I started teaching with computers in my Sunday School back in 1990. Since then I've helped THOUSANDS of churches and teachers get started, and get the most out of this wonderful teaching opportunity.

Along the way, I learned the right and wrong ways of setting up a lab and teaching with software. These insights came not only from my own experience, but from literally thousands of teacher-customers I've worked with over the past 20 years. They have CONFIRMED, REFINED, and ADDED-TO our advice through their experience.

Originally published in 1997 as"Computers, Kids and Christian Education" by Augsburg Fortress Publishers, since 2002 I've been publishing it myself so I could update it ever year with new refinements, clarifications, photos, and additional resources and ideas.

To encourage leaders to COPY PAGES for training, the book is spiral bound so it can lay flat on your copier.

The book includes:

• why computers belong in Christian Education (how to explain it to others)
• the best advice and tested advice about getting started  ...and what to avoid
• the keys to success
• the mistakes to avoid
• lab set-up diagrams, issues and suggestions
• hardware recommendations and technical tips
• teacher recruitment tips (what kind of person to look for)
• teacher training helps
• software recommendations
• lesson schedule examples and lesson plan examples
• strategies for stretching your software budget
• seasonal ideas, and special room decor
• special chapters on using computers with Preschoolers and Middle Schoolers
• a theological & educational rationale for teaching with computers in C.E.
• lots of computer lab photos!
   
• Plus....The last three pages of our 2012 edition contains our reproducible copy of our Teacher Training Pamphlet.. This great handout explains, encourages, and gives examples. It's full of great tips.

Order: Teaching with Computers in Christian Education

$18 ....which will pay for itself many times over by saving you from software and hardware mistakes, and missed teaching opportunities!

BACKGROUND ON THE BOOK:

I started writing this book in the early 1990's as a collection of training handouts and lesson plans for my Sunday School teachers.

I gave out copies to other churches when they came to visit our lab, and included a list of software and some basic lesson plans, teaching tips for certain programs, and technical advice.

In the mid 1990's it morphed into a "Getting Started" manual, and I sold it for $10 at seminars. At that time I moved my teaching tips and tech tips to my website, www.sundaysoftware.com/tips, and made them free.

In 1997, Augsburg Fortress Publishers (ELCA) published it under the name, Computers, Kids and Christian Education, and allowed me to revise it in 2001. However, given the speed at which software and computers were evolving, I needed to update the book faster than the publisher wanted to, so I wrote an all-new & expanded book from scratch and titled it, "Teaching with Computers in Christian Education."

I've revised the book nearly every year since.

The current edition is the 2012 Edition.