http://hevel.org The Bible in Church and Academy Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:55:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let's see, where was I? Oh yes, Brooke called my attention to Charles' challenge for us to read The Context of Scripture through in a year.  He has provided a helpful schedule for doing so.  An excellent idea, and a good chance to use my Accordance module. This is the first week ... http://hevel.org/2010/01/reading-context-of-scripture-in-a-year/ Fabulous. Boing Boing has a few pages from the upcoming graphic novelization of Genesis, based on Robert Alter's translation. This is going to be excellent. http://hevel.org/2009/09/the-book-of-genesis-illustrated-by-r-crumb/ I don't know why, but I have always been fascinated with flappers. This site (via Boing Boing) tells us all about these fascinating women, with links to several other informative sites. Here is my favorite literary flapper, the incomparable Lady Caroline Dester from Enchanted April: Edit: Here is a video of ... http://hevel.org/2009/09/what-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-flappers/ I heard about this study on the future of humanities journals in the new episode of the Digital Humanities podcast. I am still working my way through the 55 page report, but the study concludes that the current journal ecosystem cannot be maintained through a move to exclusive online or open ... http://hevel.org/2009/09/what-will-the-future-hold-for-humanities-journals/ Mark Goodacre continues his innovation and trend-setting with a public "office hours" conversation via Duke's Ustream channel.  I'm looking forward to this one.  Be sure to tune in at noon on Friday, September 18th. Does anyone know of other uses of live streaming for higher education?  What if a professor streamed ... http://hevel.org/2009/09/the-good-professor-to-have-online-office-hours/ I haven't chimed in on the gender and biblioblogging stuff because I don't think it's a very interesting issue.  As far as I can tell, the women in the field probably feel like they have better things to do.  No one is preventing anyone from starting a wordpress.com blog, are ... http://hevel.org/2009/09/oh-yeah-that-clears-things-up/ Yesterday I posted: It is clear to me that Apple now needs an iTune U app for the Touch and iPhone. The content I have grabbed through iTunes U is still mixed in with other videos and audio files in my Videos and Music applications. In Music, they are not even ... http://hevel.org/2009/09/itunes-u-needs-an-iphone-app-fixed/ I am working on a major revision of the blogroll, but I wanted to point out this blog by Colin Toffelmire.  I have enjoyed reading his posts, and commend him to you.  Colin is also one of those folks that you see in comments all over the place, which in ... http://hevel.org/2009/09/random-colin/ I just posted about iTunes U, but I wanted to add one complaint to the mix. It is clear to me that Apple now needs an iTune U app for the Touch and iPhone. The content I have grabbed through iTunes U is still mixed in with other ... http://hevel.org/2009/09/itunes-u-needs-an-iphone-app/ Apple has quietly been putting together one of the best resources for higher education on the web, their collection of university sponsored and uploaded content called iTunes U. I have bragged on it a couple of times, as have many other bloggers. The new iTunes 9 software, however, ... http://hevel.org/2009/09/has-itunes-u-finally-arrived/