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185 – Summer Vacations

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This week on the WELSTech Podcast Gail Potratz joins the discussion as we look at summer professional development opportunities.

The discussion:

Make a Plan – As the school year wraps up Gail Potratz, the WELSTech semi-regular classroom technology correspondent from Emanuel in New London, WI, joins Martin and Sallie to discuss ideas for summer enrichment, professional growth and even a little relaxation.

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        • NetCasters: Using the Internet to Make Fishers of Men by Craig Von Buseck
          • Free PDF download through May 31st from Internet Evangelism Day
          • Teaching the iGeneration by William Ferriter
          • Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith by Shane Hipps
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            • ITSE 2011 – Philadelphia
            • MDMC 2011
            • FinalWeb for Teachers and Dummies
            • Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Summer Quarter
            • Martin Luther College Continuing Education
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              • Summer WELSTech Hacker series
                • SallieDraper.com
                • MartinSpriggs.com
                  • Ministry resources:
                  • (21:36) Glo Bible released for iPhone/iPod Touch
                  • BibleGateway beta of site redesign
                    • Picks of the week:
                    • (23:37) SpiderScribe
                    • iPad Today Video Podcast
                    • LiveScribe SmartPen Connect Update
                      • Community feedback:
                      • (31:49) We basked in the Apple Day afterglow this week:
                        • Maren McPeak from St. Mark in Citrus Heights, CA tweeted her favorite iPad app – Air Sketch
                        • Philip Wels from St. Paul in New Ulm, MN is an AppleCare fan with experience
                        • We made a Apple-WELS Connection with Amanda Voss, senior programmer for Apple, from Apostles in San Jose, CA
                        • Via the WELSTech Diigo group we learned about
                          • Word Cloud review
                          • VoiceThread for Education
                          • Wonderopolis
                          • Adam Valleskey from Christ in Juneau, AK has an approved location-based facebook deal –  “Free gift of hearing God’s Word with every visit”
                          • Debbie Spriggs from Peace in Hartford, WI recommended SnackTools website widgets
                          • Kevin Smith from Christ in Zumbrota, MN pointed us to info on Microsoft Multipoint Server.  He learned of this from the Windows Weekly TWiT Podcast.
                            • Coming up on WELSTech:

                            (47:05) Episode 186 – Martin and Sallie unveil the updated ShopWELS site as well as a chat with Tim Plath about the Area Lutheran High School Online pilot project. (Release date – 06/01/11)

                            The featured artist:

                            (48:22) We close the podcast with the music of Mike Westendorf (www.mikewestendorf.com and mikewestendorf on Twitter) – Coming Soon from his CD titled “Undefined”

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