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About Christian Brady

I am dean if the Schreyer Honors College and an associate professor in the Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies department and the Jewish Studies Program. My academic field is ancient Hebrew and Aramaic Jewish literature (see http://targuman.org/). I am also a technerd. I blog regularly and am an avid photographer.

Using Quickoffice Pro HD with Dropbox on the iPad

My colleague recently acquired an iPad and in setting up her iPad she ran into a problem that is quite common. While you can open a file from the Dropbox app into Quickoffice (or other apps) you cannot upload it … Continue reading

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Lynda.com now available for PSU…on the iPad!

Lynda.com is a tremendous resource of video tutorials on just about anything you can imagine tech related. Penn State now has an account with Lynda and the best part? Lynda now has an iPad app that works with it! From … Continue reading

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iPad Apps

xxl13 (who are you?) just posted about not really having time to go through many apps and yet the iPad has already become useful, just for reading. Coincidentally I received an (unsolicited, not sure why I cannot get off these … Continue reading

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Are we splitting our personalities?

I just thought I should note here as well the article that came out this weekend: Academics and Colleges Split Their Personalities for Social Media The article is about academics and academic units with multiple online “identities.” I was interviewed along … Continue reading

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Scholarship and Technology Advisory Board

I thought I would put a simple link to the notice I posted about our new board with the catchy acronym “STAB.” This is a new board created by the Society of Biblical Literature. The charge will be: The Scholarship … Continue reading

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iPad use in research: Where am I now?

I have been fortunate enough to have had an iPad since they first came out. (As an aside, as much as folks label me an “Apple fanboy,” this is the first Apple product I have purchased in its first run. … Continue reading

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