Spring Youth Ministers Gathering

Facebook, Twitter & YouTube – Oh My! 2.0

Cyber-Technology and Youth

Ministry – the discussion continues! *** By Special Request***

Cindee Case

Director, Diocese of Youngstown

Office of Youth & Young Adult Ministry

ccase@youngstowndiocese.org

Overview of our time today:

• Start with prayer » (continue without ceasing!)

• Identify our starting points

• Making a quick case for using technologies• A few cautions to take with us throughout the

technology journey• Glimpses of media available to us• Small Group Challenges• Q & A

Opening Prayer

One of the following YouTube videos

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqbrHRoCK5s

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKlCYFjeHEY&feature=fvw

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnJwwfCYDqw&feature=related

"I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world! Employ

these new technologies to make the Gospel known, so that the Good News

of God's infinite love for all people, will resound in new ways across our

increasingly technological world!“

-- Pope Benedict XVI, May 20, 2009 General Audience

Let’s see where we start…

Stand up if:-- you have ever used a computer

-- you have been on the internet

-- you have an email account

--have watched on online video clip, movie, YouTube file

Stand Up If…-- have a SNS account

--have a smart phone

--have tweeted

--uploaded a video to YouTube

-- read a blog/contributed or written a blog

--listened to a podcast/created a podcast

Pew Internet and American Life Project (April 2009) as mentioned in October YMG

• 93% of teens, ages 12 – 17 go online• 63% go online daily

– 89% of online teens go on from home• 66% households with teens have broadband

• 22% dial up

• 10% do not have internet access at home

– 77% go on from school– 71% go on from friends/relatives homes– 60% go on from a library

•37% U.S. teens access the Web over their phones (Nielson)

Kaiser study from January 2010• Looked at “M2” generation (ages 8 – 18)

• 84% had internet access

• 43% was high-speed

• 31% was wireless

• 36% had a computer in their bedroom

• 33% had computer with internet in the bedroom

• 29% had a laptop

Pew, continued

{only} 29% of teens spend time on a daily basis with friends in

person doing social activities outside of

school

Nielson study: How Teens Use Media, June 2009

The typical U. S. teen spends

11 hours and 32 minutes a month

on the Web

The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital

World: New Media at the Service of the Word 44th World Communications Day

“Church communities have always used the modern media for fostering communication, engagement with society, and, increasingly, for encouraging dialogue at a wider level. Yet the recent, explosive growth and greater social impact of these media make them all the more important for a fruitful priestly ministry.”

Cautions

• COPPA – Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 – one should not knowingly request or solicit personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.

Cautions, continued• Representing Church teachings

• Transparency

• Healthy boundaries (separate “personal” from “ministry” accounts; appropriate time for communications; groups vs. friends)

• Empower parents to monitor children’s use of technology

• Teach teens to be critical

“Pornography and Violence in the Communications Media” – Pontifical

Council for Social Communications, 2002

“Of particular value are programs in media education to develop in young people a

critical attitude and properly formed skills of discernment in using television, radio, and

other media, so that they might know how to resist manipulation, and how to avoid merely

passive listening and viewing habits.

What skills do teens need?

Regarding the internet:• 1. Identify what is appropriate and inappropriate communication in a public forum• 2. Realize that not all information is true; learn to

check multiple, credible resources• 3. Discern potential threats, and know how to

handle them (i.e. to whom to speak, add privacy setting, etc.)

Proposed Guidelines for use in Media for Teens:

• Respect

• Dialogue

• Friendship

(Taken from World Communications Day Message 43, 2009)

WebPages• What does your look like?

• What does your hope to accomplish?

• Is it Web 1.0 or 2.0?– 1.0 is primarily GIVING information– 2.0 involves ENGAGING people, be it in the

opportunity to comment on an article (a la most news stories online), a discussion board, survey, adding to an article (wiki), posting prayer intentions, adding pictures or videos

WebPages 2• BENEFITS:

– Publicly accessible – can reach a lot of people with just a little work!

– Can post multiple forms of information– Encourage stewardship of parishioners, including

youth, to work on aspects– Can be inexpensive and save parish money on

printing, mailing, etc. (forms can be imbedded or linked/PDF forms)

– Can link to other good pages, thus providing resources to parishioners

Webpages, 3• CAUTIONS:

– Permission to post pictures of minors– Privacy concerns (contact info, event details)– Need to keep it current/relevant

– Can be costly– Not everyone has internet availability– Need constant maintenance/work to keep it up

to date

A Few Good Websites:

• Disciples Now – Catholic www.DisciplesNow.com

• My Catholic Voice, as mentioned before, www.MyCatholicVoice.com

• Resources and readings on the U.S. Bishops site, www.usccb.org

Vatican site for youth www.Pope2You.net

Homepage of the Vatican's Web site for young people. (CNS/Vatican)

Some sites to consider

• Catholic Youth Ministry Blog. Written by D. Scott Miller from the archdiocese

of Baltimore, Scott posts news almost every

day of interest to folks who minister to

Catholic youth. http://www.dscottmiller.com/

Jesus Goes to Disney World. Written by Fr. Austin Murphy from the diocese of Baltimore. Father Austin takes pop

culture and theologizes it. http://jesusindisney.blogspot.com/

Email• BENEFITS

– Nearly free to send

and receive messages– Quicker than snail mail– Same information to multiple people– Receivers can reply– Saves paper

– Can use e-blast services, can track readership• Constant Contact• Virtual Reponses

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Email - CautionsNot as popular with teens as “older” folks

– –16% send email (Pew)

(may have to send a text message to alert them to read email!)

– Only ___ communication is written, so miss out on body language, tone, etc., so be aware

– Can become too dependent upon and assume all messages are received (things get lost in cyber-land!)

– Have to maintain up-to-date email address book– Not everyone has email access (and not all who do check

it regularly)– BCC so addresses not out

Blogs and podcasts• Together because only 14% of teens blog on a

regular basis (was 28% in 2006, but more on SNS), and 19% download podcasts

• POTENTIAL for both though to increase educational offerings in a non-gathered setting

• Web-based logs • One person can create for multiple persons usage

(great networking for catechists/ministers!)

Online photo albums

• Quick, easy, cheap

• Participants can add their own

• Parental permission, especially if place names with pictures (first and last initial may be preferred)

• Shutterfly, SnapFish, York, Kodak, etc.

VOIP

• Voice Over Internet Protocol• Skye is biggest for interaction,

thanks to Oprah• Might consider for discussion

with another youth ministry group or popular speaker, without all the costs of transportation

Wikis

• Can be a fun tool for discussions, as participants can add to the document.

• Wikipedia is most famous. Can be a great source of info to START research…. But since anyone can add to/edit/delete portions of wiki’s, information may not be correct (so cannot be only resource, as kids are tending to use it…)

A wiki to visit

• http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/

Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!)

• for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.

eBookshttp://books.google.com

has over 150,000 books in religion “section”

http://openlibrary.org

www.archive.orgOnline bibles, NAB at USCCB

Trending towards colleges using eReaders rather than print text books

eMusic

• iTunes – for Apple products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – has lectures, audio books, and videos in addition to music

• Legal downloads of music

• Uses in ministry – Anne Weeks

Virtual Worlds

• Not really needed for ministry, per se, but good to be aware of, and may have applications in the future (picture a simulation of you as a nun or priest?!?!)

YouTube• Right now, there is 20 hours of video uploaded

to this one site every hour!

• Need to help teens locate good videos… but we cannot avoid links to bad ones, so parents need to be aware

• Free for those with internet connection

• Includes visuals with sound (sensory)

• Vatican channel

• NCYC

YouTube Cautions

• Cannot “filter” out material

• Not all computers have the capabilities (so cannot mandate usage)

• Parental permissions needed

Twitter• Micro-blogging• 140 characters of less (not too deep)• Most teens NOT on at this point (8%, ages 12-17,

10% of ages 15-17)– look to see how it goes in your local area…. If on, ways to use:– Daily uplifting messages/scriptures

– Event reminders– Teasers to drive to your website/pages

http://www.tweetcatholic.com/

Social Networking Sites (SNS)

• Here to stay as continue to grow• Bebo, Friendster, MySpace (66% teens),

Facebook (71% under age 30), LinkedIn (7% teens, 14% adults)– “friends”– Chat– Games– quizzes

• Multiple platforms

SNS Benefits:• Popular with teens

– 71% of 7th – 12th graders have SNS profiles as saw 66% on MySpace

–42% of teens using Social Networking Sites send messages via Facebook and MySpace (Pew)

–26% send instant messages (i.e. “chat”)

• Can provide timely information• Can get RSVPs and feedback• Can hold online discussions• Programs have privacy settings (need to explore)

SNS Cautions:• Not all Privacy Settings are equal, or stagnant – FB has

changed twice this year already!• Public information is just that – open to anyone,

including predators• Not all parents monitor, or teens create “alternate”

personas• Cannot attach things like permission forms (so have to

link them back to parish webpage or to an email address to request those items, if they will)

• Being banned in some places/jobs/schools• Too friendly with friends – again, sep. account and use

groups (closed/invitation only to protect privacy, but invite parents of the teens to join!)

More from Nielson report:

“And teens look to their social networking for much more than gossip and photo-sharing: to teens, social networks are a key source of information and advice in a critical developmental period.

57% of teen social networkers say they looked to their online social network for advice.

(If we are not part of the network…)

Social Networks key to reaching young people, USCCB official

says

April 28, 2010

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1001780.htm

Helen Osman, secretary for communications at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told a Rome

conference April 27.

"We now have an opportunity to get the church's message and story directly to Catholics -- and others -- without having to negotiate the filters of mainstream media. We have the opportunity to connect with young adult and youth Catholics to create relationships that will last their entire lives,"

the relationships created in social media

are a series of overlapping networks • "The most successful approach by

organizations to social media environments seems be an emphasis on openness, transparency and a willingness to dialogue," she said.

• It costs the church nothing, for example, to have bloggers, Facebook fans and Twitter forward its digital messages throughout their social networks.

• young people today often use their Facebook community as their first reference point when doing research. If the church is not there, "it perpetuates for them the concept that the faith is not relevant to their daily lives," Osman said.

• Using Facebook groups – Bonnie Buzenski

• MyCatholicVoice.com

• YourSphere.com

• Flocknote – Maureen Hall

By no means are you limitedTo “Share” a recent article, I was given this list of

applications to which it could be shared:.netShoutout 100zakladok 2linkme A1 Webmarks‑ AdifniAero AIM Share Amazon Amen Me! AOL MailArto Ask Aviary Capture Baang BaiduBebo Bit.ly BizSugar Bleetbox BlinklistBlip Blogger Bloggy Blogmarks BlurpaliciousBobrdobr BonzoBox BookmarkingNet Bookmarky.cz BordomBox.net Brainify Bryderi.se BuddyMarks CamyooCare2 Cirip CiteULike ClassicalPlace ClickazooCndig Colivia.de Connotea COSMiQ DeliciousDesignBump Designmoo Digg Diggita DiglogDigo Diigo Dipdive DoMelhor DoowerDosti DotNetKicks Drimio Dropjack DzoneEdelight eKudos elefanta.pl eLert Gadget EmailEmbarkons euCliquei Evernote extraplay EzySpotFabulously40 Facebook Fark Farkinda FAVableFaves favlog Favorites Favoritus FlakerFloss.pro Fnews Folkd fooxweb forceindyaFresqui FriendFeed Friendster funP fwispGabbr Gacetilla Gamekicker GamesN GiveALinkGlobalGrind GluvSnap Gmail Google Google BuzzGoogle Reader Gravee GreaterDebater Grono.net GrumperHaber.gen.tr Hacker News Hadash Hot Hatena HazarkorHedgehogs HelloTxt HEMiDEMi Hipstr HitmarksHot Bookmark Hotklix Hotmail HOTweb.lt HTML ValidatorHyves Identi.ca iGoogle ihavegot InformazioneInstapaper InvestorLinks iSociety Iwiw JamespotJisko Jumptags Kaboodle Kaevur KiRTSYKledy koornk Kudos Laaikit Ladenzeile

Librerio Link Ninja Link-a-Gogo LinkedIn LinkShares

Linkuj.cz Live Livefavoris LiveJournal Lynki

Mawindo Meccho meinVZ Memori.ru Menéame

Mindbodygreen Mister Wong Mixx Moemesto.ru Multiply

myAOL Mylinkvault MySpace N4G NetLog

Netvibes Netvouz NewsTrust Newsvine Nujij

OKNOtizie Oneview Orkut Osmosus Oyyla

PDF Online PhoneFavs PimpThisBlog Ping.fm Planypus

Plaxo Plurk Polladium PopEdition Posteezy

Posterous Prati.ba Print PrintFriendly Propeller

Pusha Quantcast Read It Later Reddit Scoop.at

Segnalo Sekoman Shaveh She Told Me Simpy

Slashdot Smak News SMI SodaHead Sonico

Speedtile Sphinn Spoken To You sportpost springpad

Spruzer Squidoo Startaid Startlap StoryFollower

Strands studiVZ Stuffpit StumbleUpon Stumpedia

Stylehive Surfpeople Svejo Symbaloo Tagvn

Tagza Technorati TellMyPolitician ThisNext Tip'd

Transferr Translate Tulinq Tumblr Tusul

TweetMeme Twitter Typepad Viadeo Virb

VisitezMonSite Vyoom Webnews Whois LookupWindy Citizen

WireFan WordPress Worio Wovre Wykop

Xanga Y! Bookmarks Y! Buzz Y! Mail Yammer

Yardbarker Yazzem Yigg Yoolink

Yorumcuyum Youbookmarks YouMob

ZooLoo

Cell phones

• Calls, texts, camera, web access• 66% of 8 – 18 year olds have a cell phone

(Kaiser), 75% of teens (Pew 2010). 58% of 12 year olds (Pew 2010)

• •Teenagers daily communications occurs in the following ways:

• –51% of teens with cell phones talk on them

• –38% sent text messages (Kaiser said 46%)• –32% talk to friends on a landline phone (Pew)

• •84% of U.S. mobile teens use text-messaging,

• 56% use MMS/picture messaging

• send/receive ave. 96 per day (Nielson 09)– Kaiser 2010 says 118 average number of texts– Average of 2 hours and 33 minutes spent texting

a day

• •37% U.S. teens access the Web over their phones (Nielson)

Vatican using technology• Website, www.vatican.va adding more and more

resources

• BXVI sent text messages to WYD 2008 participants in Australia each day

• Vatican channel on YouTube (since Nov. 2005)– http://www.youtube.com/vatican

USCCB using technology• Facebook group for USCCB Publishing

• USCCB daily scripture quote on Twitter/texting

• More and more on website (daily readings, seasonal information, articles, news, access to some publications, etc.

NFCYM using technology• Public website as well as intranet for

business of the Federation

• Collaborating with MyCatholicVoice.com on conference information, song downloads, handouts, videos, etc.

• Facebook group for NACYML , NCYOS, NCCGSCF, NCCYM, and NCYC http://www.facebook.com/ncyc2009?v=info&viewas=1077556239

• Online sales

Facebook Groups in DOY

• Youngstown Youth Ministers• DOY-YAM (Diocese of Youngstown Young Adult

Ministry)

• DYC’10 (Diocesan Youth Convention 2010)

• Catholic Parents on Facebook• Really need some help form parents on here

• Vocations for the Youngstown Diocese

• We love Bishop George V. Murry, S.J.-Bishop of Youngstown (for fun, after Feb. PMM)

How can it help us meet the three goals of comprehensive youth

ministry?

• #1: To empower young people to live as disciples of Jesus Christ in our world today

#2: To draw young people to responsible participation in the life, mission and work of the Catholic faith community?

• #3: To foster the total personal and spiritual growth of each young person.

Connecting to 8 Components• Advocacy• Catechesis• Community Life• Evangelization • (and what can this look like in the digital age?)

• Justice and Service• Prayer and Worship• Pastoral Care• Leadership Development

Small Group Work • Each group will have 15 minutes to work on

your task… then we will present them to the larger group. Trade slips if you must.

• Group one – How do we teach teens to protect their privacy and be smart about using technology?

• Group two – How do we encourage/work with parents to monitor their children’s use of technology?

Small Group Work, part 2

• Group three – How can we use media to help promote Gospel values at a gathered event?

• Group four – How can we promote Gospel values as a parish in a non-gathered way?

• Group five – Prepare a closing prayer for today utilizing some of the technology discussed today!

Small Groups to Large Group

• 1. teens to protect their privacy

• 2. parents to monitor

• 3. use media at a gathered event

• 4. non-gathered use for media and the Gospel

• Group 5 will lead out Closing prayer later!

I dreamed a dream…

• That each parish, Catholic high school and Catholic organization would have a Communications Committee that oversees

all forms of media and technology, and has both teens and young adults on it, and an adult that works with the younger Church…. Think of the possibilities!

Related topics for more learning• Cyber-bullying and sexting

– Teenage Research Unlimited study “Tech Abuse in Teen Relationships Study” states that “one in five teens have been asked to engage in an unwanted sexual activity by cell phone or over the internet.”

• Media literacy– Need to look for positive and negative in advertizements, on

TV, in movies, as well as all the technology we discussed today

• Porn– ProtectKids.com reports that the age group that most

frequently views Internet porn is ages 12 - 17

For your own development

• Online courses– 6 free theology courses from Univ. Notre Dame

at http://ocw.nd.edu– Boston College has one at

www.bc.edu/sites/c21online

• Support for your ministry

• Online Catholic papers, magazines, podcasts, etc.

Studies cited:

• Kaiser Study on Generation M2 (ages 8 – 18), January 2010

• Nielson study: How Teens Use Media, June 2009

• Pew Internet and American Life Project, April 2009

• Pew Social Media and Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults, January 2010

Questions???

• What one thing might you do after this discussion?

• What might you suggest to the Diocesan Child Protection Policy committee, who will be meeting next week, in regards to parental permissions for texting, social networking, etc?

• Closing Prayer with Group 5