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EdTechRoundUp Weekly #42

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..

 
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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 #35 – Blogging for School Trips

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. In this week’s meeting we looked at HD cameras, blogging for school trips, trying new things in the classroom and Facebook in the classroom : Yes or No.

 
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Nobody has collated the links from this week’s meeting yet, but eventually they should appear 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 #34 – Conferences, online collaboration tools, holidays and Student Voice

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Joe Dale. In this week’s meeting we summarised some of the recent educational conferences, looked at online collaboration tools such as Wallwisher and Webnote, teacher holidays, Teachers TV and student panels

 
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Nobody has collated the links from this week’s meeting yet, but eventually they should appear 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 #26 – Jailbreaking iPhones, rolling out Wordpress on a national level, and parental engagement

ETRU WeeklyThis 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!

 
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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’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #25 – How to become an ‘expert’, SMART tables & Pico projectors.

ETRU WeeklyThis 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!

 
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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’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #23 – Data systems (MIS), ‘Livescribe’ and planning a ETRU special on VLEs!

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. There were plenty of educators willing to share their thoughts and experience about data management applications, barriers to educational change, and the potential for Virtual Learning Environments, or VLEs, in schools.

Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!

 
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Dai Barnes has collated all the links from the meeting.

Louise Jones has kindly tidied up the ETR wiki page for this week’s meeting, whilst Dave Stacey has done a sterling job in making the ETR wiki homepage look fabulous!

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #18 – School subjects, Open Sim, the Semantic Web and Digital Britain

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Joe Rowing and then, after some problems with FlashMeeting, wrapped up by Dai Barnes. We discussed whether educational technology contributes to the demise of school subjects, whether the ‘Semantic Web’ is something educators should be getting involved with now, Open Sim, and the ins-and-outs of the Digital Britain report.

Many thanks to Sinclair Mackenzie for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!

 
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The area for discussing this podcast is on the ETRU Forum here.

Dai Barnes has collated the links from the meeting on ETRU diigo account.

 

Louise Jones has kindly tidied up the ETR wiki page for this week’s meeting.

 

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

EdTechRoundup Weekly #16 – Open Source Software and circulating ‘good practice’ within schools

This week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw and focused on two main areas. As a number of us and the wider community are involved in the Open Source Schools project, we discussed the role of Open Source Software in schools and our favourite examples.  The only other agenda item was raised by Dave Stacey who asked how we circulated ‘good practice’ regarding educational technology within our schools. Both topics generated some quality discussion.  :-)

Many thanks to Sinclair Mackenzie for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!

 
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Dai Barnes has collated the links from the show on Diigo here!

 

Lisa Stevens has tidied up the ETR wiki page a bit for this week’s show.

 

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

EdTechRoundup Special – Student blogging and WordPress Multi-User (WPMU)

ETR Special“Best EdTechRoundup so far!”, “You guys are awesome!”, “I really enjoyed that discussion!” – just some of the comments by participants after last Sunday’s special on students blogging and using WordPress Multi-User (WPMU).

We had a number of participants who are experts on WPMU, including Jim Groom from the US and Dave Gilmour from East Lothian (Scotland).

Many thanks to John Johnston for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!

 
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Dai Barnes has collated the links from the show on Diigo here.

 

The ETR wiki page for this special meeting was, appropriately, very much a team affair! :-)

 

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

ETR Weekly #10 – BETT 2009, Wiki textbooks and Education in 2020

This week’s EdTechRoundup Weekly started with a discussion on what education was going to look like the year 2020. We also discussed who’s doing what at BETT 2009 and a little bit about what people can expect from TeachMeet on the Friday night.

We moved on to discuss wiki textbooks and why they haven’t taken off as well as some ideas for Christmas lessons. :-)

Many thanks to Joe Dale for sorting out the audio. :-)

 
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Dai Barnes has collated the links on Diigo here.


Unfortunately the two wiki pixies were not in attendance, meaning the ETR wiki page for this week’s show is looking somewhat sparse…

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’