A complete listing of the Picks of the Week from 2018 WELSTech episodes
The Best of 2018 (Episode 582)
Picks of the Week Archive
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Amazon
- Amazon Prime Households
- People’s Bible on Kindle – John
Apple
Books
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
- Audible
Cloud Computing
Education
- Control Alt Achieve
- Ditch That Textbook Summit
- Doodle for Google
- Edison – Affordable robotics for the classroom
- Kahoot has 70M Users
- Online Teen Safety Guide from StaySafe.org
- Osmo
- Register now for EDT8011 Dynamic Classroom Presentations and other summer offerings from Martin Luther College Continuing Education
- Scrappy Circuits
- SparkFun Inventor’s Kit for micro:bit
- Student Data Privacy Consortium
- Join Jason at WELS Education, Technology, and Leadership Summit, June 25-27, 2019 in Wisconsin Dells, WI to learn more.
- Trending Twitter #keepkidslearning
- 29 Extensions and Tools to Supercharge Your Google Calendar
- Canned Responses for Gmail
- Clean Up Wasted Space in Gmail Using This Awesome Trick
- Google Alerts
- Google Calendar as a Personal Journal
- Google Tour Creator
- Grammarly Chrome Extension
- How to backup Gmail: The ultimate guide
- How to make Gmail’s desktop interface infinitely better
- Stylebot Chrome extension
- How to Use the Google Chrome Task Manager
- Six ways Google Forms are getting smarter
- The Ultimate Guide to Organizing Your Messy Chrome Bookmarks
- Using an iPad with an Apple TV as a presentation whiteboard
Hardware
- Apple AirPods
- Apple Pencil
- ATR2100 Microphone – WELSTech Video Review
- ChromebookParts.com
- Do you really need to properly eject a USB drive before taking it out?
- How and why you should be cleaning your phone and other electronics
- HP Sprocket Photo Printer
- iCarez Screen Protectors
- Joby GorillaPod GripTight ONE GP Stand
- Kindle Fire HD 8 Kids Edition
- Microsoft Surface Lineup
- Panasonic Lumix FZ1000
- Trackpads anyone?
- Martin’s choice – Apple’s Magic Trackpad 2
- The 10 Best Computer Touchpads
- Touchpad Tip
- Mac – Three Finger Tap and Drag
- PC – Double Tap and Drag
Health
- High Intensity Interval Training and Heart Health
- Intervals app for iOS
- How To Set Up Medical ID on Your iPhone
- Six Tips to Help Save Yourself from Poor Computer Posture
- ROAD iD
Images
- 7 Ways To Take Screenshots in Windows 10
- Affinity Photo for iPad
- Apple Photos – Mac | iOS
- Fiverr
- Sallie’s experience – from photo to final logo
- How To Convert and Modify Images with Snagit Batch Image Conversion Wizard
- How to Take a Screenshot on Any Device
- Our first ever tech-in-action photo of the week features Wisconsin Lutheran College Campus Pastor Wayne Shevey sporting a head cam during freshman move in day
- Take spherical photos with Google Street View
- Thankful Bot by Noun Project
Mobile
- Bible Lens app from YouVersion – iOS | Coming to Android
- Drafts for iOS
- Gboard for iOS
- Hey Siri, Play God’s Word!
- How to use Voice Memos
- iExit app
- iOS App: Workflow
- iOS Dictate function
- PicCollage
- Pocketcast
- SkyView for iOS and Android
Outreach
- A FAST way to help guests feel welcome [Infographic]
Productivity
- 8 Trello Browser Externsions You’ll Love and Can’t Live Without
- List Layouts for Trello
- Ultimello
- Habitica
- How to Bullet Journal in Trello
Social Media
- 3 Es for Social Media
- Be a Hero with Instagram [PDF] – a free eBook from Church Tech Today
- Make your own Facebook Frame
- Twitter for Windows 10 is a Progressive Web App (PWA) – Get it here
Security
Training
- 10 Excel Functions Everyone Should Know
- Check out Martin’s Continuing Education course, Dynamic Classroom Presentations, offered this summer at Martin Luther College and the textbook, Presentation Zen
- Jason will be teaching a graduate course at MLC on Google Technology in Education this summer as well
- Windows 10 Tips app
Utilities
- 30 Incredibly Useful Things You Didn’t Know Slack Could Do
- Good Digital Calendar Stewardship
- Goodsync
- Google Search – Set timer & Start stopwatch
- How to reclaim space after upgrading to Windows 10 April 2018 Update
- How to save an email as a PDF on iPhone and iPad
- Keyboard shortcuts for PC and Mac
- Puffin Web Browser
- Plug-ins and Add-ons for Adding Images to Documents & Slides
- Reflector 3
- Speed test via Google search
- Teamviewer
- Text Expander
- Download Text Expander files for Ministry | Christian Worship | Christian Worship Supplement
- Trello Chrome Extension
- Trello Prayer Lists
- Waze
Video
- 50 Tips for Better Videos – Article | Infographic
- How to Add Captions or Subtitles to a Video
- How to Make Great Videos
- Loom
- The True Christmas Story
- Video File Formats, Codecs, and Containers Explained
- Weekday chapel service live streams
- Martin Luther College – 10:30 am | 7:15 pm | 10 pm Monday
- Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary – 9:20 am