Saturday night we had a Mac Users forum at the National Youth Workers Convention. It was a great time as about 40 of us gathered to talk about using Macs in youth ministry. As I promised here are the notes i took. I haven’t had a chance to go through and add links, but i should be able to do that in the next day or so. Thanks to everyone who came and contributed. Also don’t forget to check out the page of resources that is also under construction.

Macs in Youth Ministry Users Forum

Video Presentation – movies, presentations in general, pages for fast moving images (will allow for quick jumps), iPhoto slide shows,
No Talent Show – use webcams for live videos,
Pages is great brochure maker, postcards, (worth going to Apple Store training) ScreenCastsOnline.com
iWork is great package (pages, keynote), Find templates on the web (the print shop 2,
.Mac Syncing
iPhoto web galleries on .Mac
Delicious Library ($40) using iSight as barcode reader, allow for user to checkout books,

Thunderbird for email works with iCal
Entourage syncing with iCal
Google Apps (store documents online, share, collaborate)more private.

Blogger to post bible studies

Live Worship for worship presentations

Database — online youthtracker.net, filemaker,

Quickverse — bible study – macsword, accordance, lardian for iphone

talkinghead (LT) — free from YS website, crowdcontrolgames.com, YouthSpecialties.com/nywc after ATL

New to mac — use shortcut keys, search (apple – space), find in system preferences,

Screenshots – learn keys or widget (screenshot pro)

Quicksilver – program launcher, great shortcuts

Projectors – Eiki, Hatachi, NEC,
Keystoning,
ProresX – custom resolutions

iWeb – use domain forwarding for multiple sites hosted on .Mac

Megaseg – DJ program,

Rapidweaver – iWeb replacment

iWeb addons — 11mystics.com