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Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

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Second part of an adult education exploration of the net and its applications to facebound, extended and online religious organizations.
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Page 1: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

Westwood The Net and U

Terry Andersonterryaathabascauca

Part 2

bull May 13

ndash What can our youth teach us about Net use

ndash Web affordances - Demos and Questions

bull May 20

ndash Taxonomy of the Soul in Cyberspace

Five technological capabilitiesAwareness Recognise the new technologies their

products and applications

User Use the new technological tools to support

learning work and life

Maker Apply the new technologies to produce new

lsquoproductsrsquo and services

Evaluator Make critical judgments about the new

technologies their products and their impacts

Holistic Recognise the impact of the new technologies

on how we think

Prof David Layton

Introductions

bull Tell us about an instance when you used effectively (or ineffectively) web resources or their use added confusion

bull Do you have something you want to learn or share about the net in these sessions

Terryrsquos Soul in Cyberspace

bull 2001 paper delivered at Westwood and CUC with a taxonomy of three major Uses of the Net by religious Organizations

1 Enhancing place bound churches

2 Substituting Net for face-to-face activities

3 Net Native Religious activities

Taxonomy of the lsquoManyrsquoDron and Anderson 2007

GroupConscious membership

Leadership and organizationCohorts and paced

Rules and guidelinesAccess and privacy controls

Focused and often time limitedMay be blended F2F

Metaphor Virtual classroom

6

Group

NetworkShared interestpractice

Fluid membershipFriends of friends

Reputation and altruism drivenEmergent norms structures

Activity ebbs and flowsRarely F2F

Metaphor Virtual Community of Practice7

Group Network

CollectivelsquoAggregated otherrsquo

Unconscious lsquowisdom of crowdsrsquoStigmergic aggregation

Algorithmic rulesAugmentation and annotation

More used more usefulData MiningNever F2F

Metaphor Wisdom of Crowds

8

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull Administration - Making things more efficient and more effectivendash A tour of Westwoodrsquos Home Page

ndash Picking meeting dates ndash Meetingwizardcom

ndash Our Yahoo mailing list and committee mailing lists

ndash Email makes the world go round (and drives some of us crazy Strategies for survival

ndash Collaborative reports

ndash Google docs and cloud computing

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull The role of Social Networksndash Profiles

ndash Groups

ndash Calendars

ndash Personal updates ndash ldquothe wallrdquo blogs

ndash Sharing of photos

bull Church Based Social Networks sitesndash On Facebook

ndash On Ning

ndash On Athabascarsquos Me2u

2 Replacing or extending Face-to-Face

bull Conferencesndash Virtual Conferences

bull Green savings time savings disruption and opportunity costs

ndash UUTeens from many churches on Ning

bull Church of the Larger Fellowship

bull Attend church when travelling sick or feeling green - Celebration Church of Jacksonville example

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 2: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

bull May 13

ndash What can our youth teach us about Net use

ndash Web affordances - Demos and Questions

bull May 20

ndash Taxonomy of the Soul in Cyberspace

Five technological capabilitiesAwareness Recognise the new technologies their

products and applications

User Use the new technological tools to support

learning work and life

Maker Apply the new technologies to produce new

lsquoproductsrsquo and services

Evaluator Make critical judgments about the new

technologies their products and their impacts

Holistic Recognise the impact of the new technologies

on how we think

Prof David Layton

Introductions

bull Tell us about an instance when you used effectively (or ineffectively) web resources or their use added confusion

bull Do you have something you want to learn or share about the net in these sessions

Terryrsquos Soul in Cyberspace

bull 2001 paper delivered at Westwood and CUC with a taxonomy of three major Uses of the Net by religious Organizations

1 Enhancing place bound churches

2 Substituting Net for face-to-face activities

3 Net Native Religious activities

Taxonomy of the lsquoManyrsquoDron and Anderson 2007

GroupConscious membership

Leadership and organizationCohorts and paced

Rules and guidelinesAccess and privacy controls

Focused and often time limitedMay be blended F2F

Metaphor Virtual classroom

6

Group

NetworkShared interestpractice

Fluid membershipFriends of friends

Reputation and altruism drivenEmergent norms structures

Activity ebbs and flowsRarely F2F

Metaphor Virtual Community of Practice7

Group Network

CollectivelsquoAggregated otherrsquo

Unconscious lsquowisdom of crowdsrsquoStigmergic aggregation

Algorithmic rulesAugmentation and annotation

More used more usefulData MiningNever F2F

Metaphor Wisdom of Crowds

8

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull Administration - Making things more efficient and more effectivendash A tour of Westwoodrsquos Home Page

ndash Picking meeting dates ndash Meetingwizardcom

ndash Our Yahoo mailing list and committee mailing lists

ndash Email makes the world go round (and drives some of us crazy Strategies for survival

ndash Collaborative reports

ndash Google docs and cloud computing

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull The role of Social Networksndash Profiles

ndash Groups

ndash Calendars

ndash Personal updates ndash ldquothe wallrdquo blogs

ndash Sharing of photos

bull Church Based Social Networks sitesndash On Facebook

ndash On Ning

ndash On Athabascarsquos Me2u

2 Replacing or extending Face-to-Face

bull Conferencesndash Virtual Conferences

bull Green savings time savings disruption and opportunity costs

ndash UUTeens from many churches on Ning

bull Church of the Larger Fellowship

bull Attend church when travelling sick or feeling green - Celebration Church of Jacksonville example

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 3: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

Five technological capabilitiesAwareness Recognise the new technologies their

products and applications

User Use the new technological tools to support

learning work and life

Maker Apply the new technologies to produce new

lsquoproductsrsquo and services

Evaluator Make critical judgments about the new

technologies their products and their impacts

Holistic Recognise the impact of the new technologies

on how we think

Prof David Layton

Introductions

bull Tell us about an instance when you used effectively (or ineffectively) web resources or their use added confusion

bull Do you have something you want to learn or share about the net in these sessions

Terryrsquos Soul in Cyberspace

bull 2001 paper delivered at Westwood and CUC with a taxonomy of three major Uses of the Net by religious Organizations

1 Enhancing place bound churches

2 Substituting Net for face-to-face activities

3 Net Native Religious activities

Taxonomy of the lsquoManyrsquoDron and Anderson 2007

GroupConscious membership

Leadership and organizationCohorts and paced

Rules and guidelinesAccess and privacy controls

Focused and often time limitedMay be blended F2F

Metaphor Virtual classroom

6

Group

NetworkShared interestpractice

Fluid membershipFriends of friends

Reputation and altruism drivenEmergent norms structures

Activity ebbs and flowsRarely F2F

Metaphor Virtual Community of Practice7

Group Network

CollectivelsquoAggregated otherrsquo

Unconscious lsquowisdom of crowdsrsquoStigmergic aggregation

Algorithmic rulesAugmentation and annotation

More used more usefulData MiningNever F2F

Metaphor Wisdom of Crowds

8

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull Administration - Making things more efficient and more effectivendash A tour of Westwoodrsquos Home Page

ndash Picking meeting dates ndash Meetingwizardcom

ndash Our Yahoo mailing list and committee mailing lists

ndash Email makes the world go round (and drives some of us crazy Strategies for survival

ndash Collaborative reports

ndash Google docs and cloud computing

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull The role of Social Networksndash Profiles

ndash Groups

ndash Calendars

ndash Personal updates ndash ldquothe wallrdquo blogs

ndash Sharing of photos

bull Church Based Social Networks sitesndash On Facebook

ndash On Ning

ndash On Athabascarsquos Me2u

2 Replacing or extending Face-to-Face

bull Conferencesndash Virtual Conferences

bull Green savings time savings disruption and opportunity costs

ndash UUTeens from many churches on Ning

bull Church of the Larger Fellowship

bull Attend church when travelling sick or feeling green - Celebration Church of Jacksonville example

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 4: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

Introductions

bull Tell us about an instance when you used effectively (or ineffectively) web resources or their use added confusion

bull Do you have something you want to learn or share about the net in these sessions

Terryrsquos Soul in Cyberspace

bull 2001 paper delivered at Westwood and CUC with a taxonomy of three major Uses of the Net by religious Organizations

1 Enhancing place bound churches

2 Substituting Net for face-to-face activities

3 Net Native Religious activities

Taxonomy of the lsquoManyrsquoDron and Anderson 2007

GroupConscious membership

Leadership and organizationCohorts and paced

Rules and guidelinesAccess and privacy controls

Focused and often time limitedMay be blended F2F

Metaphor Virtual classroom

6

Group

NetworkShared interestpractice

Fluid membershipFriends of friends

Reputation and altruism drivenEmergent norms structures

Activity ebbs and flowsRarely F2F

Metaphor Virtual Community of Practice7

Group Network

CollectivelsquoAggregated otherrsquo

Unconscious lsquowisdom of crowdsrsquoStigmergic aggregation

Algorithmic rulesAugmentation and annotation

More used more usefulData MiningNever F2F

Metaphor Wisdom of Crowds

8

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull Administration - Making things more efficient and more effectivendash A tour of Westwoodrsquos Home Page

ndash Picking meeting dates ndash Meetingwizardcom

ndash Our Yahoo mailing list and committee mailing lists

ndash Email makes the world go round (and drives some of us crazy Strategies for survival

ndash Collaborative reports

ndash Google docs and cloud computing

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull The role of Social Networksndash Profiles

ndash Groups

ndash Calendars

ndash Personal updates ndash ldquothe wallrdquo blogs

ndash Sharing of photos

bull Church Based Social Networks sitesndash On Facebook

ndash On Ning

ndash On Athabascarsquos Me2u

2 Replacing or extending Face-to-Face

bull Conferencesndash Virtual Conferences

bull Green savings time savings disruption and opportunity costs

ndash UUTeens from many churches on Ning

bull Church of the Larger Fellowship

bull Attend church when travelling sick or feeling green - Celebration Church of Jacksonville example

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 5: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

Terryrsquos Soul in Cyberspace

bull 2001 paper delivered at Westwood and CUC with a taxonomy of three major Uses of the Net by religious Organizations

1 Enhancing place bound churches

2 Substituting Net for face-to-face activities

3 Net Native Religious activities

Taxonomy of the lsquoManyrsquoDron and Anderson 2007

GroupConscious membership

Leadership and organizationCohorts and paced

Rules and guidelinesAccess and privacy controls

Focused and often time limitedMay be blended F2F

Metaphor Virtual classroom

6

Group

NetworkShared interestpractice

Fluid membershipFriends of friends

Reputation and altruism drivenEmergent norms structures

Activity ebbs and flowsRarely F2F

Metaphor Virtual Community of Practice7

Group Network

CollectivelsquoAggregated otherrsquo

Unconscious lsquowisdom of crowdsrsquoStigmergic aggregation

Algorithmic rulesAugmentation and annotation

More used more usefulData MiningNever F2F

Metaphor Wisdom of Crowds

8

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull Administration - Making things more efficient and more effectivendash A tour of Westwoodrsquos Home Page

ndash Picking meeting dates ndash Meetingwizardcom

ndash Our Yahoo mailing list and committee mailing lists

ndash Email makes the world go round (and drives some of us crazy Strategies for survival

ndash Collaborative reports

ndash Google docs and cloud computing

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull The role of Social Networksndash Profiles

ndash Groups

ndash Calendars

ndash Personal updates ndash ldquothe wallrdquo blogs

ndash Sharing of photos

bull Church Based Social Networks sitesndash On Facebook

ndash On Ning

ndash On Athabascarsquos Me2u

2 Replacing or extending Face-to-Face

bull Conferencesndash Virtual Conferences

bull Green savings time savings disruption and opportunity costs

ndash UUTeens from many churches on Ning

bull Church of the Larger Fellowship

bull Attend church when travelling sick or feeling green - Celebration Church of Jacksonville example

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 6: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

Taxonomy of the lsquoManyrsquoDron and Anderson 2007

GroupConscious membership

Leadership and organizationCohorts and paced

Rules and guidelinesAccess and privacy controls

Focused and often time limitedMay be blended F2F

Metaphor Virtual classroom

6

Group

NetworkShared interestpractice

Fluid membershipFriends of friends

Reputation and altruism drivenEmergent norms structures

Activity ebbs and flowsRarely F2F

Metaphor Virtual Community of Practice7

Group Network

CollectivelsquoAggregated otherrsquo

Unconscious lsquowisdom of crowdsrsquoStigmergic aggregation

Algorithmic rulesAugmentation and annotation

More used more usefulData MiningNever F2F

Metaphor Wisdom of Crowds

8

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull Administration - Making things more efficient and more effectivendash A tour of Westwoodrsquos Home Page

ndash Picking meeting dates ndash Meetingwizardcom

ndash Our Yahoo mailing list and committee mailing lists

ndash Email makes the world go round (and drives some of us crazy Strategies for survival

ndash Collaborative reports

ndash Google docs and cloud computing

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull The role of Social Networksndash Profiles

ndash Groups

ndash Calendars

ndash Personal updates ndash ldquothe wallrdquo blogs

ndash Sharing of photos

bull Church Based Social Networks sitesndash On Facebook

ndash On Ning

ndash On Athabascarsquos Me2u

2 Replacing or extending Face-to-Face

bull Conferencesndash Virtual Conferences

bull Green savings time savings disruption and opportunity costs

ndash UUTeens from many churches on Ning

bull Church of the Larger Fellowship

bull Attend church when travelling sick or feeling green - Celebration Church of Jacksonville example

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 7: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

Group

NetworkShared interestpractice

Fluid membershipFriends of friends

Reputation and altruism drivenEmergent norms structures

Activity ebbs and flowsRarely F2F

Metaphor Virtual Community of Practice7

Group Network

CollectivelsquoAggregated otherrsquo

Unconscious lsquowisdom of crowdsrsquoStigmergic aggregation

Algorithmic rulesAugmentation and annotation

More used more usefulData MiningNever F2F

Metaphor Wisdom of Crowds

8

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull Administration - Making things more efficient and more effectivendash A tour of Westwoodrsquos Home Page

ndash Picking meeting dates ndash Meetingwizardcom

ndash Our Yahoo mailing list and committee mailing lists

ndash Email makes the world go round (and drives some of us crazy Strategies for survival

ndash Collaborative reports

ndash Google docs and cloud computing

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull The role of Social Networksndash Profiles

ndash Groups

ndash Calendars

ndash Personal updates ndash ldquothe wallrdquo blogs

ndash Sharing of photos

bull Church Based Social Networks sitesndash On Facebook

ndash On Ning

ndash On Athabascarsquos Me2u

2 Replacing or extending Face-to-Face

bull Conferencesndash Virtual Conferences

bull Green savings time savings disruption and opportunity costs

ndash UUTeens from many churches on Ning

bull Church of the Larger Fellowship

bull Attend church when travelling sick or feeling green - Celebration Church of Jacksonville example

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 8: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

Group Network

CollectivelsquoAggregated otherrsquo

Unconscious lsquowisdom of crowdsrsquoStigmergic aggregation

Algorithmic rulesAugmentation and annotation

More used more usefulData MiningNever F2F

Metaphor Wisdom of Crowds

8

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull Administration - Making things more efficient and more effectivendash A tour of Westwoodrsquos Home Page

ndash Picking meeting dates ndash Meetingwizardcom

ndash Our Yahoo mailing list and committee mailing lists

ndash Email makes the world go round (and drives some of us crazy Strategies for survival

ndash Collaborative reports

ndash Google docs and cloud computing

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull The role of Social Networksndash Profiles

ndash Groups

ndash Calendars

ndash Personal updates ndash ldquothe wallrdquo blogs

ndash Sharing of photos

bull Church Based Social Networks sitesndash On Facebook

ndash On Ning

ndash On Athabascarsquos Me2u

2 Replacing or extending Face-to-Face

bull Conferencesndash Virtual Conferences

bull Green savings time savings disruption and opportunity costs

ndash UUTeens from many churches on Ning

bull Church of the Larger Fellowship

bull Attend church when travelling sick or feeling green - Celebration Church of Jacksonville example

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 9: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull Administration - Making things more efficient and more effectivendash A tour of Westwoodrsquos Home Page

ndash Picking meeting dates ndash Meetingwizardcom

ndash Our Yahoo mailing list and committee mailing lists

ndash Email makes the world go round (and drives some of us crazy Strategies for survival

ndash Collaborative reports

ndash Google docs and cloud computing

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull The role of Social Networksndash Profiles

ndash Groups

ndash Calendars

ndash Personal updates ndash ldquothe wallrdquo blogs

ndash Sharing of photos

bull Church Based Social Networks sitesndash On Facebook

ndash On Ning

ndash On Athabascarsquos Me2u

2 Replacing or extending Face-to-Face

bull Conferencesndash Virtual Conferences

bull Green savings time savings disruption and opportunity costs

ndash UUTeens from many churches on Ning

bull Church of the Larger Fellowship

bull Attend church when travelling sick or feeling green - Celebration Church of Jacksonville example

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 10: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

Enhancing Face-to-Face Churches

bull The role of Social Networksndash Profiles

ndash Groups

ndash Calendars

ndash Personal updates ndash ldquothe wallrdquo blogs

ndash Sharing of photos

bull Church Based Social Networks sitesndash On Facebook

ndash On Ning

ndash On Athabascarsquos Me2u

2 Replacing or extending Face-to-Face

bull Conferencesndash Virtual Conferences

bull Green savings time savings disruption and opportunity costs

ndash UUTeens from many churches on Ning

bull Church of the Larger Fellowship

bull Attend church when travelling sick or feeling green - Celebration Church of Jacksonville example

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 11: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

2 Replacing or extending Face-to-Face

bull Conferencesndash Virtual Conferences

bull Green savings time savings disruption and opportunity costs

ndash UUTeens from many churches on Ning

bull Church of the Larger Fellowship

bull Attend church when travelling sick or feeling green - Celebration Church of Jacksonville example

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 12: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

3 Net Centric Religious Organizations

bull Unitarians on SecondLife

bull Church of Reality

bull The Methodists Church of Fools

See Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 13: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

Moral Struggles in Cyberspace

bull Brenda E Brasher author of Give Me That Online Religion describes four types of attitudes contending for moral conquest of cyberspace

ndash Utopians ndash Land of opportunity

ndash Anarchists ndash Goodbye constraints

ndash Tourists ndash lsquogolly geersquo what will they think of next

ndash Oblivious ndash I just donrsquot get it

To interact via a computer screen with an online Hindu temple is a profoundly different religious experiencerdquo Brasher 2004 p 4

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends

Page 14: Westwood Unitarian And The Net Part 2

Your turn

bull Is there a net site or application you would like to share with us

bull Do you have a burning question

bull How can the tools of the net best sewrveWestwood its members and friends