266 – Tell The Story

Listeners will enjoy this week’s WELSTech Podcast as we share ideas for great presentation storytelling, geek out with Martin’s Pick of the Week and uncover great treasure during our Community Feedback segment.

The discussion:

SUCCESs – Crafting the Story in the title of Chapter 4 of our current WELSTech book selection, Presentation Zen, by Garr Reynolds. Martin and Sallie explore the SUCCESs acronym for presentations and talk about the story boarding step of constructing great presentations.

• Printable Paper’s Storyboard Templates
• Mapping for Ministry [WELSTech 088]
• Summer Software Showcase: Freemind [WELSTech 248]
• Martin’s Presentation Best Practices [Video]
• Digital Storytelling [WELSTech 233]
• slide:ology by Nancy Duarte

Ministry resources:

(19:47) 6 Sets of Christmas Story Images from FreeBibleImages.org

News in tech:

• (20:47) Simple, fast file sharing with Dropbox
• What Should I Do Now that Google Apps Accounts Are No Longer Free

Picks of the week:

• (24:13) Morguefile.com | Photo classroom
• Markdown | Elements for iPad

Community feedback:

• (36:36)  A Critical Church Web Site Security Tip
• Facebook for Churches [PDF]
• Web Design from Church Juice
• 5,000 Stock Images for Google Drive Users
• Sheppard Software – Fun free online learning games and activities for kids
• EasyDefine
• Vocabulary Building for ACT SAT and GRE Preparation
• Death and Life and Your Tongue
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Ed-Tech Leaders [Infographic]
• 10 Ways The Internet Is Bad For You [Infographic]
• TeamViewer 8
• Are Mobile Phones the New Frontier for Churches
• 22 Useful Google Forms for Teachers and Principals

Coming up on WELSTech:

(54:33) Episode 267 -Martin and Sallie share their take on great moments in ministry-tech history and talk with Pastor Michael Schultz, the Director of the New Hymnal. (Release date – 12/18/12)

The featured artist:

(55:49) We close today’s WELSTech with the music of Joey Schumann and the Lutheran Ceili Orchestra (JoeySchumann.com | Joey on Facebook) – O Come, O Come, Emanuel

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