Posts Tagged ‘video’

The First Chaplain

// June 2nd, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized

Join me on a tour of the rocks in Sydney where we follow the footsteps of Australia’s first Chaplain, Richard Johnson. This was shown at our staff seminar night at school.

Ignatius - Chaplain satire

// March 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Chaplaincy, Spiritual

A friend of mine - John - who is a Youth Pastor, posted this video on his facebook site today. Its called Ignatius. Here is what the produces of the video say about it :

“This is a video we produced for a free event for youth ministers. It was conceived as a satire for what I consider to be an unhealthy “rock star” culture that has been growing inside Christendom, as well as an encouragement for the unheralded heroes on the front lines of ministry. The role of Ignatius is played by our friend Josh Keefer.”

Its pretty funny but unfortunately very true in parts - I’ll let you watch it and see how close to home it hits.

(see fav videos in top right hand side of homepage).

Where is technology heading??

// March 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Future, Technology

Had an exciting meeting today with some fellow SCIL associates with regards to planning how to use the teaching space in our new 8 million dollar building. We are wanting to use cutting edge technology to help promote learning in a 21st century styl, rather than continue in our 20th Century  habits.

I have been doing a bit of basic research into what the future holds for technology and the future and I am just trying to begin to get my head around it.

I came across these key findings in a new report based on the survey of experts by the Pew Internet & American Life Project that asked respondents to assess predictions about technology and its roles in the year 2020. The summary of their findings were:

  • The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020.
  • The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness.
  • Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020.
  • Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing “arms race,” with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share content without payment.
  • The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who is connected, and the results will be mixed in their impact on basic social relations.
  • “Next-generation” engineering of the network to improve the current internet architecture is more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1053/future-of-the-internet-iii-how-the-experts-see-it

This Youtube video puts the future into perspective

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXNWwGUsBU]

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