108 – Tech-Enabled Religion Class

This week on the WELSTech podcast we share ministry resource examples of technology in religious education.

Podcast: Download (38.5MB)

The discussion:

Wordle Luke 2 Ministry Resources galore – Rather than one short segment on Ministry Resources, today’s WELSTech episode discussion is dedicated to practical examples of technology for religion classes. Martin and Sallie share links to video and image projects, Bible games, online quizzes and more. Special thanks go out to Gail Potratz from Emanuel in New London, WI, who couldn’t participate in the recording but shared many links and much research for this episode!

7th grade Glogster pages on the genealogy of Jesus
- Teachers sign up for free class Glogster accounts – edu.glogster.com
Sample Christmas puppet show video
- Teachers sign up for free class Animoto accounts – animoto.com/education
Use Wordle.net to create word clouds of Bible text
Create your own Jeopardy games atJeopardyLabs.com
- Sample games – Bible 1 and Bible 2
Use Lego Bible images in presentations – from TheBrickTestament.com
Use Glo Bible resources to spark discussion – Sample from Luke 2
Use MyStudiyo.com to create online quizzes – Sample on Luke 2
Create a Web Quest – Sample mission “Harvest Fields” Web Quest
Check out the complete list of WELSTech Ministry Resources

News in tech:

(27:53) Google Chrome Operating System

LaLa.com music streaming app
Instruction for installing on a flash drive
Video for installing in a virtual box

Picks of the week:

(35:55) Jane Hart’s Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
Collide Magazine

Of interest:

(42:15) Tune in to WELS Streams on December 6^th @ 3 p.m. for the live audio stream of the Martin Luther College Christmas Concert

Community feedback:

(43:07) Steve Mathwig reported problems with WELSTech updates on the iPod Touch and Martin explains the cause
David Schumann from Peace in Janesville, WI suggested Audacity users try the “Normalize” function to even out sound levels in audio recordings
This week Jason Schmidt of Gethsemane in Omaha, NE tweeted #WELSTech to share links to 5 Elements of a Successful Facebook Fan Page and IKnowThat.com

Coming up on WELSTech:

(51:25) Episode 109 – Tune in to WELSTech next week for a discussion of technology for tech-challenged areas and people plus an interview with Missionary Paul Nitz from Malawi, Africa. (Release date 12/09/09)

The featured artist:

(52:50) This week we close with the Advent music of Revelation, a music ministry of Wisconsin Lutheran College (www.revelationwlc.com) – A Voice Cries Out from their CD titled ”Led by the Light”