BETT Show 2009

Well the stands have been dismantled, the purple carpet rolled up and the salesmen & women retired back to their desks for another year!

BETT 2009 was, for all intents and purposes, pretty similar to 2008. Sadly, there was very little ground breaking ‘new’ technology, nor was there the usual number of fantastic new innovations and gizmo’s, which was a little disappointing. Last year was definitely the year of class voting, but this year’s show really lacked any such ‘wow’ factor.

On a more positive note, many suppliers launched new or updated versions of existing products, giving teachers more to play with, and suppliers such as Promethean and Smart had some great demonstrators on hand, with some really interesting products being showcased.

The show also hosted a vast array of seminars, which received a mixed reaction, from being absolutely fantastic to boring and total rubbish! But you can’t please everyone!

Once again the big boys dominated the vast majority of the ground floor space, with the smaller, niche and more often than not most innovative suppliers crammed upstairs, in what felt like the loft space! In future year’s, the smaller, niche suppliers really need to be brought to the forefront of the show to really make it great once again as they are very close to being both driven and priced out.

Cambridge University Press - Race to Learn

Race to Learn is an exciting new development from Williams F1 in association with Cambridge University Press.

The easy-to-use interactive DVD-ROM launches in Summer 2009 and will provide real-life contexts for cross-curricular topic-based learning.

For more information, and a chance to win an exclusive visit to Williams F1 HQ, take a test drive at the Cambridge University Press BETT stand G30 or visit our website: www.cambridge.org/racetolearn