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Assignment #2
Expected time to complete reading and the written assignment: 15 - 30 minutes

As we move ahead, Digital Etiquette and Student Permission and Agreement Guidelines are very important!



Your assignment for this segment is consider how you will encourage your participants to use good digital etiquette. In addition, if you are using cell phones with your participants (especially children), what guidelines will you share with them?

** Digital Etiquette: **


 * Please add how you will encourage good digital etiquette:

In my ministry I deal exclusively with adults. At the beginning of all presentations (like many parishes do before mass) I ask that all cell phones be turned off. There is nothing more rude than having someone's cell phone interrupt a speaker. Mary Amore

As I am not in the classroom, I can only relay what I have seen. In our VBS program, we ask all teen volunteers to leave their cell phones in a locked classroom. This leaves them the sole obligation of focusing on their groups. Before this policy was initiated, teens would be found interacting with their phones more than their groups! While I realize that this isn't quite what you are looking for, I'd like to hear comments from people that actually encourage the use of the phones in any capacity. Chris Simons

Parish Digital Etiquette Guidelines - Staci Stroud
 * 1) Be Respectful
 * 2) Be NICE
 * 3) At Mass: Please turn off your cell phones (our forthcoming app will send a reminder to do this 20 minutes before Mass when you have selected a Mass time)
 * 4) Although I am not a catechist, along with safe usage guidelines I would also encourage parents to teach their children about the advantages of using cell phones but the PROPER use of cell phones
 * 5) Our new app will certainly be a valuable tool for those who use their phones for a myriad of purposes

I tell catechists to create a cell phone parking lot for students to place their silenced phones when they come into class. The only time they can be on there phones is if they are being used for classroom purposes, such as, looking up a bible verse, information on saints, or using a QR code to do Stations of the Cross (resource from St. Mary's Press). It is hard to get them to disconnect, even for 60-75 minutes and keep them engaged. I figure if I let them use their devices occasionally, we have some middle ground. Anne Renkes


 * Student Permission and Agreement Guidelines: **