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! :)
The teach meet was really good, amazing organisation. I'm looking forward to our plymouth education society team next year!
ReplyDeleteThanks Hannah. I know, I can't wait to make PES have a great year! :)
DeleteI'm glad it went well Amy & was only sorry I had to leave early. I had put myself forward to present but as the audience was very similar to the afternoon I didn't want to bore them!
ReplyDeleteWell done & I'm glad the year has been good.
Cheeky question: Will you be doing you 100WC now?
Julia ( @theheadsoffice)
Thanks very much Julia. I saw your earlier talk and really enjoyed it. I will definitely take 100WC on again! I start my first week of placement on Monday so I will probably want to focus on that this week but could start again the week after!
DeleteAmy
Really enjoyed this event, thanks! One of the things that struck me the most was that often TeachMeets are about great ideas, but have little backing in research. I was so impressed and excited to see student teachers presenting research projects and their findings at the TeachMeet, and reflecting on the lessons for all of us that this research has for our teaching.
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