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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

How-To-Guides

These offer starting points, reflection questions, guides to creation tools for both novices and experts, and sometimes step-by-step instructions or process guidelines.

ABOUT HOW-TO-GUIDES

If there’s one thing theological educators know about our students—and, if we’re honest, ourselves—it’s that it takes them and us time to learn new skills. And we realize your time is tight.

So part of our goal on this page is to save you time. We’ve culled through the best handbooks, how-to videos, and other guides to get your students up and running with new tools and new ways of ministering. Where they don’t exist, we’ve committed to creating them.

There’s a more important reason why this page exists, though. It’s because all of us bring to the work of creating something new a fear that we can’t do it. Our own experience of the inevitability of mistakes and frustration—plus the absolute necessity of a willingness to learn by doing—is why we were so excited that maintaining a posture of experimentation was one of the literacies our study participants identified.

EXPLORE THE HOW-TO-GUIDES


How to Caption Videos

January 10, 2019

Got captions? It's easier than you may think. If you are creating your own digital content, like a

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Easy Video Creation Handout

December 19, 2018

As part of our pilot project implementing digital storytelling assignments in a biblical studies

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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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How to Create a Google Earth Tour

December 19, 2018

This video tutorial and written documentation by Shamika Goddard demonstrates how to use Google

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In-Class Linking with Shorteners

December 18, 2018

It can be a hassle to enter a long URL into a browser, especially on a smartphone or tablet. A URL

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