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Chad Kafka shared: I will be presenting at the Google Education Summit during June 17-21 in Southeast Wisconsin!  It's a week long event focused on using Google in Education and participants get a Chromebook!   Here's a deal if you sign up, if you use the coupon code KAFKA, you get $100 off your registration!  Check it out.

John Dorn originally shared on G+:   I just tried the Movenote app for the first time and I love it. You can easily take a webcam video of yourself to show and explain documents. The app shows the documents and video side by side. You also have the ability to perform some annotation of your documents during the presentation. Very slick. 

Shared by listener Lesley Bergemann via the WELSTech Facebook Page

Not sure if I've shared this in the past, but it may be a nice solution for classrooms, school, and/or church libraries. $3/mo. for 1,000 or fewer titles, which most church libraries would fall under.

With cloud storage continuing to make progress as broadband continues to make inroads to more people and speeds increase, I hope features and transparency in using them grows. I have and use to various degrees iCloud, SkyDrive, DropBox, and Google Drive (used Insync for a while). My favorite is still DropBox and the space limitations are not an issue for most people. Speeds of Cloud storage will never be the same as LAN or WLAN speeds for large file storage, so frequent access to large files in the cloud is not a realistic possibility yet (ever?). While an argument could be made for backup, well I think CrashPlan, Mozy or Carbonite (as well as others) have that market covered. While I like the Arstechnica brief pros and cons (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/cloud-storage-a-pricing-and-feature-guide-for-consumers.ars), I would love to see more in depth pros and cons from long term usage. iCloud for instance while great for iOS backup for our families 2 iPhones and 1 iPad, there is no transparent way to mount the iCloud volume for direct or cached data storage. On the other hand, the Shared folder on the Dropbox volume is nice for my wife and I to share working files across our two or three computers for work. Awesome. SkyDrive has a hook in MS Office which I have tested and works nicely, but it is limited in device support. GoogleDrive is really new, so I am still working through using it. I suspect this will continue to evolve over time.

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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. 

TED talks/videos can be a great source of free classroom or individual student enrichment. Naturally, use with caution. TED materials are typically most appropriate for upper grade levels, but expecially visual presentations could be repurposed for the lower grade levels.

Online free mind mapping tool - simple interface - works on my iPad in Safari - quick cloud sync - I don't see any options for sharing at this point, but still in dev.

Shared by Pastor Michael Johnson

Detailed instructions for a 4 frame web page to display on digital announcement screens in narthex, school entry, etc. - Shared by Eric Paulsen

Shared by Jason Schmidt

Laura Schwertfeger shared - lots of nice Christian photos, videos, etc. There are many available for free, others for purchase. Even the ones you have to buy do seem much more affordable than some of the istockphotos I have looked at lately.

Link shared by Tom Rosenow

Link shared by Tom Rosenow

Shared by Brent Nemmers