--- title: 629 – Put Down The Gradebook description: "We wrap up another school year on WELSTech with a discussion of teachers’ pandemic summer plans. Rachel Feld joins the conversation and shares an exciting virtual conference announcement from Martin Luther College. Enhance your PC clipboard capabilities with martin’s pick of the week, plus there’s loads of community feedback to learn from. The discussion: Unknown […]" --- [WELSTech ](https://welstech.wels.org) # [629 – Put Down The Gradebook](https://welstech.wels.org/2020/05/19/629-put-down-the-gradebook) Written by [Sallie Draper](https://welstech.wels.org/author/sallie-draper) | May 19, 2020 2:48:11 PM We wrap up another school year on WELSTech with a discussion of teachers’ pandemic summer plans. Rachel Feld joins the conversation and shares an exciting virtual conference announcement from Martin Luther College. Enhance your PC clipboard capabilities with martin’s pick of the week, plus there’s loads of community feedback to learn from. [https://welstech.blob.core.windows.net/audio/WELSTech_Episode_629.mp3](https://welstech.blob.core.windows.net/audio/WELSTech_Episode_629.mp3) Podcast: [Download](https://welstech.blob.core.windows.net/audio/WELSTech_Episode_629.mp3) (Duration: 54:24 — 43.6MB) ### The discussion: Unknown summer plans – Martin and Sallie talk education, technology, and the unknown with Professor Rachel Feld, [Martin Luther College’s](https://mlc-wels.edu/) Director of Academic Computing. The end of a very unique school year has arrived! Congrats to everyone for surviving the major shift to distance/online education. Now teachers and administrators have time to rest and assess the past few months before moving into planning for the unknown school year which lies ahead. - [WELS Educators during COVID-19](https://www.facebook.com/groups/498944987682312/) Facebook group - Resources from WELS Lutheran Schools ### Ministry resources: - [Ditch That Textbook](https://ditchthattextbook.com/elearning/#) – [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/ditchthattextbook) - [Google Edu OnAir](https://educationonair.withgoogle.com/) ### WELS now: - OpenLearning@MLC – Martin Luther College Virtual Teachers’ Conference - June 16 & 17 - Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Graduation and Assignment Service - May 21 at 10 am - Register by May 28 for [Educational Technology for the Catechism Classroom](https://www.wls.wels.net/grow-in-grace/courses/educational-technology-for-the-catechism-classroom/) - Led by Pastor Paul Waldschmidt through Grow in Grace ### News in tech: [YouVersion Bible Lens is ending May 31](https://web-assets.youversion.com/html-email/2020-05-lens-farewell/2020-05-lens-farewell-en.html) ### Picks of the week: - [PDF Expert](https://pdfexpert.com/) + [Apple Pencil](https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/) - [Educate from anywhere: How to use Trello as a Teacher](https://blog.trello.com/how-teachers-use-trello) - [Quarantine Things to Do board](https://trello.com/b/GtH74SV8/quarantine-things-to-do) - [Windows 10 Clipboard History](https://www.howtogeek.com/671222/how-to-enable-and-use-clipboard-history-on-windows-10/) ### Community feedback: - [Are Churches Behaving Like Malls in the Age of Amazon, Just Hoping People Shop Again?](https://careynieuwhof.com/are-churches-behaving-like-malls-in-the-age-of-amazon-just-hoping-for-people-to-shop-again/) - [WELS Intersections Facebook discussion](https://www.facebook.com/groups/WELS.Intersections/permalink/1882927078505594/) - Recent [WELSTech Google Group](https://groups.google.com/a/groups.wels.net/forum/#!forum/welstech) discussions - [Audio Quality](https://groups.google.com/a/groups.wels.net/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/welstech/xsC2yG5517w/B2wzmv00AgAJ) - [Digital Connection Cards/Friendship Register](https://groups.google.com/a/groups.wels.net/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/welstech/6poFbIWXPYI/B-55lVlzAgAJ) - Survey tools - [Google Forms](https://forms.google.com) - [Jot Form](https://www.jotform.com/) - [Flat Teacher Adventure Project](https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Free-Flat-Teacher-Adventure-Project-Letter-and-Directions-5518360) – free download from That Teaching Spark on Teachers Pay Teachers ### Featured video: [Unique Online Learning Assessment Ideas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YOl3-HwxF4) from Ditch That Textbook ### Get involved: - Add comments - 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/2020/05/19/629-put-down-the-gradebook) ```json { "@context" : "http://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Sallie Draper" }, "dateModified" : "2026-03-22T02:28:35.609Z", "datePublished" : "2020-05-19T14:48:11Z", "headline" : "629 – Put Down The Gradebook", "image" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 60, "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png", "width" : 60 }, "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://welstech.wels.org/2020/05/19/629-put-down-the-gradebook", "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" } } ```