Sunday- time to pack up and go home!

Only one short meeting to go, at 12.30pm today, when all the British folk meet to discuss the weekend and sum up.
Lat night we had a great dinner, which was 5 courses and went ton from 8pm until midnight! We were entertained by some Czech illusionists and circus performers, which added to the spectacle nicely.

It has been a great Conference, where I've met up with many folk from last year, and made many, many new contacts for eTwinning. It's a very big, happy family- I wish it could be this way at work in Scotland!!

Czech performers at dinner!



With Owain, Cecile, Pascal and John, who were all at Bucharest last year. It was nice to catch up with old pals again.



View of the crowd at dinner.

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eTwinning Conference workshops

At the second workshop this afternoon.

Today is a very busy day! There were some introductions at 9am, followed by the results of a big survey that was carried out a few weeks ago, which I took part in, then it was on to the first of today's workshops. I went along to the Creativity workshop which was really interesting, as it gave me some good ideas for the future.
I'm off now to "Using eTwinning tools in a pedagogic way" which is then followed by a workshop for all the eTwinning Ambassadors. That one will finish at 6pm, and there will then be the chance to look around the various displays that each country has brought. I'll take some pictures and hopefully get them on at some point.
It's actually very difficult to find a Wi-Fi signal for free in the hotel. There is an option to buy internet time, but that's very expensive at about £12 for 24 hours, so I have managed to get a password from a guy from Poland, which gives me free access for a while today. If that runs out, I'll have to try to find another way of getting free access!

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In Prague at the eTwinning Conference

I'm staying here at the Clarion Congress hotel in Prague for the annual eTwinning Conference, which starts officially later this morning. There'll be nearly 500 teachers from all over Europe.

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Portinscale and the Lake District

I'm writing this from Prague, catching up from last weekend when we spent a few days in the Lake District. It was really nice there, and we stayed in the same place that Anna and I stayed in seven years ago- the Derwentwater Hotel near to Keswick.

This was Sandy and Olivia outside the pencil museum in Keswick.


At Ashness Bridge, looking back to Derwent Water.


Close to Ashness Bridge is Surprise View.

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