Annotating Texts

JJames KA Smith has kindly shared his annotation techniques. His first piece of advice is the most important because in frames the rest: annotation is always determined by a telos: I mark up a book differently if Im teaching it vs. writing a review; similarly, my annotation will look different if Im reading the book […]

Social Sciences Ethics Training online

A free e-course on research ethics. I note it here so that it can be found again. I have in mind some of the preparation for study things we’ve been talking about recently at college. It’s creative commons and the blurb says it’s start-stoppable and has comprehension exercises built in. Social Sciences Ethics Training – […]

Study study-skills online

here are a bunch of mini-modules here for self-study about how to study Skills – OpenLearn – The Open University. Some courses that may be of particular interest to theological and ministerial students folk are these: Essay and Report Writing Skills -helps you develop the skills you need to write effectively for academic purposes. Extending […]

Rich Pictures …

I’ve been investigating methods for learning and exploring ‘issues’ and discovered Soft Systems Methodology which incorporates the use of “Rich Pictures”. The idea here is to simply map and symbolise as much as you (singly or plurally) of a situation in order to be able to explore and analyse more fully what is going on. […]