140 – WELSTech Road Trip: Birmingham, AL

This week the WELSTech Podcast Road Trip heads south to talk with Pastor Ben Kratz in Birmingham, AL about distance Bible classes with Skype.

The Draper boys check out a high tech vending machine in the Minneapolis airport.

Road trip:

(5:02) Distance Bible Class – Martin chats with Pastor Ben Kratz from Our Savior in Birmingham, AL about his use of Skype for distance Bible class.

• Skype.com

The WELSTech Road Trip Tracker

Picks of the week:

• (16:00) XBMC – Free media PC software
• VMWare Player

Community feedback:

• (22:32) Martin shared news from YouVersion.com
• Congrats to teacher Chris Hintz from Emmaus in Phoenix, AZ for winning an iPad in the “How Do You .com” Contest, I Couldn’t Teach Without the Internet
• Jason Schmidt from Gethsemane in Omaha, NE shared links to
  • New Testament Pictures for Multimedia CD from Northwestern Publishing House
  • Clker.com – royalty free clip art
• Gail Potratz from Emanuel in New London, WI shared a link to Seven Videos All Educators Should Watch

Coming up on WELSTech:

(30:32) Episode 141 – Fond du Lac, WI is the destination of next week’s virtual road trip.  We’ll talk with teacher Ryan Rosenthal about Web 2.0 in the classroom. (Release date 07/21/10)

The featured artist:

(31:15) We close the podcast with the instrumental music of In His Service (www.adagioconcepts.com) – O God, Forsake Me Not from their CD titled “In His Time”

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