Video as Teaching Medium

The technology of video is becoming ubiquitous in the developed world, and increasingly accessible worldwide.

Factoids: YouTube now streams more than 1 billions videos daily. People upload more than 20 hours of new video content every minute.

I encourage you to think about video as a medium to extend and enhance your Bible teaching. It's not a panacea, any more than radio or TV have been. But it's enough a part of the world that most of you reading this are teaching to an audience that is acculturated to video.

Some ideas:

• Judiciously incorporate video clips into your teaching/discussion time when it's the most effective way to get information across. Make sure it adds value, and doesn't detract.
  
• Record your teaching so that others can benefit in different time and space.
• Use video content or introduce or reinforce information between lessons.
• Use video as a reference medium when you're preparing to teach. There is an increasing amount of Bible teaching and commentary and devotions on YouTube.com.
  
• Live-stream your teaching time to class participants who can't be there in person. See ustream.tv for some ideas.
  

Technically challenged on finding/using/creating/distributing video? This is an ideal opportunity to develop ministry across generations -- usually your young adults will be ahead of you on the learning curve and willing to help you out.