Episode 044 – Nov 5 2008

This week on WELSTech Martin and Sallie are joined by Gail Potratz, our semi-regular classroom technology correspondent, and we hear about Gail’s recent adventure in podcasting at the Wisconsin Lutheran State Teachers’ Conference.

The discussion:

• Podcasting teachers – Gail Potratz, Technology Coordinator for Emanuel in New London, WI, joins Martin and Sallie to share her experience leading a breakout session on podcasting at the Wisconsin Lutheran State Teachers’ Conference last week.  The session goals were to learn about the uses of Audacity, free, open-source audio editing software, as well as share ideas for using technology in the classroom.  We hear ideas from many of the participants as they make their podcasting debut!
  • Gail’s presentation wiki – wlstc.wikispaces.com

The tidbits:

• Picks of the week (30:01)
  • Skype phone – Philips VOIP841
  • Build a personalized home page – Pageflakes.com
  • Transcribe voice mail – PhoneTag.com
• WELS.net feature (42:51)
  • Benefit Plans Office – www.welsbpo.net
• Community feedback (43:47)
  • Following up on last week’s comment from Kevin Smith at Christ in Zumbrota, MN, we heard from Jenifer with ProCare Software who offered to help out with a future podcast episode
  • Perry Lund, an elder and Sunday school teacher from Grace in Oskaloosa, IA, shared info on how he uses his iPhone for ministry
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    • Accelerated reading custom quiz collection
    • Congregation membership data mapped in Google Earth
• Coming up on WELSTech (46:50)
  • Episode 045 – We celebrate National Distance Learning Week and talk with WELS Internet entrepreneur John Simonson about marketing tips for congregational web sites
  • In December – We’ll be discussing Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky

The featured artist:

• We close with music of WELS artist, Kevin Loersch – Abide With Me from his CD titled Abide with Me (48:55)

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