19.10.08

=Date: Sunday 19th October 8.30 p.m. - 9.30 p.m. GMT=

Link to Flashmeeting [|HERE]

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user:daibarnes user:tbarrett user:lisibo user:johnjohnston user:_MisterG for some of the time! Michelle A. Hoyle user:DavidNoble user:86.131.221.246 user:sinclairmackenzie user:dajbelshaw user:marycooch user:speters user:foolfillment

**Apologies:**
D. Needlestone - out socialising for once! Louise Jones - out socialising too!


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New items-

 * Anyone at HHL conference last week? 13th-15th Oct. Anything to report? lots of tweets flying around - would be good to have firsthand reports! user:lisibo Especially keen to hear news of Nintendo DSi and when it might be in UK? We are soon to be buying a class set of 30 DSs :-) user:tbarrett
 * Hopefully [|Tom Barrett] will be present to tell us all about the organization behind [|TeachMeet East Midlands] in 2009! user:dajbelshaw
 * Suggestions for what Jose Picardo, Ian Usher and Doug Belshaw can bring up at the Becta-funded [|Open Source Schools] meeting on Tuesday user:dajbelshaw
 * [|Proposal to use Google Docs for online reporting]- I would be grateful for any reaction or commentary on the idea of using GDocs as a possible solution to online reporting to parents. I have had a proposal agreed by my headteacher to pilot it and see what happens this academic year. Your thoughts would be appreciated. user:tbarrett
 * I'm running some web 2.0 e-learning training after school tomorrow. If anyone could skype by to say hi and chat around 4pm for a few minutes let me know. If anyone has any killer apps or blog posts that I can pass on especially for Geography, History, French/German, Maths and English let me know. I can't make tonight but will catch up via the flashmeeting and will happily write up and share what I do tomorrow. D. Needlestone
 * Anyone caught any of the presentations from the [|K12OnlineConference]? I've been a bit busy.. .user:dajbelshaw

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Further Contributors or Thoughts:
My suggestion for the open source meeting: Software must be easy to install across a network for our network manager, portable software is also great (so we can run it without installing!)