…conversations about using technology in education.
This week’s meeting was led for the first time by Daniel Needlestone, who did a great job! In this week’s meeting we discussed web browsers, internet filtering in schools and the technical skills required by educators.
Collated the links from this week’s meeting are available via our Diigo account.
Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.
The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’
#TMETRU09 was a fantastic evening. To my knowledge, it was not only the first-ever EdTechRoundUp TeachMeet, but the first one done solely online! Go to http://edtechroundup.wikispaces.com/TMETRU09 for all of the links and resources related to the event.
Some people have asked how we did organized a completely-online TeachMeet. Here’s a brief overview:
The first ever TeachMeet EdTechRoundUp edition is today (Sunday 6th December) 7-9pm GMT. Click on the image above for more details! 
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This week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. Those of use who attended TeachMeet Midlands 2009 (either physically, or virtually through the FlashMeeting) discussed our experiences. There was some further planning for an upcoming ETRU Special, and then the rest of our time was dedicated to general edtech news, views and opinions!
Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!
Dai Barnes has collated the links from this week’s meeting here.
Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.
The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’
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This week’s meeting was led by Bob Hill. On the agenda was the educational uses of Google Sketchup, the best ways to practice what you preach when presenting on ‘collaboration’, and the concept of ‘Open Source Textbooks’. The latter, Stuart Meldrum has been keen to point out, is not a wiki textbook, but a collaboratively-authored hard-copy effort!
Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!
Dai Barnes is still collating the links from the meeting.
Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.
The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’
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This week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes and Doug Belshaw. Dai began by waxing lyrical about his ‘jailbroken’ iPhone, with others contributing what a wonderful thing it is to be released from the fruit shackles. Our major points for discussion were John Heffernan’s plans to roll out Wordpress Multi-User across schools in Ireland, and engaging parents through the use of technology (mainly VLEs, to be fair…)
Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!
Dai Barnes has collated the links from the meeting.
Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.
The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’
This ETRU Special was co-hosted by Dai Barnes and Doug Belshaw. We’ve been discussing Virtual Learning Environments and Learning Platforms on-and-off for weeks now, so the time had come to have the chance to invite some experts in and have a lengthier discussion. We talked to Jeff O’Hara (@zemote), co-founder of Edmodo, discussed the various options when it comes to integrating a VLE, and some ideas for best practice. We finished with approaches for getting all staff onboard when deploying a VLE institution-wide.
Many thanks to Sinclair Mackenzie for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!
Dai Barnes has collated the links from the meeting.
Make sure you visit the wiki page for the ETRU Special on VLEs. Some great links there!
The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’
This week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. After a quick discussion about what constitutes an ‘expert’ in the field of educational technology and how to become one (see this blog post) we moved onto Mary Cooch’s presentation at MoodleMoot. We finished with some discussion of hardware: Tom Barrett told us about the SMART table he’s got on loan in his classroom, then Doug told us about the Optoma Pico projector in which he’s invested!
Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!
Dai Barnes has collated the links from the meeting.
Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.
The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’
This week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. Even though it was Easter weekend, there were still plenty of educators willing to share ideas and opinions about Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and have a general chat about the world of educational technology!
Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!
Dai Barnes has collated the links from the meeting.
Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.
The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’
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