060 – Technology Planning Maui Style
This week on WELSTech Martin, Sallie and Gail Potratz take a look at the components of a school technology plan.
Podcast: Download (24.4MB)
The discussion:
- School Technology Plans – Martin and Sallie are joined by Gail Potratz, Technology Coordinator at Emanual Lutheran School in New London, WI and our semi-regular classroom technology correspondent, for a discussion of school technology plans. Why do schools need a tech plan, who should be involved in writing it and what should go into it are a few of the questions addressed.
- Online teacher technology assessments – www.loticonnection.com
- Visit the WELSTech wiki page on School Technology Plans for sample plans which you can download and modify for your school
The tidbits:
- Picks of the week (25:15)
- Mashup and narrate web sites, photos, PowerPoint and more- www.FlowGram.com
- Create online Jeopardy games – www.JeopardyLabs.com
- Search for images of Maui & more – www.google.com/images
- Community feedback (33:55)
- Richard Travis sent us a link to Scribd.com for professional looking web publishing
- Check out God’s Yellow Pages
- Vicar Michael Johnson from St. Andrew in Middleton, WI shared a creative use for his iPod in church
- David Savastki from Living Word in Waukesha, WI asked about sending text messages to a group (try Twitter) and invited us to join the new facebook group for his congregation, Friends of Living Word
- Pastor Paul Jansen from Holy Scripture in Ft. Wayne, IN shared a link to a Microsoft Photosynth 3D view of his sanctuary, compiled from 88 photos
- Ryan Rosenthal from Faith in Fond du Lac left us a voice mail full of great money saving ideas you may want to implement in your school or church including using free audio of public domain books at www.LibriVox.org and receiving a free subscription to Technology & Learning Magazine
- Pastor Chris Koschnitzke from Christus in Delavan, WI shared details about their new audio/video system, and we’ve added his notes to the Church Media section of the WELSTech wiki at welstech.wetpaint.com
- Jason Schmidt from Gethsemane in Omaha, NE uses www.mailchimp.com for mass e-mail
- Richard Travis sent us a link to Scribd.com for professional looking web publishing
- Coming up on WELSTech (49:19)
- Episode 061 – Martin shares notes from his Digital Outreach seminar, and we talk with Pastor Ken Fisher about the WhatAboutJesus.com site
The featured artist:
- This week we close with the beautiful piano music of Dawn Gehlhar – Christ Be My Leader from her CD titled Inspirations (50:25)
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