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SEMINARY NEWS

Some of the information below is repeated from our first March Villager (all members newsletter). We believe the content is valuable enough for seminary teachers that it is worth the space here.

GENERAL CONFERENCE RESOURCES

You will find numerous general conference activities and reviews in this seminary filing cabinet category: General Conference Activities. The top three listed articles are the most popular.

PROPHET TEACHING RESOURCES

Prophets of the Restoration Activity Book - by Debra Woods Hamilton, illustrated by Scott Jarrard. Fun and interesting lessons, games and activities for the 15 LDS prophets - great for all ages. The last quarter of the curriculum year contains lessons that focus on the prophets of the church. You can enhance your seminary prophet lessons by purchasing a subscription this digital activity book. Written by Debra Woods Hamilton and featuring illustrations by Scott Jarrard, these lessons contain special activities and games that your students are sure to remember. Who will forget Joseph Fielding Smith after the coloring page and the paper airplane contest? Or Wilford Woodruff after all of the bumps, bruises, and 'knots' (pun intended) he experienced.This popular DC teaching resource is now available as a instant digital book download from our shopping cart.
Prophets of the Restoration Stickers - These are not a digital product, but go along with the prophet theme. These delightful designs of each of our latter-day prophets by LDS illustrator, Scott Jarrard. Reinforce your study of the prophets with these fun stickers.

FREE DOWNLOADABLE DC SM RECORDINGS

As this DC Church History year comes to a close in several months, there is usually a rush by many students to pass of their scripture memorizations, along with frantic efforts by teachers to support those activities. With almost EVERY teenager possessing a portable MP3 player, we remind you that there are FREE downloadable recordings of the 25 DC Scriptures Mastery verses. You may freely distribute these to your students, simply download them to your computer and burn them to several CDs. Then pass the CD's out to your students, asking them to pass the CD on to a classmate after they upload to their player. These clips are designed to Debra Woods Hamilton, a consummate voiceover talent, to be entertaining enough that words will really sink into your students memory.

DC Scripture Mastery Takes Stage! - Doctrine & Covenants Scripture Mastery TAKES STAGE! The scriptures like you've never heard them before! Original recordings of each D&C Scripture Mastery Verse featuring the vocal talent Debra Woods Hamilton, Jerry Hamilton and Justin Cavanah. So make our web server groan with download activity and pump up the DC SM volume!

NAUVOO RESOURCES

We have several items in our shopping cart that can help you teach the Nauvoo period. To access them:

  1. Visit our shopping cart home page.
  2. On the left menu, click Search Products.
  3. Enter the word "nauvoo" (w/o the quotes) into the Search For: field.
  4. Click Search.

ANNOTATED SCRIPTURES for teaching Church History

Our Annotated Scriptures are truly a fantastic resource for studying the Doctrine and Covenants.

  • The sections are linked with
    • Quotes from Church General Authorities
    • Insights from Institute and Teacher's manuals
    • Teaching Emphasis as directed by CES
    • Stories from Church History
  • The entire History of the Church is provided and linked. As you research a section, you can quickly review the recorded historical background and happenings.
  • Contains biographies of characters mentioned in the DC.
  • Map section contains many era maps.

The Old Testament is now available as part of the Annotated Scriptures. If you are teaching next year, access to the annotations and resources will really stimulate your summer preparation and study. You can try the Annotated Scriptures free for one week; click here to sign up now.

SEMINARY GRADUATION GIFT IDEAS

If you are teaching in the northern hemisphere, is it too early to budget for graduation gifts? With the limited funds you have to work with, probably not. We have a few low cost suggestions listed below. We encourage you to shop early as some items have limited availability.

Inexpensive student graduation gift suggestions for a limited budget:

Premium gift suggestions:

Find your own: Browse the entire Doctrine & Covenants shopping cart category.

SUBMIT YOUR IDEAS

We had good participation after last newsletter's request for ideas. To repeat, there are seminary classes being taught all around the world, some in the most obscure and remote places. Your idea could be a scripture mastery game, object lesson, devotional, teaching tip, lesson quote or resource, or a complete Readiness /Participate /Application gem. Whatever it is, even if you used it several months ago, share it now. Someone, somewhere, sometime, will benefit from your willingness to share.

You can share in several ways:

  1. Use the web site’s Submit page:
    http://latter-dayvillage.com/Submit.htm
  2. Send it directly to: submit@latter-dayvillage.com
  3. Join the FREE email list and sent it there. Include at the bottom of your message this phrase: “Bro. Holder, please post this,” or something to that effect.

Thanks in advance for your willingness to participate in this with all of the site community members.

Best Regards,

Tim Holder, Technology (and Seminary Specialist)
Email: webmaster@latter-dayvillage.com

Debra Woods Hamilton, Marketing and Creativity
Email: debra@latter-dayvillage.com