10+Great+Ideas+for+your+Catechetical+Classroom+Using+Web+2.0+Tools

**Ten Great Ideas for your Catechetical Classroom Using Web 2.0 Tools**

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

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**Slide** [|www.slide.com]

Slide.com allows you to easily use digital images that you have stored on your computer or on a photo sharing website to create a slideshow. Here's an example of a slideshow based on the NEW words of the Nicene Creed. How could you make this more collaborative? Ask your students to each contribute a photo that represents one line in the Creed.

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Webinars - Joe Paprocki does great webinars that provide incredible catechist formation. []

**Voicethread** []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Voicethread allows you to create a slideshow, but adds a level of collaboration to the finished product. You, your students or anyone in the world can contribute to a Voicethread by adding their voice narration for each digital image. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Take a look at this Voicethread about the traditions of First Holy Communion.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Annimoto** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">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. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">This Animoto video was created with an upgraded account. It shows some catechetic sessions for adults and older teens who have various special needs. The participants in this movie all signed a release agreeing to allow their images to be shown on the Internet.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Video Clips**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Here's an example of an embedded video clip from America Magazine, a Catholic weekly magazine

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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.

glogster I used glogster in a presentation to our faculty who supported me in a mission trip to teach English to a religious order of sisters in Vietnam. The second widget is my thank you. The first is some information on my trip to Vietnam. I did not know how to do voice over so I talked thorugh this part of the presentiaon as the movie slowly moved along.

Wordle I used Wordle to make this visual of one of my favorite passages in the Bible, Hebrews 11. []

I used Wordle with the Nicene Creed - Third Edition of the Roman Missal. Can you find the word "consubstantial"? Diane

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A co-worker attended Summercore technology training. This was her final project - an introduction to her class for students coming this fall. The tools she used is called Zooburst. She used the upgraded version. It is absolutely adorable, and anyone working with young students will appreciate how it will delight children!

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