Steve Bofsford, Sadlier Religion
Webinars for Summer Catechist Enrichment
321 Liftoff: Interactive Ideas for Supercharged Catechesis
Steve Bofsford, Sadlier Religion Digital Disciples Week is October 15-19
Want to learn more and feel confident using digital tools in Faith Formation? Summer sessions are available that will provide you with an online learning community to learn and practice new digital tools. Key components of the program include:
DDBC website Don't Give Up Anything for Lent
Using Digital Media in Family Faith Formation Identify who before how when using digital media in family faith formation by Lori Dahlhoff, EdD
Did you know that Pope Francis has set a global campaign on migration? "Share the Journey" is a two year campaign that began on September 27, 2017 initiated by Caritas Internationalis to build better awareness of those migrating and to "strengthen relationships with refugees and communities" (Vatican Radio, 09/25/2017). "Share the Journey" can be implemented in many ways at various grade levels and in the family. Here are a few ways to "share the journey" with current tools. Your students can be DIGITAL DISCIPLES!!! 1. Do you remember making posters in school and teachers would hang them in the hallway? After a few weeks the edges became worn, the same people walked by without noticing the posters and after being graded and taken home most ended up in the trash. Today, we have tools to make digital posters. Digital posters have a permanency that keeps them fresh and re-usable, they can be posted on various social media to reach more people and the work will never end up in the trash...which provides a really important message - this work was valuable!
2. Facebook Message Posts. Again, this can be created first as a traditional paper artwork. Provide students with a 4x4' paper and create a "facebook" post to promote "share the journey", scriptural references, prayers for refugees, etc. Create a Facebook Wall in your classroom....but take it to the next level....post them on your parish facebook page! Images can be uploaded and posted. Digital Facebook posts can be created on Canva. 3. Digital Storytelling. Telling a story or developing a theme with Images, narratives, music as a short video can be very powerful and very rewarding for students to create. There are many digital tools and various ways to produce a digital story, but it all starts with a theme, research and planning. Tools to use can include prezi, animoto, adobe spark, we-video, youtube, imovie and so many others! 4. #sharethejourney Tweets Not all of your students have Twitter accounts, but what a great way to start teaching how to tweet as a digital disciple!
Resources for the classroom: For more information on digital tools for the classroom, contact the Office of Faith Formation.
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