Computer and Online Resources

Apps

• 30hands: a storytelling app that allows students, teachers and anyone with creativity to easily create narrated stories or presentations based on photos, images, drawings using an iPad, iPhone or iPod.
• 3D Catholic: invites you to join others in your immediate area in practicing 3 Catholic devotions for 30 days; namely, the Angelus, Meatless Fridays, and the Works of Mercy.
• Catholic Apptitude: doing all the work for you in locating quality Catholic apps and present them in a neat, orderly format for you to browse according to your needs and interests.
• CatholicApps.com: advertised as "app advice for your Catholic faith."
• Catholic New York App: live links to our website pages, an ability to crop and share pages from CNY’s pages with friends, bookmarks for saving stories for reading later and a calendar button for reviewing past issues. For iPhone/iPad and Android.
• Catholic Words & Games App: a great way kids of all ages can learn Catholic vocabulary words while visually identifying objects they see in church. It combines high-quality graphics and sound with video game-play to help make learning fun on iPad, iPhone or Android tablet/phone.
• Decision Point: a confirmation program to help young people explore some of the most important questions in life, like considering what and who God is calling you to be. Play Store |  App Store
• Evangelizo: contains daily readings, a list of saints along with a short biography of each and a selection of prayers. Play Store |  App Store
• iPieta: includes all the books of the Bible, traditional prayers of the Church, the daily Mass readings, a special section with catechetical documents, papal encyclicals, and complete writings of many saints. Play Store |  App Store
• Laudate: provides traditional prayers of the Church, such as the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross with images to assist your prayer of the Rosary.  Play Store |  App Store
• The Mass Explained:  fosters a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Roman Catholic Mass. For iPad.
• PeaceQuest: helps you take a spiritual journey to places of prayer.
• Plickers: a simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.
• The Vatican News:  features the latest papal news and information as produced by the Vatican’s own media services – including Vatican Radio. Play Store |  App Store
• Roman Missal: this app will help you to learn the revised Mass.
• Rosary App: helps you to pray the daily rosary and the chaplet of the Divine Mercy.
• Sinner2Saint App: Personal Trainer for the Soul -- helps Catholic sinners avoid temptations and sin by growing in virtue through a mix of prayer, penance, bible scripture, mental discipline, worship, sacraments, saints and religious quotes.
• The Truth and Life Bible App: a free dramatized audio Bible app.
• USA Catholic Church app: bringing you closer to the Church, and the Church closer to you. Featuring, daily scripture readings, live Catholic news, English/Spanish capability, news alerts, calls-to-action, events calendar and church finder by location, city, zip code. Play Store | App Store
• Vatican App: information on the activities and writings of Pope Francis and a virtual tour of St. Peter's Square and the Sistine Chapel. Play Store | App Store

• Catechetical Leader's Guide to Planning a Website: what to consider when planning or re-doing a website.
• Facebook and Child Protection: guidelines from the Safe Environment Office about using social media in ministry.
• Introduction to the Archdiocesan Safe Environment Policies for Technology: includes the section Electronic Communication, Internet and Computer Use.
• Introduction to the Catechetical Leader in the Third Millennium: includes relevant text from the document.
• Technology Planning Guide for Faith Formation: reviews what to consider when planning to introduce technology in the faith formation setting.
• Using Email as a Catechetical Leader: considerations for leadership.
• Email Etiquette: hints and tips to better emailing.
• 10 Ways to Integrate Technology into the Classroom: integrating technology into your classroom can be a daunting task; here are 10 surprisingly simple ways to use technology as part of your lesson plans.

Online

• Catechetical Office Facebook Page: become a fan!
• CatechismClass.com: an online and interactive religious education program for Catholics of all ages.
• Catholic Distance University: response to the need for life-long spiritual formation and a deeper knowledge of Church Teaching.
• Don't Fall For Fake Tech Support Scams: a helpful website that prepares computer users not to fall for being scammed online.
• Fears about Blogging: a blogger, who is in her 70's, speaks about her fears of getting into blogging.  Great for anyone over 50!
• iEcho Web Portal: our online classroom offered through a partnership with Marist College.
• Putting the Tech in caTECHesis: resources from the Diocese of Syracuse which can help you with ideas of how to engage children and youth.
• Sadlier On-Demand Webinars: for catechists working in parish programs.
• Social Media is a Tool for Evangelism: Meredith Gould speaks about the possibilities of social media in ministry.
• Social Media Best Practices: an overview of best practices and guidelines for social media by the USCCB.

• Adobe Reader: a free program that enables you to download and read documents in PDF format found on many websites, including this one.

• Church Video Licensing: be aware that showing videos to church groups requires a license from the copyright owner.  You can buy such a license from a company like this. See also Motion Picture Licensing Corporation.
• Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for the classroom: from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
• Copyright and Fair Use Animation: an introduction to copyright/fair use; a YouTube video.
• Honoring Fair Use: an infographic poster on fair use from OSV.
• Movie Licensing Permission: a pdf that reviews what's involved legally when showing videos in church settings.