Showing all posts tagged "500 Words"
I do, we do, you do
So, if you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m a college professor. My discipline is biblical studies and my area of speciality is biblical Greek and linguistics. I’m also an associate dean whose primary role focuses on providing ways for our faculty ...
Posted on January 27th, 2014
How I Use Evernote in my Online Elementary Greek Classes
I’ve just begun the foundations course for the Sloan-C Online Teaching Certification. In the forum post in which I introduced myself to the cohort, I happened to mention that I’m an Evernote junkie. The course facilitator asked me (and others) to ...
Posted on January 18th, 2014
Stream of consciousness
For today’s 500 words, I’m giving you stream of consciousness. I don’t particularly like doing that, but writing 500 words of any kind counts.
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Yesterday was a fun day for our family. Last semester my daughter auditioned for the Oklahoma C...
Posted on January 12th, 2014
...the greatest of these is group attachment (ἀγάπη, agape) (1 Cor 13:13)
One of the most well-known texts in the New Testament--perhaps the most well-known—is 1 Cor 13. This text is often read at weddings because of its focus on love or, more specifically, the kinds of behavior love prompts and the kinds of behavior lo...
Posted on January 9th, 2014
The (Re-)Aligning Power of Questions
In the first semester of Elementary Greek, I teach my students the grammatical signals for recognizing questions in text by spotting things like interrogative pronouns (e.g., τίς [Who? What?]) and certain particles/adverbs (e.g., πῶς [How?]). We a...
Posted on January 8th, 2014
Two birds, one stone
For my 500 words today, I wrote some content for my Elementary Greek II course on conjunctions and adverbs I also put together a page with a few parsing examples illustrating these concepts. These two pages combined add up to about 500 words (som...
Posted on January 6th, 2014
Reader positioning
I don’t remember when, but at some point in the past few years, my Mom gave me a handful of children’s books from my childhood, so I could read them to my own kids. One of those books is Syd Hoff’s _The Littlest Leaguer_ (although mine was publish...
Posted on January 4th, 2014
Writing Challenge
My friend Michael Hanegan tweeted that he had joined a 500-word-per-day writing challenge posted by Jeff Goins. I thought this would be a worthwhile endeavor, so I, too, joined the challenge. The rules are simple:
1. Write 500 words per day every...
Posted on January 2nd, 2014