WELSTech

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

Wow! Great idea! Haven't downloaded it yet. I'll wait for more reviews to come out. Could be a great resource!

This is for Sallie - Super Mario sheet music for the piano!

Thanks Jason - I emailed the link to my piano player son (and his piano teacher). I'm sure he will be thrilled. All my kids like to pluck out video game music on their instruments. :-)

I knew you guys would like it! I haven't been able to get anything to load :-( but I'll keep trying! Let me know if it works out.

Thought Sallie would enjoy these. :)

Tom - Do you have a RaspPi?? My guys are currently working on using it to play sounds when someone walks between two infrared sensors (think musical stairs at St. John's). Fun stuff! Concurrently they are dabbling with an Arduino to run a DIY 3D printer they are building. I'm in over my head here!

Here is the direct link to the session with Gail and the other teachers from Emanuel in New London. Great group!

I'm looking forward to our next edtech WELSTech Podcast, coming up December 1st!! Guess what our topic will be??

Jason Schmidt explains Diigo - Recorded on Elluminate - aprox. 35 minutes

Gates Foundation article about Edusurge.com which aggregates and shifts through the effectiveness and utility of emerging classroom educational technologies.

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.

We're using a GoogleDoc Spreadsheet to plan our singing/ensemble schedule for 2012-13. If you're interested in customizing it for yourself, just open the doc, go to File > Make a copy, and name your copy.

A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents.

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Free downloads of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by Dr. James Kibbie on original baroque organs in Germany, are offered on this site.

2011 in Legos

Maria Andersen's resource mind maps are always impressive and this one is no exception. It has links to loads of subject specific learning games.

Wow! This is great!

Thomas Frey provides insights on the direction learning and institutions of learning need to go given the emergence of online learning and billions needing education. Be sure to ready his paper hyperlinked to the article.

Manage up to 30 iOS devices at a time with Apple's new Configurator app. Aimed at schools and businesses with multiple iOS iPhones, iPads, etc. to administrate.

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 . . .

Teachers log in at t.socrative.com Students log in at m.socrative.com and input the teachers room number My room number is 69385 Works in any browser - desktop, laptop, netbook, mobile

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.