The Storebox – an Online Repository of Christian Social Media Usage
The Storebox is a digital repository of interesting, illuminating, best practices of new and social media use by Christian communities. The Storebox highlights what Christian communities and leaders (lay and ordained) are doing with digital technologies to share the gospel (as they understand it), to connect communities, and to envision/incarnate "church" in the digital age.
The Storebox is a project of the New Media Project at the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis. It contains case studies, collections, and exhibits curated by students at Fordham University, in New York City, under the direction of Professor Kathryn Reklis.
Using the open-source Omeka content management and virtual exhibit system, Prof. Reklis and her students have built a diverse collection of examples of Christian usage of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, podcasts, blogs, plain old websites and more.
"I'm drawn to Omeka for its cost-effective means of presenting and organizing content and allowing users to interact with the content in meaningful ways. Also, most of the content will be generated by undergraduate college students, and Omeka seems like an excellent choice in this regard as well." – Prof. Reklis
The site is available at http://omeka.cts.edu
Andornot developed a custom Omeka theme for this project and tailored it for the specific needs of the project and users.
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