 Good morning everybody and a very warm welcome to the second day of the ALT online winter conference 2021. I'm Emma Jane, Events Manager for ALT and I'll be doing your welcome this morning and also shortly introducing my colleague Emma McAllister. So we hope that you had a great day yesterday and if it's your first day today, you are very welcome. We've got an absolutely packed programme for you and also some social things to look forward to. So a little bit of history about the winter conference. The first one was in 2014 and unfortunately it got snowed in. So since then, since 2015, we decided to move the winter conference online and since then we've had more than 2,600 participants. So if this is your first conference, welcome and if you are seasoned pro welcome back and thank you for joining us for another year. We'd like to extend a special thanks to our sponsors and partners for this event, Moodle, our scholarship sponsor, Open Academia who are publishing partner and we'd also just like to say that we are still committed to the open COVID pledge for education. So a little bit about the team behind the conference. We've got Emma McAllister who leads basically our tech team who's been putting together our interactive programme for you and I will hand over to Emma very shortly. We've got Marin Deepwell who is CEO of Ault and I'm sure that some of you will get to see and speak with Marin throughout the day. Jane Frankel who is our finance officer but Jane is your go-to lady for all things help desk and you can contact Jane through Discord or through our help desk email and I'll give you a little bit more information about that shortly. We have Christina who is our administration's officer who will also be chairing and moderating some sessions for you today and Christina also looks after all of our communications and social media and we're really happy to have back for another event the study group team of Claire, Johnny and Caroline. So Caroline and Claire you'll get to meet today they'll also be chairing and moderating some sessions. So we've got lots of different ways for you to engage with our conference and enjoy it. We've got our hashtag which is AultseaWinter21 and you also would have received in your joining instructions your day one and your day two emails a link to join our Discord social space and it was absolutely amazing to see more than a hundred people on there yesterday. So if you haven't signed up yet for Discord please do so and Emma will be able to talk you through that in a second as well. If at any point you need help on our website you can go to our help and orientation pages the link is here and you can also go to the help desk on Discord. If you prefer to you can also email us at helpdesk at ault.ac.uk so please do get in touch no query is too big or too small. So a little bit about how to navigate your way around the day to day if you're new to our interactive program once you've logged in you will see a screen like this. Today we are on day two and then here you'll see a little blue icon on the right hand side and if you click that it expands the menu to look like this where we've got all of the sessions listed. To find out more about a session please just click on it the screen will expand and you'll get to see more about the speakers a synopsis of the session and you'll also be able to just click watch and that will take you straight to that session. All of our sessions are recorded and are available immediately after that session so if you've got other things going on today and you've missed something that you really wanted to see don't worry just navigate back to that session in our program and you will be able to watch the recording. If there's a certain speaker that you're interested in you can click on the speakers that lists all of our speakers in alphabetical order and that will take you straight to their session. We do know that it's coming towards the end of the year and it has been a little bit of a trifling time over the last couple of years so we do try to put your well-being at the heart of our conferences. We have got 15-minute screen breaks between all of our sessions so please do take a break step away rest your eyes. If you need a little bit of a break don't worry all of our recordings become immediately available after the live session. If you just want to have a little bit of a chat you don't fancy watching a session at that time please do hang out to our Discord channel where you can have where there is a dedicated hangout area and you can chat to people. There's also a day dedicated day two session chat area and today during our lunch break if you fancy a little bit of festive fun we have our Ulzi Winter 21 quiz of the year so please do join in for that and I hope that you enjoy it. I'd just like to draw your attention to our artwork for this conference and we've now worked with the London College of Communication for a couple of years to produce artwork for our events and the winner for this event was Banya Dancheva a student currently studying on the BA illustration and visual media program at the London College of Communication and it's absolutely wonderful to see how students view learning technology through their eyes and the creativity that they come up with and it's great to be able to feature Vanya's work during this event so thank you very much to Vanya for letting us use her artwork. You should have now received your Winter Conference participant badge which comes from badges at alt.ac.uk or and if you're a speaker you would also received a speaker badge and we are re-issuing those so if you're newly registered please don't worry you will receive one of those in due course. So please familiarise yourselves with our netiquette and our code of conduct again that's available via our help and orientation on our website and like I've previously mentioned recording recordings are available via the interactive program as soon as they become available we do have live captioning available for this event as well and closed captions are available on recordings So just to draw your attention now to what we're finishing up with at the end of today is our learning technologist of the year awards 2021 this is open to all and anybody can attend this event and we've got different awards being given to individuals and teams and they are hosted by president of ALT David White and chair of ALT Helen O'Sullivan So please do join in if you can for the learning technologist of the year awards at the end of the day to be able to celebrate some of the amazing achievements that the community have made over the past year. So that brings me to the end of my introduction again a massively warm welcome to everybody we hope that you have a fantastic day and without further ado I'm going to hand over to my colleague Emma McAllister who can take us through another wonderful ALT seed body welcome and orientation this morning Hi Emma Hi Emma Jane thank you so much and hello everyone we're going to take 10 or 15 minutes now to get familiar with our social space for the conference which is on discord if you weren't here for the welcome session yesterday uh discord is the social excuse me the social space that we use for conversations about conference presentations sharing resources and messaging and just general chat for the conference it's an