A complete listing of the Picks of the Week from 2024 WELSTech episodes

Picks of the Week Archive

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AI

• Classroom AI 101: Imagining Story Setting with Text-Evidence Supported Prompting
• Common Sense Education’s AI Literacy Lessons – Grades 6-12 (& adults)
• Ludia from Poe – An AI-powered UDL partner
• Magic School AI
• Monday, May 13 is DayOfAI.org
• MidJourney
• Perplexity.ai
  • Perplexity AI: How does it stack up against ChatGPT? from Android Authority
  • 5 reasons why I prefer Perplexity over every other AI chatbot from ZDNET
• PromptBase.com
  • Professional AI Prompt Whisperers
• SchoolAI
• SchoolAI.com Assistants
• Skill Leap AI YouTube channel
• Suno – AI song composer
  • Suno Teacher’s Program
  • WELSTech Songs – Version 1, Version 2

Audio

• Apple Notes audio recording and transcribe
• Epidemic Sound

Bible

• Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Digital Library
• Write It Down – Facebook group for journaling God’s Word

Books

• The 2-Hour Cocktail Party: How to Build Big Relationships with Small Gatherings by Nick Gray – a great format for friendship evangelism
  • Party.pro
  • Nick Gray on YouTube

Education

• Book Creator
  • Monthly Activity Journals
• Ditch That Textbook eBooks
• End of the Year THRIVE-al (Not Survival) Guide – from Ditch That Textbook
• Mirror
• Padlet
• Sallie’s Summer PD Bingo Board from Ditch That Textbook
  • MLC Open Learning recap (spoiler: Teamwork required!)
  • Telling the Next Generation
  • Wakelet Community Week
  • Printify
    • Diffit for Teachers
    • Diffit overview video
    • Diffit Certification in 20 minutes!
    • Diffit Wakelet
    • Diffit is free for first year teachers
• Sign up for the (FREE) Ditch Summit – December 16 to January 10
  • Join AI for Admins
• The Teachers Guide to Tech 2024

e-Giving

• GiveButter

Games

• Let’s Play Bingo

Google

• Google Vids
• Scan documents with Google Drive

Hardware

• 64 precision bits from iFixIt.com
• Apple Air Pods Pro
• Apple iPad
• Apple Magic Trackpad
  • Three Finger Drag setting
  • PC trackpad alternatives
• Church Speaker Placement 101 – Everything You Need to Know from ChurchLeaders.com
• Dell XPS9425
• Logitech G502 Hero Gaming Mouse
• Logitech M340 silent mouse
• Logitech Pebble Keys 2 Wireless Keyboard
• Nomad Magnetic Leather Back for iPhone
• Smartish Cable Wrangler

Images

• Canva Pro

Productivity

• Miro
• Press and hold YouTube for 2x speed
• ToDoist

Security

• CyberSecurityRubric.org

Utilities

• Apple Reminders – Overview | Help
• Click-N-Ship from the U.S. Post Office
• Drawio
• Fax Plus
• Goodnotes
• GRID-IT! Organizer by Cocoon
• Loom
• MailTrack
• Microsoft Edge
• Pandora background music for your workday
• Raindrop.io Browser Extension
  • Consider going Pro!
• Use Apple Calendar Like A Pro
• Windows/Start + V for Copy history on PCs

Web

• Arc browser