“Do I Do It on My Phoooone?” The Twitter Post! Posted on March 13, 2014 by A+ Brooke Lester, CuratorLook, I get it. You’re a serious educator. And you have serious questions about Twitter. (No, yeah. Click through that link. I’ll be here when you get back.) If you’re already rolling your eyes about the idea of using Twitter, then STOP! Yes, the name sounds silly, but I’m willing to bet that hasn’t been a deal-breaker for you concerning “Google.” This post is your chance to do your homework (I’m talking especially to you, reader with a research degree!), so that if you choose not to start using Twitter, then you can reject it like an adult. But I don’t think you will…
Sipping the Firehose: The RSS Post! Posted on February 24, 2014 by A+ Brooke Lester, CuratorThe Web is huge, and everything is all over the place. You want to collect just the stuff you want, and put it in one place. What you want is “RSS.” “Really Simple Syndication” is both old and new: old, because it’s been around for 15 years or more; new, because every day somebody discovers RSS for the first time and wonders where it has been all her life…
Put it Out There: Publicly-Performed Course Work Posted on September 30, 2013 by A+ Brooke Lester, CuratorEngaging strangers on Twitter. Teaching an adult-education session in a church. Blogging an interview with a high-profile scholar. When learners accomplish their course work by means of public performance, the common student refrain, “What will I do with this stuff?” becomes “Let’s examine what I’ve done with this stuff!” Publicly-Performed Course Work: Jennifer Shepherd writes this week about “being heard,” particularly outside the classroom…
Welcome to Seminarium Posted 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.