How-To-Guides
These offer starting points, reflection questions, guides to creation tools for both novices and experts, and sometimes step-by-step instructions or process guidelines.
So part of our goal on this page is to save you time. We’ve culled through the best handbooks, how-to videos, and other guides to get your students up and running with new tools and new ways of ministering. Where they don’t exist, we’ve committed to creating them.
There’s a more important reason why this page exists, though. It’s because all of us bring to the work of creating something new a fear that we can’t do it. Our own experience of the inevitability of mistakes and frustration—plus the absolute necessity of a willingness to learn by doing—is why we were so excited that maintaining a posture of experimentation was one of the literacies our study participants identified.
ABOUT HOW-TO-GUIDES
If there’s one thing theological educators know about our students—and, if we’re honest, ourselves—it’s that it takes them and us time to learn new skills. And we realize your time is tight.So part of our goal on this page is to save you time. We’ve culled through the best handbooks, how-to videos, and other guides to get your students up and running with new tools and new ways of ministering. Where they don’t exist, we’ve committed to creating them.
There’s a more important reason why this page exists, though. It’s because all of us bring to the work of creating something new a fear that we can’t do it. Our own experience of the inevitability of mistakes and frustration—plus the absolute necessity of a willingness to learn by doing—is why we were so excited that maintaining a posture of experimentation was one of the literacies our study participants identified.
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How to Caption Videos
Got captions? It's easier than you may think. If you are creating your own digital content, like a
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Easy Video Creation Handout
As part of our pilot project implementing digital storytelling assignments in a biblical studies
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Crowdfunding for Congregations and Nonprofits
This guidebook by Adam J. Copeland introduces the concept of crowdfunding, explains trends in
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Digital Storytelling Process Walkthrough
Digital storytelling brings together words, pictures, and sounds in an online video or other digital
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How to Create a Google Earth Tour
This video tutorial and written documentation by Shamika Goddard demonstrates how to use Google
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In-Class Linking with Shorteners
It can be a hassle to enter a long URL into a browser, especially on a smartphone or tablet. A URL
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