Thursday, March 13, 2014

Online Teaching (And No More Chinese Peanuts?)

China via email


















Online Teaching

Meeting with a major, well-known visiting Christian theologian and philosopher this last Sunday at Northview Community Church in Abbotsford, he agreed with me in the context of our previous emails, that online teaching was the best career opportunity for me at this point. He kindly suggested some departments and will assist me as he can over time. I keep researching and sending applications where viable.

My reasoning is that with my ten years of Blogging and related teaching and interaction with friends and public that teaching online courses would have many similarities to the work I am already performing for free as ministry.

As far as judging my abilities to teach and to be acceptable to students, at 15, 000 to 34, 000 pageviews a month blogging, in the difficult fields to market of Theology, Philosophy and Biblical Studies, I have done reasonably well, but realize there is still much room for progress.

I have done traditional offline teaching as well on several occasions.

(And No More Chinese Peanuts?)
















Poor Chuckles will now perhaps only have cookies to raid when he visits.
















Time.Com/Chinese Peanuts

Cited:

Chinese Peanuts

'Monday, Dec. 01, 1924

Southern peanut planters have little economic reason to thank Archdeacon Thompson or Dr. Charles R. Mills of the American Presbyterian Mission to China. Thirty-five years ago, these gentlemen imported four quarts of U. S. peanuts. Half of them were given to two Chinese farmers as the basis of a Chinese peanut crop. One farmer ate his peanuts instead of planting them. The other, however, planted and replanted his peanuts, until now the Shantung Peninsula grows 18,000,000 bu. per annum. The Chinese peanut crop now exceeds even that...'

'One farmer ate his peanuts instead of planting them.'

Hmmm...does he have relatives locally?

What do you know, Chinese Peanuts tied to Missionary work, how convenient for the purposes of this blog.

Photo from One World Homeschool. One World Homeschool?  That term may concern some in the Christian community. Yes, the government will educate your children at home for you parents, just log in. Wait a minute, that is online teaching...how convenient for the purposes of this blog post.