Digital Discipleship

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Digital Discipleship is brought to you through the gracious sponsorship of the

Albany Diocese for the 2011 Annual Spring Enrichment Conference

Your Presenter is: Dr. Caroline Cerveny, SSJ-TOSF, President and Founder of

INTERACTIVE CONNECTIONS a ministry for faith-based educational technology.

Email: c.cerveny@verizon.net BLOG: http://acyberpilgrim.org

SKYPE: caroline.cerveny Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ccerveny

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ccerveny Mobile: 727-744-4684

©2010, Interactive Connections

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents......................................................................................................................................................3

Today's Agenda.........................................................................................................................................................4

New Technologies, New Relationships....................................................................................................................5

National Educational Technology Standards - http://www.iste.org.........................................................................6

Students........................................................................................................................................................6

Teachers.......................................................................................................................................................7

Administrators.............................................................................................................................................8

Research and Information Fluency..................................................................................................................... .....9

Communication and Collaboration: Which Tools?...............................................................................................10

Creativity and Innovation......................................................................................................................................11

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making..................................................................................12

Additional Resources.............................................................................................................................................14

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Today's Agenda

1. New Technologies, New Relationships. Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship

2. ISTE Standards - A Direction

a. Creativity and Innovation

b. Communication and Collaboration

c. Research and Information Fluency

d. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

e. Digital Citizenship

f. Technology Operations and Concepts (Not really our concern)

3. Research and Information Fluency

a. How do we determine good websites?

b. Choose Current and Good Theology!

4. Communication and Collaboration

a. Social Bookmarking

i. http://delicious.com

ii. http://www.diigo.com

b. Example (Digital Catechesis): http://www.delicious.com/ccerveny/DigitalCatechesis

c. Example (Digital Catechesis) - Class Networking

d. And other tools...

e. Faith Based Projects - http://issuu.com/cyberpilgrim/docs/white_paper_faith-

based_projects_21st_century_comm

5. Creativity and Innovation

a. Digital Storytelling

6. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

a. Best Practices

b. Comparative Religions

c. Web 2.0 Projects

Pg. 24 - Glogster Project

Pg. 65 - Live Blogging

Pg. 66 - First Person Summary

Pg. 70-71 - The Great Debate of 2008

Pg. 72-73 - Take 2 Videos

d. Web 2.0 - Tips and Ideas

7. Additional Resources

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MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI

FOR THE 43rd WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY "New Technologies, New Relationships.

Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship." [Sunday, 24 May 2009 ]

Young people, in particular, have grasped the enormous capacity of the new media to foster connectedness, communication and understanding between individuals and communities, and they are turning to them as means of communicating with existing friends, of meeting new friends, of forming communities and networks, of seeking information and news, and of sharing their ideas and opinions. Many benefits flow from this new culture of communication: families are able to maintain contact across great distances; students and researchers have more immediate and easier access to documents, sources and scientific discoveries, hence they can work collaboratively from different locations; moreover, the interactive nature of many of the new media facilitates more dynamic forms of learning and communication, thereby contributing to social progress.

In the light of the biblical message, it should be seen primarily as a reflection of our participation in the communicative and unifying Love of God, who desires to make of all humanity one family. When we find ourselves drawn towards other people, when we want to know more about them and make ourselves known to them, we are responding to God’s call - a call that is imprinted in our nature as beings created in the image and likeness of God, the God of communication and communion.

. . . reflecting on the significance of the new technologies, it is important to focus not just on their undoubted capacity to foster contact between people, but on the quality of the content that is put into circulation using these means. I would encourage all people of good will who are active in the emerging environment of digital communication to commit themselves to promoting a culture of respect, dialogue and friendship.

If the new technologies are to serve the good of individuals and of society, all users will avoid the sharing of words and images that are degrading of human beings, that promote hatred and intolerance, that debase the goodness and intimacy of human sexuality or that exploit the weak and vulnerable.

The new technologies have also opened the way for dialogue between people from different countries, cultures and religions.

The new digital arena, the so-called cyberspace, allows them to encounter and to know each other’s traditions and values. Such encounters, if they are to be fruitful, require honest and appropriate forms of expression together with attentive and respectful listening.

. . . it is gratifying to note the emergence of new digital networks that seek to promote human solidarity, peace and justice, human rights and respect for human life and the good of creation. These networks can facilitate forms of co-operation between people from different geographical and cultural contexts that enable them to deepen their common humanity and their sense of shared responsibility for the good of all.

It falls, in particular, to young people, who have an almost spontaneous affinity for the new means of communication, to take on the responsibility for the evangelization of this "digital continent". Be sure to announce the Gospel to your contemporaries with enthusiasm. You know their fears and their hopes, their aspirations and their disappointments: the greatest gift you can give to them is to share with them the "Good News" of a God who became man, who suffered, died and rose again to save all people. Human hearts are yearning for a world where love endures, where gifts are shared, where unity is built, where freedom finds meaning in truth, and where identity is found in respectful communion. Our faith can respond to these expectations: may you become its heralds!

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http://www.iste.org

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Research and Information Fluency

Follow the listed steps in determine if a website is credible, reliable, and non-biased and

represents good Theology.

Step 1: Choose your a search engine (Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo, etc.)

Use a search engine to locate potential website resources.

Choose your keywords carefully – Too broad will hinder your search – For example:

Hinduism is too broad, but Hinduism dietary practices will net you a better focus.

You may start with wikipedia to get a feel for the information, but this may only be a

starting point.

Please note that the tops hits in Google are often the top hits because they pay to be in

Indexes that Google favors as being reputable. This doesn’t mean they are the right

sources for you!

Take a look at Google Scholar. Please use at least one source from Google Scholar for

your project.

Focus on sites that are .edu , .gov , .net, and .org

Step 2: Evaluation

Evaluate each site.

Determine the author or sponsor of the site.

Determine the validity of each site.

a. Focus on the need to evaluate the .org sites for validity. Sometimes these sites

have covert propaganda messages. This is especially true when dealing with

religions.

Be sure to include divergent perspectives on your topic. http://procon.org is a good

example of this.

What is the theological perspective? Pre-Vatican II, Vatican II, or Post Vatican II?

Step 3: Primary/Secondary?

Determine if your site is a primary source or a secondary source.

It is necessary to include at least three primary sources in your research.

Step 4: Double-Check!

Check the stated information in each site against the information contained in other

sites.

Note any discrepancies.

Find a third site to corroborate the information.

Step 5: Citations

Ensure your gathered research is properly cited (Note the Library’s Citation Guide)

Ensure your gathered research is appropriately summarized to prevent accidental

plagiarism.

Note: Adapted from "How To Research Guide" by Dayna Laur. -

http://laurprofessional.wikispaces.com/Capstone+Course+Project

Additional Resources: November, Alan. Web Literacy for Educators. Corwin Press

(2008).

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Communication and Collaboration: Which Tools?

Social Bookmarking - Delicious (http://www.delicious.com) or Diigo

(http://www.diigo.com )

Blogging - Blogger (http://www.blogger.com), Class Blogmeister

(http://classblogmeister.com ), or Edublogs (http://edublogs.org ).

Locating Blogs with search engines strictly in locating information on blogs:

blogsearch.google (http://blogsearch.google.com ), Yahoo! Blog Search

(http://www.ysearchblog.com ), IceRocket (http://www.icerocket.com),

SamePoint (http://www.icerocket.com), and Technorati*

(http://technorati.com).

Wikis - Pbwiki (http://www.pbwiki.com), Wikispaces

(http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers), or Wetpaint -

http://www.wetpaintcentral.com .

File Sharing - Google Docs (http://docs.google.com) and Dropbox

(http://www.dropbox.com).

Presentation Tools - Slideshare (www.slideshare.net), Zoho

(http://www.zohoshow.com), Google Docs - Presentations

(http://docs.google.com)

PhotoSharing - Flickr (http://www.flickr.com ), Webshots

(http://www.webshots.com), Viewbook (Fee) (http://www.viewbook.com ),

Shutterfly (http://picasa.google.com), Snapfish (http://www.snapfish.com).

PhotoEditing - Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/)

Video - Animoto (http://www.animoto.com), YouTube

(http://www.youtube.com), God Tube (http://www.godtube.com ), Vimeo

(http://www.vimeo.com), Teacher Tube (http://www.teachertube.com), Google

Vidoes (http://video.google.com), Easy Worship (fee)

(http://www.easyworship.com ) - great to use for examples.

Mapping - Google Earth (http://earth.google.com)

Comic Strip Generators - MakeBeliefsComix

(http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/), Kerpoof (http://www.kerpoof.com/),

Comiqs (http://comiqs.com/), Toonlet (http://toonlet.com/), Toondoo

(http://www.toondoo.com).

Video Phone/Conference - SKYPE (http://www.skype.com), ooVoo

(http://www.oovoo.com), MS Live Meeting (http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/live-meeting)

Collaborative Tools - SPRUZ (http://www.spruz.com), or NING

(http://www.ning.com)

Faith Based Projects Global Church Project - http://issuu.com/cyberpilgrim/docs/white_paper_faith-

based_projects_21st_century_comm also see pgs 10-11 of IC Newsletter

(http://issuu.com/cyberpilgrim/docs/ic_april_2010_no_1)

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Creativity and Innovation

http://www.learnactivity.com/ds

Dr. Daniel Churchill's materials. You will find the resources for the Digital

Storytelling in the Classroom and Beyond workshop. Outline, PPT Presentation,

Tutorial and Media. http://www.learnactivity.com/ds/ (Note: Dr. Churchill refers to

MS Photostory. It seems that with Vista and MS 7, PhotoStory is integrated into MS

Movie Maker. Photostory is not available for Vista, and probably the same for MS 7.)

Proclaiming the Good News: Storytelling over the Internet -

http://www.slideshare.net/ccerveny/evangelizing-through-digital-storytelling

Creative Commons Copyright - http://techlearning.com/article/23558 and

http://creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons Images - http://search.creativecommons.org/ (This will lead you to

an icon to locate images, and more)

Creative Commons Music - http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos

Web 2.0 Tools for Digital Storytelling

1. Animoto - http://www.animoto.com

2. Scrapblog - http://www.scrapblog.com

3. VoiceThread - http://voicethread.com

4. Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net (Create a PPT first, then add music and

or audio to the PPT, then upload to Slideshare)

5. PhotoPeach - http://photopeach.com

6. Meemov - http://memoov.com

7. Glogster Edu - http://edu.glogster.com

More about Digital Storytelling - Over 75 links related to this topic, see -

http://www.delicious.com/ccerveny/DigitalStoryTelling?page=1

LAB ACTIVITY (1 Hour) - Work in small teams (2, 3, 4 < 4 is the largest>)

1. Choose a topic

2. Choose a tool (#'s 1 - 6 above, Animoto etc.)

3. Create a storyboard

4. Choose creative commons images or create your own (cell phone camera's)

5. Choose creative commons music

6. Create the product

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Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

The creative teaching we do today with the tools that we have in hand, will be a

pioneering effort of all of us! - Cerveny

The Springboard! Education Technology, in general is over 30+ years old!

Best Practices:

Comparative Religions -

http://laurprofessional.wikispaces.com/Capstone+Course+Project

The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects, by Terry Freedman. This booklet may be downloaded free of charge from Uhttp://www.ictineducation.orgUH. or you may also locate it at - http://issuu.com/cyberpilgrim/docs/amazing_20web_projects_2010

Pg. 24 - Glogster Project

Pg. 65 - Live Blogging

Pg. 66 - First Person Summary

Pg. 70-71 - The Great Debate of 2008

Pg. 72-73 - Take 2 Videos

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Web 2.0 in Education ( LightSpeed Whitepaper) - pg. 8-9

Tips and Ideas 1. To jumpstart Web 2.0 activity in your school, model the behavior. Subscribe to

educational blogs; start your own; create a public profile for a group or network that is

important to you and that you’d like to share information within.

2. Have every teacher in the school begin the school year with a blog entry and a

comment on someone else’s—and find ways to reward frequent participation.

3. Keep teachers, administrators, and students involved in the process. Explain to them

WHY efforts are being made to integrate Web 2.0 and encourage them to provide

4. feedback.

5. Have upper grades create presentation to share with younger classes, presenting rules

and safety information about communication online.

6. Find technology advocates in other departments to help evangelize your plans.

7. Update Acceptable Use Policy with information about sharing personal information

online, cyberbullying, positive communication, and more. Have all network users

read and sign the policy annually.

Lightspeed Systems Web 2.0 in Education: Bringing the New Face of the Internet Safely into Schools.

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Additional Resources

Bell, Ann. Exploring Web 2.0: Second Generation Interactive Tools - Blogs,

Podcasts, Wikis, Networking, Virtual Worlds and More. Katy Crossing

Press, 2009.

Cerveny, Caroline. (White Paper). Faith Based Projects: 21st Century

Communication and Collaboration -

http://issuu.com/cyberpilgrim/docs/white_paper_faith-

based_projects_21st_century_comm - April 2010.

Frazel, Midge. Digital Storytelling: Guide for Educators. International

Society for Technology and Education (ISTE), 2010.

GoToWeb20 - Online tools and applications (Web Applications Index) -

http://www.go2web20.net/

Kist, Kylene. The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New

Media Age. Corwin, 2010.

Kolbe, Liz. Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education.

International Society for Technology and Education (ISTE), 2008.

Shamburg, Christopher. Student-Powered Podcasting: Teaching for 21st-

Century Literacy. International Society for Technology and Education (ISTE),

2009.

Solomon, Gwen. Web 2.0 new tools, new schools. International Society for

Technology and Education (ISTE), 2007.

Zandt, Deanna. Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social

Networking. Berret-Koehler, Publishers, 2010.