TeachMeet+Belfast+-+March+2012

="We are the People that we have been waiting for..."=

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Directions:=== [|Stranmillis University College, Belfast]

Please sign up below to register interest in attending TeachMeet Belfast on Friday 2 March 2012, either as a presenter or a lurker! If you can't attend, we hope to live stream the event and have a recording available for download afterwards.
 * Presentation of ideas should be either 2 minutes or 7 minutes in length.**


 * NOTE THAT PRESENTATIONS DO NOT NEED TO BE ICT-THEMED**

There will be a social gathering after the TeachMeet, to which __//everyone//__ is invited.
TeachMeet Belfast would like to acknowledge the help and continuing support of **Tom Jackson from Microsoft Ireland ** (N & S) for organising the facilites within Stranmillis College.


 * WE HAVE MOVED COMPANIES FROM HAVING A PRESENTING SLOT TO POSSIBLY HAVING DISPLAY STANDS IN THE RECEPTION AREA FOR PEOPLE TO BROWSE UPON ARRIVAL - PLEASE REMOVE YOURSELF IF YOU DON'T WISH TO DO THIS **
 * We are keen to keep this by teachers, for teachers, the same as every other Teach Meet in the UK **

What is a TeachMeet?
Many thanks to our friends at BrainPOP for this excellent video! media type="youtube" key="r5iCYzDQX00?rel=0" height="315" width="420" align="left"

It's now getting close to the actual TeachMeet and we hope presenters are getting organised for the 'Big Event.' If you are thinking of giving a quick presentation but haven't registered on the presenters page, please do so or contact one of us to organise it for you. Similarly, please register as a 'Lurker' / attendee as well.

In the meantime, below is a great YouTube video by Danny Nicholson about the use of Interctive Whiteboards for lesson starters. It may give you some ideas about what we are hoping to achieve in the Meet - great ideas used by teachers and shared by teachers. Danny has recorded the presentation on his computer, you don't have too! media type="youtube" key="ZBk66Oh3Lc8" height="213" width="319" align="left"

Below is another video from the TeachMeet Hants website (www.teachmeethants.co.uk) showing a presentation by Nikki Davies on the teaching of RE - just to demonstrate that it doesn't all have to be technology based sharing of good practice. (Credits to Mike McSharry)

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Finally, it would also be great to have any Presentations available before the TeachMeet so that we can have them available on a page on the Wiki for people to access during and after event. We will be contacting our confirmed presenters above to organise this!

SPONSORS It would be impossible to organise out TeachMeet without people and companies who are supplying prizes for our raffles and items for our 'Goodie Bags.'To this end we would like to express our eternal thanks and gratitude to:





STANDS
 * 1) Tom Jackson @tjinbelfast - happy to share what programmes and content is available from the Microsoft Partners in Learning Programme
 * 2) [|MOMENTUM] - The ICT Federation for Northern Ireland and Delivery Agent for DEL in "[|Bring IT On]" - especially interested in the sharing of resources between schools, the adoption of ICT in non-ICT subjects and the STEM agenda. We are very proud to be sponsoring this first event and helping the local network of social media-aware educators.
 * 3) iTeach @iteach_ukHappy to share our experiences of schools around NI deploying iPads in the classroom
 * 4) [|Digital Circle] - the Digital Media Industry in Northern Ireland [|@digitalcircle]- regarding technology in education and developers and careers and opportunities for students in digital media careers
 * 5) Joel Kerr - @synergylearning - We provide services based around open source elearning software particularly Moodle and Mahara
 * 6) British Coucil
 * 7) UniCycle - Uniform recycling
 * 8) Omnisoft - GameToLearn
 * 9) Pearson Education - Suppliers of books and resources to schools
 * 10) WholeSchoolTV - School web solutions

We're also wishing to establish a database of NI Educators who are part of the NI 'Twitterati' and who might be interested in extending their Professional Development. Please feel free to add details and share this with colleagues who might be interested. Click here and add your information to our Google Doc.
 * NI EDUCATORS**