These are my notes from the MinistrySafe online training video for churches. This is a required training program our church has paid for all adult volunteers who work with children and youth to complete. My wife saw these trainers (who are lawyers in the Dallas area) present in person and helped bring this training program
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This afternoon I started a new eBook project using a collection of favorite Bible verses from the Friday morning men’s group at our church. The idea is pretty simple: Include verses from the NLT and MSG translations, complying with the copyright permissions for each provided on the YouVersion.com Bible website. Along with the verses, include
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We need to encourage more people to become “storychasers” modeling ethical, responsible, and constructive uses of social media technologies. Storychasers can and should utilize mobile videography tools and “quick edit” journalism platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and blogging websites to document causes and events in our communities. This post features some examples of this kind of
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Oklahoma has the highest incarceration rate for women in the United States. Of women in Oklahoma prisons, 85% are mothers or grandmothers. Oklahoma has the 4th highest incarceration rate for men in the United States, and many of these guys are dads also. 28,000 children in Oklahoma don’t have one of their parents at home
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Back in August of 2006 I created the blog “Eyes Right” as a Christian team blog where I (and others) could share posts related to Christianity and our walks of faith. Since that time, I’ve generally shared posts focused on religious, spiritual, and specifically Christian topics there rather than here on my main blog, “Moving
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This past weekend for the 5th grade Sunday school class I co-teach, I helped students create short (approximately 60 second) finger puppet skits which we videoed and posted online to our class blog. I’ve done this kind of project from time to time the past three years I’ve taught this class, and in this post
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At the encouragement of others in my church and Friday morning men’s group, I’ve started reading the “One Year Bible.” Rather than purchase this Bible version in paper form, however, I’ve started reading it for free on the YouVersion Bible iPad app. It is free and not only tracks your reading, but also lets you
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These are my notes from Bill Roberts’ presentation on Parenting and Family Life at the “Family Matters” class on 27 October 2010 at First Presbyterian Church in Edmond, Oklahoma. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Tonight we’re going to talk about parenting and generational differences, based on several books and some Internet resources
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These are my notes from Phyllis Van Hemert’s presentation about “Emotional Intelligence” on 6 Oct 2010 at the “Family Matters” class at 1st Presbyterian Church in Edmond, Oklahoma. Phyllis was the counselor at our kids’ elementary school in Edmond and is now a family and kids counselor in private practice. Recommended Reading: The Optimistic Child
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The power of video to inspire and move us in less than three minutes is amazing. This video by Nick Vujicic (“Are You Going To Finish Strong?) can help anyone get some perspective on their life and day, as well be inspired. According to the current English WikiPedia article for Nick: Nicholas James Vujicic (born
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Following up on my browser-based video editing experiments with Jaycut earlier in the week, this evening I used the website Stroome.com to edit a short, four minute video about an outreach project of our local church in Edmond, Oklahoma. Stroome uses the open source Kaltura video editor, and this was my first time to use
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This evening at our church’s annual congregational meeting, a leader of the mission committee stood up and talked about a recent trip he’d taken to Uganda. He commented that this time, he noticed more Muslim mosques in the towns they visited, and said this was evidence “the enemy is advancing.” I almost fell out of
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Last month fifth graders in the Sunday School class I teach at our church recorded both still images and video to create a “remix” of a music video by the group, “Go Fish.” To seek formal permission for this remixed version, I posted the video as a YouTube response to the original music video. I
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This podcast is a recording of an interview with Renee Damon, Jenny Moyano, Teri Jones, and Shelly Fryer on May 4, 2009. Participants discussed an innovative partnership involving the Oklahoma Autism Alliance, the Oklahoma Family Center for Autism, First Presbyterian Church of Edmond, and the Edmond Family Center for Autism. Parents of children diagnosed with
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Podcast314: An Innovative Partnership Supporting Families with Autistic Children in Central Oklahoma (Developing play skills, sharing resources, reducing isolation) [ 54:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2288)Well, this is a bummer. The Ning Terms of Service agreement explicitly prohibits anyone from creating any Ning social networking sites “targeted at children under the age of 13.” I was aware of COPPA and knew I’d have to get parent permission for students to participate in an online community I was creating for a
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I had a chance today to help build a Habitat for Humanity house in my city, Edmond, Oklahoma, for one of the families in our community. With temperatures in the afternoon reaching over 100 degrees, this was certainly an appreciation moment for my “normal” work routine in an air conditioned building! I posted about sixty
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In response to Kent Chesnut’s request for more information about how I’m integrating technology in lessons with our 5th grade Sunday School students at church this year, I recorded an hour-long podcast in the car and posted it to Eyes Right this evening.
A month ago I wrote about Alana Warfel and her Christian rock band “Hollow” in the blog post “Surprise, your preschool teacher is a rock star!” In that post I mentioned her band was looking forward to the GMA Music in the Rockies conference both for the learning experiences it would offer them as a
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I had some very interesting conversations with folks on the SuperShuttle ride from the airport to the hotel this afternoon/evening in Anaheim. The gentleman sitting next to me was a pastor from Louisiana, originally from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. When I asked him where in Vietnam he was from, he actually identified his city
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