I had a fantastic time at the Teacher2Teacher conference in Bow Island, Alberta last week. It was great to catch up with friends old and new especially those people who I have only previously met via Twitter. It’s always nice to be able to put a face to the twitter avatar.
For those delegates who attended the conference – all my files have now been uploaded to the Prairie Rose School Division file area. Visit : http://prrdweb.com/ and click on My Files. Use the login details given out at the conference to access the file area. All the SMART notebook and PowerPoint files that I used will be there.
For those who couldn’t attend – I’ll post up my Essential Digital Resources presentation onto Slideshare.
I’m still amazed that such a small town can play host to several hundred teachers from such a large number of schools. I don’t know of any schools in the UK who have set up and run a similar event. Many congratulations to Dave Blemings and his team for putting together such a great event – and thanks for making all the speakers feel so welcome. I’m hoping I can be back for T2T 2011
Maybe you have an idea there to start doing this around the UK sounded a good conference from the write ups been reading – hope some teachers found it extrely usefull and do use the resources that are available.
Would be good to see something like this in the UK.
Basically they shut the school for two INSET days (along with other schools in the area) and all the staff come to the one place for a very cool CPD programme (and others attend virtually via video conferences sessions. It’s also open for other teachers to attend individually if they wish.
I don’t know of any schools trying this kind of conference approach to CPD in the UK – but maybe there are, and they’re just keeping quiet about it.