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EdTechRoundUp Weekly #84 – Mozilla Open Badges and assessment

Published on 12 August 2011 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyWe had a problem with capturing the audio last time around when Doug tried to not only record but stream out the audio. This week we not only managed to sort it properly (thanks Dai!) and also captured the links. Epic win.

Our weekly Sunday night discussions will once again go out as ‘EdTechRoundUp Weekly’. This episode is therefore #84.

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EdTechRoundUp Weekly #83 – What’s Hapenning at KS3?

Published on 4 October 2010 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was a small group discussion between a number of regulars looking at embedding ICT at KS3 or the use of discrete lessons, the impact of 1:1 with mobile devices, the further development of etherpad, giving students cameras to record where they learn, classdroid and apps for android phones.

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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’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #82 – Giving Up Your Office

Published on 20 September 2010 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai barnes. This week’s meeting looked at Dai moving into a Staff workroom and the impact it would have on encouraging teachers to adopt technology, what would you do with 3x 90 minute CPD sessions, how you move onto the next stage of eLearning in your SIP, tips for teaching ICT with no computers, assessment through technology and Microsoft’s Live@Edu service.

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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’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #81 – Summer Has Flown

Published on 15 September 2010 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. This week’s meeting looked at going back to school, including recommendations for teachers new to technology and what software or hardware people are looking forward to using, eBooks and eReaders in schools and looking at what laws or guidelines are out there regarding teachers communicating with students through social networking sites.

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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’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #78 – Getting Ready For Summer

Published on 21 July 2010 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. This weeks meeting looked at the weekly UKEdChat on twitter, a Google Earth Wiki, summer events such as Google Teacher Academy and Microsoft’s Summer Camp, online calendars for keeping track of education events, a healthy discussion about facebook usage between teachers and students, going back to teach in old schools and the announcement of ClassDroid beta.

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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’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #63 TeachMeets and more

Published on 20 July 2010 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dughall McCormick (his first hosting and he does a great job). This weeks meeting TeachMeet Yorkshire and Humberside, ISPs warning broadband customers that they exceeded their download quotas, visualisers, Regional Broadband Consortia and more.

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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’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #77 – Do we really want to be Bleeding Edge?

Published on 19 July 2010 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. This weeks meeting looked at TeachMeet Moodle, TeachMeet Schools History Project, relaunching the podcast, the pros and cons of different bits of personal handheld technology, including whether we really want to be bleeding edge all the time with our gadgets.

ETRU77 [ 49:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #61 – 10 Big Questions

Published on 23 May 2010 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. This weeks meeting was an extended discussion around education started from the 10 big questions wiki as presented on 10fored.wikispaces.com, Degree/results inflation – major education story this side of the Irish Sea and a discussion about conferences and events coming up.

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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’

EdTechRoundUP Weekly #59 – Biometrics and keeping track.

Published on 26 April 2010 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. In this week’s meeting we covered around keep track of IT consumables and kit using barcodes and booking them out, room booking software, video editing, print management, biometrics and ID Cards, digital signage, iPod Touch vs Netbooks, and a question on the future of OCR Nationals.

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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’

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’