Two great publications are now available for download. One is full of tips for “doing” BETT (83 in all, as it happens), whilst the other is a review of last year’s BETT. Your assignment: compare and contrast, and then contribute your thoughts about this year’s BETT!

Getting the best out of BETT

To download this free 83 point guide, go to the BETT Files page on the ICT in Education website. This is ideal if you’re a first-timer as far as BETT is concerned, although even seasoned BETT-goers may find something of interest, such as how to share your or your students’ impressions of BETT.

How to contribute YOUR reflections on BETT 2012

If you or your students would like to write a guest article about BETT for this newsletter and/or the ICT in Education website, please contact me. In addition or instead of that, I’m open to writing guest articles for your blog if you have one.

Review of BETT 2011 – Trends and Reflections

Find out what a number of luminaries of the UK’s educational ICT community thought about BETT last year: what was good, what were the trends being shown? Will this year’s BETT turn out to be very different? Personally, I think 3D will continue to grow, and I’m sure we’ll start to see more in the realm of 3D on phones and ultra-thin computers, and it will be interesting to see how far (assuming I’m right) these find their way into education.

So who contributed to this free ebook?

· Natasha, ICT advisor

· Fiona Aubrey-Smith ­, Head of Educational Development, UniServity

· Miles Berry, Senior Lecturer in ICT Education at Roehampton University

· Leon Cych, Learn 4 Life

· John Davitt, writer, broadcaster and a digital toolmaker

· Bev Evans, teacher at Pembroke Dock Community School

· Matthew Jane, ­ Deputy editor at Education Executive and ICT Matters magazine

· Mike Lane, Teacher

· Sheyne Lucock, Sheyne Lucock, General Inspector (IT), Children's Services, Barking and Dagenham

· David Luke, David Luke Independent ICT Consultant

· Dughall McCormick, Dughall McCormick E-Learning Consultant (Kirklees LA)

· Christina Preston, Mirandanet Fellowship

· Dan Roberts, Deputy Headteacher at Saltash.net Community School, Cornwall

· Zoe Ross, Founder of www.DoDigital.co.uk

· Tony Sheppard, Harnessing Technologies Manager, Northamptonshire County Council

· Dave Smith, ICT Consultant in Havering

· Mike Simons, Editor of ComputerworldUK.com

· Ian Usher, E-Learning Co-ordinator, Bucks County Council

· Jan Webb, ICT Co-ordinator and Primary ICT Consultant

· Doug Woods, ICT in Education Consultant

To download it, go to the BETT Files page.

To to contribute YOUR reflections on BETT 2012, just click on that link and complete the short form there.

This stuff was first published in Computers in Classrooms, the free e-newsletter for those with a professional interest in educational ICT. Why not subscribe now?