22.03.09

= 22nd March 2009 8.30 - 9.30 p.m. (GMT) = = = = Welcome to everyone who wishes to attend please add to the agenda and Happy Mother's Day to all lovely mums! =

Link to the Flashmeeting here __[]__

Attendees:
user:HPSManager - Louise J. user:lisibo - most probably!! mtechman - may have to leave early user:mrstacey Very ably chaired this evenings meeting! user:robthill user:marycooch user:markclarkson Mrs. Clarkson would kill me (if she found out!) (:-))

**Apologies**:
user:theok In Scotland / Mothers Day user:jrowing Snowed under with marking - sorry :( user:dajbelshaw Been working all weekend and completely neglected my wife. Need to spend some time with her! user:leoncych Really sorry have loads of work I'm catching up on this week. user:daibarnes Mothers Day got the better of me.

Agenda:
I won't be there, but are we still planning a newbies or 'bring along a friend' type meeting? I've already got my friend picked out :-) user:markclarkson Our county is planning new structure, etc. for communications - both internal and external - if no one has other topic, I would like to get ideas from you lot. Current state: very piecemeal, some newsletters, not very searchable central website, some on Twitter, some teachers don't read email frequently, central delicious acct heavily used by very small group.... I'm in a working group, which includes @paulawhite!; our brief is to go from ground up. Questions which have arisen - what are minimal expectations for teachers, how to encourage teachers to model more tech-savvy skills, what do parents want...? - mtechman - This topic can go on agenda for any future mtg, if group chooses, thanks... Google Street View - uses in Education user:mrstacey

Actions for NEXT Meeting:
Idea for a future meeting - special on effective use of VLEs. I'll pull some ideas together this week user:mrstacey

Further Contributors or Thoughts
The following tools were discussed including

Online Surveys [|www.limesurvey.org] and [|www.surveymonkey.com]

Screen Capture

[|www.jingproject.com] and [|www.flowgram.com]

Mark C is compiling a list of 'TechyTips for Non Techy Teachers' and is hoping to get about 40 slides on a Google Docs Presentation, if you wish to collaborate DM Mark with your request to edit or with your tip to his Twitter account. [] or email him.