EdTechRoundUp Weekly #88 – #TEDxLondon and #DMLbadges

This week’s podcast is a lot better than last week’s, thank goodness! Doug Belshaw, Dai Barnes, Pete Bell and Nick Dennis were around on Skype to discuss the TEDxLondon event and the launch of DML ‘badges’.

We mentioned Google Art Project right at the end of the discussion but Call Recorder for Skype managed to cut that off. Sorry.

Links mentioned:

• http://www.tedxlondon.com/first
• http://purposed.org.uk
• http://dmlcompetition.net
• http://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
• http://bit.ly/openbadge
• http://www.highlandrugby.net

 

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #87 – How NOT to record a podcast…

The should-know-better award goes to Doug Belshaw this week, who managed to not only get kicked out of Google+ several times, but also managed to record everyone else *except* himself.

As a result, this is a much shorter podcast than usual. Our apologies, we’ll be back to normal (or what substitutes for ‘normal’) soon!

 

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #86 – ICT curriculum, ALT-C 2011 and more!

We missed a couple of weeks (apologies!) due to various commitments. In addition, this week’s recording is both amusing and frustrating. Amusing due to the fun we had putting it together; frustrating in that the audio recording dropped due to Camtasia being more-than-averagely flaky on Dai’s Mac.

Oh well, you can’t win them all. 🙂

 

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #85 – Flipped thinking and more on Open Badges

Since we’ve relaunched we’ve had different and new people joining us each week on the Google+ hangout, which is great. This week we had Darren, Marc, Nick and Debs sharing their thoughts and opinions on a range of things including Open Badges (again!), Dropbox alternatives and ‘flipped’ classrooms.

Notes (links and quotations) are below for further investigation:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism
• “Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‘over the Internet.’ They don’t bother to mention when criminals use the telephone or the M4, or discuss their dastardly plans ‘over a cup of tea,’ though each of these was new and controversial in their day.” (Douglas Adams)
• http://www.wincom7.com/blog/current-events/david-cameron%E2%80%99s-net-censorship-proposal-earns-kudos-from-chinese-state-media-%E2%80%93-boing-boing/
• http://bit.ly/govephonehome
• http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox
• http://www.firebox.com/product/2990/Pogoplug-Pro?id=9310
• http://mobilereview.jiscpress.org
• http://software.pogoplug.com/
• https://spideroak.com/
• http://sparkleshare.org/
• http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=991
• http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2011/06/10/project-reclaim-or-how-i-learned-to-start-worrying-and-love-my-data/
• http://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-badges-and-assessment/
• http://score.ly
• @jonbergmann
• @karlfisch
• http://mast.unco.edu/programs/vodcasting/
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/7996379/Daniel-Pinks-Think-Tank-Flip-thinking-the-new-buzz-word-sweeping-the-US.html

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #84 – Mozilla Open Badges and assessment

We had a problem with capturing the audio last time around when Doug tried to not only record but stream out the audio. This week we not only managed to sort it properly (thanks Dai!) and also captured the links. Epic win.

Our weekly Sunday night discussions will once again go out as ‘EdTechRoundUp Weekly’. This episode is therefore #84.

Links mentioned:

• http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2011/08/07/semester-of-learning-open-badges-and-assessment/
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
• http://badges.p2pu.org/
• http://semestersoflearning.org/
• http://scouts.org.uk/supportresources/search?cat=56
• https://www.vivomiles.com/
• http://www.allhallows.org.uk/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickdennis/
• http://goo.gl/xaZtx
• http://www.ukonlinecentres.com/corporate-pages/community-outreach-grant-funding.html
• http://kindalearning.blogspot.com/2011/08/can-i-tell-you-secret.html
• http://trunk.ly

We’re back with weekly Google+ Hangouts!

In preparation for a full re-launch in September 2011 we’ve starting meeting up again in Google+ on Sunday evenings at 20.00 BST (GMT+1) to discuss all things related to educational technology and e-learning.

As a bit of experiment we recorded last week’s Google+ Hangout and have added it to the podcast feed. We’re aware of some quality issues but we’d love to hear your feedback!

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #83 – What’s Hapenning at KS3?

This week’s meeting was a small group discussion between a number of regulars looking at embedding ICT at KS3 or the use of discrete lessons, the impact of 1:1 with mobile devices, the further development of etherpad, giving students cameras to record where they learn, classdroid and apps for android phones.
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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 #82 – Giving Up Your Office

This week’s meeting was led by Dai barnes. This week’s meeting looked at Dai moving into a Staff workroom and the impact it would have on encouraging teachers to adopt technology, what would you do with 3x 90 minute CPD sessions, how you move onto the next stage of eLearning in your SIP, tips for teaching ICT with no computers, assessment through technology and Microsoft’s Live@Edu service.

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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 #81 – Summer Has Flown

This week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. This week’s meeting looked at going back to school, including recommendations for teachers new to technology and what software or hardware people are looking forward to using, eBooks and eReaders in schools and looking at what laws or guidelines are out there regarding teachers communicating with students through social networking sites.

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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 #78 – Getting Ready For Summer

This week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. This weeks meeting looked at the weekly UKEdChat on twitter, a Google Earth Wiki, summer events such as Google Teacher Academy and Microsoft’s Summer Camp, online calendars for keeping track of education events, a healthy discussion about facebook usage between teachers and students, going back to teach in old schools and the announcement of ClassDroid beta.

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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’