The 'Ask Anything Saturday' wiki is collaboratively sponsored by the 'Center For Urban Innovation'.

 Our Internet Tool Kit

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What do I need to know FIRST about computers & the Internet ????

• WHERE can we find FREE internet access, training and HELP?

• Where can I get a computer?
• Where can I get my computer fixed? 

Ok, once you're in front of a computer,

...here are the 3 basics you can learn over 3 cups of coffee...

• Saturday-coffee session #1 -- Internet Surfing & Participating
  • Turn on your computer.
  • Start the 'browser' program running.
  • Surfing & Search
  • Create a page of your own.
  • Create a link.

• Saturday-coffee session #2 -- Email
  • Get a Free Email-account. 
  • Email someone. 

• Saturday-coffee session #3 -- Publishing
  • Publishing... ie, Blogging .
  • Why RSS?

Get college credit as you learn all this...

New Media for Urban Change" -- a 3 credit-hr course from Crossroads Bible College's 'Center For Urban Innovation'

List of Important Skills for 21st Century Communications

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• Basic Computer Setups?
• Bible Study Online
• Blogging
• Browser(s) -- Are there others than Microsoft Internet Explorer?  Enhancements, Browser-buttons.
• Call It In using Utterz.com
• Cell Phones -- Basic skills, Texting, Camera & more.
• Chat / Instant Messaging
• ClaimID (see Online Identity, below)
• CogHead.com -- new web2.0 king of web2.0 utilities?
• CreativeCommons -- [learn more about copyrights... and how we can work together.]
• Database (relational like MySQL, MSSQL, and others like flatfile and ...)
• Ebay
• E-capable Christian?
• Email-- Spam, Phishing, and Joining Egroups
• Embed Code
• Embedded Reporters 
• Excel & Other Spreadsheets
• Facebook (see Social-Networking)
• 'FireFox' Browser
• Flash (animation for ads and entertainment, interactives for training and games, online applications for helps and tools, video delivery, and more!)
• Flickr & Other Photos
• Flyers -- Here's how to upload your flyer to the web.
• Geographic Mapping (see Mapping, below)
• Google Search (and 'searching' in general)
• Google Reader
• Google Docs  (and online documents in general)
• GoogleApps -- a quasi-enterprise set of Web2.0 apps... to replace some of your company's client-server-network apps.  Example, your company's email system can now be on Gmail.
• Graphic Design (creating images, Paint, Photoshop, etc.)
• Indentity (see Online Identity, below)
• Link  (Hyperlink)
• LifeStream (see Twitter)
• Mapping... Not just surfing a map, but also how to CREATE YOUR OWN MAPS... and plot people, places & problems.  (Also see SAVI System) 
• MashUps --
  • Specific MashUps Needed (for ministry)...  Example... How about a (phone) call-it-in Status Report that could easily (or better yet, automatically) be added to an appropriate wiki-page.  Imagine... nontech users like many of our cityreaching leaders around the country... who don't type particularly well... thus aren't prone to text or tech... but they're gifted LEADERS and may be active COMMUNICATORS from a pulpit, etc... and who would be GLAD to participate in providing an update from their cityreaching efforts, if they could simply 'call it in'.
  • del.icio.us bookmarks, e.g. New York Times article
• Online Identity (ClaimID, Profiles, etc.)
• Photos, Flickr & More
• Podcasting
• Profiles -- (See Online Identity, above)
• Remote Geeks
• RSS Feeds, Readers & Aggregators
• Search -- Google, Everything & More.
• SAVI System -- Using community maps to identify social vulnerabilities & solutions.  Also see Mapping.
• Social Networking -- MySpace, Facebook, Linked-In, Natuba, etc... INCLUDING MyChurch now !!!
• Social Bookmarking -- see Tagging.
• Spreadsheets (including Excel)
• Tagging -- (Social Bookmarking) especially via  del.icio.us.
• Teleconferencing (including web-meeting, web-casting, etc.)
• Twitter (including LifeStream, Status, etc.)
• Typing Speed 
• Utterz.com -- to call it in.  Blog from your cell phone. 
• Video (VLogging, etc.)... (tv show someday?  Bryan?)
• Video-conferencing (see Teleconferencing)
• Vital Vine... a citywide phone-tree... and disciple-replicating system at the same time?
• Volunteer -- ChristianVolunteering.org -- even VIRTUAL volunteering.
• WebCam  (and Video-Chat)
• Webcasting, Web-meeting... See 'Teleconferencing' (above)

   

• Web Evangelism -- Fishing with a Net?
• Web2.0
• Website -- Create Your Own.  (including getting an easy Domain Name for your website).
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• Widgets, Gadgets & Gizmos
• Wiki  -- especially PBwiki .   Church Tech Teach wiki?
• Wireless (Wi-Fi)
• YouTube... see VIDEO.
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Important Strays to keep track of...

       (See previous list 'inside' CrossroadsConnection.com.)

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• Here's Tim Bednar's 'Semi-definitive List of Web 2.0 Applications for Churches'.
• Church Tech Teach wiki -- an ongoing project by students at Trinity Theological Seminary (Deerfield)...
• including other LEARNING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY sources... like GeeksAndGod.com podcasts, etc.
• Here's Scott's page of some key technologies that might ought to be added here, into our Internet Tool Kit.
• GospelPedia -- an UrbanMinistry.org (TechMission) wiki... also providing great answers. 

       (Here was our original U.B. LEARNING page. -- we'll change the link when we get things moved here to AskAnythingSaturday.)