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Assignment #3
Expected time to complete the written part of this assignment: 15 minutes. Please allow extra time for reading chapter 3 in Toys to Tools, or browse its website.

Religious education and ministry have not kept up with the educational technology options that you will find used in other subject areas. However, what we do have are best practices in these areas that can be easily adapted to fit your situation. There are many projects in chapter 3 that could be easily adapted to use in your parish. Take time to read through chapter 3 (Pages 23-70). Find one project that you would like to adapt to fit your audience and ministry.

Once you have found a best practice that you want to adapt, very simply describe what you are planning to do in the table below.

Carolina Helsel === I like the Mobile Apps for Classroom Management and Assessment: Class Chart app. The app allows teachers to collaborate with each other about classroom behavior. It can highlight patterns to negative behavior. You use a seating chart to make notes about students. ===
 * ~ NAME ||~ Description of a Project ||
 * Sample || I am adapting the Murmur Project, Page 24, for HS youth. I will create a learning plan where you go over the project, assist them in how to do a good interview, determine who will create the web site, where you will upload the podcast files and more... ||
 * Colleen Murray || Not having the book, I did an internet search and found this website that has several great ideas for podcasts in the classroom: @http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/printouts/podcasts-nuts-bolts-creating-30311.html. It references podomatic. I could see middle school age kids on up to adults creating podcast mini-prayer services/reflections of the week incorporating the liturgical season and/or scripture readings and/or reflections from the saints. ||
 * Jonathan Sansgaard || I don't have the book either, but I could really see using Wiffiti, a text resource to do some kind of summary of biblical texts. On their website, the example is to summarize sections of Shakespeare. I could see using a biblical version in Confirmation or youth group to not only summarize what is happening, but asking what does it mean, and even identifying the kind of literature - ie: poetry, history, myth, etc. ||