Videobloggers from all over the world participate in Videoblogging Week every year, which is a weeklong videofest in which you record and upload a new video each day of the week.
This year it’s from April 20-26, and I’m inviting everyone who reads this blog to participate. Let’s see what you can come up with. I’ll be posting my videos to Mexico Movies, so be sure to check it out. I might post a video a day here, too.
Be sure to let me know here in the comments if you participate.
If you decide to participate, tag your videos with videobloggingweek2008.
Here’s an example of one of the ways you could use internet video on the internet. This video was made by Josh Griffin for the High School Ministry at Saddleback. They will use it in the actual meeting, but you could post it on a videoblog, too, before the meeting so your students can see what you’ll be talking about. It doesn’t take a big budget to produce a video like this one, but it’s good.
With the recent popularity of YouTube and video on the internet, I felt the need to write sort of a tutorial (35 pages) on video on the internet, specifically focusing on the use of internet video for youth workers.
This is the first edition of the e-book, and I want to give it away here. I’d love to hear comments on it and ideas of ways to improve it. Please feel free to download it, read it, distribute it, email it, post it on your blog, etc. So, check it out. Hopefully, it will help you in your ministry.
I still believe that videoblogging can be a tremendous tool for youth ministry. Today’s generation is tied to stories, and videoblogging is about telling stories. Marv Penner writes in The Core Realities of Youth Ministry, “It’s no secret that adolescents today are predisposed to experiencing life as a series of intersecting stories….’You will know me if you take the time to get to know my story’ is their invitation. And the one thing that makes Scripture attractive to this generation is that it’s a fascinating story in which they have a role. If I can introduce them to a script in which their personal stories are written, they can embrace the relevance of Scripture” (12).
In youth ministry, we are constantly looking for new ways to tell the “old, old story.” We are trying to get young people involved and interested in what God has to say to them. We are inviting them to be a part of His redemption story. Story is a great part of our teaching, and videoblogging helps tell the stories of life.
Here are a few ways you could use videoblogging as a teaching help:
Put up an example or a what would you do in this situation video (Decision making, Case studies)
Put up a parable about what you will be teaching
Video of a cultural problem which you will cover in the teaching time
Put up a thought on a topic and invite responses…vary your thoughts to be according to what you think or not
Interview people on the street about their thoughts on topics
Interview respected people about their thoughts on a topic
Get the students to make videos about a topic, interpreting the lesson in visual form
Make an investigative report and post like a news report
Cover a local story of interest with your camera and invite responses
Invite missionaries to show their place of service so you can better pray for them
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