Google Docs for Young Life Camp Program Planning

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Apr 252011

My Young Life team has used Google Docs for our semester Club plans for years. It allows all of our leaders to have access to view & update the plan at any time or even at the same time. When I was asked to do Program at Southwind, I just put everything on Google Docs for that, too. Turns out it was extremely useful since we had team members in Florida, Georgia, & Tennessee. All of us were able to work on the Camp Schedule, Club Plans, and even the Song slides collaboratively. This is a little demonstration of how we did it.

Using Google Docs For Young Life Camp Program Planning from Chris Storms on Vimeo.

Using Google Forms For Panel Questioning

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Apr 222011

If you want to allow kids to ask anonymous questions, Google Forms is a great way to do it. Once the form is created you can send the link out through Facebook or Email and generate good & more thoughtful response than asking for questions at the panel discussion. Here’s a video tutorial for how to set it up.

Using Google Forms For Panel Discussions from Chris Storms on Vimeo.

Bring Information To You - Using Google Reader

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Apr 212011

Finding relevant, new content on websites can be hit & miss and very time consuming – not good especially for teachers who are strapped for time as it is. That’s why you need to take advantage of a news reader, if you haven’t already. These videos demonstrate how to subscribe to the RSS (really simple syndication) feeds of websites/blogs so that instead of looking all over the place for the relevant content, the content is brought straight to you.

Google Reader Part 1 from Chris Storms on Vimeo.

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Map Out Your Meetings With Google Docs

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Apr 202011

I used to send out an email or text addresses to our leaders each week with directions to where we were having Young Life, but I just learned to use Google Docs to quickly create a Google Map from a simple spreadsheet. I’m planning on doing this from now on. It’ll save me a ton of time and it can be shared not only with leaders, but with kids, staff, & committee folks. Take a look.

BTW, the addresses used for this are all random from my county’s property appraiser website.

Google Docs For Google Map from Chris Storms on Vimeo.

Using Google Docs To Collect Anonymous Responses

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Jan 252011

My Young Life Club team decided we wanted to do a panel discussion for our kids. We planned to have all the leaders sit in front of the room. We’d read their questions and then attempt to give meaningful answers.

Getting questions ahead of time was important to us, because we wanted to be able to look through them before answering. We also wanted to make sure the questions were anonymous so kids really felt comfortable asking anything.

So, we decided to use Google Docs to create an anonymous form. Then we messaged all our students with the URL and told them to ask away. It worked really well.

Using Google Forms For Panel Discussions from Chris Storms on Vimeo.

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