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title: 174 – Revisiting WhatAboutJesus.com
description: "This week on the WELSTech Podcast we return to our book discussion and take a closer look at techie outreach resources. The discussion: Communication for School Leaders – Listen as Martin and Sallie discuss Chapter 7 of Leading 21st Century Schools which covers tech-based ideas for school leaders to engage parents, alumni, school boards and […]"
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# [174 – Revisiting WhatAboutJesus.com](https://welstech.wels.org/2011/03/09/174-revisiting-whataboutjesus-com)

 Written by [Sallie Draper](https://welstech.wels.org/author/sallie-draper) | Mar 9, 2011 5:00:11 AM

This week on the WELSTech Podcast we return to our book discussion and take a closer look at techie outreach resources.

[https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Podcast_174.mp3](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Podcast_174.mp3)

Podcast: [Download](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Podcast_174.mp3) (36.9MB)

### The discussion:

Communication for School Leaders – Listen as Martin and Sallie discuss Chapter 7 of *[Leading 21st Century Schools](http://www.amazon.com/Leading-21st-Century-Schools-Harnessing-Achievement/dp/1412972957/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283269279&sr=8-1)* which covers tech-based ideas for school leaders to engage parents, alumni, school boards and other “stakeholders” in education initiatives.

### Ministry resources:

(13:51) [WhatAboutJesus.com](http://WhatAboutJesus.com) – Access and share outreach oriented resources covering questions about Jesus and God, life concerns, introduction to worship, worship helps and much more.

- Visit the Ministry Resources page for a compilation of items shared throughout WELSTech history.

### News in tech:

(19:08) [iPad2 announcement](http://www.apple.com/ipad/) – Recently Joshua Johnson from Nebraska Evangelical Lutheran High School posted a question on the [WELSTech Facebook page](http://facebook.com/welstech) looking for 1 to 1 computing recommendations.  If you are considering iPads for 1 to 1 computing in your school, check out these resources:

- [A Visit to GFW High School  (One-to-One iPad Initiative)](http://techinmusiced.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/a-visit-to-gfw-high-school-one-to-one-ipad-initiative/)
- iPad2 in Education discussion
- [I Education App Review](http://www.iear.org/)
- [Digital Storytelling with iPad](http://sites.google.com/site/digitalstorytellingwiththeipad/home)

### Picks of the week:

- (24:35) [Guides for Interactive Whiteboards](http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/guides/) from The Whiteboard Blog
- Monoprice.com

### Of interest:

(28:23) FinalWeb Training in New Ulm, MN and Milwaukee, WI

- FinalWeb for Teachers in New Ulm on June 27 and Milwaukee on August 1 – [bit.ly/fw4teachers](http://bit.ly/fw4teachers)
- FinalWeb for Dummies in New Ulm June 28-30 and Milwaukee August 2-4 – [bit.ly/fw4dummies](http://bit.ly/fw4dummies)

### Community feedback:

- (31:14) We received lots of Facebook feedback from last week’s podcast: 
    - Adam Vallesky from [Christ](http://www.facebook.com/ChristJuneau) in Juneau, AK is encouraging members to check in when they are at church using Facebook’s location based app
    - The WELSTech Wiki list of schools on Facebook grew to include [Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School](http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kettle-Moraine-Lutheran-High-School/157641110940751) and [Nebraska Evangelical Lutheran High School](http://www.facebook.com/NELHS) which boasts 480 + followers
    - Martin blogged about Facebook for churches
    - Gail Potratz from [Emanuel](http://www.emanuelnl.org/school) in New London, WI asked about posting on Facebook as the page administrator
    - Brian Pruess from [Beautiful Savior](http://www.beautiful-savior.org/) in Hillsboro, OR asked about a mobile version of [WELS.net](http://WELS.net)
- Sallie and Martin shared links via the [WELSTech Diigo Group](http://groups.diigo.com/group/welstech) 
    - [Small Tech Firms Tap Into Churches](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703584804576144673729129528.html?mod=ITP_marketplace_3#articleTabs%3Darticle) from The Wall Street Journal
    - [Best Five PDF Tools](http://lifehacker.com/#!5777213/five-best-pdf-tools) from Lifehacker
- Pastor Phil Arnold from [St. Matthews](http://www.stmatthews-wels.com) in Stoddard, WI shared a link to Mellel, a word processor for Mac which handles Greek and Hebrew text seamlessly.
- David Schumann from [Peace](http://www.peacejanesville.com/) in Janesville, WI shares online worship video resources from another congregation, Good Shepherd in Wisconsin Rapids, WI, with his congregation because they don’t produce their own.  Find a list of all streamed worship services and online sermon video archives on the WELSTech Wiki.
- Via twitter we heard from … 
    - Josh ([mlcjohnson16](http://twitter.com/mlcjohnson16)) who shared a link to the new WordPress web site for [Bethel](http://www.bethelyork.com/) in York, NE using a theme from [graphpaperpress.com](http://graphpaperpress.com/)
    - [Gail Potratz](http://twitter.com/gailpotratz) sharing her love for [Camtasia Studio](http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/) video creation software.  Check out [Sallie’s recent blog post](http://salliedraper.com/blog/2011/03/06/fav-5-video-creation-tools/) on video creation tools.

### Coming up on WELSTech:

(46:03) Episode 175 – The Microsoft Office tool set is the discussion topic of the day, and Staff Minister Dan Schoeffel shares his tech favorites. (Release date – 03/16/11)

### The featured artist:

(47:20) We close the podcast with the music of Corban Creek  – *Psalm 13 *from their CD titled ”Could It Be Me”

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