147 – WELSTech Road Trip: Wrap Up

This week the WELSTech Podcast includes a summer Road Trip recap and the return of some of our favorite features.

Christmas 2010 Scavenger Hunt:

 Clue #2

Remember, you can use your smartphone or an online decoder to decipher the message.  Additional contest details available here.  Have fun!

Road trip:

Reliving the trip – Coming off of an 11-week virtual tour of the synod, Martin and Sallie revisit each stop and reflect on the lessons learned.  From managing the church office to integrating technology in the classroom, from video conferencing for counseling and Bible class to video closed captioning, from Bible study software to pastoral blogging, the Road Trip highlighted creative uses of technology to assist with and further gospel ministry.

• Audio/Video Conferencing
  • ooVoo
  • VSee
  • TinyChat
• Open SIS – open source student management system
• Vodburner – Record Skype audio and video

Ministry resources:

(26:30) Seminary Video Library (RSS)

News in tech:

(27:47) Updates to Office Web Apps and Facebook Docs

Picks of the week:

• (29:50) School Technology Solutions by Brad Flickinger
• Google Voice in Gmail

Community feedback:

• (34:18) Jason Schmidt from Gethsemane in Omaha, NE shared links to …
  • Google web search lessons and resources for educators
  • Faith Sings
• Gail Potratz from Emanuel in New London, WI shared a link to a new free web conferencing tool, Mikogo
• Martin shared a link to a blog post focusing on Google Apps in education, When K-12 Moves to the Cloud
  • Google Apps is free for Education and Non-Profits

Coming up on WELSTech:

(39:52) Episode 148 – We kick off a brand new book discussion, this time looking at Leading 21st Century Schools by Lynn Schrum and Barbara B. Levin.  (Release date 09/08/10)

The featured artist:

(41:15) We close the podcast with the music of Stephen Bautista (www.stephenbautistamusic.com or stephenbautista on Twitter) – Forged in the Fire from his CD titled “Abandon”

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