Communication

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Communication media From theory to
application Using media Part 2
of 3

• Catholic Distance Learning
• Network August 2007

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Media at the Parish Level

• The average Catholic consumes media in exactly
  the same way as the average American.
• Average Catholic
• Average American

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Media at the Parish Level

• Web presence

• A parish website is essential in
• keeping the parish community
• informed and unified. View
• different website tools at sites
• such as
• http//www.catholicweb.com/ezweb_site_builder
  .cfm
• http//www.digitalims.com/
• http//www.1and1.com
• http//www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp

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Whats the goal of your website?

• Activity Explore sample websites in class.
• http//www.americancatholic.org/e-News/WebCa
  tholic/SiteOfMonth.asp
• Ask the students to list the potential
• goals of a parish website. Are these
• goals satisfied in the websites listed?
• What benefits might the individual
• features of the websites have for
• parishioners or the parish in general?
• Goal of the Activity Students begin thinking
• about what might be appropriate and
• necessary on their own parish websites.

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While were on the web

• Blogging
• An example of a parish blog
• http//stjamescatholic.typepad.com/
• Activity Discuss the benefits and the
  downside of blogging for a priest. What other
  types of blogs would be helpful for a parish?
  What would be their goal?

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Taking the website another step

• Podcasting
• Examples of parish podcasts
  http//home.comcast.net/wholtzinger/podcasts.html
  
• http//www.live365.com/stations/sfcr?site
• More about podcasts and podcasting
• http//podcasts.yahoo.com/start?i2

Activity Discuss reasons why a podcast or
audio on a website could be beneficial to the
ministry of a parish or priest.
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Beyond the parish Catholic media

• Market parish podcasts or blogs locally or
  nationally or create a blog or podcast for
  distribution
• Examples
• http//owloftheremove.blogspot.com/
• http//ragemonkey.blogspot.com/
• http//www.sqpn.com/scripts/catholicinsider.p
  hp
• http//youtube.com/watch?vxClzn0rG-Ks
• Produce an independent
• radio or TV program
• Be a guest on a program

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Media testing the waters

• Activity Have the students create a blog,
  radio, television and/or internet program.
• Here are a few examples
• The Seminarians, from the Josephinum
• click here
• Gift Mystery, from the Seminary of Our
• lady of Providence
• http//www.catholicpriest.com/media.htm
• Roman Catholic Blog
  http//romancatholicblog.typepad.com/roman_catholi
  c_blog/2007/03/matt_c_abbott_o.html

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Resources

• Audio
• Audacity - http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
  
• Total Recorder - http//www.totalrecorder.co
  m/
• Garage Band for Macs (not free but a great
  
• program)
• http//www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/
• Video
• Avid -
• http//www.avid.com/products/freedv/index.asp
• Motionbox - http//www.motionbox.com

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Participating in secular media

• Opportunities exist in secular media
• For example
• Commentary
• http//www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286153,
  00.html
• Internet -
• http//www.current.tv/community/people/
  fatherjeffrey
• http//xianz.com/watch/search_result.ph
  p?search_idpriest

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Final Thoughts

• How can you cross-reference your subject matter
  with media and communication?
• What tools/resources do you have at hand?
• What is your budget for being able to incorporate
  media into your classroom?
• What resources can be utilized from outside the
  seminary to teach the basics of media?