1. Geoff Riley FRSA – Eton 2nd December 2010 Geoff Riley, Tutor2u

2. Creativity favours the connected mind

3. Ideas flow from Slow Hunches & Space to Mingle

4. Eight Years developing Tutor2u Geoff Riley, Tutor2u

5. Tutor2u Materials are bought by 3,500 schools and colleges in UK and in over 85 other countries 110,000 blog page impressions per day Global Alexa traffic rank of 24,847 (4,200 in the UK) 75,000 unique web users each day 4,500 fans on Facebook since launch in Oct 2010 Moodle VLE for over 130 Economics Departments No standard platform – we use different software to meet different needs – as do many teachers!

6. Publishers and IT people don’t get it! They don’t properly understand school budgets They under-utilise social media and don’t harness the creativity and energy within teacher communities Few teachers want to be locked into expensive proprietary software Fewer still have the time to master industry standard kit even though their IT department might prefer it! Most teachers choose a mix of apps for their work and this combination evolves over time

7. A Daily Teaching Toolbox

8. Creativity: The Power of Free

9. Creativity in the Open Source Crowd

10. Taking bigger risks

11. Using Google Docs for Collaborative Work

12. Google Docs Real time collaboration – using some Google Wave technology! Use chat to discuss work through messaging Many options for peer and teacher review of work Collaborative work can be easily exported into other formats e.g. Pdf files and into student / group blogs Great opportunities for Creative writing Pooling data and ideas Revision work ahead of exam papers Collaborative work with teaching colleagues within and between schools

13. Moodle 2.0 has now arrived!

14. Social Constructionism – Lots of Options!

15. Tutor2u