145 – WELSTech Road Trip: Citrus Heights, CA

The WELSTech Podcast Road Trip travels to California to hear the tech-in-ministry success story of St. Mark’s in Citrus Heights.

Road trip:

(3:20) Technology serving St. Mark’s – Joining Martin and Sallie today are Maren McPeak, Webmaster, and Matt Bauer, Principal, from St. Mark’s in Citrus Heights, CA.  Listen as they share technology ideas from their church and school including use of their web site, iTunes, Facebook and Moodle.

• Check out all the content on the St. Mark’s site to get ideas for your church or school site
• View the sample Moodle course used to train students to update the St. Mark’s church and school Google calendar
• Download the Google calendar Moodle course backup and restore on your own Moodle site
• View instructions for logging into a sample Schoology.com course created by Maren

The WELSTech Road Trip Tracker

Picks of the week:

• (21:10) ThatQuiz.org
• Kindle for PC

Community feedback:

• (29:15) Pastor Dan Witte from Risen Savior in Lakewood Ranch, FL shared a link to The 2010 Social Networking Map (infographic)
• Jason Schmidt from Gethsemane in Omaha, NE posted a Diigo link to PB Work’s page of Best Practices for Classroom Wikis
• Perry Lund from Grace in Oskaloosa, IA shared a link to OmniFocus for iPad for GTD-style project management

Coming up on WELSTech:

(36:34) Episode 146 – The summer 2010 WELSTech Road Trip series wraps up with a virtual visit to three states as we compare and contrast Bible study software.  (Release date 08/25/10)

The featured artist:

(37:44) This week we feature the music of  Koine (www.koinemusic.com | Facebook) – Fight the Good Fight from their CD titled ”Church Bells”

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