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ESSAY DUE DATE: December 13, 2016
Write a 500-word essay summarizing your DDBC experience and how you plan to apply what you learned to your ministry. Demonstrate how you have applied your understanding of ISTE's Standards for Teachers or Administrators and applied them to a faith learning environment. Include reference to relevant research about technology and learning, especially as applied to faith settings, if appropriate. Please see the rubrics for more complete information.

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Starting the classes in DDBC was difficult for me at first time. Was difficult for me to understand some technological concepts, completely everything was new for me, especially because English is not my first language. Starting to take each class of each module was easier. Now I can say that I can use several social media like as: wordpress, animoto, wikispaces, Facebook, twitter, and others. Those web pages that have tutorial were more useful for me, such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiaT4bR3xGA&t=2154s, https://animoto.com/create# that were the ones that I used more. I liked wordpress, animoto and facebook, wix to use in the ministry, they were very useful for me to use them in my ministry and to share them with other catechetical leaders. I plan to apply what I learned in the ministry of catechesis in any opportunity that I have. It is important that in our ministry with catechetical leaders and catechists, me and them use technology, today it is important, this means to have better communication with the people that we work, it is effective. Most of the catechetical leaders and catechists have smartphones, have a loptap or ipod and it may be easier to reach the people that they and I serve.

I understanding a little bit more tsocial media and now applied the of ISTE Standars, firstly to be able to add information to the Oficial facebook page of the office, I motivated catechetical leader and catechists to follow us on Facebook, guide them to search and download information from our official office web page. The official web page of the office was not used before, but now the people look the web page for information. Being creative when using facebook, designed videos in animoto, using wordcloud in our flyers, and most important as a leader feel confident that I am able to use technology.

I am very excited to have learned to use these resources and to be able to put them into practice in my ministry and in my personal life. Everything was new from facebook, twitter, animoto, wordpress that are the ones that I am using and putting into practice. I am also guiding and motivating the directors and coordinators of the ministry of catechesis to use them in their parishes to have a better communication with the community that is part of their ministries. I can’t believe that I learn a lot.

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