A little bit more geeky every day

Wow! How quickly did this happen?! I am very excited to be a small part of the Teach Meet Takeover plans for BETT 10. I promised on @tombarrett’s blog and on the wiki, that I would put up an idea as to the layout of the Scholastic stand (G40) so that you have a clue what you have to work with when talking.

• There is a large stage/presentation area
• There are two plasma screens with these, we are aiming to tick over a couple of slides to show who is talking at the time.
• There will be an Promethean interactive whiteboard.
• There is a lecturn area housing a PA system and the laptops.
• The PA system has a couple of radio mic’s  /  CD-player etc.
• Internet connection
• If there is anything else that is needed, let me know.

For other presentations on the stand, I was planning on recording and uploading to YouTube – I am more than happy to do the same for #tmtakeover – and equally happy to put the camera in a box and lock the lid!

As mentioned on Tom’s blog, when I was talking to Tom about this last week, I was very conscious of the concern about commercialism, and expectation about being sold things. One of the best things about TM (from a non-teacher perspective, but someone very interested in education) is that teachers inspire other teachers, without a hint of bias or overt commercialism, and I wouldn’t want that to be watered down at all.  I am more than happy to look at what we can do to ensure independence and to try to mitigate the thoughts from people that they are being sold to.  Now as you can see, it will be tough to take down the Scholastic logos, but I am happy to put up the #tmtakeover logo onto the plasma screens either side of the whiteboard (and on the iwb if that isn’t going to be used!), and to hand out fliers to explain what TM is all about. Let me know! You can get to me through twitter, skype (c.ratcliffe), email, smoke signals…