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**Coach Caroline Assignment4 Wikis Module**

 * Assignment #4 **

Expected time to complete: 15 - 30 minutes
Now that you have browsed through examples of wikis in educational settings, we want you to start thinking about how wikis could be used in faith formation settings. It might be helpful if you think of some of the typical topics covered in faith formation classes, grouped roughly by age category. Perhaps the following topics will stimulate some ideas for wikis. Remember that wikis are used for __interacting and collaborating__ more than presenting facts, doctrines, etc. Choose ONE age category below. Under the suggested topics listed in red, post some creative ideas for using wikis with that age group. Your ideas do not have to be related to the topics, just to the age group. Also remember to add your name to your suggestion (e.g. Kristi)

__Younger Elementary Ages__ We Show Love for Others How Can I be an Instrument of Peace? The Holy Spirit is My Friend The Church is God's Family

__ Middle School __ How can I Help the Poor?

How Do I Communicate with God?
The Young People and Parish Life How can I Help the Poor? How do I communicate with God?

At school, how can I be more like Christ & help stop bullying? -Anne Renkes Brainstorm "random (or planned 'em) acts of kindness ideas. -Anne R. What are your family traditions and rituals at Advent & Christmas? -Anne R. In your everyday life, where do you find God?-Anne R. Plan an amazing class on The Beatitudes in four or five steps.-Anne R.

Creating and posting powerpoint slides that demonstrate the ways the students are involved in serving others. Creating a prayer meditation using students suggested images as focal points for centering, calming, stress relief to allow them to enter into prayer. M. Plachta

Listing the Church's Social Teachings in simple terms (I've seen it on some websites http://www.ruskcountycatholiccommunity.org/our-lady-of-sorrows-parish.html then collecting ways that as Middle Schoolers we can live out these goals. M. Plachta

__ Older Elementary Ages __ This is my Church How Can We Help the Poor? I am Created in God's Image Everyone in the Church Shares in Christ's Role as Priest, Prophet and King


 * What Saints and Holy People inspire us? - Cindy M.
 * How do you pray at church, at home, on the ball field or anywhere else? - Cindy M.
 * How can we protect God's creations every day? - Cindy M.
 * How have people in your life modeled these roles for you? - Mary Pat

__ Junior High __ Right to Life of the Unborn Vocations Caring for Creation What makes a good Examination of Conscience?

__ Senior High __ Moral Decision Making We are all part of God's Family Discernment as a Spiritual Practice How Will My Confirmation Gifts of the Holy Spirit Help Me in Adulthood?

Create wiki pages for a class project/assignment in which the students work collaboratively to create content on a particular topic.

__ Adults __ Faith is a Journey
 * RCIA - What brought me here? ~ Staci Stroud
 * Neophytes - Thoughts on being a new Catholic ~ Staci Stroud
 * RCIA Sponsors: how has your faith grown?

How Can I Pass on my Faith to my Children and Grandchildren? Ask people to post how they have successfully passed on the faith in their families. For example, did they pray a rosary together, bless their child before heading out the door or before bedtime, read and share scripture as a family? How did they steer their children through the negative influences of culture? How did they handle when a child leaves the faith or stops practicing, marries outside the church,or won't baptize or raise grandchildren in the faith? Lorraine Miller

Life is Sacred at Every Stage What is the gift of suffering in life?
 * Sharing experiences of the sacred moments of life - Mary Pat
 * Posting photos that show the sacred moments of life - Mary Pat
 * Sharing tips for respecting and nurturing people at various stages of life - Mary Pat

Remember that wikis are used for __interacting and collaborating__ more than presenting facts, doctrines, etc. Choose ONE age category above. Under the suggested topics listed in red, post some creative ideas for using wikis with that age group. Your ideas do not have to be related to the topics, just to the age group. Also remember to add your name to your suggestion (e.g. Kristi Jenkins).

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