Rules for talks

• Micro-presentations are strictly seven minutes long, nano-presentations two minutes long.
• No PowerPoint allowed... unless... you're doing 20 slides for 20 seconds each (pecha kucha style - pecha kucha article).
• Please make sure that what you're showing has actually been done in your classroom or a classroom of a colleague - this isn't blue skies, this is right here, right now stuff.
• If you're using the web, make sure you save a copy of your tabs in Firefox, just in case it all goes down. ScrapBook is a great add-on to do this easily.
• One rule which could work is designed to address the "no selling" policy - i.e. that presentations cannot simply be a condensed sales pitch. Essentially, whoever's hosting the TeachMeet requests that people watching the current presentation should raise their hand (or maybe use an online channel) to indicate that they think they're hearing a sales pitch. What needs to be agreed beforehand is a threshold of how many people in the room are required to indicate this. This might be 10% of those present (probably too low), or maybe 50% of those present. Having more than a few people required prevents commercial competitors who may be in the room (at something like BETT or SLF or a trade show) from simply vetoing the presentation of another company's representative, even if it's valid classroom practice. Once this threshold is reached, the presenter can either ask the presenter to stop, or suggest that they move immediately to examples of classroom practice, otherwise the presentation will end.