This is the first time in years I will attend BETT and not have to do stand duty. I can wander round taking notes anonymously, but strangely it feels more like an opportunity to catch up with folk from the Becta diaspora.
The community aspect of BETT seems to be more important all round, teachmeet looks to be taking over many stands… but I have a concern that the financially enforced consolidation may precipitate a more siloed mentality, and the dream of universal interoperability may get crushed underfoot.
This is also the first time in years I am seriously looking at specific teaching resources that I might want to use, as I review my options for the future, so the show review may have an engineering resources slant… mmmm laser cutter….
