185 – Summer Vacations

This week on the WELSTech Podcast Gail Potratz joins the discussion as we look at summer professional development opportunities.

Podcast: Download (36.9MB)

The discussion:

Vacation Make a Plan – As the school year wraps up Gail Potratz, the WELSTech semi-regular classroom technology correspondent from Emanuel in New London, WI, joins Martin and Sallie to discuss ideas for summer enrichment, professional growth and even a little relaxation.

Twitter
- How to Use Twitter Lists
- Twitter for Teachers
- Twitter Handbook for Teachers
RSS
- Google Reader on the WELSTech Wiki
- edte.ch by Tom Barrett
Reading List
- NetCasters: Using the Internet to Make Fishers of Men by Craig Von Buseck
  - Free PDF download through May 31st from Internet Evangelism Day
- Teaching the iGeneration by William Ferriter
- Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith by Shane Hipps
Professional Workshops
- ITSE 2011 – Philadelphia
- MDMC 2011
- FinalWeb for Teachers and Dummies
- Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Summer Quarter
- Martin Luther College Continuing Education
Personal Web Presence
- What’s Going On Here
- Summer WELSTech Hacker series
  - SallieDraper.com
  - MartinSpriggs.com

Ministry resources:

(21:36) Glo Bible released for iPhone/iPod Touch
BibleGateway beta of site redesign

Picks of the week:

Community feedback:

(31:49) We basked in the Apple Day afterglow this week:
- Maren McPeak from St. Mark in Citrus Heights, CA tweeted her favorite iPad app – Air Sketch
- Philip Wels from St. Paul in New Ulm, MN is an AppleCare fan with experience
- We made a Apple-WELS Connection with Amanda Voss, senior programmer for Apple, from Apostles in San Jose, CA
Via the WELSTech Diigo group we learned about
- Word Cloud review
- VoiceThread for Education
- Wonderopolis
Adam Valleskey from Christ in Juneau, AK has an approved location-based facebook deal – “Free gift of hearing God’s Word with every visit”
Debbie Spriggs from Peace in Hartford, WI recommended SnackTools website widgets
Kevin Smith from Christ in Zumbrota, MN pointed us to info on Microsoft Multipoint Server. He learned of this from the Windows Weekly TWiT Podcast.

Coming up on WELSTech:

(47:05) Episode 186 – Martin and Sallie unveil the updated ShopWELS site as well as a chat with Tim Plath about the Area Lutheran High School Online pilot project. (Release date – 06/01/11)

The featured artist:

(48:22) We close the podcast with the music of Mike Westendorf (www.mikewestendorf.com and mikewestendorf on Twitter) – Coming Soon from his CD titled “Undefined”