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185 – Summer Vacations
This week on the WELSTech Podcast Gail Potratz joins the discussion as we look at summer professional development opportunities.
Podcast: Download (36.9MB)
The discussion:
Make a Plan – As the school year wraps up Gail Potratz, the WELSTech semi-regular classroom technology correspondent from Emanuel in New London, WI, joins Martin and Sallie to discuss ideas for summer enrichment, professional growth and even a little relaxation.
- Twitter
- How to Use Twitter Lists
- Twitter for Teachers
- Twitter Handbook for Teachers
- RSS
- Google Reader on the WELSTech Wiki
- edte.ch by Tom Barrett
- Reading List
- NetCasters: Using the Internet to Make Fishers of Men by Craig Von Buseck
- Free PDF download through May 31st from Internet Evangelism Day
- Teaching the iGeneration by William Ferriter
- Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith by Shane Hipps
- NetCasters: Using the Internet to Make Fishers of Men by Craig Von Buseck
- Professional Workshops
- ITSE 2011 – Philadelphia
- MDMC 2011
- FinalWeb for Teachers and Dummies
- Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Summer Quarter
- Martin Luther College Continuing Education
- Personal Web Presence
- What’s Going On Here
- Summer WELSTech Hacker series
- SallieDraper.com
- MartinSpriggs.com
Ministry resources:
- (21:36) Glo Bible released for iPhone/iPod Touch
- BibleGateway beta of site redesign
Picks of the week:
Community feedback:
- (31:49) We basked in the Apple Day afterglow this week:
- Maren McPeak from St. Mark in Citrus Heights, CA tweeted her favorite iPad app – Air Sketch
- Philip Wels from St. Paul in New Ulm, MN is an AppleCare fan with experience
- We made a Apple-WELS Connection with Amanda Voss, senior programmer for Apple, from Apostles in San Jose, CA
- Via the WELSTech Diigo group we learned about
- Word Cloud review
- VoiceThread for Education
- Wonderopolis
- Adam Valleskey from Christ in Juneau, AK has an approved location-based facebook deal – “Free gift of hearing God’s Word with every visit”
- Debbie Spriggs from Peace in Hartford, WI recommended SnackTools website widgets
- Kevin Smith from Christ in Zumbrota, MN pointed us to info on Microsoft Multipoint Server. He learned of this from the Windows Weekly TWiT Podcast.
Coming up on WELSTech:
(47:05) Episode 186 – Martin and Sallie unveil the updated ShopWELS site as well as a chat with Tim Plath about the Area Lutheran High School Online pilot project. (Release date – 06/01/11)
The featured artist:
(48:22) We close the podcast with the music of Mike Westendorf (www.mikewestendorf.com and mikewestendorf on Twitter) – Coming Soon from his CD titled “Undefined”
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