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Tell us how you would use one of these tools in your ministry. Include your name next to your example.
Expected time to complete this assignment: 30 - 60 minutes

Example: Wordle As a team-building exercise, I would ask my youth ministers to each submit several words that they feel describe themselves. I would compile the words into a Wordle that would illustrate the combined gifts, talents and strengths of the team. (Claudia)

Delicious Dropbox SlideShare Wordle VoiceThread Skype GoogleForms Geocaching GoogleDocs Glogster

PLEASE POST YOUR EXAMPLE HERE: Sr. Sheila: I have two possibilities in mind how I might use some of these new media techniques for my ministires. I might experiment using a multi-media Glogster--perhaps incorporating a video, PowerPoint, VoiceThread, and/or Google.doc for team collaboration. For my Secular Franciscan group, I would do it on St. Francis, Patron of Ecology, stressing the link of his spirit with current ecological "green" trends....and/or... For the college students to whom I teach business and professional English, I could do a glogster on Business Ethics. Even though they belong to different or no religious denominations, business ethics is an important chapter in their text and a policy stressed by the university administration, especially since recent scandals such as Enron and Bernie Madoff, and those involving Wall Street and the banking industry.

Joanna Haston: I am going to start with either Dropbox or Google Docs to collaborate on liturgy planning. The diocesean MC = Master of Ceremonies and I are always going back and forth via e-mail and either of these will streamline our efforts dramatically! We have adult confirmations and ordinations to the diaconate and priesthood coming up, and using either of these will make our work so much more efficient.

This tool will help me organize research sources on my ministry topic: Silence as a pathway to God. I already have signed up for an account and started categories in Delicious on topics I am working on in my Technical Communication classes and with a writing project I am working on. I am loving the way I can see what other people collecting bookmarks on the same subject I am researching have collected. What a time-saver. **(Madeleine)**
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__Paul Jeffrey Thomas__- Wow, so many options! It's difficult to just pick one example to post. Let me first suggest **Wordle** as a simple and fun activity. I would use this to have learners pick out a favorite scripture passage, and then apply it to Wordle. Maybe this could a weekly activity to get them acclimated to exploring scripture. I also liked **Voice Thread** and thought it might be fun for learners to gather around and discuss a historical landmark of our faith tradition.

Lorraine S. DeLuca

 * I can see using Google Docs when working on Guidelines with members of a committee who are spread throughout the diocese to facilitate the work without having to meet face-to-face.**
 * I already use Dropbox to access material I am working on when I am away from the office.**
 * Google Forms can be a very easy ways for us to do the periodic surveys we do to learn the state of catechetical ministry in the parishes.**

Part 2 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Time to show off something you have done! Go to the Ten Great Ideas home page of our class wiki and add your own example of a great collaborative online tool. It can be one from our list, or one you have discovered on your own. We have added a few to get you started. You will have to use your skills at linking and/or embedding a widget to complete this assignment.