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However, it's a very long time to have neglected to blog my thoughts. I have been exceptionally busy since then - excuses excuse! - so much so that I've been struggling to keep up with life let alone blogging.

However, I was reminded that there is a clip of me doing what comes naturally - talking! Leon Cych asked me if I'd record a minute of my impressions of BETT - well, it's a bit longer than that! Excuse me if it rambles a bit - I was very tired and had an excruciatingly sore back!

I think what I said having only been at BETT for 2 hours was still true after a day and a half. What makes and made BETT special for me is meeting people and sharing ideas. I did see a brilliant weather making green screen thing on the Kudlian stand - Jo Rhys-Jones and I got rather excited about the prospect of using it in language learning - Chris Fuller disowned us at that point!! And I had a marvellous time on the 2Simple stand - their products are brilliant (please could they make them Mac compatible though ;o)) But mostly it was TMTakeover, Teachmeet and meeting up with random people that made my BETT.

There are lots of other OSS videos with Dawn Hallybone, Zoe Ross, David Noble too. Check them out on the OpenSourceSchools channel on Youtube.

One of my main reasons for excitement about BETT is not the exhibition itself but the Teachmeet that follows after hours!

This year will be my third Teachmeet, and I am really looking forward to the experience this time.

The first year I was overawed and felt insignificant but inspired to do something to rid myself of that feeling.

Last year I was excited but also a little nervous as I wondered if I really did have anything worthwhile to say to this crowd of people about technology. It seems that I did as my seven minutes went down well and were described in rather lovely terms by @digitalmaverick. Such a sweetie!

This year, I've once more volunteered to speak. My title - 'What Lisibo did next'

You'll have to wait and see what I say this year but here are last year's words of 'wisdom'.

If you're interested in joining in, you can attend in person (along with the other 177 who are signed up) by signing the wiki, (you don't have to speak!!) and if you can't attend in person, there's a Flashmeeting you can join (URL to follow!)

And, whilst I'm unable to join in either event (due to the third reason why I'm excited about BETT) there are free events of Wednesday and Thursday night too.