Mobile Ministry Course Lesson 4 High Bandwidth, Mobile Video, Mobile Apps

Mobile Ministry Course Lesson 4

–

High B
andwidth,
Mobile
Video,
Mobile
App
s

Objective:
By the end of this lesson the student should be able to
know how to use mobile devices for ministry in
high
-
bandwidth situations and how to prepare
video and have
some idea of how to develop apps


TYPE

ACTIVITY

TIME

Reading

(R
ead links
and
information
on

the Internet
)


Q
uickly note the
points that intrigue,
inspire and inform
you
.


A
lso those areas
that have potential
for your own
ministry.


SmartPhones

and advanced feature phones are now common in nations
such as Japan, Korea, USA, Australia and Europe. These mobile phones
use
3G

and 4G

networks and can readily download video and have the capability
to run native “apps”.


This week you will have a ch
oice of studying

either Mobile
Video
O
R

Mobile
Apps

OR

Mobile Websites
. (Or if you are really, really energetic you may of
course study both!)


The links you will require are listed on pages 2
(Video)
and 3
(Mobile Apps

and Mobile Websites
)
of this lesson.


Pick six (or more) of these links, under
your

topic (video or apps

or
websites
), and then explore each of your links for ten minutes or so.


Keep in mind how you may be able to apply this to your own ministry!



1 hour (six resources

at ten minutes each)

Investigating

(Search Engine)

Use the
Mobile Ministry Search Engine

plus

the links
on the
Mobile
Evangelism Wiki

to research the topic:


The Use of Video
OR

The Use

of Apps
OR

Mobile Websites
–

to
further Christian M
inistry
G
lobally


Especially note statistics, ideas,
trends and
useful applications to ministry.


1.5 hours

Sharing

(MobileMin
E
group)


(40% of your
marks)

Post your

thoughts
and conclusions about what you found out

in your
investigation (above)

in
the MobileMin

e
-
group
.

You can subscribe to the
egroup by sending a blank email to:


mobilemin
-
subscribe@globalchristians.org


Also engage in the discussion
on this topic and

respond to other people’s
posts in the MobileMin e
-
group

30 minutes

Writing

(brief essay)


(60% of your
marks)

Write a short (300 words +) paper on:


How to Use Video for Mobiles OR

Mobile Apps

OR Mobile Websites

in
Your Ministry


(the paper can be as long as you like but must be at least one page (300
words) and email the paper to John Edmiston
–

digitalopportunities@gmail.com


in either Word, txt, odt or PDF

format.


1.5
hours




Finding What Features a Phone Has..


http://www.gsmarena.com

-

just type in the phone model in the search box and find what audio, video, and other features
it supports.




VIDEO

WingClips

-

movie clips that illustrate and inspire (paid service, Hollywood clips).

www.globalshortfilmnetwork.com

_ Global Short Film Network

http://worldlanguagemovies.com/

Christian movies and clips in over 3000 languages.

Visual Story Network

(a network for Christians using video in missions plus
brief film clips etc)

Any Video Converter:
http://www.any
-
video
-
converter.com/products/for_video_free/


http://html5center.sourceforge.net/make
-
your
-
html5
-
video
-
play
-
on
-
mobile
-
devices

–

HTML 5 video on mobile
devices



VIDEO
–

How To

(Thanks to Keith Williams of Mob
ile Advance.Org)

http://mobileadvance.org/how
-
to/84
-
how
-
to
-
3
-
producing
-
great
-
video
-
four
-
free
-
video
-
based
-
sites
-
that
-
will
-
g
et
-
you
-
there

Video Based Mobile Websites

http://mobileadvance.org/how
-
to/88
-
how
-
to
-
4
-
top
-
10
-
mobile
-
video
-
production
-
tips

Top 10 Mobile Video
Production Tips

http://mobileadvance.org/how
-
to/96
-
how
-
to
-
5
-
shooting
-
good
-
video
-
with
-
a
-
mobile
-
phone

How To Shoot Good
Video With A Mobile Phone

The Official Blue Tooth Websi
te (look at FAQs etc)
http://www.bluetooth.com/Pages/Bluetooth
-
Home.aspx

-

Bluetooth is a common way of sharing videos in many nations/



MOBILE APPS

http://www.forixmobile.com/blog/understanding
-
the
-
basics
-
of
-
mobile
-
app
-
development/

Understanding The
Basics of App Development

God Tools

–

Android and Apple app with Campus Crusade materials

Review of Apps
Geyser

Appsgeyser website

App Inventor For Android



Sencha

AJAX Tool Suites

http://www.sencha.com/




Sencha

Touch
-

Mobile AJAX



http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/


jQuery

Touch (Mobile for jQuery

AJAX)

http://www.jqtouch.com/


PhoneGap

-

Compiles mobile AJAX apps to 9 mobile platforms and supports mulitple

AJAX libraries
including Sencha

Touch



http://www.phonegap.com/




PhoneGap

-

mobile device supported

features


h ttp://www.phonegap.com/about/features



MOBILE WEBSITES

http://www.christiansmobile.com/

Christian mobile resources

http://mbible.com/

Christian mobile Bible
–

mobile website with the Scriptures

http://www.webpagefx.com/design
-
build
-
mobile
-
web
-
site.html

How To Design and Build A Mobile Website

Responsive CSS

-
CSSgrid.net, using grids to make websites that work on both large screens and mobile
devices.

http://sixrevisions.
com/web
-
development/mobile
-
web
-
design
-
best
-
practices/

Mobile Website Design Best
Practices

http://www.w3schools.com/

-

W3Schools.com and extremely useful tutorial website (on website design etc) that I use a
LOT whenever I “get stuck”
–

just pick any topic and it will lead you through a FREE, clear and useful tutorial on it.

http://www.mobileawesomeness.com/mobile
-
web
-
resources/

Mobile Web Resources and lots of great links to explore

http://www.mobileawesomeness.com/

A gallery of mobile website desi
gns.