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Digital Media and Ministry: New Tools for

Sharing FaithLA Congress 2017

CCharlotte McCorquodale, PhDMinistry Training Source

www.ministrytrainingsource.org

We will explore the following questions

today… Why are images and videos so

important to the learning process? What are the digital skills that

ministry leaders need today? How do we create, curate, and utilize

videos and images in our ministry?

“a picture tells a thousand words”

Hard Work

9-11Faith

Forgiveness

Compassion

Holidays

Terrorism

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

~ Albert Einstein

https://growingleaders.com/blog/why-is-teaching-with-images-so-effective-part-1/

How important have images been to mankind’s communication? What role have they played as cultures talk to one another?

And just how central will they be to our future, as information becomes ubiquitous yet ideas become more

complex?

Pictures & images are a timeless language...

According to Tim Elmore, “Since the turn of the 21st

century, significant progress has been made in our understanding of the

human brain. Neuroscientists’ research

helps us now recognize the role of the right and left hemisphere, how males

develop more slowly than females in adolescence,

the importance of the pre-frontal cortex, and what

causes us to both remember and forget

ideas.”

https://growingleaders.com/blog/why-is-teaching-with-images-so-effective-part-1/

Why is Teaching with Images so Effective?

The majority of people are visual learners.

Pictures stick.

Metaphors can provide a language for people.

Pictures can accelerate understanding.

Why are images

so powerful

?

Fostering visualization of any content (curricular or otherwise) by targeting

and using the occipital lobe as the central point of processing the

information is one of the strongest ways to help that material enter the

brain… and stay there even as external stimuli compete for attention.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gifted-ed-guru/201211/brain-basics-part-one-the-power-visualization

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Right Brain

• Sees big picture• Seeks/sees patterns• Creates metaphors• Is simultaneous

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Left Brain• Analysis• Classifies, names things• Generates theory• Number sequence• Sequential

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Words you have heard.

Sentences you have heard.

Images you have seen.

Images – 98%Words – 90%Sentences – 88%

(Shephard, 1967)

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words

images

Microsoft Study, 2015

12 sec

8.25 sec

Goldfish

Are you paying

attention?

When can we use videos or images in gathered

events? As an icebreaker

To connect to their experience To invite them to name their experience

To surprise and capture attention To tell a story

To summarize a main idea As part of prayer

http://roniloren.com/blog/2012/7/20/bloggers-beware-you-can-get-sued-for-using-pics-on-your-

blog.html

1. Search for photos that are approved for use.Creative Commons licensed pics -- You can search for photos that are free to use (with some restrictions) through Creative Commons. Usually this means you have to attribute the photo to the owner and link back to their site.

2. Wikimedia Commons offers free media files anyone can use. (Creative commons rules still apply.)

3. Buy a subscription to a stock photo site -- This can be pricey up front but then you have access all year. There are also sites that you can pay per pic. (Here is one example of a subscription service. Thanks to Janice Hardy for that suggestion.)

4. Use free stock photo sites.

Finding Images

Wikimedia Commons

morguefile.com (free)

STOCK UP (free)

stocksnap.io (free)

shutterstock.com (paid)

graphicstock.com (paid)

Take Your Own Photos or Ask Others for Theirs

Photo Tips• Lighting Tips: http

://www.thesitsgirls.com/photography/indoor-outdoor-lighting-photo-tips/

• Rule of Thirds:http://www.thesitsgirls.com/photography/rule-of-thirds/

• Telling a Story with Photos: http://www.thesitsgirls.com/photography/telling-a-story-with-photos/

http://www.thesitsgirls.com/photography-tips/

Over 500 free Use Photos https

://www.dropbox.com/sh/scxvjezbfvohjt6/AACeY68-t7VhyF5-Sl6LQsZwa?dl=

0

How have or could you use this video in ministry?

Using Videos in Ministry with Joe Weyers

Free Social Media Content https://goo.gl/c6JiRp

http://www.dreamgrow.com/video-marketing/

• Seven Deadly Sins of Camerawork: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-6tWTPTmcE

• Videography Tips: https://www.videomaker.com/tips-to-get-started

• 10 Tips to Make Home Videos Look Professional http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-simple-tips-to-record-great-looking-home-videos/

Video Tips

Content Curation

• Search

• Organize• Share

Creators vs. Curators

46% of adult internet users post original photos or videos online that they themselves have created. We call them creators.

41% of adult internet users take photos or videos that they have found online and repost them on sites designed for sharing images with many people. We call them curators32

%

CONTENT CURATION: Museum curator

CONTENT CURATION (Beth Kanter) is  the  process of sorting  through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and  organized way around a specific theme. Picking the best content that is important  and relevant to share with their community. http://www.bethkanter.org/content-curation-101/  

USING PINTEREST AND TWITTER http://www.pinterest.com/ (boards follow/create) https://twitter.com/ (#hashtags)

CONTENT CURATION Sources

DEVELOPING TRUSTED SOURCES (Organizations, Blogs, Publishers, Experts, & Collaborations) http://www.smp.org/resourcecenter/ http://www.catholic.org.nz/nzcbc/fx-landing.cfm?loadref=12 http://www.usccb.org/ http://www.loyolapress.com/# https://www.ted.com/talks/browse http://www.vcat.org/creed.html http://bustedhalo.com/ http://www.eformationvts.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Cu

rating-Faith-Formation-eFormation-2014.pdf

Resources for Lent

http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/lent-

videos.cfm

http://dynamiccatholic.com/bestlentever

/

"The digital world can be an environment rich in humanity; a network not of wires but

of people.”---Pope Francis

MESSAGE OF POPE FRANCIS FOR THE 48TH WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY

Communication at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/12/evolution-of-technology/

http://www.pewinternet.org/

Nearly nine-in-ten Americans today are online, up from about half in the early 2000s.

77%http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/12/evolution-of-technology/

#1

73%12%

#2

Nearly seven-in-ten Americans now use

social media.

#3

https://www.statista.com/statistics/255771/social-media-usage-during-everyday-activities-by-us-users

/

All Social Media Users

https://www.statista.com/statistics/255771/social-media-usage-during-everyday-activities-by-us-users

/

All Social Media Users

Social Media Activities Usage by Millennials

https://www.statista.com/statistics/510992/social-media-usage-during-everyday-activities-by-us-millennials

/

51%

#4

#5

44%

84%59%

All Teens 72%

http://mediashift.org/2011/10/learning-in-a-digital-age-teaching-a-different-kind-of-literacy277/

New Literacy Skills Needed

Those of us living in this digital age are required to learn, unlearn and learn again and again.

What is my password?I love my

MAC!Come

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What are the new digital technology skills needed by

ministry leaders?

Why, because they need us to!

https://www.pinterest.com/charmccor/best-practices-in-using-social-media-for-ministry/

Memes

http://memecrusher.com/how-to-make-a-meme-go-viral/

http://www.memecreator.com/create

Project YM

http://click.projectym.com/thrive-big-conversation?__s=axtwfh1appyiousvvkb9

Are we all visual learners?

Caption This Icebreaker or Faith Sharing…..

This is making my head hurt!

http://www.cymsource.org/resources/technology/guidelines.htm

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