415 – Community Feedback

This week’s WELSTech episode is dedicated to feedback, ideas, questions and links shared by WELSTech listeners. Learn about a cloud-based database tool, text messaging for congregations, a creative, bathroom-friendly way to promote mobile apps which keep people in the Word, and an easy way to share websites with your students using Google Classroom. That’s just the start of the list of WELSTech goodness wrapped up in episode 415!

The discussion:

Anything goes – Martin and Sallie share a month’s worth of Community Feedback and there is literally something for everyone. We dare you to not learn something new along the way!

• Your Plan
• American Red Cross Apps
• Airtable
• StaffPad
• Useful & Free Greek Study App
• Three ways your church can use text messaging
  • Cel.ly
  • Ez Texting
  • Church Text Pro
  • Text Marks
  • Jabber Text
  • Twitter SMS subscription
• QuizUp launches tools for creating your own trivia categories and questions
• Visit the WELSTech Listserve Archives to read about using Lucidpress and other solutions for creating bulletins:
  • Lucidpress
  • Microsoft Office via Tech Soup
  • Corel Draw
  • Adobe InDesign
• Why’d you give me this, God
• One Note in the Classroom Pinterest Board
• Share to Classroom Overview – Google Chrome Extension
• New City Catechism example
• There’s an App for That promo
• WELSTech Photo Challenge – Royalty-Free Flickr Album
• Hour of Code – December 7-13, 2015
• Rachel Feld is blogging about Creativity in Christ Light for Bread for Beggars
• e-Rate details and recent changes

News in tech:

• 4.2 billion people still offline
• August Smart Lock, HomeKit-Enabled

WELS now:

• New Worship Blog
• Part 1 of Martin’s series for Issues in Lutheran Education – Prospect Management for Schools

Picks of the week:

• The Copyright Coach Webinars
• Medium – Martin’s First Post

Ministry resources:

The Bible App for Kids Storybook – Order on Amazon

Featured video:

You’re sure to get a grin from these videos – A Conference Call in Real Life and Email in Real Life – new additions to the WELSTech Presentation/Teaching YouTube Playlist.

Coming up on WELSTech:

Episode 416 – Jason Schmidt returns for his 5th year of guest hosting on WELSTech with a discussion of classroom management with technology. Join us Tuesday, October 27 at 4 pm Central. welstechlive.wels.net

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