 Ac while we're waiting for that I would just like to say hello and welcome to those participants who are joining us online and hope they can take part in the AGM Everybody should have signed in before you came in also It's going round. Sorry, it will be going round in the AGM So if people are still coming in if you haven't got any of the papers that you need please can you put your hand up and we'll bring them round to you Mae'n fawr i'w ddechrau. Mae'n dweud. Felly, mae'n ddodd Clare Donlan, ac rai gydag i gydag 21 yma, yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma yma eich cyfnod. Rwy'n ddodd i'r ffordd i'w ddiddordeb yn y ffwrdd o'r ffordd o'r onlau ac i'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Felly, mae'n gweithio'r peipers ac mae'n ddodd i'w ddiddordeb ffordd o ffordd o'r ffordd. Mae'n ddiddordeb o ffordd ran y ffordd o'r ffordd o'i ffordd, ac fe fyddw i'w ddiddordeb o'r ffordd o'r peipers. Rwy'n ddiddordeb yn gyflwyno i-llyw'r gweithre Dreams. Felly, fel yw hwnno? Felly, gennym ni cynnwys ll yn ffordd? Yn pwyllgor. Yn pwyllgor. Felly, dros gyda chi, Sfod arferwad dymol sleiddoch yn benigol. Mae wedi bod wedi bod nhw'n hawdd ar hyn o g собi. Tom, ddigon nhw i'n ddigon nhw. Yn ni'n ddigon nhw i'w ddigon nhw? A'r ddigon nhw? Ddigon nhw? A chi'n ddigon nhw ffrifio ymydd o'r orders? scoldus gwelog? Mae'i gylwfio'n gwybwy, Felly mae'n rwy'n ddiddordeb yn ddod yn ddiddordeb yn gyfer eu cyfrifio'r ysgolwyddiad. Felly mae'n gweld gennym yn gweld o'ch ddiddordeb a'i fod yn ddiddordeb yn ddiddordeb. Yr hyn o gyfnodd. Yn ymdweithio'r mirfodol o'r sydd gyda Lais dros AGM, gan ymweld i'r awdurdod mewn o'r 11 o'r SMAE 2013. Felly gallwn ni wedi bod ymdweithio'r lluniau sy'n fydda'r mirfodol ar gweithio. Mae'n ymdweithio'r mirfodol yw'r lluniau. Dyna hwn yn oed gyda'r ysgrifennu hynny i fyny ar y cyfieimlu. Felly, yn ffrwng, yn iddyn nhw'n ysgrifennu ac mae'n ymlaen i'r ymgyrch yn y piwn fynd yw'r proser a'r twfyn am ddeligau'n y blyny, yn oed yn cyfieimlu'r record. Yn gyfieimlu, mae'n gweld yn ysgrifennu. I unrhyw o'ch wneud ymgyrch yn y pwyliad, yn y pwyliad yn cyfieimlu. Felly mae'n cael o'n cyfieimlu i'w ce�di ar y Dfodol Ong, Ac rwy'n arfer y prosie, Nigel ac yw Llynda. Rwy'n ddiddordeb i mi, i mi. Rwy'n ddiddordeb i mi. Rydyn ni'n troo i'r methu? Rydyn ni'n troo i'r methu o'r cyfrif Weiniddo? Nghymru. Rydyn ni'n troo i mi. Rydyn ni'n troo i'r es i gyrbandsgwyr nad ywír gyrannol? Rydyn ni'n trool i mi. A'r ystafell yma, yma yma, yma yma yma i'r cwm avenolol ac yn ysgolwch i'r 2013, 2014, sy'n credu tynnu cyfnod. Yn gweithio, Nygil a Llyndyr. Yn gweithio. Right. What we're doing is, okay, we're voting that the meeting agrees that the minutes are accurate. Yes. Thank you. Any against? No, thank you. Keep everybody right. So the minutes have been approved as accurate. Okay. No matters arising. Next item, annual report and accounts. I'd just like to say a couple of very brief things highlighted in the report about the activities and developments that are mentioned. Obviously these include the conference, a variety of other events such as workshops, webinars and the successful OCTEL online course. The organization of awards such as the old learning technologist of the year award. Publications and communication forums for members to share and collaborate. The new old strategy for 2014-2017, which is being created following consultation with the members. The active engagement by all members, staff and trustees in a range of policy developments across the sectors. And the hard work of all the people involved, including members and the staff and trustees. I'm now going to hand over to Hayden to speak about the details of the accounts and take any questions. So if you'd like to turn to page 13 of the statement of financial activities for a charity, the statement of financial activities act as a balance sheet effectively and looks at both income expenditure and our long standing provision. And in this case it depends whether you have a glass half full or a glass half empty measure in your mind. Because you see that the net resources for the year, where the number 10 for the notice beside it is a negative balance of 9773. So those who do work in the depressed world might go, oh no, negative balance. The reality is that the trustees received a bequest from a charity that was winding itself up. And we were responsible for looking at how we use those resources. And I decided that of the 100,000 plus that OLP bequested to us, we would use it over three years for specific objectives of the charity. But of course the way accounting works means that the year you spend it is the year you report it's outgoing, even though the year that the income arrives is in the past. So the reality is that that 9773 needs to be taken into account with the 33,000 that we committed to spend this year. And for those of you who can't take 10,000 away from 30,000, that shows that in fact for the association this was a year when we made a surplus of 20,000 above our budgeted expectations from this time last year. So that's the glass half full side of the story. But it is important to recognise for people who aren't necessarily familiar with charitable accounts that this will occur for the next two years too while we use for investment in the future of the association the resources for the, that we received from that bequest. And resources have been used as you will see in the report to develop our international partnerships both in America, Europe and in Australasia to increase the amount of promotional material we had at last year's conference. We saw that displayed at the gala evening where the work had gone on just before the conference which we paid for this year and a range of other activities which has allowed the association to be on much firmer footing in taking its way forward. I would like to note this year that it hasn't been the easiest year financially. The association has a tiny staff base. We as members are often what drives the energy but the staff base is tiny and there was one staff member responsible for finance under the leadership and guidance of course of our chief executive. That staff member was taken ill quite early in the year. It became evident after she was unwell that some of the work that she had been due to be doing had not been completed. And so our chief executive had to step in and take a real hold on this agenda. The outcome is so positive because that was done and we now have a new staff member who was a specialist in this area working with the chief executive so that our finances are robust. But the fact that we had that moment of personal crisis for an individual which could have had really disastrous effect for us and we've been in a position where while we might have had some organisational receipts that we never told people they needed to pay us and therefore we never got back we actually managed to recover from opposition incredibly effectively achieving that 22k operational surplus that we're reporting today. So I do want to re-echo our thanks tomorrow and that work could not. I mean my fellow trustees know how much additional work that meant for Marlin during the year and the outcome that we've achieved. So that's my overview of the year. Are there any questions in particular anybody would like to ask about the statement of financial affairs or detailed accounts that backs that up. Thank you very much indeed. Have we got a microphone because we've got some people watching the AGM from outside the hall. So if we could get your microphone please. Thank you Justin Steel Davies University's Al Hampton. Have you changed anything with the staffing because the increase in salaries has gone up 20% in one year? OK. What happens is that an income base is our core budget plus a number of projects. To deliver the projects we have to have increasing staff resource to do that. The fact that we made the 22k surplus is indication that we haven't increased the staff resource to the proportion of the income but some of that significant work has been picked up by the existing staff base and all of the staff not just Marlin have played a key part to that. So yes the staff base has gone up, the income has gone up exponentially in relationship to that. Thank you. Really helpful question. Anything else? OK. As treasurer of the association I would like to propose that we accept the report and accounts. I do need a second term and we do need a tally vote. Alistair has agreed to be the seconder for that purpose. And if we can ask the tellers to come forward and for you to, if you are happy to accept the accounts please hold your voting slips up. If you both come to it and then check on number three, fifty-three, four, any against? I think I can. As treasurer I have to understand that. OK. Thank you Claire. OK. The next item is to the appointment of an auditor. So I propose as chair that Shaw gives accountants of Oxford be reappointed as auditors. I need a seconder for that, James. And we need to vote. Do we need to count them? No. We don't need to count them for this. So we just need to. Is there anybody against the appointment of the auditor? No. Great. Thank you. That resolution is passed. OK. The next item is regarding the changes to the legal structure of old with the proposed move to charitable incorporated organisation status. And I'm going to hand over to Doug for an overview of the proposal and to take any questions. OK. Thanks Claire. My name is Doug Gowan. This is the exciting bit. OK. I'm not going to bore you with a long exposition of the new legal structure of old as I'm quite capable of doing that in a short exposition. Beside, as you've all read these documents that you've been sent, the new constitution, letter, et cetera. We've done a number of things to help clarify any points we've had on webinar. The stuff has been on the website. It's in the conference programme. So we're trying to bathe you to death with these proposals. In brief, what we're sitting out is a new constitution for old. In fact, it looks quite a lot like the old constitution with some bits in. That's because it is the old constitution with some bits in. The bits are from the charity commission. And what they are, in fact, they embody the bits that set out a new type of charity organisation. It's called a charitable incorporated organisation. And that's what we're proposing alt becomes. It gives alt a new legal status. It becomes incorporated like a company whilst remaining a charity and a membership democracy. So, essentially, what would happen if you come back to this agent in a two-year's time, you'll see the same format of meeting, you'll see a president, you'll see a chair, you'll see a chief executive, you'll see members of the association. All that will be the same. You'll vote on things if an art of you vote. It's your association, you control it, you make the decisions. But alt would be an incorporated body who would be able to enter into contracts in its own right. It would have a limited liability like Tesco's or BP. And that has got quite a number of significant advantages for where we operate. So, we are a democracy. You've just voted to approve the annual report on accounts. So, what I'm asking you to do in a couple of minutes is to vote on the green paper proposal. And I'll be moving that after there's the opportunity to take any questions about what this all means and what's going to happen. So, let me just throw that open. Right, if there aren't any questions, I'm going to move the proposition shown on the green paper. I require a seconder for that and we do need to count the votes because a change to the constitution. We are proposing a change to the constitution to allow us to take this step. And we do need 75% of the members here to adopt this resolution. Do I have a seconder? Oh, many a seconder. Right, Alistair was the first up there. So, seconded by Alistair Clarke. Can you now vote please on... Can you tell us again? Sorry, tell us again. And we do need to take any no votes because it has to be 75% of those print. Are there any votes against zero and any abstentions? Zero, thank you. The resolution is carried. Okay, I'm now going to hand over to Marum, who's going to give a brief report. Give a brief report. Unfortunately, I don't need last year's minutes for my report. So, I would like to report very briefly on a few of the things that, together with the staff team, all of whom are here, we've been working on. And as I was writing the report, I thought that the things we really need to celebrate most and recognise at our AGM, which is all about our members and our community, is really some individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to our community over the past year. And the first person I would like to thank and recognise is Leslie Gawley, who is not here today, but Leslie has been working as an editor of research and learning technology, our journal. And unfortunately, Leslie has to step down for personal reasons a little earlier than her term was planned for. But she's done a fantastic and outstanding job together with where Stephen Barry-Jones and also Michael Riley, our other two editors, who continue to take the journal from strength to strength. So, as a community and as a community of members here at the AGM, I'd like to formally record our things to Leslie Gawley, and of course we'll thank her in person after the AGM. Two more individuals, sorry, we'll clap, we'll have clapping, absolutely. Leslie, if you're watching, we're clapping you here. There will be lots of clapping in the next bit. The next two individuals who've done a similarly wonderful job for our online newsletter, whom many of you read, are Frank Steiner and Liz Bannett, two of the co-editors or deputy editors who've worked on the newsletter for the past year as well. And they've really helped us transition it from a very much addition-based publication to one that's publishing nearly every day at the moment, and who's really helped us increase our readership and also our contributors. They're working together with the Communications and Publications Committee under the chairmanship of Matt Lingard, and we'd like to thank them today. And I believe, is Liz Bannett actually in the room? Liz, are you in the room? No, she's here. No, she's escaped actually being mentioned in person. So, if we give them a big round of applause to thank them as well. Given that Frank and Liz are stepping down, they are vacancies. So, if you're interested, I think Matt and I have had many expressions of interest. Please let Matt and us know. Matt, do you want to wave and tell them who you are? Excellent. So, this is Matt. So, if you're interested in getting involved in our publications, please speak to Matt. My second announcement that I would like to make is that ALT has decided to invite two individuals to become new ambassadors of ALT. As you may know, our current ambassadors are Wendy Hall and Terry Maze and Bob Harrison. And as ambassadors, they really help us reach in all the different constituencies. So, we're appointing two new ambassadors this year to ALT, who are becoming ambassadors today. And I'm very delighted to announce that Dick Moore, who is a former trustee of ALT and former chair of the Publications Committee, and Joe Wilson, one of our co-chairs for the conference this year, will be new ambassadors. Joe, if you're here, do get up. Otherwise, we'll give you a big round of applause and say welcome to becoming ambassadors. Before I give general thanks and acknowledgement to my team, I do want to acknowledge the work of a member which today, yesterday and tomorrow is making the biggest difference, particularly to our online participants. Because as you know, we try and make the conference very much accessible and available to everybody freely on the internet. And this year we had a member volunteer to lead that effort and he has done so brilliantly. I think as a community, we, and these three days make that very clear, we have members left, right and centre doing wonderful and brilliant things. But I think sometimes it is worth celebrating an individual. So, I would like to ask Darren Moon to come down to receive a special accommodation and award for his services to our online community delivery. Darren, if you'd make your way down here, please. So, I'm nearly finished. I'll hand back to Claire in a moment to deal with elections. But before I do that, I just wanted to say thank you. I've been the chief executive of ALT now for two years or just over two years since May 2012. And together with my staff team, all of whom are here and who may wave. We've done so much together as a community with you as members with the trustees. I've been particularly blessed in having every support, every type of useful input from really fantastic individuals who have made this a very busy but very, very, very rewarding role for me to have. And I'm really looking forward to the things we'll be doing over the next 12 months, everybody who's getting involved. Our conference this year has a third new delegates and we have had many new members joined particularly for the conference. So, I can't wait to meet all of our new members and see what we can achieve together in the next 12 months. But on a personal note, I would like to thank you for your continued support and involvement in ALT. I think we would just like to say thank you again to Maron and to the staff for all of the hard work. We all appreciate it a lot. Okay, next item, another exciting one, is the elections to the trustee vacancies. So, I'd like to announce the results of the elections. So, the first one is to the vice chair of the association and Fiona Harvey has been elected unopposed and will become vice chair now and chair in 2015. So, Fiona, if you want to stand up and wave and then we can all. Thank you. And also, we have two other individuals who are going to serve for three years as trustees. Firstly, Sheila McNeill, who was last year's Learning Technologist of the Year winner, if you'd like to stand up Sheila so we can. And the other one is Malcolm Ryan. I don't think he's here today, but in case he's watching online, we'll round of applause for him as well. I'd also like to thank the trustees who are retiring, coming to the end of their terms. First, Norbert Pakler, who was chair of the research committee, who stepped down in February. And Vanessa Pithard, who steps down today at the end of this year's term, having served four years. Could we give a round of applause for them? And my final thing to do is to hand over to Diana as president for the next year. So, Diana if you want to come up. Just to make it formal then and what I'd really like to do is to thank Claire for her extraordinary enthusiasm and commitment over the last three years to the extent that we were very anxious to make sure she remained as a trustee so we'll be continuing to work together. I just want to thank Claire very much for her service. Do we formally close now? Is that me to close or you to close? It's just up to me now. Is it power? So I just want to say thank you very much indeed for attending and for supporting this intriguing process that we have now of a new constitution and to welcome all the new elected members as well. So thank you very much everybody. If you are a trustee of alt or you have just become a trustee or vice chair of alt, we'd like to ask you to make your way to the front of the stage where we will have some more trustee business to take care of. Thank you. For all the others, thank you very much for attending and please go to the exhibition area where there's refreshments and the exhibition.