Friday, May 21, 2010

What's in the Bible? DVDs --an awesome new series

What's in the Bible? DVDS
--the new series for the creator of VeggieTales.

From the creator of VeggieTales comes a brand new series of really fun teaching videos that take your kids through the Bible.


Fast-paced and humorous "shows" about books of the Bible featuring "muppet quality" puppeteering, songs, and lots of great animations and illustrations, --and infused with the humor kids love, and parents have come to expect from the creator of VeggieTales.

In What's in the Bible #1, In the Beginning, kids are introduced to the Bible and Genesis by your host, Buck Denver, and his cast of friends puppet. Kids will learn about the key people in Genesis and the important lessons their stories teach us.

In What's in the Bible #2, Let My People Go, kids are introduced to the book of Exodus: the oppression of the Israelites and the birth and rise of God’s chosen leader, Moses. The DVD also answers the question, who wrote the Bible? in a way kids can grasp.

In What’s In the Bible #3, Wanderin’ in the Desert, Buck Denver and his cast of friends take us through the next three books of the Bible—Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—helping kids understand how these books fit in with Genesis and Exodus to make up the Pentateuch and to set the stage for the trials and victories of God’s people.

$17.99 each. More DVDs to be released!

Ages 5 to 12.

ORDER THEM NOW via our Sunday Software online order form
www.sundaysoftware.com/order.htm
(Look for them in the "Videos" section at the bottom of the form)

I love great new media for kids, and the What's in the Bible? series is great stuff.
 
Neil MacQueen
http://www.sundaysoftware.com/
www.sundayresources.net/biblevideos

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Teaching with Computers and Software within the Workshop Rotation Model

I originally started experimenting with software in my Sunday School back in 1990 when my church created what has become known as The Workshop Rotation Model for Sunday School.

Computers were brand new to education back then and there was very little Christian software in existence, but we couldn't ignore the dramatic increase in ATTENTION our kids were experiencing in our early computer lab. Begun with two donated 386 IBM PCs, we used some simple quiz programs, and Bible trivia games. (Pictured right: two of my students in that original computer lab circa 1992 with the 386 computer).

The Workshop Rotation Model (WoRM) is a natural for incorporating computers into Sunday School. Why? Because in the WoRM, the kids go to a different workshop each week for four to five weeks while the teachers stay put. And all the grades are working on the same story in each workshop each week for four or five weeks in a row.

This means your computer lab teacher sees a different grade group each week.

Benefits include:
  1. You don't have to have new software each week because the kids are always changing.
  2. You can reuse software every month or two because each grade only come in every month or so.
  3. After the first week of a "rotation" the teacher really knows the software and is already improving their lesson plan.
  4. As the kids rotate through different workshops, their story proficiency grows --making a computer quizzes easier to use because they have a growing knowledge of what's in the quiz.
  5. As kids rotate, they don't get bored with any one teacher or medium.
  6. They anticipate coming into the computer lab with great excitement.
Read more of my articles ABOUT the Rotation Model at:
http://sundaysoftware.com/rotation/articles4rotation.htm

You can also order the Workshop Rotation Book at www.sundaysoftware.com/order.htm
Look for it at the end of our online order form.

Neil MacQueen
Welcome to my blog. To see what it's all about, view my first post: the christian software blog begins!