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Excellent FAQs, helps and tutorials for all different Google apps products. The articles for each are very helpful and detailed. There is a separate Google Sites FAQs, etc. too.

Has anyone ever used something like this in his classroom?  I have students that greatly enjoy having some music playing in the background (I limit it to classical piano, mostly).  Anyone know of a study that demonstrates if this helps students learn?

I've used Simply Noise in my classroom of 5th graders and I have had mixed results. Some kids really like it and some hate it. I tend to prefer the brown noise as opposed to white or pink noise. I think I might make less of a deal of it with my next class next year and just use it for a little longer period of time to get a better read on its effectiveness. I took my students to on a field trip to Environmental Systems Inc in Brookfield, WI and they use brown noise generators throughout their office/cubicle area to mask ambient noise. I found it very soothing. They used to have it timed to go off at 4pm and they found that their employees subconsciously sensed it was time to leave for the day. Not wanting to encourage them to leave early, they decided to gradually bring the volume of the noise down over the course of 30 minutes and that took care of their issue. Not necessarily applicable to what you were asking about, but kind of interesting.

A good, and brief, background things to consider with your tech team being prepared for handling the tech at worship services.

YouVersion is promoting Share the Bible Day this Christmas - Use #Bible on Twitter - Share the Christmas story, your favorite verse, or simply the Bible App itself. As we do, we'll be helping the world remember what Christmas is all about: the incomparable hope and love of a God who is with us.

Salman Khan outlines the new direction education enabled by technology should go. Would this approach help transform and rescue our Lutheran schools from a slow death AND enable a truly global outreach? Teacher as coach and guide . . .

Operation Science is a Program designed to help Improve Science Instruction in Lutheran Schools of Southeastern Wisconsin.

Seems to be primarily a database, but has great flexibility and incorporates a lot of collaboration features. May work as a prospect database for some ministries. I'm exploring using it for client tracking for our local pregnancy help center. I'd love to hear if anyone's already using it and how.

If anybody is looking to update to Windows 8 and wants the start menu back, this might help.

Finally! A book aimed at helping non-profits identify usable communication strategies for social media engage based on case studies (i.e. examples). Many congregations and schools forget to sets goals and plan for internal and external communications and nurture let alone plug into the potential of social media to grow the kingdom of the Lord. As I recall, "Engage!" isn't simply the command of a fictional Star Trek captain, it's the command of the real Captain of the stars . . .

Add desired wikipedia articles to a "book".  You can change the order of the articles in your book and structure them using chapters. Further, you can download the books as a PDF or ODF, or order a printed book. Help - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Books 

List of some software to check out. Nothing earthshattering or totally unheard of before, but a nice summary list.

New feature to help with e-mail management/productivity

David Pogue helps clear up common questions about the OnLive virtual PC service. When your last mile bandwidth is limited or capped, this service rocks.

Google Forms I would have liked to point out on Saturday! Really help the work load if they fit a task you already do.

Church web-based management software- has some interesting process cues to help track visitors and tasks to keep them connected as well as other management info

Shared by Cindy Krueger I've been following Jenn's Trends on Facebook for social media hints and tips. I'm sharing her recent blog post about protecting and recovering hacked social media accounts. One item of note is the LogDog tool to help protect your accounts. This topic is of special concern because I know a couple people with high profile accounts that have been hacked recently. Fortunately each was able to work with the social media company to get the account restored. Maybe less of a concern for churches and schools that have in person contact with followers but still something people will want to avoid if possible.