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tmel10 is done and dusted

07/02/2010 TeachMeet One comment

It’s done. The first TeachMeet East Lothian has been and gone. On Thursday evening, the Sea Bird Centre filled with lots of expectant faces – many of whom seemed quite unsure what exactly they’d signed up for. I was really pleased with the way it went. We started quite late for a couple of unforeseen reasons, so the presentations had to be crammed into the remaining 1.5 hours. The presentations were all fab and extremely interesting – but there wasn’t much time for folk to talk and network which was a shame. We also had some twitcam problems, so I’m not sure how much people who weren’t there could see. Despite these issues, I was pleased to see that the evaluations were so positive.

I’ve embedded my own presentation from the evening below…you can also listen to it here.

Despite the rollercoaster ride of piecing this event together, I’m extremely pleased with the result. I’ve now completed my pledge from TeachMeet SLF09, and I really hope that someone will step forward to lead next year’s TeachMeet East Lothian :)

I really must extend a huge thank you to the sponsors, especially the Scottish Sea Bird Centre, my partners in crime, the presenters and of course everyone for coming!

TeachMeet in East Lothian

11/11/2009 TeachMeet No comments

It is time. TeachMeet is coming to East Lothian. It’s about time the teachers of East Lothian got together to have our own TeachMeet.

What is TeachMeet? TeachMeet is an informal gathering of teachers. The idea is to network and share ideas. Anyone can come. Anyone can present. Ideally, these presentations should be about what’s going on in classrooms.

What’s with the CfE tagline? TeachMeets have often focused on the use of ICT in classrooms in the past. While this is clearly important, we’d like to try and broaden the spectrum a little for our TeachMeet. We’d like to encourage presentations on any new ideas teachers have been trying out in our classrooms, whether they involve technology or not. This is why we’ve given our TeachMeet the ‘curriculumforexcellenceedition’ tag line.

When and where is it? It’s on Thursday 4th February 2010 from 6pm to 8pm at the Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick.

What can I do? You can just come along and listen and chat, please sign up though. You could sign up to give a 2 minute presentation, or even a 7 minute presentation. Or, you could sponsor the event.

I hope this all makes sense, if not please give me a shout.

See you there?