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Tomorrow will see the first day of the Scottish Learning Festival at the SECC in Glasgow. Following the seminars and a good trawl of the stands in the main hall I will be attending the TeachmeetSLF08.

In Scotland we have hosted a number of these un-conferences. These have been ably coordinated by Ewan McIntosh. The idea is that anyone can share cool ideas they have or great ideas they’ve trialled in their classrooms. All you need to do is sign up on the wiki.

The rules for TeachMeet are as follows:

• Micro-presentations are strictly seven minutes long, nano-presentations two minutes long.
• No PowerPoint allowed… unless… you’re doing 20 slides for 20 seconds each (pecha kucha style - pecha kucha article).
• Make sure that what you’re showing has actually been done in your classroom or a classroom of a colleague - this isn’t blue skies, this is right here, right now stuff.

The order in which people speak is determined by a random selecter

If you cannot make it to the festival it’s self, I would highly recommend coming along to the teachmeet. It will take place from 6-9pm in the Forth room within the SECC. Leith’s@SECC will be providing a buffet and refreshments in the room, courtesy of two of our sponsors.

To find out more click here.

See you tomorrow!