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**Coach Ruth 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?
 * // Create a picture collage on wiki with children finding pictures of how we show love (Rosemary Potts) //
 * // Create a "God Sightings" page where children can write about how they saw God's love in action (Rosemary Potts) //
 * Ask students to post how they see their family, friends, relatives, teachers and school-mates practicing the role of being an instrument of Peace (Maria Lai, CSJ)

The Holy Spirit is My Friend
 * // Invite children to share their favorite images - written and pictures - of the Holy Spirit to create an image picture/collage. (Teri Burns) //
 * // Develop an "I Feel the Spirit when..." page for children to add their messages of how they experience the Spirit moving in their lives...Sort of like Rosemary's "God Sightings." (Teri Burns) //

The Church is God's Family
 * // Have children share their prayer intentions for their families, their friends, communities, and the world...praying for all of God's family. (Teri Burns) //
 * //Encourage understanding of "church vocabulary" by posting a new word each day about "people in the church". (Rosemary Potts)//

__ Middle School __ How can I Help the Poor? * Ask students to brain storm the ways they wish to help the poor. (Maria Lai, CSJ) * Ask students to be a reporter posting what their family think about they can help the poor. (Maria Lai, CSJ)

How Do I Communicate with God?
* Offer five icons of different ways of prayer on the Wikis page, and ask students to choose one way they would like to try to communicate with God throughout the week. (Five icons can be including: rosary, Bible story, writing a letter to God, listen to their favorite christian song and talk to God for two minutes at a quiet place). Ask thee student to put their name and the order of the icon they wish to choose for each day- Maria Lai, CSJ The Young People and Parish Life How can I Help the Poor? How do I communicate with God?
 * // After engaging middle schoolers in service projects, invite them to share their reflections on the experiences as well as any pictures they might take of the experiences. (Teri Burns) //
 * // Develop a prayer page where middle schoolers can post their prayer intentions, share their favorite prayers - either ones they've found or ones they've written - and share reflections on their experiences of different types of prayers and spirituality. //

__ Older Elementary Ages __ This is my Church

- Take pictures around the church and post to the wiki to show the children the people and sacramentals directly related to their church space. (Angie McElveen)
- have children from PSR post pictures of different Stations of the Cross that they see while visiting other churches when traveling the country n share on our Wiki (Ivy Foo) How Can We Help the Poor? === - Develop a wiki related to Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl project and post pictures of wehre the money will go once collected and how the goal will be met. Also ask for the children's ideas on who to ask to contribute and set up a goal chart. (Angie McElveen)=== -create a wiki for our church St Vincent de. Paul pantry and post list for items needed for "canned food drive"( Ivy Foo) I am Created in God's Image

- Ask children to brign in pictures to post to the wiki to show how God has created them in his own likeness. (Angie McElveen)
-allow children to post and share pictures of their parents or grandparents sacramental years to see how much likeness they see of themselves (Ivy Foo) Everyone in the Church Shares in Christ's Role as Priest, Prophet and King

__ 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?

__ Adults __ Faith is a Journey * Put all the names of the RCIA group on the Wikis page and ask each participants to choose a candidate to be their prayer partner. Ask the participants to make up different prayers according to the candidates' stages of the journey of faith (Maria Lai, CSJ)

How Can I Pass on my Faith to my Children and Grandchildren?
 * // This is actually a topic I want to include as a page on my catholicfamilyfaith.wikispaces.com site. (Teri Burns) //
 * // Ask the participants to make a family Sacramental Album (photo collage) on their cell phone or computer, then link the album on the Wikis Page (Maria Lai, CSJ) //

Life is Sacred at Every Stage
 * // We are beginning an O.W.L.S. group (Older Wiser Lively Seniors) We can use a wiki to share events ideas and plan activities. (Teri Burns) //
 * // Ask the participants to use (or choose a) their Baptismal name to study how that specific saint''s life is sacred at every stage and post the stages on wikis page (Maria Lai, CSJ) //

What is the gift of suffering in life?

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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