After much pondering and prayer, I have decided that I would like to start working for the church in some sort of technology capacity.  I feel that the Lord has blessed me lots of idea’s and a passion for technology.  With that in mind, I am going to write a series of posts about using web technologies to augment spiritual education in CES (since that is where I hope to get a job).

At first, I started writing a long academic type essay… but then I thought to myself… this is so 1990’s… :).  Why not write it here on MormonTechie.com and harness the power of the internet by hyperlinking things I am writing about, posting pictures and video’s, encouraging comments from all those that read this, and generally using the tools I am writing about.  As we all know… our combined efforts can sometimes be so much more powerful than my thoughts alone.

With that in mind, I hope that my musings and pondering will paint a portrait of the potential of web technology to augment the amazing spiritual education that is going on right now in the church.   I am writing it mostly with CES in mind, but I hope teachers everywhere will gain some insight into tools that exist, tools that God has inspired men to create, that will help us get the Gospel into our own hearts, and the hearts of those we teach.

Part I: Why Technology is Important in Religious Education

  • Mission of the Church and Technology
  • Current Teaching Emphasis for CES

Part II: Web 2.0 and Spiritual Education (These posts will be based off of Steve Hargadon’s “Web 2.0 is the Future of Education,” but modified for Spiritual Education)

  • Digital Learner’s Today
  • Publishing Revolution (From Passive to Passionate Learning)( From Presentation to Participation)(From Publication to Conversation)
  • Tidal Wave of Information (From Learning about to Learning to Be)
  • Everything is Participative
  • The Power of Collaboration
  • Social Web

Part III: Tools – The applications that have the potential to change Education!

  • Video
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Communication
  • Social
  • Distance Ed
  • Mobile – Learning Everywhere

So that is it my very ROUGH draft… :)  What do you think?  What have I missed?

I have created a page on my site (linked at the top of each page) with a brief introduction and will hyperlink the articles there as I write them.   Wish me luck!  Oh, and if you know anyone over in CES, I would love for you to put in a good word for me! :)