Professional Development Webinar Recordings

The young people in our schools and parishes are increasingly citizens of a virtual world where they carry out many traditionally “physical” activities, including living out their faith! Other Christian communities are experimenting with “online church.” What is an "online church" and is it an option for Catholics? How does the "digital continent" influence the way we prepare young people and catechumens to receive the sacraments?This webinar will explore these questions and offer some avenues for appropriate use of digital technologies in living our faith.Jonathan F. Sullivan is the director of catechetical services for the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. He blogs on evangelization and catechesis at www.JonathanFSullivan.com.Presentations Slides and NotesCheck out Jonathan's blog for a complete list of notes and links from the presentation.He has also been kind enough to share his presentation on Slideshare:Where Two or Three are Texting: Incarnation & Sacrament in a Virtual World from Jonathan Sullivan

The Church’s catechetical witness burns as a fire across centuries and through lives of faithful service. We navigate the way ahead informed by this compelling history, which yields extraordinary witness along the way of catechesis.For this webinar, Dr. Jerry Baumbach will (1) explore some contemporary perspectives and four characteristics for advancing catechesis; (2) consider selected highlights from major eras of the Church’s catechetical history; and (3) reinforce our looking ahead as a breathing community of living faith, still emerging, developing, and inquiring.Indeed, our shared past informs our shared future for catechesis and the New Evangelization! Webinar Reflection Questions 1. How does your parish occupy a place of fellowship, discipleship, and hope for you? What image, person, practice, or term symbolizes this belonging?2. What motivates you to carry faithfully the Gospel from your life to that of another? What does Jesus call you to do and to become as your ministry continues?3. Whom do you rely on when discerning important matters of faith in your life? Why? How does prayer help to guide your discernment and reflection?4. How might “dying” and “rising” occasions of life mark your way as you live by faith each day?5. What scriptural passage informs your discernment and offers you hope as your ministry unfolds? Why this choice?

This webinar will show compelling examples as to why all religion teachers need to use technology in their classrooms. Carmen Ribera Lagalante will demonstrate some simple ways to get started and then provide many ideas, assignments, websites, and other great tools for their classroom. She will also show teachers resources that will help them to become more tech-savvy and discuss some errors to avoid!About the presenter: Carmen Ribera Lagalante is passionate about the integration of technology in the classroom and teaching the Catholic faith. For the past nine years, Mrs. Lagalante has been a religion teacher at JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, California. Her courses include theology of the body, sacraments, morality, and AP computer science. Mrs. Lagalante earned a Master of Arts in Educational Technology from Azusa Pacific University and a Bachelor of Arts from Thomas Aquinas College.View a complete listing of webinars offered in the Religious Education Webinar Series.