Today we’re wrapping up our series on engaging students through technology.  Here are two more ways students are using technology to impact their world.   • Mobilization – Due to globalization, students are more compelled to work with God to fight world hunger, child soliders, and to help provide clean water. Students of the next generation are longing for energizing visions worthy of pursuit and sacrifice. Technology has...

We’ve been talking about how the next generation views technology and how it’s changing youth ministry culture today.  Whether you’re a youth leader or a parent of a youth, understanding how technology works and how students view it today is important  because it’s how they communicate.  if you want to communicate and I mean really communicate with students today you must understand technology.   • Contact...

First of all, I have a positive view of technology usage in youth ministry. But I am reminded technology means something totally different for the next generation. Technology to a teen is not just a tool but a way of life. Technology should play vital roles in how youth pastors do youth ministry in the online world. The Barna Group conducted a research study, How Technology Drives Generation Gap, and concluded: Younger adults rely on...

Found this video via Churchcrunch.com.  It’s a great reminder to think big. Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo. How do you think technology will insect with faith in 10 years, 50 years, 100 years? Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upShare via MySpaceshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend...

So I keep hearing about the social media revolution.  Get in now while it’s hot… Then I hear it’s all hype… why Twitter will die and people will go back to good old face to face interaction. I think there are some great arguments on both sides.  I’m just wondering what the users are thinking.  If you’re a social media user it’s your turn to weigh in.  Give me your thoughts on social media, your...

Give it up for the people at Google, they continue to innovate.  Here is one of the newest thoughts out of Google.  Google wave. THE GOOGLE WAVE Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is equal parts conversation and document.People can...