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INNOVATIONS ON A BUDGET You can have BOTH! Dawn Wolf
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INNOVATIONS
ON A BUDGET You can have BOTH!
Dawn Wolf
Does your Church office
look like this?
The Challenges of Church
Technology Typically older hardware and software
IT support is minimal
Security issues are increasing
Religious … sites were found to have triple the average #
of [virus / malware] threats than adult/pornographic sites.
—Symantec, April 2012
Data privacy is critical
Security Innovations on a Budget
OpenDNS –web content filter (non profit pricing is available and negotiable)
FREE for home use! (I use this at home!)
Microsoft Security Essentials-free antivirus
Malwarebytes-free malware program
More Security Innovations
95% of PC infections could be prevented IF the proper
updates and patches were applied!
Secunia PSI-Free software inspector
Web of Trust-browser based security tool
Backups!
Two kinds of people in this world Those who backup
and those who wished they had!
I’m infected!
Tools you can use yourself Housecall.trendmicro.com –online scanner
Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper
Bootable CD
32 and 64 bit versions
ComboFix –use with care, powerful
AVG Rescue CD
Lost, Deleted or Duplicate
files? Recuva-recover deleted files
Anti twin- duplicate searching
DoubleKiller-duplicate searching
Cleaners!
New pc
Pc decrapifier-get rid of bloatware
Ninite-install software all at once
Slow older pc?
Ccleaner-cleans out temp files, registry cleaner
Defraggler
Got a big project or event
coming up? Manage and collaborate with your committee and staff using
do.com
Create a list of tasks and prioritize
Assign tasks to others
Share documents
Make notes
Mobile apps
Now available to religious organizations for free
Email-can have your own domain or keep
existing one
Calendar-shared and private calendars, can
publish to the web (parish calendar of events)
Docs-collaborate and share with staff securely
Drive-5 gb free ($ for space)
Sites-internal or public facing webpages
Vault-email archiving and e-discovery (annual
fee per user)
Voice-one number for multiple phones (land line
or cell), online voicemail, free long distance
calls, inexpensive international calls
Translate-Make your website instantly available
in 60+ languages
Video/Web Conferencing
Great idea!
Google+ Hangouts (up to 10 people)
Chat face to face
Host Virtual Meetings or Events
Broadcast your event live!
Record your meeting or event for later viewing
Mobile app for android or iPhone
Anymeeting –free video, audio, recording, screen sharing (up to
200 attendees per meeting)
Parishioner Engagement
LPI’s We Gather-free, email, surveys
Flocknote –email, text, voice, facebook, twitter, surveys
($13-$96 monthly)
What’s on your network?
Spiceworks –free
Network inventory Printers
Desktops
Laptops
Servers
UPS
Network monitoring
offline notices
low toner
critical updates needed
Help desk software –manage requests
Save on printing
“Shrink to fit” OR “Scale to paper size” –check the box
Century Gothic or Times New Roman fonts -uses much less ink
Off brand ink –fine for everything but high quality photo printing
HP Smart Web Printing (IE) - only print what you want for web
pages (Aardvark for Firefox browser)
Windows 7 Snipping Tool!
Save it as a pdf – Word 2007 and 2010 or dopdf or PDF Creator
or CutePDF
Email Newsletters
Constant Contact -good tool, non profit pricing
Vertical Response -free for non profits-up to 10,000
emails per month
Mail Chimp -free for non profits with lists under 2,000
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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
• Increasingly, authors and producers
and choosing to label their works with
Creative Commons licenses.
• These licenses allow people to reuse
an author’s work under certain
conditions.
• In general attribution is required.
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Google Image Advanced Search Yahoo Image Advanced Search
Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
Use the advanced settings to refine
your results to copyright free.
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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
Increasingly, authors and producers and
choosing to label their works with
Creative Commons licenses. These
licenses allow people to reuse an an
author’s work under certain
conditions. In general attribution is
required.
The Wikimedia Commons is packed with images and
other works that are labeled for reuse.
Check the licensing statement for each image before
reusing.
Some images require attribution while others are in the
public domain and do not require attribution.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/
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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
• Collection contains thousands of images.
• Use images for free in academic or commercial
presentations.
• Searched by:
• subject category,
• image size,
• color, or rating.
Http://www.morguefile.com/
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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
Flickr is a hugely popular photo sharing website.
It can be a good source of images, but not everyone labels
their images for reuse.
Use the advanced settings to find images labeled for
reuse.
Http://www.flickr.com/
Flickr Advanced Search
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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
PodSafe Audio provides music tracks for use in
podcasts, videos, and other multimedia projects.
http://www.podcastfaq.com/resources/podsafe-audio/
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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Images and Photos
The Free Sound Project is comprised of sounds (not
music) that can be reused with attribution.
In order to download sounds from The Free Sound
Project you do need to register for an account.
Http://www.freesound.org/
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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Music and Sound
The Free Music Archive provides free, high-quality,
music in a wide range of genres. The content on Free
Music Archive is used under various creative commons
licenses.
Anyone can download music from FMA for use in
podcasts and videos.
http://freemusicarchive.org/
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Finding Free Sound Editors
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder
for Windows, Mac You can use Audacity to:
Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital
recordings or CDs.
Edit MP3, or WAV and other sound files. Cut, copy, splice
or mix sounds together.
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Finding Free Sound Editors
Audioboo
Mobile & web platform that effortlessly allows you to
record and share audio
http://audioboo.fm/
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Finding Free Sound Editors
Myna is a free web-based audio track mixer created by
Aviary. Using Myna you can mix together up to ten
tracks to create your own audio files.
http://aviary.com/tools/myna
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Finding Fair Use and Copyright Free Music and Sound
Sound Bible is a resource for finding and downloading
free sound clips, sound effects, and sound bites.
All of the sounds on Sound Bible are either public
domain or labeled with a Creative Commons license.
You can find sounds for use in podcasts, videos, and
slideshows.
http://soundbible.com/
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Creating Digital Stories beyond Slides
Quickly create a video using still images, music, video
clips, and text. If you can make a slideshow presentation,
you can make a video using either…
Windows Movie Maker (MS Office)
Animoto
http://animoto.com/
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Creating Digital Stories beyond Slides
Masher
Masher is a great, free, tool for creating video mash-ups.
offers a large collection of video clips from the BBC's
Motion Gallery and Rip Curl video.
There is a large music library, an effects library, and a
good selection of video player skins.
Http://masher.com
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Inexpensive and “Almost Free” Images and Sound
iStock Photo
Credits based on type and size of file downloading.
www.istockphoto.com/
Royalty Free Music
music tracks that can be reused in numerous ways.
charges the general public for their downloads.
http://www.stockmusic.net/
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Other Open Source and Free
Microblogging - Create an account on Twitter.
Follow other catechetical and pastoral leaders.
Check out Brad West's article Go Tweet It On The Mountain Top .Tweet out
information about your parish.
Explore use of twitter for conferences or meetings for sharing ideas.
Blogging - Use Google Blogger, Edublogs or WordPress to create you
blog. Use Microsoft Word to publish to your blog on your parish website
Learning Management System – Moodle - A free, open-source PHP web
application for producing modular internet-based courses.
Resources
Catholic Technology Magazine
Catholic Techtalk
Komando.com
TechRepublic
richardbyrne @freetech4teachers.com
