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Assignment #4
Expected time to complete: 30-60 minutes

Read through pages 111 - 167 or browse the blog "From Toys to Tools." When you find a project that you feel you can adapt, then go to the wiki to briefly describe how you might adapt this project to your audience. Feel free to substitute use of a tablet or iPad instead of a cell phone.


 * ~ YOUR NAME ||~  ||~ YOUR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS ||
 * Example:Susan ||  || Twitter (pages 116-117). There are several ideas here that could be used with my RCIA candidates. I'll need to give this some thought. I'm wondering if after our class gathering, when the candidates are home, if they would "Tweet" a message to our group (using a hashtag) with a comment about what was most important to them in the session. Or, perhaps what they may still have a question about or ???. As I said, I need to give this some thought. ||
 * Kellie De Leo ||  || I spent time reviewing the ideas she had gone over in the book. In reality I think that the easiest in my setting would to have children using power point create a simple podcast as a review, rewriting a parable to modern life, review our sacraments etc. I would love it if we could have the children send a text when they spot a "God Sighting" in their everyday life. This one I would have to discern some more. I also liked the idea of parents receiving a text and seeing what the children are learning in class. ||

Jose Amaya I enjoyed reading the use of cell phones as camcorder. So many wonderful and creative ideas! I liked lesson 12 Scavenger Hunt. This lesson uses Flickr, Eyespot, Gabcast, and cell phones. I would adapt this project for confirmation retreat to engage confirmation candidates in appreciation of their sint name. Participants could google their preferred saint name to learn about the person and create a fun project on their saint name beyond the retreat premises. I also liked lesson 9 on PhotoMapping. This could be a nice project for any age group in a military setting religious education program to create a project on their faith journey as they move from installation to installation. It could use be adapted to talk about St. Paul's journeys or the jouney of Moses and the people of Israel to the promise land.

Linda Anderson I went to the lessons posted on the tools website. I believe I could adapt the lesson concept given by a math teacher for "storytelling" using yodio. Give each small group a location to visit, take pictures and add audio and present a little "did you know" feature to share of various important area churches. The various pieces could then be put together and presented as a pilgrimage for area Catholics? Then send a survey after for each person to name the location that most touched them and maybe a journal entry of why?

Barbara Flora

I am not going to reinvent the wheel since my answer to Module 6 Assignment included this next statement. I will introduce a basic netiquette video before the 7th grade Faith Formation class starts an Internet project gathering information about recently cannonized Saints. [|__http://www.brainpop.com/technology/computersandinternet/digitaletiquette/__] In the middle of the above page you can "Click here to play the movie" to check out its content. A quiz, vocabulary, matching and a graphic organizer will allow my 7th graders to interact with each other and verify their answers are correct. What was great about POLL EVERYWHERE is the ability to use tablets, labtops or cell phones enabling student all studnets to use technology in the religious ed classroom.

Mary Smith- Another idea, is an adaptation from the field trip reporting, can involve having the Confirmation candidates use they phones to do a video diary of their minister or service project or have them make an online scrapbook journal of their project with something like Smilebox.com or mixbook.com.