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July 12, 2019

7/12/2019

 
Webinars for Summer Catechist Enrichment
​The summer is a good time to fine tune your catechetical skills as sessions wind down. Please return to this page for webinars from our publishers. New webinars will be posted every other Friday. Fill out the form and return to your Catechetical Leader as proof of you continuing formation.
Webinar Form
321 Liftoff: Interactive Ideas for Supercharged Catechesis
Steve Bofsford, Sadlier Religion

3, 2, 1 Liftoff!

October 5, 2018

10/5/2018

 
Digital Disciples Week is October 15-19
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​Photo by Nikolay Tarashchenko on Unsplash
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Catechists can integrate digital approaches that are age appropriate using good digital discipleship. What approaches have you tried? Is it time for you to seek digital training for yourself? Digital training is provided by the Office of Faith Formation. Develop a plan to integrate digital approaches in your faith formation sessions. 
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Why integrate digital technology in your faith formation sessions? If you want to meet your learners where they are, they are already tech savvy. Throughout the country, leaders in catechetical ministry have been networking to move forward in integrating digital approaches into ministry, especially faith formation. 
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Digital Disciples Bootcamp
Digital Discipleship Boot Camp (DDBC) was started in 2011 by Sr. Caroline Cerveny, SSJ-TOSF and Claudia McIvor, MSEd, in their home diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida. Their mission was to bring technology training to administrators, religious education catechists and teachers, principals and church staffs. ​
Digital Disciples Network
​As participants graduated, the network of ministers comfortable with technology grew. And so evolved the Digital Disciple Network (DDN), a network that now includes hundreds of ministers who live in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal.
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Digital Discipleship Competencies
 In 2017, DDN began to involve other organizations. A collaborative partnership developed with the Digital Disciple Network (DDN), National Association of Catholic Media Partners (NACMP) and the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA). 
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May 18, 2018

5/18/2018

 
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Want to learn more and feel confident using digital tools in Faith Formation? 
Summer sessions are available that will provide you with an online learning community to learn and practice new digital tools. Key components of the program include: 
  •  Each participant is assigned a coach to receive individualized assistance
  •  Participation in an online community 
  •  Lab videos on the following topics: Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Gravatar, and PB Wiki
  • Social Networking: Creating Communities for Christ
  • Collaboration Tools: Online Collaborating and Organizing for Ministry
  • Mobile Devices for Ministry
  • Digital Storytelling: Evangelizing in the Digital World
  • Websites for Ministry
  • Ten Great Ideas for Your Classroom or Ministry
For more information and to register
DDBC website

February 16, 2018

2/16/2018

 
Don't Give Up Anything for Lent

Say what? Yes this title is made to get your attention. But this video is a great review of the meaning of Lent and Easter. This series, "Catholicism in Focus" is described as
"​segment(s) that take a deeper look at the things we say and do in our faith all the time, but maybe don’t think much about". 
So before you talk about the Lenten season with your learners, take a few minutes to keep your own understanding "in focus". 

Using Digital Media in Family Faith Formation
Identify who before how when using digital media in family faith formation
​ by Lori Dahlhoff, EdD
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Planning to use digital media in your sessions takes some important judgment in choosing the right approaches for the right age groups. In this blog post from ecatechist.com, Lori Dalhoff offers some thoughts on the catechetical process in choosing the type of digital approaches that would be most effective.
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November 3, 2017

11/3/2017

 
Did you know that Pope Francis has set a global campaign on migration?  "Share the Journey" is a two year campaign that began on September 27, 2017 initiated by Caritas Internationalis to build better awareness of those migrating and to "strengthen relationships with refugees and communities" (Vatican Radio, 09/25/2017).   "Share the Journey" can be implemented in many ways at various grade levels and in the family. Here are a few ways to "share the journey" with current tools. Your students can be DIGITAL DISCIPLES!!!  
1.  Do you remember making posters in school and teachers would hang them in the hallway? After a few weeks the edges became worn, the same people walked by without noticing the posters and after being graded and taken home most ended up in the trash.  Today, we have tools to make digital posters.  Digital posters have a permanency that keeps them fresh and re-usable, they can be posted on various social media to reach more people and the work will never end up in the trash...which provides a really important message - this work was valuable! 
  •  Digital posters can be created as a traditional poster and then digital pictures of each can then be uploaded onto the parish website.  Use themes like "Who is my neighbor"  "When did you see me hungry?" "When I a was a stranger..." 
  • Digital posters can be created on Google Slides or PowerPoint, (change dimensions to be 8.5 x 11) .   Students can share or upload their work to the catechist or catechetical leader to then be posted. 
2.   Facebook Message Posts.  Again, this can be created first as a traditional paper artwork.  Provide students with a 4x4' paper and create a "facebook" post to promote "share the journey", scriptural references, prayers for refugees, etc.  Create a Facebook Wall in your classroom....but take it to the next level....post them on your parish facebook page!  Images can be uploaded and posted.  Digital Facebook posts can be created on Canva.  
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3.  Digital Storytelling.  Telling a story or developing a theme with Images, narratives, music as a short video can be very powerful and very rewarding for students to create.  There are many digital tools and various ways to produce a digital story, but it all starts with a theme, research and planning.  Tools to use can include prezi, animoto, adobe spark, we-video, youtube, imovie and so many others!
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4. #sharethejourney Tweets  Not all of your students have Twitter accounts, but what a great way to start teaching how to tweet as a digital disciple! 
  • After doing a unit on social justice and immigration, have students create a tweet as a prayer, message to refugees, or other information they learned with #sharethejourney in 140 characters or less (remember spaces count too!) Again, this can be a classroom bulletin board activity, or have the parish leader post the "tweets" during the year.  
  • It is also interesting to view the actual stream of tweets by searching #sharethejourney on Twitter by projecting it in class. This can open further discussions about the Pope's campaign.  With older students, this would be an excellent way to introduce them to the larger world working together.  If they have twitter accounts, ask them to follow the hashtag.
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Resources for the classroom:
  • USCCB Provides a list of quotes on immigration, human rights, and refugees
  • Sharethejourney.org
  • CRS Education​​
For more information on digital tools for the classroom, contact the Office of Faith Formation.
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