 er mwyn i, yw Mike? Dydw i gael 2017 ym Mhacol os diwrnodd. Rwy'r hyn ar y ddod i'n mynd i ddweud, o'i ddennyddio'n amddangos ni'n feddwl i chi. Roedd hanes hwn o'r cyflawni? Mae o'r cyflawni ar gyfer Mac lingodd, Daniel Clark, Bella Abrams, Malcolm Ryan, Fiona Harvey. Poes hwn roi mewn cyflawni ar y y pertyn. So we've had two proxy votes submitted prior to the AGM, and one for Metlingard, in an individual capacity, and one representing the University of West London. So we've got two proxy votes and Martin Weller will be voting for them on their behalf. Thank you. So to move on to the approved أ الش mansion from the last general meeting, first of all I'm looking for two people to act as tellers to count votes for us during the two volunteers. Any volunteers for tellers? James wrth sy'n cymdeinol, James? Can I have another teller volunteer? You're going to have to count the votes. Thank you, Julie. Thanks, Julie. So there are, you should have copies of the minutes last meeting in your packs, if not, they are available online. So I'd like to ask for a proposer and a seconder to record these as a faithful account of the last meeting. Ym grindd iawn, maer wasiynau i'r rhai ac yw'r cyfrifawr? Cezo'n fawr yn dechydig? Mae'r rhaid i'r fawr hwn? Mae'r hwn yn cael'i fawr hwn yn cael'i gweithio'r fawr. Mae'r rhaid i'r fawr hwn yn cael'i gweithio'r gweithio, mae'r rhaid i'r fawr hwn yn cael'i gweithio grwy economistiaeth, mynd i ddech chi'n mynd i ddim o ym glas, mae'n ymwneud yma, Mae'n gwybod ei wneud. Felly yna'r ffordd yma'r ffordd, mae'n cwrthog i'ch drosbyn gwrthog, a mae'n gwybod i'r prifsgwrs iawn i'r prysgol ac yn rhoi'r ymddiadau sy'n ddysgu'r bobl yma i'r cyfnod i chi'r prysgol yn y rhaid o'r ffordd. Mae'r brifsgwr ar y ddweud yn ei ddau, mae'n grwp eistedd yn ôl. Mae'r ddweud yn gwybod i'r ddweud, ac mae'n ddweud yn ymgynghwyl. Roedd ymylch bod ni'n gweithio gennymau a'r roedd cyfnod agorethau o'u hyfforddiol y blwysig yn ddiogwlad. Mae'n dwylo bod hyn a'ch gweithio i fod yn fwy iddynt. So byddwn i'r hyn yn gweinio, Dw'n gweinydd,你要wch chi'n rhoi'r gweithio gyda'u cyfnod ond y lleydd? Ddweud ar rwy'n gofod. We've been really pleased with the way that has gone particularly in terms of our finances. Our aims were to make sure that the organisation was sustainable through its core activities, that's by our income through our membership, through CMAUL certification and through conferences, and we've done that. So I think that puts us in a very positive position for the future and makes us very stable and most importantly it ensures that we're independent, We are not depending on any external funding to do our core business so that as an organisation that is really important for us and hopefully for you as our members as well you can take confidence for that. I think again over the last couple of years as Daniel has highlighted in his report it's been quite stable for us financially in terms of operating costs so that's been really good. This year if you do look at the figures you'll notice there is a very small deficit but we're absolutely fine with that in terms of our overall operating budget it's very small, it's well within the tolerances of what the organisation can deal with. So overall we are very pleased with how the organisation is running in terms of the changes it's gone through and becoming a CIO and I think we've got a very stable foundation for the future. I also need to report from our external auditor as you'll see in the report that they have accounted that our accounts are timely and fair and there were no matters arising from that and the audit is complete. I'm just going to double check with Maryn, is there anything that I've missed there now? I think so if anyone has any questions I'm not happy to take them but Maryn can take that but if there are any concerns then please raise them now. Okay brilliant so I think in that case I would just like to propose then that the AGM recommend that the annual report and accounts be approved by the meeting today so if we could have someone to... James second that? Yes we are Corey are we good so can I ask for votes for the motion that the annual report and accounts be approved? So yeah two hands if you've got two votes and Martin Weller do you count as proxy votes as well? I count three times. Have you counted on the stage and behind the stage? No. I'm three votes. How many votes? 31 and you've counted the two proxy votes? No 33. 33, they're voting four. Okay votes against and any abstentions? So that motion is passed, thank you. The next item is to appoint an auditor for the 2017-2018 accounts. So I'll propose this from the chair that David Cadwaladr and Co imitated account. So chest it and be appointed as auditors again. I'd like a seconder for that motion. You don't need to vote in that. Unless anybody wishes to put it to a full vote and take the approval. Okay that's approval. Thank you. I'll give it to Marin for a verbal report on the past year and the honour we live in that year. Thank you Marin. Thank you Martin and welcome to everyone. It is a real special year I think to be reporting to the association. The first thing I wanted to start with and I wanted to mention in particular is how much the new strategy is really shaped what we've been doing as an association. I think the annual report is a great example of us actually making the most of our strategy both the visual thinkery and obviously the ideas behind it and the membership behind it. And how we've put action to our words in making that happen and putting that into practice. So I think that is a really important milestone for the association. Next year in February will be my 10th year since I started working for ALT and my 6th year as chief executor. And I think I've never seen the organisation more vibrant and bigger than it has been this year. So it's a really good time for us. But obviously there are still real challenges even when you do have such an engaged community. And one of the challenges this year that I do want to point out has been our journal Research and Learning Technology. So many of you will know what's happened with the journal that our publisher co-action publishing was sold to Taylor and Francis over Christmas. And that we were very unhappy with that change and we didn't want to go back to the kind of commercial open access model. We wanted to stick where our journal's home and heart is which is fully open access and within a smaller publishing community. And I think in correlation with our members and in consultation with the board and under the leadership of Neil Morris, who chairs our editorial board, we have moved the journal into our own ownership in partnership with Open academia. And the journal has now been operating again for two months. And it has already published eight articles and it's starting to be, I think, taken off life support and starting to be able to breathe on its own. You all know how hard we work to make impact widen for research. Our journal is one of the longest established and the open access model has drastically increased its readership. So being not operational for months at a time was, I think, a really big issue that the association has faced this year. And we've worked incredibly hard to make it happen. But no one's worked harder than the editors of the journal and I do want to specifically mention them because I think they have made a huge contribution. And I think starting with Gail Wilson, who is in Australia and I'm hoping Gail, if you're watching, or I'm hoping you're sleeping, but at any rate if you're watching this later, we give you a big thank you and also Fiona Smart, who's not with us today. And we also want to say thank you to Leslie and to Amanda and to Peter and also to one of our editors who stepped down earlier this year, Peter Reid, who, I'm sorry, Carlos, who was at the University of Lita, is at the University of Lita to step down but did a huge amount of work for us. Without our editors, the journal couldn't function and I think we're now looking forward to, in conjunction with the editorial board and other organisations to work in partnership to really build a very sustainable future. Becoming independent with the journal is one of the key achievements, I think, for the association this year. So I hope we'll see great things from our publishing arm. And also I think the alt-C blog is going from strength to strength. And on behalf of Anne Hall, who is the editor for the entire editor team, I meant to say a big thank you to two editors who are coming to the end of their term. And that is Howard Scott and Stella Ibubisi. And I really hope that their contributions will help make the blog go from strength to strength but we also want to say thank you for all the work that they have done. We've actually had more than 20 expressions of interest to join the editorial team for the blog going forwards and I think that is a real achievement for Anne and her team. So Anne can't be with us in person, but Anne, if you're watching, thank you very much for all your hard work on behalf of everyone here. We really appreciate it. And I think the blog will be ringing with reviews and posts following the conference. And there's one more group of people who I want to say a thank you to and those are people who are partly in the room but also watching from all around the country. And that is my own staff team, which is this year very small indeed as we're here at the conference. And I want to give a big shout out to Tom Palmer, who's sitting over there and looking at sign-in sheets. So thank you very much Tom for all the hard work you do. It was leading Seamold and membership, I think, in an example of regression. And also hiding behind the speakers, Armar and Huxey, who as my deputy helps us shape the organisation and leads on innovation and technology and all things conference delivery. But also I want to mention those members of staff who can't be here face-to-face and in-person, our wonderful events manager, Jane Marsh, who mastermind at the conference and can't be here due to ill health. And also our finance officer, Jane Frankel, who's been instrumental in getting our financial situation so operating so smoothly. And last but definitely not least, I want to give a big shout out to Christina Peterson, who runs our communications and looks after our administration. So I think I'm very fortunate indeed to have colleagues who are so committed to the work of the Association, who will work tirelessly in conjunction with members of really, really appreciate their contribution. But now the most fun part for me at any rate is that Martin Waller and I will in a moment get to make an award that we've been looking forward to quite a few weeks now. I did want to make a few personal remarks before I head over to Martin to talk a little more about our honoree and give his observations. But I think when I started working in learning technology I quickly found that there were a lot of role models to follow and very amazing women that I got to work with both in terms of people within health and within the sector. But I think few people have been so inspirational for me personally who have really shown the way how you can walk the walk and talk the talk and put your values into practice. So for me in particular as an individual this is a very meaningful award but the work that we're celebrating today goes beyond what we've done in learning technology and beyond what we've done as an association it crosses all sectors and really helps the most disadvantaged in those without a voice, learners and teachers who wouldn't have someone else to champion them. So I think with that I'm going to hand over to Martin Waller to give his observations and then announce the award. OK, thank you. So I've known, I have to keep it a surprise, you won't guess who it is. So I've known this person for about ten years I think through blogging and stuff back in the early days of Age of Logs. I think what I admire most about her and there's lots of things is that I'm like a lot of us in ed tech who talk quite a good game but don't do much. She's going to really get stuff done and I think that's really exemplary and across a wide range of really interesting topics and she's been a real inspiration to a lot of us. She's also a really nice person which I think is her. It goes a long way. So the award this year goes to Josie Fraser. I'm going to say something but I've been told to keep it really, really brief so I will do it before I warn. I am so overwhelmed and honoured to get this award. It literally means I don't have to do anything ever again now. I can just give up. I am obviously disappointed that there's no tiara. But one day that will happen, I'm sure, for me. I spent the first five years of my career basically telling people technology is coming. It's going to change everything about your world. It's going to change everything about how we work, learn, play, meet our partners, everything about everything. And then I spent the last five years of my career saying you know what that happened and we weren't ready for it now, everything's changed. We've not sorted it out. So it is kind of my own fault that I'm now working at Central Government and my job is to try and sort that out. And the reason why I think I've been so successful in my career is very much down to the community and the association of ALT. Because ALT's been here for me since I started as a baby ed tech and I was in an interview pretending I knew what VLE was and has seen me right through to now. And the community has been an amazingly warm, generous, inspiring one to belong to. I love being able to spend time with everybody here and get to see everybody. So I'm really pleased to be here in person today. Thank you very much. Thank you. So the next item is elections to trust these vacancies. And we're doing okay for time so I think we've got time for them to come up. So a few words and to choose themselves. So to announce the results of the election of a vice chair of the association who will become chair in September 2018 and the president in September 2019. And Nicola Whitten was elected and a poet. So congratulations Nicola, are you there? Okay. I will also announce the others. So we've also elected two individuals to serve for three years as trustees of the ALT from September 2017 and that's Elizabeth Charles and Peter Bryant. So congratulations. I won't say many words. Just a very quick thank you to everybody who voted. And I'm really, really looking forward to working with everybody particularly Sheila, Myron, Martin, the other trustees. And I think the first thing to work on would be to try and get tiaras for all trustees and honorary life members. It's okay, it's on your list. Thank you. Offering me a microphone is a really dangerous thing. Thank you very much to everyone who voted for me. I think it's really important that the voice of the whole sector is represented through this association. It's a really powerful thing to have that. It's a really powerful thing that we do hear anyway which is share all of this stuff amongst each other and make it available to everyone else. And if we can continue doing that, that would be a really excellent thing. So thank you. I too wish to thank everybody who voted for me and I'm really looking forward to contributing on this one. So thank you very much. Congratulations. I look forward to working with you. Welcome. So that closes the meeting. But before we do so, I'd like to thank some trustees who are coming to the end of their term. Fiona Harvey should have been here today but couldn't make it. So it should have been her chair in this meeting. She would have done a much better job than I'm doing. So thanks very much to Fiona who finishes her term as president this year. Thanks also to Malcolm Ryan. I know Matt Lingard, I think he's watching online. Hi Matt. And I think Alistair Clarke is here, is he? Do you want to come up, Alistair? We have gifts. So thank you very much to all those who are coming. I just wanted to add another note of thanks to all of you for coming. As you can see, we've managed to organise such an exciting conference programme that not that many members could come here. But it is very valued that you are here and that you're participating in our AGM. Thank you. Hopefully Alistair will leave us with some of his words after his six-year term. I'll say very little but thank you very much and this is just great because I could write my novel. And you're all going to be in it. We close the meeting. We do close the meeting formally but I just actually spotted one of our journal editors in the audience and we did bring a present along so we will award that in a moment and say thank you. So thanks for coming everyone. See you at the gala dinner. Definitely. See you this evening. Thanks everyone.