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Assignment #4 **Mobile Devices and Ministry - Developing Classroom Projects for Cell Phones**

Expected time to complete: 30-60 minutes Read through pages 111 - 167. When you find a project that you feel you can adapt, then go to the wiki to briefly describe how you might adapt this project to your audience. ====Remember to select the "Edit" button, and add your assignment information. When you are done, be sure to click on "Save." ====

Mitchell ||  || I do not have the book. But my ongoing project is updating the parish on the progress of the new building. Since I bought a phone with a camcorder I have been using it to make short videos that can be found on the parish facebook page and also on the website.,, I am hoping that this will turn into podcasts of Fr.'s homilies for those who are home bound. That would be a project that I am interested in getting started. || [] || Sherry Foecking I love that Toys to Tools book. I work with adult women however, so my biggest issue is not permission and filters, but getting them to trust going on line. I was pleased with the idea that not everyone needs a cell phone. I think seeing others may give them confidence. I think I would like to start with a "short getting to know you" and a power point to which they contribute their pictures of past events as a stepping stone to how we can use that spirituality to move into the future to a Guild that is more active and more inclusive of all ages and varying interest. Our Parish has a good website so I know we could link a project to it and have good exposure within the Parish.
 * YOUR NAME ||  || YOUR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS ||
 * Example:Susan ||  || Twitter (pages 116-117). There are several ideas here that could be used with my RCIA candidates. I'll need to give this some thought. I'm wondering if after our class gathering, when the candidates are home, if they would "Twitter" a message to our group (using a hashtag) with a comment about what was most important to them in the session. Or, perhaps what they may still ahve a question about or ???. As I said, I need to give this some thought. ||
 * Mary Miller ||  || Don't have the book, but I've been thinking about how many parents have taken pictures with their cell phones at "opportune times" when a regular camera wasn't present or it wasn't anticipated as being a "Kodak moment". We take these pictures and put them on the front of our bulletin when we get them (along with the proper consents). My thought is for different liturgical seasons (Advent, Lent, Christmas and Easter especially), special celebrations (Baptisms, 1st Communions, weddings,VBS) to invite people to share candid shots taken with their cell phones and allow them to share their faith traditions and stories. We could include a brief explanation in the bulletin itself (our bulletins are posted on our webpage). I'm thinking of a project title like "Faith is lived every moment - share yours..." ||
 * Barbara Eretto ||  || Lesson Plan 12 - Scavenger Hunt..Page Number Unknown..)Students will use their cell phones to collect images, video or audio on items from a list of words that they must find and learn for homework first...types of churches, types of steeples, bell tower... In class students will use the internet/class flicker account to locate pictures/images of above. They will then post them to the Class Blog page... Then outside of class they will locate the same images in their hometown and take a picture or video and post them on the class page.Then when they are back in class they will compare the actual pictures with the images that are already osted on the internet. How are they the same? How are they different? ||
 * Janet
 * Ruth E Manlandro ||  || Geocaching with cell phones. I would love for my students to GeoCache in St Augustine as a means to develop their understanding of the History and how it applies to the Catholic Church. ||
 * Rachele Deering ||  || One project I would like to incorporate is participating in daily readings that my co-cathecist got me into where daily readings are explained and interpreted which leads to the Sunday readings.
 * Amy Acker Mobley ||  || Going to start doing a scavenger hunt with twitter using hashtags to our group. give them a location and they go get a clue to the next for a prize. might do it once a month or every week- got to see what I can come up with. ||
 * Kathleen Kirkpatrick ||  || I would like to use Lesson Plan 17 P. 140 THINK ALOUDS. "For homework students will use Twitter to post their reading reactions (think-alouds) to the class novel. This will help the teacher prepare for the discussion the following day in class." ||

Mary Jane Spirk St William, Naples FL I do not yet have the book, however I plan to do a stations of the cross project during Lent this coming year and am thinking of ways I can utilize cell phones in that project. I just do not have it put together as of yet. Steuart ||  || I also do not have the book. An idea for the adults might be a project for R.E. to do group phtos for the bulletin to elicit prayers from the parish as they prepare for sacraments. ||
 * Susan Ajoc ||  || I like Lesson Plan 14 - Travel Postcards but would change it to "Where I have Found God's Presence" Postcards but use their cameras to take photos of places or things that they have felt God's presence. We could create a wallpaper using Powerpoint and have the students create their unique personal God's Presence postcards. ||
 * Karen Heaphy ||  || I am updating bulletin boards where we hold the RCIA sessions. We have pictures of past attendees, but it would be nice to have pictures of those during the journey. Since the room is used for other groups, we could ask the parish community to pray for the those on the journey and the pictures would make it more personal. ||
 * Kevin Hansut ||  || Twitter- I would like to create a hash tag twitter for our ministries entitled "God In My Daily Life", then encourage everyone in the parish to tweet each time they feel god working in their lives. The other passion I have to expand on is geocaching and I am intent on learning ways to integrate that in our program. ||
 * Dale Brown ||  || I don't have the book, but I am with Kevin on the use of Twitter. I really am looking for things to use to highlight the parish community and the faith. So much attention is given to our school, for various reasons, that the parish life gets lost or overlooked. So pictures and videos and twitter updates of activities are on my radar. ||
 * Sybil
 * Ginny Nolan ||  || First of all, I MUST remember to save when I add comments to a Wiki! I don't have the book either but many of us at the church, of course, use our phones for photos which we use a lot in various ways - the bulletin, website, E-News, Power Point slides in church and even our videos (Animoto videos can be created on an IPhone!). I still have to get the book to open my mind to even more creativity! ||
 * Ana L. Munoz ||  || I would go with the same idea as in the previous assignment: Stations of the Cross! For their station poster, the kids could pose to show their assigned station (kind of role play), another one takes a digital picture with a cell phone, then the pictures could be printed for the poster, or downloaded to our faith formation webpage ;) ||
 * Lori Crawford ||  || I don't have the book, but I like the idea of GeoCaching and would like to find more about how others use it and how to do a project like that here. ||


 * sue sharlow || I don't have the book, but I know that I am anxious to let my Confirmation kids use their phones. I do not like tracking service hours. Instead we do service projects together and they get to experience a variety of different scenarios to give them a good taste of the needs of others and how they can serve. I can't wait to have them keep a video journal of all of our service and then they can do a presentation for the parish community. ||
 * Ann Ferguson || I ordered the book but haven't received it yet. I am eager to read it (prefer pages to turn and highlight). We publish a newsletter for the families in three languages each month (one of my projects) and I can see where we could get a contest or something going to involve the use of their phones. Perhaps it could be taking a photo of something being studied or a something that relates to their faith formation classes. We could then have them write copy and publish in the newsletter. This publication is still being printed but I hope we will be able to have all families on internet some day or if we find that they have phones with internet, perhaps that might be a way to distribute their newsletter. Lots of work to be done! ||
 * Kelli Bonner || Okay, okay, I got the Kindle version of the book. The web site/blog appear to be more comprehensive and timely, but the book, as one would expect, provides more detail about its particular content. Podcasting is already in place, but I am more comfortable with the visual nature of photoblogging. The parents post the podcast while the students are in class, so photos could be added to a photo blog during the "off" weeks in the hope that the students would participate in choosing what is photographed and posted. In this, the Year of Faith and the New Evangelization, those could serve as the theme. Families could be invited/assigned to post on a rotating basis or, say, at least once a month, a season, etc. ||

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