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fall/winter 2011/12 NavigatingNavigating thethe WorldWorld ofof TechnologyTechnology Virtual Successes One Foot in Today and One in Tomorrow Church and Technology Issue 2 Volume 1 Editors: Lina van der Wel (MTS ’14), Tracey Mori Copy Editor: Mark Fisk (BA ’12) Print Designer: Jennifer Laing Web Designer: Andrew Smith (Certificate ’97) eBook Designer: Robert Santos (BRE ’12) Videographers: Keith Brink (BA ’13), Drew Carlson Writers: Sarah Patterson (MDiv ’11, DMin ’14), Mark Fisk (BA ’12), Amelia Rana (MDiv ’14) Photos: Tyndale is a Christian university college All photos used are either taken by David Kentie (BA ’10, MTS ’13), Addison Aspilla (MTS ’11), and seminary that prepares leaders for Mark Fisk (BA ’12), Robert Santos (BRE ’12), Tracey Mori, work in the private, public, and not-for- Keith Brink (BA ’13), and Robert Patterson profit sector, ministry, and the global or are Tyndale promotional photography mission of the Church. 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Tyndale University College & Seminary 25 Ballyconnor Court Toronto, ON M2M 4B3 FPO 2 Tyndale the magazine contents 24 fall/winter 2011/12 8 columns 4 editor’sLETTER 5 president’sVOICE Confessions of a Tech Junkie 6 campusMOVE 16 12 Campus Update 24 studentSPOT features Josh Okello Dresses Africa In Their Own Words: 8 One Foot in Today and One in Tomorrow Student Missions Teams Leading Ethically Where Education and Technology Meet Tyndale Seminary Summer Students 10 Dr. Brian Stiller “Dean of Weddings” President Emeritus 28 facultyFOCUS Virtual Successes 12 Featuring Anthony Hutchinson Tyndale Students in Tech-based Business and Leah McMillan Faculty Updates 14 Church & Technology Coming Events 16 Technology @ The Meeting House 32 staffSIDE A Pastor’s Perspective Featuring Philip Kay New Faces at Tyndale 20 The Hybrid Models of Tyndale Transfers & Promotions Academics and Technology at Tyndale 34 alumniNEWS 22 Dr. Barry Smith Alumni Updates Introducing Tyndale’s New VP, Student Services Distinguished Alumni and Registrar Honorary Doctorates 31 The Van Normans The New Chair of Business fall/winter 2011/12 3 LETTER The Communications Team echnology, according to a Canadian survey T on work performance, has assisted people editor’s to increase their productivity by 400% since 1950. That is an amazing statistic. At Tyndale the church. The issues of children and teens we have seen a huge trend of communication using cell phones in schools and the effects of moving from print to online—our website traffic technology on learning are complex. You will increases yearly by up to 55%. In the home, read about Tyndale students and alumni who you see two-year-olds who know how to find run tech-based companies that are thriving. their games on the computer, while an 85-year- We found no research on technology and the old grandfather who never used computers, is Canadian church, so we designed a survey reading books and newspapers on a tablet. and sent it out. Three hundred and sixty-eight Communication and relationship dynamics churches in Ontario answered the survey and are being dramatically changed by Facebook, the results are very interesting. There are texting, and Skype. amazing things we can do today because of In the past few months, I have had technology. There are also darker sides to tech- numerous conversations with friends, pastors, nology, where it can become an addiction. teachers, and parents on technology. The I keep asking myself if I am consciously conversations centred on the question: How choosing what technology I use and how I do we navigate the world of technology? use it. I find I can’t make a conscious decision This issue of the magazine is about how the unless I take a few weekends a year and Tyndale community is navigating the world of completely unplug. This is when I can make technology in the classroom, businesses, and conscious choices on how and if I will use the newest gadget or social media site. Everyone is different. I have friends who wake up with What are your experiences with technology? their cell phones beside them to check Twitter, How has it affected you? Do you have any Facebook, email and even some websites before tips for others on how to consciously manage getting out of bed. They love it. Each person technology? Join the forum online: go.tyndale.ca/letter-to-the-editor makes their own decision, conscious or uncon- or email us at: [email protected] scious, on how they interact with technology. 4 Tyndale the magazine Confessions of a VOICE Tech Junkie have a confession to make. I have never seen is to understand how we navigate and negotiate I a Future Shop, Radio Shack, or electronic both the changes and their impact on our lives. gadget store that I did not want to enter. I am I heard Dr. Peggy Kendall, a professor of a tech junkie. I never follow the instructions, communication studies, speak to this. She said, and I distinguish little between what I need and “We risk turning into pancake people, spread what I want. wide and thin as we connect with the vast I come by it honestly. It is in my DNA, network of information accessed by the mere inherited from my parents—particularly my dad. touch of a button.” I remember as a young boy seeing my father Let us be clear. We live in a connected president’s enter the house with a box under his arm. It con- world and frankly there is no going back. The tained one of the first cassette tape recorders; he number of people using Facebook has doubled had discovered it at a trade show in New York. since 2008. Close to 50% of all North Americans He let me play with it, and finally had to buy a use it, and while the average user is 38-years- second one because I was using it all the time. old even my 90-year-old father has mused about A few years later, when I was having whether or not he should join. The number of trouble in school, this tape recorder saved my Twitter accounts increases by 300,000 per day, academic career. With a short attention span, it and 640 Tweets are generated per second. became increasingly difficult for me to con- In the early days of any new technology, centrate. In fact, during lectures I often lapsed we all think the rules have changed; but the quickly into conversations with my neighbouring fact is, only the technology has changed—the students. Needless to say, I was a teacher’s rules may still be the same. In any navigating nightmare. and negotiating of new things, it is critical to My mother came up with a great idea. Using understand what the compass points are that the tape recorder, she taught me how to tape make navigating possible—compass points of lectures so that they could be played back later values, virtues, and commitments. One person when I was home. It proved so successful that I described it this way, “Once I was a scuba diver used it right into university—developing a library in a sea of words, now I zip along the surface of audiotaped notes rather than written ones. like a guy on a jet ski.” From my point of view, My point is simple. Technology is not all the challenge is to know how to go deeper, for bad, but it does change things. The social media that is the framework to which our faith calls us. tsunami and technological advances of the last Dr. Gary V. Nelson years are changing the way we do things and President and Vice Chancellor even the way we relate to others. The challenge fall/winter 2011/12 5 Campus Update MOVE campus n just four years, Tyndale, a Bayview Campus I privately-funded, publically- accountable, not-for-profit $28 million of the proposed $40 million institution has raised, through its has been raised for: Uncommon Ground Capital campaign, $44 million towards • The purchase of the Bayview Campus the purchase of its new Bayview • Renovations: replaced the roofs, some Campus and new programs. A doors and windows at Bayview making further $14 million is required to it more environmentally friendly and reach the campaign target of energy efficient $58 million.