Coming to SBL 2017 in Boston? GERT and biblicalhumanities.org are sponsoring three sessions: (1) Best Practices in Online Teaching, (2) Open Collaborative Annotation Workshop, (3) Open Session. See the detailed schedule below.

Best Practices in Online Teaching

Time: Saturday, November 18th, 9:00 - 11:30 AM
Room: Republic B (Second Level) - Sheraton Boston Hotel
Presiding: Renate Viveen Hood, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

• The Online Capstone: Collaborative Learning and Research in a Virtual Environment - Sandie Gravett, Appalachian State University
• Using the Moodle Book module to create and deliver an interactive online Biblical Hebrew course and textbook - Barry Bandstra, Hope College
• Wandering in the Online Wilderness - From Classroom to Online and Back Again - Some Observations - Jonathan D. Lawrence, Canisius College
• The Corpus-driven Online Hebrew Classroom - Nicolai Winther-Nielsen, Fjellhaug Internasjonale Høgskole
• Going Deep and Beyond the Expectations of a Term Paper: Student Contributions to the Website Bible in Its Traditions - Jean-Francois Racine, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University

Open Collaborative Annotation Workshop

Time: Saturday, November 18th, 1:00 to 3:30 PM
Room: 312 (Third Level) - Hynes Convention Center (HCC)
Presiding: Randall Tan, Global Bible Initiative

Please bring your own web-enabled devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones) if you wish to participate in hands-on exploration.

• Close Reading of Biblical Texts and Treebanks with genius.com, hypothes.is and thepund.it - Jonathan Robie, biblicalhumanities.org
• Semantic Annotation with Plokamos and the Perseids Project - Bridget Almas, Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University and Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
• Exploring Web-Based Methods for Syntactic Annotation - Christopher D. Land, McMaster Divinity College and Francis G.H. Pang, McMaster Divinity College

Open Session

Time: Sunday, November 19th, 9:00 to 11:30 AM
Room: Exeter (Third Level) - Boston Marriott Copley Place (MCP)
Presiding: Nicolai Winther-Nielsen, Fjellhaug Internasjonale Høgskole

• Computational alignment of Greek and Hebrew with Bible translations, using Swahili as a proof of concept - David Instone-Brewer, Tyndale House (Cambridge)
• Paratext 8, ETCBC, and Lexical Semantics - Reinier de Blois, United Bible Societies
• Linking Lexical Resources for Biblical Greek - James Tauber, MorphGNT
• Visualizing the Meanings of Biblical Words by Context - Jeremy Thompson, Logos Bible Software
• How the BibleOL can take over your Hebrew examinations and student grading - Oliver Glanz, Andrews University