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TeachMeet09@BETT At the moment this is a holding page, so at least we've got something to hold the fort while we gather our thoughts. If (in the meantime) you wanted something related to BETT to peruse, why not have a look at the EduBETT wiki (hosted on

TeachMeet09@BETT At the moment this is a holding page, so at least we've got something to hold the fort while we gather our thoughts. If (in the meantime) you wanted something related to BETT to peruse, why not have a look at the EduBETT wiki (hosted on

BETT '09: 2Simple do it again with 2DIY It's that time of year again when we get a chance to see the range of wonderful (and not so wonderful) educational resources on show at BETT. This years's event is as huge as ever but with the noteable exceptions of the BBC and Apple it appears. Drat, I always like to use their electric guitars with Garageband!

@parslad discusses what he found at BETT 2010 on BlipTV

Impoverishment of the Educational Imagination Posted on | January 22, 2009 | Stand after stand at the BETT Show this year seemed to bear witness to a concept of schooling that is just about as far away from the joy of learning as it appears possible to get - it could really only get worse if we were to go back to thrashing kids. Everywhere I wandered I came across little gaggles of people listening intently to someone demonstrating yet another ticky-boxy piece of junk designed to rank and grade kids, to label them, to monitor them and to 'protect' them.

BlipTV introducing MirandaMod at Bett 2010

Relections on the AmplifiED event

BETT 2010's own TEDx event

The Learning Score is a new and imaginative take on lesson-planning. Using the metaphor of a music score, Learning Score shows the planned activities for a lesson, and any multimedia attachments, as a graphical time line. Whole lesson plans can be saved, along with all the embedded resources and annotations, to be used again at a later date, or to be shared with colleagues