132 – Spriggs Squared

This week the WELSTech podcast welcomes two Mac-friendly guests as we explore the use of Macs in ministry.

The discussion:

Inside Apple – The Spriggs boys are taking over!  Listen as Martin’s son, Aaron Spriggs, our WELSTech resident Apple store guy, shares his insight into the popularity of Mac products.

The interview:

(14:25) Macs in Ministry – Pastor Steve Bauer from Faith in West Newton, PA joins Martin and Sallie to discuss his use of Mac-based Bible software, Accordance, as well as some other Mac favorites of his.

• Pastor Bauer’s Accordance resources
• Accordance for Windows – Scroll down and look for the “emulator”
• Free Trial
• Video Tutorials
• Pastor Bauer’s LaTeX resources
• Omni Outliner 3
• Greek Font Society

News in tech:

• (38:58) Office 2010 launch
• Software updates:
  • Photoshop CS5
  • Snagit 10 (Aaron recommends Snapz Pro X for screen capture on the Mac)

Picks of the week:

• (44:51) Things – Mac Task Management
• Infographics
  • A Day in the Internet
  • Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World
• YouVersion iPhone app | iPad HD app

Of interest:

• (54:25) Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Graduation and Call Day – If you can’t be there in person, plan to tune in to the special services via live video stream – wels.net/streams/live.
  • Graduate Assignments – Thursday, May 20 at 10:00 a.m.
  • Graduation Concert – Thursday, May 20 at 7:00 p.m.
  • Graduation – Friday, May 21 at 10:00 a.m.
• FinalWeb Training in Milwaukee, WI and New Ulm, MN
  • FinalWeb for Teachers – July 19 – bit.ly/fw4teachers
  • FinalWeb for Dummies – July 20-22- bit.ly/fw4dummies

Community feedback:

• (56:35) Following up on last week’s Web Design discussion, Aaron recommends Squarespace for online site development.  Check out The Point of Grace site which he developed on the platform.  Also Perry Lund, webmaster at Grace in Oskaloosa, IA, shared some of his favorite Joomla plug-in links:
  • JCE WYSIWYG Editor
  • 1PixelOut Audio Player
  • Core Design Web Gallery
• SMSStorage is Perry’s recommendation for a Mac cloud drive.
• From the WELSTech group on Diigo we learned of …
  • Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers
  • Integrate SMS polling into Keynote with Poll Everywhere
  • Virtual Manipulatives
  • Thumba online image editor
• Gail Potratz suggested our summer WELSTech Road Trip include a stop with someone using Google Apps in a ministry setting.  Contact us if you have other suggestions of topics you would like to know more about.

Coming up on WELSTech:

(1:04:52) Episode 133 – What belongs on a great classroom web site?  Gail Potratz joins us for this education-focused discussion. (Release date 05/26/10)

The featured artist:

(1:06:16) We close the podcast with the music of Dawn Gehlhar – Amazing Grace from her CD titled “Inspirations”

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