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BETT 2010 - a busy time this week

Last year's MirandaMod discussions at BETT

Every year I have spent less and less time walking around the stands at BETT and devoted more and more time to networking and building video and audio archive resources around people and groups met during the show.

For me the exhibition is about communities of practice - renewal of contact with a wide and growing Twitter tribe in education and general catching up what people are doing in all the areas of techEd around the country.

This year is no exception and I’ll be covering more events than ever using video, armed with a new Canon Ixus 120 IS and quick encoding software to broadcast live streaming and upload vox pops updates of interviews with key people on the fly - wrapping it all in YouTube, Blip and Twitter and eduTalk to give a growing measure of innovation happening at the exhibition.

I will be streaming and filming a lot of social activity. Every day I’ll be at the Open Source Schools Barcamp at stand :

http://opensourceschools.org.uk/node/14108

I’ll be taking constant video vox pops of the speakers there and on the afternoons of Wednesday and Thursday from 15.30 onwards I’ll be streaming out the MirandaMod discussions.

http://mirandamod.wikispaces.com/BETT+2010

Not content with that I’ll be bringing 4 video cameras to all the evening events to capture the TedEx, AmpEd and TeachMeet events for archival and professional development use.

WEDNESDAY http://tedxorenda.eventbrite.com/

THURSDAY http://amplified10.eventbrite.com/

FRIDAY http://www.teachmeet.org.uk/

I will be most interested in the AmpEd meeting on Thursday as it is will be one that, together with TedEx, begins to break the TeachMeet mould. All events should be quite amazing and will be covered in depth. This year should see the beginnings of a radical takeoff of ideas and new management systems in the education world with regard to innovative uses of technology;  the BETT show and all the “fringe” events including the new TeachMeet takeover should be an interesting platform for new activity and discussion and debate in these areas.

I’ll blog separately about Amplified Education later but that’s the general plan. So if you see me struggling around with loads of kit I’ll probably be running from one event to the other or desperately trying to upload vid and audio to the various outlets during the show.

It looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun…

So if you fancy catching up at any of these events I’ll be around with camera and recorders - say hello in passing

Here’s a link to a quick Wiki MindMap of the social activity going on at BETT