A TeachMeet is an 'unconference' user-generated event, organised by teachers for teachers, wherein ideas are shared and discussed among peers. It was first organised in Scotland in 2006, with a nod to the format of Barcamp and the philosophy of Open Space Technology.
Open Space Technology un conference format introduced by Harrison Owen in Monterey, Ca, USA
IRC was created by Jarkko Oikarinen. IRC was used by early bloggers to contact and converse with each other.
It’s generally recognized that the first blog was Links.net, created by Justin Hall, while he was a Swarthmore College student in 1994.
The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger
The term "unconference" first appeared in an announcement for the annual XML developers conference, Chicago
The word weblog was shortened to “blog” in 1999 by programmer Peter Merholz
Wikipedia launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
First ever PekkaKucha session held in Tokyo, Japan
Facebook launchedby Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
Youtube video-sharing service created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim
First Barcamp organised in Palo Alto, Ca, USA, as an open-to-all response to invitation only FooCamp
Three Scottish Edu bloggers - John Johnson, Ewan McIntosh, and David Noble - meet face to face at SETT 2005, and from some wherein that conversation, the need to meet face to face and share became a reality.
ScotEduBlogs wiki set up and invitations to join published
"Micro-blogging" as it was then called, messages within 140 characters, created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams.
In the Jolly Judge pub in Edinburgh, arranged via wiki and IRC to take place after a conference. Conference Keynote, Will Richardson, attended with Ewan McIntosh, John Johnson, David Muir, Andrew Brown, and Grant Frazer
The 2nd edition of TeachMeet, and the first to use the title, took place in Glasgow, Scotland. Followed by a TeachEat.
First ever Ignite talks session held in Seattle, Washington, USA.
BarCamp is introduced to Scotland by Ewan McIntosh
TeachMeet attached to the Scottish Learing Festival, held at Science Cemtre in Glascow
First TeachMeet outside Scotland takes place at BETT, Olympia, London; followed by a TeachEat.
Perth saw the next independent TeachMeet, not attached to a conference
Ewan McIntosh curated one of the first Teachmeets "abroad", and the first outside the UK, in Moosejaw, Canada.
Is this the first instance of the use of #teachmeet, in a tweet by @eddbu referring to the forthcoming first Netherlands Teachmeet?
First TeachMeet in Utrecht, Netherlands
Ireland first TeachMeet hosted by CESI on the eve of their annual conference in Tallaght, Dublin. There have been over 100 TeachMeets to date in Ireland. Details are at Irish TeachMeet Wiki...
TeachMeet at SACD Conferenence, Orelando, Florida, USA
Held as part of the Wales Moodle Moot / Learn Tech event in Glyndwr University, Wrexham.
Enter story info here
The frist online TeachMeet, organised as #TMETRU09 by the Ed Tech Round Up community
First TeachMeet Australia
Teachmeet Takeover is introduced at BETT 2010. Exhibitors allow teachers to use their booth as a platform for TeachMeet style presentations throughout the day
The first Edcamp took place this month in Philadelphia, USA.
John Davitt moved the teach/meet model outdoors, starting in Adelaide Astralia and continuing in Mayo Ireland
Hosted online by Arjana Blazic and Bart Verswijvel, an international TM recorded on YouTube
TeachMeet migrates to Malaysia, Netherlands and many more countries. (Documentation of first TM in each place is not yet verified.)
First Teachmeet in Northern Ireland in Stranmillis College, followed by TeachEat.
In the UK, NACCE awarded the 2012 Impact Award for Collaborative Group Project to TeachMeet
The first TeachMeet meeting in Croatia was held live on Saturday, April 21, 2012, in the premises of the University Computing Center in Zagreb, organized by the Just One Click Association and CARNet's E-learning Academy
An annual weekend event initiated by a bunch of TeachMeet friends and enthusiasts, with the intention of having a family involvement in the sharing of learning
TeachMeets: Guerrilla CPD by Liz Bennet, published in SEDA Issue 13 Vol 3
Pedagoo, which had started as an online sharing space for teachers in Scotland, began to hold face to face meetings in TeachMeet/Edcamp format
A suggestion by Stephen Lockyer led to a #TMUK coalition organising 18 TM events on this day
Billed and T-Shirted as the "World's Biggest TeachMeet", 650 registered. Several hundred attended at this BETT TM.
First TeachMeet HongKong
First TeachMeet Singapore
Devised by Tom Farrelly in Ireland, and first used at the ILTA EdTech in conference in Dublin, Ireland, Gasta features a quickfire round of 5 minute presentations, each talk beginning and ending with loud and humorous audience participation
First TeachMeet Shanghai
TeachMeet becomes part of the programme at Féilte, the annual celebration hosted by The Teaching Council in Ireland. It runs alongside a ResearchMeet.
Teachmeet celebrates 10th Birthday at the BETT Arena, with cake, champagne, and an announcement from Ewan McIntosh of a crowd sourced book to celebrate 10 years
TeachMeet Shenzen hosted by 21st Century Learning
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