110 – The Medium Is The Message
This week on the WELSTech podcast we discuss chapter 2 of Shane Hipps’ book, The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture.
Podcast: Download (43.0MB)
The discussion:
The Power of Media – Martin and Sallie explore the fundamental concept of media, as defined in chapter 2 of Shane Hipps’ book, The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture. Heavily influenced by the writings of Marshall McLuhan, Mr. Hipps shares McLuhan’s four Laws of Media which serve as a standard for topics in future chapters.
- Marshall McLuhan video – The Medium is the Message
- Marshall McLuhan video – Selected Quotes
- Shane Hipps video – The Meaning of Media
Ministry resources:
(27:59) Copyright Community blog
- Check out all of the WELSTech Wiki resources on copyright
News in tech:
- (30:47) uStream Mobile iPhone app (Specs)
- Thunderbird 3
- Are any of these the Web’s next big thing? from CNN
Picks of the week:
Community feedback:
- (41:35) Useful Twitter and Diigo links shared by Jason Schmidt from Gethsemane in Omaha, NE, Martin and Sallie:
- Communication and Collaboration Just Got Easier with Google Groups
- Conquering Technophobia
- AdoptAClassroom.org
- Read Gmails Offline – video podcast from Tekzilla
- Free Virtual Science Ed Conference
- Linux Sugar OS upgrade announced
- Social Media Tactics for Non-Profits
- Critical Thinking Skills in Education and Life
- FreshBrain.org
- Five K-2 Technology Trends for 2010
- Join the WELSTech listserve streaming video conversation
Coming up on WELSTech:
(54:15) Episode 111 – Our special Christmas week interview-only podcast features Arizona-California District President Pastor Jon Buchholz sharing his thoughts on technology in the synod. (Release date 12/23/09)
The featured artist:
(56:32) A new WELS ensemble joins the WELSTech mix – Branches Band (www.branchesband.com) – Behold a Branch is Growing from their CD titled ”A Branch Is Growing”
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I downloaded the update to Thunderbird and was reminded of one of the limitations to opensource software. I use the “Send Later” add-on to schedule the delivery of bible readings that we send out via e-mail everyday. However, that add-on has not been updated for Thunderbird 3.0, so it was disabled. To keep using it, I had to re-install the previous version of Thunderbird. Here’s a link that told me how to do that: http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/go_back_to_2_0.