06.17.10
Jollies in Blackpool! Teachmeet June 2010
A BIG THANK YOU to all the lovely teachers that I met yesterday at the Blackpool Teachmeet. I had a fantastic evening (I don’t get out much!) and catching up with all my twitter friends was great fun. @mister_jim and Tom Sale did a fantastic job organising the event and keeping the crowd (particularly the twitterville crowd) under control.
The evening began with a presentation from Professor Heppell, education online expert and hugely inspirational leader for many of our innovative teaching folk. There were so many creative ideas, presented so well and clearly well within the capacity of many non techy folk like me. It’s not hard to preach to the already converted but when you can simplify a project so that folk like me can *get it* then we know that together we can make real progress in new technologies. I can’t remember the exact order of events but, here are just a few highlights of the evening…..
Zoe Ross presenting Guilty Pleasures, illustrating her obvious natural gift of perfect comedy timing, and Bill Lord using giraffes to illustrate the amazing writing potential of our youngest learners. I love to see samples of emergent writing; it takes me back to my very happy days in the EYFS. It was also a real pleasure to meet Simon Haughton who is tireless in his capacity to give support and advice on twitter to non techies like me.
@colport, @hgjohn @zoeross19 @primarypete_ @bevevans22 @DeputyMitchell @janweb21 @simonhaughton @Joga5 @ianaddison @spanishsam @jacksloan @mynictle @jacksloan @ideas_factory @mister jim @chrisrat
Did I enjoy myself? Absolutely! I feel really privileged to know such a dedicated group of fellow teachers! And I am so looking forward to meeting my twitter friends again! Thanks again guys for a great evening out! Superstars one and all!
jfb57 said,
June 19, 2010 at 10:51 am
I must say they seem like great fun events even from the tweets etc. Glad it was as you expected!