• Inspirational stuff @#clcs10, as I’m heading back into the class room it really gave me a gee up! Totally awesome!
• #CLCS10 playing with my new found features of PowerPoint. It puts it in a whole new light!
• Just got back home from #clcs10 great stuff thanks to everyone.
• #clcs10 Great couple of days. Lots of useful stuff. Thanks everyone.
• #clcs10 back home great conference guys, well done – now chill out for a bit!
• Thanks all at #clcs10 for your laughter, smiles, engagement and “up-for-a-challenge-nessnicity” Keep buzzing folks C U Sooon
• I work for a software company and #clcs10 boasts the most iPads I’ve seen in one place!!
• All a buzz here at The RoseBowl in Leeds for #clcs10 Lovely to catch up with a few of the CLC stars #clcs10 nice venue!

Matthew Barker joined Canonical in 2006, taking responsibility for the OEM channel in South Asia. Having built partnerships with hardware manufacturers like HCL, Wipro and PCHouse, he moved into the Corporate Services Team in 2008. Since then, he has focused on driving the European adoption of Ubuntu, and has overseen deployments with organisations like the NHS, York University and Guadalinex – the world’s largest deployment of Linux in education.

More of us are using the web than ever before, and more agile and increasingly less visible malware threats are putting your users and organisations at risk.

Join Sophos security expert Chris Pace as he sheds light on how these threats work and how best to protect your computers and your data on a tight budget.

Chris advises organisations throughout the UK on security best practice and has extensive experience delivering Sophos solutions to some of our largest customers.   Prior to joining Sophos five years ago, Chris worked in IT departments both in the public and private sectors.

Workshop to explore the use of film and animation to engage children and adults.

Discover how using 21st Century animation tools like Crazy Talk 6 and iClone 4, both  children and adults can become film directors, animators then quickly and easily build their own 3D characters or Avatars.

Then how to use them with Green screen techniques to create their own 3d worlds and or environments.

Calling all budding animators! Why not come along to the Kudlian Software seminar to learn all you need to know to get you started with animation, and discover that it’s not as difficult as you may think! In this seminar you will see an overview of the award-winning title ‘I Can Animate’ and learn how easy the software is to use for students and teachers alike. I Can Animate is the perfect tool for a broad age range with its simple to use interface, yet powerful additional options such as onion-skinning and chroma key layer. These features allow more able or advanced students to produce movies of stunning quality. Come and see how easy it is to produce professional stop-frame animation movies that students will not only love to create but also serve as a great way to present their work, and make learning more fun!

In addition to this, extra resources from Kudlian such as the new Teachers Book, and HD Webcams will also be available to view.

The just2easy Masterclass will focus on real time collaboration in a learning context. We will also look at other aspects of sharing work, both in the classroom and beyond. Delegates will be encouraged to actively participate in real time collaboration during the session. We will touch on aspects of esafety and discuss the educational benefits of some of the new Web 2.0 technologies that are appearing.

Review Vital’s new Courses and explore ideas for developing sustainable models for ICT-CPD in a changing environment.

Vital is a collaborative programme for ICT CPD targeting teachers and support staff working in state primary and secondary schools in England. The Programme is led by the Open University and supported by the DfE. Vital engages with regional and national stakeholders to build on existing best practice.

Following work with CLCs in several regions, we hope to develop practical, sustainable projects following on from this Conference. This Workshop will provide opportunities to review the current and planned CPD offer from Vital, including new IT Specialist courses due to launch in September 2010.

Laura Czajkowski works in Ireland and across the world to help people use the Free and Open Source Ubuntu Operating system. Laura specialises in helping what is a predominantly online virtual community to make face to face contact at conferences and events. Laura organised the first Limerick University computer society SkyCon event and hosts an annual two day barcamp style conference on Open Source software in Dublin as well as helping with the management of conferences and events in the UK and beyond. In the Ubuntu community Laura serves on the LoCo Council, a committee that oversees the activities of the country teams all over the world and provides them with support and advice on developing a vibrant community. She is active within many other teams in the Ubuntu community most specifically the Ubuntu women project, a team that works to make the Ubuntu Community more welcoming to women.

This audience participation workshop will give the attendees a chance to:

City Learning Centres face many challenges with uncertain funding and the potential break up of traditional service delivery models with the advent of Academies. Every threat is also an opportunity. In this session Gary will look at possible new business models for City Learning Centres using Open Source and Open Content to reduce costs and place the emphasis, not on equipment and premises, but on the skills of CLC staff in supporting their partner schools.

Gary Clawson is Chief Executive of the North West Learning Grid, a partnership of 17 Local Authorities and more than 2,000 schools. Earlier this year the North West Learning Grid won an e-government award for its work on the National Digital Resource Bank, the first Education sector Open Source project to be recognised by Cabinet Office.