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337 – DIY Smackdown

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WELSTech viewers will enjoy this week’s inaugural do-it-yourself challenge as Martin and Sallie share their homemade smartphone stands and vie for points in all sorts of imagined DIY-er categories. To balance out the intense competition, Laura Harstad from Kingdom Workers shares the joys of being a mission volunteer.


The discussion:

Winner! Winner! – Build your own smartphone stand with ideas from today’s WELSTech. Martin shares a quick and easy technique for folding a plastic card. He even goes all out and makes an engraved version. Sallie demos a stand made from cardboard and a little fancy cutting. And if that wasn’t enough DIY goodness for one show, Sallie shares a bonus project that every Catechism instructor could make use of … the Win-O-Rama 3000!

  • Gift Card Smartphone Stand
  • Cardboard Phone Dock (PDF) – Overview Video
  • Silhouette Cameo
  • Arduino Uno

    • The interview:

    Kingdom Workers – Laura Harstad, International Volunteer Coordinator and Project Developer for Kingdom Workers, chats with Martin and Sallie about the volunteer cycle and how technology assists throughout the entire process.

    • KingdomWorkers.com
    • Volunteer Opportunities
    • Get social with Kingdom Workers:
      • Facebook
      • Vimeo
      • Flickr
        • Tech tips:
        • E-mail stuff to OneNote
        • Safari Reader in iOS 7 – Clutter free reading on the iPhone
          • Picks of the week:
          • Kanban Overview – Lino
          • Canon Pixma MX 922
            • Of interest:
            • Registration is officially open for summer FinalWeb training with Martin and Sallie at the Center for Mission and Ministry, July 29 – August 1. Learn more and sign up at bit.ly/fwtraininginfo.
            • Join Martin and Sallie on June 3 at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School for the “Tech and Teach” teacher in-service event – Learn more and register
              • Community feedback:
              • CreationSwap
              • avast! Free for EDU
              • The Gamification of Education
              • 12 Roles for Google Drive in the Classroom
                • Coming up on WELSTech:

                Episode 338 – Tune in for a discussion of the dark side of the internet and ways to protect yourself, your church and your school, with special guest Jas Lonnquist. (Broadcast date – 04/22/14)

                Music download:

                This week enjoy a free Good Friday music download from WELS artist Michael Schroeder (www.michaelschroeder.com and on Facebook) – The Nails

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