185 – Summer Vacations

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

The discussion:

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:

• (23:37) SpiderScribe
• iPad Today Video Podcast
• LiveScribe SmartPen Connect Update

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”

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