have done some introductory systematic theology and biblical studies (or…

  • Two biblical studies teaching posts

    Tim points to two biblical studies positions being advertised at Carey Baptist College here in Auckland. One in Old Testament (TIm’s successor) and one in New Testament. See Two biblical studies teaching posts – Sansblogue.