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TeachMeet Beyond will take place on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th May 2011

at The Craigs Camping & Training Centre, Torphichen, West Lothian

 

This wiki is to sign up to participate in TeachMeet Beyond.

If you would like to help with the organisation of the event, please click here.

 

 

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What is TeachMeet?

 

Learn something new, be amazed, amused and enthused. This is an informal gathering of those curious about teaching and learning in the outdoors. Anyone can share great ideas they've trialled, ask important questions or simply sign up to take part in the practical sessions. Education professionals from all sectors are welcome to take part.

 

The main part of TeachMeet is the campfire philosophy -  each of us hearing stories about learning from the other participants. This is not an event to present about a product or theory - this is a chance for teachers from all types of establishments to hear ideas from each other about how to take learning and teaching BEYOND the classroom .

 

Due to the theme of this TeachMeet and the nature of some of the activities, a number of the traditional TeachMeet structures will need to be altered, but the core values remain the same - real narratives of practice that make a difference. It is about being engaged and inspired by our immediate colleagues and a whole bucket load of networking to boot! 

 

 

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When and Where?  

 

Time: Arrival from 18:00 Friday 28th May, 2011 (events start at 20:00)

Saturday sessions - 1000 until 1530

Where: The Craigs Camping & Training Centre, Torphichen, West Lothian, EH48 4NL

 

 

View TMBeyond Venue in a larger map

 

 

 

What?  

 

A provisional programme has been put together for the event, although this may change in the lead up to the event.

 

Day 1 - Friday 27th May

 

1800-2000 (Joe Hall Chalet, campsites as advised)

Participants arrive and set up camp/settle in (and gather firewood!!!)

 

2000-2200 (Campfire Circle)
TMBeyond campfire. Weather permitting, this will be an actual campfire using the campsite's campfire circle. As well as giving all participants a chance to introduce themselves to the group (perhaps even to sing songs or perform 'stunts'), there will be 'traditional' TeachMeet 7 minute or 2 minute presentations and a discussion bag too, with subjects provided by participants in advance and drawn randomly to generate discussion. 

2200 (Joe Hall Chalet)
Soup & stovies followed by social time.

Possible stargazing session with Dave Chalton (Royal Observatory of Edinburgh/Dark Sky Scotland)

Day 2 - Saturday 28th May

 

0800-1000
Showers, breakfast (cereal & toast provided, cooking facilities available) and set-up time for presenters.

 

1000-1030 (Joe Hall Chalet)
Welcome for participants/day visitors. Discussion of arrangements and sign up for workshops - Was thinking dependant on numbers we could have between 2 and 4 different workshops repeated in 2 slots for the morning then a different set of wokshops from different presenters repeated over 2 slots in the afternoon. This would allow everyone a chance to get to attend at least 2 and up to 4 workshops.

 

1030-1130 (various locations)
Morning workshop slot 1

 

1130-1230 (various locations)
Morning workshop slot 2

 

1230-1315 (Joe Hall Chalet)
Lunch - soup & sandwiches available for participants to make for themselves.

 

1315-1415 (various locations)
Afternoon workshop slot 1

 

1415-1515 (various locations)
Afternoon workshop slot 2

 

1515-1530 (Joe Hall Chalet)
Thanks & goodbyes

 

1530->
Depart camp

 

 

 

How?  

 

Indoor accommodation for up to 19 people is available in the Joe Hall Chalet. Camping will be available for those who wish to camp. You do not have to stay overnight to attend any of the events - you can come along for Friday evening, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, any combination of the three or even attend the whole event.

 

 

Notes for Participants

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Sign Up!

 

Are You Coming?

 

Sign up using the table below, or alternatively, by emailing the information you would like entered into the table to teachmeetbeyond {at} gmail {dot} com

 

Name	Twitter	Friday Campfire (Yes/No)	Saturday AM (Yes/No)	Saturday PM (Yes/No)	Accommodation (Indoor/Camping/No)
Iain Hallahan	@don_iain	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (type tbc)
Juliet Robertson	@CreativeSTAR	Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping!
Cassie Law	@cassielaw	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Jen Deyenberg	@jdeyenberg	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Carole Walker		Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Kim McIntosh		Yes	Yes	No	Camping
Anna Rossvoll	@rossvoll	Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping
Linda Leyland		Yes	yes	yes	Camping
Fiona Hamilton	@AlbaDross	Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping
Charlene Brannan	@MissBrannan	tbc	tbc	tbc	tbc
Elise Steven		tbc	tbc	tbc	tbc
Megan Carr		Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping
Morven Skinnider	@MSkinnider	Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping
Susan Liveston		Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping
Claire Gillespie		Yes	Yes	Yes	tbc
Stephanie Disbury	@sdisbury	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Margaret Cassidy	@casspatdag	Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping
Jenny Harvey	@relativism	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Martin Waller (To be confirmed)	@MultiMartin	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Dean Campbell		Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A
Kenny O'Donnell	@Kenny73	Yes	Yes	Yes	tbc
Derek Robertson	@derekrobertson	Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping
Alan Parkinson	@GeoBlogs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Andrea Reid	@andreareid	Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping
Margaret Vass	@mvass	No	Yes	Yes	No
Cecilia Franklin		Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping
Kirsty Forbes	@kirstyforbes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Helen Westcott	@hellyweg	yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Cat Findlay	@catalinelechat	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Becky Duffield		Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
David Noble	@parslad	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Linda Lapere	@MissLapere	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Olivia Wexelstein	@owexelstein	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Amanda Higgins	@mandcoo	yes	yes	yes	indoor
Sinclair Mackenzie	@mrmackenzie	Yes	Yes	Yes	Indoor
Liesel Harvey		Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping
Michelle Robison		Yes	Yes	Yes	Camping
Fraser Mackie		tbc	Yes	Yes	No
Once the above slots are taken, TeachMeet Beyond is full, please sign up below if you would like to add yourself to the reserve list.   There may also be the possibility for some additional people to attend the Friday night Campfire, although they will be unable to stay on the site or attend Saturday's events. Please indicate if this would be of interest to you.
Jenny Harvey (@relativism)  Moved to participant
Elise Steven   Moved to participant
Margaret Vass Moved to participant
Stephanie Disbury (@sdisbury)   Moved to participant
Sinclair Mackenzie (@mrmackenzie) moved to participant
Liesel Harvey - camping sharing with Michelle moved to participant
Michelle Robison - camping sharing with Liesel moved to participant

 

 

Accommodation

 

Camping (tent size)	Dorm	Room 1	Room 2 (Planet Snore)
Juliet Robertson (1)	Cassie Law	Alan Parkinson	Iain Hallahan
Kim McIntosh (4) Liesl Harvey Michelle Robison	Jen Deyenberg	David Noble
Anna Rossvoll (4)	Elise Steven	Sinclair Mackenzie
Linda Leyland (2)	Jenny Harvey
Fiona Hamilton (2)	Stephanie Disbury
Megan Carr  Morven Skinnider (4) Susan Liveston	Helen Westcott
	Cat Findlay
	Becky Duffield
Derek Robertson (2)	Linda Lapere
Cecilia Franklin	Olivia Wexelstein
Kenny O'Donnell (2)	Furnaces

 

 

 

 

Are You Presenting?

 

Part 1 - The Campfire

 

 

 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License

Original image at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiskoping/1027163900/ by [martin].

 

 

Campfire presentations & Discussion topics

 

Everyone will be expected to make a contribution during the campfire, even if it is only to introduce themselves or take part in a group discussion. Others may wish to make a presentation to the group (see below)

 

Presentations 

 

• You can use whatever presentation format you want, but remember we are going to be outside with no tech support and it is likely to be getting dark.
• Nano- and micro- presentations have been squashed together for this event, so your presentation should run between two and seven minutes.
• Presentations should be about real activities or experiences, which are relevant and applicable by others
• No sales pitches! 

 

 

Add your name and what you may talk about below. 

 

1. Iain Hallahan - Introducing the John Muir Award
2. Alan Parkinson (GeoBlogs) - to be confirmed
3. please continue 

 

As the campfire draws to a close, there will be a Dark Sky Scotland mini-workshop, with the possibility of an extended stargazing session afterwards with Dave Chalton from the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh should there be enough interest and favourable conditions.

 

 

 

Discussions 

 

• Rather than presenting, you might have a topic you want discussed or a question you would like to ask. Add it below, and it'll go in the discussion bag, from which items will be selected at random.  

 

Put it in the bag! 

 

1. Too scared to go outside - are we becoming too risk-averse?
2. Everyone share one great outdoor learning idea/experience
3. "I can't do outdoor learning because....."
4. Outdoor learning and pupils with learning difficulties or behavioural issues
5. Hi-tech outdoors
6. Low tech outdoors 
7. Who should pay for outdoor ed? 
8. Please continue 

 

 

 

 

 

Part 2 - Saturday Workshops

 

 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License 

Original image available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewanee/3202145958/ by Sewanee: The University of the South and Woodrow Blettel.

 

 

Morning Workshops

 

1. Alan Parkinson (GeoBlogs) - Mission:Explore / Geography Collective  
2. Cassie Law - Practical and Everyday Outdoor Activities
3. Kim McIntosh  - Delivering the lawyers burnaby John Muir Award 

 

Afternoon Workshops 

1. Jen Deyenberg - GPS and Geocaching
2. Juliet Robertson - Numeracy across the Curriculum: Outdoors 

 

Workshop slots are now full 

 

 

 

Posterous

 

We want to capture anything said about (or during?) TeachMeet Beyond using Posterous at http://teachmeetbeyond.posterous.com/

 

This can be pictures, video, audio, pdfs, other files - basically anything you want to share!

 

Send your contributions to teachmeetbeyond@posterous.com 

 

Just put the title 'tmbeyond - ' followed by the title of your post in the subject line and the content of your post in the body of the message.  

 

 

 

 

 

Twitter & Tags

 

When you are mentioning TeachMeet Beyond whilst using Twitter please just add #TMBeyond somewhere in the tweet - that way it will be picked up by a Twitter search. 

TeachMeet Beyond is part of the fifth birthday celebrations for TeachMeet and you can also add the #tm5 tag should you desire

 

Check out what's being said on Twitter about TMBeyond right now by clicking here!

 

Tags (for everything else ... flickr, YouTube, facebook etc)

Let's keep it all together and use the following tag for all posts, images, tweets and presentations to do with TeachMeet Beyond: TMBeyond

 

 

Catering

 

Survey results are in and it looks like everyone's pretty easy to please!

 

Stovies will be available on Friday night as well as cup-a-soups for anyone who wants them. For lunch on Saturday a variety of sandwich fillings, bread and cup-a-soups will be available.

 

If you want to bring anything else that's fine. Any questions about facilities let me know (@cassielaw).

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