Just back from TeachEat...

Great TeachMeet. Tasty TeachEat. Great night. More to follow on both I hope.

TeachMeeters
Originally uploaded by DavidDMuir

Interesting chat with Ollie. We both commented on the huge number of Tweets that were generated during the evening and Ollie wondered if there would be fewer blog posts as a result.

I'm not sure. I don't think more Tweets automatically leads to fewer blog posts. Perhaps blogging has always been a minority activity so increased numbers attending does not necessarily lead to a pro-rata increase in blogging.

Final observation for now is that despite concerns expressed before TeachMeet there were a lot of first time attenders there and a good number of non-techie topics presented. I'd say there was life in the old TeachMeet dog yet. :-)

Scottish Learning Festival and TeachMeetSLF09

Over the last couple of days I have become aware of a flurry of online activity associated with the Scottish Learning Festival and TeachMeetSLF09.

The crowds gather
Originally uploaded by DavidDMuir

I was aware of the rapid approach of SLF but since my own talk is nowhere near ready, I've been feeling a bit concerned.

However, seeing some of the things taking shape has fired me up with a bit more enthusiasm. For example I love, SLFtalk, an audio blogging tool that John Johnson and David Noble have put together. (See John's post on SLFtalk.) Loads of good stuff happening, great people to meet and, of course, TeachEat.

Now, if only I can get my session together, I could really look forward to it.