Jose+Amaya+Capstone+Proposal

=Jose Amaya Capstone Proposal Page=

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**Project Proposal 2014** José M. Amaya Director of Faith Formation Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA jamaya@milarch.org

Community Facebook (Social Networking) page for AMS catechists –AMS Catechists Talk
 * Project Title**

The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA has established a new systematic and consistent Curriculum Guide for use at military installations (220) religious education programs worldwide. The Catechetical Methodology course was designed to support catechists to better handle the Guide and the use of the resources to prepare lesson plans. The Archdiocese has also designed an AMS Forming Disciples Blog as a forum to engage catechetical leadership in conversation but there is no social network to support military catechists. I have become confident and know that people are reading the blog articles but not necessary leaving comments. It became evident from the Curriculum Guide orientations in early 2013 and from continues catechist trainings of the necessity to have a forum for catechists to connect and converse on matters of catechesis beyond the duration of the online Catechetical Methodology course (VLCFF). The proposed community Facebook page for catechists will be designed to connect catechists from around the world to dialogue, collaborate and consult about the implementation of the AMS Curriculum Guide, catechist formation for certification and partnerships with the family. The page will be a forum for conversation but also to share best practices.
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 * Project Goals**
 * 1) To create a community Facebook page for catechists.
 * 2) To connect military catechists from around the world to converse and share best practices on catechesis.
 * 3) To animate the implementation process of Forming Disciples for the New Evangelization.
 * 4) To advertize the new Facebook page through the Blog, the Archdiocesan Facebook page and Twitter, e-Newsletters and catechist trainings online and face-to-face to gain 50 likes in the first two months.
 * 5) To form an administrator team: Mark Moitoza, Meg Betit, José Amaya

Military connected catechists teaching the catholic faith around the world and in continental United States.
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 * Create the community FB page by October 14
 * Create and post a video explaining the new Facebook page by October 24 (perhaps with the team of catechists from Spangdahlem, Germany)
 * Rally catechists in Europe to like the new AMS Catechist Talk page during my trainings between October 20-November 7
 * Send a bi-weekly e-Newsletter to all catechetical leaders to encourage their catechists to like the page and join in the conversation and consistently remind them of the social network (October 8, 22, November 5, 19, December 3, etc)
 * Feature an article on the AMS Forming Disciples Blog by October 8
 * Promote the catechist Facebook page on AMS FB and Twitter starting October 14
 * Add the catechist Facebook page as a feature in the Catechetical Methodology course for Cycle 7 (October 26 – November 29, 2014)


 * Technology to be Utilized**
 * Facebook will the forum for connectivity and conversation for catechists
 * Animoto will be used to create videos to highlight aspects of interest for catechists
 * Find videos on YouTube of interest to catechists to reflect and perhaps integrate in their catechetical lesson planning
 * The Archdiocesan Website will be the one of the points of entry for catechists to locate and join the social network for catechists
 * The Forming Disciples Blog will help to highlight the Facebook page through articles and perhaps adding the Facebook link to the Blog

The time I invest to create the page and to promote and monitor the social page (salary).
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The page will have a long term effect beyond the purposes of the DDBC. The page will be part of the overall Curriculum Guide implementation process. It will link to the AMS website [|www.milarch.org]. It will be created following the AMS standards for use of social media. I have conversed with my immediate supervisor and the Vicar General about the concept. They both have approved that I create the page pending the proposal.
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