Category: stories
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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,…
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#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…
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#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;…
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💙 #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,…
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#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…
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#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,…
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#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…
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#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,…
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#molfeasa at #SCoTENS2016
The Standing Committee on Teacher Education North and South (that is one very long name!) conference was in Armagh City this year. I was delighted to be invited to take part. There was a pre-conference audience for researchers with Etienne Wenger-Trayner, “Communities of Practice” expert. This went on for quite a long time longer than planned, because of…
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#nextgenDL – caring is sharing
The Next Generation: Digital Learning Symposium at DC last Tuesday had a rather complicated and unwieldy title, but it unfolded into something simple and useful – a day for ‘scholarly professionals’ to show and share what they care about. The day had a good mix of round table and panel-led discussions, breakouts for shorter presentations,…