Catholic Roundup

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Sorry that it’s been more than month between podcasts. I have been trying to do at least a post a week over at SQPN.com. Things are very busy with work and family this spring, and they show no signs of slowing down until July.

On Easter Monday, I had a wide ranging discussion about tech, new media and evangelization with Craig Berry. Craig is a Catholic web developer. He blogs at catholicservant.com and also runs catholictechtalk.com and the brand new directory site ultracatholic.com .

Also, congratulations again to the David and Craig Show for producing the 100th episode of their podcast for Catholic youth and youth ministers.

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2. Theme Song: Lost in Christ (©) Bryan Murdaugh

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Please excuse me if I don’t keep up to the daily (except Sunday) posting schedule I set for myself for these 40 Days of Catholic Media.  Work and family commitments are pressing this week.  I’d still love to have guest hosts/guest posts reflecting on our lenten journey and on the needs of creators of Catholic media.  If you are interested, drop me a line at catholicroundup@gmail.com.

Last week’s Catholic Media Promotion Day was a great success at rallying the online Catholic Community and shining the spotlight on Catholic Media.  I really enjoyed preparing The Catholic Roundup Catholic Media Promotion Day Special because it was mainly voice feedback from several people talking about their favorite Catholic media.   We do not usually get alot of voice feedback so it was a treat to have so many voices on the show.

This weekend, on Catholic Weekend 64, Maria suggested a good lenten practice would be to send daily feedback to your favorite blogs or podcasts. That is a fantastic idea!   Bloggers and podcasters get a special boost whenever we receive feedback.   Too often feedback comes infrequently because people seem to be content just to listen to podcasts or read blogs.  Feedback can also be an introduction  into the online community for people.  I have shared before that my entry into podcasting and blogging was by being a frequent commenter on blogs and sender of audio feedback.

Let’s not forget that blogging, podcasting, and social media enable a 2 way conversation between people.

Since Sunday I have been trying to send 1 voice feedback, or blog comment daily.  I have been recording the comments on the low quality voice recorder on my cellphone, but the message gets conveyed.  So far, the podcasters who received the feedback has been delighted just to receive it.

Your Turn

Why is feedback and 2 way communication important?  For producers of Catholic Media?  For audience of Catholic media?

How have you been affected by feedback (positive or negative) to your blog or podcast?

What are your favorite mode or tools for sending feedback (ie email, blog comments, voicemail, etc…)?

Take some time regularly during lent to respond to a blogger or podcaster who makes a comment that touches you.

It’s been a busy week in the Catholic social media innertube podosphere St. Blogs thingy.   Yesterday,  Matthew Warner the developer of Flocknote, started up TweetCatholic.com, an online directory and ranking board of Catholics on Twitter.  He has been overwhelmed by the response.  (I’m currently #36 of 200+  Catholics on the list). Check it out and feel free to follow me on twitter.  I’m  @Sean_McGaughey.

While I was signing on for TweetCatholic, I also registered for Flocknote.  I have set up a Catholic Roundup feed on Flocknote if you are interested in signing up for our updates through email or as an alternate RSS feed.

I also set up a new group for Catholic Roundup on Google Groups.   Anyone can join the Google Group.  This will be my primary location for discussion and collaboration with Catholic Roundup community members.  The first thing we will be using this group for is to plan our online Lenten day of reflection on March 28.  Watch here and on the google group over the next week or so for more information about the Day of Reflection.

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1. Looking back on the Catholic New Media Advent Calendar and 12 Days of Christmas

2. What are we doing for Lent?  We are not doing another daily project for Lent.  It takes too much of our family and reflection time.  Instead we will facilitate a 1 day online Lenten day of reflection for Catholic New Media listeners and creators.  We are contemplating using Ustream for video and Talkshoe for conference calls.  We are open to suggestions if anyone knows about a free or inexpensive online conference service that offers video, audio, text chat and whiteboard or document sharing.
   

3. Song Daniel Harms from Popple: Can you see him?

4. Book sent to us  (review)  Father Thomas D Willams:  Knowing Right From Wrong:  www.faithwords.com

5. Baby Report: Edgar and Mercedes from the Spanish podcast: Lecturas Del Dia are celebrating the arrival of their daughter. Ana Guzman Montero was born in perfect conditions January 10 @ 9.40 CST  2690 kg 47 cm Other SQPN babies on the way:  Zina and Jeff- Secrets of Battlestar Galactica, Mac and Katherine– Catholic in a Small Town, Greg and Jennifer, The Catholics Next Store.

6. Celebrations: 600th episode of the Daily Breakfast– Congratulations Father Roderick!  100th Episode of Two Edge Talk.  Congratulations Cyndi and Deacon Tim

7. Continued Prayers for Lisa Hendey as she undergoes cancer treatment.

8. We were nominated for Catholic New Media and Innovation Awards at Evangelization2.0 by Thomas Hall who is behind the wonderful Love To Be Catholic Video Sharing site.

9. Big Question: Who is your favorite saint? Which saint do see as a patron of new media producers and audience?

10. Song: Last Day: The Ride from the Podsafe Music Network at  music.podshow.com

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2. Theme Song: Lost in Christ (©) Bryan Murdaugh

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Today we welcome back RAnn from at This That and the Other Thing.  At the beginning of advent RAnn brought us Advent Links for Children.  Today she follows that very popular post with: Christmas Activities for Catholic (and other Christian) Kids.

My post of Advent Activities for kids has proven to be the most popular one I’ve ever written, so I thought I’d try one giving Christmas activities for kids–and focus on the Christmas that features the baby Jesus, the stable, and the star rather than the one that features Santa, the reindeer and Frosty.

Apples4theteacher appears to be a site designed for teachers and has coloring sheets, poems, songs and more. It looks like there is quite a bit here, but you have to hunt a little.

Coloring Book Fun has coloring pages for a lot of things, including religious Christmas pages.

Resources for Catholic Educators links to coloring pages too.

A Google search for Christmas coloring sheets will give you lots of options, but check them out before turning the kids loose–some are anti-Catholic.

CatholicMom has lots of ideas to keep the little ones busy.

Catholic Culture gives us Christmas morning prayers and evening prayers.

Catechetical Resources, from the publishers of the Faith and Life religion books give us Christmas activities for the brain as well as fun things to do.

Check your child’s grade on Sadlier’s website and find a Christmas activity for his/her age group.

Preschool kids will like this site.

Domestic Church has several Christmas activities.

The ladies over at Catholic Cuisine are bound to have something good to cook for Christmas.

The Daughters of St. Paul have some online activities for kids.

Of course the most necessary part of celebrating Christmas is celebrating Sunday mass with the community. The web gives us lots of resources to help children understand the weekly readings. The publishers of the Faith First religion texts have weekly summaries, discussion topics and activities based on the readings. Sadlier has a similar site. Catholic Mom.com has coloring pages, worksheets, lesson plans, and more for each week. Open Wednesday has a variety of activities as well.

Join us tomorrow for more reflections produced by great Catholic New Media personalities as we journey through the 12 Days of Christmas.

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Dan Harms is 1/2 of the amazing Catholic nerdcore band, Popple (Think– They Might be Giants with rosaries).  Yesterday Dan took time out of a busy week that includes driving across the state and moving his home, to reflect on Sunday’s Gospel and write an original song, Can You See Him? (© December 14, 2008, Dan Harms).

I’ll let him tell the story from here.

Hey Sean
Welp.. I was at mass today and was thinking about the Gospel reading,
John the Baptist proclaiming the coming of the Lord and that struck
me. As did some recent conversations I’ve been a part of that makes
me ponder the gospel reading from a short time ago about the sheep and
the goats, I was naked and you clothed me, I was hungry and you fed me
etc. and I came up with the lyrics to this song just this evening.
It took a while to wrestle some things around lyrically… I think
it’s about those two gospel readings along with my own still evolving
shock that our God and king would come to the earth through such a
humble means. Jesus came into the world through a young extremely
poor mother, how often do I associate myself with young poor mothers?
How often do I associate myself with people who are homeless, who
would literally give birth to their child in such humble surroundings?
I don’t. If Jesus were to come to earth now, under those same
conditions, the chances that I would be there for the birth or even to
be able to go and offer support or to offer whatever I could for him
would be virtually non-existent. So I think this song works to
challenge me to listen to the Gospel and find Christ in the places I
do not go. It’s not that I don’t go there because I have other
important things to be doing, I don’t go there because it’s not
convenient in my snappy iPods and airplanes lifestyle. It’s my prayer
that with these lyrics I can work towards continuing to prepare my
heart this Advent season. Thanks so much for preparing this series of
posts and including me in it. Hope this works.

Thanks Dan for your original song written for this Advent Calendar project. The story of your taking the time to write it during such a busy time reminds me that I need to take the time during Advent to find a bit of silence and reflect upon the coming of our Lord.

You can find Dan’s music at Popple.us or www.virb.com/theharms.

Join us tomorrow and every day in December for more reflections produced by great Catholic New Media personalities.

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Popple is outstanding in their field.

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Inge Loots is a podcaster and blogger in the Netherlands who has become quite involved in the online community of SQPN enthusiasts. She shares everyday observations, recipes, and linux and mac tips at taquoriaan.com. She has been podcasting about her spiritual journey to the Catholic Church on A Journey into the Land of the Spirit. Today, Inge has prepared a video slideshow for the Feast of St. Nicholas.

Join us tomorrow and every day in December for more reflections produced by great Catholic New media personalities.

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Welcome to Day 2 of A Catholic New Media Advent Calendar. Our first guest posting is contributed by RAnn over at This That and the Other Thing.  Today RAnn brings us Advent Links for Children.

This is a slight re-working of something I wrote for the blog I keep for my third grade religion class.

Children love to celebrate and love to make things. To make Advent a family celebration and to give the kids preparation for Christmas beyond buying and wrapping gifts, check out these links. If you have favorite Advent sites for kids which are not listed, leave them in the comments section.

Many of the publishers of religion texts have websites with further activities. Catechetical Resources, put out by the publishers of the Faith and Life religion books, has activities for all grade levels, including instructions for making Advent Wreaths, coloring sheets and study guides.

Sadlier, publisher of the We Believe religion series has Advent activities for all ages.

CatholicMom.com has art projects, coloring sheets, games and even some recipes. They have more under lesson plans. Catholic Advent is an old site and most of the links are bad, so skip them, but try the activities. This site, filled with preschool activities, gives instructions for an Advent Wreath craft and lesson. Here is another Advent Wreath craft, with prayers, and here are different directions for a traditional Advent Wreath.

Most kids love to help in the kitchen and the Catholic Cuisine blog has recipes that carry you through the liturgical year. See what they are cooking up for Advent.

Part of a large site by a Passionist, here are Advent prayers for children.

Sign up for Holy Heroes and your kids can get daily emails of Advent activities.

Creighton University reminds parents that the most important thing to do to prepare children for Advent is for parents to prepare themselves. However, they provide several family Advent activities.

Of course the most necessary part of celebrating Advent is celebrating Sunday mass with the community. The web gives us lots of resources to help children understand the weekly readings. The publishers of the Faith First religion texts have weekly summaries, discussion topics and activities based on the readings. Sadlier has a similar site. Catholic Mom.com has coloring pages, worksheets, lesson plans, and more for each week. Open Wednesday has a variety of activities as well.

Thank your RAnn for your contribution. Join us tomorrow and every day in December for more reflections produced by great Catholic New media personalities.

1. Send me your feedback on the blog at http://cc.ductapeguy.net by email at (catholicroundup@gmail.com) catholicroundup (at) gmail (dot) com or by calling 206-337-0611.

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