202 – Sign Me Up

This week the WELSTech Podcast discussion topic is centered around calendar utilities.

The discussion:

Calendar solutions – The heartbeat of the church and school office is the event calendar. Listen as Martin and Sallie share utilities to make working with your calendar and scheduling appointments, events, volunteers and resources a breeze.

• Google Calendar
  • 077 – BTWG: Google Calendar
  • 198 – WELS Hacker: Pogo Cal
• Google Calendar appointment slots
• ScheduleOnce.com (sample)
• YouCanBook.Me (sample)
• SignAppNow.com  (sample)
• VounteerSpot.com (sample)
• Lectionary on Google Calendar

News in tech:

• (16:00) Netflix splits and forms Qwikster for DVDs by mail

Picks of the week:

• (20:43) Ustream.tv
  • Ustream Live app for Facebook
  • Ustream Everywhere
• Amazon Cloud Reader

Community feedback:

• (30:00) Listener Shanna White shared an idea for WELS online forums which we passed along to WELS Communications.  Currently available are
  • WELS non Facebook
  • In the WELS group on LinkedIn
• Via the #WELSTech hashtag on Twitter, we heard from teacher Jason Schmidt (@jasonschmidt123) –
  • LanSchool Lite and LanSchool Teacher’s Assistant for iPad
  • SkySafari 3 – free through September 21st
  • iMotion HD
• Blogger Steve Brown from Worship Ideas You Can Use and member of Messiah in South Windsor, CT shared his favorite guitar chord web sites –
  • Guitar Chords
  • Guitar Chord Finder
• Pastor Phil Huebner from Christ the King in Palm Coast, FL gave us a tech update on their church and school
• Read about the “Twitter Connection” in a Mexican congregation in a recent Lutherans in Mexico blog post
• Jason Petoskey is making good use of his WELSTech Flip Mino HD video camera he won in Episode 200!

Coming up on WELSTech:

(40:59) Episode 203 – It’s our first tech-in-education podcast in the new school year! We welcome back Gail Potratz to the conversation as well as chat with teacher Kurt Gosdeck regarding the 1-to-1 computer implementation in his classroom. (Release date – 09/28/11)

The featured artist:

(42:01) We close the podcast with the music of Cross to Glory – I Have Ev’ry Reason from their CD titled “Life’s Song”

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