FOOTSTEP FEATURES

The main feature in FOOTSTEPS is its "photobubbles," ...360 degree digital photographs of Holy Land "Jesus sites" which you navigate with your mouse. You can enter the empty tomb (seen right) and look around, left, right, floor to ceiling. Visit the Jordan River and the Sea of Galilee. The innovative 360 degree "photobubbles" are very engaging.

Each photobubble has clickable hotspots with audio narration of the Bible text for that location. Click on more hotspots in the photobubbles to hear more related scriptural, cultural or historical information.

The photobubble screenshot at the right was taken inside the Garden Tomb, a.k.a. The Empty Tomb in Jerusalem. Looking around in there while listening to the narration is pretty neat.

Sprinkled in many of the photobubbles are "doorways" to other locations and related information that pop-up when you roll your mouse over them. The movement through the materials is part of what makes Footsteps attractive to learners. The pictures help them imagine the scenes while you or the program discusses the related story.

Pictured here on the left is one of the six Footsteps menus. Clicking on the individual circles (in the program) takes you to that area/subject photobubbles (seen above) to explore, listen, and move around in. Our ministry's exclusive 17 page Footsteps Guide breaks down each menu and submenu and tells you what every photobubble "hotspot," audio narration and information button in the program talks about. This is a great help in planning lessons or knowing where to go in this large program for specific info.

Some of the photobubbles can create terrific discussion. One such example is the photobubble that includes the East Gate of the Temple Mount as seen from the Mount of Olives/Garden of Gethsemane. This is what Jesus could see on his last night --the gate where people had cheered him as Messiah on Palm Sunday. View my LENT page at this website for a screen shot of this photobubble. My Footsteps Study Guide has notes on this photobubble too.

Were the graphics on this page actual "photobubbles" instead of just snapshots from the program....

• you'd be viewing a high resolution 360 degree digital photo in which you could look all around (a neat experience to say the least)
• you'd be hearing scripture narration
• you'd be able to click on hotspots in the photobubble to hear more info about the story

The snapshot on the RIGHT is from a photobubble of a re-creation of "Lazarus, Mary and Martha's private home in Bethany" from the time of Jesus. Footsteps contains photobubbles from all over Israel --the places where Jesus walked as they appear today. I've used this photobubble many times when teaching about Lazarus or Mary/Martha. It shows how close the kitchen was to the living area where Jesus taught.

Footsteps has a lot of great content that matches up quite well with content in other programs, such as, Life of Christ, HolyLand 3-D CD, and Walking in Their Sandals Bible Atlas. Many classes used them together by rotating through the software during a lesson. Our Complete Outline has a lesson example of how to do this.

My Favorite Photobubbles in Footsteps to use in lessons include:

Jordan River
Wilderness of Temptation
Sea of Galilee (2)
Mount of Beatitudes
Mary, Martha and Lazarus' Home in Bethany
the Empty Tomb in the Garden
Jerusalem Gates
Church of the Holy Sepulchre

These photobubbles match up well with lesson content in the LIFE OF CHRIST CD.

View our Brief Outline to Footsteps
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