Wow, I survived Bett! After a very easy journey I arrived at Bett and walked in...HUGE...where do I start, what to look at first? There seemed to be no maps left so I wandered without a plan....much the best way mebbe.
The best thing for me was a brilliant seminar given by Victoria Crivelli on Friday afternoon, she's a Senior Specialist Teacher in Dyslexia and ICT Learning Support in Worcestershire. She really made me think about how it is to be a dyslexic child. Do I do enough I found myself thinking? Some of the things she talked about require no special software... using sassoon infants font, spacing out the lines, using a coloured background - anything but white - putting sound clips into my ppts so a dyslexic child can hear the text as well as see it, use the IWB spotlight more or use the screenshade tool...etc etc - Simple things that we could all do. She also used a coloured reading ruler on the IWB, I think it must be this one here but maybe you know of something elsewhere, if you do please leave a comment and let me know!
Her demonstrations of Claroread and Clicker 5 were also thought provoking as was her data about how these have impacted on the standards - and interest in learning - in her experience. There was an amazing 'live scribe pen' - found here - that records as it writes using pixellated paper...wow!
I also loved the presentation given by Tim Rylands along with Simon Widdowson and Kevin McLaughlin.
It was a joy to watch people present with such enthusiasm and passion for what they do. Their work using Epic Citadel was fantastic!
Mouse Mischief is a new tool from Microsoft that looks both fun and exciting! It was demonstrated on their stand by Dan Roberts and his colleague Stuart Ball with a 'live' demo at the end. Basically it can help you to make your ppts more interactive...I shall try this very soon!
Philip Armstrong from the wonderful 2Simple (what a buzz there was around their stall!) gave us a brilliantly clear demo of Purplemash and their extended version of this....thank you.
The teachmeet on Friday evening was also buzzing, around 250 people attended which was slightly scarey as I'd put my name down to present. So many wonderful presentations with new ideas for me to take away and think about as well as much wit and humour - especially from Dughall McCormick and Zoe Ross! My name didn't come up to present in the end which was slightly disappointing as I'd 'geared myself up' to go for it...always another teachmeet though!
It was great to put faces to so many tweeters, many I had met before but there were also lots of new ones...great to meet you all, thank you for all the new ideas and roll on next year!
The best thing for me was a brilliant seminar given by Victoria Crivelli on Friday afternoon, she's a Senior Specialist Teacher in Dyslexia and ICT Learning Support in Worcestershire. She really made me think about how it is to be a dyslexic child. Do I do enough I found myself thinking? Some of the things she talked about require no special software... using sassoon infants font, spacing out the lines, using a coloured background - anything but white - putting sound clips into my ppts so a dyslexic child can hear the text as well as see it, use the IWB spotlight more or use the screenshade tool...etc etc - Simple things that we could all do. She also used a coloured reading ruler on the IWB, I think it must be this one here but maybe you know of something elsewhere, if you do please leave a comment and let me know!
Her demonstrations of Claroread and Clicker 5 were also thought provoking as was her data about how these have impacted on the standards - and interest in learning - in her experience. There was an amazing 'live scribe pen' - found here - that records as it writes using pixellated paper...wow!
I also loved the presentation given by Tim Rylands along with Simon Widdowson and Kevin McLaughlin.
It was a joy to watch people present with such enthusiasm and passion for what they do. Their work using Epic Citadel was fantastic!
Mouse Mischief is a new tool from Microsoft that looks both fun and exciting! It was demonstrated on their stand by Dan Roberts and his colleague Stuart Ball with a 'live' demo at the end. Basically it can help you to make your ppts more interactive...I shall try this very soon!
Philip Armstrong from the wonderful 2Simple (what a buzz there was around their stall!) gave us a brilliantly clear demo of Purplemash and their extended version of this....thank you.
The teachmeet on Friday evening was also buzzing, around 250 people attended which was slightly scarey as I'd put my name down to present. So many wonderful presentations with new ideas for me to take away and think about as well as much wit and humour - especially from Dughall McCormick and Zoe Ross! My name didn't come up to present in the end which was slightly disappointing as I'd 'geared myself up' to go for it...always another teachmeet though!
It was great to put faces to so many tweeters, many I had met before but there were also lots of new ones...great to meet you all, thank you for all the new ideas and roll on next year!
