The new book includes:

• why computers belong in Christian Education
• the best & tested advice about getting started
• the keys to success
• the mistakes to avoid
• lab set-up diagrams, issues and suggestions
• hardware recommendations and technical tips
• teacher recruitment tips
• teacher training helps
• software recommendations
• lesson schedule 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.
• and lots of computer lab photos!

A special feature of this book is that it's Spiral Bound so you can lay it flat on a copier to copy pages out of it. I encourage you to make copies of important pages and pass them around to Introduce the idea of computers in CE and to Train your teachers.

Why get this book? Because it will help you avoid some common costly mistakes with computers and software. And it will help you train your teachers year after year.

My original book, Computers, Kids and Christian Education, was published by Augsburg Fortress in February 1997 and revised in 2001. It has been purchased by denominational and non-denominational resource centers, bookstores and conference book tables across the theological spectrum. It was the only comprehensive book on the subject. The original book was based on my original "manual" first published in 1993 as a set of seminar handouts.

In 2006 I completely rewrote the text from scratch, adding many updates and adding in elements of my Training Packet which used to also be sold at this website. We are now self-publishing the book, and Augsburg can now get it from us. This new book will be updated every year.

Self publishing this book has several advantages:

1. Smaller quantity runs allow me to update the book when I need to. This means you will be getting this year's best ideas, not something from four years ago.

2. I don't have to "tone-down" my style to get it past an editor. You hear "Neil" as you would him (me!) in a seminar or over the phone.

3. I can share more lesson details about my own software resources and webpage helps, which Augsburg didn't want me to emphasize in the original books. And I don't have to "mention" any of their curriculum or software "as a courtesy."

4. Publishers don't like Spiral Binding on their books, but I know how much EASIER that makes it to lay flat on the copier so you can copy pages out of the book for your volunteers.