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I often will find an awesome YouTube video that I want to share in a class I am teaching…. but how do I get it downloaded?  Unless you are one of the lucky few, you don’t have an internet connection at church.  I hope this post will give you some ideas of things that have [...]

The Power of Web Publishing in Spiritual Education

Posted by: Jeff on: July 8, 2008

Gradually over the past 5 years the web and web published has changed dramatically.  It used to be that you had to be a super techie to publish anything on the web… now a days anyone can publish… anything… anywhere.  With tools like blogs, wiki’s, podcasts, video/photo sharing sites, social networks, and hundreds of software [...]

On the heels of yesterday’s post about older conference talk audio, I read this morning a post from LDSWeb guy that the Joseph Smith Manual has audio now for English, and has plans for 11 other languages. Awesome! This could be great for returned missionaries trying to keep up on their languages… or [...]

Missionaries E-mailing Weekly Reports

Posted by: Jeff on: April 10, 2008

So you remember those weekly reports you had to send to your mission-president while you were on a mission. You know… “I just love this area President, and my companion is awesome. We are doing just great… ” Yeah, I know that is exactly what they sounded like. Well apparently the [...]

Missionary Video

Posted by: Jeff on: March 6, 2008

Great video about Missionary work. Good to share with some friends about what I did/the missionaries do.

President Nelson Talks about JesusChrist.lds.org

Posted by: Jeff on: February 29, 2008

This is GREAT!  He talks a bit about why we should use the internet to preach the gospel and the awesome new JesusChrist.lds.org website.

Called to Blog!

Posted by: Jeff on: February 29, 2008

Okay, I admit I really like the title of this article, but it is a good article as well. This morning I read “Called to Blog: Fighting for the Church Online.” It deserves a read. A couple of excerpts:

An Orem woman posted a video of her testimony on YouTube. A man in another state [...]

Internet Mission Office System

Posted by: Jeff on: February 4, 2008

LDSTech posted a little article about a system they have been working on for a while for Mission Offices.  From their website:
“Internet Mission Office System (iMOS) is a Web application designed to
help mission office staff manage mission information and perform other
tasks.”
The main task pointed out is to visualize transfer scenario’s for the mission.  There is [...]

Technology Enables More Missionaries

Posted by: Jeff on: January 31, 2008

I was just finishing up the Ensign for this month (before the month is through) and came across this section about people using technology to serve more.
Using a Web-based telephone program, the missionaries, who can be located anywhere in the world as long as they have broadband Internet access, respond to as many as [...]

Using YouTube in the Church/Seminary Classes?

Posted by: Jeff on: January 24, 2008

As you have seen, I like YouTube video’s, There are a lot of great video’s out there and YouTube had a strict policy about content.  Well, some of these video’s would be useful and powerful in the classroom for either getting the attention of students, or allowing them to even create their own content. 
As [...]


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