21.09.08

Date: Sunday 21st September 8.30-9.30pm GMT
link to  [|Flashmeeting]

Attendees:
user:istuart user:HPSManager Louise Jones user:88.144.20.37 user:sinclairmackenzie user:mrbelshaw user:stoneteacher user:marycooch user:lisibo user:jokingswear Mark Pentleton [|Bob Hill]

user:tbarrett user;joedale user:parslad
 * Apologies**:

Actions from PREVIOUS Meeting:

 * **Wiki updated with roles**

Agenda:
items not covered last week: David unable to join us to carried forward to next week.
 * **Look at desktop-sharing while in a Flashmeeting** **-** [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/user/pic/1204580778/DavidNoble-sm.jpg width="16" height="16" caption="DavidNoble" link="http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/DavidNoble"]] [|DavidNoble >]

New items - Dai not here so carried forward to next week.
 * **discussion of tech support / ICT services and implications for ed.tech**. - Dai


 * **remind SLF attendees re vox pops / sound bites** Bob hopes to speak to those involved before SLF

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 * **decide on topic for focussed meeting for October and decide a date too!** - did we do this?? suggestions re inserts from SLF / IOW Conference

[|www.busuu.com] site for language learning with element of social networking - beginners / intermediate / advanced modules available and you practice with other learners, sharing your expertise!!  José mentioned [|www.babbel.com] a similar site. [|www.lifehacker.com] - brilliant site for 'life hacks' to make life great! [|**Yamme**r] - an enclosed Twitter environment. Paul is using it in PD at work - less crowded than Twitter as no 'interference' ; also tag. Needs to have same @ endings on emails so ould work well n schools. [|Screenshot here] Paul can see it as working well with taechers. Louise has free trial from **Nutmeg** - http://www.nutmeg-uk.com/ - needed volunteer to try out nutritional analysis software - hopes that it will spin off into other areas of the curriculum. **Utterli** - Bob mentioned[| Utterli] - for videoing self and sending to blog, Twitter etc - bit like Seismic?? Joe [|blogged it too.]     <span style="color: rgb(183, 16, 16)"><span style="color: rgb(134, 4, 4)"><span style="color: rgb(150, 8, 8)">Paul's had some issues with posting from cellphone - robust?? José raised possible security concerns making Yammer and Edmodo more suitable? Should we be educating rather <span style="color: rgb(166, 8, 8)">than shielding and blocking? <span style="color: rgb(166, 8, 8)"> <span style="color: rgb(198, 12, 12)"><span style="color: rgb(193, 11, 11)"><span style="color: rgb(116, 6, 6)">**Students of Fortune** - like eBay for essays! http://studentoffortune.com/ issues of plagarism as could sidestep plagarism software. <span style="color: rgb(198, 12, 12)"><span style="color: rgb(193, 11, 11)"><span style="color: rgb(116, 6, 6)"><span style="color: rgb(183, 16, 16)"> IS it a good think as it <span style="color: rgb(195, 9, 9)">could cause a break in 'one size fits all' model <span style="color: rgb(195, 9, 9)"> towards more focussed assessment. <span style="color: rgb(195, 9, 9)">    <span style="color: rgb(195, 9, 9)"><span style="color: rgb(198, 12, 12)">Assessment as causing reframing of whole curriculum / system? In Scotland, pupils have a logbook that must accompany their work at Highers in research project. from Bob [|re assessment 2.0] Simon shared [|bookmarks for tropic] <span style="color: rgb(209, 5, 5)">**Taggalaxy** - a way to search tags on Flickr - [|www.taggalaxy.de] - tags come up as planets and how related - also Wordle! <span style="color: rgb(209, 5, 5)">
 * **this week's roundup of useful things we've noticed!**
 * Swype** - http://www.swypeinc.com/product.html easy way to input text on a touch screen eg iPhone. Not released yet but looks promising
 * iPhone modem** - if you jailbreak your iPhone- to use your iPhone as a wireless dongle!!
 * Edmodo** - José reported on his experiments with Edmodo - pupils taken to it v.well. Joined and used groups - [|blog post] -
 * D<span style="color: rgb(235, 10, 13)">igital Natives **<span style="color: rgb(235, 10, 13)">- Doug discoverd [|this wiki] about digital natives - with links for lesson planning etc on involving pupils. <span style="color: rgb(235, 10, 13)">
 * Forum for effective use of ICT** -admin'd by Andrew Field - egs of why PPT is bad!! http://www.effectiveict.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=1939
 * Zaid learn** - posted 75 games ot spice up your classroom! -http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/05/75-free-edugames-to-spice-up-your.html
 * Sliderocket** - Mac like alternative to PPT.[| http://sliderocket.com]/ highly recommended - José participated in private Beta earlier this year. Can embed in blogs etc, also add sound (mp3) and .flv too. Doesn't allow you to upload Keynotes but can PPT. [|example from José's blog] Buzzword vs GoogleDocs?
 * Flowgram** - http://www.flowgram.com - a bit like Jing project but able to upload video, music, screen shots and narrate as you go along - like a story. Louise also wantig to do something like [|Commoncraft] for her role.
 * Get your smirk on** - http://getyoursmirkon.com/ allows you to record avatars with different moods!
 * Plainvew** as a browser for Macs - nothing but the site seen.http://www.barbariangroup.com/software/plainview_app_1_0
 * Twitter vs Plurk** - most prefer Twitter!! Pupils see Twitter as a 'Creepy Treehouse'? José suggested that newbies might be a little overwhelmed by twitter use with pupils.

Actions for NEXT Meeting:

 * **Look at desktop-sharing while in a Flashmeeting** **-** [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/user/pic/1204580778/DavidNoble-sm.jpg width="16" height="16" caption="DavidNoble" link="http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/DavidNoble"]] [|DavidNoble]


 * **discussion of tech support / ICT services and implications for ed.tech**. - Dai

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 * **more discussion of foussed meeting - date and topic** - please consider and come with ideas!!

Further Contributors or Thoughts
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 * <span style="color: rgb(175, 8, 8)">Louise offered to start compiling survey sites and create a page on the wiki for folk to view.
 * <span style="color: rgb(175, 8, 8)">Louise and Ian talked about Hungry for Success and developments re HMI in Scotland.
 * <span style="color: rgb(175, 8, 8)">welcome to visitors including Simon Brown from Brisbane