Tag Archive for 'FlashMeeting'

ETR Weekly #8 - Talking Postcards, TweetMeet and E-Learning in Schools

You may be asking what happened to ETR Weekly #7 - erm, good question and we’re on the case…

This week’s ETR FlashMeeting focused around collaboration and training. Tom Barrett talked about his organising a TweetMeet (using tweetmeet.eu) in Nottingham on Saturday 6th December. Doug Belshaw provided feedback about his new role as E-Learning Staff Tutor at his school, which produced some interesting discussion. We also discussed some useful technologies, such as ‘talking’ postcards and the like… :-D

 
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Dai Barnes is experimenting with using Diigo instead of Delicious for the ETR links. You can access the relevant links from this week’s meeting here.

 
Lisa Stevens, the wiki pixie herself, has updated the ETR wiki here to include the notes from the meeting.

 

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

ETR Weekly #4 - TeachMeet 2009, Google Docs for online reports & ‘digital permanence’

ETR Weekly

We were back to full strength for this week’s FlashMeeting. In addition, it was great to welcome a couple of North American educators into the mix to give their perspective on all this edtech-nical!

This time around we discussed TeachMeet East Midlands 2009, Tom Barrett’s proposal to use Google Docs for online reporting to parents, the idea and importance of ‘digital permanence’, and much more besides. :-D

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, maintained fabulously by Lisa Stevens, the wiki pixie! :-)

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

ETR Weekly #2 - How to use audio effectively in education

ETR WeeklyThis week’s discussion centred around the use of audio - including podcasting - in education. There were a good number of people at the meeting, and some experts in the field, such as Joe Dale and Mark Pentleton.

The agenda for the meeting is available on the ETR wiki, along with a link to a replay of the FlashMeeting itself, if you want the unedited version including video!

Our apologies for not releasing our discussions for a while - we’re busy people! You can listen/view our meetings in between ETR 1 and 2 via the Meetings page on the wiki.

 
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