a great step sideways

well, i have plans for something more permanent, so here's a temporary home for some stuff related to the "youthmultimedia" egroup - which is not just about "youth". What is "youthmultimedia"? It's an egroup I started 3 1/2 years ago. The "official" description is this...

"Use of Multimedia with Young People in Christian Education, Worship and Mission. Members include ove 100 pastors, youth workers, high school and tertiary chaplains, youth leaders and others, primarily from Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA and Canada. Members come from a range of Christian churches. The group shares technical information, info about new music and movies, ideas for use of multimedia, and occasional discussion of a more theological nature!"

What does that mean? Well, we talk about...
new music and movies
tech stuff
issues about using stuff in churches
country music (sometimes!)
six degrees of separation
WWW resources for multimedia
cooking (very sometimes)
free multimedia resources
data projectors
what 'online' community might be about
darren's exploits in canberra
alternative worship
where to see the spirit in media
Apple Macs (and those other computers from the dark side)
expressing the gospel through contemporary culture
computer music
obscure musical history
what young people are doing, wathcing ans listening to
use of multimedia in worship settings of all kinds
how to get started in a multimedia
what makes a good website

and a whole lot more!

I'm your host, Craig. I'm surrounded by a couple of Apple Macs, a scanner, USB audio/MIDI thingy, a borrowed Ensoniq keyboard, a Fender Telecaster and amp, a couple of video cameras (one mine, one borrowed), the digital camera from work, several bookshelves of multimedia resources, many hundreds of CDs, many more books on theology, Christian education, potery, sociology, a bunch of DVDs - and there's a family out there somewhere too! I hail from Adelaide, Australia where I work in mission resourcing with the Uniting Church in Australia at a state level.

I'm planning a 'real' website for the list but this will do while I get organised.

If you want to see the real list archives, go to www.yahoogroups.com and search for "youthmultimedia" and join up.

see you in cyberspace.

craig