Pete offered our class the opportunity to organise a Teach
Meet to get free entry to the PELeCON event and so I jumped at the chance!
Along with James Stoner and Scott Parker we
set about planning our Teach Meet.
Having only been to the BETT 2012 Teach Meet and having
spoken at that one and not taking much in due to the nervousness, we asked JCSheffield to host the event and he did a great job.
I was really nervous that the Teach Meet would be a failure –
no one would come; no one would sign up to speak; we would have computer
failure! However, despite the microphones not working, everything went smoothly
and we had some great speakers, talking about lots of different topics.
What I enjoyed most was seeing fellow ICT education specialists,
Kelly Stone, James Horne and Hannah Shelton get up and give talks. I know when I did my talk at BETT it
was a huge thing for me – public speaking is not something I had ever done –
and so I was really pleased that they gave it a go too, and they had great
reactions to their talks! Check out #TMPELeCON on Twitter to see what people had to say!
Having been to two Teach Meets, one of which I spoke at and
one of which I organised, I am looking forward to just attending the next one!
However, it looks like I am going to be organising the SWLTC Teach Meet which
is a great opportunity for me and I will be involving the PES in the running of
it as their new secretary as of September.
Being able to organise the PELeCON Teach Meet and it going
so well has been the icing on the cake of what has been a fantastic year at
university for me! :)
