When I found this clip about the 4th screen I had just heard about this guest post called “Is Twitter the New Town Square?” written by Gavin Richardson for the blog Life Without Pants. In his post he suggests that social media, like twitter, facebook, blogs etc can be the new town square.
In our [...]
Posts Tagged ‘technology’
The Fourth Screen- Can Social Media Bring us Back Together?
April 22nd, 2009
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The Blogs I’m Reading- Part 3
November 19th, 2008
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Over the past few weeks I have been sharing the blogs that I read on a regular basis. Here is the final installment. Read the first and second parts of this series. Also leave a comment and let me know what you are reading.
Techno Pastor
Tommy Bowman’s Worship Dependency
Twitip
United Methodist Reporter
U Preacher
Worship Guitar Guy
Worship is What?
Worship [...]
Simplify Media- You Gotta Try This!
October 10th, 2008
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Right now I sit in my office listening to an itunes playlist. The cool thing is that I created the songlist on my laptop this morning, and my laptop is still sitting at my house. Yesterday I was traveling and listening to a playlist of possible Christmas songs on my iphone, but the list is [...]
How Do you Lead and Play Drums
October 2nd, 2008
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Leading a youth band is hard. It’s even harder if you are having to lead from the drumset. My friend Jason Huffman who has guest posted here before is looking for some advice in this area. Check out his post and leave a comment.
Jason’s guest posts include
Buying a Drumset
Working with Drummers
Embracing Technology with Youth Bands
5 Reasons to consider a smaller worship space
September 17th, 2008
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This past week we have been hosting Ike evacuees in our youth center. We also had scheduled our youth worship service. Since our normal place was now living quarters for 112 of our guests, we had to look elsewhere for a place to hold our service. We ended up scaling down and moving the service [...]
Youth Worship Bands: Buying a Drumset
August 25th, 2008
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So, you are ready to invest in a drum set for the youth room because your drummer is tired of lugging all 48 pieces of his kit to the church every Wednesday night. This is a move I would recommend if your drummer is a consistent part of your youth program and if you foresee [...]
Media and Technology: My Favorite Internet Radio Station “Pandora”
August 15th, 2008
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I love listening to music almost constantly. It has been a challenge though to find a good mix of music that fit my taste. I could listen to the radio, usually tuning into “Air One” the only christian radio I get here in Texarkana, but I end up hearing the same songs over and over. [...]
Video Lesson: 4 Easy Chords
July 25th, 2008
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Last year I began a Tuesday night guitar class for some kids in my youth group who wanted to learn to play. Due to sheer time constraints, I had to discontinue my class. Some of the kids kept practicing while others lost the motivation they got from our weekly sessions. I recently [...]
“Embracing Technology in Working with Youth Bands”
July 21st, 2008
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One of the most difficult challenges in working with youth bands is dealing with students who are in the beginning phases of learning an instrument, particularly guitar or bass players. This can be frustrating for a youth worker/band leader who is an experienced player because you don’t want to spend a large portion of band [...]
Yesterday Today and Forever
June 21st, 2008
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I have a cell phone phone. Yep. My phone came out over a year ago and I paid a good bit of money for it. I recently got an email from AT&T that said I could trade my old outdated phone in for a new phone as long as I signed another contract and paid [...]
