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

Published on 18 February 2009 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .

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)

Published on 4 February 2009 in Uncategorized. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

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

Published on 21 December 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

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’

ETR Weekly #3 – Open Source, Internet Safety update, iPhone Apps & more!

Published on 15 October 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

ETR WeeklyThere were a good number of regulars missing from this week’s FlashMeeting – all for good reasons – but it was great to welcome some new faces. We began with a quick plug for David Noble’s Edonis project, which forms part of his Ed.D. research. We then discussed Doug, José & Ian’s involvement in an upcoming Becta-funded Open Source Schools project and issues surrounding that. After this, we moved on to an update on Internet Safety materials, prompted by Louise Jones, and finally we got to the wonder of iPhones and educational uses for the plethora of applications available for it.

You can listen to the podcast by subscribing to the RSS feed of this blog in iTunes (see button in sidebar), or by using the embedded player below:

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del.icio.usThe links mentioned in this week’s meeting have been kindly collated by Dai Barnes and are available at del.icio.us

A reminder that planning, contact details and more information is available on the EdTechRoundup wiki, ably tended in the absence of Lisa Stevens by Louise Jones.


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

ETR Weekly #1 – How to get started in the edublogosphere

Published on 23 June 2008 in Podcasts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

ETR Weekly

We’ve decided as a group that our weekly Sunday meetings contain enough ideas and useful discussion to start getting ‘out there’ as podcasts. Ironically, we had a few problems which delayed getting the the first EdTechRoundup Weekly show out until today. There’s been another meeting since the one below – this one’s actually from 15th June!

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Normally we’ll endeavour to get the links put in our del.icio.us account, but for now, and for the sake of speed, they’re listed below in the order they came in the discussion:

Oh, and the Mac applications Lisa never got round to mentioning in the podcast itself were Handbrake and Comic Life. Both wonderfully useful applications! :-D

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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! :-)