ARTICLE: Ready, Set, Go! Free Countdown Maker

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Do you use countdown videos? Have you ever wanted to make your own? The fine people over at Digitalstache have now made it super easy, and it’s FREE: Ready, Set, Go!

From their site:

Do you love countdown videos? Do you dream in descending digits? Can you grow mustache? Well check out the newest addition to the Digital Stache Gameshow Family: Ready, Set, Go! Ready, Set, Go! gives you 6 themes to choose from and let’s you set the countdown (or up), from one second to an hour! But here is the best part: we’re giving it away. That’s right, for an unlimited time, Ready, Set, Go! Is absolutely free! So download your copy today!

Download your free copy while you can.

Ready, Set, Go!

ARTICLE: ScoreKeep: Visual Scoreboard for Your Games

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ScoreKeep is something almost every youthworker who plays games on their computer.

What is it you ask?



ScoreKeep is a visual scoreboard that projects onto your screen. I’ve tried it out, and it’s super easy to use. The first thing you do is setup your team names. You are limited to just two teams but for most games I think that’s enough. You can also setup how points are awarded for each “+” you award. It also has a timer built in that you can set to go up or down.

Setup screen:



After setting up how you want your score to work, you can pick your theme. Five are included and they all look nice and are diverse to apply to many different gaming situations. The included themes are 1. Chalkboard theme that looks like is sounds, hand written chalk on a blackboard, 2. LED that looks like an 80′s digital watch, 3. Marquee that has a movie theater [...]

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Sharing Photos and Video

We all have videos and photos of our youth group memories we want to share. If you don't, I want to encourage you to reconsider the power of connection that displaying your youth group memories can bring. It displays friends. It displays the atmosphere your community strives for. It displays fun or compassion or acceptance or all of the above!

But how do we share those videos or pictures?

Easy Video Recording

It was a glorious game of tug-a-war involving for teams, plastic sheeting, and more baby shampoo than you could shake a tear free stick at. The energy was high, the campers were wet, and the mood was "out for blood". As I was "soaking" in the view and loving the job our Camp Team was doing, one of our Camp Directors, Kelly (great job, btw!), walked up to me and handed me a Flip video recorder and asked if I would shoot some video. For the next 10 minutes I was embedded in the action with my video recorder, getting great video coverage. I felt like Geraldo Rivera, minus the mustache. I even gave away troop location to another team. (yup, I went there.). After 10 minutes, I handed the recorder back and moments later I saw our Director handing it off to someone else.