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ABOUT: A brief Bible "clip" to read, learn and take to heart... today. Current series: "100 Bible verses in 1 year." 1 daily e-mail @ 2 verses per week x 1 year equals 100 verses. The only Bible you truly have is the one you carry between your ears. (For memorization tips, click here.) Based on the book: "100 Bible Verses" by Robert J Morgan. "Daily Bible Clip" is written by Pastor Michael Ewart 

For my Android device friends - Sounds pretty cool! From a Netted e-mail: Everything.me is a new launcher that can change which apps appear on your phone based on your current needs. The kicker? You don't even have to install the apps; you can use them right from the cloud.   So let's say you love the new Vampire Weekend album. Plug it into the search bar and Everything.me will pull up SoundCloud so you can listen, MetroLyrics so you can sing along, and Ticketmaster so you can see them live - regardless of whether or not you've installed those apps.   And Everything.me tailors each app to your search result. Each app opens to the relevant Vampire Weekend page. Heck, even the background will be Vampire Weekend. Your phone effectively reinvents itself based on what you're doing right now.

Probably not a new website, but one I just found. This is part of the Worship Facilities magazine that I have gotten in mail for years. Looks like a resourful site having some great ideas. It is also compatible with Feedly if you want to throw it into your church tech feed.

Great tip. Macs have this feature too in some Apple apps (Mail, Pages 5, etc.) under Edit > Start Speaking. There also a chrome extension called "read & write" for this on the web. Article makes a good point that this is better for "lighter" fare. :) Also, hadn't heard of this blog until now, and will now be following it.

Ties together all your social streams, rss, phone, SMS, e-mail, weather, etc. and allows you to set triggers to automate actions between them

New feature to help with e-mail management/productivity

Clean up e-mail notifications from various sites

Read books via e-mail or RSS feed in small snips on a daily or custom schedule - From Pastor Rob Guenther

ntroducing a Hangouts app for Virtual Classrooms If you use Hangouts on air (or consider using them) for education, and miss any of the features below: - A full featured registration module to manage attendees - An all-in-one Event Planner/Scheduling/Conferencing app - A comprehensive e-mailing system with fully custom automatic invitation emails, reminder emails and follow up emails - Allow non-plussers attend your classrooms signing in with their Facebook or LinkedIn profiles - Run private HOAs (directly generate unlisted YouTube recordings) - Give the mic to a viewer on-the-fly and make them participant, the time of a question - Get fixed URLs for your permanent virtual classrooms (with or without scheduling) - View a map with geolocated attendees - View your attendees as avatars in a 3D virtual classroom , create a sense of presence, see who's raising hand,... - A unified & moderated chat for participants and viewers engaging in the same chat then you should look into +Business Hangouts : Business Hangouts is an app built for Google Hangouts by Altadyn using the Google Hangouts API (not built by Google ).

Set trigger actions for automatic response using a wide selection of web tools from e-mail to blogging to social platforms to SMS Currently in Private Beta - use code "NETTED" to register

Thanks Ryan Rosenthal for sharing this article - Ryan says ... Interesting article talking about a small study that was done in Canada. I liked how they said that most tech instruction in the schools they looked at was focused on how to use the tech not on higher order thinking. It also mentions that the teachers on the forefront of tech teaching are not the new teachers but the ones with experience under their belt. Those teachers know how to handle the classroom and are therefore more comfortable taking the challenge of managing the students as they use tech. 

You can set Google to notify you when a form has been submitted, but you only get a link to the update spreadsheet in Google Drive. This script takes all of the submitted data, arranges it the way you want in a document and sends a PDF to the email you designate. I left out the final step in his code, which deletes the temporary file. Now, I also have an archived Google doc of each submitted form! Now, we don't have to manually create a separate mail merge after all of the registrations have been received.