Jeremy Thompson

Category: Technology

  • I'm a Mac, MyTouch, and Type Scenes (VFTTB)

    This is second post in my series on videos for teaching the Bible.  In my survey courses, I usually do a class session on how Biblical narrative works.  In that session I discuss type scenes.  Videos that I usually use are parodies.  I explain that parodies function by exploiting a type scene. An easy example…

  • An embedded Prezi

    When I teach and when I’ve posted here, I’ve gotten a couple of questions about Prezi.  So, I’m embedding one of my “Prezis” here on the blog.  It is highly integrated with social media.  You can share them through FB and Twitter.  You can embed them easily on a site, just link to them, or…

  • Sublime's "Rivers of Babylon" and Sanitization (Videos for Teaching the Bible)

    Nearly every time I mention on Twitter that I am going to be using a video in one of my classes it garners at least a little bit of interest.  So, I’m toying with the idea of starting a series on videos for teaching the Bible.  This would be meant primarily for teaching in academic…

  • Blogging from my netbook

    so with a bit of money i got for christmas, i bought a used netbook really cheap off of craigslist.  i got it for a couple of reasons, primarily for travel and when we need a second computer around the house.  i also got it to experiment a little bit with linux.  i’ve been wanting…

  • This video called "The Nephilim" has almost 2,000,000 views

    How fantastic! Right? …. Not!  I’m hoping they used some kind of artificial means for boosting their numbers.  If not this a very bad sign.  Unfortunately the hoaxsters are dominating the video arena right now.

  • Some people on youtube are so lame

    Recently I posted about how Biblical scholars need to be more active using video.  One thing that I proposed was making videos and posting them as video responses to some of the tripe that is out there on video sites like Youtube.  Come to find out people post videos claiming outrageous nonsense and then they…

  • Noah's Ark on Youtube

    One place I’ve been finding that biblical scholarship is seriously behind is in using video. I’m know I’m not the first to notice this, but even though someone probably has, it deserves mention again. Let’s take the issue of Noah’s Ark for example since this latest debacle has brought it up.  If someone searches “Noah’s…

  • Why I don't think I'd like eBooks on an iPad …

    Click through to this link and check out the glare on that sucker: Using the iPad as an eBook Reader.  It seems a lot more like a computer screen than any of the dedicated eBook readers, which I don’t think I would like.  When I read on my Kindle I don’t get that feeling that…

  • If you were wanting to run BibleWorks 8 on your Mac …

    now might be a decent time to think about it. Parallels is currently $15 off (normally $79 and currently $64).  That lasts through April 15th and they’re throwing in some free tax software too.  If your not sure about running Windows on your Mac, they also have a 15 day free trial version if you…

  • Forum Questions – I'm Thinking about Starting One

    The idea of starting a forum scares me a little bit because I do not know how much work it would be for me to moderate.  But, I’m thinking about adding one.  I just noticed that it was actually an option that through BlueHost I can use SimpleScripts to add bbPress (put out by WordPress)…