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Digital Literacy Toolkit

Digital Literacy Toolkit

Lifelong Learning by VTS

  • Home
  • Context
    • New Ministry Context
    • New Media & Digital Literacy
    • Advocacy
    • Wider Conversations
  • Research
    • Four Domains of Practice
    • Impact
  • Literacies
    • Navigating Hybrid and Digital Cultures
    • Convening Hybrid and Digital Community
    • Maintaining a Posture of Experimentation
    • Cultivating a Spiritually Wise Digital Habitus
    • Creating and Curating Faith-Based Artifacts
    • Connecting Media Theory to Theological Reflection
    • Presenting Authentically and Pastorally Online
  • Resources
    • Assignments
    • Teaching Activities
    • How-To-Guides
  • Who We Are
  • Contact

Maintaining a Posture of Experimentation

Orientation that will allow ministers to explore new tools, try out strategies, and otherwise innovate (and simply keep up) in a fast-changing digital landscape. Evidence would include a comfort taking up novel practices and a willingness to learn from (and not to assiduously avoid) failure.

Maintaining a Posture of Experimentation

Jamie Coats

Research Interview Excerpts

What did the experts say?

“The literacy of the twenty-first century is the ability to learn, to unlearn, and to learn again.”

“I’m very, very [sic] about making mistakes, giving things a shot, learning from an experimental attitude. It may be a complete disaster, and I’ve told them that multiple times. ‘I’ve never done this. Who knows?’ [Use] the educational experience as an opportunity for wonder and experimentation or to just see what happens.”

“A lot of people get so scared about doing all of this stuff: because I just don’t know how, I’m going to make an ass of myself … That’s part of the fun. And you just go with it, and that should be somehow the comic relief part of the training … The biggest failings … are part of the learning process.”

REAL WORLD EXAMPLES


Digital Outreach at St. John’s / San Juan’

This presentation at e-Formation 2017 reports on a series of mostly digital experiments led by Lorenzo Lebrija at a struggling congregation in San Bernardino. His takeaway: try everything!
VISIT

Hybrid Faith Formation Cohorts

This second of three articles about the CMT@VTS’s experiment in online + in-person learning communities gives a sense of the excitement and messiness of developing new ministry models.
VISIT

EXPLORE RESOURCES FOR MAINTAINING


 

Digital Literacies for Ministry

Foundational Research Now Published

May 15, 2020

The research upon which this website is based now appears in multiple peer-reviewed journals!

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“Reassessing Embodiment” Amid Pandemic

April 22, 2020

Stacy and Kyle being present to their congregations during Covid-19 lockdown. Digital

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Why Ministry? Meme Assignment

September 2, 2019

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Crowdfunding for Congregations and Nonprofits

December 19, 2018

This guidebook by Adam J. Copeland introduces the concept of crowdfunding, explains trends in

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Digital Storytelling Process Walkthrough

December 19, 2018

Digital storytelling brings together words, pictures, and sounds in an online video or other digital

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Crowdfunding for a Cause

December 18, 2018

This crowdfunding assignment has been successfully launched by Adam Copeland in seminary classes

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Understanding Networked Religion

December 18, 2018

The ministry landscape facing church leaders today is profoundly shaped by new media ...

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Faculty Ed Tech Retreat

February 1, 2015

Kyle OliverStacy Williams-DuncanLisa

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