Amy-Deanna+10+Great+Ideas+Assignment+3

Part 1
Tell us how you would use __one__ of these tools in your ministry. Include your name next to your example. Expected time to complete this assignment: 30 - 60 minutes

Example: Wordle As a team-building exercise, I would ask my youth ministers to each submit several words that they feel describe themselves. I would compile the words into a Wordle that would illustrate the combined gifts, talents and strengths of the team. (Claudia)

Jonathan Sansgaard: I know the example here is Wordle, but I DID just use it at our Confirmation campout (gorgeous Washington weekend at the beach). I had the youth write down JESUS on a paper and then words they associated with Jesus. Then I made a Wordle and gave it to them the first day of class. We'll hang them in our room and add to them. As I did this, someone in the office talked about word clouds. I want to use those for 9th graders as they choose their verse for the Affirmation of Faith.

Carolina Helsel - Skype. I would use Skype in the PSR classrooms so that our students could connect and talk to other students of their same grade faith formation classes in other areas of the United States or world.

Delicious Dropbox SlideShare Wordle 30hands Skype GoogleForms Geocaching GoogleDocs Glogster

= PART 2 - POST YOUR EXAMPLE BELOW HERE =

=Please add your example of a great tool for catechetical ministry below. Here is a tutorial video that will explain to you how to embed a video in wikispaces. =

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**Annimoto**

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Animoto offers a free 30 second video tool, with options to upgrade to longer videos with a paid account.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This is a great tool for students who are just starting to discover the fun of digital storytelling.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Animoto also allows you to insert digital video clips, and they offer a good selection of legal background music.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This Animoto video was created with an upgraded account.

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So I hope I am understanding this last assignment correctly. Google docs is something I would like to make more use of in the future, so I am posting this video to show an example of this tool and how to use it. With the variety of documents - even presentations - to be shared, I can see all kinds of integration possibilities for faith formation. My question, and future homework, is to see if I there is a way to import an existing presentation that I could share with a group, or if I have to create it from GD. -Jonathan Sansgaard

Carolina Helsel - The video below is an example of how classrooms are connecting with other classroom around the world via Skype. media type="youtube" key="GZdMnkWHG7s" width="560" height="315"

**[|Tagxedo.com]**

Like Wordle, Tagxedo allows you to paste in any words, apply shape, color, font and orientation, and then creates a word cloud for you.

Here's an example of a word cloud using the words from an article about parish twinning.

The words used most frequently are the largest words. Can you guess the name of the person featured in this article?



Image Chef

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Another online tool that offers all kinds of creative items that can be embedded in your wiki, Image Chef allows you to create word mosaics (word clouds),

mini slideshows, photo frams and a sketchpad.

Here's a word mosaic using the text of John 3:16.

Note that this is an ad-supported site and you must be 13 or older to sign up.




 * Edmodo** is a free social learning Web 2.0 tool that you can sign up for at Edmodo.

My impression is that it is a virtual classroom, where quizzes can be taken, assignments can be delivered and graded,

links can take students to a variety of learning sites, videos, etc. outside the classroom.

Below, I have pasted an Edmodo tutorial.

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YouTube example
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Prezi is a way to make your presentations more interesting, and it is free to use.

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== (Note: If you are trying to embed a Vimeo video you may run into difficulties. The problem with embedding a Vimeo video is related to the Internet browser you are using. When accessing wikispaces from Firefox, there was no problem embedding the HTML code. I was not able to embed using IE, however. Live and learn! If participants have problems embedding video, try using a different browser. - Claudia) ==