{"id":2766,"date":"2011-09-02T05:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2011-09-01T22:12:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T05:12:55","slug":"how-youtube-can-increase-students-awareness-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/how-youtube-can-increase-students-awareness-of-god","title":{"rendered":"How YouTube Can Increase Students&#8217; Awareness of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2769\" title=\"YouTube\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/YouTube.png\" alt=\"YouTube Logo\" width=\"120\" height=\"48\" \/>A while back I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/how-to-download-and-use-youtube-videos-in-the-catholic-classroom\">a post about using YouTube videos in the Catholic classroom<\/a>. Here&#8217;s one of my favorite YouTube videos to use at the beginning of the school year to help students be more aware of God&#8217;s presence. It can also be used in faculty meetings to help remind teachers to look for the ways God works in their school day. If you teach in a Jesuit school, it might be a good video to use when teaching the examen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written a few points for discussion but watch the video closely yourself first to avoid spoilers.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"367\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mBNSm56A1-c?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>For Meditation\/Discussion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God is always present in our lives, but we often fail to see him. We get caught up in the details, the busyness, the distractions of our day-to-day lives&#8211;in other words, we get so busy counting the passes that we miss the moonwalking bear. God is the moonwalking bear, and when we notice him, we can&#8217;t help but break into a smile.<\/li>\n<li>When was the last time you noticed a &#8220;moonwalking bear&#8221; in your own life? What was it?<\/li>\n<li>What are you so focused on that you miss the moonwalking bear?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I wrote a post about using YouTube videos in the Catholic classroom. Here&#8217;s one of my favorite YouTube videos to use at the beginning of the school year to help students be more aware of God&#8217;s presence. It can also be used in faculty meetings to help remind teachers to look for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/how-youtube-can-increase-students-awareness-of-god\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How YouTube Can Increase Students&#8217; Awareness of God&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,11,10],"tags":[8,34,13,26],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","category-teaching-tips","category-technology","tag-inspiration","tag-jesuit","tag-prayer","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-IC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1106,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/how-to-pray-the-jesuit-examen-a-video-tutorial-for-teenagers","url_meta":{"origin":2766,"position":0},"title":"How to Pray the Jesuit Examen &#8211; A Video Tutorial for Teenagers","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"July 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Our kids can never get enough guidance in prayer. 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