Friday, October 16, 2009

Weekly Podcasts for Why Catholic Sessions

We have been trying to get the message out that we are recording an audio reflection for each of the sessions of Why Catholic.  The reflections are recorded locally, featuring pastors, parish and diocesan leaders offering just a bit more about each session theme.  These reflections are called podcasts because they are available online at the dicoesan website.  If you go to http://www.diojeffcity.org/ you will see right away the picture of the person who is offering the current reflection.  Click on it and you can access the reflection and listen to it.  You can listen to the other reflections that have preceeded it as well.  All of the podcasts will be available online throughout the fall season.
Some people have said that they use the podcasts in the sessions along with the material in the discussion guide.  One person asked if they can make a recording of the reflection that is availalbe online.  There are a couple of easy ways to do that...
   1.  You can right click on the podcast at the website and a menu will come up that will include "save as target."  Click on that and save it to your computer under my music.  From there you can download it to an MP3 player or IPod.  Once you have done that just play the reflection for the group on an IPod player or MP3 player.
   2.  Another way to go is to follow the directions above for downloading the podcast using a laptop computer.  Then just bring the laptop to the group session and play it for the group on the laptop.

There may be other ways to do this as well for those of you who ae computer savvy, but these are the easiest.  If you're not sure about how to do this after reading the above...find an eighth grader and they'll walk you through it in about five minutes. 

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