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EdTechRoundUp Weekly #63 TeachMeets and more

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dughall McCormick (his first hosting and he does a great job). This weeks meeting TeachMeet Yorkshire and Humberside, ISPs warning broadband customers that they exceeded their download quotas, visualisers, Regional Broadband Consortia and more.

 
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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 #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 #60 – Wordle’s the word!

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. In this week’s meeting we discussed Wordle briefly going offline and how we rely on this and other free tools, TeachMeet Fishbowl, The Curriculum Catalyst, VITAL.AC.UK and other CPD resources.

 
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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 #56 – CPD is Vital

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. In this week’s meeting we discussed the the iPad, The Vital Project, Schools Interoperability Framework, how ‘free’ is the internet and TeachMeets abroad.

 
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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 #54 – BETT Review

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. In this week’s meeting we reviewed the BETT show, people’s most and least favourite things, the evening events such as TedxOrenda, Amplified and TeachMeet, and the TeachMeet Takeover activities.

 
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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 #52

This week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. In this week’s meeting we talk about:

  1. Status of #movemeon ebook
  2. Highlights of 2009 (see 1)
  3. The Edublog Awards
  4. TeachMeet Takeover
  5. Class/School blogging advice
  6. Is there a Gaming “literacy”
  7. Yahoo Pipes for Twitter

 
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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’

EdTechRoundUpWeekly #51 – TMETRU debrief

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. In this week’s meeting we discussed the TeachMeet ETRU special, planned the imaginary ETRU Nativity, learned about EduHighFive and looked at the future TeachMeetComputingNorthEast.

 
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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 50 – TeachMeet special

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw and Dai Barnes. This week’s meeting was an online TeachMeet and can be watched again by going to http://www.justin.tv/Tmetru09.

 
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The links to this meeting are available via the ETRU wiki page for this special.

How we facilitated the first-ever EdTechRoundUp TeachMeet…

Mosaic of #TMETRU09 participants (on Flickr)

#TMETRU09 was a fantastic evening. To my knowledge, it was not only the first-ever EdTechRoundUp TeachMeet, but the first one done solely online! Go to http://edtechroundup.wikispaces.com/TMETRU09 for all of the links and resources related to the event.

Some people have asked how we did organized a completely-online TeachMeet. Here’s a brief overview:

Well before the TeachMeet

  1. Discussed the who? what? when? where? why? questions as a group.
  2. Set up a wiki page on the TeachMeet wiki
  3. Assign roles (overview, setting up accounts, etc.)
  4. Thought up a hashtag (in this case #TMETRU09) and used it in tweets from then on
  5. Encouraged people to sign up to record a presentation or do one live.
  6. Set up a Diigo account to collate links.

Just before the TeachMeet

  1. Booked FlashMeeting.
  2. Signed up for Justin.tv for live stream.
  3. Tidied up the wiki page.
  4. Reminded those who hadn’t recorded presentations to do so.
  5. Sent out tweets building up anticipation.
  6. Tested using SoundFlower and CamTwist (Mac-only?) to stream out FlashMeeting and presentations.
  7. Discussed roles on the evening (who to host, introduce videos, etc.)
  8. Sent presenters private link to FlashMeeting.
  9. Made sure instructions for those viewing were clear on the wiki.

Evening of the TeachMeet

  1. Hosts arrive early to FlashMeeting, check everything is working OK.
  2. Last minute changes/preparations sorted.
  3. Videos checked to make sure they’re working.
  4. Barrage of tweets with hashtag sent out (add ‘Please RT!’)
  5. Press both ‘Broadcast’ and ‘Record’ at Justin.tv.
  6. Keep things light-hearted and be prepared for things to go wrong…