About GreekGeek
Who is the Greekgeek?
This website has been
established and maintained by Bruce Jones, a graduate teaching assistant for NT
Interpretation at Gordon Conwell Theological
Seminary, Charlotte.
Beginnings…
While serving the
wonderful students of Dr. Roy Ciampa’s NT Interp in 2003, I found myself answering the same
questions, or helping with the same problems over and over. So one day I put together a quick little
website, www.greekgeek.net. The first thing students needed help
with was fonts. Which font do I need? How do I know if I already have it
installed? How do I install it if I
don’t? How do I use it? Just about everything up on the site is
a response to helping the students with their assignments.
In the spring of
2005, while serving as Dr. Jim Sweeney’s TA for NT Interp,
our class had grown to over 60 students!
I was traveling quite a bit this semester (I work for a major software
company), and was not able to meet one on one as much. So I started adding the videos and the Bibleworks tutorials.
Goals…
The goal of this
website is to serve NT Greek students.
Particularly, helping them figure out how to use the computer and
software tools they may struggle with.
Also based on student papers and emails, I have attempted to add content
that will help with the areas students struggle with the most – with a
special focus on those areas that are more remedial. The intent is not to create a website
that replaces classroom instruction, but rather enhances and complements
it. The thought behind the grading
keys is that they help quantify those specific skills that students struggle
with. Looking at the results by
means of these keys, I will add content at the biggest and most frequent
problems students have. Currently
the area that seems hardest for students is grammatical diagramming. I look forward to expanding a
step-by-step grammatical diagramming tutorial that will be specifically
targeted at the errors I see in student’s papers at the basic level.
I am a professor, want a class page, but am not web
savvy. Can you create a class page
for me?
I am considering
this. One of the strengths of the
website now is that it is very focused, and it is easy
to find what you are looking for (I hope).
Email me at my hotmail address - thegreekgeek - (without the
dashes) and put the words “PROFESSOR REQUEST” in the subject.
Please do not add this email address to any lists you have for devotion of the
day, etc.! (See the tips on
avoiding SPAM in the Computer menu area).
How is Greekgeek developed?
Most of the tool type
pages are developed using Visual Studio.NET. The screenshot tutorials are done in
Microsoft Word so that I can give the template out, and have others easily
develop new content. The Hebrew vocab tool, and some of the UV
Chart Tool has a Microsoft SQL backend.
The “How to type in a Greek font” tutorial has some simple
XML behind it. The videos were
created with Microsoft Windows Media Encoder. The Grammar Guides with the flowchart
look were created with Microsoft Visio.
The Grading Keys were developed with Microsoft Excel.