STEP is travelling to 140 countries via the ICETE conference in Turkey

[STEP Project]

STEP is travelling to 140 countries via the ICETE conference in Turkey for global Bible educators. The 415 delegates are each getting two copies. One to keep and one to multiply.

One feature of STEPBible that the disadvantaged world loves is the way that it works in a browser even when there is no internet access. You can install it on any PC or Mac and it runs its own webserver, so all the complex database searches work just like on the website.

The installer, together with 450 Bibles and commentaries fits on a tiny micro SD card, and fills less than 1G. We slot these into USB sticks so they can be used in any computer. And thanks to the generocity of organisations like Crossway and Biblica, these can be legally copied and given away. Many of these educators struggle with shortages of books, trustworthy software and often no internet. Students in the same class may have a huge range of skills from almost no Bible knowledge to linguistic genius.

I've never seen 1000 micro-SDs from a factory, so I decided to video the 'unboxing' - with unexpected consequences:

   

See the full article at http://stepbiblenews.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/step-travelling-to-140-countries.html 

David IB

 

///   Dr David Instone-Brewer

dib   Senior Research Fellow in Rabbinics and the New Testament

 ^    Tyndale House, 36 Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge, CB3 9BA, UK

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