ISM TIPs - Intl. Student Ministry - Technology & Innovation Place » Uncategorized http://ismtips.isisites.net Digest of innovative ministry ideas and the use of technology in international student ministry... Fri, 27 May 2011 19:52:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Evernote to get organized http://ismtips.isisites.net/2011/05/27/evernote-to-get-organized/ http://ismtips.isisites.net/2011/05/27/evernote-to-get-organized/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 19:51:47 +0000 Roy http://ismtips.isisites.net/?p=406 Hi all, For you all smart phone people(and even not), I want to let you know about this awesome app that  I use all the time for ministry. It is a great way to get organized, etc. it is called Evernote http://evernote.com/. It is a way to have a “notebook” that sync’s to every platform you use using the web. There are apps for computers: Web clipper, Mac OS X, Windows and for or mobile devices: iPhone / iPod Touch, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Palm Pre / Palm Pixi, Windows Mobile. It is very easy to use and it has really become indispensible for me in what we do. I’m sure Ron has a similar take. Below are some articles about how to use it.

http://www.digitizd.com/2009/04/23/9-ways-i-use-evernote/ – 9 ways I use evernote

http://www.lostintechnology.com/software/10-great-ways-to-use-evernote/ – 10 great ways to use evernote (related to “Getting things Done” by Allen)

There are other ways to use this too. The limits are only on your creativity on how it can be used. I manage my trips, my projects, my todo’s just about everything on this.

]]> http://ismtips.isisites.net/2011/05/27/evernote-to-get-organized/feed/ 0 Fun Powerpoint videos on how to do it http://ismtips.isisites.net/2011/04/07/fun-powerpoint-videos-on-how-to-do-it/ http://ismtips.isisites.net/2011/04/07/fun-powerpoint-videos-on-how-to-do-it/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 02:14:34 +0000 Roy http://ismtips.isisites.net/?p=398 Here is a fun site where microsoft gives tips and dos and don’t for powerpoint. We all can learn from these!

http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint-slidefest/do-and-dont.aspx?WT.mc_id=oo_enus_eml_videos

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]]> http://ismtips.isisites.net/2010/04/30/marketing-where-the-students-are/feed/ 0 How to Convert a YouTube Video to an Offline Format http://ismtips.isisites.net/2010/04/04/how-to-convert-a-youtube-video-to-an-offline-format/ http://ismtips.isisites.net/2010/04/04/how-to-convert-a-youtube-video-to-an-offline-format/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:39:05 +0000 Roy http://ismtips.isisites.net/?p=357 This comes to us from Brigada… Useful..

Did you ever face that dilemma? You wanted to show a video to an upcoming Perspectives class or to a Sunday School class… but you just weren’t sure you’d have access to the Internet in that environment. So ideally, you’d like to “harvest” the video off YouTube to some format that would play on your laptop solo — sort of like a DVD does, but from your hard drive instead. But you go to the YouTube page and… there really doesn’t appear to be any capability for that.

Well I faced that this past week with several YouTube videos I wanted to use when teaching Perspectives. I asked our I.T. guy for his favorite tool, because — honestly — every time I figure this out, it’s 6 months before I have to use it again and I forget! :-) He suggested a download service from dvdvideosoft.com. It didn’t work correctly on my browser/PC, for whatever reason. (He’s a Mac guy, so that might have been it.) But their free iPod converter seemed to do the trick flawlessly. (Play with the settings until it works for you.)

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-to-iPod-Converter.htm

This URL will “wrap”.. so if you have trouble reassembling it, just go to the Brigada webpage and click on the link we’ll provide you there. Snag that free program, convert the YouTube video to an iPod-compatible video, make sure you have QuickTime from Apple (I know; it was with great fear and trembling that I installed it again. Just make sure you uncheck the boxes that add free things that you don’t want), and you’re in business. The videos played at a fairly high level resolution *and* I didn’t have to worry about bandwidth stall-outs or connectivity in general. Good luck!

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