January 28, 2009

056 – Get SMART

50 minutes

This week on WELSTech Martin and Sallie are joined by Gail Potratz for a discussion on SMARTBoards in the classroom. Gail interviews Linda Kasten, a SMARTBoard-enabled teacher.

The discussion and interview:

SMARTBoards in the Classroom – As more schools integrate interactive whiteboards into their classrooms, Martin, Sallie and our semi-regular classroom technology correspondent, Gail Potratz, discuss resources for making the most of your SMARTBoard. Gail interviews Linda Kasten (8:35), a first grade teacher from St. Paul’s in Muskego, WI and 6-year veteran SMARTBoard user about the impact SMARTBoards have had on her students.

What does it mean to really use a SMARTBoard? from technoLanguages

Purchasing a SMARTBoard

ShopWELS.net pricing

Fact sheets from WELS Parish Schools – www.wels.net/jump/smartboard

Find more SMARTBoard resources on the WELSTech wiki – Create an account and add your favorites to the page!

The tidbits:

Picks of the week (32:50)

Upload and share PowerPoint and Keynote presentations – www.SlideShare.net

Spark creative writing – www.PicLits.com

Sallie’s sample PicLit & St. John’s student creations

Create online presentations – www.SlideRocket.com

Of interest (41:00)

Seminary Mission and Ministry 2009

This years theme: “Go and Make Disciples: At Home, Abroad, For Life”

February 3-5

Details and registration information at www.wls.wels.net

Community feedback (41:48)

New wiki member “dessmith” tried out the WELSTech Wiki Sandbox. You can too!

Alyssa Dunning from WELS Web Services recommended www.usend.io for sharing large files easily.

Julie Duran, WELS Webmaster, sent us a link to a page of web technology resources for churches from Squidoo.

John Shoosmith of Redeemer in Yakima, WA shared a link to a new closed-captioned sermon from Cross and Crown in Georgetown, TX.

Coming up on WELSTech (45:55)

Episode 057 – The discussion of Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody continues with Chapter 3, “Everyone is a Media Outlet”

The featured artist:

This week we close with the music of In His Service featuring WELS musicians Dr. Patricia Backhaus and Valerie Floeter (www.adagioconcepts.com) – I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say from their CD titled In His Time (48:03)

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