As someone who is pretty passionate about (purposeful) edtech and its potential to enhance learning, Google are one of only a few organisations that sit right at the heart of that passion. One of the things on my professional bucket list was to become a Google Certified Teacher. Alongside that, I've…
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The TMTakeOvers were my first ever opportunity to present at Bett 5 or so years ago and for that I'll always be very grateful. With that in mind, for me it was a real delight to catch up with their CEO Chris Bradford from BrainPOP UK on the BrainPOP stand and do another…
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As I zipped over to the #BettFutures stand trying to politely dodge the sales pitches and get there on time, I could see as I grew closer that a big crowd had formed there already. Over the years I've become progressively more confident to talking in front of others. Those of…
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I was delighted when one of most important people to me in my PLN, Martin Burrett @ICTMagic invited me to be interviewed for UKEdChat and to meet folk on the RM stand. I'll always remember one of the first meetings I had with Martin on the very same stand at Bett in 2013.…
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Bett this year has been a lovely, affirming, sharing and fabulous opportunity to connect and re-connect with some of the most innovative and passionate educators in the world. I was humbled to be asked by a number of people to speak and share my thoughts across my visit on Friday.…
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I love the Bett Show. When I first attended well over a decade ago I wasn't that engaged. It was all companies trying to sell me things and it wasn't really anything that was special for me. Nowadays it's a completely different story... There are learn live theatres with seminars, discussion…
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Whilst I'll write a longer post soon about the inspiration from the day today at Berkhamsted's "Teaching, Learning & Assessment" conference yesterday, I did say that I would put up my presentation and resources from the session. So here they are: My presentation: TLAB '13 I also spoke about a…
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It was a great feeling when I got the email through saying that my proposal to BETT had been accepted for us to talk about Digital Leaders at BETT this year. I was hopeful we'd get a slot, but wasn't sure. As soon as I found out we'd been accepted,…
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After a pretty long trek up to Newcastle Uni for the event, I arrived with the usual nervous excitement that always comes before an event of this nature. What I was presented with was yet another fantastic group of teachers giving up their time and weekend to share their experiences,…
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Pleasingly, I have been able to track down 3 more videos from #JuicyLearning at the last #TMClevedon. Unfortunately, the clips of me and of Jim Smith haven't seen the light of day - they'll forever be one of those, "you had to be there" moments, but for now.... here are…
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