Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Digital Technology
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The day started well yesterday. We had a really good session in the postgrad class ‘Science, Technology, Media and God’ looking at religion and spirituality in the online space, as well as some ethical thoughts on that, and then when I emerged from that there was a copy of “Friending: Real Relationships in a Virtual…
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Ran a three session workshop on “digital life” for a vestry retreat day over on the North Shore today. I enjoyed it, and there were good questions and comments from people in the sessions and over morning tea and lunch.
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The most recent Spiritual Outlook programme on Radio New Zealand National is on digital religion and includes an interview with Rachel Wagner (Ithaca College, and author of forthcoming Godwired: Religion. Ritual, and Virtual Reality). You can listen to the audio here (as well as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files). Podcast link is http://www.radionz.co.nz/podcasts/spiritualoutlook Rachel was…
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I’ve been wondering when something like this might happen. Various gatherings happen around the place – bibliobloggers, panels at conferences and other events, and then the non-denominational gatherings around religious blogging – but I can’t remember seeing anything else like this. Any other similar events around? Vatican invites bloggers to first-ever summit – Religion and…
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Just one of those things that made life a whole lot easier: Mac OSX Finder Refresh – News – Shane’s Site
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So I’m looking at the ways in which new media stuff might work in teaching theology, so a report on a pilot project using iPads for teaching and learning at Trinity College at the University of Melbourne looked like it might be helpful. But it didn’t really have any substance, and in parts reads like…
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Clearing out random saved links from the web browser and came across these related posts: Experimental Theology: How Facebook Killed the Church Why Millennials are leaving church … you won’t believe this | Jesus Creed
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Hat tip to Heidi Campbell for this conference announcement. International Conference on Digital Religion 2012 The Center for Media, Religion, and Culture at the University of Colorado-Boulder has announced an International Conference on Digital Religion, to be held 12-15 January 2012 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. ‘Digital Religion” today includes a myriad of examples: an evangelical…
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Nice find someone else who’s wrestling with this. Will be interested to see how it works out. See Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: What Constitutes an Open-Book Exam in the Digital Age?.
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They’ve been smart phone apps for a while with lectionaries and orders of service, as well as apps to help you pray, meditate and confess. This one, however, looks like it’s got some kind of holy imprimatur. See Forgive me i-Father