UPDATE 1

I apologize for my lack of blogging lately, I’ll try to kick it up a notch soon. I have two book blurbs in the pipeline as well as a few other ideas stirring.

I have been busy teaching my first official class as a prof. It is tons of fun teaching Greek so far, and my students are responding positively to my use of technology in the class. What all do I do, you may ask? Well:

• First and foremost, my university is in the processing of switching their LMS to moodle, and a number of us are testing it out this year. It is fantastic. So I do exercise checkups online, as well as distribute class materials (btw, I’m using Gerald Stevens, New Testament Greek Primer Cascade Books. It is great!)
• I deliver all lessons in Keynote (Mac’s presenter software). I also use Omnidazzle to scribble on the screen when doing parsing and translation. Then once I’m done I upload it as a PDF for them to have.
• I wrote some absolutely terrible songs that nontheless have helped them learn their paradigms. I had to swallow my pride for this part. p.s. Don’t ask, I’m not giving them out
• I started creating lesson recaps. Utilizing Mac’s Keynote recording feature, I basically sit in my office and go through the presentation again, albeit quicker, and speak over the presentation. Then I export it to quicktime and upload it to moodle.
• I encourage the students to use Ken Penner’s Flash!Pro software for vocabulary memorization
• I also read the chapter vocabulary and place them online as mp3’s to help the auditory learners with vocab

I have worked hard this month to get my lessons all prepared because, as some of you know, I’m now officially a p/t PhD student with none other than our biblioblogging Birdman himself, Mike Bird. My Dissertation is on David and davidic typology in the gospel of Matthew. Fun times!

UPDATE 2:
There have been a few new blogs that have come to light in the past few weeks. Some have just started, some I just learned about. These are the four latest to be added to the Deinde Biblioblog search: Sermon to the Hebrews, Notes on 1 Peter, agaphseis, and Confessions of a Bible Junkie.

There was also a big new website announcement, in my mind anyway. Bulletin of Biblical Research (BBR) now has an upgraded website, including free PDF or .doc downloads of the articles. As a proponent of open source scholarship, I did a backflip (figuratively) when I heard about this. A great journal that is now open to the whole world — well, up to 2004 anyway, but a 3 year buffer is not bad at all.
Anyway I say all of that to let you know that BBR, both citations and the full text, are now indexed in the Deinde Journal Search. One other significant addition I have made to this search is the new JETS archive at the Reclaiming the Mind website.

And as to final Deinde search, the web search, I have updated it so that it now searches every site or page that is connected to the NTGateway as well as iTanakh.

That’s all! Cheers!

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 at 7:28 pm by Danny Zacharias and is filed under teaching, biblical studies, resources, Deinde. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.