Posted by Mary Hess on 7/19/2008 5:27 PM
The
BC Libraries blog has linked to
a very useful guide to the issues involved in posting articles to your own website that you've published in various journals (the rules for which vary quite a lot).
- Mary Hess
Posted by Mary Hess on 7/19/2008 5:23 PM
Here's
a new report issued by
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) that explores what faculty can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution. Given all of the theological reasons we have to believe in sharing work, it behooves us as a faculty to pay attention to this report and to consider its implications at Luther.
- Mary Hess
Posted by Mary Hess on 7/19/2008 5:09 PM
Here's an excellent article in the online journal
Innovate
that lays out
some of the implications of social software for pedagogical innovation
:
Eventually, teachers and administrators will have difficulty defending traditional pedagogies from the challenge of new perspectives toward learning. We believe that the concept of Pedagogy 2.0, inspired and underpinned by the knowledge-creation metaphor of learning and the theory of connectivism, signals a movement away from a teacher-centric pedagogy
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Posted by Ryan Torma on 7/18/2008 10:32 AM
Check out this video of Sir Ken Robinson speaking about the need to transform educational systems into places that foster imagination and creativity in all students.
See also his presentation at TED a couple of years ago. Link
- Ryan Torma
Posted by Ryan Torma on 7/17/2008 1:04 PM
Several students are featured in this week's cover story in City Pages, A new wave of gay seminarians prepares to take the pulpit.
- Ryan Torma
Posted by Ryan Torma on 7/3/2008 7:26 AM
Are traditional watermelons to large for your small grocery store? Rather than not sell watermelon, see if you can get it to grow in a shape that does fit.
Link to story on hardknoxlife
.
I think this is a great lesson in creativity - just because it hasn't been done, doesn't mean it can't be. This also had me thinking about distributed learning and the exiting things that we can now do. Who says you have to live in Minnesota to be a Luther Seminary student? With online learning you don't have
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Posted by Ryan Torma on 7/1/2008 9:35 AM
Thanks to Terri Elton for sending the link to this YouTube video on the lives of students.
Posted by Ryan Torma on 6/16/2008 11:38 AM
Theologians Without Borders has a short article about using Journaling as a Learning and Assessment process in the study of Old Testament. Link.
Posted by Ryan Torma on 5/5/2008 8:29 AM
Breakthrough.tv has created a video game ICED to teach people about immigration and deportation issues in the US. The premise is that you play young immigrant character and your goal is to become a US citizen. I haven't explored it enough to know if I agree with the politics of the game, I do think the use of the video game genre is an incredibly interesting way to get the message out. Thanks to Boing Boing for the link.
- Ryan Torma
Posted by ldt on 4/9/2008 11:48 AM
The Learning Professor has a new look!; We've changed to blog format enabling both search capacity and two-way communication/remarks. We are also in a more public space which makes is possible to expand dialog outside the Luther Seminary community. The purpose of the publication, published jointly by the Luther Seminary Library and Learning Systems & Technology, remains unchanged... to help you find useful information from the library, as well as ideas for making the best use of
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