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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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