Looking for a reason to get an ipod this holiday season? Well, here are five ways you could use it in your ministry.
- Music: Make a themed playlist. Hook into the sound system and crank it up as students enter the room.
- Pictures: Put your favorite pictures of your youth group (or last week’s meeting, etc) in a folder, sync it to your iPod, pick out the music you want to play (in slideshow mode), and let it go.
- Presentations: Run powerpoint off of it. You can convert Powerpoint files into photos, make them a slideshow on your iPod, hook it into the projector, and bang, you’ve got a powerpoint.
- Memory: You can enable your iPod to be used as a flash drive. Then, you’ve got 30 or 80 gigs of memory waiting to be used.
- Video: You can download, convert, and play videos from Youtube or other video sharing sites, or you can rip video clips to be used in your presentations. You can also make your own videos and play them off of your iPod.
These are some of the very reasons why I’ve considered purchasing one, but the Creative Vision:M looks like it would handle these tasks a lot better. Unfortunately, they’re still like $250 — way out of my price-range for anything except rent.
Tim…I got an iPod for my birthday (30th bday present), and I’ve been using it for lots of stuff lately. For example, today, I gave a test in class based on clips from a movie, and I didn’t have to lug my computer to show them. I just put them on my iPod and went to class. I think for the non-computer geek, the iPod is very user friendly. I haven’t checked on the Creative. The thing I think I like most about the iPod is its sleakness (is that a word?). It is so streamlined and easy.
OK. all those things are cool, but what about getting things done. You can also sync your iPod to your calendar and remember those really useful things like meetings and birthdays and such. You can also sync your contacts complete with pictures of kids in your ministry (or parents if you have to).
Also, if your ministry has a great budget, you could get a couple of nanos and have listening stations for teens to hear good Christian music. I really like to put a couple a mash ups on there of Don Francisco and Pillar.
Great stuff, Paul. I forgot to mention the most obvious stuff.