Brighton speakers

Tuesday 09 March 2010
The ICT for Education Conference 2010: Brighton

Friday 17th September 2010 • Hilton Brighton Metropole
Speaker biographies

Below are the details of our speakers at the ICT for Education Conference 2010 in Bristol.




Tim Rylands

Tim Rylands has been described as an extremely gifted and inspirational teacher, with a love of the creative potential of technology and an excellent rapport with his pupils.

Tim has received a vast amount of press coverage around the world for his innovative use of ICT and is now much in demand for seminars, training days and conferences around the world, presenting the results of his work in an inspiring, practical and often humorous way. His imaginative and encouraging style of teaching allows children to express their creativity and make significant gains in attainment.

With over 20 years of experience in schools from the West Country to West Africa, he has brought computer games into the classroom, using the Myst series to inspire children's creative confidence in many areas of such as creative writing, speaking and listening, music and art.
  


Brian Vidler

Brian Vidler has been involved in developing ICT in schools since 1981, balancing classroom teaching and school leadership with running professional development courses, staff training and conferences. With experience in Independent, Church Primary and Middle Schools as well as non-maintained special education, he is now an unattached Leading ICT Teacher in Essex. This includes supporting schools in the development of the County learning platform (e-Folio) and other cache and web-based resources such as Espresso, in addition to some part-time teaching.

With a particular interest in animation and film as well as exploiting the use of the interactive whiteboard in the classroom, his current projects can be found at  www.newcourt.net