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063 – PDFs and Potlucks
This week on WELSTech the discussion centers around PDFs, and Martin and Sallie share resources for creating and editing documents in this universal format.
Podcast: Download (21.9MB)
The discussion:
All Things PDF – Martin and Sallie serve a potluck of PDF goodness covering the basics of how PDFs became the document sharing standard, a multitude of tools for creating and editing PDFs, and a variety of ministry and personal uses for the format. They even dish up a PDF of this episode’s mind mapped notes!
- Adobe Acrobat 9 (creator) – www.adobe.com/products/acrobat
- Check for academic pricing – www.academicsuperstore.com
- Read PDFs
- Adobe reader – www.adobe.com
- Foxit reader – www.foxitsoftware.com
- Gmail users take advantage of the integrated reader
- Mac users have long enjoyed the Preview app
- Create PDFs – Read Gizmo’s review
- Web-based PDF conversion
- Optimize PDFs
- Adobe Acrobat 9 (creator) – www.adobe.com/products/acrobat
The tidbits:
- Picks of the week (25:00)
- Online color schemes – www.colorschemer.com/online.html
- Update status in multiple social networks – www.ping.fm
- WELS.net feature (30:27)
- Weekly military podcast devotions – streams.wels.net/podcasts?series=military-devotions
- Community feedback (31:45)
- David Savatski from WELS World Missions Promotions shared ministry uses for Flickr
- We received a follow up comment from last week’s interviewee, Lori Aschbrenner of Beautiful Savior in Evertte, WA, with a caution for folks to obtain proper permission before posting photos of people on their church or school web site
- From the WELSTech Listserve
- Joshua Schoeneck, Director of Technology at Kettle Morrain Lutheran HS, posted that the full version of Listserve Lite by L-soft is free to schools through their NetPals program – netpals.lsoft.com/netpals.html
- Jason Petoskey, Network Administrator for Holy Trinity in Wyoming, MI, is using FinalWeb e-mail distribution lists to send e-mail devotions in his congregation
- LJ shared a link to Christian Worship hymnal resources at www.lutheranmusic.com
- David Schumann from Peace in Janesville, WI is looking for a worship primer. Do you have one to share?
- Joshua Schoeneck e-mailed another comment regarding copyright concerns with “broadcast” of Pandora internet radio in the church narthex
- Coming up on WELSTech (42:40)
- Episode 064 – Do you have a PLN? Learn about Personal Learning Networks during our discussion with Gail Potratz. Also learn about Lenovo classroom technology during our interview with Patty Ullsperger.
The featured artist:
- This week we close with the music of WELS artists Kevin Loersche and Cindy Bauder – My Savior Jesus from Kevin’s CD titled Abide With Me (41:15)
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