Do you feel like. Currently- Director of Religious Education at St. Joseph Long Beach

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1 Do you feel like Currently- Director of Religious Education at St. Joseph Long Beach Wife Long Time Mom Gramma Aunt - Sister Long Time Soccer Coach 5 years Girl Scout Leader 7 years Youth Minister 17 Years Software Support Computer specialist at IBM 20 Years Other miscellaneous jobs: secretary, flight attendant, transcriber typist Education: Master Catechist 5 years, Master Certificate in Bible Certificate Program 3 years, National Youth Ministry Certificate for 17 years. I have led 4 World Youth Day Pilgrimages, been to 5 National Youth Conferences and many Los Angeles Youth Days, Regional Congresses, and LA Congresses. I Have spoken at many events; mainly on Discipleship, Spirituality, Scripture and Engaging Youth in their faith. I am a blessed woman! Introductions Your Name Your Parish How you use / want to use Technology in classroom to bring them closer to Jesus? Age of Students

2 Your Selfie Technology Rating Opening Prayer Only By Grace Fr. Robert Galea - In our digital world, the goal is still Digital Immigrant Tools Digital Native Tools Technology is not a gimmick It is a tool to connect us to: Our God Our Church Our Theology Let s go back in time. Jesus birth happened today Jesus Birth on Facebook Jesus Resurrection with technology Socialnomics

3 Pope Francis First Selfie! The Internet is our New Mission Field What s on your profile? Twitter What if we treated our bibles like cell phones? Scrihttps:// Let us pray that God give us a thirst for more of His Word Let us pray for our families and children that they will thirst for more of God s Word. It is at their fingertips Cell Phone Apps to get give us access to the Bible and our Catholic Faith Iphone: Glo Bible/Holy Bible All platforms: IOS and Android YouVersion Laudate everything about being Catholic VERBUM Catholic Study Bible ESV Crossway - BibleApp Who am I teaching? Teaching Starts with a Plan! What am I teaching? How will I teach? Can I use Media? How? How will I know if the students understand?

4 Faith Formation Content Still Includes Scripture, Morality, Prayer, the Sacraments, Catholic Social Teaching, Liturgy, Tradition No matter what generation we teach: Change doesn t have to be scary Tips for Techphobics How and Where do I Start? Videos Testimonies 3 minute retreat Pictures Pinterest Letting Kids/Families create pictures and bring them in Blogs & Websites Newsletters Powtoon Wordle Video - Video - Video Video Downloads Youtube, GodTube, Vimeo St. Mary s Press Loyola Press CRS You can create your own movies using pictures and movie software Students can create their own and bring it in (There is a camera and video creative device on everyone s cell phone they make quality videos and pictures!!!)

5 Saint Joseph Religious Education YouTube Channel Channels I follow My Favorite videos (separated into playlists) These are some of my favorite Teaching Videos or not? To Download Videos or Not? Safety first Make sure you have current anti virus and anti malware software on your computer. Do you have access to the internet in the classroom? If you do you don t need to download just link If you don t then it is safer to download the video.. How to download Youtube, vimeo, etc copy the url of the video you want to download Select the quality of the video and download Be sure to know where on your hard drive you are saving it to (so that you can find it later)

6 Advice for the Digital Immigrant Read the Manual Take the training Use How-To-Tutorial Websites Utilize YouTube (almost everything you want to learn has a how-to video to show you how) Faith Testimonies Sharing on Video Where I saw God this week. Create a movie (Animoto is fun software on line) Create Cartoon Learning - Powtoon Sharing in Blog or Website - for parents Sharing with Pictures Picture Stories, Testimonies Loyola Press 3 minute retreats For Meditation and Prayer Pictures that move us to Action or reflection Using Prezi New PowerPoint? en-for-children/ Collections of Pictures for Meditation Using Pictures from the Web

7 i.e. If you access Google images you need to make sure they are licensed for reuse or you must credit the owner. Free Photos on the Web. or take your own Digital images and copyright see Compfight ( Flickr ( Jing ( Picasa ( SlideShare ( Youtube ( Jing video also captures screen prints and videos of what you do on your screen Pinterest one of my favorite apps has lots of ideas for: religious education videos -Other-4015.html Pinterest

8 Blogs, Newsletters and Websites I link to and follow a gazillion of them.. I use articles for: For Teaching For catechists For parents For marriage For teens Ideas for when you Send Students Forth from Class- Have Students and their families go on a scavenger hunt and take pictures of: A story of Jesus love, where they see God, a story of reconciliation, forgiveness, belonging, any topic you are teaching Bring pictures back on a thumb drive have Family share their adventure (gets family and child involved!) 1. Wordle: How to do it Paste in text OR paste in the URL of a website What one thing do you feel you will try in your classroom? There are many engaging ways to Share the Truth, Beauty and Love Of our Catholic Faith Of the Word of God Of our Liturgy By Using our Imaginations, using media, using videos, and photography

9 By letting our children use the tools of the 21 st Century We have a choice do we dip our toe in the water and try? Christ has no online presence but yours Christ Has No Online Presence but Yours Christ has no online presence but yours, No blog, no Facebook page but yours, Yours are the tweets through which love touches this world, Yours are the posts through which the Gospel is shared, Yours are the updates through which hope is revealed. Christ has no online presence but yours, No blog, no Facebook page but yours. It s up to you! In your imagination do you see Saint Teresa of Avila winking her approval? by Meredith Gould - See more at: sthash.9di3qxox.dpuf Nancy Longo nancylongo52@gmail.com Facebook: St. Joseph Long Beach Website: look under the Catechist page