Important note: This is the TeachMeet Takeover page, which runs during the day over the Wednesday-Saturday of the exhibition. For the Friday evening TeachMeet session please visit the Teachmeet @BETT 2012 page.

Teachmeet Takeover - BETT 2012

Teachers sharing more inspiration for free - in the middle of BETT...

BETT 2012 runs from the 11th to the 14th of January 2012 at Olympia in London. Would you like to volunteer to present about some free resources and ideas in time and space donated by BETT exhibitors? Are you an exhibitor who could host some #TMTakeover presentations? If so... sign up below!

If you're tweeting about this please use the #tmtakeover hashtag.

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Images from Tom Barrett, Danny Nicholson, Ian Usher used under the appropriate Creative Commons licenses.

How to edit this page 

1. Click the EDIT tab at the top of this page - you'll be prompted to login.
2. Note that the PBwiki system has changed, so either:
1. create a PBwiki account, which is quick and simple, and login; or
2. alternatively you can login using the limited guest account - username guest password teemhcaet
3. Return to this page and click the EDIT tab
4. Either
1. Add a time slot in the daily tables below (if you're an exhibitor willing to host) or 
2. Add your name to the appropriate time slot (if you're a teacher/adviser wanting to present) 
5. Click the Save button at the foot of the page...
6. That's it! 

Images from TM Takeover at BETT 2010/11Teachmeet Takeover BETT2012

Video of Tom Barrett doing his Voicethread Takeover at BETT 2010 on the BrainPOP UK stand

Please sign up in one of the sections below - and then (if you're an exhibitor) add your slot to the timetable below. If you're a presenter, please add your name to any slots available that you'd like to fill, please don't fill your name in until a free slot is available!

To find out when others are attending BETT2012, Click Here

Volunteers willing to present on stands

Please add your name and indicate which days you know you will be at BETT. Don't worry about a presentation title yet, just whether you're up for it. Get your thinking hat on about some free resources/tools you'd like to share, or free ideas derived from what you've tried in your classroom...

1. Ian Addison - around on Friday/Saturday
2. David Mitchell (@DeputyMitchell) - Saturday  
3. Jodie Collins (@jodieworld) - Saturday
4. John Sutton ( @hgjohn ) - Thurs/Fri - teaching "critical commenting" - moving from audience to authentic audience on class blogs 
5. Simon McLoughlin (@simcloughlin) & Cherise Duxbury (@Cherise_Duxbury) - Saturday - introducing livewriting.net
6. Javier Rodriguez (@javiera1974) - Friday- Using Twitter in MFL to promote and engage language learning outside the classroom 
7. Danny Nicholson (@dannynic) - Friday 
8. Ian Pratt (@sciencelabman) friday /saturday   - Animoto  or class dojo  
9. Phil Bagge (@baggiepr) -Friday Only -Posterous & IPod Touch Dream Blogging made easy
10. Bram Faems (@bramfaems) - Friday - Kids can make their own Khan Acadamy-style movies with presenting software + camstudio 
11. Drew Buddie (@digitalmaverick) - Fri & Sat  
12. Jan Webb - all week 
13. Mark Anderson - Thursday 12 Jan (@ICTEvangelist) - some web 2.0 tools you can use straight away
14. Nick Jackson ( @largerama ) - Thurs 12/1 - Interactive Fiction 
15. Paul Hutson (@nightzookeeper) - Saturday, creative literacy tools for the primary classroom.
16. Bev Evans (@bevevans22) - all week - free stuff/fab websites you should know about 
17. Julia Skinner ( @theheadsoffice) - Friday 13th - 100 Word Challenge Creative writing through blogging
18. Alan O'Donohoe (@teknoteacher) - Saturday 14th Computing for Everyone - Get 'em all programming in Python Sorry, can't make it now, please contact me if interested in content.
19. Mark Allen (@edintheclouds) Thursday 12th and Saturday 14th
20. Laurence James (@clickschool) Saturday 14th. Pt1: How Moodle changed my life (assignments) | Pt2: When students went Scratch crazy (KS3 programming)
21. Alex Findlay (@alexfinICT) Thurs 12th  
22. Peter Van den Broeck (@petervdbroeck) - Friday - Livecasting while away on a multiday schooltrip (I'll be joining @bramfaems) 
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Exhibitors willing to have TM Takeover presentations on their stands

To take part you will need to ensure your stand has, where necessary:

1. a display (plasma / projector) able for anyone to connect their laptop / device to;
2. appropriate PA equipment for your location - which might be noisy! This means a headset mic if you expect presenters not to hold one in their hand...
3. reliable internet access, so that any presenter can arrive, connect (either via wifi or a cable) and get online; 
4. enough space for a small crowd to gather and not irritate other exhibitors or block something important... toilets, overpriced sandwiches & coffee, fire exits, you get the idea...

Please add your company's name and a contact name and the most appropriate Twitter account for BETT. Don't worry about slots yet - we just need a roster of willing hosts! (If you want to commit to a time slot, please see the timetable below)

1. Rising Stars - @andreacarr1   B25 
2. LapSafe - @lapsafe @pazzy_21 H39 (we won't have internet access on our stand, so will only be able to accommodate those that don't need to use the internet as part of their session)
3. I Am Learning - @I_AM_LEARNING and @helendaykin Q22 
4. Classroommonitor - @ethinking or @chrisscarth J9 
5. Just2easy.com- James Green @web2what N95 (Only wide screen stand alones no plasma)
6. Punnet - Tim Dalton @timdalton SW10 (www.pun.net)
7. Pearson - Stephen Fahey @sdfahey B40/C40 
8. Oddizzi - Jenny Cooke @oddizzi P47
9. Civica (we have a seminar area on our stand to hold the TeachMeet in) - James Cross @jamesrcross K54
10. Promethean - Selda Ziya @21centurylearn B30
11. Zu3D- Francesca Yeeles @francescayeeles 
12. UniServity - Susan Banister @susanbanister 
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Outline Schedule

This is a two stage process - exhibitors with spaces please start putting your available slots in here... once a slot is up, a speaker/speakers can fill in their name (and a proposed title) - feel free to present with a friend or colleague! If you're not sure of a title but know roughly what you'll be covering, then please fill that in - as exhibitors will need to prepare schedules in plenty of time for the show.

There's also a need for a co-ordinator or two for each day - please sign up in the table headers if you could act as a co-ordinator for a particular day - this would be ideally suited to exhibitors as (a) people will know where you'll be and (b) it isn't likely to be your only day at BETT.

If the tables fill up then use the Table > Row > Insert Row commands to add a row for your slot. Please try and keep the slots in time order so we can work out what's going on!

Once you've signed up to either host or present, then please ensure you follow your host / presenter on twitter so you can message each other (assuming you're both on twitter...). You and your host are responsible for ensuring that your presentation goes ahead - if it's not going to happen, please strike the presentation's details through so everyone knows it's not happening!

Some guidelines for your presentation:

• You should be a teacher or a practitioner to present;
• Your presentation should be about free ideas using free tools that anyone watching can take away or access and have a go at without needing to subscribe to anything - please don't assume people have the latest (or any!) version of MS Office. A connection to the internet might be the only thing you should assume.
• You might showcase a free tool, but it'll be even better if you can demonstrate some work you've done with it. 
• If we start to run out of slots, then you might be asked to reduce your number of presentations (if you've signed up to present more than once) so that everyone can get in, but we'll try and get more slots as well...