Blogging this from Sydney Airport on my way to SBL in Singapore. Apart from the paper on Amos 7 (= 7:1-8:3 but who's counting?) I am also sharing one with my colleague Lynne Wall to present Davar: Biblical Hebrew Vocabularies project. This is a really neat tool for sharing in creating multimedia vocabularies (with the words that you need for the book your class uses) in both onscreen and printable "flashcard" formats (in the flashcards of course you lose the sound and piccies, but students can test themselves on the bus without a WAP phone).
The URL is http://cfdl.auckland.ac.nz/hebrew/ where you can test it out. The idea is that teachers who are happy with just the words we provide can use it without a logon, but those (just about anyone at the start as we only have a couple of dozen words as yet!) who want to add their own words get a login to enter data through an easy online form...
It's cool, uses XHTML and CSS, and collaborative, and useful so what more do you want? Try it out and let me know... (but expect delays as I am not staying at a posh hotel, so won't have Internet easily for the next week, unless I go to Changi airport which has fast Internet free!)
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THis is an excellent tool! I love it!
Now if someone would just pop the entire vocabulary from Kittel, Hoffer & Wright into it, I would be completely happy.
:)
Seriously, this is brilliant.
By 
Talmida, at
June 28, 2005 4:17 AM
Thanks for the comment, that's one of the main reasons we went for a free online tool, so that (hopefully) we can persuade others to add words and so make it useful quicker! We are giving the paper tomorrow mainly in the hopes of recruiting some Hebrew teachers... otherwise it will be a long wait!
Seriously, this is just the kind of job where open-source free-to-a-good-(non-commercial)-home approach really seems to make perfect sense.
By Tim, at
June 28, 2005 5:05 PM
