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Open a new chapter in creative teaching with this immensely practical book that inspires students and teachers on ways to bring God's living Word to life in the classroom. Initial edition has been field-tested in church and college seminary classrooms. Put What You Teach in Reach of Your Students -- Step-by-step descriptions and examples show how to use drama, role-play, mime, simulation, readings, music, art and much more in creative, effective ways. -- Updated chapters include; "The Creative Dare", "The Creative Process", "The Creative Person", "Acting Up -- Drama in the Classroom", "Creative Writing: Helping Students Save Their Thoughts", and more. -- Reproducible resources save time. -- New edition includes chapter on computers and the internet "Teaching Without Walls" (From the Publisher)

The first new Torah commentary for Conservative Judaism in over 70 years, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, boasts an all-star editorial cast. Harold Kushner's d'rash (interpretive commentary) explores the importance of social justice in Judaism, while Chaim Potok's contributions attempt to ground the Torah historically by ascertaining its meaning to the ancient Israelites. A special section edited by Elliot Dorff and Susan Grossman investigates the Jewish legal tradition and its foundations in the Torah; biblical scholar Michael Fishbane offers commentary on the haftarah (Torah portions to be read in the synagogue throughout the year). This commentary is a monumental achievement, incorporating recent archaeological findings, textual interpretations and (for the first time) the opinions of female rabbis. (From the Publisher)

From the Publisher The cases that constitute this volume represent work in progress by faculty selected as Carnegie Scholars with the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL). Each of the eight authors tells the story of her or his efforts at “opening lines” of inquiry into significant issues in the teaching and learning of the field. In particular, their accounts focus on the doing of this kind of investigative work – that is, on methods and approaches for undertaking the scholarship of teaching and learning. Opening Lines includes a cd-rom of supplementary documents, tools and resources.

This popular collection of essays written by seasoned and committed educators, guides the first-time instructor through the phases of course planning, teaching, and evaluation. (From the Publisher)

This book provides proven teaching methods, coupled with the best of instructional theory, and is intended for use in undergraduate courses that teach instructional methods or techniques. A brief introduction to schooling and broad educational goals is offered in the first chapter. The following four chapters present the basic "tools" for effective and systematic teaching. The major topics include specifying instructional objectives; sequencing learning activities; applying the various taxonomies; preparing lesson plans; and application of the fundamentals. The last five chapters present instruction as a dynamic theme being applied in a social system, with the realities of interaction being foremost. The final chapter views classroom management from four different perspectives, stressing the underlying tenet of the book--teacher decision making. Each chapter has a set of intended learner outcomes. The formative evaluation components in each chapter give the student immediate feedback on the extent to which the intended objectives were met. Examples of all teaching strategies are provided in a variety of instructional contexts. (From the Publisher)

Many of us have had the experience of visiting someone ill and thinking "What should I say or do now? Dare I offer to say a prayer?" But we do not know how to frame one and are too embarassed to make the suggestion, so we mumble something and leave. Prayers for Health and Healing is a beautiful collection of prayers that draws upon the riches of the church, classic and contemporary, and provides an invaluable resource in time of need. From the Celts, the fathers and mothers of the church, to contemporary spiritual writers such as Marjorie Holmes, Sheila Cassidy, and David Adam, here are prayers for hope, comfort, and strength. Each chapter is devoted to prayers for a particular situation: chronic illness and disability, depression and sorrow, illness in old age, losing a child, death and bereavement, even prayers for nurses, doctors and caregivers. In the hands of a minister to the sick or in the pocket of a friend wanting to pray with someone who is ill, Prayers for Health and Healing gives an appropriate expression to our longing for the deeper well-being of our loved ones in illness. (From the Publisher)

From the Publisher Eric Law draws on his years of experience with congregations of all denominations to spell out processes for achieving genuine transformation in a congregation attempting to be multiculturally inclusive.

A report by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation has found that distance — or online — learning is on the rise and women make up the majority of students. Sixty percent of these nontraditional online learners are over 25 years of age and female. Working mothers interested in furthering their education are doing so online and adding a difficult "third shift" to their responsibilities as mothers and employees, according to the study, by Cheris Kramarae, the AAUW Educational Foundation's 1999-2000 Scholar-in-Residence. The report examines the benefits as well as discouraging factors women experience with online learning and concludes with several recommendations to help women with their third shift. (From the Publisher)

Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig argues that cyberspace is not inherently a libertarian's dream come true. The architecture underlying cyberspace determines its character. If and when that architecture is changed, cyberspace can become highly regulated. Already issues of privacy and tracking are of major concern. Lessig explains how cyberspace is evolving. A must-read for those interested in the laws surrounding cyberspace, as well as concerned private citizens. (From the Publisher)

In this paperback edition of The Social Life of Information, the authors dispel many of the futurists' sweeping predictions that information technology will obliterate the need for everything from travel to supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. But beaten down by info-glut, exasperated by computer crashes, and burned by dot-com stocks, individual users find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution. A new preface updates and expands on the ideas of the original text, in which John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid argue that the gap between digerati hype and end-user gloom is largely due to the "tunnel vision" that information-driven technologies breed. We've become so focused on where we think we ought to be that we often fail to see where we're really going. We need to look beyond our obsession with information and individuals to include the critical social networks of which these are always a part. The Social Life of Information shows how a better understanding of the contribution that communities, organizations, and institutions make to learning, working, and innovating can lead to the richest possible use of technology in our work and everyday lives. (From the Publisher)