What Does It Mean To Be Catholic?

Welcome Mr. Dunlop's grade 10 Religion courses! As you know, for the next week we'll be in the library where we'll be engaging in some online (as well as active!) learning. So, let's get started.

Create a Blog During the course of this week you'll be given assignments to be completed online and posted to the blog you'll create for this course. You should use this site (blogger.com) and use your board e-mail to create an account. You can name and design your blog however you'd like but please include your name somewhere! I would also love it if you completed the About Me page so I can know a little bit more about you. When you have created an account tweet me a link to your new blog @MsLaurenCarey. Don't have twitter? Make one! If you can't, e-mail me at carey6@uwindsor.ca.

Make a Tagxedo
The first question I want you to think about is what being a catholic means to you. Take a minute and brainstorm a bunch of words and sentences that you relate to Catholicism and being Catholic. I want to know what you think it means to be a Catholic, not what google and the people of the internet think, avoid googling for this one. Go to www.tagxedo.com and create a shaped word cloud using the words you've come up with. Once on tagxedo click Create, then Load and Enter Text, don't forget to change the shape of your word cloud under options! Save your tagxedo as a 500jpg (first row) and the post it on your blog. Change the colours and font, make it look nice and post it to your blog with the title “What I think It Means To Be A Catholic” as your first post!

Make Your First Text Post Once you've finished your wordle, it's time to create your first text post. For this post I want you to think about times in your life you have felt God’s presence. Choose one time that you have strongly felt God’s presence in your life. Choose another time when you felt that God was not present. Once you have chosen these two moments in your life find an image, song, or video that symbolizes how you felt during each of these moments. Include the image/video/song to your post and write a paragraph about why you chose this image/video/song to represent your moment with or without God. Title this post “God’s Presence In My Life”. You don’t have to explain what was going on in the situations if you’re not comfortable, simply relay the feelings and emotions connected the experience and how close you felt to God at the time.

Your post might look something like this:

Post Title: God’s Presence in My Life
A time I felt God’s presence…
IMAGE/VIDEO/SONG
Why I chose this image/video/song blah blah blah, at this time in my life I felt loved and cared for, blah blah blah

A time I felt that God was not present….
IMAGE/VIDEO/SONG
Why I chose this image/video/song blah blah blah, at this time in my life I felt alone and sad, blah blah blah

If you have any questions you can tweet them to me, or simply get my attention (aka raise your hand).

Happy Blogging!
Ms. Carey

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Your blog posts will be graded for participation and to check-in on your learning process. Don't freak out, each post will only be marked out of 3 and I'll be looking for the following:

Content (1 marks)
Did you post what was asked? Was your content thoughtful and insightful?

Organization (1 mark) Is your post easily legible? Does everything appear as it should (pictures, videos, etc.)?

Connections to Curriculum (1 mark) Are you making connections to previous learning? Do you mention what learning came from the post/activity?