360 – Digital Note Taking

Are the days of paper and pencil note taking over? On WELSTech this week we talk about a plethora of digital note taking options. Plus we share the inside scoop on the ShopWELS Insider newsletter and a recommended Greek and Hebrew flashcard app. We cap off the show with not one, but three featured videos.

The discussion:

Take Note – Martin and Sallie review the advantages of using digital tools to store and organize notes and project “commodities” in one place including search-ability, collaboration and one-stop cloud storage.

• OneNote
• Evernote
• Google Keep
• Notability
• Google Drive
• Diigo
• OmniFocus & OmniOutliner

News in tech:

• Fire HD Kids Edition with Freetime Unlimited

Ministry resources:

• Flashcards for Greek and Hebrew from Logos
  • iTunes
  • Google Play

Tips & picks of the week:

• Introducing LastPass for iOS 8
  • Everything You Need to Know About iOS 8
• Google’s “Any Time” search feature

WELS insider:

• Subscribe to the ShopWELS Insider
  • Summer 2014 edition

Need to know:

• iPhone 4 donations needed for Malawi
• Pastors – Take our 5 minute Tech Survey (bit.ly/pastorstechsurvey) and you could win a copy of HymnSoft Player 3.0 (a $249.99 value) courtesy of Northwestern Publishing House
• Presenters at WELSTech Conference 2015 (wels.net/welstechconf), July 9-11, 2015 at Country Springs Hotel and Conference Center in Pewaukee, WI attend for FREE?!! We’re currently looking for presenters and tech topics of interest for our breakout sessions. Give it some thought and submit your ideas!

Community feedback:

• Tips for Online students Working in Virtual Groups [Infographic]
• Two iPad Google Apps Few Know About
• New Google Docs Cheat Sheet
• Earth from Discovery Kids
• 10 Online Activities and Resources for Geography Awareness
• 10 Awesome BYOD and Mobile Learning Apps
• Church Video License by CVLI
• From the WELSTech ListServe … Most recommended app for controlling PowerPoint from an iPad is Slide Shark

Coming up on WELSTech:

Episode 361 – Martin and Sallie welcome Gail Potratz back to the edtech guest host chair and catch up the technology in her new school year. (Broadcast date – 09/30/14)

Featured videos:

To complement the digital note taking discussion, we’ve added not one but THREE featured videos to the  WELSTech’s Product Demos YouTube playlist –

Google Keep

Evernote 6 for Android

OneNote for iOS 8

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