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Modern day scrolls
When the Bible was penned parchment scrolls were the medium used to capture the very words of God. The concept was pretty simple. A lengthy piece of parchment was stretched between two cylinders and...
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A Great Evangelism Tool
One of the advantages of working in the Synod Administration Building is that we have weekly “chapel” talks by staff here each Wednesday morning. Today Bryan Gerlach was up who is the Administrator for...
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Collecting Information Online
Recently a co-worker pointed me at a new and very cool online form creation tool called JotForm. We’ll be discussing it on our WELSTech podcast next week. Here is a sample form. This took me about 3...
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Christian Computing and ChMS
There are just a few resources that I’ve found to be invaluable to a church worker responsible for technology in their congregation. One of them is Christian Computing magazine. It has been around...
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This past weekend I headed up to New Ulm, MN once again to live web stream the Graduation and Call Services at Martin Luther College (our synod’s college of ministry). Just the excitement of the day is...
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Too Many Big Photos
Anybody who takes pictures these days and needs to publish them to a website, photo gallery or some other digital home has had to face the painful task of opening every photo to either convert, resize...
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Chromebooks For The Classroom (Administration)
This is my second post in a longer series where I am reviewing Google’s Chromebook and its suitability for our WELS classrooms. You can read my first article where I gave my first impressions and a...
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Chromebooks For The Classroom (The Bad of Web-Only)
A couple of weeks ago I outlined the numerous positives associated with a Web-based computing model in the classroom. “Living in the browser” is definitely doable! However, it’s not all peaches and...
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Chromebooks For The Classroom (Paying For Them)
So far in this series on Chromebooks I have addressed setup, management, features, and even an onsite visit of a WELS Elementary School classroom using Chromebooks. However, the elephant in the room...
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Social Networks and The Church (Facebook Part Two)
This is the third post in a series of articles on Social Networks and how they can, and perhaps can’t, be used in the church. When I say church I mean the corporate church (i.e. the organization of...
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