March 30, 2011

177 – A Tech and Learning Goldmine

1 hour

This week on the WELSTech Podcast we review Tech & Learning magazine and talk with Rachel Malkuch about using tech tools for student evaluation.

The discussion:

A magazine for today’s teachers – Teacher Gail Potratz from Emanuel in New London, WI makes her once-a-month guest appearance on WELSTech and joins Martin and Sallie in a discussion of the online and print magazine Tech & Learning.

Tech & Learning subscriptions

Print magazine

Digital magazine

K-12 Education e-news

Top 10 Sites for Educational Resources

Thinkfinity

Super Teacher Worksheets

A-Z Web Tools: C & D

Clayanimator

Corkboard.me

DoppelMe

Disposable Web Page

A Personal Learning Network for Parents – As PTO interest and involvement declines, these new ideas may be useful for making parent connections

Going Digital … Ten Points To Consider When Transforming Towards Digital Curriculum – Covering such topics as the necessary infrastructure needed to support cloud-based computing and the importance of professional development for teachers

The interview:

(19:55) Alternative assessment with technology – Teacher Rachel Malkuch (aleixa on Twitter and blogger at Learn for a Lifetime) from Trinity in Waukesha, WI chats with Sallie about her recent presentation to the Milwaukee-Metro Teachers’ Conference on the use of Technology as means of Alternate Assessment.

Rachel’s blog post about her presentation

Rachel’s presentation resources

Principal David Schroeder’s podcast blog

RubiStar

Prezi

Ministry resources:

(34:16) Release of the Glo Bible for Mac and iPad – Watch the iPad demo

Picks of the week:

(35:42) knoword.org

Facebook Friending 101 for Schools from the Cool Cat Teacher Blog

ActiveInbox

Of interest:

(45:21) FinalWeb Training in New Ulm, MN and Milwaukee, WI

FinalWeb for Teachers in New Ulm on June 27 and Milwaukee on August 1 – bit.ly/fw4teachers

FinalWeb for Dummies in New Ulm June 28-30 and Milwaukee August 2-4 – bit.ly/fw4dummies

Community feedback:

(47:21) Following up on our Office 2010 podcast, Martin found an additional set of training videos.

David Schumann from Peace in Janesville, WI is looking for help addressing the needs of band-width impaired members and visitors who cannot access many of the resources on today’s web sites. How does your church meet those needs?

Mark Blauert, a Staff Minister from Trinity in Crete, IL, is looking for all types of church web site policy examples. Check out this growing list of resources:

WELSTech Wiki > Technology Planning (Add a copy of your site policies to the wiki!)

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Writing and Style Guidelines

Content Management System Best Practices

Web Privacy

Password Policy

WELS Webmaster, Julie Duran, shared two helpful links:

Broken Link Check

RGB to Hexadecimal converter

In the WELSTech Diigo Group Jason Schmidt, Martin, and Nancy Marks linked us to …

Adventure Learning from the University of Minnesota

Google Upgrades AdWords for Non-Profits

Password Safe

Tom Hausmann and John Shoosmith sent in praise for the WELSTech audio quality, expertly produced each week by our audio engineer extraordinaire, Martin Spriggs.

Coming up on WELSTech:

(55:43) Episode 178 – A month of “April Showers” await WELSTech listeners, and first up is a shower of webmaster resources. (Release date – 04/06/11)

The featured artist:

(56:51) We close the podcast with the music of Mike Westendorf (www.mikewestendorf.com and mikewestendorf on Twitter) – Blessed is The One from his CD titled “Undefined”

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