This week on WELSTech Martin and Sallie are joined by Gail Potratz for a discussion on SMARTBoards in the classroom. Gail interviews Linda Kasten, a SMARTBoard-enabled teacher.
The discussion and interview:
- SMARTBoards in the Classroom – As more schools integrate interactive whiteboards into their classrooms, Martin, Sallie and our semi-regular classroom technology correspondent, Gail Potratz, discuss resources for making the most of your SMARTBoard. Gail interviews Linda Kasten (8:35), a first grade teacher from St. Paul’s in Muskego, WI and 6-year veteran SMARTBoard user about the impact SMARTBoards have had on her students.
The tidbits:
- Picks of the week (32:50)
- Of interest (41:00)
- Seminary Mission and Ministry 2009
- This years theme: “Go and Make Disciples: At Home, Abroad, For Life”
- February 3-5
- Details and registration information at www.wls.wels.net
- Community feedback (41:48)
- New wiki member “dessmith” tried out the WELSTech Wiki Sandbox. You can too!
- Alyssa Dunning from WELS Web Services recommended www.usend.io for sharing large files easily.
- Julie Duran, WELS Webmaster, sent us a link to a page of web technology resources for churches from Squidoo.
- John Shoosmith of Redeemer in Yakima, WA shared a link to a new closed-captioned sermon from Cross and Crown in Georgetown, TX.
- Coming up on WELSTech (45:55)
- Episode 057 – The discussion of Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody continues with Chapter 3, “Everyone is a Media Outlet”
The featured artist:
- This week we close with the music of In His Service featuring WELS musicians Dr. Patricia Backhaus and Valerie Floeter (www.adagioconcepts.com) – I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say from their CD titled In His Time (48:03)
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