“Shortest Catechetical Media/Tech eLetter Ever” from NACMP Vol. 02 Issue 12

***Catholic "Why We Do...." of the Day (thank you S. Janet Schaeffler)
http://aquietmoment.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/sit-stand-kneel/ and
also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NFuu6W392k

***DVD suggestion for the day (thank you Ms. Tricia Tranel):
"I AM", @2010 by Twentieth Century Fox, for high school students who
continue to need formation in living out the Ten Commandments and are
well beyond simply trying to memorize and recite them, this DVD serves
as a wonderful discussion starter. Ten strangers entangle themselves
in the spider web that is life in Los Angeles today. Unknowingly, they
are living out the Ten Commandments one by one. As they struggle to
solve their problems themselves, things only get worse. Their problems
multiply, and spill over into the lives of so many others until they
surrender their lives to a mysterious stranger. This stranger is one
presence that never leaves; one who has no beginning or end; one lone
voice of love, reason, and compassion in the midst of lives on fire:
the great I AM. This is a gritty allegory about grace and redemption. http://www.foxconnect.com/i-am-dvd-widescreen.html
or http://www.foxconnect.com/faith/

***Tech tools to explore and "dream about using in faith formation" of
the day
Google tools you may or may not know about: http://www.googleartproject.com
, http://www.google.com/sky, http://www.google.com/moon, http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com
, http://www.google.com/squared, http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com.
Also, try Google forms for Faith Formation Registration! See http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151187
.

***Meditation video tools for the day
Here is a meditation video and links from the medical staff at Mayo
Clinic, http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/meditation/MM00623, and
resources and help from our British Jesuit friends at http://www.pray-as-you-go.org
. This simple Mayo video gives me ideas for creating prayer videos
with younger learners!

***PowerPoint on Steroids tool of the day
If you are tired of PowerPoint, check out http://prezi.com, hardly
linear!

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