The new NITLE seminar

NITLE's latest "Al-Musharaka" seminar is beginning its third day, and we are exploring collaborative tools, including listservs and blogs. I'll argue that a blog is the easiest way to offer well-presented Web resources to both global and local audiences, since firewalls and passwords can be ignored. Here (hastily) are some of the resources shown/discussed yesterday. First, I searched Google for links on "hadith" and "encyclopedia."

Google Search: hadith encyclopedia I found the Search tool mentioned at a previous seminar:

MSA-USC Hadith Database Then I tweaked the Google search for pages in Arabic and found

hadith.al-islam.com Colleagues, how do you like these?

Comments

[d2]

Sometimes I comment on my own postings, though I often then wonder who's talking and who's listening ...

[Bryan Alexander]

And sometimes we readers post a response!

[Bryan Alexander]

Here are my links posted to the email list, for web sites I talked about yesterday: American Experience in Vietnam, Colby-Bates-Bowdoin plagiarism resource, MANE instructional technology leaders weblog, and NITLE Tech News (colleges and technology) weblog. How does this feel different from getting this information by email?

[Bryan Alexander]

Here's an example of using technology to teach and research a cultural event, then make it available for the world: a Scandinavian cultural festival. A team of students from the HUMlab at Umea attended this Sami event, and did some ethnolographic work (recording performances, conducting interviews, uploading pictures). We (the rest of the world) were able to follow this as it happened, and can now study it as a deep record of a historical event.

[Ann Struthers]

When one posts answers to one's own blog, one can be assured of an intelligent and thoughtful response. This concept will be extremely useful to me because I often talk to myself for the same reasons. To avoid being thought a nut case, I have usually talked in this manner when walking the dog. Now I have a second way. Thanks.