This week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. We discussed Planning for next year and a look at what we want from elearning and how we can achieve this with the tools currently available.
Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!

ETRU Weekly 31 [51:47m]:
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Dai Barnes has collated the links on Diigo and you can find them 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’
This week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. We discussed Google Wave, whether VLEs have had their day and compared Google Squared and Wolfram Alpha.
Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!
Nobody has collated the links from this week’s meeting yet, but eventually they should appearhere.
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. We discussed the possibility of a compulsory Masters degree for all new teachers and what we would like to include in an eLearning strategy.
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’
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!

ETRU Weekly 28 [56:44m]:
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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’
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’
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’
This week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw and focused on the future of EdTechRoundUp. Those at the Admin meeting fed back to the rest of the group about the decision made and discussed where we were headed. The new features and areas of EdTechRoundUp are summarised in this blog post. We’d like to invite those reading this post and listeners to the podcast to get more involved with what we do.
Many thanks to John Johnston for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!
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’
Eagle-eyed visitors may have noticed two new tabs to the top of this blog. At the previously-mentioned EdTechRoundUp FlashMeeting, we discussed ways in which we could help develop more of a community around ETRU (as we shall henceforth abbreviate ourselves to!)
We’ve two new sections, both of which anyone can participate in and through:

This syndicates blog posts from those part of the ETRU community that are on topics related to educational technology. It won’t syndicate all your blog posts (just the ones you choose), so if you’d like to have yours featured on the ETRU Hub, please get in touch with Doug (@dajbelshaw) who’s organizing that.

To encourage those who listen to the podcast to interact with the ETRU community, the Forum has been set up. Agenda items from the wiki shall be posted so questions can be asked and conversations continued!
Please let us know what you think about the new additions.

Background:
EdTechRoundup is going from strength to strength. In order for this growth and success to continue, some of us felt that some planning and discussion regarding the future of the group was required. As a result, this evening a few of us who have a stake in EdTechRoundup met together via FlashMeeting to talk about the future of the group. These were:
Dai Barnes, Tom Barrett, Doug Belshaw, Joe Dale, Louise Jones, Sinclair Mackenzie, David Noble, and Joe Rowing.
A couple of others (John Johnston, Lisa Stevens) were unable to make it due to other commitments.
Agenda:
- Roadmap - where are we headed?
- Sustainability – allocation of roles so everyone knows who’s doing what.
- Guides – showing how to go about capturing audio, editing podcast, etc.
- Security – who is going to have access to what?
- Technologies – are we happy with what we use? Is FlashMeeting serving our needs?
- Any other business - has anyone got any other suggestions?
Decisions made:
- Due to capacity issues with FlashMeeting we shall:
- Ask E2BN/Open University if we can have a larger ‘room’
- Ask those intending to attend a weekly Sunday FlashMeeting to add their name to the relevant wiki page in advance. Those beyond #25 (in the first instance) may be asked to leave in favour of those who have signed up.
- We shall not be asking for monetary contributions for members at the moment.
- The group shall be known by the abbreviation ETRU, being the tag to be used on blogs, wikis, etc. On Twitter, the hashtag #ETRU should be used.
- Dai Barnes shall be in charge of passwords for EdTechRoundup accounts. He will change them regularly and inform those who need to know by way of a collaborative Google Doc.
- As a group, we shall work towards producing guides on how to do the administrative tasks we all have a part in. This should allow enthusiastic but less technically-able newcomers to take a part in the group.
- A new installation of Wordpress somewhere on the EdTechRoundup domain (either subfolder or subdomain) shall collate posts from ETRU member blogs. These will have either been tagged ETRU or be within a category of that name. The collated posts will be displayed in excerpt form on this ‘hub’. We shall be following the model of NextGenTeachers, of which Tom Barrett and Doug Belshaw were part.
If you’d like to view/listen to the two-hour meeting, you can do so at the link below! Please add any thoughts you have in the comments section.
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