This 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!
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 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!
ETRU Weekly 18 [56:44m]:
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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’
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!
ETR Weekly 16 [56:44m]:
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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’
“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!
EdTechRoundup Special - Student blogging and WPMU [79:03m]:
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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’
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!
ETR #1 - How to get started in the edublogosphere:
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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! 
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