Okay, Academics: Should I Be “LinkedIn”?Posted on September 3, 2013 by A+ Brooke Lester, CuratorA colleague brought this to my attention: LinkedIn is introducing “University Pages.” (The technical details are mostly over my head, but you may be interested.) It looks to me as if the initiative targets students rather than faculty, though I don’t know whether that means faculty really have no role in “University Pages.” But it raises for me the perennial question:Should I stop deleting those LinkedIn requests, and go ahead and start an account? As a scholar in Biblical Studies, should I be “LinkedIn”?As far as I know, LinkedIn helps users do two things…
Welcome to SeminariumPosted on July 23, 2013 by A+ Brooke Lester, CuratorWell-known-as-excellent Instructor 1: “Some of us were talking at lunch about how our efforts in course design, and in the scholarship of teaching & learning, fit in as part of our professional development here at Local Seminary.”Well-known-as-excellent Instructor 2: “I really want to hear more as you work that out, because–in all sincerity–it would never have occurred to me in a hundred years that someone would ‘design’ a course.”It’s in the spirit of this exchange that we welcome you to Seminarium: The Elements of Great Teaching, a group blog and resource site dedicated to pedagogy for religious studies in higher education.We invite you to join with us here as we “bootstrap each other up” on our understandings and practices in the craft of education.