If you’re thinking of putting on an event, you may find the following notes useful. I’ll never forget once at a conference where the organisers, rather unfairly I thought, put on a talk by an unknown teacher at the same time as a keynote speech by a big name speaker. The latter’s talk was on the challenges faced in running a school, and what to do about them – even though he had never run a school. The unknown teacher’s talk was about how to teach computing to children with special educational needs. That’s the one I attended, with no regrets: she was both engaging and well-informed.

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