--- title: 577 – Share Your Gifts description: On WELSTech this week, we welcome guest host Prof. Rachel Feld and talk about letting our lights shine online, and teaching our children to do the same, in the digital communication that we share. Martin Luther College has a new devotion booklet and all the higher education schools have Christmas concerts available via live stream […] --- [WELSTech ](https://welstech.wels.org) # [577 – Share Your Gifts](https://welstech.wels.org/2018/11/27/577-share-your-gifts) Written by [Sallie Draper](https://welstech.wels.org/author/sallie-draper) | Nov 27, 2018 12:46:50 PM On WELSTech this week, we welcome guest host Prof. Rachel Feld and talk about letting our lights shine online, and teaching our children to do the same, in the digital communication that we share. Martin Luther College has a new devotion booklet and all the higher education schools have Christmas concerts available via live stream starting this weekend. An added bonus – we cozy up the (virtual) fireplace! [https://welstech.blob.core.windows.net/audio/WELSTech_Episode_577.mp3](https://welstech.blob.core.windows.net/audio/WELSTech_Episode_577.mp3) Podcast: [Download](https://welstech.blob.core.windows.net/audio/WELSTech_Episode_577.mp3) (Duration: 44:27 — 41.7MB) ### The discussion: Digital footprints – We welcome back Martin Luther College’s Rachel Feld, Director of Academic Computing and Online Learning, to discuss the third installment of our [edtech book discussion](https://welstech.wels.net/tag/faithfully-connected) of *Faithfully Connected: Integrating Biblical Principles in a Digital World* by Ben Boche and Jake Hollatz (available from [Concordia Publishing House](https://www.cph.org/p-31769-faithfully-connected-integrating-biblical-principles-in-a-digital-world.aspx) and [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Faithfully-Connected-Integrating-Biblical-Principles-ebook/dp/B07BRBXXM6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1525350770&sr=8-1)). The chapter is titled “Digital Communication” and addresses the guidance we can give young people to understand the permanency of posting on the Internet and how our digital footprints can and should reflect our Christian beliefs. ### News in tech: [Share Your Gifts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dJCroCMBPM) – Apple Commercial ### WELS now: Live streaming Christmas concerts - [Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary](https://livestream.com/WLSLive) - December 9 – 3:00 & 7:00 pm - [Martin Luther College](https://livestream.com/mlc-streams) - December 1 – 7:30 pm - December 2 – 4:00 pm - [Wisconsin Lutheran College](https://livestream.com/wlc) - November 30 – 7:30 pm - December 1 – 7:30 pm - December 2 – 2:30 pm - [Bethany Lutheran College](https://iframe.dacast.com/b/51317/c/75316) - December 7 – 5:00 pm - December 8 – 1:00 & 5:00 pm - December 9 – 3:00 pm (streamed) ### Picks of the week: - [Ditch That Textbook Summit](https://ditchsummit.com/) - [The True Christmas Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W0RsthO8Ck) - [Teamviewer](https://www.teamviewer.com) ### Ministry resource: Martin Luther College devotion booklet – [The Names of Jesus](https://mlc-wels.edu/publications/seasonal-devotions/) ### Community feedback: - Shoreland Lutheran High School was recently featured on TMJ4 News in Milwaukee regarding the question, [“Is technology helping or hurting students?”](https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/is-technology-helping-or-hurting-students-) - [Raising the Capable Student](https://www.thecapablestudent.com/) - From the [Tech Tools for WELS Teachers Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/groups/TechToolsforWELSTeachers/), graphic editors of choice: - [Word Swag](http://wordswag.co/) - [Adobe Spark Page](https://spark.adobe.com/) - [Phonto](https://www.phon.to) - [Photo Grid](https://www.photogrid.app/?hl=en) - [Pic Collage](https://pic-collage.com/) ### Featured videos and more: What’s better than a cozy fire and Koiné Christmas music? Enjoy both in this Christmas Song Playlist of [2 Hours of Christmas Hymns from Koiné](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CfczxrMSh0). ### Coming up on WELSTech: Episode 578 – Next week we’ll share the mobile apps we were willing to pay for, and whether we think it was money well spent. Release date: Wednesday, December 5. ### Get involved: - Add a comment - Send us an e-mail [welstech@wels.net](mailto:welstech@wels.net) - Add to the WELSTech wiki [welstechwiki.gapps.wels.net](http://welstechwiki.gapps.wels.net/) - Contribute to the [#WELSTech](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WELSTech&src=typd) Twitter conversation - Follow us on Twitter – [welstech](http://twitter.com/welstech), [mspriggs](http://twitter.com/mspriggs) and [salliedraper](http://twitter.com/salliedraper) - Share with the Diigo group [welstech](http://groups.diigo.com/group/welstech) - Join the WELSTech community: - WELSTech [Google Group](https://groups.google.com/a/groups.wels.net/forum/#!forum/welstech) - WELSTech on [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/WELSTech) - WELSTech on [Google+](https://plus.google.com/110913485482542801761/posts) - WELSTech on [Pinterest](http://pinterest.com/welstech/) - WELSTech on [Instagram](https://instagram.com/welstechpodcast/) [View full post](https://welstech.wels.org/2018/11/27/577-share-your-gifts) ```json { "@context" : "http://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Sallie Draper" }, "dateModified" : "2026-03-22T02:27:35.298Z", "datePublished" : "2018-11-27T12:46:50Z", "headline" : "577 – Share Your Gifts", "image" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 1280, "url" : "https://christthroughus.net/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/speak-238488_1920.jpg", "width" : 1920 }, "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://welstech.wels.org/2018/11/27/577-share-your-gifts", "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 60, "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png", "width" : 60 }, "name" : "WELSTech" } } ```