Thursday 3rd March 2011 6:00pm - 8.30pm 

The Open University in the North East, 3rd Floor, Hawks Road, Gateshead

(please note the building postcode NE8 3DF may give an error in Sat Nav and Google Maps - a more accurate postcode is NE8 3BE)

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After the great success of the TeachmeetNE events last year, we are back with an important focus.  The Department for Education has called for evidence for a National Curriculum Review.  We would like to offer this opportunity to meet and share the best of what is happening in the classrooms and consider how it may contribute to a new national curriculum.

Based in the Open University's spacious top floor, with commanding views of the Quayside, snacks and drinks will keep the creative juices flowing! Please feel free to bring along your laptop or iphone to share your resources and tweet along. There will be free wifi and we would encourage anyone who blogs or Twitters to do so during the evening so our virtual friends can join in.

This Teachmeet is part of a series of events all happening on 3rd March.  For more details check out the Learning without Frontiers site

Contribute to the national wiki too!

If you wish to attend, you need to sign up to one of the categories below to gain entry on the night. Problems? E-mail Steve Bunce here.

To sign up, create a free account and log in, then select EDIT at the top of the page                               

Programme

     6:00 - 6:30  Arrive, snack, drink, discuss

     6:30 - 7:30  Micropresentations (7 min. and 2 min.)

     7:30 - 7:45  Break

     7:45 - 8:15  National Curriculum Review - what should go in and what should go out?

     8:15 - 8:30  Guest Keynote: Shell Terrell - a view from outside the UK 

You can come along to chat, meet new people, or give a seven minute talk, a two minute nano presentation or lead a conversation.

Twitter #ncr11ne

Seven minute micropresentations - '...and this should be in the curriculum because...'

Add your name and what you may talk about below. YOUR TALK MUST BE ABOUT EXPERIENCES OF WORK IN CLASSROOMS. Don't bother if it is just about showcasing a product.

1. Simon Finch (@simfin) Reluctant writers - a recipe for disaster

2. Chris Harte (@charte) - why learn skills when knowledge is enough? Qwiki, Google Translate and Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

3. Peter Hirst @every1speaks 'Confidence to speak out' 

4. Alasdair Douglas Literacy and Skateboarding

5. Ray Tolley changing face of teaching and learning

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Two minute nano presentations - '...and this should be in the curriculum because...'

Add your name and what you may talk about below. YOUR TALK MUST BE ABOUT EXPERIENCES OF WORK IN CLASSROOMS. Don't bother if it is just about showcasing a product.

1. Steve Bunce (@steve Bunce) - why everyone should be playing video games in school 
2. Darren Mead (@DKMead) - Learning to Play the Whike game- Ideas pilfered from David Perkins.
3. Graeme Porter (@graemeporter) - Twenty First Century Literacy for Learning  -
4. Peter Hirst Confidence to speak out 

Enthusiastic Lurkers

Does what it says on the tin. Just want to come and listen or chat over a drink, sign up here. Add your name

1. alasdair douglas @hairysporran . will try and think of something to say 
2. Christine Jack
3. George Purdy
4. Lindsay Carroll
5. Ray Tolley
6. Tom Maskell
7. Martin Waller (@MultiMartin) - Unfortunately I've been called to another meeting - apologies.
8. Mark Lovatt
9. John Frain 
10. Ken Brechin
11. Kerry Smith
12. April Brown
13. Shaun White
14. Jess Malone
15. Peter Quiggly
16. Eileen Armstrong
17. Emma Longbotham
18. Graham Trick 
19. Susie Arnott
20. Richard Holme 
21. James Woodhouse 
22. Clair Crozier 
23. Chris McHugh @cmchu97
24. Scott Clark
25. Sarah MacDermott @MacadooS 
26. Simon Brown @sibrown1 
27. Mark Simpson
28. Ian Campbell
29. Mark Mullis 
30. Becca Marshall
31. Sean McMullen @sean_mcmullen
32. Sue Coates  
33. John Sayers (@JOHNSAYERS) - 5Ws and how we use displays (a prelude to Thursday 31st March 8-9pm #ukedchat hosted by me) will chat about this when I arrive. I have a management meeting so will be late:(
34. Joanne Hopper 
35. Carol Allen 
36. Kelly Holbrook 
37. Allan Holbrook 
38. Gill DeCosemo (@GillDeCosemo) 
39. Anne-Marie Bagshaw 
40. Jane Adamson 
41. Andy McHugh 
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Online meeting

The adobe connect meeting is available from 6:15 pm here http://learn.northumberland.gov.uk/tmnencr 

Twitter

Let's keep it all together and use the following hashtag for all posts, images, tweets and presentations to do with TeachMeetNE10:

#NCR11NE

SPONSORSHIP

Our thanks go to our current sponsors who have allowed us to use the venue and provide snacks and drinks.