Browse by Tags
All Tags »
BETT (RSS)
BETT is the big event in the education ICT calendar, not just for you but for us as well. Knowing that 30,000 people will flood through the doors of Olympia in about 7 working weeks tends to focus our minds on making sure that we put on a good show for
Read More...
Yesterday, I learnt that the Innovative Teachers Network has been nominated and reached the shortlist for the BETT Awards 2010 *. Of course, this is great news, and especially for Kristen Weatherby and Stuart Ball who have spent the last two years getting
Read More...
Merlin John, who’s editor of the NCSL Futures website (and used to be editor of the TES Online supplement), also runs MerlinJohn Online – a good website to keep up-to-date with education ICT news. One of the writers is Jonathan Boyle, a deputy head teacher,
Read More...
For the last couple of years, the number of visitors from the UK has been falling, whilst the number of international visitors has been growing. The preliminary numbers for 2009 are out , and the trend has been reversed. This year, the UK visitors grew
Read More...
Last week, late one evening, we hatched a plan. What about a BETT flashmob? All of those crazy polo shirt colours * suddenly turning up en-bloc at another stand suddenly, performing and disappearing. Sadly, the idea seemed a little bit too much to organise
Read More...
Having lived through BETT last week, I had to relive it again this morning when Mark A’Bear showed me his Photosynth of the BETT stand . He’d snapped 278 photos of Olympia, and Photosynth had them stitched them together into an explorable photo model.
Read More...
My favourite humbug phrase is “ The Internet is down ”. It’s a phrase people use, but it winds me up. Somebody walks in and says “ The Internet is down ” or “ The Internet isn’t working ”. I ask you? Like 3 billion nodes, millions of switches/hubs/routers,
Read More...
One of the things that is new on our BETT stand this year is a netbook “Wall of Cool”, with a dozen netbooks to look at and compare. Although there are loads of suppliers at BETT, all showing off their latest mini laptops, you can’t visit a stand elsewhere
Read More...
Phew, what a day. 6 months of planning, 90 people to co-ordinate with, and suddenly, it arrived. The first day of BETT. As I mentioned earlier in the week, we had a number of exciting things at the show, including a demonstration of the Surface, and a
Read More...
Only two days until BETT, and it’s currently all-hands-on-deck to get everything ready for the opening day of the show. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that 80% of the people that come through the doors visit the Microsoft stand – which makes
Read More...
BETT 2009 is on the horizon already – only 69 days to go* until 14th January. For most exhibitors, it’s more than “on the horizon”, as it’s been “the day job” for a few months already, as we’ve all been planning how to show you things that make you swoon
Read More...
This might seem like a bizarre subject, because I would guess that most of us have an idea of the scope of our responsibilities. But a recent conversation with Tim Roots from IT Vision was a bit of a surprise for me. We were talking about software licensing
Read More...
Following on from my blog article earlier this week about the five-year extension of our Partners in Learning programme , you may want to get hold of a copy of the DVD that we distributed at the BETT show. It's a free DVD full of helpful resources from
Read More...
Following on from the BETT exhibition in London, one of our partners, RM are taking their show on the road. Between now and March, RM staff (and their very big truck) will be taking to the roads around the country, to visit schools, colleges and local
Read More...
If you missed BETT 2008, or you made it to BETT and want to use some of the presentation materials you saw, then you can now download all of the presentations we gave on the stand during the week. Most of the presentations were given by our customers,
Read More...
