{"id":53640,"date":"2016-02-09T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=53640"},"modified":"2016-02-09T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T22:59:11","slug":"interactive-app-brings-4th-century-thinker-to-life-fuhrman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/02\/09\/interactive-app-brings-4th-century-thinker-to-life-fuhrman\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive app brings 4th-century thinker to life [Fuhrman]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interactive app brings 4th-century thinker to life<\/a> <\/strong>— from campustechnology.com by Toni Fuhrman
\nAt Villanova University, a student-developed app version of Augustine’s Confessions brings contemporary vitality and relevance to a classic 4th-century work.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Augustine of Hippo, who lived from A.D. 354 to 430, might be surprised to find his Confessions in circulation today, including a number of e-book versions. Still widely read, popular in great books programs and studied in university classes, The Confessions of St. Augustine is autobiography and confession, spiritual quest and emotional journey.<\/p>\n

One of the most recent electronic versions of the Confessions is an interactive app developed at Villanova University (PA), the nation’s only Augustinian Catholic University. Released three months ago on Augustine’s birthday (Nov. 13), the Confessions app is required for all freshmen as part of a “foundation” course. Available for both Apple and Android devices, the app includes the 13 books of the Confessions, authoritative commentaries, photo gallery, timeline, map and text-highlighted audio, as well as search, note-taking, annotation and bookmark options.<\/p>\n

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“What better way to reflect on and update this struggle than for today’s students to use technology to bring the text to life through visual, audio and analytical components?”<\/strong> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Confessions-Feb2016\"<\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nLove the idea. Love the use of teams — including students — to produce this app!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Interactive app brings 4th-century thinker to life — from campustechnology.com by Toni Fuhrman At Villanova University, a student-developed app version of Augustine’s Confessions brings contemporary vitality and relevance to a classic 4th-century work. Excerpt: Augustine of Hippo, who lived from A.D. 354 to 430, might be surprised to find his Confessions in circulation today, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,286,275,501,32,141,237,425,3,234,419,180,64,14,353,199,23,377,66,195,214,312,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-digital-learning","category-digital-textbooks","category-e-publishing-related-items-epub-and-more","category-education-technology","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-entrepreneurship","category-faith","category-higher-education","category-history","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-it-in-he","category-mobile-learning","category-moralsvalues","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-multimedia","category-religion","category-student-related","category-tools","category-universities","category-user-experience-ux","category-using-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53669,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53640\/revisions\/53669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}