Some of the latest technology that can help international student ministers presentation

1. Roy Yabuki
DFW Director, Tech Specialist
International Students Inc.

2.  Met God early, got to know
Him in college
 Japanese-American
(Third culture)
 Lived all over country…
 Grew up with computers
 Passion is ministry and helping people to do
ministry as effectively as God called them to
 This stuff does not necessarily come easy for me
either.

3. Make You aware about some of the things
that are available
Basic sense of what is important for you to
learn
Start dialogue about your ideas and questions
and introduce you to a medium to continue
dialogue.
Some places to go for questions
and to foster continuous learning

4. Photo/Video Sharing
 Getting the Story Out
 Build Trust
 For Students/Support Partners/Volunteers
 Fun, sharing, viral
 Makes Events & Lessons learned indelible
 Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Youtube, Vimeo
Wiki’s, Blogs, Groupware
 How to survive in… Wiki
 Mailing list (googlegroups, yahoogroups, iContact,
ConstantContact)

5. Public Truth Sharing Media
 Blogs (can take password)
 Websites to share (e.g. http://lookingforgod.com,
http://allaboutgod.com/,
http://www.biblegateway.com/)
E-mail – more private (mass & personal)
Google
Truth & Falsehood spreads quickly

6.  Online Instant Communication –
(Skype/MSN/Yahoo/Google talk)
 Supplements face-to-face
 Local/Long Distance
 Group/Individual
 Returnees

7. Web 2.0 is about organizing like-minded people in different places for causes
 Facebook Causes section
 On Facebook donors, perspective
supporters, volunteers even students see what is
happening catch the vision
 See who is interacting with which students at what
level…
 Share students
 Encourages Kingdom thinking
 Makes ministry less parochial

8. Web 2.0 is about organizing like-minded people in different places for causes
 Other Tools
 Tool to allow Many people can develop content
together
 Tools to Organize online (Automated Event
Planning)
 Share ideas and so learn faster from collective
knowledge

9. Web 2.0 Technologies supplements
but does not replace direct human
touch
Web 2.0 is intrusive and so forces
transparency
 People will find out the truth
 Why afraid of intrusive things?
Everything is “live,” but archived so
be wise about what say and reveal

10. No more gatekeepers
 Direct access is the norm
 Implications on our relationships with students
 Implications for making relationships on campus
Discipline vs. Nuisance
 Like anything, Weekly
gathering, visiting campus,
prayer letters –
takes discipline
Learning curve steep but
getting gentler

11. More people around the
world on the internet doing
more things
How People Use the Internet
US Adults US 18-27 US 18-27
Men Women
Creators 25% 41% 37%
Critics 25% 45% 37%
Collectors 12% 29% 16%
Joiners 25% 59% 58%
Spectators 48% 67% 60%
Inactives 44% 22% 28%
Groups include people participating in at least
one of the activities monthly. From
http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell/profile_tool
.html.

12. Mobile Internet Will be Main Access
 According to Cisco 2009, Mobile internet will grow
66 times in the next five years
 Annual growth rate for Asia projects to 146% and
166% for Latin America.

13. There will be more working together using the
internet
Movements will spread quicker, Ideas develop
and change faster. Resembles spread of a
virus in the jet age

14. What are your technology challenges and
needs?
What are your goals for being at this seminar?
Which areas in handout do you want to focus
on?
 May not have time to do all…

15. Social Networking
Sharing the Story – Getting the Message Out
 Video – Stored on their site, Embedded on yours
 Photos
 Creating Easy Websites
 Mass e-mail

22. Pictures

23. Working together
 Working together
 Making life easier ?!
 The Body being the Body
 Still need communication & coordination
Students/Volunteers/Supporters as
innovators and co-creators
 Web is becoming more of a 2
way conversation than a store
front.

27. Social Networking
Technologies for Sharing Ideas, Questions,
Resources
Microblogging (aka What is a Twitter and do I
twitter or do I tweet?)
Group Database
Event Planning/Registration

29. Free
Way to create quick
self contained social
network
Takes time to manage
and maintain

30. Eventbrite

31. Blogs
Forums
Wikis
Project Management Sites
Cloud computing

32. Like a Ship’s Log or a Journal Story of the Journey
Observations, What happened and what was
learned
Chronological but searchable
Idea Sharing & Amalgamation

33.  Forums
“An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site. It is
the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board, and a
technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system. People
participating in an Internet forum may cultivate social bonds and
interest groups for a topic may form from the discussions.”
 Wikis
A wiki is a website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation
and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages/documents
with easy search capability. In other words a place where people
can store many documents that all of them are editing together to
created a body of information. (e.g.wikipedia)
 Project Management Sites

35. Shared documents
 Google docs
 Zoho
 Office Live Workspace
Shared Storage
 Microsoft Skydrive
 Box.net
 Drop.io

36. Voip/Screensharing/Conference Calling

37. Private Publishing
 Blogs/Wiki/Filesharing
 Scribd – books, booklets, etc.
 Slideshare.com

38. iPhone, Blackberry, Google Android
Netbooks & Cloud computing

39. Conclusion
Other Resources
 How do I? Online tutorials…
http://ISMTips.net
to stay on top of this stuff and to share you
ideas… Not just about Technology but all
innovative ideas in international student
ministry.