Claudia+Social+Networking+Assignment+4

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 posted a link to the facebook group pages with the USCCB Social Media Guidelines - You can also go to the following : http://usccb.org/about/communications/social-media-guidelines.cfm - Linda Anderson

A link from John Lay's comments on Parish Communities and Scripture reflection (in Digital Catechesis) led me to another link for a great site offering Sunday Scripture Reflections and Commentary that I thought some others may be interested in [|Happy Reflecting] **__ [] __ - **Mary Smith

I found a link to the Forming Intentional Disciples Forum. It is a closed community. You simply request access just as you would for the DDBC favebook group. Here is the link [] -Jose Amaya

Reading Fr. Rolheiser's article regarding [|real freedom]is motivating. Check it out. - Dolly Vail
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 Found a site on social justice - an open page where the monitor just had to establish protocols and expectations for the group. Interesting to find this after just finishing the USCCB Guidelines for Social Media. **__ [] __** Catholic Social Thought, Politics, and the Public Square KK Huey

I found a neat video on the Digital Catechesis site that helps us remember to be Proud we are Catholic - []. I think we need to be reminded why we are Catholic. - Kellie De Leo

Not sure this qualifies but I would like to invite you to check out something that I posted on my own FB the other day. https://www.facebook.com/maura.sweeney.12# While you will always find stuff that is goofy on my Face Book page too, every so often I try to include some thing to engage (especially my young nieces) my friends and family in thinking about the moral/spiritual implications of life. This link is to the beginning of a discussion on the immigration crisis we are facing along our boarders right now. - //M. L. Sweeney//

To Mary Sweeney - Thanks for the SLU link - I had forgotten about that site - used to be a favorite for me. - KK Huey

Barbara Flora - I have been following Thomas Reese's blog/column, [|__Faith and Justice__] for most of this summer mainly because of my interest in the hard issues concerning justice and peace. Being educated about the challenging events of the 21st Century help me live and teach differently. However, when I read Fr. Reese's conversation between a journalist and his confessor, I received a hearty laugh __and__ a sobering awakening of the massive problems our society faces because of our lack of concern for our neighbor. Read the following blog and a few of the many USCCB news releases that did not seem to get much coverage. You'll be well informed. [|__http://ncronline.org/blogs/faith-and-justice/journalists-confession__] A journalist's confession by Thomas Reese, S.J. August 15, 2014

This next post might belong somewhere else. I'm just leaving it here till I find out where it really goes. Barbara Flora - **__ [|Creation Swap /]http://www.creationswap.com __** This site offers a variety of church media which is freely shared or can be purchased for a minimum amount. A community of thousands of Christian photographers, videographers and other artists have created free resources for others to use. Among the types of resources easily searched are videos, photos, postcards, logos, church bulletins, sermon graphics. Having good visual resources as you create blogs, websites, wikispaces invites the eye to spend a few more mom

__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.====

The possibilities seem endless, but the time to do it is not. So as I try to focus in on what is doable at this time. I want to use a Facebook group with our youth and my catechists. (Aside: I already have a website and blog established thru another tool that I've used the past year or two with my catechists and parents. I will probably continue using this with a supplement of the new.) I will also invite my catechists to join the digital catechesis website for a resource. Linda Anderson

I agree with Linda...for me too, the devil seems to be time! My dream plan would be to have some social media platform to communicate with parents of students and provide continuing faith formation to them and the other adults of the parish. Right now I see myself being able to do so much more in terms of my own networking and professional development with the skills I am learning. I hope to be able to share this with my catechists and also to advocate for an increase in technology use in the parish as a whole. We are pretty low tech here at present. Mary Smith

My ministy is primarily with catechetical leaders in military settings. The Archdiocese already has facebook and and twitter accounts. I have to dicern with my colleagues whether or not the main Archdiocesan accounts will serve best to connect with leaders as we want to draw traffic to those accounts. I will need to have access to begin posting and connecting with leaders on catechetical matters. -José Amaya

I would like to use social networking as a tool to communicate with the adult catechists in my parish. I see social media as a way to share ideas, articles, prayers, etc. Teaching religion is so much easier when we don’t feel we are alone. When catechists fell supported and valued, the load is so much lighter and the obligation embraced with joy and anticipation. – Dolly Vail

Just had a disaster with my little wiki reply. Hit a key, don't know what and all my responses went away. Gone. had a full page of white. Thought I had killed the page for everyone. Whew. It is Kathy proof! Any way - this week I uploaded a wonderful bluesy ode to the Holy Spirit that I heard on my way to work Sunday. I received several likes and thanks from folks I rarely correspond with. Yeah! Didn't know they cared. I see this as a way to share not only formal information and formation material, but the joy of the informal as well. I may just call it the intentionally unintentional catechist corner. KKHuey

LOL! Kathy! That is one of the nice features about using wikispaces - pages can be restored once saved so don't worry if something gets deleted by accident. Jan Von Handorf

I can foresee many uses for these formats within my ministry from RCIA to Catechist Enrichment. But my real hope is to be able to find ways to continue the conversations begun when we are together. I am a DRE and the mom of a 12 year old. I am keenly aware of how difficult it can be for parents to make the time to tend to their own spiritual gardens even when it is a priority. Some days it is a miracle that they get their children here for class and attend Mass with them. I would love to create a forum where they can be both encouraged and challenged but not overwhelmed as they strive to foster their children's faith. I believe parents need to know that we are all in this together that none of us are perfect and that we all are on the journey towards God together. //M. L. Sweeney//

For me I will use several of these social media platforms with my ministry. I am hopping to have better communication with our parents and give them some information to help guide and form their own faith. To be able to provide spiritual nourishment for themselves, because they are so busy they often do not take time for themselves. I think Facebook may help with this. I also plan on using twitter to help foster better communications and catholic "news, or inspiration." I plan to use wiki spaces to have a catechist forum for my catechists to share lesson plans and ideas. Hopefully eventually set up training sessions that they can view if they miss a Catechist in-service. I am also thinking I can set up information on the wiki spaces for those few students I have home schooling for. - Kellie De Leo

Barbara Flora - Dreams are visions of the future with a foothold in the present. As a volunteer catechist, I hope to invite a few other catechists into the 2.0 world of learning. Finishing this class is first step. The second step is talking with my DRE to start a small group of 4-6 catechists who are willing to" go where they've never been before.", .Like Abraham, I need to step out of the ordinary, listen to God's voice, and be open to where I have never been before in order to create something new for myself, my colleagues and the students in my 7th grade Faith Formation class.

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