Giving up Social Media for Lent? Think Again…

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Something that I get very frustrated in seeing are people saying that they are going to give up Facebook/Twitter, etc. for Lent. Vicky Beeching has written a post today in which she summarises well why so many are doing this: The ethos surrounding these sort of statements are ‘I’m fed up with being so distracted’ or, ‘this [...]

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#DigiLit: Social Media & The Teenage Brain #SMWLdn

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Over this past week there’s been a number of free events held in London, focused upon Social Media. The video above was screened on LiveStream, and has been recorded for later access, focused upon engaging with teenagers (but also includes a lot of helpful general information).  

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Require Transcription for #BigRead12 videos?

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If you require audio transcription for the videos featuring Tom Wright, YouTube has this capability built in (although it appears to struggle with the word ecumenical!). Select your video, and they should be auto-set to play the transcription (in English), which is machine created text (excellent for us, as we don’t have the resource to [...]

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Blogging about #BigRead12?

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Need a downloadable version of this – go to 12Baskets. Are you a blogger? Are you going to be blogging about #BigRead12, daily, weekly, random comments… We’re interested in any of it. We’re on the lookout for mentions, conversations, etc. but we really want a ‘distributed effort’ conversation to get under way. We’d love it [...]

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Over the limit #digidisciple (@revmegangray)

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First of all, let me just go ahead and tell you how very uncool I am in the eyes of my parishioners. The fact is that I do not have unlimited text messaging (gasp!). And “How is that possible?” they ask. “How do you talk to people?” I have 250 text messages per month on [...]

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Slideshare: An Interest in Pinterest

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An Interest In Pinterest View more presentations from Stephen Davies See also this post by Holly Poulter, re the evangelistic potential of PinInterest.

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