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This weekend, I'll be hosting an online conference on the online teaching of (classical) languages. If you haven't heard that by now, apologies for not telling you! I thought I would put up a last call for registrations here. It's On Saturday 15th October,
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Strange Fruit (original by Abel Meeropol) (English Below) καρπὸν τὰ τοῦ νότου ξύλα φέρει ἄτοπον (ἐπί τε φύλλοις αἷμα, τῇ τε ῥίζῃ αἷμα) ἀνέμῳ σῶμα αἰωρούμενον μέλαν νότῳ ἄτοπος τῶν λευκῶν κρεμασθεὶς καρπός νόμιον τοῦ ἐσθλοῦ νότου θέαμα ἐξῳδημένα τε ὄμματα στόμα τε διεστραμμένον μαγνωλίᾱς εὐωδίᾱ καινή καιομένης ὀσμὴ σαρκός
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I realise that by now you are mostly used to me starting umpteen projects. Some of those get finished. Some of them are ongoing. And some eventually wither and die due to my lack of impetus. Anyway, none of that deters me, really. I spend my free time working on
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So, if you've read through parts one, two, three, four, you'll have gathered that I have a lot of criticism of online theological education as a model. In this post I want to push back against myself, and really suggest that there are two key things
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This upcoming term (Oct 2022) I'm launching a new class which I'm hoping will become a long running entity. It's Greek Patristics Readings, and it differs in two important respects from my usual class offerings. Firstly, unlike the vast majority of my classes, this
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This is part four of our series reflecting on online theological education. In our previous instalments we considered what for, who for, what is education, and who are our communities. Now I want to turn to "what happens when we go online"Distance education has existed for a
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Upcoming classes! (I stopped doing posts simply about upcoming classes, mostly to reduce clutter, but I realise some people read this blog but do not get updates on my courses via other means. So, I'll make a habit of doing a regular post before each term, and then
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In our previous two posts we reflected on what for and who for theological education exists, before discussing (albeit far far too briefly), what education is. In this post I turn to consider the question of 'communities' - which communities are in view when we talk about education as
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In the previous post in this series, I began to reflect upon the nature of theological education, and online education in particular, through the lens of what for and who for. In this post I want to turn our attention to "what" education is. What exactly do we
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In this and a series of subsequent posts I'm going to think-out-loud my thoughts on theological colleges, seminaries, and online education. If you're here usually for mostly classical language pedagogy, feel free to take a short break from reading! But otherwise, we're
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This post is a response to a twitter thread by David Schroder, responding to another twitter thread by biblingo, responding to another twitter thread by me. Twitter threads three-deep. Anyway, David is a current student of mine, and biblingo are friends-in-languages, so this is written in a
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What's it like to forget a language? or two? And what does that mean for acquired vs. 'learned' language? In this post I reflect upon my experience with two separate languages, and how different forgetting can be. Learning (Biblical) Hebrew I studied Biblical Hebrew in Seminary,