youthworkblog.co.uk: May 2007

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Text to speech conversion

Here's a useful tool the the busy person: http://www.naturalreaders.com/
I've used it in the car as away of reading up on something - I might buy the enterprise version so I can put documents on to my mp3 player...

// posted by Nigel @ Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1 Comments

Friday, May 25, 2007

Trust - video clip - Finding Nemo

Chloe made a great suggestion for a clip about Trust. You'll find it at Chapter 28 (1 hour 23 min) to Chapter 29 - 1 hour 26 min 10 sec of Finding Nemo. Basically in this clip a fishing boat captures a load of fish. Nemo knows how to set them free, but his father, concerned for his saftey, trys to stop him...but he eventually caves in and decides to trust him...

Labels: Rock Solid, Video clip ideas

// posted by Nigel @ Friday, May 25, 2007 0 Comments

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Talk response 25: the bubble project

Check out the street bubbles on thebubbleproject.com. Perhaps this idea could be used as a way of reflecting on the news or magazine articles.

This is also a good source for a bubble template for my gossip talk

Labels: Reflective

// posted by Nigel @ Wednesday, May 23, 2007 0 Comments

Monday, May 14, 2007

Perfectionism

Here's an interesting thought about perfectionisim.

// posted by Nigel @ Monday, May 14, 2007 0 Comments

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Tracts

I posted a question on the youthwork.co.uk forum a few weeks ago asking folks opinions about tracts. After looking at quite a few, here are what I've concluded so far...listed in order of preference (ie, the least cheesy and most appropriate):

The 4 Points credit card - this is short, small and well presented, good graphics
God's unfolding plan for you...looks a bit 1980's, but it's simple and to the point
The greatest team ever...this uses football to explain the gospel - ideal for those into sport
Reality bites...this uses a series of quotes from famous people to raise a few questions

// posted by Nigel @ Saturday, May 12, 2007 0 Comments

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Love - PowerPoint

I put together a PowerPoint for our All you need is Love Rock Solid night. You can download it here. Hopefully you'll find useful - we just had it continually playing on the projector during the night as a way of emphasising the theme.

Labels: Reflective, Rock Solid

// posted by Nigel @ Thursday, May 10, 2007 0 Comments

Monday, May 07, 2007

http://www.bethinking.org/

This looks like an interesting site to tell some of our young people about. It has a range of articles / stuff on apologetics, and there are a good number of mp3's for download.

Labels: Apologetics

// posted by Nigel @ Monday, May 07, 2007 0 Comments