Mobile Ed: Logos Academic Training Bundle (4 courses)

by Logos Pro Team

Publisher:

Lexham Press

, 2017

Overview

The Logos Academic Training bundle is a complete program for learning the best ways to use Logos for seminary-level research. It consists of four concise courses designed to help any student of the Bible improve the academic rigor of their study and research skills by using the Logos Bible Study App. These courses were designed to help seminaries train their students to use Logos to successfully research, examine, and present on specific Bible passages or theological topics. Now, this level of training is available to everyone. Whether or not you have watched the quick-start and onboarding training that come with Logos, these courses waste no time and get you learning the best tools and features for academic study. All of the videos in these courses were created specifically for this bundle to ensure the training is focused and applicable. Each segment builds on the previous segment and demonstrates how different tools and features of Logos all work together as it presents solid research methods for someone wanting to produce theological papers or sermons. Each course examines different aspects of the same passage (Luke 20:41–44, where Jesus quotes Psalm 110:1), equipping you with the skills and tools you will need to research any passage or topic. The Courses Tool is there to guide you through the sequence and content of each course in the bundle to help you complete the whole program.

With less than an hour of video per course, you get directly into substantive training that you can review as often as you wish. Getting Oriented with the Logos Bible Study App (LT101) introduces the app’s tools and capabilities, showing you how to get set up by customizing Logos to suit your academic and research needs. Studying a Passage with the Logos Bible Study App (LT102) walks you through different ways to use Logos to interpret the Bible in context. Studying a Topic with the Logos Bible Study App (LT103) demonstrates how to make the most of your Logos library by researching topics to find answers to theological questions. Finally, Organizing and Presenting Research with the Logos Bible Study App (LT104) takes you through the final steps of applying what you’ve learned by sharing it with others through academic papers, crafting a sermon, or any other type of presentation, using proper citations along the way.

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Product Details

• Title: Logos Academic Training Bundle
• Publisher: Lexham Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
• Courses: 4
• Video Hours: 3

LT101: Getting Oriented with the Logos Bible Study App

• Video Hours: 0.75

Getting Oriented with the Logos Bible Study App (LT101) provides an overview of the entire Logos Bible Study App package. It focuses on the tools and resources you can access right from the Home page before introducing all of the tools you can use to organize both your resources and your on-screen layouts. This introductory course helps you customize your Logos library to suit your needs for serious study. It covers the basic knowledge of how Logos works, which is necessary for the rest of the Logos Academic Training series.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Use the Home page to conduct searches in your resources
• Use the Home page to access all of your guides
• Use the Library to find and filter resources, make custom collections, and prioritize your resources
• Use the Home page to access, customize, and create on-screen layouts that suit the ways you read and study the Bible
• Create and organize your own Notes files
• Create Favorites folders to organize material you find in your reading

Course Outline

Introduction

• Using Digital Tools

Unit 1 Starting with the Home Page

• Overview and Home
• Search from Home Page
• Different Guides in Logos
• Topic Study from the Home Page
• Passage Study from the Home Page

Unit 2 Organizing Your Research

• Introduction to the Logos Library
• The Library
• The Importance of Layouts
• Layouts
• Organizing Your Notes
• Documents and Favorites

Unit 3 Additional Features

• Learning Aids

Conclusion

• Closing Comments

LT102: Studying a Passage with the Logos Bible Study App

• Video Hours: 0.75

Studying a Passage with the Logos Bible Study App (LT102) takes you through a specific passage step by step to teach you how you can use Logos for interpreting any Bible passage. This is a concise course on how to study the Bible in context from a first reading through detailed analysis. First, it shows you how to read your preferred Bible in comparison to other versions side by side, so that you can note and analyze the differences. Then it shows what you can do with the Exegetical, Passage, and Bible Word Study guides. Using them, you can do grammatical and structural analysis and conduct cultural background and word studies. Finally, the course shows you how to use these guides to find what others have said about your passage in ancient sources, in commentaries, and in biblical and systematic theologies.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Set up the Logos Bible Study App to present a clean text that displays nothing but the Bible text itself
• Read and compare various versions side by side and analyze the differences between them
• Use the app to analyze the structure and genre of a Bible text so you can read it contextually
• Use the Exegetical Guide to access word studies and grammars for studying your text closely
• Use the Bible Word Study guide to access word studies
• Use the Passage Guide to access cultural concepts, ancient literature, commentaries, and biblical and systematic theologies that address your text

Course Outline

Introduction

• Reading the Bible Contextually

Unit 1 Read the Bible

• Reading the Bible in Your Own Language
• The Importance of Reading in Original Languages
• Reading in Original Languages
• Seeing the Forest and the Trees
• Reading for Structure and Genre

Unit 2 Study a Word

• The Value of Word Studies
• Original Language Guides
• Using Commentaries
• Gleaning Word Information from Commentaries

Gleaning Word Information from Commentaries

• Using Tools of Grammatical Analysis
• Grammars

Unit 4 Engage Extratextual Resources

• Using Extratextual Resources
• Primary Sources and Commentaries
• Biblical and Systematic Theology
• Theological Resources

Conclusion

• Reading the Passage Again

LT103: Studying a Topic with the Logos Bible Study App

• Video Hours: 0.75

Studying a Topic with the Logos Bible Study App (LT103) uses the same specific Bible passage as in LT102 but examines topics within it. The course guides you through specific steps for topical studies. It begins with how to organize both the resources you want to search and the new material that you discover. Then it turns to the various guides you might use to identify and research a topic, whether as a brief topic review or as an in-depth analysis. Finally, this course shows you how to use the Logos Bible Study App to outline your topical study. Learning this type of workflow for researching a topic can help you get the most out of the breadth of your digital library.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Create Favorites folders and use them to organize what you find while doing a topic study
• Use the sophisticated search and filtering options in the Bible Browser to identify and focus your topics
• Distinguish the search types you can do with the Topic Guide from those you can do with the Sermon Starter Guide
• Use a Factbook report to find Bible dictionaries that speak to the topic you’re searching on
• Prioritize Bible dictionaries and other resources so they come to the top of any search
• Search your top Bibles and use the Grid view to identify synonyms and related terms to your key word
• Use the Bible Sense Lexicon to broaden and/or refine the terms for your topic
• Do word studies on your topic terms using the Lexham Theological Wordbook and the Bible Word Study guide
• Use the Logos Bible Study App tagging to do thematic searches and identify key passages related to your topic
• Build custom collections to focus your searches within particular kinds of resources in your own Logos library
• Use the Sermon Starter Guide to find and export thematic outlines to the Sermon Editor or to your word processor

Course Outline

Introduction

• Getting Started

Unit 1 Study a Topic

• Favorites Folder and Bible Browser
• Topic Guide and Sermon Starter Guide
• Introducing the Factbook
• The Factbook and Bible Dictionaries
• Introducing Cultural Concepts
• Cultural Concepts and the Bible Sense Lexicon
• Original Language Analysis

Unit 2 Search a Topic

• Introducing Topical Tagging
• Thematic Searches
• Searching Biblical Theologies

Unit 3 Outline a Topic

• Outlining a Topic
• Thematic Outlines

Conclusion

• Going Forward

LT104: Organizing and Presenting Research with the Logos Bible Study App

• Video Hours: 0.75

Organizing and Presenting Research with the Logos Bible Study App (LT104) focuses on organizing the results of your research from the previous courses so you can use and cite it in your own work. First, the course covers how to use Notes, Favorites, and Clippings files to save and organize your research. From there, you can learn to create, join, and post comments in Faithlife groups. Then the course addresses how to use the Sermon Editor to present your work as speaker notes, presentation slides, and audience handouts. Finally, it shows you how to export your work to Proclaim and SoundFaith.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Create and use Notes files to save and tag quotes from your resources so you can search for them easily
• Create, join, post comments, and view other’s comments in Faithlife groups
• Create and use Favorites folders to save, bookmark, and organize your research
• Use default highlighting templates, and make and store your own custom highlighting templates
• Understand the different uses for Clippings and Notes folders
• Use the advanced search syntax to make complex searches, using the search prompts in a new search window to get started
• Create and add entries to a Bibliography file and then change its style to the one you want to use
• Use the Tools menu to set up how you save citation information on a saved quote
• Copy and save citations to paste into your report, paper, or sermon
• Use the Sermon Editor to organize how you communicate the results of your study in a speaker’s outline and related slides or in handouts or even question sheets with fill in the blanks
• Export the results of your study and preparation to Proclaim and to SoundFaith

Course Outline

Introduction

• Organizing and Communicating Your Research

Unit 1 Organize Your Research

• Notes and Tags
• Community Notes and Faithlife Groups
• Keeping Track of Your Resources
• Favorites
• Highlights and Clippings
• Finding What You Need
• Advanced Searching

Unit 2 Communicate Your Research

• Tracking Your Sources
• Bibliographies and Citations
• Preparing to Preach or Teach
• Sermon Editor and Proclaim

Conclusion

• Summary