Thunder

The biggest problem I had at SETT was having no business cards to give out, so last night I spent some time looking for business card websites - and there are far too many!  My favourite is Street Cards, especially the gaping void cartoons - that were on the Stormhoek poster we received at Teachmeet.

This morning I checked my rss feeds and came across a link on Ewan’s del.icio.us account to Moo, a mini card site that can print your own Flickr photos onto your cards. At the moment they are giving away a pack of 10 cards to the first 10,000 Flickr Pro users.

Teachmeet was a great success – I was able to put a lot more faces to names I have read over the past year. The informalness (I don’t think that is a word) of the event was definitely a major plus, at times several of us were sat on the floor, similar to pupils in primary schools ☺ The only problem with these events is that you pick up so many great ideas and there aren’t enough hours in the day to investigate them all.

I would personally like to thank the speakers: Theo, David, Ollie, Chris, John, Kate & Sean, it was a shame we didn’t have anymore time to listen to anyone else.

A big thanks most go to both Stormhoek for supplying the wine and Promethean for paying the exorbitant corkage charges charged by the Crowne Plaza, and also for Ewan for doing the bulk of the organisation.

The meal at the Goat was a great success and I eventually got to meet Mrs Mc (Morgane).

I hope I get an invite up to SETT again next year so I can meet you all again and gain from your wealth of experience and creativity.

PS Ewan, we need to get a photo of you in your t-shirt.

I have now returned back home after two excellent days in Glasgow at SETT ‘06, where I was presenting ‘Thinking out of the xbox- game making for learning’ in the Learning Village.

Hopefully I have inspired some of the Scottish teachers to go away and get their students to write computer games using either GameMaker or Mission Maker.

It would be great if any of the teachers who were at SETT and are going to embark on game making could leave a comment or drop me an email, maybe we could develop a collaborative project?

After a four hour journey up to Glasgow I am now here sitting in the coffee bar outside SETT. Having picked up my speakers badge the nerves are really kicking in, I have already met a few of the scottish bloggers (John Johnson, David Noble & David Muir) and I hope to meet many more throughout the day.

Time for me to try and get my presentation in order, I have downloaded a powerpoint viewer so I can play the presentation on my laptop and I have reinstalled Firefox. Lets hope my 512MB of RAM holds together for the missionmaker demo later.

Thanks most go to Promethean for funding the wireless access codes that allow me to blog from SETT.