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It keeps hitting me over and over.  Education must rely primarily on relationship rather than information.  If you ask a middle or high school teacher what the biggest struggle they have is, they will likely say motivating students.  I think this can only be sustainably accomplished through relationship, that is, trust.  Students must trust the teacher, have faith in the teacher, in order to learn well from that teacher.

Managing a learning environment such as this poses its own unique challenges, but there is one simple technique, which makes everything else fall into place: love and respect your students and they will love and respect you back. With the underlying feeling of trust and respect this provides, students quickly realize the importance of their role as co-creators of the learning environment and they begin to take responsibility for their own education.           Michael Wesch

Through Booksneeze, Thomas Nelson Publishers blogger review program, I received The Voice New Testament to review. The style was engaging,      I read through Luke 1-9 in one sitting and it wasn’t tedius at all. the inline notes were good, but mostly directed towards beginning level historical background knowledge. There was one passage where I think the writers may have taken a little too much interpretative leeway. They made a part that is not quite understandable to make a lot more sense than it should have.

Luke 5:37-39 (NIV): ³⁷And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. ³⁸No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. ³⁹And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’ ”

Luke 5:37-39 (The Voice): And nobody takes freshly squeezed juice and puts it into old, stiff wineskins. If he did, the fresh wine would make hte old skins burst open and both the wine and the wineskins would be ruined. New demands new-new wine for new wineskins. Anyway, those who’ve never tasted the new wine won’t know what they’re missing; they’ll always say, “The old wine is good enough for me!”

Overall, I would recommend this version for someone who is looking for a version to read in large chunks. It lends itself well to long reading, but not for study. The notes probably won’t add much to the knowledge of those who have had teaching in Bible history.

Really.  It was a giant relief to see actual text that I wrote showing up in google reader after a LONG time where that wasn’t the case.

Well, Congratulations, those who write malicious code, you have kept me up longer than I wanted to the detriment of family and students.  And I’m not happy with the result even if it temporarily fixes my feed.

It may still have thee RSS spam that it had months ago, but at least I can use it for now.  If it still looks like spam. let me know and I’ll try to find someone to fix it.  Of course if it looks like spam, you’ll have to be brave enough to actually click to my site in order to even read this.

Oh well.