I'll be the last to suggest that the Hartford Catholic Biblical School (HCBS) rides the cutting edge of technology. We're slow to keep pace, but we do get there eventually.
Take our new initiative this fall. Students currently enrolled in the Catholic Biblical School core courses can now access class lectures online, from the Office of Education, Evangelization and Catechesis website: www.catholicedaohct.org. Three of our teachers are offering recordings of class lectures in CBS 100 (Year One, Alexis Chacchia); CBS 200 (Year Two, Amy Ekeh); and CBS 400 (Advanced Year, Orange Workbook, BJ Daly Horell). Students can now review class lectures in audio form as they prepare their self studies (homework) each week.
Demonstrations of the system were provided at each of our Opening Scripture Days. If you are a current student and need help gaining access, please contact us in the Office of Education, Evangelization and Catechesis and ask for tech assistance: (860) 242-5573.
Now, once you've registered and can log in, you'll see a list of sound files that have file names that look like this: 10.04.17 CBS 400 1.5 BJ. That indicates the date of the lecture (October 4, 2017) the course number (CBS 400/Advanced Year, Orange Workbook), the lesson number (Unit 1 Lesson 5) and the initials of the instructor (BJ, for BJ Daly Horell).
And you'll probably notice that we are still working out some of the kinks, so please bear with us! For example, the sound quality of the CBS 400 recording this week is not what I wished for. We will persevere, however, and we expect eventually to have a library of 120 lectures available online for students in the HCBS core program.
