I am sure you know that Microsoft’s European Innovative Education Forum is going on at the moment in Moscow, it actually ends with the gala dinner tonight where the European award winners will be announced.
You can follow the tweets from the conference here: #mspil
You can also read more about the conference here on David Rogers blog who won a European award in Berlin at last year’s conference: http://daviderogers.blogspot.com/2011/03/looking-ahead-to-microsoft-partners-in.html
These Education forums sponsored and organised by Microsoft are one of the best forms of professional development opportunities that a teacher could have, they are free if you are lucky to get on one – in fact the UK one on Manchester in December was open to all: http://bit.ly/dYfR4Z
They have numerous keynote speakers but perhaps the best part is the networking with other teachers which allows you to share ideas and develop these in your own classroom.
I know that at this moment in time really innovative and creative teachers from all over Europe will be sharing the work they do in their classrooms and collaborating together on activities, forging relationships that will lead them to collaborating on projects in the future.
This year @innovativeteach (Stuart Ball) has been cloned to produce @innovativeteach2 (Jan Webb) and this new team being supervised by Steve Bessick are hoping that some of their teachers can win some of the European awards, feathers crossed they can do it!
To see more of the UK entries then check out this blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/teachers/
Please support:
Jo Debens – Priory School in Portsmouth – follow her on twitter @geodebs
Gareth Ritter – Needs no introduction (he is from Wales) famous for #rizertechkaraoke – follow him on twitter @rizertech
Louise Dorrian – Lodge ParkTechnology Park in Corby – follow her on twitter @louisedorrian
And last but not least Jennifer Blum @bluminmarvelous and her project on mobilizing the 2012 Olympics.
Finally I also have to point you in the direction of another fantastic project that is really worth a look and that is the Irish entry by my good friends Cathal O’ Connell & Kate Murray who I first met at the European Education forum in Zagreb many years ago in 2008 are working on a brilliant project called Keeping it on track – http://keepontrack.scoilnet.ie/ you can also follow them on twitter @keepontrackpro – you have to have a look at this it is awesome!
For a look back at earlier education forums check this out: