foolfillment: the blog

I’ve been toying with this idea for a few weeks, but I’d not done anything about it while I was offline. Now I am finally getting into gear.

I would like there to be a TeachMeet in the Scottish Borders sometime, mainly for selfish reasons as I do not think I’ll be able to make it to the Scottish Learning Festival this year. I realised that unless I (un)organise it then it is unlikely to happen so here I am asking you for your help.

I have a sneaking suspicion that there will be a fair few people in the Borders and surrounding areas who will also not be able to make it to SLF this year, but I don’t know how many though, and crucially I do not know how many people there are who would consider getting involved as well as just turning up.

If I go ahead and try to sort something out I will need help - I don’t know where I would find a suitable venue, I don’t know my way around well enough yet! I was thinking somewhere in Galashiels.

I also have a few questions, I’ve put together a short Google form which you can answer, or of course you can leave comments here on the blog.

My big question though is this - one option is to have it running on the same night as the event in Glasgow, with a possible link up. How do people feel about this? My own personal feeling is that it would be great for the people who wanted to get to Glasgow but can’t, I also think that it might be good to encourage new people along if it were mostly ‘locals’ - but the risk is nobody comes… What do you think?

On AB’s prompt I’m noting what I’m doing when I got to the Scottish Learning Festival next week.
I can only go for the Wednesday but I’ll be trying to pack in as much as I can, starting off with Ewan McIntosh’s We’re Adopting session, then Our Journey to Excellence along the Microtech Road and finishing up with Stephen Heppell’s keynote Twenty First Century Learning.

Then of course I’ll be heading over the bridge to TeachMeet07.

I’ll be busy twittering and hopefully doing some live-ish blogging throughout the day too.

I’m also wondering if I’ll have the time to get to the In the Wild event in the afternoon.