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

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.

 
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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 #61 – 10 Big Questions

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

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’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #48 Movemeon

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. In this week’s meeting Doug introduced his idea of using the movemeon twitter hash tag to share teaching tips. We also discussed planning for TMETRU09, media streaming across a network, ading a Mac lab to a Windows Network, BSF and using wifi in schools and purchasing iPhones/Andriod phones for school use.

 
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The links to this meeting are availabel via our Diigo account

Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #45 – Google Wave, Google Apps, Digital Signage and Mobile Devices

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. In this week’s meeting we talk about Google Wave, the use of Twitter as a conference backchannel, online whiteboards, Google Apps, how people access ETRU, digital signage and the use of mobile devices in schools.

 
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Collated the links from this week’s meeting should be available 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 #43 – Waves, Robots, Videos and tweaking filters

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Kate. In this week’s meeting we talk about the our first experiences of using Google Wave, using Robotics in schools, uploading videos to VLEs and how schools are adjusting filtering levels to allow access to websites.

 
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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 #40 – Let’s be productive!

This week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. In this week’s meeting we look at the tools teachers can use to increase their productivity, promoting literacy with e-book readers, ETRU teachmeet, computer programming for primary age children and a discussion about what resources people are embedding into sharepoint.

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wikispacesHere’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 Weekly #33 – Getting more bang for your buck

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. In this week’s meeting we discussed ‘Getting more bang for your buck’. This looked at the pros and cons of purchasing equipment outright vs leasing, buying netbooks and whether or not Linux could be used as a successful and free OS alternative in schools.

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

 
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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 #32 – MindMaps, Social Networks and Google Teacher Academy UK

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. We discussed the use of collaborative MindMaps, creating social networks in the classroom and the exciting possibility of a Google Teacher Academy coming to the UK.

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

 
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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 #31 – Planning for next year and a look at what we want from elearning.

ETRU WeeklyThis 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!

 
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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’