My learning goal for this class is to explore some ways that media and technology can be used to encourage learning communities. This fits under goal 1e familiar with a variety of ways of supporting, facilitating and trouble-shooting learning communities.
This past year, my partner pastor and I led a group on a Walk Through the New Testament where we had a group of people reading New Testament texts daily from January through the end of May. If they followed the plan, they would have read the entire New Testament in that timeframe. As we led the class, we found that we needed several ways of including people in the process. As a result, we had a Facebook page, we put the handouts on the church webpage, we met face-to-face every other week for question-and-answer, and we participated in the online webcast of Dr. Matthew Skinner’s Walk Through the New Testament class. Different members took part in the different learning communities, and some members chose to just follow the plan on their own without any outside support from us.
I would like to explore the how technology can open up new ways for the members to engage in learning communities in the church.
