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If your looking for my blogging, my main writing is now over at www.deepchurch.org.uk.
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Welcome to my new look site. This site now contains all my contact info and web 2.0 connections, flickr, twitter, fireeagle, tripit etc.
If you are looking for my blog posts you can search the archive on this site for old posts, and all my new post are now over my blog site, www.deepchurch.org.uk.
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OK, so I’ve been hinting at some big changes with my blog, in terms of design, location and focus. Here is the first lot of information, that practical stuff so you know where to find me, as I move blog house.
1. www.jasonclark.ws: This site will still be here, but I won’t be blogging at this address anymore. Instead www.jasonclark.ws will be the place to connection with me, with all things web 2.0. There will be feeds for Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Friend Feed, Tripit etc.
In short www.jasonclark.ws will be the place to locate, connect and contact me, with news, updates and micro/nano blog items. The new www.jasonclark.ws site goes live early next week.
2. www.deepchurch.org.uk: All my blogging will take place at www.deepchurch.org.uk from next week.
The site has had a re-design and facelift and is live as of today.
3. Focus: I’m going to start my new blogging life at Deep Church, with the promised series that summarises my time in emerging church conversations, where I think I am at with it, and the new focus for the site. All that will be over at Deep Church from monday next week.
4. RSS Feeds: There’s other information about feeds, but I’ll post more here and there. But if you are reading this in a newsreader, sorry for the hassle but get over to www.deepchurch.org.uk and book mark the new feed for my blogging.
5. Your help?: And if you can help get the word out and write a post on your blogs about the move, to help people find the new address, that would be great, thank you!
But in short if you want to catch me blogging, visit and bookmark www.deepchurch.org.uk, and if you want to web 2.0 social media interact with me, www.jasonclark.ws is where I’ll be for that stuff.
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Although George Fox is in the USA, the D.Min program I will be leading, is not just for US students.
My hope is that students from around the world will join the program, given the hybrid online nature of the program, the international focus of the course, and the three continents of Europe/Africa and Asia that we meet in.
Making it an even richer international collaborative experience.
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One key aspect of the D.Min program I will be leading for George Fox, is the ‘open source’ nature of the program.
Other than student grades, we are going to try through social media to have the course materials, discussions, etc freely available to anyone who wants to participate with us. My hope is that lots of people who would benefit from some or all of the program, but can’t be registered students will join us.
If there is a node of students working at the heart of this, my biggest dream is to foster an extended learning community around the focus of the D.Min.
So some ideas, so far, for how that might work:
1. Twitter: Follow along with us as we use grouptweet for posting interactions in our own contexts with what we are learning
2. Books/Podcasts/Videos etc: Whatever I recommend, whatever other students come across we’ll share with everyone, and what ever others in the extended learning community recommend we’ll share.
3. Blogs: Students will have blogs and all their papers and reflections will go on there, so others can find and interact with them directly.
4. Facebook: Build an extended community for everyone following along, for news, information and updates on all that’s going on.
5. Face 2 Face: In the three visits to three continents, make research times, teaching sessions, excursions, open to people who want to join us and participate, to help their learning and ours.
6. Other web 2.0: Also have the students and others connected to the learning community use Dopplr, and FireEagle location services to connect with each other, and locate each other for meeting up in real time.
Any ideas you have for how we might extend and make this happen?
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I had the privilege of writing a recommendation for the back of Tom Sine’s new book, ‘The New Conspirators’.
Tom is touring the UK during the last half of September and beginning of October, full details of all the locations he’ll be at are here.
He’ll be speaking at our church community sunday morning service, 28th September.
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I mentioned before about some big changes that are taking place on my blog soon.
There will be a big changes in design and layout to this site, and the focus of my blogging is going to shift. I’ll still be interacting over emerging church issues, but as part of a bigger and different focus. The design and technical revamp is almost complete, and I’ll be switching over very soon.
So I’ll be posting next week with:
1. Practical Details: Of how this site is changing and why.
2. Emerging Church: A summary of the key things I think I have learned from the Emerging Church experiences I have had
3. Re-focus: And as a result of that, the new focus my writing and blogging will have, and any ongoing intersections with E/C.So stay tuned.
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Michael Frost will be in the UK and in London, and one place he will be at is The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity.
He’ll be there, Friday October 10th, 10am to 4pm, more details from LICC here.
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I’ve got over 250,000 words of notes from my PhD reading already. In terms of workflow I regularly review those notes, and write short papers, and revise my methodology.
I also make mind maps to try to find and see the bigger connections. But I have realized I could really do with is the ability to tag text in my notes, to help me as that repository gets larger and larger.
If I could tag key thoughts with references to my methodology, key concepts and recurring themes, I could then pull those tags all together on an ongoing basis. Otherwise I am always going back to review, condense, and re-organise and increasingly large amount of information.
I want to be able to hit a button, and have a key concept that I have identified in all my reading, as I read, to be pulled through into a document. Another example is that some reading and notes might relate to a chapter of my thesis, I’d love to be able to tag notes as ‘chapter 1′ etc, so again I can hit a button and have all ideas for chapter 1 collected together.
I’ve stumbled upon Tinderbox, by Eastgate, which seems to be able to do this, but has a steep learning curve.
So I’m wondering if any of you have come across something that would let me achieve this goal/process for my workflow, or if any of you have any experience of Tinderbox?
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In some ecclesiology classes I teach, I first try to give students some theological tools, then have them move to read popular books on church, and assess them. Pagan Christianity: by Frank A. Viola and George Barna, is a book that I suggest students critique, and I must admit it find it fately flawed.
I’ve been asked to review Frank’s new book, Re-imaging Church. Rather than me review the book, which I find as problematic as the last one, despite some good sections, I’m recommending the best review I have found by Ben Witherington on his blog.
Ben is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, USA.
