179 – April Showers: Bible Teacher Resources

This week on the WELSTech Podcast we share a mega-list of Bible teaching and study resources.

The discussion:

Raining resources for teaching and studying the Bible – Continuing the “April Showers” series, today Martin and Sallie share a master list of the many electronic Bible teaching and studying aids.

• e-Bibles
  • YouVersion
  • Bible Gateway
  • Biblos
  • WELSTech Archives > 165 – Mobile Bible Apps
• Bible Amplification
  • Bible Geocoding
  • Bible Map
  • BibleGlo
    • Bible Glo’s YouTube Channel
    • WELSTech Archives > 113 – Interview with Glo Founder, Nelson Saba
  • The Brick Testament
  • Sixty-Six Clouds
    • Make your own Bible word cloud using Wordle.net
  • WELSTech Archives > 108 – Tech-Enabled Religion Class
  • What About Jesus
  • WELSTech Archives > 121 – Digital Easter Goodies
  • Pastor Guy Marquardt’s Interactive Passion History
  • Video presentations of Martin Luther’s Morning and Evening Prayers
  • Google the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Reading Plans
  • The Daily Bible Challenge blog
  • One Year Bible Online
  • WELSTech Archives > 114 – Read Your Bible
• Bible Study and Research
  • Logos
    • WELSTech Archives > 101 – Interview with Pastor Aaron Frey
  • Accordance
    • WELSTech Archives > 132 – Interview with Pastor Steve Bauer
  • Bible Works
  • WELSTech Archives > 146 – Comparing the big three Bible study software packages
  • e-Sword
  • Greek, Latin and Hebrew Bible audio recordings
• Online Group Bible Study
  • Google Groups
  • Facebook Private Groups
  • Various discussion forums
  • The Table Project
  • CPH Bible Study Builder

Ministry resources:

• (24:28) Following up on the Facebook Questions app – Our WELSTech question experience

Picks of the week:

• (26:40) Bible+ mobile Bible app by Just1Word
• BibleGlo for iPad
  • Don’t miss the BibleGlo Premium GIVEAWAYS!  We’re giving away two copies of BibleGlo Premium (each valued at $69.99).  Visit Martin and Sallie’s blogs for details.  Tune in to next Wednesday’s WELSTech Podcast to find out if you’ve won!

Of interest:

(33:00) 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
• FinalWeb for Dummies in New Ulm June 28-30 and Milwaukee August 2-4 – bit.ly/fw4dummies

Community feedback:

• (34:05) Brian Preuss appreciated the memory work tools we shared on Episode 176.
• On our Facebook Page we heard from the folks at Christian Web Resources who appreciated our most recent podcast filled with resources for church webmasters.  They shared links to additional resources for church webmasters:
  • Christian Web Trends Blog
  • Geeks & God Podcast
  • Collide Magazine
  • Digital Leadership Network
  • Christian Web Resources
• WELSTech-er Philip Wels (featured on Episode 50 in the WELSTech archives) brought Sallie within two degrees of TWiT.tv podcaster Leo Laporte when he was photographed with Leo at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas this week.
• Martin shared a link in the WELSTech group on Diigo to a video tutorial about hiding top and bottom margins in Microsoft Word.
• Gail Potratz from Emanuel in New London, WI asked the WELSTech Listserve for software ideas for early readers.  Several web sites were shared:
  • Between the Lions (PBS) – Games | Stories | Videos
  • Starfall
  • Clifford Interactive
  • Poisson Rouge

Coming up on WELSTech:

(42:54) Episode 180 – The “April Showers” continue as we rain down all sorts of goodies for church and school office workers.  (Release date – 04/20/11)

The featured artist:

(43:40) We close the podcast with the music of  Revelation, a music ministry of Wisconsin Lutheran College (www.revelationwlc.com) – Roll the Stone Away from their “We Walk By Faith” CD

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