Episode 038 – Sep 24 2008

This week on WELSTech Martin and Sallie are joined by Gail Potratz, our semi-regular classroom technology correspondent, and we discuss digital devices in the classroom and kick off a new WELSTech contest.

Podcast: Download (23.0MB)

The discussion:

Digital devices in the classroom – Are computer labs necessary in today’s schools? Martin, Sallie and Gail share ideas for integrating digital devices into the classroom learning process.
- Interactive whiteboards
  - SMART Board – www.smarttech.com
  - eBeam – www.e-beam.com
  - Mimio boards – www.mimio.com
- Computers
  - Gail’s 8th grade home page is a launching pad for all of their online classroom resources
  - Teacher supervised e-mail for students – www.gaggle.net
  - Sample Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
- Phone in your comments (414-375-2334) to this questionWhat digital devices do you use in your classroom or Bible class?
  - All comments received by October 7, 2008 will be entered in a drawing for a $15 gift certificate to the WELSTech Podcast store – www.cafepress.com/welstech

The tidbits:

Picks of the week (30:25)
- Build images for your wiki menu – glogger.mobi
- NASA Image gallery – www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery
- HP 2133 Mini-Note PC
WELS.net feature (40:37)
- Sunday School Teacher Training – www.wels.net/jump/wnusstraining
Community feedback (42:08)
- Cindy Krueger, member of Shepherd of the Hills in Lansing, MI, shared a link to Michigan Library Consortium’s (the other MLC) list of open source software recommendations
- Anna, a student at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School, asked about uses of technology in church – a religion class assignment