 yourself cool but it's lovely to see so many of you here as always thank you to our sponsors you'll see them around in the exhibition as well without these you know these companies and these people supporting us we would be able to put this conference on so you'll also hopefully have been given a exhibit of bingo cards for when you registered so throughout the conference if you visit one of their stands they'll give you a little sticker and then you'll be entered into a prize draw which will be free tickets to our events or some merch from our website so if that's your interest do please participate and you'll also see some sessions from some of our sponsors as well throughout the conference. So to introduce those of us that are here that's not here yet but my name is Kerry Pinnie I work for Alt and I'm their Chief Operations Officer and then we have Donna. Do you want to say a little about yourself Donna? I have been entangled with Alt people for a while so I'm on the conference committee this year so if you see me and you need something I can try to point you to a person who can help you I'm probably not the person who can help you but I will know who can help you. I'm just going to introduce myself. So yeah I'm Kerry Pinnie part of the conference committee part of accessibility subcommittee as well so if you need something if I know it I'll point you to the direction otherwise I'll look for Kerry. So yeah so here we are hug hugs and yeah. We also have Kath who isn't here this morning but Kath will also be doing the VR experience so throughout the three days there's oh there she is there's Kath pointed Kath so there's Kath. So Kath will be doing a VR experience as well upstairs throughout the conference you'll see it in the program so if you've not tried VR we just want to go and learn how Kath uses VR in her teaching and learning and supporting her students then pop upstairs throughout the conference to have a watch of that. So there's no such thing as a conference so I'm going to peddle some Alt things of course as we always do before we get going and just tell you a little bit about Alt if you're not aware of us perhaps this is your first time with us or perhaps I'll point something out that you didn't know that we do and then T-Rumini is going to lead us in a energizer session as well just to you know if you're not awake enough yet T-Rumini will queue all up and that will work for those online as well and we'll do an icebreaker activity as well on your tables so that you can all start to get to know each other and chat to each other you've already been chatting already but we'll do that as well and then there'll be time before Anne-Marie's keynote if you to go and get a coffee and have a little break before the keynote starts at 10 30 or 10 is the welcome in the main theatre so that's the plan for this morning and as I say it's really great to see you all here really pleased we weren't sure if anyone would turn up at this time of day on the first day so you will get a gold batch for turning up so early you'll also see around the venue as well Santanu and Lauri they are our co-chairs so Santanu and Lauri have been the chairs of the conference committee they came up with themes and you'll also see them at the start of our sessions in the morning at the start of the keynote introducing the conference as well if there's anything you want to chat to them about anything about the conference you want to feedback obviously you can speak to any of us that you've met here today but also Santanu and Lauri I'll also just point out the alt team as well that you'll see around the venue so Billy is our incoming CEO so tomorrow he officially takes the baton and starts officially as our CEO and at the same time Maran steps down tomorrow at the AGM and steps down as CEO so Billy will be our CEO from tomorrow onwards Jane and Emily you will have met at the desk they've been giving out the badges and things like that and they'll be at the desk at all times so if you have any problems and you can't find anybody go back to that registration desk there will always be somebody there Katie is the person who has put all of this together so she is our events manager so again if you need any help anything you want to feedback on Katie will do that as well and Fiona who's unfortunately on well today she's helping us out online so she'll be helping out anybody who's joined us online today so that's the alt team some of us not all of us and you'll also see upstairs the amplifier for your team as well they've got a stand and the Emma Chloe and Lynn will be on as well so you need any help just give any of us a shout if you spot us around the venue so I'll just say a little about who alt is I won't say too much you're here so you must know that we exist otherwise you wouldn't have turned up but what we really work to do is to strengthen the recognition and representation of learning technology and people who work with learning technology in the sector we enhance professionalization through things like our semal accreditation program and we want to increase the impact of learning technology for public benefit so those are some of the things that we do and we have several values one is openness so what you'll see is a few months after the conference we will release everything that we have recorded here openly so that anybody can access it afterwards we always livestream our keynotes completely publicly as well to try and you know widen and give as much participation as possible we also value our independence and we also value collaboration and participation and what you will see as you've seen with the conference committee we have people from all parts of the sector coming together to work together to put this conference together so we have pretty much everything that we do at ALT has real people volunteers behind it doing the work and contributing to it so there's very little that we do that doesn't involve people who are active in the sector already we also have I don't know why I'll put an animation on that but there we go we also have our board of trustees and you'll see some of them here I've put little hands on the ones that are going to be here this week so if you see any of these people be careful of him you know I'm joking but if you see any of these throughout the conference they are our board of trustees chairing some of our board of trustees and the board of trustees is here to make sure we spend our money wisely and that we're doing things that represent our members so again if you've got feedback you want to share about ALT or anything like that do pop a lot and speak to them if you see them but also we have our AGM on Wednesday which is important part of our governance process where as I say Maron and Billy will pass the baton between each other as CEO but we also do some of the other you know saying that the accounts are all good and approving the you know the next year's financial companies that we work with and various other really exciting governance things like that but it'll also be a celebration of our 30th anniversary at that AGM so if you are around do please pop along in the main hall for that so one of the things we do quite a lot is represent our members and actually our members feed into our our you know calls for evidence so most recently we did a response to the DFE's Genitive Artificial Intelligence call for evidence and again all of our members have contributed to that response so we've produced these responses and we've done quite a few of these over the years and they're just some recent examples but we act really as a way to represent our members as much as possible with government with other sector bodies as well as you know we do events you're here at one so we do our annual conference every year around September we also have our Open Education Conference in April every year and we also have a winter event this year which we will be announcing over the course of the conference on the 12th of December which will be completely online and you'll get the topic and theme for that over the conference so keep your eye out for that but also throughout the year we do CPD webinars and also our member in Special Interest Groups as Ti Rimli said she's a member of the Anti-Racism and Learning Technology and Special Interest Group do a huge amount of events throughout the year usually online but there will be some local you know physical meet-ups as well so do get involved in those if you haven't seen them as well so there's lots of different topics lots of local geographic activities as well that they do so get involved with those if you haven't seen them. Today as well or tomorrow our Gala dinner will be our Alt Awards so if you haven't heard about the awards do consider entering next year so our awards are really here to recognise all of the hard work that people are learning technology do and it's not just I should say it's not just you know the big shiny interesting projects we also have awarding to people over the years who just do a really bloody good job of what they're doing you know it's not just about the AI people and the VR people it's about everybody in the sector. We've got various categories this year so we have the individuals but also teams be that a project team or a literal you know team or department at university one for leadership also one for digital transformation and also one around ethical ed tech so if you have any examples of work that you're doing you know if you know somebody even that you think should be awarded do encourage them and do consider yourselves having put yourself forward and we'll have a big celebration tomorrow night at the Gala dinner if you're coming for the awards as well with live music and food and booze what more could you ask for. It's part of our work to sort of increase the professional recognition of learning technology one of the things that we have is our C-Mult framework so that's certified membership of the Association for Learning Technology and there are three pathways associate C-Mult and senior and essentially it's a peer reviewed portfolio so you put together a portfolio of your work and then it's accredited by your peers and at the end you get certified as either associate C-Mult or senior and it's something again like all we do is hugely supported by real members people like yourselves people in the sector who work in the sector who support others to get C-Mult but also do all of the assessment and accreditation so if you want to find out more about that if you're still here tomorrow afternoon for the last session of the day and you can bear to be with me in a room for another half an hour come along to my session tomorrow Thursday afternoon and to hear more about C-Mult if you'd like to. We also have an annual survey so if you haven't been participating in it when it comes out we send an email to all members but also if you're interested in you know the current trends in technology you know the sort of things that other people are using you know what are the sort of trends and what are the key topics that people are interested in we publish our survey results completely openly as well but also publish a couple of reports based on that survey too so you can even go and just have a look at all of the data from all of the previous surveys as well if you wanted to do your own analysis and research. As I mentioned our special interest groups so we've got our geographically located special interest groups and also members groups sorry and then our special interest groups like Tiruminis around different subjects and Teresa has been a very long time chair of our open education SIG as well so a huge amount of work and a huge amount of contribution made by Teresa over the years and we have a few of them here this week so you can meet the East Midlands group on this afternoon if you're from the East Midlands and you want to meet some other people who are from but also Tiruminis got a session tomorrow around anti-racism and we've also got a meetup of Teresa's group the open education SIG as well so if you're interested in getting involved in any of those please do come along. Just to mention as well I said about these earlier upstairs we have our Amplify FE team so Amplify FE is around you know just increasing the recognition and the connections between people who work in further education upstairs they've got a step up there and there are a project under ALT essentially they work with us and they work with UFI to project together there's been a long-standing project they've been doing this for a long time now and they've really made a real sort of connections with people in further education for around two thousand of them at the moment I think and it's increasing every day to sort of communicate with each other share resources share and support one another there's a few sessions from them as well if you're interested in Amplify FE if you're working FE or perhaps are interested in moving into that area there's a couple of sessions for you to go along to as well. We also have our journal if you didn't know as well so it's a peer reviewed open access journal so anybody can go and access the journal at any time and feel free to go and have a look we've also in our museum upstairs the Museum of ALT of the journal and all of the publications there but also we've got a couple of sessions from people who've worked on the journal or have been editors on the journal sharing some of the trends and other things that they've seen over the past 13 years of the journal's existence so do pop along to those as well. I'll just mention as well our framework for ethical learning technology so again this is something that is purely member led purely member created it has been members who came up with the framework and it is members who contributed to pretty much all of the work for this framework and have been real champions of using this in their own work and in their own institutions so if you haven't heard of it it's a framework really to help you think and work more ethically when using learning technology so if you haven't spotted it do go and take a look and you can also see all various contributions and the ways in which members contributed to that. We also have our blog as well if you didn't know and if you like blogging and you've got something interesting to say you're more than welcome any member is is entitled to post on our blog and our editors will help you of which Tresa was one for a very long time will help you to put your post together and then publish that online as well so it's a really great way for just sharing work maybe you've done a really interesting project recently maybe you've seen something you've got a thought that you want to share something you're working on and you kind of want to get other people involved then do please that it uh posting to the blog as well but do go and have a read as well we've got loads of topics especially related in the past few weeks to the annual conference as well so we shall move on to Timonies uh icebreaker you'll be delighted to know the uh the sales pitch is over i shall hand over to Timonies or something a lot more interesting shake shake shake okay can you still hear me mic is yeah all good good now we just do an up five oh wait just a point of a white walk okay good so as you know that's the team we're doing the um meet and greet okay sorry still trying to figure out this thing here so are you ready to rock all 23 30th birthday yeah i need that to be louder now come on it's like what 9 30 now it's got to be we're still young right we just 30 so let's do something now you'll have to shout out your country you've got like about a minute to do that but it will have to be alphabetical order so if it's australia someone is from i don't know barbados it will have to come next don't wait for then to come okay so we'll do that and then if you hear your country already being said you'll have to stand up that good sorry i'm trying to get the music will that work this gonna work okay you all know this pretty lion right okay before you continue they want me to like yeah okay for now it's not my login so we gotta streamline these ideas i need gamerly it's not your back somebody's living so far oh thank sorry thank you so we're ready to shout what's your country australia anybody australia b c d come on e f next next next jkf and marisha's malta okay and and oh country of origin i'm saying here you're gonna be pretty close b q poland so welcome poland what's your name monica three would you like to say your name as well sir james so hi james i'm monica malta poland i'm too many better and marisha's okay b q all south africa sorry south africa and what's your name bellisa lora in scotland your name shout out cat s t okay next next what have we got you can do next and then anybody else have we missed any part you also from malta right you didn't raise your hand what's your name lady me what's your name now me right did i get that did you say you can united thanks okay anybody that's you we've got to you you you you okay so lion king is going to take a rest okay from which country you are from which country you are england okay so yeah okay ready to rise and find it's sunny outside i don't think i've ever seen such a good weather in september have you people born and raised in uk have you been okay in september i don't know i've probably not probably not been here long enough then is it wrong is this one yeah yay okay we'll have to play that's the thing so now i'll need you to get up get flip charts and start to do something for me and questions will come you'll have to get up no other choice and i'll let you tear your own paper because this sheet is taller than me definitely definitely taller than me i'll try to reduce it if i know how to do it and then some slides will come up so the questions that you have to get do you you're also doing gonna no you're on discord i am i'll smile sorry i didn't want to tell you just to pull and start and i can't quite see okay and you didn't say their name oh yeah i'll tell you many times i hear many times i open up my life i don't think i've ever i also don't know when which i'm about and you are don't you now i just know that yeah we don't have a boosted i think i'll take that i'll follow you if you can write your name and later take a picture yeah you'll have fans you can write your name so who's before 2015 wow okay i'm going to 20 okay so we've got 2009 who's before 2019 you tell me how you're feeling with this team i'm celebrating 30 years tell me what has been your one word for the first conference i think i think maybe the guys it's funny one word one word one word oh wow oh i've done something about that so who's your name on the first it okay i'm sorry somebody from china yeah so i'm here i'll leave my phone can we all sign up we'll try now we're singing so okay now what are you hoping to have it's great it's great perfect for you okay thank you now rich i've got it down already psychologists have discovered that procrastination isn't caused by laziness or lack of motivation but instead it's your condition for dealing with your unconscious fears so want to know the only way you can finally stop procrastinating so let me show it to you right now because this will transform your life provided you take action on this and you'll see how powerful this is my name is tim ham by the way and i've been in this field of human behavior for the last 12 years of my life created a company for success inside of which in 2016 became the fastest growing person on the channel so i want to pay close attention to this right now you think about it you're in the present moment right and what you do right now is dictating your future is that correct and so if you really think about it right now it's actually very simple now next one how your success happens you got to take conscious action in the present moment that leads you to the future but you and i know that's what you do because we sometimes fear what might happen and that's creating sometimes stress or anxiety and as a result think about it what do you tend to do so why does this happen because we know logically we want to basically reach these big goals well the reason why is because your brain is not designed to make it successful your brain is hardwired to keep you safe depending on what you've gone through in your life in terms of your past this is dictating your present moment so every single day you're like a hamster in the world really living every single day can you relate so what needs to happen for you to free yourself you must reinvent yourself you must create an identity that's already accomplished these big goals and you're not going to be anything because you believe deep inside you've already accomplished it how does this process work well at the moment you create this identity this is the identity that will be driving you to the future and remember the strongest force in the human side if you set the example identify yourself in other words outside your professional life outside being a learning tech you've got to reinvent your current internal that's how you think long lasting behaviour changes in your life if you like to discover exactly how you can do that in your life and how I did that in my life as well as taking my students through I'm hosting a free live webcast very soon and I'm lost into having part of this consistent social process explain your screen spot click on that button and pick your name and email and I'll send you a private email containing your meet and join link and from there you'll be able to tune in when we're back to go live and spare some of my time to take your personal questions as well because I know how transformational this process will be this has been one of the most profound shifts I've had in the last 12 years for example checking out different videos every single book under the sun in terms of personal transformation you've got to reinvent yourself that's the only way I need to slide back so slide slide 8 8 please okay so now you'll have to tell me what's the most interesting thing that I wish there was a clicker I have one I have one it's full and the battery has melted in it so okay you'll have to share with me what's the most interesting thing that came up at your table will you be able to click on the next slide now we have China and Belgium online they've got to keep posting something fun about them because I'm curious about them and okay when was my art conference it was next slide please Carrie mine was in 2017 no you were that's way way way long back the next one what was so one word to describe your first art okay I'll tell you a funny one about mine is the same we were there was a fire alarm I went there only for one day I think it was day two and there was a fire alarm that's the only thing I could remember last week there was an LTH chat there was a fire alarm fire alarm and yesterday a rich good man shared a picture of everyone standing outside and I was in the picture I was like hey what else is there because I thought it was in Manchester for some I don't know reason and it was in Liverpool do you remember that the fire alarm what are your memories of your first art that's not memory but I do have a funny story there was a woman at Nottingham and they had the conference dinner and they had a firework display and everybody had come out and went out for the firework display and we thought that everybody had gone permanently and had left half bottles of wine on their table so we went round and collected half bottles of wine that were left over from everybody and then they all came back and we were devastated they were all in front of my colleague soon it was Co-Miltern so it was the other person who stole our wine so okay we'll have to watch four over one glasses this evening reception what have you got at this table who wants to say something funny that when you were at your last conference what came up at your table I think this is quite a few of our first conference so we've got a lot of first timers first timers so how are you feeling about this conference then excited so excited okay one word okay so last year I had Covid at this time so I had to join by discord only so for those that are out on discord and out there it is worth hanging in there and participating it's not the same as being in person but there's a lot going on there so it's worth hanging in that's people joining us today from Belgium and China Kat was saying it's really worth joining in okay so we've got the next one so Kerry has gone I'll have to play along with it now what are you so what are you hoping to get out of all 23 okay for me it's to create moments and momentum what came up at your table we'll go to Terry's other side sorry I'm using the mic so people can hear it in the recording as well which was the quick question what are you hoping to get out of all 23 just friendship consolidating friendship I'm very grateful to still be here after all these years and to see familiar faces and to meet new people lots of new people at this time I think it's going to be very similar like to meet new people meet new people there you go that's a new people coming in so at your table what came up for me again because it's new like I've said just making new great connections making new great connections okay you know you've got to make connections with these people they're all seeking for connections okay you've got to entertain them because my entertainment ends after the meet and greet now okay what are you waiting for what does all turning 30 means to you to me well it means it's a full-fledged adult now okay it's grown up no more mom and dad you know oh and this and my relationship or whatever because mom was this dad was this no more of that so I'm just looking forward for it peaking at his 40 now I'm planning for the next 10 years what came up at your table I'm afraid my response to that was meh it doesn't mean that much to me it's great all 30 years ago my professional career I was getting involved in learning technology so 30 years ago I got involved in you're a cool as well who are also celebrating their 30 year anniversary this year so yeah I read a blog post so good you should tweet that put it on discord do we have anyone saying anything cool on discord there I'll put your center of attention now lady so what does all turning 30 mean to you I wrote achievements achievements for you as well okay not just for all you know we all all doesn't exist without exciting people like us right alt is just a name so I'll put your center now what does all turning 30 mean this is all busy right thinking it's quite in future ahead but it's also building on all the successes of the past so you've got two things that will be really a way to look ahead yay and she's got loads of writing you should post it later on she's been really thinking hard about it sorry I've got to go this back and forth thing um now one fun fact about you I'll come to your table I'll tell you what I'm from Mauritius if you know where that is it's a very tiny tiny tiny island in the ocean and I still don't know how to swim I can just about float that's it and if you want to ship with me when the Titanic is happening I can't save you you're going to be the one you know holding to that piece of wood and I'm probably going to be on the wood trying to save myself I can't save you so don't get on with me on a cruise you'll have to save me otherwise but I'll come up on your table one fun fact this was the one fun fact I'm a cat mum I'm retired and I'm a cat mum that's what I do now I'm on first name terms with the royalty and if you want to know about that when we run a few glasses of wine at the conference dinner I'll tell you but it's not really that exciting to be honest well you'll have to come to my workshop because we're going to do an activity like that later so that's at two o'clock by the way so what have we got here sorry who hasn't spoken yet I haven't stable fun fact um oh yeah you were thinking yeah I was thinking yeah yeah yeah tell me well fun fact I mean I left cycling a lot you know so more than that do you cycle with I have a cycling buddy yeah we want to know more I think I'm furious right I mean it's just we're not professional cyclists you know so we go say three times a week cycling so weak and he's being shy to tell about it's fun it's fine it's a fun cycle of course it's fun going for cycling three times a week who has another fun fact here at the table that's really like I do competitive ballroom dancing what do you do I do competitive ballroom dancing in my downtime okay we've got a reception later on my dance partner is at home and if I just dance by myself I tend to do like dad dancing with fingers so can we do that with you do that make you to do something more maybe maybe maybe can we get pictures Laura's going to post pictures for us okay on discord I'm going to put you in the centre one fun fact about you so that's Caroline one fun fact about you I played roller derby for my country once wow okay we've got some great thing here one who's with one name basis we're first name basis we're royalty we've got dancers we've got cyclists I put that I used to know Bruno Mars before he was famous okay you all should come to my workshop later on okay we have activities like this and I want to hear that well I wrote down database every book I read but I also have an uncle who was shot by the Italian mafia so I guess that's oh wow don't grow up in Naples in the 90s that's more fun that's more fun someone was one a unique thing but then it was like okay but yeah the Naples do you have anything else interesting I put down that I'm a member of a very large online community of runners cyclists and fun people called fetch everyone and my fun fact is I'm a fetchy he was scared of saying he's a cyclist he was not even he didn't even want to talk about it so one thing which you have in common outside your professional life okay to me I tweeted about it already this morning I like it's very rare that I get to say rise and shine in the UK with this weather and I'm from the tropics okay sun winter we have just two seasons summer and winter and it's always sunny even in winter it will drizzle and the sun will come out again so that's my one thing probably you know British weather talk I think I've got that probably with everyone in common what came up here craft after a bit of digging I'm a woodworker I'm kind of into craft but not very good at it but we all trying to be into something here I don't think we've got that far I'll let you dig in your mind a bit more did you get the quick question I mean we're all not from the UK so international international who would like to do a selfie by the way we need a picture of that international table I'm like do I tweet this tweeting still a thing it's still still yeah but I'm still doing it I'm not enough for them yet what has come up online Duna what has come up online I'm bouncing around from channels okay we asked Matt Lingard who has been at all for a long time about a funny thing so he's trying to think of something okay let me know what he's saying so are we good on time so we apparently could do quite a few things right now we could keep talking or we could give ourselves a big round of applause and if you would like to take a picture of your flip chart put on discord that would be great or whatever social media you're using now I'm part of the accessibility subcommittee I've got to tell you please put all text to your images because there'll be some social media posts anyway coming later and telling you to do that so I'd rather tell you to do it now so Laura is going to take care of this table that's difficult to all text again just put some amazing international people from South Africa Poland or you're born from South Africa right by the way you're all good for pictures right we've got a cameraman here so he's been taking some picture if you want to come in the front take picture as well they have already all okay with that say again talking about social media about most of them so I'll have to throw that ball to you you've got something in your hand you'll have to tell me some more I heard your fun fact right did I hear your fun fact so catch mine is I love to spend time by the sea in all its weather whether it's sunny or rainy or cloudy or whatever so just love to be by the sea when I can in my spare time did you say where from the UK so where by do you go because I live in Hampshire so I tend to go along the Solance in all kinds of weathers which is not shared by my family they like it in the sunshine but I like it in all weather do you like beaches here okay you need to ask her where the because she goes to the beach summer winter and everything how to go there because I still don't know how to go with the boots oh I had quite another weather so she's she's the person to know that so yeah people will like summery weather right yeah so yeah you like beaches what's the question right I about your fun fact did I hear about your fun fact okay so during lockdown I decided to become a musician and this year I got my first royalty check which is enough to buy an ice cream okay there you go that's a fun fact did you hear about how fun it is sorry everyone isn't working your radio it doesn't matter okay you would like to repeat that so what was that during lockdown I decided to become a musician so I released an EP this year I got my first royalty check and it's enough to buy an ice cream with okay so we've got someone who released music here we've got someone who released some music during covid and well he managed to get enough royalty for an ice cream did I hear that properly an ice cream with a flame so are we expecting some more royalties to come like you know yeah I mean that's in just a few months so I mean it could be two three ice creams by the end of the year okay so you should definitely put that on this goal like there are 400 delegates so they could get you out 10 ice cream by the end of the year well tempting well it would be good if it's this week I mean if they listen to it all once that would be one more ice cream maybe this week we're aiming for this week I think I heard yours how Mike is working why wasn't he not working before sorry do we have somebody else do you have to get two doublets to get the flame I'll just say do we have okay we have John Kilroy well we haven't heard from you what's your fun fact it needs to be about you okay we have dancers, ballroom dancers, cyclists we've got someone who during covid recorded some you can manage to get enough roll for an ice cream what else is interesting there were a few interesting things during covid I took up sea swimming during the winter and then I can't stop sea swimming the colder the better I'm from merches and you're telling me this I'm sorry everything's unbelievable okay because 20 degrees is winter for us 15 I'm probably getting my gloves out so if you're in the Irish Sea you should relish the cold so Dublin okay we've got another country we've got China and Belgium online and we've got quite a few countries here wait oh I forgot the next questions we can actually just end here jump, dance, do whatever we want or go grab a coffee we've got the welcome in the main hall happening and please do continue to network there are lots of new people who haven't attended yet I think there was someone who was tweeting about breakfast it's still like nine o'clock so some people are still having breakfast I think they are just about in the halls here so feel free to do whatever take a picture put on the score please and we'll also take some pictures tweet, put on social media and thank you so much for being here big round of applause for yourself please so thanks for playing along and you're good to go like you know dismiss the class very much that was good you're welcome