2011 Youth Ministers Gathering on using online tools for our ministries with young people -- ideas, cautions, and possibilities!

1. Spring Youth Ministers Gathering
Facebook, Twitter & YouTube –
Oh My! 2.0
Cyber-Technology and Youth
Ministry – the discussion continues!
*** By Special Request***
Cindee Case
Director, Diocese of Youngstown
Office of Youth & Young Adult Ministry
ccase@youngstowndiocese.org

2. Overview of our time today:
• Start with prayer
» (continue without ceasing!)
• Identify our starting points
• Making a quick case for using technologies
• A few cautions to take with us throughout the
technology journey
• Glimpses of media available to us
• Small Group Challenges
• Q&A

3. Opening Prayer
One of the following YouTube videos
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=hqbrHRoCK5s
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=kKlCYFjeHEY&feature=fvw
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=XnJwwfCYDqw&feature=related

5. "I appeal to you: bear witness to your
faith through the digital world! Employ
these new technologies to make the
Gospel known, so that the Good News
of God's infinite love for all people, will
resound in new ways across our
increasingly technological world!“
-- Pope Benedict XVI, May 20, 2009 General Audience

6. Let’s see where we start…
Stand up if:
-- you have ever used a computer
-- you have been on the internet
-- you have an email account
--have watched on online video clip,
movie, YouTube file

7. Stand Up If…
-- have a SNS account
--have a smart phone
--have tweeted
--uploaded a video to YouTube
-- read a blog/contributed or written a blog
--listened to a podcast/created a podcast

8. Pew Internet and American Life Project
(April 2009) as mentioned in October YMG
• 93% of teens, ages 12 – 17 go online
• 63% go online daily
– 89% of online teens go on from home
• 66% households with teens have broadband
• 22% dial up
• 10% do not have internet access at home
– 77% go on from school
– 71% go on from friends/relatives homes
– 60% go on from a library
•37% U.S. teens access the Web over their phones
(Nielson)

9. Kaiser study from January 2010
• Looked at “M2” generation (ages 8 – 18)
• 84% had internet access
• 43% was high-speed
• 31% was wireless
• 36% had a computer in their bedroom
• 33% had computer with internet in the bedroom
• 29% had a laptop

10. Pew, continued
{only} 29% of
teens spend time
on a daily basis
with friends in
person doing social
activities outside of
school

11. Nielson study: How Teens Use
Media, June 2009
The typical U. S. teen spends
11 hours and 32 minutes
a month
on the Web

12. The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital
World: New Media at the Service of the Word
44th World Communications Day
“Church communities have always used
the modern media for fostering
communication, engagement with
society, and, increasingly, for
encouraging dialogue at a wider level.
Yet the recent, explosive growth and
greater social impact of these media
make them all the more important for
a fruitful priestly ministry.”

13. Cautions
• COPPA – Children’s Online Privacy
Protection Act of 1998 – one should not
knowingly request or solicit personally
identifiable information from anyone under
the age of 13 without prior verifiable
parental consent.

14. Cautions, continued
• Representing Church teachings
• Transparency
• Healthy boundaries (separate “personal”
from “ministry” accounts; appropriate time
for communications; groups vs. friends)
• Empower parents to monitor children’s use
of technology
• Teach teens to be critical

15. “Pornography and Violence in the
Communications Media” – Pontifical
Council for Social Communications, 2002
“Of particular value are programs in media
education to develop in young people a
critical attitude and properly formed skills of
discernment in using television, radio, and
other media, so that they might know how to
resist manipulation, and how to avoid merely
passive listening and viewing habits.

16. What skills do
teens need?
Regarding the internet:
• 1. Identify what is appropriate
and inappropriate communication
in a public forum
• 2. Realize that not all information is true; learn to
check multiple, credible resources
• 3. Discern potential threats, and know how to
handle them (i.e. to whom to speak, add privacy
setting, etc.)

17. Proposed Guidelines for use in
Media for Teens:
• Respect
• Dialogue
• Friendship
(Taken from World Communications Day Message 43, 2009)

18. WebPages
• What does your look like?
• What does your hope to accomplish?
• Is it Web 1.0 or 2.0?
– 1.0 is primarily GIVING information
– 2.0 involves ENGAGING people, be it in the
opportunity to comment on an article (a la most
news stories online), a discussion board,
survey, adding to an article (wiki), posting
prayer intentions, adding pictures or videos

19. WebPages 2
• BENEFITS:
– Publicly accessible – can reach a lot of people with
just a little work!
– Can post multiple forms of information
– Encourage stewardship of parishioners, including
youth, to work on aspects
– Can be inexpensive and save parish money on
printing, mailing, etc. (forms can be imbedded or
linked/PDF forms)
– Can link to other good pages, thus providing
resources to parishioners

20. Webpages, 3
• CAUTIONS:
– Permission to post pictures of minors
– Privacy concerns (contact info, event details)
– Need to keep it current/relevant
– Can be costly
– Not everyone has internet availability
– Need constant maintenance/work to keep it up
to date

21. A Few Good Websites:
• Disciples Now – Catholic
www.DisciplesNow.com
• My Catholic Voice, as mentioned before,
www.MyCatholicVoice.com
• Resources and readings on the U.S. Bishops
site, www.usccb.org

22. Vatican site for youth
www.Pope2You.net
Homepage of the Vatican's Web site for young people.
(CNS/Vatican)

23. Some sites to consider
• Catholic Youth Ministry Blog.
Written by D. Scott Miller from the archdiocese
of Baltimore, Scott posts news almost every
day of interest to folks who minister to
http://www.dscottmiller.com/
Catholic youth.
Jesus Goes to Disney World. Written by Fr. Austin
Murphy from the diocese of Baltimore. Father Austin takes pop
culture and theologizes it.
http://jesusindisney.blogspot.com/

24. Email
• BENEFITS
– Nearly free to send
and receive messages
– Quicker than snail mail
– Same information to multiple people
– Receivers can reply
– Saves paper
– Can use e-blast services, can track readership
• Constant Contact
• Virtual Reponses
• Mail Chimp

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26. Email - Cautions
Not as popular with teens as “older” folks
– –16% send email (Pew)
(may have to send a text message to alert them to read email!)
– Only ___ communication is written, so miss out on body
language, tone, etc., so be aware
– Can become too dependent upon and assume all
messages are received (things get lost in cyber-land!)
– Have to maintain up-to-date email address book
– Not everyone has email access (and not all who do check
it regularly)
– BCC so addresses not out

27. Blogs and podcasts
• Together because only 14% of teens blog on a
regular basis (was 28% in 2006, but more on SNS),
and 19% download podcasts
• POTENTIAL for both though to increase
educational offerings in a non-gathered setting
• Web-based logs
• One person can create for multiple persons usage
(great networking for catechists/ministers!)

28. Online photo albums
• Quick, easy, cheap
• Participants can add their own
• Parental permission, especially if place
names with pictures (first and last initial
may be preferred)
• Shutterfly, SnapFish, York, Kodak, etc.

29. VOIP
• Voice Over Internet Protocol
• Skye is biggest for interaction,
thanks to Oprah
• Might consider for discussion
with another youth ministry
group or popular speaker,
without all the costs of
transportation

30. Wikis
• Can be a fun tool for discussions, as
participants can add to the document.
• Wikipedia is most famous. Can be a great
source of info to START research…. But
since anyone can add to/edit/delete portions
of wiki’s, information may not be correct
(so cannot be only resource, as kids are
tending to use it…)

31. A wiki to visit
• http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/
Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft
Images and Sound (Mostly!)
• for Use in Media Projects and Web
Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc.

32. eBooks
http://books.google.com
has over 150,000 books in religion
“section”
http://openlibrary.org
www.archive.org
Online bibles, NAB at USCCB
Trending towards colleges using eReaders
rather than print text books

33. eMusic
• iTunes – for Apple products – iPod, iPhone,
iPad – has lectures, audio books, and videos
in addition to music
• Legal downloads of music
• Uses in ministry – Anne Weeks

34. Virtual Worlds
• Not really needed for ministry, per se, but
good to be aware of, and may have
applications in the future (picture a
simulation of you as a nun or priest?!?!)

35. YouTube
• Right now, there is 20 hours of video uploaded
to this one site every hour!
• Need to help teens locate good videos… but we
cannot avoid links to bad ones, so parents need
to be aware
• Free for those with internet connection
• Includes visuals with sound (sensory)
• Vatican channel
• NCYC

36. YouTube Cautions
• Cannot “filter” out material
• Not all computers have the capabilities (so
cannot mandate usage)
• Parental permissions needed

37. Twitter
• Micro-blogging
• 140 characters of less (not too deep)
• Most teens NOT on at this point (8%, ages 12-17,
10% of ages 15-17)– look to see how it goes in
your local area…. If on, ways to use:
– Daily uplifting messages/scriptures
– Event reminders
– Teasers to drive to your website/pages
http://www.tweetcatholic.com/

38. Social Networking Sites (SNS)
• Here to stay as continue to grow
• Bebo, Friendster, MySpace (66% teens),
Facebook (71% under age 30), LinkedIn (7%
teens, 14% adults)
– “friends”
– Chat
– Games
– quizzes
• Multiple platforms

39. SNS Benefits:
• Popular with teens
– 71% of 7th – 12th graders have SNS profiles as saw
66% on MySpace
–42% of teens using Social Networking Sites send
messages via Facebook and MySpace (Pew)
–26% send instant messages (i.e. “chat”)
• Can provide timely information
• Can get RSVPs and feedback
• Can hold online discussions
• Programs have privacy settings (need to explore)

40. SNS Cautions:
• Not all Privacy Settings are equal, or stagnant – FB has
changed twice this year already!
• Public information is just that – open to anyone,
including predators
• Not all parents monitor, or teens create “alternate”
personas
• Cannot attach things like permission forms (so have to
link them back to parish webpage or to an email
address to request those items, if they will)
• Being banned in some places/jobs/schools
• Too friendly with friends – again, sep. account and use
groups (closed/invitation only to protect privacy, but
invite parents of the teens to join!)

41. More from Nielson report:
“And teens look to their social networking
for much more than gossip and photo-
sharing: to teens, social networks are a key
source of information and advice in a
critical developmental period.
57% of teen social networkers say they
looked to their online social network for
advice.
(If we are not part of the network…)

42. Social Networks key to reaching
young people, USCCB official
says
April 28, 2010
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1

43. Helen Osman, secretary for communications at the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops, told a Rome
conference April 27.
"We now have an opportunity to get the
church's message and story directly to
Catholics -- and others -- without having
to negotiate the filters of mainstream
media. We have the opportunity to
connect with young adult and youth
Catholics to create relationships that will
last their entire lives,"

44. the relationships created in social media
are a series of overlapping networks
• "The most successful approach by
organizations to social media environments
seems be an emphasis on openness,
transparency and a willingness to dialogue,"
she said.
• It costs the church nothing, for example, to
have bloggers, Facebook fans and Twitter
forward its digital messages throughout their
social networks.

45. • young people today often use their Facebook
community as their first reference point when
doing research. If the church is not there, "it
perpetuates for them the concept that the faith
is not relevant to their daily lives," Osman said.
• Using Facebook groups – Bonnie Buzenski
• MyCatholicVoice.com
• YourSphere.com
• Flocknote – Maureen Hall

46. By no means are you limited
To “Share” a recent article, I was given this list of
applications to which it could be shared:
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Aero AIM Share Amazon Amen Me! AOL Mail
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48. Cell phones
• Calls, texts, camera, web access
• 66% of 8 – 18 year olds have a cell phone
(Kaiser), 75% of teens (Pew 2010). 58% of 12
year olds (Pew 2010)
• •Teenagers daily communications occurs in the
following ways:
• –51% of teens with cell phones talk on them
• –38% sent text messages (Kaiser said 46%)
• –32% talk to friends on a landline phone (Pew)

49. • •84% of U.S. mobile teens use text-
messaging,
• 56% use MMS/picture messaging
• send/receive ave. 96 per day (Nielson 09)
– Kaiser 2010 says 118 average number of texts
– Average of 2 hours and 33 minutes spent texting
a day
• •37% U.S. teens access the Web over their
phones (Nielson)

50. Vatican using technology
• Website, www.vatican.va adding more and more
resources
• BXVI sent text messages to WYD 2008
participants in Australia each day
• Vatican channel on YouTube (since Nov. 2005)
– http://www.youtube.com/vatican

51. USCCB using technology
• Facebook group for USCCB Publishing
• USCCB daily scripture quote on
Twitter/texting
• More and more on website (daily readings,
seasonal information, articles, news, access
to some publications, etc.

52. NFCYM using technology
• Public website as well as intranet for
business of the Federation
• Collaborating with MyCatholicVoice.com
on conference information, song
downloads, handouts, videos, etc.
• Facebook group for NACYML , NCYOS,
NCCGSCF, NCCYM, and NCYC
http://www.facebook.com/ncyc2009?v=info&viewas=1077556239
• Online sales

53. Facebook Groups in DOY
• Youngstown Youth Ministers
• DOY-YAM (Diocese of Youngstown Young Adult
Ministry)
• DYC’10 (Diocesan Youth Convention 2010)
• Catholic Parents on Facebook
• Really need some help form parents on here
• Vocations for the Youngstown
Diocese
• We love Bishop George V. Murry, S.J.-
Bishop of Youngstown (for fun, after Feb.

54. How can it help us meet the three
goals of comprehensive youth
ministry?
• #1: To empower young people
to live as disciples of Jesus
Christ in our world today

55. #2: To draw young people to
responsible participation in the
life, mission and work of the
Catholic faith community?
• #3: To foster the total personal
and spiritual growth of each
young person.

56. Connecting to 8 Components
• Advocacy
• Catechesis
• Community Life
• Evangelization
• (and what can this look like in the digital age?)
• Justice and Service
• Prayer and Worship
• Pastoral Care
• Leadership Development

57. Small Group Work
• Each group will have 15 minutes to work on
your task… then we will present them to the
larger group. Trade slips if you must.
• Group one – How do we teach teens to
protect their privacy and be smart about using
technology?
• Group two – How do we encourage/work
with parents to monitor their children’s use of
technology?

58. Small Group Work, part 2
• Group three – How can we use media to
help promote Gospel values at a gathered
event?
• Group four – How can we promote Gospel
values as a parish in a non-gathered way?
• Group five – Prepare a closing prayer for
today utilizing some of the technology
discussed today!

59. Small Groups to Large Group
• 1. teens to protect their privacy
• 2. parents to monitor
• 3. use media at a gathered event
• 4. non-gathered use for media and the
Gospel
• Group 5 will lead out Closing prayer later!

60. I dreamed a dream…
• That each parish, Catholic high school and
Catholic organization would have a
Communications Committee that oversees
all forms of media and
technology, and has both
teens and young adults on it,
and an adult that works with
the younger Church…. Think
of the possibilities!

61. Related topics for more learning
• Cyber-bullying and sexting
– Teenage Research Unlimited study “Tech Abuse in Teen Relationships
Study” states that “one in five teens have been asked to engage in an
unwanted sexual activity by cell phone or over the internet.”
• Media literacy
– Need to look for positive and negative in advertizements, on
TV, in movies, as well as all the technology we discussed
today
• Porn
– ProtectKids.com reports that the age group that most
frequently views Internet porn is ages 12 - 17

62. For your own development
• Online courses
– 6 free theology courses from Univ. Notre Dame
at http://ocw.nd.edu
– Boston College has one at
www.bc.edu/sites/c21online
• Support for your ministry
• Online Catholic papers, magazines,
podcasts, etc.

63. Studies cited:
• Kaiser Study on Generation M2 (ages 8 – 18),
January 2010
• Nielson study: How Teens Use Media, June 2009
• Pew Internet and American Life Project, April
2009
• Pew Social Media and Mobile Internet Use
Among Teens and Young Adults, January 2010

64. Questions???
• What one thing might you do after this
discussion?
• What might you suggest to the Diocesan
Child Protection Policy committee, who
will be meeting next week, in regards to
parental permissions for texting, social
networking, etc?
• Closing Prayer with Group 5