Media Monday seeks to propose ways in which campus ministry professionals might use technology in their ministry and to start discussions about the challenges these technologies pose. My name is Katie Byrnes and I am in my seventh year as an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University (GO BULLDOGS!). Please email me if you have suggestions of things I should include or questions!
The beginning of a new semester brings lots of enthusiasm and new ideas. It also brings a whole new crew of frosh who need lots of attention. As we being a new semester I would like to direct your attention to an awesome resource from our friends at Busted Halo! The Freshman Survival Guide – now in its sixth year – is a fantastic resource for just about any campus. It can be downloaded as a one page PDF and is also a great introduction to this Paulist sponsored website that offers students some great resources on life as a Catholic. hhttp://www.bustedhalo.com/freshmansurvivalguide. Enjoy the new semester with your new (and returning) students!
Katie Byrnes is an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University.
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The authors of the blog are taking a break for the summer and will return at the end of August.
Looking for a summer challenge? Busted Halo is asking folks to take their busted halos with them on the road and send back pictures! Check out their website at www.bustedhalo.com for info on how to submit and print your own busted halo!
Today we have (another) super cool gadget from Google featured recently in The Chronicle of Higher Education - Google Voice. When you sign up for the service, you will be able to get your voice mail sent to your email, send free text messages, and read voicemail transcriptions, rather than listening to messages (especially handy while in meetings)! Currently the service is only available (for free!) to students and those with a .edu email! To sign up, submit your email address and a Google Voice invite will arrive in your inbox within 24 hours.You can even check out their video on the service at youtube.com/googlevoice.
According to the Google blog, this new feature “is currently only available by invite, a lot of students are still listening to voicemail and sending text messages the old-fashioned way. As a recent college graduate, I can’t think of anything more painful! So starting today, we’ll be giving priority Google Voice invites to students. To get an invite, just visit google.com/voice/students and enter an email address that that ends in .edu.
Those without can try here where I heard they can also be secured https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googlevoiceinvite/ !
Kathleen A. Byrnes is an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University.
Welcome to Media Monday! A few weeks ago I wrote about a documentary film we hosted a screening of and got a bunch of emails so I thought I would send you some more music resources.
Though Lady Gaga (raised Catholic!) did not make the list when the winners of the 2010 DOVE Awards were announced last week, there were some great artists. The website features clips of the nominees performing, video clips for a few of the performances and a list of winners (current and past)! Check out www.doveawards.com.
This was the 41 year of awarding the genre of Christian Gospel Music and it featured some great music - go to the site and see for yourself!
Kathleen Byrnes is an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University.
Welcome to Media Monday and to the beginning of the end of the semester! Here at Yale we have begun “Reading Week”, the week of study (and revelry) between the end of classes and the beginning of exams. We have also begun the series of send off events for seniors and graduate students that carries us through the end of May.
We have begun adding to each of these send off events a book where they can add their contact information and an invitation to stay in touch through mail, email and Facebook. Rather than being put off by another potential solicitation, the seniors have embrace the opportunity to become casual observers in the community they once called home. Status updates, newsletters (virtual and paper) and regular emails have begun to knit a new kind of community for us.
How have you kept in contact with your seniors? SHARE BELOW!
Katie Byrnes is an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University.
Welcome to Media Monday!
During Holy Week we hosted a screening of a new documentary entitled, “A Village Called Versailles”. The film features a parish community in New Orleans post Katrina. It tells the story of how “a tight-knit group of Vietnamese Americans overcame obstacles to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, only to have their homes threatened by a new government-imposed toxic landfill. A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES is the empowering story of how the Versailles people, who have already suffered so much in their lifetime, turn a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance for a better future.”
We screened the film here with the director and prefaced it with a smaller discussion with students and the pastor. Fr. Vien was wonderful about articulating the journey of this community and their call to action on behalf of the homes and lives. The story touched many of the students who were a part of the event and has been a topic of conversation these last few weeks. If you are looking for ways to incorporate new media into your ministry consider hosting this film which will have its national television broadcast on PBS in May 2010. The website for the project can be found at http://avillagecalledversailles.com/.
Katie Byrnes is an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University.
As campus ministry professionals we face many challenges - sometimes even taking the forms of the plagues! But communication with our communities may be one of the most treacherous.
Faceboook, Twitter and MySpace before it, have changed the ways in which we keep track of our students. Giving us a unique insight into their lives and perhaps challenging us to be vigilant about that boundary between peer and minister.
A few weeks back I received a question about how we respond to posts students make that may seem to be more than just a rant. When do you contact students or their friends? How do you discern what is meant for you and what is meant for their “friends”. Post below and let us know how you maintain boundaries and stay present in this virtual world.
Katie Byrnes is an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University.
Welcome to Holy Week 2010! The authors of the CCMA Empowered blog are taking a well deserved week off to plan, prepare and celebrate these three most sacred days. While they are away enjoy this fantastic new look into the Sistine Chapel from the Vatican! http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
Katie Byrnes is an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University.
Looking for a way to incorporate art into your prayer life or the lives of your students? Check out Perfect Intimacy at http://www.lilialmog.com/New_Site/Perfect_Intimacy.html. What you will find is a photo exhibition by artist Lili Almog featuring a series of photos taken at three Carmelite monasteries over two years. The images will inspire you and give you a unique window into the lives of these extraordinary women. An artist whose body of work has focused several times on the private lives of women, makes these Carmelite communities a focus in a new way. The communities - Mt. Carmel in Haifa, one in Bethlehem and one in Port Tobacco, MD allow her an unusual amount of access considering the Carmelite started as hermits!
Katie Byrnes is an Assistant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel Center at Yale University.
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