099 – Books In The Cloud

This week on the WELSTech Podcast Gail Potratz joins the discussion as we look at Google Books.

The discussion:

Google Books – Google’s mission to organize the world’s information extends to offline content with their Google Books initiative.  Gail Potratz, Technology Coordinator at Emanuel in New London, WI joins Martin and Sallie to discuss the impact Google Books will have on the future of education.

• Sample Google Books searches
  • Martin Luther – For each book listed you can see whether you will get a Full view, Limited preview, Snippet view or No preview; options are available to refine the search to books he wrote or books that mention him
  • Full view of out of copyright work allows for download, copy, etc. – Martin Luther: the hero of the Reformation, 1483-1546 By Henry Eyster Jacobs
  • Limited preview allows you to browse by chapter and provides links to purchase or request from local library – On Christian liberty By Martin Luther, Harold John Grimm, William A. Lambert
  • Snippet view has only enough of the page to show the search term with links to purchase or request – Note the locations mentioned in the book are displayed on a Google Map – What Luther says: an anthology, Volume 2 By Martin Luther, Ewald Martin Plass
  • No preview only provides links and related items – Martin Luther: his life and work By Hartmann Grisar

Ministry resources:

(16:44) Church Marketing Lab Flickr group

Picks of the week:

• (19:48) GoodReads groups – a solution for classroom book discussions
• Google Sidewiki
• Ideas to Inspire
• OneLicense.net for Podcasting
  • Pricing
  • How it Works

Coming up on WELSTech:

(34:37) The long anticipated 100th episode awaits and you won’t want to miss this special episode dedicated to YOU, the WELSTech listeners! (Release date 10/07/09)

• Send us your tech-in-ministry (public or personal) success story for inclusion
• All submissions will be including in our prize drawing for a WELSTech Sigg Water Bottle
• Deadline for entries is October 2, 2009

Community feedback:

• (36:40) Following up on the Intranet discussion in Episode 098
  • We’ve added a new Intranet page to the WELSTech Wiki.  Listeners are invited to share their Intranet experience!
  • Follow the Intranet conversation on the WELSTech listserve
• #WELSTech tweets this week include …
  • Jason Schmidt from Gethsemane in Omaha, NE shared links to Woofer for macroblogging and Aviary Phoenix image editor
  • Gail thinks Myna from Aviary is an excellent alternative to Audacity for audio editing

The featured artist:

(39:37) This week we close with the music of WELS pianist Dawn Gehlhar – Nearer My God To Thee from her CD titled ”Inspirations”

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