29 November 2010 / Praying by heart

The focus situation for this week is ...

Much like last week, the focus situation for this week is a series of songs I'd like you to listen to, and then a set of questions to muse on before your small group work.

My video for this week:

Please read the CIQ summary from last week.

On Friday, fill out a CIQ for the past week

The other individual work includes making sure that you've started your portfolio, and in particular, have at least done the basic self assessment on competencies. This week is also a good time to download the piece from Feautor that you want to review, and to start thinking about what you're going to contribute to Feautor.

By Friday, fill out the mid class personal evaluation form and email it to me

Your small group summary is due on Wednesday, posted to the course blog.

By Friday, comment on one of the group summaries (in a way that is more than simply a "verbal bouquet").

By Friday, fill out the mid class personal evaluation form and email it to me

On Friday, fill out a CIQ for the past week

Your small group summary is due on Friday, posted to the course blog.

30 November 2009 / Praying by heart

30 November 2008 / Praying by heart

On Tuesday, fill out a CIQ for the past week

Last week's CIQ results

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Looking backward to last week's conversations

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Looking forward to this week's conversations

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[Looking backward to last week's conversation]

Looking backward to last week's conversation?

Last week's CIQ results

One quick note: as with last week, listening to these assigned songs is best done only with adults, and often provokes a lot of feelings. In your small groups you might want to take some time early in the cycle simply to process the feelings evoked by the songs. I am assuming that you will cycle through the cluster questions around the song exercise (NOT the individual physical exercise -- if you want to comment on that, please use the full class discussion thread to do so).

Much like last week, the focus situation for this week a series of songs I'd like you to listen to, and then a set of questions to muse on before your small group work.

I'd like you to try this short physical exercise, which is an embodied -- or kinesthetic -- kind of learning. It will take about 15 minutes to do, and you should try it with enough space around you in front of your computer so that you can move freely. (Don't be alarmed that the page begins by talking about a book that you haven't read. I originally put this exercise together online for a different course.)

I'd like you to try this short physical exercise, which is an embodied -- or kinesthetic -- kind of learning. It will take about 15 minutes to do, and you should try it with enough space around you (in front of your computer) so that you can move freely. Don't be alarmed that the page begins by talking about a book that you haven't read. I originally put this exercise together online for a different course.

One caution before trying this, however: if at any point you feel something that is too difficult to sustain, please do not continue the exercise and seek some appropriate counsel.

The other individual work includes making sure that you've started your portfolio, and in particular, have at least done the basic self assessment on competencies. This week is also a good time to download the piece from Feautor that you want to review, and to start thinking about what you're going to contribute to Feautor.

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Looking forward to this week's conversations

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Looking forward to this week's conversations

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Opening prayer

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Looking forward to this week's conversations

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Looking forward to this week's conversations

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Make sure you've started your portfolio, and in particular, have at least done the basic self assessment on competencies. This week is also a good time to download the piece from Feautor that you want to review, and to start thinking about what you're going to contribute to Feautor.

Make sure you've started your portfolio, and in particular, have at least done the basic self assessment on competencies. This week is also a good time to download the piece from Feautor that you want to review, and to start thinking about what you're going to contribute to Feautor.

Make sure you've started your portfolio, and in particular, have at least done the basic self assessment on competencies. This week is also a good time to download the piece from Feautor that you want to review, and to start thinking about what you're going to contribute to Feautor.

By Tuesday, fill out the mid class personal evaluation form and email it to me

By Tuesday, fill out the mid class personal evaluation form

On Tuesday, fill out a CIQ for the past week

Last week's CIQ results

Your small group summary is due on Saturday, posted to the course blog.

By Tuesday, comment on one of the group summaries (in a way that is more than simply a "verbal bouquet") or post to the full class discussion thread for the week at MyLutherNet.

By Tuesday, fill out the mid class personal evaluation form

One quick note: as with last week, listening to these assigned songs is best done only with adults, and often provokes a lot of feelings. In your small groups you might want to take some time early in the cycle simply to process the feelings evoked by the exercise.

One quick note: as with last week, listening to these assigned songs is best done only with adults, and often provokes a lot of feelings. In your small groups you might want to take some time early in the cycle simply to process the feelings evoked by the exercise.

As with last week, it's better to listen to these songs without children around. And when you start your small group discussion, leave some room at the beginning of the cycle to discuss the feelings evoked by the songs, before you turn to more analytical questions.

Much like last week, this week I have a series of songs I'd like you to listen to, and then a set of questions to muse on before your small group work.

Cluster question assignments

[My presentation/video for this week]

This week we're going to be working with the curriculum Harris calls leiturgia. There are lots of ways to think about worship and prayer, and indeed you have other classes devoted to these elements of Christian life. In this setting, we're going to focus on some basic ideas about what prayer is, how we experience it, how we can invite people into various practices of prayer, and so on.

Much like last week, this week I have a series of songs I'd like you to listen to, and then a set of questions to muse on before your small group work.

This week I have a couple of different songs I'd like you to listen to, and then a set of questions to muse on before your small group work.

On Tuesday, fill out a CIQ for the past week

By the end of this week, fill out the mid class personal evaluation form

On Tuesday, fill out a CIQ for the past week

Make sure you've started your portfolio, and in particular, have at least done the basic self assessment on competencies

This week we're going to be working with the curriculum Harris calls leiturgia. There are lots of ways to think about worship and prayer, and indeed you have other classes devoted to these elements of Christian life. In this setting, let's focus on some basic questions about what prayer is, how we experience it, how we can invite people into various practices of prayer.

This week I have a couple of different songs and videos I'd like you to watch, and then a set of questions to muse on before your small group work.

[My presentation/video for this week]

Read Teaching the Bible in the Church by Bracke and Tye and take the book quiz

Individual work

Read Teaching the Bible in the Church by Bracke and Tye

This week we're going to be working with the curriculum Harris calls leiturgia. There are lots of ways to think about worship and prayer, and indeed you have other classes devoted to these elements of Christian life. In this setting, let's focus on how we invite people to learn about a particular ritual, the sacrament of communion, in the context of a congregation.

This week we're going to be working with the curriculum Harris calls leiturgia. There are lots of ways to think about worship and prayer, and indeed you have other classes devoted to these elements of Christian life. In this setting, let's focus on how we invite people to learn about a particular ritual, the sacrament of communion, in the context of a congregation.

Here again I have a video for you to watch, and then the small groups will work on the cluster questions.

Cluster question assignments:

Group one : Learning

Group two : Assessment

Group three : Bible

Group four : Ritual

Group five : History

19 November 2008 / Praying by heart

The curriculum of leiturgia

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