TeachMeetSE09

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TeachMeet Student Edition is the first TeachMeet specifically designed for student teachers and teachers in their probationary year. It’s a self-organising “unconference” which was proposed by David Muir at Strathclyde University.

 

• If you are happy to share ideas with other teachers; TeachMeet is for you.
• If you want to hear colleagues inspire you with new ideas; TeachMeet is for you.
• If you want to meet fellow student teachers to chat and make new friends; TeachMeet is for you.

 

Tag blog posts, Tweets, phots etc. with tmse09. This way we can track and collate all things related to TeachMeet SE.

 

When and where?

 

Tuesday 9th June 2009 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm with a meal afterwards for those who are interested (see TeachEat below).

 

Venue now confirmed as Room MCC3 in the McCance Building, 16 Richmond Street, Glasgow, G1 1XQ. See Google Map (and street view) or fly to the location in Google Earth.

 

More about the venue: A lecture theatre was booked but since we are not allowed food and drink in the lecture theatre, I booked the conservatory outside too. Having visited the space, it looks like it might be better to run the whole event in the conservatory! (See venue photos page.) This means some extra equipment will be necessary, so I have started a list in the Bringalongers section below. Please help if you can.

 

 

What is TeachMeet?

 

Learn something new, be amazed, amused and enthused. This is an informal gathering of those curious about technologies. Anyone can share cool ideas they have or great ideas they've trialled in their classrooms.

 

 

What can you do?   

 

You can come along to linger, loiter, contribute, chat, meet new people, or 'give a seven minute talk' or a 'two minute nano presentation'.

 

Rules for the talk:

• It's only seven minutes long
• Your setup is part of the seven minutes
• Tell us about something you have done or something you saw while teaching

 

To get involved in any of the TeachMeets on this wiki you will need to create an account with PBworks, after that anyone can edit the pages, which means you can sign up for anything here.

 

Seven minute micropresentations or roundtables

 

Add your name {If you have a web page/blog/social networking site, make our name a link}

 

1. Neil Winton (twitter) - Wikis For Fame, Fortune, Chocolate and A Sticky End! OR Seven Tools in Seven Minutes OR What it's Like To Be A Prob Mentor! See links to the seven resources.
2. Stuart Meldrum (twitter) - How to survive the rollercoaster that is your probation year - or how to avoid the mistakes I made. More than happy to give up my slot to a student if needed. - blog post of things I said.
3.  Iain Hallahan (Twitter) -  Rolling with the punches and seizing the day - from primary probationer to secondary ASN teacher
4. Cassie Law (Twitter) - A probationer teacher's experience of giving P5 children an online space via a class blog and their own individual wikis and blogs.
5. Jaye Richards  Building your PLN. Tips for new teachers on how to start and build a professional learning network.
6. Gordon Brown Support for probationers from SQA
7. Sarah Bell - A small example of how a wiki could be used inside (and outside) the classroom.
8. Krysia Smyth - The Class from Hell. (I'm coming back through from working in Edinburgh so might be late)
9. David Noble - Blogs, blogging, and professional learning. Links are here.
10. Glasgow Maths PGDE students - Pamela Tinney, Julie Arrol and Geraldine Maguire - Using ning to support each other through placements, and hopefully the probation year. Link to presentation.
11. Katie Barrowman - Have a quick look at what teachers have been doing on Glow.

 

To add your name you will need to create an account with PBWorks and then click the EDIT link on the tab at the top of the page.

 

 

Two minute nano presentations

 

Add your name {If you have a web page/blog/social networking site, make our name a link}

 

1. David Muir - Four Capacities: The Musical. Download a Powerpoint show of the lyrics for the Four Capacities song or watch the video.
2. John Daly - Fantastic Contraptions
3. Francis Dickson - Robot army recruitment and deployment

 

To add your name you will need to create an account with PBWorks and then click the EDIT link on the tab at the top of the page.

 

 

Enthusiastic Lurkers

 

You don't have to volunteer to present, you can just turn up, have a drink and a nibble, chat and learn!

 

Add your name {If you have a web page/blog/social networking site, make our name a link}

 

1. Chris White
2. Jo Peart
3. Vince Bruce
4. Jenna Clayton
5. Colin Schafer ..... hoping to make it twitter @ColinSchafer
6. Kirsty Coid
7. C Blacklock (Geog/MS probationer in the Borders)
8. Alan Yeoman twitter @simple_alan
9. Margaret Vass  twitter @mvass
10. Marie-Clare Kelly twitter @ninjabiscuitMC
11. Ann Connelly
12. Louise Lough
13. John Rodgers (East Renfrewshire Probationer, 09/10)
14. Kenneth McLaughlin - Twitter @ICT_Echo
15. Martin McGee
16. Ryan McAllister
17. Katy MacDougall
18. Carol Collins
19. Caroline Gibson (Hoping to make it, but I have a twilight to go to. Happy to do a presenation if I get there)
20. Dave Owens
21. Alex Wotherspoon
22. Beth Anderson
23. Katie Maxwell
24. Annette Iafrate
25. Alison Filshie
26. Karry-Anne McCrum
27. Cate Mackay
28. Kevin Johnson
29. Fiona Smith
30. Marc McLean
31. Robert Ferguson
32. Scott MacKinnon
33. Alicia Campbell
34. Craig Byers
35. Steven Wilkinson
36. Michael Rossi
37. Danny Barron (twitter @dannyb1984)
38. Erica Young
39. Francis Dickson
40. Barry Whelan
41. Rob O'Neil
42. Louise Traynor (Fife probationer - 09/10)

 

To add your name you will need to create an account with PBWorks and then click the EDIT link on the tab at the top of the page.

 

 

Flashmeeting

 

For those who can't make it in person, we are hosting a flashmeeting. Click here to join (17:40 - 20:40). Limited to 25 attendees, so please add your name below to indicate if you plan to attend via flashmeeting.  For those unfamiliar with the Flashmeeting environment, there is a quick introduction available here.

 

1. Sinclair Mackenzie (twitter: @mrmackenzie / web: fizzics) - if allowed?
2. Adam Stevens (@ahstevens) - would love to attend in person, but probably won't make it.
3. Russell Dyas (@russdev)

 

TeachEat

 

If we end up in the Graham Hills Building, there are loads of good places to eat nearby in the Merchant City.  Suggestions for places to eat:

 

• Khublai Khan - Mongolian Barbeque Restaurant. A previous TeachMeet ate here. Good relaxed atmosphere but perhaps not ideal for vegitarians.
• Cafe India - An Indian restaurant (surprisingly enough!). Went there with a group of students last year and everyone seemed to enjoy it.

 

Cast your vote now to help choose the venue.

 

Update: The votes are in and three-quarters of those who voted went for Khublai Khan. Table(s) now booked. They have to close the bar-b-que at 10:30 on weekdays so they suggested that we get there ASAP! :-)

 

Add your name if you are interested in a TeachEat. {If you have a web page/blog/social networking site, make our name a link}

 

1. Pamela Tinney
2. Geraldine Maguire
3. J Arrol
4. Chris White
5. Jo Peart
6. David Muir (Twitter: @DavidDMuir)
7. Stuart Meldrum (twitter: @stuartmeldrum) 
8.  Iain Hallahan (twitter:@don_iain)
9. Jenna Clayton
10. Gordon Brown (twitter: @gbrown057)
11. Jaye Richards
12. John Daly
13. Marie-Clare Kelly (twitter @ninjabiscuitMC), and I'm happy with either food place...
14. Ann Connelly
15. C. Blacklock
16. Ryan McAllister
17. Krysia Smyth
18. Margaret Vass
19. Cassie Law 
20. Kevin Johnson
21. Steven Wilkinson
22. Sarah Bell
23. Barry Whelan

 

To add your name you will need to create an account with PBWorks and then click the EDIT link on the tab at the top of the page.

 

 

Sponsors

 

We are pleased to announce that ATL, the education union, are supprting TeachMeet Student Edition and will be sponsoring the refreshments and nibbles that will be available at the TeachMeet.

 

Other suggestions for sponsors gratefully accepted.

 

Spent some time this evening trying to sort out some kind of sponsorship for the event, including unions, and a few private companies. It would be a massive help to me in this if people who know could help fill in this spreadsheet of expenses for the event, that way we can balance those against any potential donations and keep everything above board. The spreadsheet is here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rvHaEx6LcGDwL6AGT8epzvw&hl=en_GB# (google account required)

[John Daly]

 

Bringeralongers

 

Without people to help out a teachmeet cannot happen, if you can provide something like a projector, a laptop, some beers, money, or simply be willing to help move tables and chairs around then please let us know.

 

There are a few things we need, please add your name beside the request if you can bring any of these:

 

1. One, possibly two, data projectors - Alan Yeoman (Only one projector)  Jaye Richards - one projector
2. Two, possibly three, projector screens - Alan Yeoman (one screen)
3. Extension leads (and gaffer tape to tape them down!) Alan Yeoman - couple of extensions and a rol of tape
4. A sound system? (no amplification in the conservatory but probably OK if we all use "teacher voices") Alan Yeoman - can bring speakers for laptop but no mics.  --might be able to get a PA PA mics, stands, speakers etc. Will see what I can do and report back [John Daly] (School need the Coomber tomorrow, and I've got no way to get it back so no can do I'm afraid - Iain Hallahan)
5. Someone to look after the flashmeeting laptop Iain Hallahan - I'll look after the FM laptop. Seems only fair - I've been on the other end often enough.....
6. Signage - A4 posters with logo and arrows: versions with left, right, up, diagonal up left and diagonal up right (perhaps five of each). Also signs for Gents and Ladies toilets with arrows again (perhaps three of each). --Got a guy working on it; might need some help getting them printed off though [John Daly]
7. Make better posters to advertise TeachMeet Student Edition! A3 version: tmse90A3.doc and A4 version: tmse90A4.doc Can someone please make better versions! [This is a quickly rehashed version of something poor I made for TeachMeetBorders, if you like it I have the PSD file]
8. ... more will be added here as I think about it. :-)

 

 

Twitter

 

If Twitter users amongst the sign-ups to this page could add their usernames below? There will be a Twitter backchannel on the night but people might like to monitor Twitter activity before, during and after the event. If we use the #tmse09 hashtag whenever we Tweet about this TeachMeet, it will make it easier to track what's going on. See what people are saying on Twitter about #TMSE09 right now by clicking here

 

Add your name:

 

1. David Muir - DavidDMuir
2. Judith Toland - http://twitter.com/saint_jude
3. Iain Hallahan - don_iain
4. Stuart Meldrum - stuartmeldrum
5. Kenneth McLaughlin - ICT-echo
6. Neil Winton - nwinton
7. Alan Yeoman - simple_alan
8. Gordon Brown - gbrown057
9. John Daly - dalzinho
10. Marie-Clare Kelly - ninjabiscuitMC
11. Krysia Smyth - krysiaS
12. Jaye Richards  jayerichards
13. Danny Barron @dannyb1984
14. Julie Arrol - jarrol

 

To add your name you will need to create an account with PBWorks and then click the EDIT link on the tab at the top of the page.