Pre-Meeting Workshop: Beyond Walls: A Workshop in Teaching Religious Studies on the Web
Sponsored by the SBL Computer Assisted Reseach Section and the SBL Executive Office
Friday, 16 November 2001, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT

Jon Taylor, University of Great Falls, Presiding
Keith H. Reeves, presenter

9:00 Welcome and Introduction
9:15 Theory and Practice of Distance Education and Distributed Education
10:30 From Listserve to Course Management Systems: Tools to meet your Objectives (hands-on session)
12:00 Break
1:00 Effective Webpage Creation (hands-on session)
2:30 Break
2:45 Accessibility, Intellectual Property, and Resources
4:00 Roundtable Discussion: What Works and What does Not

Annual Meeting Sessions

1. Joint Session: Biblical Lexicography Section/Computer Assisted Research Section/Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts Seminar/Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Section
   Theme: Building Dictionary Databases
   Saturday, 17 November 2001, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
   Peter Burton, Biblical Language Project, Presiding
   • Panel Discussion: The Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database Project
     Panelists:
     • H. G. M. Williamson, University of Oxford
     • David J. Reimer, University of Edinburgh
     • James K. Aitken, University of Reading
     • Alison Salvesen, Oxford University Teaching and Research Unit in Hebrew and Jewish Studies
       
   • Choon-Leong Seow, Princeton Theological Seminary: The Princeton Hebrew Dictionary Project
   • Richard E. Whitaker, Princeton Theological Seminary, A Lexicographer's Desk Top: Software for Lexicography
     
     
2. Theme: Collaborative and Distributed Scholarship
   Saturday, 17 November 2001, 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
   Keith H. Reeves, Azusa Pacific University, Presiding
   • James R. Davila, University of St. Andrews, Online Courses on Early Judaism and Christian Origins at the Divinity School of the University of St. Andrews
   • Susan Lochrie Graham, University of Sheffield, Seeing Through a Glass Darkly? Using Web Technology in Ordination Training. The State of the Question.
   • Tim Bulkeley, University of Auckland, Postmodern Bible Hypertext Commentary Project: Report and Prospect for Collaborative Electronic Publishing
   • Stanley E. Porter, Roehampton Institute London, OpenText.org: A Collaborative Internet-based Project for the Linguistic and Literary Analysis of the Greek New Testament
   • Mark S. Goodacre, University of Birmingham, The New Testament Web Gateway: Retrospect and Prospect
     
     
3. Theme:
   Tuesday, 02 November 2001, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
   Kirk Lowery, Westminster Theological Seminary, Presiding
   • George Yeager, ASTER Institute, Role, Reference and Ontology for the Garden of Eden: Expansion of a Semi-automatic Tool for Computational Representation, RRG and CG
   • Kent Hoeffner, Truett-McConnell College, The Gospels as Montages: An Analogy Using Photo-Tiled Images
   • Richard A. Wright, Emory University, Pitts Library of Emory University Online Image Database
   • Keith Tolbert, American Religions Center, InfoSys for Religious Studies
   • Kent A. Wilkerson, Knoxville, TN, Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS): Aids for Research Control

   There will be a CARG business meeting immediately after this session.