So I was talking to Joel today over the phone, and it hit me. One of the things that annoyed me about my own alma mater is that it was all lectures and “conversations” and exactly zero debates. The other day, Rob Kashow annouced the Bart Ehrman and Daniel Wallace debate, and it reminded me of a post I did a while back. Last March, there was all of this talk about the so called death of the Black Church. And at one point, there was a diavlog between two professors.
Youtube makes it pretty easy to have videos that respond to each other and converse. I was wondering about the possibility of setting of, considering everyone’s schedules, perhaps a quarterly, every 3-4 months, a diavlog or a series of conversations between two bibliobloggers with a opposing view points.
As for rules, that would be up to the 2 bloggers, unless Steve Caruso and company or any other bibliobloggers who want to make any suggestions.
What say you? Would the diavlogs/ debates via video be worth it?
This sounds really interesting. I also like the idea of group discussions. Perhaps those could even be done as podcast supplements to the the debates? This could also be done via skype with one of the various recording programs.
Steven Douglas, via google plus has suggested Google Hangouts, and then using Ad Hoc christianity as maybe one of the podcasts after its recorded.
Also a good idea, though I haven’t really used the hangouts feature yet.
Dude, you need to add me on Google +
I think that using either Skype or Google+ Hangouts for a debate or discussion are wonderful ideas and lately I’ve been contemplating using them for not only that purpose, but for the purpose of doing online conferences or paper presentations, too.
It would simply be a matter of capturing the exchange, editing it as necessary (with intro/credits and for time) before choosing a platform to publish it on (YouTube, Vimeo, something in-house, etc.).
The biggest hurdle, as you’ve pointed out, would be finding a time to schedule these exchanges. If they were quarterly, or even more often at once a month, there might be enough time to plan schedules and get a quorum of people to participate.
I would be more than willing to invest time in such a project.
Peace,
-Steve
Yes,
An online biblioblogger conference would be awesome, in the far far future. Definitely a possibility.
Aye, but in the meantime (as I realize re-reading that I seemed a bit off-topic): One-on-one video debates. Let’s make them happen!
Peace,
-Steve
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