Over at SimplyYouthMinistry.com we are giving away triple reward points on every purchase for the next 2 days. It’s a great time to pick-up any resources you’ve been thinking about.
(And yes, that’s me on the Social Network poster, are they trying to tell me something?)
The folks over and YouVersion.com and Zondervan have made the new version of the NIV available as a free offline version in the Bible App. Check out their announcement:
2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible. To commemorate this milestone achievement, which made the Bible available in the common language of the people, throughout 2011, YouVersion will roll out events and opportunities that will help you more easily access, engage and share the Bible. The first of these events is that Bible App™ users will be able to download the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible. Made possible through a special partnership with Biblica and Zondervan, this offer will only be available for a limited time.
Beginning THIS SATURDAY, February 12, at 8:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time (GMT-5), and lasting for 400 hours, you’ll be able to download the NIV to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Android device. When you download the NIV, that means you’ll be able to read it even when you can’t connect to your service provider or to the Internet. This special promotion will end on March 1, at 12:00 PM noon U.S. Eastern Time (GMT-5).
Read more about how to download over at their blog.
I loved seeing this, I had actually stopped using the Bible app and had started using the TNIV Bible – Tecarta app because it had two features that the Bible app lacked.
In the last few months, YouVersion has stepped up and added the notes feature, and now they have given me the version we use most at church. Tecarta still has a few features that I like, a parallel version view and cross references, but I still find the YouVersion app so much easier to use, so I think it’s time to switch back.
If you don’t have the Bible app you can get it here:
There are others available also, but I think those two links should cover most of you.
Remember the free NIV download is only for a limited time. Don’t miss it.
Happy Reading!
OK, today was the big game, but I’m going to let other people that are much smarter talk abou the football side of things. Let’s talk about the commercials, after all that’s why everyone watches, right?
In case you missed any, or you just decided you’d wait till later to see what the best were, here are a few places to catch-up:
Between these two sites you can catch pretty much all the commercials from the game.
One of my favorite class of commercials is always the movie ones, and this year they got my little geek heart excited. Here are a couple of the films we got our first looks at that I can’t wait to see:
Super 8
Captain America
The VW jedi one was pretty great too.
Also if you’d like to take the conversation with your students further, Walt Mueller over at CPYU put together a discussion guide that you can download from his blog.
What were your favorites?
We’ve talked about Spin That Wheel before, and I think it’s one of the most fun media products to come along for a youth worker in awhile. It’s a customizable prize wheel. It’s great for prizes or challenges. It can really help add some fun to your up front youth group games.
From the site:
Spin That Wheel
is a rockin large group interactive game. As a stand alone application, the software allows you to add up to 15 custom prizes to the wheel, then spin it to see what you get! (Wow, I just won a bag of Pork Rinds*) It has a random winner every time. Find yourself a great host, a really bad outfit, and you are in for a great night. *Prizes not included.
It’s now available at Simply Youth Ministry and we are so excited about our friendship with Digital Stashe. We also have a some of their other resources (Looped Vol. 1, Looped Vol. 2,
Color Flow Song Kit,
Underwater Disco Song Kit, and more in the media category at Simply ) and will have more in the future.
Check it out Spin That Wheel, it’s definitely worth the price.
Today I’ve been working on finalizing the schedule for the tech room we are going to have at this year’s Simply Youth Ministry Conference. We’ve got some great seminars lined up that should get any youth ministry geek excited.
Topics include: Using media in your programs, creative branding, free technologies for your ministry, working smart, making video magic, harnessing the power of social media, importance of design, and so much more. We have enough tech workshops you could make it a tech ministry conference with everything else as a bonus.
Some of our tech speakers are: Tim Schmoyer, Brandon Early, Josh Griffin, Dave Harris, just to name a few. (I guess I could have listed myself also).
Plus there will be time to drop in with your questions so you can come away better equipped. All the speakers are around and available to talk with and ask questions of. It’s really an interactive event.
I would love to have you join us, but the deadline for registration is coming up quick, and it’s almost sold out. So don’t wait too long.
Visit: YouthMinistry.com/SYMC for more info.
I love the tech that comes out of the student and college/young adult ministries at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, KY. These guys have brought us some great blogs like steveostudios.tv fun and solid content in their podcast churchtechtalk, usable free resources at stufficanuse.com, now a few cool products at digitalstache.
Their latest resource for ministry, Spin That Wheel, is not free but is worth it weight in SPAM (SPAM is considered gourmet food in Hawaii). We saw this game for the first time at the Simply Youth Ministry Conference last February (register for this years conference before they sell out again).
Here is a brief description from their product website… “Spin That Wheel is a rockin large group interactive game. As a stand alone application, the software allows you to add up to 15 custom prizes to the wheel, then spin it to see what you get! (Wow, I just won a bag of Pork Rinds*) It has a random winner every time. Find yourself a great host, a really bad outfit, and you are in for a great night.”
*Prizes not included.
The students in our ministry love this game and I want to share a copy with one of you for your ministry. To get a chance at snagging a FREE copy, you must take the following TWO actions:
1. Leave a comment below. Tell us how you are PLAYING GAMES using TECHNOLOGY. (ie. Spin That Wheel, PowerPoint Games, Race This, etc…share your best idea with us). Leave your twitter name in the comment.
2. Follow youthministrygeek on twitter. We will send you a direct message if you are the winner.
On Friday December 17 we will pick the post with the best “tech game” idea and send a copy of Spin That Wheel for FREE! If you don’t will you can always pick up your own copy at digitalstache.com. Soon you’ll be able to pick it up at Simply Youth Ministry also.
