Ten+Great+Ideas+for+Your+Catechetical+Classroom+Using+Web+2.0+Tools

Click here to read the inspiring ideas posted in the Question box during our webinar.
Assignment #1 What is Unique About Web 2.0 Tools?

Assignment #2 Embedding and Tagging in Digital Catechesis

Assignment #3 What Tools Might You Use in Your Ministry and How?

Assignment #4 Ten Tools Survey

== Note to all DDBC participants. We have left the contributions of previous class participants for you to see. There are some great tools here. When you are ready to embed your example, please add it anywhere on the page. There is a note about embedding Vimeo videos in red below. ==

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**Annimoto** []

Animoto offers a free 30 second video tool, with options to upgrade to longer videos with a paid account. This is a great tool for students who are just starting to discover the fun of digital storytelling. Animoto also allows you to insert digital video clips, and they offer a good selection of legal background music. This Animoto video was created with an upgraded account.

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**[|Tagxedo.com]**

Like Wordle, Tagxedo allows you to paste in any words, apply shape, color, font and orientation, and then creates a word cloud for you. Here's an example of a word cloud using the words from an article about parish twinning. The words used most frequently are the largest words. Can you guess the name of the person featured in this article?



Image Chef []

Another online tool that offers all kinds of creative items that can be embedded in your wiki, Image Chef allows you to create word mosaics (word clouds), mini slideshows, photo frams and a sketchpad. Here's a word mosaic using the text of John 3:16. Note that this is an ad-supported site and you must be 13 or older to sign up.



My impression is that it is a virtual classroom, where quizzes can be taken, assignments can be delivered and graded, links can take students to a variety of learning sites, videos, etc. outside the classroom. Below, I have pasted an Edmodo tutorial.
 * Edmodo** is a free social learning Web 2.0 tool that you can sign up for at Edmodo.

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YouTube example
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Prezi is a way to make your presentations more interesting, and it is free to use.

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== (Note: If you are trying to embed a Vimeo video you may run into difficulties. The problem with embedding a Vimeo video is related to the Internet browser you are using. When accessing wikispaces from Firefox, there was no problem embedding the HTML code. I was not able to embed using IE, however. Live and learn! If participants have problems embedding video, try using a different browser. - Claudia) ==

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[] Barbara, this is a great Sliderocket presentation. Thanks for sharing! I hope all the participants take a look. - CM Like that a couple of tools were used in the presentation itself; yet presentation was clean and simple - Susie

Pat Ruthemeyer: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/B8Gjxh3dTl0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> This is an 18 minute Youtube video on the parts of the Mass suitable for adults in RCIA

Kathleen Kirkpatrick http://msk2012.edu.glogster.com/coming-home/

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Amy Acker Mobley Edge Registration Form from google drive

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also an Animoto I made for an upcoming prayer service

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http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/7418082/Qualities_of_a_Catholic_Catechist
 * Laura Sams**-Used a wordle similar to this as the cover to our Catechist packet for our "Kick-off" meeting. We also used it as part of our powerpoint to describe "What is a Catechist?"

Go Animate! is a do-it-yourself animated video website. Enables anyone to create videos quickly and easily, then share them with the world. You can sit down at your computer and produce a professional-looking video from scratch - within minutes - without having to draw or operate a camera. There are three versions, 1) For fun, 2) For Schools, [|http://goanimate4schools.com] and 3) For Businesses. The school version provides a private & secure environment.
 * Cara Stolarczyk:** **Go Animate!** []

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Ed Reising: Celebrating ministry at St. Joseph using Tagxedo http://www.tagxedo.com/image/9b477239c5074526

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Huzzaz is a new site (still in private beta although you can request an invitation) for organizing and sharing collections of educational videos. It's a bit like EduClipper or Pinterest, but it has some unique features that could make it a fantastic discussion tool too.

The basic purpose of Huzzaz is to help you create and organize collections of videos. In your account you can make as many thematic collections as you like. To add a video from YouTube or Vimeo to your collections you can search within Huzzaz, use the Huzzaz browser bookmarklet, or copy and paste video URLs into your collections. Once you have some videos in a collection you can organize them by simply dragging and dropping them into a sequence. Your collections can be shared with others. Likewise, you can share individual videos.

__When you share an individual video from a Huzzaz collection you can host real-time discussions about it.__ To do this simply click the "comments" icon while the video is playing to open a live chat box. (Anne Marie Prangley) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">REDDIT.COM .... the front page of the internet. It is moderated (but can contain some offensive material). But for sheer size, readability, sharing, collaborating .... it's exhilarating, but highly addictive. You can determine your ow subReddits and subscribe via RSS feed to get only the information you want.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">See for yourself the sub-Reddit discussion on educational technology: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">http://www.reddit.com/r/teaching/comments/11fsxy/best_educational_technology_website_app_etc/

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Brief explanation of Reddit on YouTube

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Over the past 15 months, reddit has tripled in size. Since last May, it has grown from 7 million monthly unique visitors to 21.5 million. Pageviews have exploded 4x to a staggering 1.6 billion pages served per month. Think about those numbers ....

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Teresa Phillips I just love the Animoto. I'm very excited for it's potential and if embedding it in FB and my website is as easy as doing so on the DC - NING site, I'm excited. I'm embedding the one i made for module 4 here. media type="custom" key="23739970"

Holy cow! It worked. :)
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The online quizzes, exams and surveys available from Google forms will be extremely helpful. Love them. Also LOVE Animoto too!! Susan McGurgan

http://deanna19.edu.glogster.com/confirmation-retreat I made a mash up on Glogster of a few components of our retreat.**Deanna Bartalini**

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This was our Faith Formation online registration form; I am still learning.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EYEp4-vPyjXNQsLxnIXuftWur2PvfnPoUxq7MJLabOU/viewform

Joan Fye

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This will be a great tool for the teachers as well as fun for the students. PollEverywhere is easy and since we do not have all the computers we would like, it uses there phones which most junior high studens have. Can't wait to try it this year! Terri Kerley

My contribution to Slide Share [|Books of the Bible] Kim Adamson

[|Biblical Village Evaluation Survery] After a huge outdoor event, we embedded this Survey Monkey survey into our parish webpage to elicit comments. Most of them were even positive! Terri Moser

__Tutorial on using Padlet.com (formerly Wallwisher) by Adam Billow__--an easy-to-use tool for multi-media instant collaboration that works on mobile devices, offers controlled degrees of privacy, and is embeddable. I'm in the process of using it to construct a //**Bulletin Board for Parents**// page for our Faith Formation program website and am delighted with the results so far. Claire Hamilton media type="custom" key="23808830" width="265" height="167" align="left"

Bob Wurzelbacher I am working on deciding between Google Forms and another tool called ClassMarker to upgrade our online training system. Here is ClassMarker: media type="custom" key="23816746" width="482" height="482"

Mary Pat Austing
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Patti Kamper - I created an online form in Google Drive for my home school families so that I can track their progress. This is the pre-test and there will be four additional tests for each unit. [|Good News Pre-Test] Fr. Joe A pod cast using SoundCloud.

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ME Singer-a simple example of what the RCIA participants might create.

[|Jan V LPMP Glog]

I found this really cool tool called Voki. You can make Jesus talk! Make your own characters and make them talk www.voki.com. You can record your own audio, enter text and choose a voice to read it, edit premade characters, create lessons, and post your finished products to your website, blog, Facebook, and more. Here's a sample I did of Jesus and one of his most famous quotes. @http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=8604349&height=267&width=200 (Sarah P.)

The most helpful tool I have found is called Signup Genius. It is fabulous to use when organizing anything! I created a mock sign-up for leaders of RCIA dismissal here []. You can also use it to sign up for potlucks, adoration, babysitting, etc. Love love love this tool! Loretta Nazario

Recently I've been turned on to Pinterest which is similar to Delicious except more visual - you can bookmark websites to explore later. Pinterest allows you to categorize them easily. Here is a link to my Pinterest Faith Formation board: [|Tara's Faith Formation Pinterest page]

Susan Bellotti Laudate is a Catholic App with outstanding features. It has Daily Mass Readings, Order of Mass, Liturgy of Hours, New American Bible, Rosary and Latin Rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mercy (on Rosary screen), Seven Sorrows Rosary, Chaplet of St. Michael, Stations of the Cross, Saint of the Day, Catechism of Catholic Church, Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession), Daily Examination of Conscience, various prayers and prayers in Latin with English translation. Podcast for Rosary and Stations. Daily Meditations. Podcasts of Daily Readings and meditations. Ability to bookmark prayers and create own categorized prayers. []

Barb Blanco Recently a student made me aware of a confession app. Since most everyone has a smartphone these days, I find this to be a useful tool for those wishing to have something on hand for a guided examination of conscience, associated prayers and the order of Reconciliation. The use of paper or prayer-books is becoming a thing of the past. This is a 24/7 accessible tool and since most of us don't forget our phones at home, there's no excuse for not having what you need to make a good confession. At the very least there's one less excuse. media type="custom" key="24537318"