As I'm sure you can imagine given what we do for a living, here at Beanbag Towers our twin passions are education and the web. Some of us lean more heavily one way or the other but they are shared passions for everyone involved and in light of this we have worked alongside the guys at School of Everything to run an event combining the two.
Bettr is a one day event targeted at people who are using the web in new ways to help learning. People from small companies, the BBC, Channel 4, charities like Futurelab as well as educators from school through to university level are attending to discuss how we can learn from each other to build the best possible tools to achieve this goal and how we can collaborate with the traditional education sector to make the most of these strides being taken in online learning. It should be an interesting day, even more so as we are also co-hosting an event in the evening alongside the folk at Social Innovation Camp again focused on education but with a more flexible agenda and an even more eclectic audience.
Its something I'm very excited about and I'm sure I'll come away from the event with as many questions as answers but having been inspired again by how committed people are to making a difference.
Mark Porter 02 February