This morning was a short homily due to other items in the service. As you may be able to guess Gen. 1-3 has been on my mind lately so I took a bit of a liberty to bring it in to the lectionary for today. If you are patient you […]
A beautiful sunny day in Bellefonte PA. I only had the iPhone and the results are still pretty darn good! Take a look and tell me what you think.
While most of my readers know that the Book of Kells is a gorgeously illuminated book of the Gospels, you know, those stories about JC and the Boyz, apparently the people who made the movie The Secret of the Kells felt all that was irrelevant. You may have already seen […]
The following arrived in my mailbox and since I know a number of readers are ABD I thought I would share it here. Good luck (and finish that D!). TARGUM SHLISHI ANNOUNCES GRANT FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR DISSERTATION RESEARCH ON JEWISH STUDIES TOPICS October 14, 2010 – Targum Shlishi is awarding […]
ProfHacker at the Chronicle of Higher Education has a great little piece about how to make students’ blogging more effective, not in terms of production, but in terms of learning. We require students in our leadership academy to blog all three years they are in it and many find it […]
See that little elephant in the bottom left corner of each post? Remember how I have mentioned the powerful note-taking and data collection tool Evernote? Well now you can clip and save bits of my blog that you think are important and worth remembering! Simply click on the button and […]
On business in the Big Apple visiting with board members and recruiting. This is the view from the top of the Thomson Reuters building. Not bad, eh?
even veteran air travelers get motion sick occasionally. I was so encouraged! (This is from the university airplane that I flew on last week. I am vaguely reassured that they still have the original 1970s era airsick bag in the seats. Then again, the oddly drawn impish figure running with […]
Over the last few months many students and several of my administrative colleagues have acquired iPads and have been asking how I use the device to best effect. This post is an answer to that request and I hope it will be useful for others. Dropbox – The first thing […]
I have not had a lot of time to read or write blog posts, but Matt linked to a Genesis comment and shared and thus I became aware of his very interesting blog The Welcome Matt. It looks like it will be well worth reading. A sample on Genesis 2 […]