• Speaking at the 'Build Croydon' event for encouraging young people to get involved in technology and digital making.
• Discussing a keynote I will be doing at the UNICEF education innovation conference in Montenegro later in the month.
• Discussing the ins and outs of the Education Technology Action Group work around the use of cloud based technologies in schools at a round table convened by Microsoft.
• Analysing the initial findings from our Flipped Learning project in Scotland with colleagues from NFER. There have been some interesting trends emerging and we are getting into more detail with it next week.
• Catching up on a number of reports about education technology, international education, teacher retention and pupil premium funding that have been in my reading list for a while.
• Meeting with TSL education to hear about their work linking Ed Tech startups and teachers.
• Visiting Third Space Learning to support with the implementation of our Remote Tutoring EEF trial.
• Getting to grips with our new project reporting system that we are are starting to use at Nesta.
• Attending the Alliance for Useful Evidence event on data visualisation.

Next week I'm starting off by attending the ETAG general meeting, with some other interesting meetings planned and quite a lot of planning for subsequent talks and projects.

• Travelling to Scotland, first to Glasgow and then to Dumfries to schools who have been trying out Nesta & NFER's ‘Flipped Learning’ trial.
• Exploring Glasgow. I went up a day early on Sunday to take a look around and enjoyed getting to know the city a little and enjoy the museum and art gallery, particularly their Salvador Dali painting, and an expected but impressive organ performance in the main atrium.
• Learning how these schools have been getting on through lesson observations, interviews with teachers and focus groups with students. It was great to be welcomed to some schools in a country that is so similar and yet so different to what I am used to in England, and really was a pleasure working with all the teachers and students. I’ve taken away a lot of learning about Flipped Learning approaches, and innovation in schools more widely. Much more to be written soon…
• Recording all the interviews and writing up notes. I find it’s hard to write anything meaningful if you are going to build ups good rapport with someone in an interview and ask the probing and follow up questions that help construct the most useful understanding. However that does mean lots of listening back through recordings and writing up. I ended up using VLC with the variable playback speed turned up to speed things up- as I was there it was more of a memory jog than thinking for the first time.
• Shortlisting for the ALT ‘Learning Technologist of the Year’ awards. Some really interesting entries and I’m looking forward to hearing more at the face to face judging panel on Friday.
• Training a new school for our ‘Visible Classroom’ professional development through transcription & analytics project. Springwell school in Hounslow, London were very welcoming and it was a great workshop to dig deep into their goals for developing their practice and learning in their classrooms through the programme.
• Blogging about Brett Victor’s challenge to teachers and speakers to be honest and authentic.
• Planning and writing about an 'Ed Invent' event in Brighton next month for developing Ed Tech ideas based on the challenges from real classrooms. I also blogged about that here, come join us if you can.

• Attending Comicon with friends & collaborators Musomic where they were showcasing their forthcoming app.
• Catching up on documenting my visits to ‘Visible Classroom’ schools across Birmingham and Dudley last week.
  
• Travelling to the Open University in Milton Keynes to hear about their learning technologies projects Juxtalearn, 3D Virtual Geology Field Trip and MK:Smart - in which they are encouraging children to collect and analyse data about their environment.
• Catching up with Doug Belshaw and Vinay Gupta and talking Mozilla’s web literacy work, the untapped potential of children in developing countries with no education and hexayurts.
• Doing lots of expenses for travel and booking lots more for next week.
• Planning for the next phase of Visible Classroom schools who are getting started with an intensive version of the programme next week. I’m co-ordinating the training and implementation of this in schools.
• Workshopping and dining with Nesta’s ‘Digital Makers Fund’ grantees. My colleague Amy Solder got together the 7 new organisations coming into this programme with some of the first round organisations and other supporters for a really interesting day of sharing their work and exploring evaluation, topped off with a rather wonderful meal for everyone to get to know each other.
• Meeting David Weston from the Teacher Development Trust to talk professional development and evaluation, and Olivier from Virtual Language Exchange who is piloting a new one to one peer tutoring service for foreign language teaching.
• Planning for a couple of events I’m doing with Paul Hutson and Dan Axon to first develop teachers’ Ed Tech ideas at ‘Ed Invent’, and then build them into a business at a startup weekend hackathon. The first event for teachers is in Brighton in July, sign up here.
• Preparing for my research visits to schools who have been taking part in our Flipped Learning trial with NFER. I’ll be conducting some first hand research for this one and am looking forward to getting on the ground and seeing what they have been learning.