442 – Tabs…And More Tabs

This week’s WELSTech features a variety of community feedback including tips for improving your Facebook page reach, an interesting new collaborative education game, free worship countdown timer videos, a tool for legally and easily editing out undesired scenes and language in movies, and lots more. Plus, we share event discounts, a great Gmail productivity add-on, and ideas for improving VBS registration. There’s something for everyone!

The discussion:

Party time! – Join Martin and Sallie for the festive sharing of a month’s worth of great community feedback. You’re guaranteed to learn new tech goodness which may have a positive impact on your public or personal ministery efforts.

• Why You Open Too Many Browser Tabs And How To Stop It
  • Tab Cloud extension for Chrome
• St. John’s, Libertyville, IL, has a special web page for military families
• WORDsearch Bible
• VidAngel
• WELSTech Google Group
  • Breakout EDU – Facebook
• WELS High School Google Group
• WELS Intersections on Facebook
  • Notes from the April 9 WELS Intersection meetup
  • Free video countdown timers for worship – 1 | 2 | 3
  • 17 of the Best Free Stock Photo Sites
  • 5 Ways to Improve You Facebook Page’s Organic Reach
• WELS Google Schools Google Plus Community
  • Fantastic Word Cloud Tools for Chromebooks
  • How to Use Google’s Best Add-Ons For Math Classrooms
  • FotoJet – Free Online Collage Maker, Photo Card Editor and Poster Creator
• Office 365 Schools Google Plus Community
  • Microsoft Classroom and School Data Sync
• Slack beats email, but still needs to get better
• Microsoft Office OneNote – Upgrades For Android, iOS and Windows
• Remind – Church Texting Made Easy
• Vivaldi Browser
• The Future of Online Schools
• Social Media Examiner blog

News in tech:

Facebook Messenger launches Group Calling to become your phone

WELS now:

Early-bird pricing ends this week for these two summer events:

• International Youth Rally 2016
• WLC’s Training Bootcamp: Revolutionize the Classroom with Google

Picks of the week:

• ShopWELS for web hosting with FinalWeb
• Gmail to Trello Extension

Ministry resources:

5 Ways to Simplify VBS Registration

Featured video:

This week we’ve added not just one, but three new videos to the WELSTech Product Demos playlist on YouTube, all having to do with the new edtech collaborative “game” called Breakout EDU. Check out Introducing Breakout EDU, posted below, and watch Game Design Studio for an overview on designing your own game. Use the Breakout EDU Timer video when you are ready to try the race against the clock game.

Coming up on WELSTech:

Episode 443 – Gail Potratz joins the conversation to share her thoughts on edtech standards. Release date: Wednesday, May 4, 2016

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