Agenda

To help us address the concept of the future of technology in education, we have gathered some of the leading technology organisations and academic practitioners in the UK. The provisional agenda for the day can be seen below. Don’t forget to check back regularly for more information on some of the exciting sessions we have planned. The latest news about everything related to the conference can also be found on our Twitter feed.

In order to keep you well fueled to keep you going through all the great presentations we have planned for the day, we will be providing a light buffet lunch and tea & coffee during the breaks. We will try and cater for all tastes but if you have any specific diatary requirements, please do not hesitate to contact the ULCC marketing team at marketing@ulcc.ac.uk

We are also thrilled to be inviting back Huddle.net as drinks sponsors for FOTE 09. There will be an informal drinks reception following the conference and Huddle.net will be buying the drinks. A big thanks to the guys at Huddle.net for the continued support!

08.30 Registration
09.00 Welcome Tim Bush & David Rippon ULCC
Morning Sesssion – Cloud Computing
09.15 Cutting through the hype to see Clouds in context Dr. Paul Miller Cloud of Data
09.35 Security in the Cloud Simone Brunozzi Amazon
09.55 The Collaborative Campus and the Cloud Ray Fleming Microsoft
10.15 Education, Collaboration & the Cloud Pauline Yau Huddle.net
10.35 Questions
10.45 Coffee Break
11.15 HE’s Free and Feral? Dr. Bill Ashraf University of Sussex
11.35 Google Apps – One year on Robert Moores Leeds Metropolitan University
11.55 Integrating VLEs with Repositories James Ballard & Richard Davis ULCC
12.15 For/Against Panel on Cloud Computing Chairman: Tim Marshall JANET(UK)
12.35 Questions
12.45 Lunch Break
Afternoon session – Social Media
13.45 Our social tomorrow: how Education and everything else is being positively and radically transformed Will McInnes Nixon/McInnes
14.05 Future of Learning James Clay Gloucestershire College
14.25 How to learn to stop
worrying and love the Internet
Nick Skelton University of Bristol
14.50 A Pocket University: Open Content and Mobile Technology -
Oxford on iTunesU
Peter Robinson Oxford University Computing Services
15.10 Questions
15.20 Coffee Break
15.40 Unbundling the University Dougald Hine School of Everything
16.00 Digital Identity Prof. Shirley Williams University of Reading
16.20 The social revolution needs YOU Lindsay Jordan University of Bath
16.40 For/Against Panel on Virtual Worlds Chairman: Harold Fricker RSC South East
17.00 Questions
17.10 Closing
17.20 Drinks Reception Drinks reception sponsored by Huddle.net