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  • an evening of wellbeing – perfect way to celebrate #teachmeet 100!

    https://twitter.com/sgraham30/status/837364731962884098 Thanks to Paul Knox and Suzanne Graham of the PDST for a terrific evening at #tmwellbeing on March 2nd in Dublin West Education Centre. It was cool to be back in Tallaght, the location for the very first TeachMeet fadó fadó in 2009. The awful weather was forgotten inside, as about 40 teachers (all…

  • #BETT2017 – the London look

    Thanks to Joanna Norton, who invited us on a Morning of Inspiration around London on the Saturday of our BETT visit. Joanna is an Irish teacher in London, who we’d met at last year’s TeachMeet. Hassan, Pamela, Adrienne and me from Ireland, Denis from Brazil and Sharon from Scotland were Joanna’s students for this morning.…

  • Seeing Bletchley Park

    At the tail end of the BETT visit this year was a long awaited and eagerly planned “top o’ the bucket list” day trip to Bletchley Park. Even torrential rain, and a train delay at Hemel Hempstead did not dampen the excitement. The only disappointment was that we hadn’t afforded enough time to see everything,…

  • #BETT2017 – the TeachMeet

    TeachMeet BETT details 2017 on the UK wiki page TeachMeet is now a fixture in the Excel Arena on the Friday night of the BETT show. This year chief curator Drew Buddie invited Nathalie Scott and Amjad Ali to compere, and once more Martin Burret was the watchful tech supervisor and saviour (think of a Michael…

  • #BETT2017 – the show

    This year, BETT was all about the small things – simple projects that students can get stuck straight into, small bots, small enterprises. All small but lovely. The Microsoft hosted maker space was full of free-form projects like the articulated hand made from straws but coded in Arduino; Pi corner gets more inspirational every year;…

  • 💙 #TeachMeet ? Last call to add your story to the TeachMeet 10 birthday book.

    I really enjoyed a chinwag with Ian Stuart and Ewan McIntosh of Notosh last weekend at BETT. They reported that the book to celebrate ten years of TeachMeet approaching final stages of editing and sorting. The guillotine for submissions from the TeachMeet community is set to fall on February 14. So if you love TeachMeet,…

  • #CodeEU October 7-22 announced as dates for @CodeWeekEU 2017

      Details of Code Week 2017 have just been released. Here’s the ‘headline’ version: EU Code Week celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2017. To make it easier for schools to participate despite differences in holiday periods in Europe, EU Code Week will take place during two weeks 7-22 October 2017. It is already time to…

  • #Cong16 – My first visit to Cong, for CONGregation, was a delight.

    Congregation website with all details – http://congregation.ie/, including my ‘entry ticket’ blog post http://congregation.ie/blog-papers/if-teachmeet-is-the-answer.html The first thing to say about CONGregation 2016 is that the date for CONGregation 2017 is November 24-26. That is how good it was. The second thing is that if Cong is this lovely a village to visit on a wet November day,…

  • #CnMnSc – the first #Cavan #Monaghan Science Week takes place!

    Congratulations to the Library teams in Counties Cavan and Monaghan for the first iteration of Cavan-Monaghan Science Festival, held last  week to coincide with Science Week Ireland. (Is this an example of Glocalisation?) I loved the lectures on climate change, focusng on water and soil, in the library on Wednesday evening. The family day on…

  • #pracped16 – Practical Pedagogies in Toulouse

    This was a long promised trip to attend Russel Tarr’s brainchild, the Practical Pedagogies gathering in Toulouse. Over 200 attend, and well over half that number are presenters. It was worth the very roundabout journey to meet old vintage  friends and make new friends, and share ideas old and new. It was a really well-thought-out,…