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title: 060 – Technology Planning Maui Style
description: "This week on WELSTech Martin, Sallie and Gail Potratz take a look at the components of a school technology plan. The discussion: School Technology Plans – Martin and Sallie are joined by Gail Potratz, Technology Coordinator at Emanual Lutheran School in New London, WI and our semi-regular classroom technology correspondent, for a discussion of school technology plans.  […]"
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# [060 – Technology Planning Maui Style](https://welstech.wels.org/2009/02/25/060-technology-planning-maui-style)

 Written by [Sallie Draper](https://welstech.wels.org/author/sallie-draper) | Feb 25, 2009 5:00:02 AM

This week on WELSTech Martin, Sallie and Gail Potratz take a look at the components of a school technology plan.

[https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/welstech-podcast-02-25-09.mp3](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/welstech-podcast-02-25-09.mp3)

Podcast: [Download](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/welstech-podcast-02-25-09.mp3) (24.4MB)

### The discussion:

- School Technology Plans – Martin and Sallie are joined by Gail Potratz, Technology Coordinator at [Emanual Lutheran School](http://www.emanuelnl.org/school) in New London, WI and our semi-regular classroom technology correspondent, for a discussion of school technology plans.  Why do schools need a tech plan, who should be involved in writing it and what should go into it are a few of the questions addressed. 
    - Online teacher technology assessments – [www.loticonnection.com](http://www.loticonnection.com/)
    - Visit the WELSTech wiki page on School Technology Plans for sample plans which you can download and modify for your school

### The tidbits:

- Picks of the week (25:15) 
    - Mashup and narrate web sites, photos, PowerPoint and more- [www.FlowGram.com](http://www.flowgram.com/) 
          - [Watch a demo video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8vmNRnzDSg&eurl=http://mashable.com/2008/09/11/flowgram/&feature=player_embedded)
    - Create online Jeopardy games – [www.JeopardyLabs.com](http://www.jeopardylabs.com/)
    - Search for images of Maui & more – [www.google.com/images](http://www.google.com/images)
- Community feedback (33:55) 
    - Richard Travis sent us a link to [Scribd.com](http://scribd.com) for professional looking web publishing 
          - Check out [God’s Yellow Pages](http://www.scribd.com/doc/15041/Gods-Yellow-Pages)
    - Vicar Michael Johnson from [St. Andrew](http://www.st-andrew-online.org/) in Middleton, WI shared a creative use for his iPod in church
    - David Savastki from [Living Word](http://www.livingwordwaukesha.org/) in Waukesha, WI asked about sending text messages to a group (try [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com)) and invited us to join the new facebook group for his congregation, [Friends of Living Word](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52105013578#/group.php?sid=60fbf41644e7886a88a40cdcf6ed233a&gid=52105013578)
    - Pastor Paul Jansen from [Holy Scripture](http://www.holyscripturefw.org/) in Ft. Wayne, IN shared a link to a Microsoft Photosynth 3D view of his sanctuary, compiled from 88 photos
    - Ryan Rosenthal from [Faith](http://www.faithlutheranfdl.org/) in Fond du Lac left us a voice mail full of great money saving ideas you may want to implement in your school or church including using free audio of public domain books at [www.LibriVox.org](http://www.librivox.org/) and receiving a free subscription to [Technology & Learning Magazine](http://www.techlearning.com/)
    - Pastor Chris Koschnitzke from [Christus](http://www.christuswels.org/) in Delavan, WI shared details about their new audio/video system, and we’ve added his notes to the Church Media section of the WELSTech wiki at welstech.wetpaint.com
    - Jason Schmidt from [Gethsemane](http://falconnet.gethlc.org/mambo/) in Omaha, NE uses [www.mailchimp.com](http://www.mailchimp.com/) for mass e-mail
- Coming up on WELSTech (49:19) 
    - Episode 061 – Martin shares notes from his Digital Outreach seminar, and we talk with Pastor Ken Fisher about the [WhatAboutJesus.com](http://www.WhatAboutJesus.com) site

### The featured artist:

- This week we close with the beautiful piano music of Dawn Gehlhar – *Christ Be My Leader* from her CD titled Inspirations (50:25)

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