463 – Feedback From You

On WELSTech this week, Martin and Sallie open the virtual mail bag and share tips and tricks from listeners, including the announcement of a free Fall conference focused on gospel outreach and technology, two things near and dear to every WELSTech-er. There’s also web hosting advice, typing tutors, and fun ways to create color palettes for your next project.

The discussion:

Community feedback feast – Martin and Sallie share all sorts of tech-in-ministry goodness from WELSTech-ers!

• Read and share the Gospel Outreach with Media Fall conference announcement
  • October 10 through 31 at GOWM.org
• Send to Kindle for Mac and PC
• It’s ‘digital heroin’ – How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies
• Adobe Color Wheel
• How to Determine Your Church’s Digital Direction
• Best Web Hosting for Churches (And Which to Avoid)
• Join the conversation in the WELSTech Google Group
  • Interactive Whiteboards
  • Digital Display Recommendations
• Typing.com
• Quizizz
• 77 of the Best Church Websites of 2016
• 4 Techniques to Optimize Your Nonprofit Newsletter

News in tech:

Week 2 of Apple updates – new mobile operating systems:

• iOS 10
• watchOS 3

WELS now:

Just in time for Reformation …. “What does this mean? The continuing importance of Luther’s Small Catechism” is the title of the current Interactive Faith series led by Rev. John Braun. Tune in on Wednesdays at 6 or 8 pm Central, September 21 – October 26.

Picks of the week:

• Use Your Mouse as a Laser Pointer in Google Slides (Plus 2 More Useful Tips)
  • Slides Carnival – Google Slides Templates
• OneNote Web Clipper

Ministry resources:

Zoom.us video conferencing

Featured video:

Replay the Martin Luther College live streamed presentation by Mahtob Mahmoody, author of My Name is Mahtob and daughter of Betty Mahmoody who wrote Not Without My Daughter.

Coming up on WELSTech:

Episode 464 – We welcome Rachel Feld from Bethany in Kenosha, WI to the Semi-Regular Classroom Technology Correspondent (a.k.a., Guest Host) chair! Release date: Wednesday, September 28.

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