After the Conference

Posted on | January 18, 2010 | 2 Comments

BETT Show, photo by Danny Nicholson¹

Last week was BETT 2010, the British Education and Training Technology conference, in London — arguably the largest education and technology conference in the world. I have not attended one, but it is one of my goals to do just that. Although we are all facing similar problems and challenges in education, Great Britain is in a different place from us, in the U.S.

Terry Freedman, with whom I will be working in Singapore at the iCTLT conference in March, wrote a very useful list of 7 Things to Do After the BETT Show — or any ed tech conference. Here is an shamefully abbreviated version, so please go to Terry’s ICT in Education blog to read it in full.

Meet with your team members
Draw up an action plan
Meet with your Headteacher or Principal — and be prepared
Share with school staff
Listen out for suppliers, with whom you shared your business card
Find out what others thought (read blogs and Twitter bytes), and
Well, read Terry’s blog.

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Comments

Terry Freedman posted the following on January 18, 2010 at 1:18 pm.
It’s very flattering that you should quote from my article (http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/2010/1/18/7-things-to-do-after-the-bett-show.html for the original full version!), and you have reminded me of what I forgot to say: that those BETT tips are applicable to ANY conference.

You absolutely MUST visit BETT next year: 30,000 visitors this year. Look out for BETT HIghlights #3!
Cheers
Terry
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1. David Warlick posted the following on January 20, 2010 at 8:12 am.
  Looking forward to chatting in Singapore, Terry…
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