Teachmeet
BETT took place on the Friday evening of BETT 2009. Although the BETT
Teachmeet was the biggest one I have ever attended and my first Teachmeet
outside Scotland.
I would still stick by my famous TESS quote and say that it is one of the most valuable events on the CPD calendar.
I’m not
going to go into to much detail about the content of Teachmeet BETT 2009. Just
Google it and you will see lots of great posts that have already been written
about the event. One
of my favourites is Alan Parkinson’s summary. It captures the event with Alan’s
normal dry sense of wit and humour (I’m just pleased he lent me his laptop!)
As well as
catching up with lots of familiar faces and some people who I had never met
before the highlights of the evening for me were:
John Davitt demonstrating his Random Activities Generator (RAG) – I’m looking forward to trying this out on the iPhone. John also showed us his Learning Score resource, which looks like a useful planning tool.
- Drew Buddie reminded me
about Glogster – a great way to produce
nice looking posters and other stuff.
- Ian Usher showed off Microsoft
ZoomIt. ZoomIt lets you draw or write free-hand on the desktop screen in
various colours. You can also pan like an on-screen camera or magnify any area
of the desktop using either the mouse wheel or the arrow keys.
- Greg Hodsgon presenting on Photoshop Tennis – a great idea and very funny!
- Ian Stuart also presented (one and a half times?) live from Islay about the 2020 Islay Unconference that is scheduled for June.
All in all it was an excellent evening
and one of the highlights of BETT 2009 for me. So a huge thanks to all the
organisers and all the sponsors. Great work and a great evening.
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