It was nice to finally meet Stuart Ball (pictures right above) from the UK Microsoft
Innovative Teachers Network at BETT 2009.
We have spoken on the phone before, exchanged emails and tweets. It was also nice to briefly
meet Kristen Weatherby (Microsoft) and Dan
Roberts (pictured left above), who was one of last years Innovative
Teachers World Wide Semi Finalists.
I won an Innovative Teacher Award for a Virtual Classroom Tour back in 2006 for work that I had done on developing a set of Geography Revision Podcasts. I called the project GEOCASTS and it was pretty successful and quite cutting edge at the time. This particular resource is now hosted by my friends at do-be, who always tell me that the resource is still very popular. You can still download all the GEOCAST mp3 and mv4 files from the do-be website. I’m also keen to revisit this method of distributing content to children later in the New Year.
The Microsoft Innovative
Teacher Network connects a global community of educators who share a common
interest in enhancing teaching and learning through the use of
technology. It’s free to join the network
and there are lots of interesting ideas and resources within the community
portal.
You can follow the up-dates
from the UK
Innovative Teachers Network on their Blog.
Ollie, you can now get an 'ITN' webpart for use within share point.
Posted by: Steve Beard | January 19, 2009 at 07:41 PM