Two of my spring class—Religion in the United States and The Christian Scriptures—deal a lot with apocalyptic and millenarian ideologies: John the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth, Paul of Tarsus, John the Seer, broader Jewish apocalyptic thought and literature, the Latter-day Saints, the Adventists, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Pentecostals, Scientologists, The Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, Heaven’s Gate. Now there’s a new(er) “independent, scholarly, open-access” resource with entries I can assign for reading when we cover those topics: Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements. In the list above, those that are linked already have articles on the topic but there’s more and it seems to be evolving.
Digital LOEB Classical Library for schools
I need my employer to take advantage of this! For the kids, of course!
Crash Course’s ‘Navigating Digital Information’ series
Tonight I was researching the concept of ‘lateral reading’ and happily discovered that Crash Course has put together a series of videos on ‘Navigating Digital Information’ that includes videos on lateral reading, knowing what can be trusted online, using Wikipedia, evaluating photos and videos, etc. Very cool!
Here’s the video on lateral reading:
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