BETT Highlights #2: Serendipity Rules OK

#BETT2010 One of the things I love about the BETT Show is meeting people by accident. On the second day (I think) I was standing in an aisle trying to (a) get my bearings and (b) identify which branch of Vedic Mathematics the organisers had used when planning the location of the stands, when I noticed another gentleman standing nearby.

"I recognise that glazed expression," I thought to myself. "You look as geographically-challenged as I am", I said.

Anyway, to cut a long story short (well, it's not that long, but this is meant to be a 'highlight' after all), he turned out to be Gerald Haigh.

Gerald is a journalist whose articles I used to read in the Times Education Supplement, and who still contributes to the website of Merlin John, erstwhile ICT editor of the TES.

BETT is great for meeting people you already know. It's good for making new contacts too. But nothing quite beats the frisson of finding yourself talking to someone you've read, known about and communicated with for a long time.

Comments

[Merlin John]

Gerald Haigh is also a highlight for me Terry – at BETT and everywhere else. He knows learning and teaching inside out and is never taken in by the ICT snake oil merchants! He also has an excellent column (Five Things To Think About – continued from his TES work – on the National College's Future website, http://nationalcollege.org.uk/future

[Terry Freedman, Educational ICT Consultant]

Thx, Merlin, I love that line about snake oil merchants -- do I detect a note of cynicism? Surely not ;-)

Thx for the reference to Gerald's column, which I hope people will read.