 So, my one's a bit different, bit of a different take on community, my one's a bit different instead of looking at student communities or teaching and learning communities, my one's looking at a new kind of community for us as learning technologists in the performing arts conservatoire sector. Sorry, this is a, you might tell by the hastily crossed out Fawkes 2022, this is a thing I did there. You know, kind of, you know, when we were looking for presentations, I kind of said rationally, so I'm trying to remember what I said that meeting, but hey, yeah, let's get on to there. So me, yeah, learning technologist in higher education, with over 27 years experience, mixture of hands-on management roles in school specialists and larger unis. And I joined the Guildhall School as their sole the learning technologist has Moodle, it's my problem, right? In July 2021, and I'm still there, working out at the work shop, if anybody wants to know. But yes, I'm still making the business case for an additional person, not that way yet, but I'll get there. Okay, so performing arts conservatois, there's a bit of a difference of approach in how conservatois conceive their delivery of teaching and learning. Two definitions there, one from conservatois UK and the other from UCAS. And I think the bit that I would pick out as being really important is that kind of last bit from conservatois UK, where it says, you know, so dance, acting, instrumental or vocal performance. They are taught at both universities and conservatois, but as you'd expect, the conservatois emphasizes more on the practical and vocational aspects of that performance underpinned through academic coursework and other things that students are, you know, academically required to do and deliver. But, you know, essentially it's, you know, refining the craft, becoming the world's next best, you know, leading soprano or whatever it is that we happen to be training them in. So, thinking about our peers, networks as learning technologists, then what have we got? Well, we've got things like early career learning technology group on LinkedIn. That's one end of the experience spectrum. At the other end, we've got the kind of heads of e-learning forum for people that are fairly senior kind of leadership role. We've also got things around particular technologies. So, as a promoter user group, there's an instructor community for those people that use Canvas. Sorry, I used it for a year in one place and ran away screaming. And also Moodle Moodle, for anybody that uses Moodle. And there's the Moodle user group in London. We've also got the alt groups. I don't need to talk about those. We are one of them here in this room. There's also other groups like, you know, the learning network and things like that. But if I was to think about specifically what there is in the conservator sector, I joined it, you know, I joined a conservator, you know, when I did, looked around for my peers and thought, oh, right. There are other places out there. Who's talking to anyone? There are a couple of just male lists. One I found for e-learning and music and dance and things like that. And there were two people on the list, one of whom worked at another conservator in London and the other guy was in the room next door. It's quite obvious that they weren't really talking to each other. So I just thought, you know, okay, how do I find out what's going on in this sector that I haven't really worked in officially before? So I'll skip over the bit about learning technology leadership because that was the previous presentation. But so I decided to try and kind of pull together my own network of people in similar sector, you know, similar institutions to me. So I came up with this thing called Inside the Digital Conservatoire. And it was hastily convened to try and establish a network of peers to share practice between institutions, find out what's going on elsewhere, you know, you kind of you land in a place and you want to look at the landscape, don't you? Where do you fit in with your peers? So, you know, I kind of had a chat with an old mate of mine, Julian, who was better used to work with as well. And he said, yes, he would be kind of chair of the first meeting as an impartial person to kind of steer the discussion, ask the question without me necessarily setting the agenda. And I basically put out posts on LinkedIn and just mail lists and, you know, found a bunch of people from places that wanted to come and share and talk and discuss. And yeah, so we convened an online meeting with three major questions, I think that we wanted to get a sense of. What are the kind of key technologies that are used in the Conservatoire sectors? What's worked, what hasn't? Major challenges for the past two years. I mean, we've all got them, right? You know, past three years now. And what do we think the future of tech looks like in the Conservatoire sector? So a bit of looking back, a bit of thinking this is where we are, a bit of thinking ahead. So as I said, we convened the meeting. And there it is. It took place a year ago today. So I could be somewhere else in an entirely different space with an entirely different people. But yeah, so we had people from all college music, Oxford University, Cambridge, Morley College, and a few other people from other places. And unfortunately, I didn't remember to take the screenshot quite the beginning when we had more people there. There's a few of us there anyway. So it was our meeting, scheduled for an hour, lasted a couple of hours. We had a lot to discuss, you know, we think, finally, there's actually more of us out here than we maybe realised and thought, we should be talking to each other, we should be sharing what's going on in our kind of slightly crazy world of, you know, working at strange rooms that nobody thought learning technology should ever be in. You know, when I started day one in my job, and the first thing I had to do was to move a load of opera costumes. So I could actually sit somewhere in a seat. And, you know, I turned up and there was somebody put on, you know, the mask for the Queen of the Night on the top of my monitor. I thought, no, thank you, this won't do. Because, you know, it's just not my style. So there it is. There it was. And it was all good. I think it led to a couple of outputs. One, the one on the left there, I did a bit of a blog post thingy on our intranet because we're quite small and very specialist and very quirky in the way we do things. Yeah, the only way you really publicize anything at the Guildhall School is via my Guildhall. And the other thing I've done, which is still awaiting publication is I wrote a chapter in a special edition of a publication for CEDA about digital technologies and practices for online teaching and learning in the sector. So I've got a few things to come out of it. And a lot of what happened in that meeting voices from the community as it were is reflected in that, in that publication. So that's quite an interesting thing to do. And my line man who read that post about it and read a draft of it and said, why did no one have done this kind of stuff before? Just because no one's ever thought about doing it really, I guess, then I thought, well, maybe we need to find out what's happening elsewhere and we need to work out what's going on and what we could be doing that, you know, crucially, what other places doing that we could also do with one learned technologist in a weak workshop. And you did. So it's something I think that potentially could have a bit of leadership potential for the conservatile sector if we took it further. So doing things like the regular diarised meetings and setting things up and getting some actual community leadership in terms of this is what we want. This is the things that we think we need to focus on that are specific to our areas of disciplines and actually what we could do. What's happened in the year since that first meeting took place is we've had a few smaller cluster meetings where I've gone out and actually met people. Yeah, that's always good, isn't it? But, you know, finding out more specific stuff around what they're doing with, you know, specific aspects of how they're doing, you know, quite niche things for a particular group of students. So the meetings I had recently was with the Royal College of Music where we were talking around, you know, actually how they're delivering opera training online and things like that, working with students in a studio, maybe with an accompanist also there, but having it being critiqued as it's happening by people online. So all of that kind of thing we discussed. And that's kind of it really. But yeah, it's just the first step, initial starting point in terms of trying to find out, you know, kind of what's going on, where it could go from here on. I think it's really a case of, you know, making those contacts, maintaining, nurturing and kind of going, okay, this is what is the crucial thing for us as a kind of small subsector of the HE community. And working with that and sharing ideas. Okay, I'll leave it there, Sharon. So I think I have a really interesting perspective. Come please, I'm Kevin. I've been locked out of the Zoom, so I lost the chat. Is there anything back in the Zoom that any questions to raise? Just it would be nice to be surrounded by costumes and masks. Can always come and work with me. Once I get that business gets approved. All right. Have Guild HE any of these kind of things? Right. Good question. We've got quite a bit of interest in joining Guild HE at Guild Hall at the minute, which is quite, quite fascinating, because that's really come from our access and participation team who sit on the other side of the week workshop from me. Seriously, they do. But, you know, it's something that I think, you know, yeah, it's one of the things that maybe places like us need to get better at is being plugged in with some of those sector organisations that can actually join us into those conversations at a more senior level effectively. And I think maybe it's a bit of, you know, something that we need to do better. There's maybe a bit of a sector place that hasn't really been a large part of, you know, the wider HE community. Guild HE needs to do a bit better. I was in a really small specialist place that I've done the construction before here, so I can feel your loneliness. But I was a bit disappointed that Guild HE didn't really, because, you know, it's just full of subjects which are like, you can't do that online, you know. And so I think more voices within that sector organisation could be really good. I think it's something we're seriously looking at as an organisation. How we position ourselves, where, you know, what would be the best affiliations to have, and how we take that forward. But again, it's on the agenda.