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As part of the JISC Conference 2010, JISC asked you to share your experiences of technology in an open blog competition. The aim of the competition was to stimulate conversation around the theme of the conference: Technology – at the heart of education and research.

The winning blog post will be awarded their prize at the JISC conference (12-13 April 2010 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London) and will be featured in a special JISC publication.

Meet the judges

We are delighted to have an esteemed panel of judges who will be selecting the winning blog post:

Michelle Pauli, Deputy Editor of Guardian.co.uk Books / Editor of JISC10 Conference blog

Michelle has 10 years' experience as a journalist, writer, editor and researcher. She has a BSc (Econ) in Government from the London School of Economics and an MSc Public Administration and Public Policy with Distinction (LSE). She is currently Deputy Editor of Guardian Books, and has also written for the Times and the Independent. Michelle wrote a weekly column about literary blogs for the Guardian's Saturday Review. She also teaches online journalism at an NCTJ course in Brighton.

Bill St Arnaud, President, St. Arnaud-Walker and Associates Inc.

Bill St. Arnaud is the President of a Green-IT consulting firm St. Arnaud-Walker and Associates INc.  Formerly he was the Chief Research Officer for CANARIE Inc Canada's Advanced Internet Development Organization. At CANARIE Bill St. Arnaud was involved with a Green IT broadband and cyber-infrastructure initiative to build a "zero-carbon" next generation Internet in order to help reduce global warming by reducing CO2 emissions at universities and society in general.

Bill St. Arnaud is member of various committees and boards including the Board of Trustees for ISOC, NomComm committee for ICANN, the UKlight Steering Committee, the GLORIAD policy committee, Neptune Canada Oversight Committee, Globecomm Fellow and the GLIF policy committee amongst others.

In 2002 he was featured by TIME Magazine Canada as the engineer who is wiring together advanced Canadian science. In 2005 he also won the World Technology Summit award for Communications

John Traxler, Professor of Mobile Learning, Director of Learning Lab, University of Wolverhampton

John Traxler is Professor of Mobile Learning, probably the world’s first, and Director of the Learning Lab at the University of Wolverhampton and of the UK Co-Lab of the American ADL network. He is a Director of the International Association for Mobile Learning, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning and was conference chair of mLearn2008, the world’s biggest and first mobile learning research conference. John has co-written a guide to mobile learning in developing countries and is co-editor of the definitive book on mobile learning: Kukulska-Hulme, A. and Traxler, J. (2005) Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers, Routledge.

Terms and conditions

1. Entrants must be employed by a further education college or university in their country of residence. Members of the JISC executive may enter, but are not eligible to be shortlisted or win the prize.
2. One blog entry per person.
3. All entries will be listed on the JISC website, with links to their blog entries.
4. Five shortlisted entries will be notified in early March 2010, and the winner announced at the JISC Conference on 13 April 2010.
5. A Creative Commons attribution-non-commercial-no derivative works 2.0 UK: England and Wales licence applies to all entries.
6. Only entries submitted via the online submission form by 1700 GMT on Friday 19 February 2010 will be accepted.
7. Short-listed entries and the overall competition winner agree to have their details used in future publicity. Winners may be requested to take part in promotional activity and JISC reserves the right to use the names and addresses of winners, their photographs and audio and/or visual recordings of them in any publicity.
8. Any entry not meeting the eligibility criteria will not be accepted.
9. JISC reserves the right to cancel or amend the competition or the rules without notice in the event of a catastrophe, war, civil or military disturbance, act of God or any actual or anticipated breach of any applicable law or regulation or any other event outside JISC’s reasonable control.
10. The prize is a flip camera. Prizes are non-transferable and there is no cash alternative. JISC reserves the right to substitute prizes of equal or greater value at any time.
11. In the event of any dispute regarding the rules, conduct, results and all other matters relating to the competition, the decision of JISC shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
12. By entering the competition, entrants warrant that all information submitted is true, current and complete. JISC reserves the right to verify the eligibility of all entrants.
13. JISC reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if there are reasonable grounds to believe the entrant has breached any of the rules.

Proof of posting or emailing cannot be accepted as proof of delivery. JISC will acknowledge receipt of all entries.