Insomnia strikes and I happened to get up early on Saturday morning and jumped onto Twitter — just in time for #CatholicEdChat. What a wonderful way to begin the weekend. I appreciate the leadership of Nancy Caramanico, Barb Gilman and Nick Senger for getting this going.
After introductions and sharing of activities of the week we began earnestly connecting with one another – talking about faith families, teacher-led PD, Noodletools , an 8th grade class blog, school-based edCamp, social justice themes with literature connections, sharing resources for going 1:1, discussing Google Apps for Education, Google Docs for Kids book, The Catholic School Standards Project, BYOD resources, daily prayer resources (see list below) and using iBooks Author to make a daily prayer book for iPad.
The group will archive the chat stream HERE and also has created a Edmodo group (c6u263). Look how much I learned in ONE HOUR on TWITTER!!
I requested daily prayer apps/ web resources that I could share with my teachers. Here are the results:
iPad Apps
- iBreviary (free) for iPhone and iPad
- Laudate (free)
- 3 minute Retreat ($0.99)
- iMissal Catholic (Mass, Reading. Calendar, Lectionary) ($4.99)
Web Resources
- Sacred Space – http://www.sacredspace.ie/
- Pray-as-you-go – http://www.pray-as-you-go.org/ (Also a podcast)
- Divine Office – http://divineoffice.org/ (Podcast)
- Other6 – http://www.other6.com/
- Spontaneous Prayer blog post
Greg Miller from Alberta, Canada shares a bulletin board from his school
Thank you for posting these resources.