Archive for November, 2010

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“The Myth of Mindless Addiction”

This semester I continue to reflect on my paper on the Death of the Introduction to The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. This semester it seems clearer to me that a profoundly new, that is new media approach is required for the pedagogy of the introduction. The project of writing a new type of introduction to Hebrew [...]

From Hammerhandz to the Brain Augmenting Electronic Books: Adventures in teaching

Before I can go on to comment on Viola or Laurel I need to think through something about McLuhan. Several weeks ago as the New Media Faculty Seminar at Baylor met to discuss Marshall McLuhan’s articles in The New Media Reader Gardner Campbell told us about a class session that helped students understand McLuhan’s contention [...]