Well it came and it went and it was everything we hoped it would be.
Our first Education show was a marvel; huge, diverse and full of amazing people from every area of UK education. We met teachers, deputes, heads, governors, nursery teachers, special needs teachers, carers, parents, ICT coordinators, probationers, parents and of course…pupils.
I had the pleasure of watching Lisa Stevens (tw: lisibo) talk about lighting up learning in languages using everything from puppets, plastic fruit and cloth bags to TV adverts Web 2.0 tools.
I marvelled at Ollie Bray (tw: olliebray) who talked for 45 minutes seemingly without breathing about Google Earth and a wide variety of ‘mashups’ that can be used to enhance almost any area of the curriculum.
I met Joe Dale (tw: joedale) who I have been following since my introduction to Twitter. We threw together a quick audio recording on our Teach-It which will be made available soon (watch this space) and I also bumped into Tim Rylands (tw: timrylands) and look forward to seeing him again at the Games Based Learning ‘BMobile’ event in Bradford in May 2010.
Still working our way through all the contacts we made and those interested in the Teach-It. We had a massive interest and look forward to working closely with a huge number of authorities in England very soon.
and Finally, we had a Nintendo DS ‘Brain Training’ competition. 10 simple sums using ‘Brain Training’. The results are to be announced shortly but all I can say is that it was a primary school pupil who smashed the records set at 38 seconds, 28 seconds and 25 seconds with an amazing 17 seconds!!!
We’d also like to comment on the noticable and heartwarming welcome we received by everyone in Birmingham from staff and visitors to the show to shop keepers, taxi drivers and even the night crawlers in Birmingham city.
What an amazing city…we will definately be visiting again!
