Well it has taken a week but Learn 4 Life has uploaded about 25 video interviews with innovative personalities and key products at the show.
Go to www.L4L.co.uk to see, download and share them as CPD for anyone who didn't make the show!
If you have seen anything exciting at BETT 2007, anything that is inspirational or something simple that you can take back to the classroom on Monday then let us know?
Editorial
School leaving age to rise to 18
Young people will have to be in training or education until the age of 18Young people will be required to stay in school, training or workplace training until the age of 18.
The Department for Education and Skills has confirmed plans to raise the school leaving age - to be introduced by 2013. 
This will not mean that pupils have to stay in the classroom or continue with academic lessons - but they will have to continue to receive training.
It would mean raising the leaving age for the first time since 1972, when it was raised to the present 16 years old.
The proposals would seek to tackle the problem of young people leaving education without qualifications or workplace skills.
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Future perfect
School computer test scrapped
In the test, pupils face a limited series of practical ICT tasks A compulsory computer test for teenagers in England has been abolished, ministers have confirmed.
A statutory test in ICT (information and communication technology) for Key Stage 3 pupils (14-year-olds) was due to be made compulsory from 2008.
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Pupils get home internet access
Ministers say pupils need internet access at home as well as schoolThe government is to set up a taskforce to ensure all children have access to the internet outside of school.
The government says more than 800,000 children and young people in England are currently not online at home and wants to close the "digital divide".
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Mini-computers 'bring test boost'
Hand-held computers are popular with pupils Boys who under-perform at school could be greatly helped if they used hand-held computers at home and at school, a study suggests.
A pilot scheme in Wolverhampton has reported improved results in maths and science after children were given the devices to use around the clock.
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Transforming Education Through TechnologySpeech by Jim Knight 10 January 2007 , BETT Conference
It’s great to have this chance to reflect on the recent years of transformation through technology. In that time, floppy disks have become obsolete, air-line tickets have become outdated and video players a thing of the past. Technology is even moving faster than James Bond. He was seen texting in his latest film, though perhaps there technology is going backwards – I seem to remember him using a mobile to drive a car a couple of films ago. Our daily lives have been transformed through technology. Nowhere is that seen more clearly than in our classrooms. more.....
What is your opinion of what the Minister said? Will it help transform the teaching and learning process for you?
The DfES has just published the speech by Alan Johnson at yesterday's Moving Young Minds conference, one of the precursor events to BETT.
Only about another 15 hours until BETT 2007 begins and like every year I've been here its absolute bedlam on the exhibition floors as workmen, presenters and all sorts of other interested people busy themselves in preparation for the doors opening.
I'm in the Pillar Hall which will accommodate the International, NAACE and Leadership lounges and here too there has been hectic activity all day getting things just right.
Words & Music is described as a new generation of music software which not only allows pupils to make music but also to write lyrics.It allows the creation of up to three tracks, for example a single treble, alto, bass or percussion track for simple rhymes, chants, raps, and melodies, or two/three-track compositions for work on harmonies, call and response, rounds, sound effects, layering, etc.
Saturday
11:45
Improving Home-School Links to Raise Pupil Achievement
Janet Felkin, Eastbourne Technology College
What can be achieved when schools focus on improving links with parents? Students spend more time at home than they do at school. How can schools tap this underutilised resource? How can your web site and management information system be used to give parents access to the information they need to support their child at home?
How can we fully exploit the potential of digital technologies to transform education and create a fairer education landscape? How can we ensure that personalisation and innovation empower all young people and educational professionals and not just those who are already advantaged? Current approaches to education technology, which are focused on 'efficiency and improvement', may be increasing rather than reducing social inequalities - is the best way forward to stop tinkering at the edges and to radically reconceive education institutions, practices and goals instead?
Friday
Friday
11:00
SSAT at BETT: Leading School Led System Transformation
Saturday
Friday
Claire Gill, Becta
Wednesday
11:00
Technology and Leadership Futures
From the perspective of a practising headteacher, this session will share how technology can help school leaders to become more strategic in their role and have more time to focus on teaching and learning. It will look specifically at the ways in which ICT can support school self-evaluation and raising achievement.
The session hopes to share some of the ways that ICT has been used to support new models of school leadership, developing collaboration, cross phase working, virtual schooling, 'Joined up Leadership', smart communication and networking.
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