21.03.10

Date:
EdTechRoundUp Weekly #62 (since no-one was really here last week)

Link to meeting: []

Attendees:
user:daibarnes user:misetak user:marycooch user:grumbledook user:darrenmurphy user:leoncych user:squiggle7


 * Apologies**:
 * 1) user:robthill

Agenda:
Internet bandwidth - what do you have at your school? user:daibarnes Virtual Desktops (thin clients, citrix and the rest). If you virtualise your desktops, internally it means computers last for longer and are cheaper to buy, also it gives you access to the schools desktop environment at home through a browser - teachers and pupils. Is it a winner for schools? user:daibarnes Internet searching - does your school direct pupils to Google or to another search engine, maybe [] or [] for example? Or, does it not really matter? user:daibarnes Blue sky education technology. You've got the tech savvy teachers and the kit - so what do you want for your school? user:daibarnes

Leon is offering free space on the Learn4Life Island to meet up and discuss ICT CPD in Avatar form. Some of the interest groups meeting up will be involved with: E-Safety, MFL, Games and Gaming, Programming with Scratch in Second Life. This is to share ideas on this platform i.e. in an immersive envrionment. Groups would meet for 12 months to share practice once or twice a month or every other month depending on committment.

Actions for NEXT Meeting:
I set up a Doodle for those interested in going into Second Life on the 11th and 18th April here > @http://www.doodle.com/d6sd3nd5pd62d7s6 Podcasts editors ETRU #54 - Tony ETRU #55 - Bob ETRU #56 - ETRU #57 - ETRU #58 - ETRU #59 -user:daibarnes ETRU #60 -user:daibarnes ETRU #61 -