It started over the summer with education ministers from around the world being invited to come to London for a ministerial seminar about ICT in schools, using technology to teach and learn. Then it started for real on Sunday evening with a reception at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington. On Monday 160-odd delegates registered from around 64 countries, including 53 ministers. Five of our own ministers were involved in it as well, speaking, hosting, meeting their overseas counterparts. A global seminar indeed.School visits around London, speeches and discussions at the QEII Centre in Westminster, a reception in the House of Commons and a formal dinner at the Royal Garden. Lots of interesting discussion, hearing what other countries are doing with ICT and lots of friendly people. And it finished this afternoon at the BETT Show at Olympia.
It's been an exhausting week, with last minute changes to the programme, re-drafting speeches and updating briefings, smiling and chatting, being nice to everyone, cool, calm and collected (well, some of the
time). But I'm pleased with it - it went really well, with none of the delegates having anything not wholly positive to say about the event. A swan - serene above the water with legs paddling away like woppy-wings underneath!And here's my MYM rose, rescued from one of the floral decorations on the tables today, which I wore as a button-hole on my way home this evening.
Now I've just got BETT for the rest of week!
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