Picks of the Week 2013

A complete listing of the Picks of the Week from 2013 WELSTech episodes

The Best of 2013 (Episode 322)

Audio/Video

• Family-friendly podcasts
  • Stuff You Missed in History Class
  • Car Talk
  • Sunday Puzzle
• Google Music
• PocketCasts
• Popcorn Maker
• Screencasting on Chromebooks

Bible Study

• Bible App for Kids
• C13 Family Devotions – Week 1 PDF
• Daily Bible Clip
• The Glo Bible
• What to use before showing Road to Emmaus
  • The Jesus film
  • Via the Multi-Language Publications e-newsletter (Subscribe)

Education

• 60 Second Recap
• Art of Problem Solving from the creator of MathCounts Minis
• Computer Science Education Week
• Doctopus
• Family Guide to Mobile Safety from PTO Today
• Family Science Night from PTO Today
• Google Apps Training
  • Training and Certification Center
  • Testing Center
  • Certified Trainer
• Going Google
• Google Apps for Education
• Google in Education
• Google Play & Tablets for Education
• Grovo
• Keys to the Web
• Martin Luther College web site
• MineCraftEDU.com
• Smithsonian Quests
• Top 100 Learning Tools of 2013 from Jane Hart
• Training resources for Google Apps for Education
• Tynker
• XtraMath
• You Can Do the Rubik's Cube!

Graphics and Images

• Fotor – Photo editor for PC, Mac, iOS and Android
• KeepCalmAndPosters.com – The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On [VIDEO] – Keep Calm and Listen to WELSTech [IMAGE]
• National Gallery of Art
• Nik Collection by Google
• Photogene – Watch Sallie's tour
• PhotoSynth – Take a 360 tour of Martin's office
• Royalty free Christian art by Chris Higham
• Sallie's Do-It-Yourself Church Photo Game – shared via SlideShare
• Tagxedo – Scripture Ideas from Lakeside Lutheran HS: April Showers | May Flowers
• Yahoo Overhauls Flickr, Provides All Users With 1TB Free Storage

Hardware

• Apple Composite AV Cable
• Apple's iPad – featuring iOS 7
• Chromebooks in education research (April 2013):
  • Sallie's Diigo link list
  • Webinars and archived events
  • WLC Google Education Summit 2013
• CordPro Mini
• Doxie Go Scanner
• Freetalk Everyman Wireless Headset
• Google Chromecast
• HTC 8X Windows Phone 8
• iOttie Cell Phone Mount
• IdeaPad U310 Touch – Lenovo
• JBL Charge
• Logitech Bluetooth Illuminated Keyboard K810
• Manfrotto 410 Junior Geared Tripod Head
• Microsoft Surface Pro
• Microsoft Surface Pro 2
• 4G Mobile Hotspot from T-Mobile
• Monoprice
• Photo Hatchback AW Camera Backpack by Lowepro
• Sallie's Pinterest inspired Do-It-Yourself PVC Laptop Stand – Total cost was $6.25
• Snowball Blue Microphone
• Unifi Wireless Routers
• Western Digital My Passport 2TB External Hard Drive

Mobile

• bu.mp – Overview video
• Flipboard
• Glympse
• Instacast 3
• Mindjet MindManager for iPad
• Nutrition Menu app
• RunKeeper
• SwiftKey Android Keyboard App
• Twitter via SMS
• USA Today Mobile App

Outreach

• Internet Evangelism Day

Productivity

• Evernote and Penultimate
• Wrike

Recommended Reading

• Holy Hen House!
• O'Reilly Books

Search

• Wolfram|Alpha

Utilities

• 8 Google Search Tips To Keep Handy At All Times
• Always Clear Downloads Chrome plugin
• Announcify Chrome Extension
• bit.ly
• Doodle and YouCanBook.Me
• Foxish Live RSS in the Chrome Web Store
• HTML Cheat Sheet for Bloggers
• Join.me
• Kaizena
• MakeUseOf.com
• Miro
• Offline Gmail
• One Tab Chrome Extension
• Personalize Windows 8.1
• SuperAntiSpyware
• Sync your Google Chrome browser
• WebRoot Secure Anywhere – Walmart
• Windows 8 File History
• Yahoo Pipes

Web 2.0

• Booktype
• Diigo Lists – Video tutorial
• FaithLauncher
• New Gmail tabs
• ownCloud
• OysterBooks
• slid.es
• The 10 Tools Challenge – Sallie's kickoff post
• Trello

Web Development

• Contrast Ratio
• Hover
• Pinterest RSS Widget for WordPress – Sample admin screen and display
• Smore online flyers – View a sample for WELSTech Camp