May 19, 2010

132 – Spriggs Squared

1 hour 9 minutes

This week the WELSTech podcast welcomes two Mac-friendly guests as we explore the use of Macs in ministry.

The discussion:

Inside Apple – The Spriggs boys are taking over! Listen as Martin’s son, Aaron Spriggs, our WELSTech resident Apple store guy, shares his insight into the popularity of Mac products.

The interview:

(14:25) Macs in Ministry – Pastor Steve Bauer from Faith in West Newton, PA joins Martin and Sallie to discuss his use of Mac-based Bible software, Accordance, as well as some other Mac favorites of his.

Pastor Bauer’s Accordance resources

Accordance for Windows – Scroll down and look for the “emulator”

Free Trial

Video Tutorials

Pastor Bauer’s LaTeX resources

Omni Outliner 3

Greek Font Society

News in tech:

(38:58) Office 2010 launch

Software updates:

Photoshop CS5

Snagit 10 (Aaron recommends Snapz Pro X for screen capture on the Mac)

Picks of the week:

(44:51) Things – Mac Task Management

Infographics

A Day in the Internet

Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World

YouVersion iPhone app | iPad HD app

Of interest:

(54:25) Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Graduation and Call Day – If you can’t be there in person, plan to tune in to the special services via live video stream – wels.net/streams/live.

Graduate Assignments – Thursday, May 20 at 10:00 a.m.

Graduation Concert – Thursday, May 20 at 7:00 p.m.

Graduation – Friday, May 21 at 10:00 a.m.

FinalWeb Training in Milwaukee, WI and New Ulm, MN

FinalWeb for Teachers – July 19 – bit.ly/fw4teachers

FinalWeb for Dummies – July 20-22- bit.ly/fw4dummies

Community feedback:

(56:35) Following up on last week’s Web Design discussion, Aaron recommends Squarespace for online site development. Check out The Point of Grace site which he developed on the platform. Also Perry Lund, webmaster at Grace in Oskaloosa, IA, shared some of his favorite Joomla plug-in links:

JCE WYSIWYG Editor

1PixelOut Audio Player

Core Design Web Gallery

SMSStorage is Perry’s recommendation for a Mac cloud drive.

From the WELSTech group on Diigo we learned of …

Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers

Integrate SMS polling into Keynote with Poll Everywhere

Virtual Manipulatives

Thumba online image editor

Gail Potratz suggested our summer WELSTech Road Trip include a stop with someone using Google Apps in a ministry setting. Contact us if you have other suggestions of topics you would like to know more about.

Coming up on WELSTech:

(1:04:52) Episode 133 – What belongs on a great classroom web site? Gail Potratz joins us for this education-focused discussion. (Release date 05/26/10)

The featured artist:

(1:06:16) We close the podcast with the music of Dawn Gehlhar – Amazing Grace from her CD titled “Inspirations”

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