A while back I was invited to write an article for a periodical called Didaktikos (a Greek word meaning "skillful teacher/able to teach" [used at 1 Tim. 3:2 as a characteristic of an elder/bishop]). The title of the article is "Battling Your 'Expe...
Posted on September 7th, 2018
Oklahoma Christian University's Graduate School of Theology has launched a new fully refereed, online, open-access academic eJournal called Dialogismos. Dialogismos (Greek Διαλογισμός) is a term that refers generally to the content or result of th...
Posted on January 5th, 2017
On Friday of this week (11/18), I will be traveling to San Antonio for the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). This year, I have the good fortune and pleasure of my wife traveling with me. My parents are coming early for Th...
Posted on November 14th, 2016
I updated my LinkedIn profile recently and doing so caused a little confusion, so let me clear it up by saying that I am still teaching Greek and New Testament at OC (graduate and undergraduate), still Assoc. Dean for Teaching and Learning at OC, ...
Posted on December 11th, 2015
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, analysis by Gerard Schwarz (part 1): Watch the full performance here (starting at 10:40)
Posted on June 17th, 2015
"Dogfooding" makes your learning activities better - http://t.co/B6fHlgfUBM #pedagogy @cultofpedagogy @NorthInstitute @lamascus_scott— Dr. James D. Dvorak (@DrJimDPhD) June 15, 2015
Posted on June 15th, 2015
There’s a bit of debate as to whether the following quotation is from John Dewey or Bill Beattie, but regardless, it summarizes nicely and concisely my own thinking about the purpose of teaching and learning.
The aim of education should be to teac...
Posted on March 5th, 2015