I had a brief window yesterday morning and headed for Olympia to see what was new at the British Education and Training Technology - (BETT) Show.
BETT 2010
By the way, if you just took that link to the BETT page above this photo, you’ll see that the second half of it was written by the late Richard Fothergill, Director, Microelectronics Education Programme.
A year after he passed away, we received a call from one of his daughters and I went to Richard’s home in Northumberland to pick up his collection of artifacts, which we now house in the National Archive of Educational Computing.
Anyway, BETT this year, was as busy as ever and my main reason for going, apart from catching up with old friends and colleagues, was to view the VITAL stand. Vital is a joint OU / eSkills project that offers an
innovative professional development programme, which aims to support schools in England to make the most of ICT in their teaching
Core Education, in the form of Malcolm Moss and myself, have been working on the virtual side of this Vital Project and in preparation for its’ launch last Wednesday at BETT, have provided a variety of Case Studies, Showcases and bite size CPD springboards. Already there has been huge interest in this professional development portal. We have also set up the hotseat schedule and next week this kicks off with Ollie Bray, the National Adviser for Learning and Technology Futures at Learning and Teaching Scotland. He will be talking about the changing landscape of learning and it begins on the 18th January.
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