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August 2014

August 26, 2014

10 Amazing Reasons to Buzzfeedify Your Syllabus

Beloit has released its annual mindset list, about the things that this year's incoming freshmen...

August 25, 2014

Butler University Convocation 2014

Here's the video footage from yesterday's convocation ceremony at Butler University, marking the official start...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Undergrad History of Religion

I just discovered a Tumblr site called "UndergradHist." Below are a few of my favorites...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

Students’ Prayer

Jeffrey Gibson has emphasized that the Lord's Prayer ought to be called the disciples' prayer....

January 2014

January 13, 2014

Estimates Suggest Thousands of Syllabuses Damaged by Winter Storms

As the first day of classes at most North American universities draws to a close,...

January 03, 2014

Two Shekel Chuck

It has been proposed that the above Hebrew inscription may have indicated that the vessel...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

Everyone Is Not Different

I am astonished by how often students claim that "everyone is different" and think that...

November 2013

November 15, 2013

Newton's Three Laws of Graduation

Via Taptastic

October 2013

October 31, 2013

So apparently now you can "like" things not only beyond Facebook, but even on paper....

October 25, 2013

Required Religion

I am grateful to Stephen Carlson for directing my attention to Required Religion on Tumblr,...

October 17, 2013

Paradoc

The PHD Comic Doctor Who parody of the life of a post-doc continues: This isn't...

September 2013

September 28, 2013

students and e-mail

Today's New York TImes features an article about students considering e-mail antiquated and not checking...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Jesus’ Students

I came across this cartoon some time ago: It is worth reposting at the start...

August 25, 2013

1 Students 13

I thought I should turn the paraphrase, or rather reworking, or 1 Corinthians 13 that...

August 25, 2013

But Have Not Love

Let me begin with a paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 13, reworked for students: If I...

August 24, 2013

Syllabi and Sympathy

Would it be inappropriate for me to add to my syllabi that, if a student...

August 12, 2013

Avoiding Recurring Nightmares

Via Rachel Held Evans, I learned of this recent XKCD comic: Instead of having these...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

Viva La Library (The Information Literacy Song)

I was looking recently for an amusing song to convey key points about information literacy...

May 23, 2013

The Penalty for Citing Wikipedia

John Anderson shared on Facebook the wonderful threat he makes to students if they should...

May 04, 2013

Religions of the World Class Harlem Shake

In case you ever wondered what students in religion classes at Butler University get up...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

Oh, So That’s Why!

HT Peter Enns on Facebook

April 23, 2013

Safety in the Cloud

For those who are students, or who do research and/or write for a living, the...

April 16, 2013

Why Grad Students Should Blog

Scientific American posted an article on why grad students ought to blog (HT Paul Barford)....

April 12, 2013

Synoptic Length Comparison

I chuckled when I read this in a student assignment today: A common argument, analyzes...

April 02, 2013

Student Blogging Session at SBL 2013

Here's the information about the session on student blogging and students in the digital age...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

More about Student Blogging

Brian LePort has continued to focus his blogging attention on the topic of student blogging....

February 19, 2013

Should Students Blog?

There have been several blog posts - and many more discussions not posted publicly on...

February 02, 2013

A Letter from an Online Student

A friend shared with me a letter that a friend of his wrote, since he...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

Les Misérables: The College Parody

Via Inside Higher Ed, I discovered this parody of Les Misérables which depicts instead the despair...

December 03, 2012

Was Jesus an Exercist?

HT Jona Lendering I could imagine both the spelling errors occurring in a single student...

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