Orientation

Dear DDBC Participants,

Welcome to Digital Discipleship Boot Camp (DDBC). This page contains resources and instructions for the first module, Orientation to Digital Discipleship Boot Camp.

Below is the very important Orientation Handbook. If you have not done so already, please download it and print it out! You will need to keep this near your computer to refer to as you progress through the course.



**Assignment:**
 * For the Orientation Module, we ask you to introduce yourself __on the Class Blog__. (The link to the Class Blog can be found on every page of this wiki, in the blue navigation pane to the right.) All you need do is to "Leave A Reply" at the end of the Orientation blog post, where you introduce yourself briefly to other participants of DDBC. As you read other postings, you may want to reply be asking a question or sharing a comment.

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 * On Your Own Labs: Over a two-week period, from February 3 to February 15, 2017, each participant is asked to “register” for each of the online tools that will be used during DDBC. These include GoToWebinar, WordPress, Gravatar, Wikispaces, Twitter, Facebook and Digital Catechesis. We provide a half-hour, pre-recorded Lab video, which gives an overview of the tools that you will use in this course. Each video is paired with a one-page handout in the eBook that lists the steps of exactly what you are asked to do. The Lab eBook was sent to you after the Orientation Webinar. You can also access the Lab videos and eBook in the blue navigation pane to the right.

**ALSO**, Please read the eBook below,//The Theology of Social Networking//, by Elaine Menardi, in preparation for Module 2: Social Networking: Communities for Christ. It should take you about **1.5** hours to read the entire eBook, and we encourage you to read it before the SOCIAL NETWORKING module if possible. You can read the book by simply clicking on the image below.

Here is the eBook to read for homework.