Raising Faithful Children
The web has proven to be an enormous resource for sharing materials! I can’t keep up with all of the wonderful things available, but I can at least point to some of my favorites.
These are resources I use in various workshops I present on raising faith-full children in media cultures.
Great things to read
- Real Kids, Real Faith
- Welcoming Children
- Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out
- Kids, Parents and Power Struggles
- It’s Not the Media
- Imagining Faith with Kids
- Confronting the Challenges
- Digital and Media Literacy
- Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies
Children’s literature
Web explanations via video
- Information revolution
- Social media in plain English
- Social Media statistics
- Changing and learning
- An introduction to YouTube
- RSS in plain English
Creation tools and organizations
- wordpress (blog)
- posterous (blog)
- MyPopStudio
- animoto
- TVbyGirls
- Center for Digital Storytelling .
Simple living web resources
- The Story of Stuff
- Wikipedia definition
- Voluntary simplicity
- Downshifting
- SimpleLiving.org
- Simplicity resources
- Web of Creation
- Quotations on consumerism
- Practicing Our Faith
Spirituality resources more generally
- Creighton’s link list
- PracticingOurFaith
- Christ in the Desert monastery
- Faces of Faith project
- Common Good radio for kids
- Vibrant Faith Ministries
- Lifelong Faith
Curriculum resources
- Media literacy in faith communities
- National Association for Media Literacy Education
- Simplify the holidays
- Living sustainably
- Stuff (for K-12 schools)
- Rethinking the American Dream
Handouts
- MN media arts standards
- MN arts standards more generally
- WACC No Nonsense Guides
- Rule of 3’s exercise
- media mapping exercise
- media reality exercise
- NAMLE Core principles of media literacy
- news diet handout
Organizations
- Internet Safety Technical Task Force
- Digital Media and Learning
- Nat’l Assoc. of Catechetical Media Profs.
- Pauline Center for Media Studies
- World Assoc. for Christian Communication
- New Media Literacies
- Center for a New American Dream
- Bread for the World
- EarthMinistry
- Heifer Project International
- So We Might See
- Childhood Studies and Religion
Presentations
- Parish Nurses
- All Saints (Minnetonka)
- Food, film and fables (FirstThird)
- ECLC (Edina)
- ConNEXT (Buffalo)
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