Amy-Deanna+Social+Networking+Assignment+4

=**Coach Amy & Deanna Assignment 4 Social Networking Module**=

Assignment #4
Expected time to complete: 30 minutes. Please note that this assignment has __two parts.__

__Part 1 __

Find and post at least one example of how Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking platform can be used to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, promote social justice, bring relief to the suffering, or in some way built up the Body of Christ. Your example can be a link to a relevant article, a copy of a post you found on a SN site, an event you discovered, or a link to a video. The object here is to create a list of positive uses of social networking media. //Remember - no cheating//! You are NOT allowed to use Google or You Tube for this assignment; search only through //Facebook, Twitter or Digital Catechesis//.

Part of this assignment is also to learn how to post a link on our wiki. Please follow the instructions (below) to post your homework and create a live link.

For this assignment, you will need to create live links using the "Link" button above. Here are the steps to do this: Please sign in, select the "Edit" button, and add your example below. When you are done, be sure to click on "SAVE."
 * Find the article you want to link to and COPY the URL to your clipboard
 * Post a Facebook status update, Retweet, or post on Digital Catechesis, sharing the resource you found.
 * Go back to this page and in "Edit" mode, type in some descriptive text.
 * Highlight the text you want to link, and click on "Link" in the edit navigation bar.
 * In the dialog box that opens, click on "Web Address."
 * Enter the URL of the article to which you are linking.
 * Click on "Add Link"
 * Be sure to SAVE your work!

Here's an example:

I found a great video on Digital Catechesis. It's entitled "Sacred Earth" [|Take a look]. - Claudia McIvor []

I found a link to a video link from Pope Francis on James Matin, S.J.'s facebook page entitled "You cannot be a Christian on your own". [|Check it out!] (Kelly Schreckenberger)

Want to get learn about the Saints each day? Like [|Catholic Saint of the Day] on Facebook and join their ranks! (Susan Leigh Baker)

Learn about Catholic Social Teaching and fair trade in 140 characters or less by checking out [|#CST] (Maureen Rotramel)

Teach media literacy to your youth group with a fun and interactive movie night, grounded in the Church’s wisdom on media. [|Movie Night: Why Media Matters] via [|John Paul the Great Catholic University] (Debbie Parisi)

Art is a wonderful way to share our stories of Faith. Check out the ambulatory windows from Bourges Cathedral.

In Fr Ed Broom's "Ten Ways to Fall in Love with the Eucharist" he highlights wonderful reasons and reminders for us to uphold the importance of Holy Communion in our lives. ~Carolina Helsel []

On Digital Catechesis I found a link to this internet safety website produced by the USCCB and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. [|I especially liked the "At Least Read This" link.] directed to parents/guardians. (Colleen Murray)

On Twitter I found a fun article to present the [|7 Themes of Catholic Social Just Teaching] with memes and other popular culture images. (Kendra Lockhart)

I am friends on FB with Mary's Shelter, a home for women facing crisis pregnancy.I often get great pictures, stories and requests for prayers. Check it out [|Mary's Shelter] and see if you want to subscribe to their newsletter. (Theresa Franks)

I am mostly a "stalker" on Twitter, but this is one of the [|favorite pages] I follow. Great to see young people in our church doing great things (Jonathan Sansgaard)

__Part 2__ Now that you have some experience in three social networking sites, we would like to know how you are planning to integrate some kind of networking media into your classroom, professional development, or other catechetical setting. Please write a brief paragraph below about your "dream plan" to integrate social networking in your ministry. It can be a visionary paragraph, or it can be practical steps with bullet points. Be sure to include your name.

I have already started using social media in my work. As a youth minister I find it the easiest way to communicate with my teens as a large group. There are even other 'apps' like GroupMe that the teens have introduced me to. I do need to work on getting the youth ministry social media out on our website and to the parents so they can follow along as well. I would love to use social media for more than just posting information. To get a discussion going or Q and A with the teens. There are so many options out there that I am sure I am not using it as fully as I could. I am hoping to learn all of that through DDBC! Susan Leigh Baker

While we already have a Facebook page and web site, I would like to use various social media platforms to "extend the classroom" taking what we talked about in youth group or religious ed and extending it more regularly with different videos, articles and links so the learning and discussion can continue. I can also envision using social networking as a way to better train our volunteers by essentially doing the same thing but in reverse (before youth group/religious ed etc.). The trick as with anything is working it into my routine so I actually create a plan and do it instead of dreaming about it in my head alone! (Maureen Rotramel)

In my previous role as a middle school coordinator, I had been using WordPress and YouTube as a platform for running our Bible study program. The WordPress site served as my catechist blog as well as an electronic manual for launching weekly presentations loaded with videos, power points, links, etc. Constant Contact and Facebook were used primarily to communicate news and events to parents. Going forward as Communications Coordinator, I hope to utilize social media in a more interactive and integrated way with our target audiences (parents, catechists and participants), such as online newsletters, catechist certification classes, and remediation programs. Right now we have too many platforms in too many different places (and too many administrators), and we need to find a way to link everything together in a more cohesive, user-friendly way. (Debbie Parisi)

I am looking forward to setting up various platforms so RCIA teams in my diocese can exchange information and have a sight for ongoing formation in both the pastoral applications and vision of the Rite. Through Twitter and setting up a WordPress blog I will soon begin this process. Not certain if we will be covering webinars but I will also be presenting through this medium also. Still have lots to learn but loving it! (Paula Penepent)

Using blogs to share information with our various grade level catechists and/or parents concerning our PSR classes seems like a logical step. You can easily insert links and embed videos. Makes sense to use a blog as a form of communication, especially since a lot of our parish families are familiar with checking blogs and/or getting blog feeds through our Cobb County Schools. It's something that we have discussed in our Parish School of Religion. Hopefully, it's something we can make work. :) ~Carolina Helsel

If I return to serving as a confirmation catechist again, I would like to incorporate some flipped classroom ideas for lessons; maybe create prayer spaces for the students to share their prayer requests and also link to daily prayer reflections; and perhaps a discussion space for the students to dialogue about questions they may have concerning the faith or the challenges to the faith they encounter. I'm sure there are lots of places out there already where they may do this, but I would prefer to have something that could be just for them as a small, safe place that we could easily monitor and that gives them the opportunity to ask me or the pastor for further guidance about their questions. (Colleen Murray)

We use social media to post about events, but we recently brainstormed that during a church tour for our Confirmation Candidates we can invite them to tweet things about their Church tour to help process what they are learning. After the church tour is complete we can pull up all the #hashtag comments using tweet deck to show what was being said. We may also have a prize for the most creative tweet and for a challenge (how many images of the Holy Family are portrayed in the stain glass widows). (Kendra Lockhart)

I think it would be great to have a group page for particular events for high school teens. For instance, we get a group of teens to attend the Ave Maria youth conference. We could make a 2015 Ave Maria conference page. I would provide pre-conference material, prayer, catechesis, etc. During the conference, the teens can add journal entries or pictures at free time or at the end of the night. After the event it would be a great way to do follow up and for continued development. Do you think it could work? (Theresa Franks)

I resonate with Maureen above in feeling very good at visioning, but not always in implementing. That said, I am still in that visionary phase. What I would like to do is find ways to be more in touch with both high school and junior high youth between Sunday mornings and evenings, in a way that is in line with what they are already using/doing. In other words, meeting them in their natural habitat, but also with the intent of challenging them to look at their world differently, or to give interactive feedback on class, or to complete assignments or be able to make up missed classes. My goal with this class is to become more familiar with some resources, but then to take that information to youth leadership and see what sticks, knowing I have at least some knowledge to make it happen. (Jonathan Sansgaard)

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