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    December

    2011

    5 ways to help wean students from a cell phone addiction.

    (originally published on Oct 2, 2009 but revised and updated on December 2, 2011) I heard it said recently that cellphones have become the electronic pacifier of the 21st century. Wow! Yes…that is true.  We have students that cannot be without their cell phone. As a girls minister, we have seen this to be a

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    December

    2011

    DIGITAL Boundaries: how they help in loving your teenaged daughter

    Judges 17:6 This was before kings ruled Israel, so all the Israelites did whatever they thought was right . (originally published on January 7, 2011. Reposted with extra links) I was reading this passage today and recognized that for many of us, we know a “little princess” who lives this out on a day by

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    March

    2011

    Facebook Tutorial for parents in your ministry

    This week I was helping some friends out with their facebook profiles and teaching them some basics via a screencast. As I was walking through the process, I realized that this video might be helpful to student ministers who have parents unfamiliar with facebook or maybe it will save you a confusing conversation with your

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    March

    2011

    An inside look at a girls retreat online leaders meeting

    This year, I did something a little different with our leaders meeting before our girls retreat. I recorded it and sent out a password protected video link that had a biblestudy and schedule attached. It was well received as it allowed each leader the chance to “meet” with me on their own time. As there

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    February

    2011

    TECHTALK: Distance biblestudy

    This week has been a crazy one. Not only are we getting ready to have our girls retreat the week after we have our guys retreat, but we have to fit in 11 interviews for our summer interns in two weeks. On top of that we have a minister’s spiritual retreat and a discipleship retreat.

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    February

    2011

    How to digitally share your favorite resources through shelfari

    I’m sure it’s happened to you. It’s a Wednesday night, and a mom comes up to you wanting to know if you have a bible study for her daughter that you could recommend. Same day, (cuz you’re just really popular) a teenaged girl is wanting to find a resource to help her understand theology, and

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    January

    2011

    What if your Facebook account disappeared? What would you lose?

    Facebook has been a helpful tool in communicating with family, friends, students, and parents. Prior to facebook, it was extremely difficult to capture photos from participants of retreats or mission trips. In fact, often you would need to have a photo event to receive copies. You wouldn’t get your photos until days, weeks, months after

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    January

    2011

    GROUPME: a great way to communicate with teams of people via text

    One of the  things I have most enjoyed using in 2010 was this real-time group communications tool via my phone called GROUPME.  It’s free and it has been amazing with many different uses.  Our student ministry staff no longer uses text messaging as our means of communicating with each other because this has been so

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    March

    2010

    Tigertext: helping teens and adults cover their tracks

    This is a new app only available on iphones right now but it allows a person to erase texts you’ve sent on another person’s cell phone. Interestingly named Tigertext.  The company that released it promises that it was not named after Tiger Woods but ironically it would have been a program he would’ve benefitted from.  I

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    January

    2010

    web 2.0 suicide: are your students on the digital ledge?

    The term social suicide is one that has been around for awhile. I looked up the most popular definition on The Urban Dictionary and this is the one that rose to the top: SOCIAL SUICIDE: commiting an act or acts that alienates one from their social scene or social circle to kill one’s social life

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