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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.


 * ~ 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... ||

Kellie De Leo I could adapt a couple of them. The Murmur project for my 8th graders when we focus on our parish. I could see using the Exit Ticket Assessment for 6th -8th grade or using Socratic as a way to engage the children in the evenings them and check how much they understood. I could even see using Exit Ticket and Socratic for 4 & 5th graders.

= Linda Anderson- = = I went to toys for tools website and browsed- I found one ideas submitted by a teacher for reporting a field trip. = = I believe this could be adapted for a "field trip" to the cathedral for our diocese. Narrating what they saw and heard and what they liked. =


 * Jarrod Robinson || Australia || 7-12 || Environmental Studies || A digital record of student trip to the Grampians National Park in 2008 || [|http://utterli.com] || Outside ||  || [] ||

Jose Amaya

I liked the idea of polling students to get instant real time feedback on a lesson using any of their devices. I think this is great tool not only for in classroom setting but also for conferences, catechist trainings and retreats and also for parent meetings. It could be used to ask parents to tell us what they topics they are interested to learn more about. I slo like ClassCharts (allows to track students progress) and ClassWith.Us to enhance parent-teacher/catechist communication. These tools could work very well with populations dispersed around the globe and also in territorial mission dioceses.
 * Polling students || [] || Inside ||  || [] ||

Barbara Flora I agree with what Jose said about polling. I like the simplicity of polling students. 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. My intent is to use POLL EVERYWHERE with cell phones or laptops as an opportunity to have students use technology in my classroom.

Mary Smith-

I can see adapting the scavenger hurt idea to have the students take cell phone pictures of as many devotional items as they can find around their home. 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.