{"id":1576,"date":"2011-08-26T13:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2011-08-26T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T17:41:47","slug":"zombies-educational-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/zombies-educational-resources.html","title":{"rendered":"Zombies: Educational Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/bradmatthies.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/26\/information-literacy-zombie-edition\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thanks for my friend and colleague Brad Matthies for drawing attention to some online sources that address zombies, but which I think could be used to good humorous effect in a class explaining research skills and the need to find reliable sources of information<\/a>. First, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mcpherson.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Library-of-the-Living-Dead-Online-Edition.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">there\u2019s an online comic which uses the scenario of a zombie attack to explain about all the useful things one can find in a university library. It\u2019s called \u201cLibrary of the Living Dead\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mcpherson.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Library-of-the-Living-Dead-Online-Edition.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1557 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2011\/08\/zombies.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"399\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, there\u2019s a spoof on Mythbusters which illustrates what cannot accurately be called a scientific approach to testing the myth that one bite from a zombie will turn you into a zombie. There is a little bit of swearing, but if you like zombies then I am guessing you have the necessary tolerance not to mind too much.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MythPunchers - Zombie Bite Myth\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9jRkgZXaoDM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>But my all time favorite is this instructional video, \u201cA Very Zombie Holiday.\u201d If you have never seen it, you are in for a treat:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A VERY ZOMBIE HOLIDAY (Instructional video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0UqEhUm2B_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for my friend and colleague Brad Matthies for drawing attention to some online sources that address zombies, but which I think could be used to good humorous effect in a class explaining research skills and the need to find reliable sources of information. 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