Coincidentally, as my friend Kevin Scull was presenting a paper on Ignatius (”Self-Effacement in the Letters of Ignatius and Paul”) at NAPS, the class he was teaching (”Earliest Christian Documents in Historical Context”) was scheduled to address Ignatius’ writings (the very same day, in fact!). Clearly, Kevin could not be in both Chicago and Los [...]
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31 May 10
28 Apr 10
Responding to my recent little series on laptops in the classroom (see parts one, two, and three), I got a lengthy comment from Barry Goldenberg, one of my current students in Western Civilization (Circa A.D. 843 to Circa 1715) at UCLA. Barry’s comment was so thoughtful that I figured it deserved its own post. Some [...]
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Posted in guest post, pedagogy, technology, ucla
26 Apr 10
To continue this series on laptops in the classroom (see parts one and two) . . . There is another issue here and that is whether we need to change the way we teach rather than ban laptops. Both Chris and Tim mention it: even the lecture shouldn’t be a straight lecture, but should encourage [...]
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Posted in fuller seminary, pedagogy, technology, ucla
26 Apr 10
Sharing my own experience, I would like to follow-up from my earlier post on what to do about laptops in the classroom. I feel like I’m embedded in the generational transition into this technological problem. I am part of the “in between”. When I was an undergrad, nobody brought laptops to class — even my [...]
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Posted in fuller seminary, pedagogy, technology, ucla
25 Apr 10
My father-in-law forwarded this article from the Washington Post about laptops in the classroom. NPR covered a similar story yesterday on Weekend Edition. You may remember the article in the Chronicle last year. The two recent stories have a similar tone (NPR even uses this phrase): “be careful what you wish for.” Many universities offered [...]
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Posted in pedagogy, technology
9 Dec 09
Coming this January, at a UCLA campus near you (or not so near, as the case may be), I will be presenting a lecture on Hebrew Civilization and Second Temple Judaism within the context of the course “Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations, Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843.” I will be TAing for two sections [...]
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Posted in Western Civilization, hebrew bible, history of Israel, judaism, lectures, pedagogy, teaching
12 Oct 09
Teaching the Bible at a Christian college is one thing. And teaching the Bible at a non-confessional (”secular”) university is, of course, something else. But teaching the Bible for one class session during a ten-week course on the foundational history of Western civilization is another thing entirely. That’s what I’m doing this week.
I am responsible [...]
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Posted in bible, pedagogy, ucla
28 Sep 09
Today was my first teaching experience at UCLA. I have taught in a variety of contexts before, but being a TA at UCLA is a different beast. This is the first time I actually created my own syllabus for a course. When I told the other TA’s that mine was six pages, they gasped. The [...]
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22 Sep 09
Today was TA orientation for the History Department. It was definitely worth the while. Of course, we learned about our resources and who we should contact about whatever issue . . .
“And don’t forget to fill out those purple forms so that you can see your roster on MyUCLA. Talk to Hubert about any computer [...]
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16 Sep 09
Michael R. Cosby serves as Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Messiah College. He earned his Ph.D. from Emory University, with a dissertation on the rhetorical structure of Hebrews 11. In 1999, Mike published Portraits of Jesus: An Inductive Approach to the Gospels (Westminster John Knox). This year, he is publishing two works [...]
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Elsewhere . . .- Some Thoughts On Being A DSS/Second Temple Scholar agathos
- Mellon Seminar Reflection 1: What are T/traditions? April DeConick
- Quote of the Day (Bob Cargill) James F. McGrath
- Fall 2010 Term at Duke Stephen C. Carlson
- NT Blog Seven Years Old Today! Mark Goodacre
- Teaching the Bible e-pub latest Mark Goodacre
- Biblical Studies Carnival, and Other Blog News Mark Goodacre
- First blind PhD graduate in biblical languages? paleojudaica@talktalk.net (Jim Davila)
- CONF: Second Qumran Institute Symposium rogueclassicist
- Received: Jefford’s Reading the Apostolic Fathers: An Introduction (author unknown)
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