April 22, 2009

068 – Spending A Smarter Summer

1 hour 3 minutes

This week on the WELSTech podcast we gear up for summer with loads of options for personal learning, and we conclude our interview with WELS musicianary Mike Westendorf.

The discussion:

Summer Learning – Gail Potratz, our monthly guest host and Technology Coordinator at Emanuel in New London, WI, joins the conversation with Martin and Sallie, and we look at all the possibilities for learning something new this summer, including face-to-face and online, traditional and via your Personal Learning Network (PLN).

Summer classes from

Martin Luther College

Wisconsin Lutheran College

Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary

Online learning opportunities

All-you-can-learn tech training – www.lynda.com

Microsoft training

Image based Office and Open Office training – www.inpics.net

Social language learning – www.livemocha.com

Classroom 2.0 network

200 Free Online Classes to Learn Anything

Pull your PLN all together on a custom page using

iGoogle

Pageflakes.com

Summer reading recommendation

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Join Gail at the zoo

Milwaukee Digital Media Conference

The interview:

(18:22) Music With A Message – Martin and Sallie continue their discussion with WELS musician Mike Westendorf about the maturity of a Christian artist into a musicianary.

www.mikewestendorf.com

Listen to part 1 of the interview with Mike

Picks of the week:

(42:25) Distraction-free YouTube videos – www.quietube.com

Sample – Susan Boyle on Quietube vs. YouTube

Novel Games – Embed Flash games in your web site

IRC Chat for your site

Mibbit – www.mibbit.com

WELSTech Chat

The contest:

(47:47) Top 5 Desert Island Software Picks

Send us the five software titles you wouldn’t want to live without – free or fee, desktop or Web 2.0, anything goes

Get us your list via your favorite WELSTech communication channel – e-mail us, leave us a voice mail (414-375-2334), send us a message on facebook or twitter – just get us your top 5 picks!

One random entry will receive a $25 gift certificate to the WELSTech store (cafepress.com/welstech)

Deadline for entry is Sunday April 26, 2009 @ 11:59 p.m.

Listen to WELSTech Episode 069 on April 29th to find out if you are the winner and to experience a virtual desert island of software picks

Community feedback:

(49:17) The #WELSTech Twitter conversation this week featured

Jason Schmidt from Gethsemane in Omaha, NE shared a link to another video captioning web site, this time for YouTube videos – CaptionTube

John Shoosmith from Redeemer in Yakima, WA

Reports that the video hosting and captioning site discussed in our last episode, dotSub.com, allows for 300 MB video uploads which is more than adequate for typical sermons

Added a new page to the WELSTech wiki (welstechwiki.wels.net) with coaching on video angels, lighting and more – Video Taping Guide

Additional WELSTech wiki updates include

New pages capturing the WELSTech listserve discussions on Office Suite and Server software

Discussion on calendar software

Check out the WELSTech listserve archive for discussions on Moodle and Martin’s call for church technology plans

Brian Preuss shared a link to a free, open-source, Linux-based church management software application, ChurchInfo, www.churchdb.org

Check out our interview with Pastor Steve Daley who discussed other Linux software packages for the church office

We’ve also interviewed Brad Wheeling from Concordia Technology Solutions about Shepherd’s Staff. They are currently running a special on their Small Church Edition

Coming up on WELSTech:

(1:04:32) Episode 069 – The contest results are in, and we share our listener’s list of desert island software picks. You’ll want to tune in to find out if you are the lucky winner of a $25 WELSTech store gift certificate. Enter to win by April 26th!

Production note: Due to scheduling conflicts, this episode will have a later-than-normal release time. Look for it by noon on April 29th.

The featured artist:

(1:06:20) This week we close with WELS artist Michael Schroeder (www.michaelschroeder.com) – The One from his CD titled Fuel For The Soul

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