Tag Archive for 'collaboration'

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #58 – Being mobile; teachers, phones and video editing

Published on 24 April 2010 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. In this week’s meeting we covered discussions around Flash memory based camcorder, OCR Nationals, green screen technology and video editing, equipment for the mobile teacher, what the recent Ofsted report on safeguarding could mean in schools, the banning or use of mobile phones in the classroom, best affordable laptops for staff and student use, options for future ETRU TeachMeets and other teachmeets.

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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’

How we facilitated the first-ever EdTechRoundUp TeachMeet…

Published on 7 December 2009 in General. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Mosaic of #TMETRU09 participants (on Flickr)

#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:

Well before the TeachMeet

  1. Discussed the who? what? when? where? why? questions as a group.
  2. Set up a wiki page on the TeachMeet wiki
  3. Assign roles (overview, setting up accounts, etc.)
  4. Thought up a hashtag (in this case #TMETRU09) and used it in tweets from then on
  5. Encouraged people to sign up to record a presentation or do one live.
  6. Set up a Diigo account to collate links.

Just before the TeachMeet

  1. Booked FlashMeeting.
  2. Signed up for Justin.tv for live stream.
  3. Tidied up the wiki page.
  4. Reminded those who hadn’t recorded presentations to do so.
  5. Sent out tweets building up anticipation.
  6. Tested using SoundFlower and CamTwist (Mac-only?) to stream out FlashMeeting and presentations.
  7. Discussed roles on the evening (who to host, introduce videos, etc.)
  8. Sent presenters private link to FlashMeeting.
  9. Made sure instructions for those viewing were clear on the wiki.

Evening of the TeachMeet

  1. Hosts arrive early to FlashMeeting, check everything is working OK.
  2. Last minute changes/preparations sorted.
  3. Videos checked to make sure they’re working.
  4. Barrage of tweets with hashtag sent out (add ‘Please RT!’)
  5. Press both ‘Broadcast’ and ‘Record’ at Justin.tv.
  6. Keep things light-hearted and be prepared for things to go wrong…

#TMETRU09 tonight!

Published on 6 December 2009 in General. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

The first ever TeachMeet EdTechRoundUp edition is today (Sunday 6th December) 7-9pm GMT. Click on the image above for more details! :-)

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #42

Published on 15 November 2009 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. In this week’s meeting we talk about the Handheld Learning Conference, visualisers in secondary classrooms, using Adobe Connect for for ETRU, testing how Google Wave could be used by students, how Google Apps can be connected to various systems as well as how students collaborate through other means..

ETRU Weekly 42 [ 52:58 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #41 – Photo fun

Published on 15 November 2009 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. In this week’s meeting we talk about new tools we are using in the classroom, sharing of marks between students, Collaborative video conferencing tools for ETRU, projects with photo, TeachMeet @ BETT 2010 and a look at Apple Distinguished Educators.

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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’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #27 – Google Sketchup, presenting on ‘collaboration’ and open textbooks.

Published on 17 May 2009 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis 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!

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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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EdTechRoundup needs your help with Google Apps UK!

Published on 21 January 2008 in General. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , .

Google AppsEdTechRoundup wants YOUR help! We’re going to be interviewing the Google Apps team in the UK for a forthcoming show and want some reader/listener input in the question-asking process. So…

If you could ask the Google Apps UK team anything, what would it be?

Responses either in the comments section below, or on the ETR wiki here. :)

Welcome!

Published on 3 November 2007 in General. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

EdTechRoundup is a place where a group of UK-based educators come together for discussion and collaboration around the use of technology in education. We believe in pedagogically-sound uses of educational technology, but don’t believe in ramming Web 2.0 (or anything else for that matter) down people’s throats…

Dilbert cartoon on how not to present technology to the masses

We’d like more people to join us in the conversation – let’s use education to improve technology technology to improve education! :-)