Good morning, and thank you all for being here. So aside from being the Republican nominee for US Senate this year, the past year, my father's been a longtime student and teacher of the Bible, and he's thrilled to be able to talk to you today about intercessionary prayer. He'd like you all to know that under the banner of Liberty Players, we're offering a dramatic reenactment of the life of Gideon Orms, the Manchester Revolutionary War major, as well as a discourse on American founding principles called brush fires of freedom. So we're available to come and speak at any school or civic organization if you'd like. So please let us know if you're interested. Now, here is my father, Lawrence Zubat.  Government, and we are in the seat of state government right here in Montpelier, government at its best does what? It protects our constitutional and God-given rights, acting on the principle that it receives its very right to exist from we the people. Government that is worst tramples upon and enslaves us relegating we the people to be mere instruments of its will, beast of burden and fodder for its cannons. In other words, as Judah Ben-Hur heard from his slave-gallieship master, we keep you alive to serve this ship. So which of the two courses which government could take, do you see government moving in today? Do we see day by day a government straining to preserve our rights and our liberty, allowing us to retain our own hard earned money and pursue our chosen destinies or do we see government usurping rather than preserving rights, abandoning the principles of thrift and care while seizing an ever-growing portion of our earnings, justify new liberty destroying rules, regulations and laws by the false anthem of their invented notion of the common good? I'll let you answer that question for yourself, but if it is the latter where government is an end rather than a means where it has a body and a life of its own divorced from the vital functions of the people from whom it has derived its just powers to govern, then I say to you that we have a crisis of culture, character, conviction, faith and education. Why is America great? It's simple, the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Why did those documents make us great? Because they enshrined human liberty as an inalienable right and codified the very inspired truth that governments exist to serve their people and not the other way around. So then, what is the job of our legislatures and our governments? Above all other functions, it is to preserve, protect and exalt that human liberty consistent with a rule of law which protects all people's rights. But where you see storm clouds of confusion, chaos and usurpations, you can be sure that the spiritual enemy of peace, decency and order has insinuated himself. And you can be sure that the response required by citizens of goodwill and faith is intercession. Am I talking about storming the barricades of the capital with a tuperation, vitriol and violence? Am I talking about attacking the character of those with whom we profoundly disagree? Am I talking about civil insurrection? No, no matter our disagreement in the realm of ideas and beliefs, people are not our enemies. The barricades we must storm are the devil's strongholds. The character of our spiritual enemy needs no further condemnation from me. And the insurrection which we must spearhead is with the power and the authority given us by God through his son Yeshua called Jesus Christ to pierce the lives of our enemy more effectually than he pierced the side of our savior. To nail to immobility the wiles and plans of the devil more firmly than he did our savior to the cross. To entomb his destructive and hateful plot for mankind more convincingly than he did our Messiah who got up anyway as you know. For we know that our Lord and savior, Yeshua, our Messiah has exposed the lives of the devil. We know that he has come down from that cross and we know that the tune could not hold him. Praise God. And just how then will we storm these barricades, pierce these lies, plans and wiles of the devil and entomb his squalent strategies? Intercession. We fight a spiritual warfare with spiritual weapons. We fight with prayer. We fight with fasting. We fight with focused meditation on scripture. So we are called together today to intercede and to pray for our legislators. You may say they may not even know that they need or want our prayer. That's okay. Neither did we when our parents prayed for us. Neither did so many people who have been preserved, protected and uplifted throughout history. We must pray that they receive the wisdom to act, to think and plan in their vital job. Let's go to the manual for life, shall we? Ephesians 6-12 tells us, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual wickedness in high places. See, this is a spiritual battle. We don't need to go out and hurt people because we disagree with them. On the contrary, we need to hurt the spiritual enemy of God and us. We need to hurt him by attacking his 12 holes in prayer. We need to hurt him by defeating him with the power that God has given everyone who claims the name of the Lord and Savior, Yeshua, Jesus the Christ. That's how we hurt him. That's how we win this battle. As I see it, and as you can see, this is a vigorously acted, spiritually sweaty endeavor we pursue. Let's face it, our spiritual enemy doesn't take coffee breaks or vacations. Hebrews tells us in 416, let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in times of need. We know so many places we're told to be humble. And yes, we do need to be humble because we need to know who God is and who we are. But we also are given the authority, the right and the extreme privilege to come boldly before the throne of grace. Is boldness and humility in conflict distinction? Not really, because if you are humble before God, then you will have the wherewithal to hear from him and to approach him in the way that is without fear, which is what boldly means. We come before God without fear, knowing that we are his and he wants to hear our prayers. He wants to hear us interceding. He wants to hear us standing up for him, his principles, his word, his son, and the people that he would have saved and directed unto salvation. In my next few comments, I'm going to borrow freely from an article written by a wonderful New Hampshire prayer assessor named Annette Tuttle. You may be familiar with the book of Esther. In it, Mordecai, the close relative of a young maiden named Esther who is removed to the king's palace, anxiously seeks to know of her welfare. He's got a personal interest in knowing what's happened to his foster child and relative. Esther 2.11 tells us that every day Mordecai paced in front of the court of the women's quarters to learn of Esther's welfare and see what was happening to her. Later, when she was moved, he sat within the king's gate 219. So he followed in physically. He went to know what was happening and he was praying for her. You know he was praying for the welfare of his young charge. And gradually what happened is he moved to the threshold of power, to the king's gate. While Mordecai was pacing in the court, and you know when he was pacing, he wasn't just like an anxious father in the hospital waiting for the birth who is not a believer. He was praying. He was praying and asking God for guidance. When Mordecai was pacing in the court and when Esther was moved to the king's palace, you may infer easily that Mordecai was praying diligently and interceding for his young foster child. And now watch the progression here because it's very stimulating and inspiring and godly. And now he's in a position to have his personal interests begin to serve another larger interest for it is here that he overhears a plot to kill the king which he is able to help foil. And that is a good thing. And that also plants a seed of indebtedness from the king back to Mordecai which helps to unfold this miraculous story. Mordecai had prayed himself into positions. He prayed into the situation. He prayed himself into the position to accomplish an additional and a higher purpose. See when we do the right godly thing in the circumstances in which we find ourselves, we frequently find that we get moved forward and upwards and elevated to a situation to do even more good for more people because that's the way God works. Yeah, when you are listening to what he wants you to do and you do it, it's just like it's a crude analogy but when a young person is hired into a company when he shows that he's capable and skilled at doing a certain task, the boy says, oh, okay, well, maybe he's ready to try the next thing. And then you quit that well and you keep moving up. We hear so many stories when you think of Mordecai and you think of Joseph who went from the prison to being the regent of all of Egypt because he was faithful and little. God made him powerful over everything. Intercessors must prevail in a laborious effort. Prayer is with your feet up smoking a cigar with a martini, you know.  No, forgive me, forgive the football reference, you know, it's a Patriot, so. No, but intercession is a laborious effort. Intercessors here wore sackcloth and ashes and ashes it says in Esther 4-4. While maintaining the moral courage to withstand and to bravely resist and stand face to face against the enemy. Now we stand face to face against the enemy. It's not like a military battle in the five senses where we have to go nose to nose with a person and then vanquish them, no.  But we have the Lord Jesus Christ, God in Christ in us, Colossians tells us, and greater is he that is in us, John 4-4, than he that is in the world. So even though we may face the worst that the devil could throw at us, and even though he may be fearsome in many of his aspects and impressive in some of his power, guess what?  Mordecai's David Trevelle, letting Queen Esther inform the king, that was interesting. He didn't confront him indirectly, it wasn't necessary. He worked with Godly direction about how to get this job done. I'm not gonna tell you the whole story because that would be a whole other half hour of the book of Esther. And I'm gonna assume some of you know that this Haman was an enemy of God's people who had a plot to destroy all of God's people. And that's why it says, at a certain point, Mordecai says to Esther, who started out as just a lonely maiden, became the queen of Persia, and she is called upon to intercede for to preserve the life of all the Jews. And she's nervous about it.  Then she stiffens her spine, and it's a fascinating section of scripture because he is basically telling her as superior to support and spiritually at that moment, telling her, listen, this is what you have to do to save your people.  And she knew if she's gonna go and approach him, she's putting her life on the line. Do I really wanna do this? And he says, look, this is why you're here. This is the reason that you're in the king's palace as the queen, to preserve your people. And if you don't do it, someone else will have, God will bring forward someone else. She takes it in, I can see her take a deep breath, and she says, okay, go and pray and fast for me. And he goes, and now all of a sudden it's flipped. Now she, since she's getting in God's will, she's giving mordecai instructions about what to do spiritually. And he, in his God in the humility says, yes, ma'am, I'm on my way. There was no pride in him telling her what to do. He was doing God's work. And there was no pride, so little pride that he was able to take instruction from his foster daughter to do what she said and then to do. That's when you're in God's will. It's not about pride or superiors or nation. Whoever is walking with God should be listened to. And if they have the right instruction, then you obey them. So, so mordecai stayed in travail. And his travail and cry rallied others to do likewise. Interesting. Do you think that our prayerful intercession, when other people see us praying and know of it, that they might also join in and want to intercede, especially at a time right now when I'm informed that this very hour practically, a very heinous abortion bill is being considered, where there's just no restriction on abortions, where at the ninth month, at the very cusp of emerging into light of life, the child can be destroyed.  This cannot be done in my name, in my state. I oppose it vigorously by speech, by action, by prayer, because it's a kind of genocide. Just like, you know, I'm standing here talking about Haman's genocide against all of the Jews. And over here, there are people with suits and ties on thinking they're representing the truth and their constituents, talking about killing babies as they emerge from the womb. Oh, and if they come out alive for a box of abortion and they're on the table, do we then kill them also? Apparently, what's the difference? It's just a mass of tissue, the lies, the lies of the devil. So in every province where the kings command and decree arrived, and the kings command because Haman had gotten the king sort of naively to agree with Haman, yeah, okay, go ahead, kill them all. So the decree went forth that all the Jews should be killed. So wherever it arrived, it was great mourning among the Jews with fasting, weeping and wailing and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. When we had people that are purporting to represent us who were talking about genocide, nine month old babies in the womb, it's time for us to have some sackcloth and ashes. It's time for us to have some weeping, gnashing of teeth, wailing, mourning, and active resistance. It's time for us to store our heaven with our prayers and our intercession and pray a great deliverance that we get delivered from this evil. Because if we don't, besides the evil that will occur to the children, what kind of judgment will occur to us who stood by and allowed this to happen?  You know, any decent person would do that. Of course you would. So that's the same thing here. We're talking about grabbing some, grabbing life and pulling it back. Mordecai fasted and prayed three days and three nights and even refused Esther's sending him a change of clothes. He was praying it through. With our travails, God prevails. God needs us, wants us to do it because we are sent as his ambassadors to be his people here on earth to represent him. As you can see from this amazing story, God released a strategy. He released the strategy to save the people of God and he released that strategy in response to the faithful fasting and prayer of Mordecai. It's amazing. This Haman who couldn't stand the sight of Mordecai because every time when he walked into the king's palace, he'd see Mordecai, wouldn't even look at him, wouldn't bow before him and he wanted to kill Mordecai so he went constructed in big gallows. And then in the meantime, in the middle of the night when Haman comes to ask permission from King Ahasuerus to kill Mordecai, he gets awakened in the middle of the night and remembers somebody who was the person who thwarted the plot to kill me the king and I've done nothing for him and he calls his assistants and says who is this man? They say look up, oh was this Mordecai? Oh and what has been done for him? And where is he's outside? He's always outside praying and nothing's been done for him? So the king is troubled. The next morning Haman walks in to ask that same king for permission to hang Mordecai on the gallows, the same king and the same man who's thinking how can I reward this Mordecai who saved my life? So the king says to Haman, what should be when Haman comes in all proud and impressed with himself? The king says to Haman, what should be done to honor the man whom the king wants to honor? Haman in his vanity and pride thinks oh well, King's talking about me, well, the king should take off his ring and his robe and put him on a horse and someone should walk him through the city square proclaiming so be it to the man whom the king desires to honor. And the saying please the king, so he said, great idea, go ahead Haman, take that Mordecai, put him on the horse and you parade him through the streets. Oh, oh, oh, bad day for Mordecai.  I think Haman's beginning to get the idea that things are not going well. Yeah, guess what? When we storm the gates of heaven, the devil's minions who are inspiring this abortion fiasco are gonna start getting the idea that things aren't going well for them either. Because this is a spiritual battle. Yeah, I'm blessed that Ken is gonna stand up and testify against this in the five senses of world of the state capital and that's extremely necessary. But there's nothing that can take the place of our prayerful intercession. At such a moment as this, the genocide of the Jews, the genocide of the Vermont babies, I think that's a real parallel here. So, what the enemy means for evil? God uses for good Genesis 50-20 tells us. Joseph is saying, and I'm going to a different story because it pertains here, but as for you, Joseph is saying to his eleven brothers who sold him into slavery, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about as it is this day to save many people alive. So, because Mordecai prayed it through and finished the job, God used Esther to save the Jews. The, and you know the rest of the story, the rest of the story is that Haman came to, Esther held forth, came before the king, he held out the banner, she found favor with him, and he said, come, and he said, what do you wish? Her being guided by the inspiration of God didn't blur it out right away. Oh, this evil Haman is trying to kill all of my people because the king didn't even know she was a Jew herself. He just said, if it pleased the king, if I found favor in your eyes, could I make a dinner and invite you and Haman to come to it? He said, sure, go ahead. And so, she's walking in wisdom, she's hearing from God, she's taking her steps, she's taking her directions from the Almighty. And at that special dinner, where Haman and the king are there, he again says to her, what petition would you have of me up to a third of the kingdom, I'll grant you? She said, you would think, she'd say, this guy here, he's trying to kill all the Jews, hang him. Instead, she still holds her peace. And at a moment of God's choosing at that same dinner, Haman's evil is exposed. And there's a lot of details. Haman's evil is exposed and the king looks at Haman. He walks outside in his extreme anger and comes back in and when he comes back in, Haman has fallen down at the feet of Esther in the beg for his life and it looks like he's fallen upon her. And then the king walks in at that moment and says, and would you also compromise the queen in my presence?  And then she said, here is my prayer, my petition, that you will reverse the evil petition of this Haman and send it out across all the provinces, huge 150 provinces or so, 127 provinces. He was the king of a huge piece of geography. Send out horsemen everywhere to reverse the decree so that the people of my people, the Jews, can stand and fight for themselves. And then as soon as the whole country knew that the king is now on their side and they all fought against the people who wanted this toward the Jews and the Jews were saved. And this Bordecai was made second to King Osperus in the province. And he was a man who was rewarded with great privileged power, prestige, authority, and wealth. Even though that wasn't what he saw, he saw God's will. And the people of the Jews were preserved. Now, last week in this modern day, most of us being 21st century, perhaps Christians, I believe, I'd say that's a wonderful story about ancient history. Well, besides everything we learned from it, you might know that if Esther didn't stand up, the bloodline of the very Messiah, Jesus Christ, who brought us back from sin, death, and eternal damnation would have been interrupted, we might never have had the Jesus Christ in the moment that we know today. So this story is part and parcel of all that we have to be grateful for. Now and always. So, because Bordecai prayed through and finished the job, God used Esther to save the Jews. Being an intercessor, it's not about you and about me. It's about God's highest purposes. Look at the incredible series of results which ensued from Bordecai's faithfulness and Esther's. The Lord blesses Bordecai by making him number two in the king's realm. The enemy of the Jews is overpowered and destroyed. The Jews were brought from sorrow unto joy. The Jews became spiritual legislators because their document countermanded the document of death that Haman instigated. As to 813, a copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province and published for all people so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.   I don't, not equipped to do, to be another Bordecai, another Esther? Think again. The fact of the matter is that because of the Lord Jesus Christ and because of their Pentecost and because of the gift of Holy Spirit, we have more power, enablement than dear Bordecai and dear Esther had. We have the ability to hear from God and act because we have, Colossians tells us, God in Christ and us when we have received the gift of Holy Spirit. Wouldn't you like to be second to the king in favor, grace, and power? In this case, the king of kings? You know, there's room at the top just because somebody else is second doesn't mean you can't also be second. Right next to him, whole royal of seconds to the king. For Bordecai, the Jew was second to king of hospice and was great among the Jews and well received by the multitude of his brethren seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen. Would you pray in intercessory prayer with me right now?  Lord God, make us like Bordecai, watchmen for our cities, towns, states, and our nation. Make us watchmen who will listen to the Holy Spirit and pray accordingly. Almighty God, we want to be second to the king and so close to you and to your son, our Lord and savior, you're sure? Almighty God, release an anointing for our governments upon us that we would have influence and that we would use it for the good of the people of our state and our country. Almighty God, help us to be well received by many and allow us to see your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven and to see your enemy's own evil devices turned back upon it. Almighty God, cause us to seek the good of our nation and the church speaking peace to all the country. Almighty God, we desire to be people with a mandate and an assignment from you our heavenly Father God. Almighty God, teach us like Bordecai to pray into it, to pray through every assignment you give us. Almighty God, help us to be intercessors here today, right now and in the time ahead for the legislators of the state of Vermont and for all those in authority throughout this nation. We lift every legislator up to you today, Father God and pray right now that you would guide and transform the hearts of those who sit in authority in Montpelier and throughout the country with supernatural wisdom and guidance to always do the best and most righteous acts and decisions for the people who have entrusted them with this duty. We pray your heads of protection over them, over the state capital, over the state of Vermont, over our President Trump and Vice President Pence and over our country. Every legislator, Democrat, Republican or whatever stripe, we pray these prayers for. Help us, Father God, as we humbly come before you with grateful and eager hearts and in the name of our risen and returning Lord and Savior Yeshua, called Jesus the Christ. Amen. Thank you very much for your wonderful kind attention. I appreciate this opportunity very much to share this message with you. Thank you. Thank you. Do you have any questions? I have a comment. I can't help but look at what you presented and a lot of Christians do know the story and feel like there was Bordecai positioned at the gates so that he was aware of what was going on and he knew the King's heart on different kinds of concerns and he also knew the heart of the various people. That's essentially what advocates for Vermont was in trying to do too. We're trying to bring more people to be at the gates, to be the ones to listen in on what's happening on the decision-making and you need to be at the gates. And not just here in the state house, but also in our communities and all of the different community boards. Too often times we're praying just quietly sadly in our homes, but we need to position ourselves to know how to be praying effectively for the decisions that are facing our times. I think that's well said Martha, I agree with you. I'm in a study with Bible study fellowship which is a worldwide Bible study. I was studying Samuel 1st and 2nd Samuel. And all of the food study and this morning again with your study, it comes to mind there's nothing new under the sun. Saul was out to kill David, chased him for out in the years. It's like the scene that we're living through today with politics that's going on in our country. And if we'd only come to our knees and pray as David does, I don't mean it's not true. It's not new where our needs are. Same today, yesterday and forever. On that note, if anybody else would like to offer any additional prayers right now, feel free.  If you move to say anything that hasn't been said to pray to anyone that hasn't been prayed, please feel free to go ahead. I want to ask you a question because you've been up against Bernie and his socialistic agenda for our nation. And I see it rolling out here in Vermont. And I'm concerned and you must be too. Comment on some of the things that you see that Christians should be praying for. First of all, in the five senses realm I think we need to be speaking the truth about the lies on the political level that are being told, that are making so many people think that socialism is a benign and beneficent and useful and wonderful thing. So let me hasten to say that first. But we've just talked that length about the power of prayerful intercession. We need to pray against the lies of collectivism of socialism because the enemy is our spiritual enemy. As Ellie said, there's nothing new on the side and the wiles and devices of our spiritual enemy are not new. If he was to expose himself immediately like right in this room in his full ugliness nobody would follow him. But he disguises himself so well that people of good will who don't know any better because they haven't been taught think, oh, well, gee, that sounds good. So likewise, Karl Marx and Post-Marxian philosophy has been promulgated as something that will help the masses of people. Isn't that wonderful, the most good to the most people or the sweet sounding but perlicious lie from all according to his means to each according to his needs? Gee, that sounds just so wonderfully egalitarian and that really worked. Everybody's needs would be taken care of. But of course, it's a highfalutin way to say that nobody has property rights, that nobody owns what they own and that we as a government have the right to steal from these people and give to those people and by the way, pocket a little bit of a margin while we're doing it. So we have to speak out and we have to pray against the sweet sounding lies of socialism because the score is approximately 39 to zero in terms of the number of socialist losses and fatties compared to the number of successes that have been tried since Karl Marx's pernicious philosophy has been spread. And right now, Venezuela is only the latest war that's collapsing the room. It was the fourth wealthiest country some decades ago with the largest proven royal reserves and totalitarian socialism has turned it into the hugest basket case. When I presented Senator Sanders with this reality, he said to me, oh, well, why are you talking about Venezuela? Well, the answer is because Venezuela is the latest socialist value but which one did you want to talk about? Oh, and he says, oh, what about Sweden and Norway? Well, Sweden and Norway are not socialist countries. They are countries that preserve the rights of property. Now they have made the mistake of putting a very high level of taxation on their people to support a welfare system that they have begun to realize is completely unsustainable and have peeled it back and are voting in more conservative legislators and leaders.  And to take that welfare expanded system and to infer that it could work in the country, 330 million people is a big stretch. But even if there was some intellectual rationale that we could try it, the fact is they haven't tried it. They preserve property rights, people work, they get paid, they have the rights of own property, they have rights that are protected by the laws of those Scandinavian countries. Which rights are taken away with socialism? Little by little by little until there's nothing left of what's called human liberty. And why is human liberty such an indispensable gift from God because of that? It's precisely that. Free will and liberty is the most, after life itself, it's the most important gift that God has given us. He's given us the free will and liberty to even choose to believe him and his Bible and the salvation he's provided. He doesn't impose his free will on anybody. But yet we vote into office governments who can take away our free will and replace it with the will of a government. It's ungodly, untenable, and does not work in favor of the people from whom the government presumably has derived its just powers to govern, which is what our declaration says. So once a government has transgressed to a large degree, the just powers to govern by imposing its will and acting as if it has a right to be which overrides individual liberties all the time then we have a real problem that has to be fought at the ballot box, it has to be fought on our knees in prayer. And that's why we're here today. And I can continue, but you get to just the freedom, freedom, it's all about freedom, you know? Yeah. About the lies, the minute he said the lies that we listened to in Vermont today, for me, immediately my mind went back when Bernie first started running as a socialist and he didn't lie about it, I'm a socialist. And my friends all laughed about it, he don't amount to nothing, he don't worry about it, we'll vote for him and he won't amount to nothing. And so we've given him that hope then to spread his lies throughout Vermont that socialism is socialism.  Yes, he did and we allow, this is what my prayer enlightened me. We have to seek people's prayers with me that we look in the mirror at ourselves and say, how did we allow this? We didn't look, I mean, we, in good faith, I guess, I don't know, I- He's free to, he's free to. He's free to, and Vermont has become his footstool to go around the country. I mean, in my neighborhood in Austin, Texas, his signs were all over there, all over. And from his signs now are Beto's signs, you know? And he's just spread in his venom and we're not standing against him. What was it today? We're trying to do it, but we need to do that more. I mean, when has Bertie been vetted? I've seen people, you're the first candidate that vetted him at all. Other candidates that have run against him. He's a nice guy. But you know the secret.  It's because along with this socialist teaching is the inference that if you're not in favor of giving all these people everything, that somehow you're not really a person who cares about people. You're not really a person of goodwill. And God forbid that a politician would actually be construed by the population as not caring and not being a person of goodwill. I stand right up and say the person of goodwill is not the person who pretends to give away other people's property to everybody else. The person of goodwill is the person who preserves the liberty of every citizen so that they can expand their destinies to their fullest and their highest. That's the person who really cares about other people. We don't need love or society. So I'm the first person I know of that has expressed it in that way and has pierced through that barrier of not wanting to confront Bernie because somehow he's a bastion of moral rectitude. To the contrary, Bernie Sanders is a bastion of moral lies and turpitude. Bernie Sanders lies on the same lies that in the 20th century caused the life of 100 million people in various national socialist communist systems. And the socialism that he uses here tried to get me not to use the word socialism because he's losing the battle about how evil that word is and he stops calling himself a socialist is because socialism and communism are stepsisters and one leads to the other inexorably. When you start taking away people's rights and you justify it because it's for the people's good and then give the government all that power and at a certain point the people have no power left. Look at Venezuela, look at Cuba, look at Hungary in the last century and Poland and East Germany, totalitarian top tierities that have left nothing left but a shell of rights for any of its citizens.  So we need to preserve that. We need to preserve and share in America. Right here in my home town, sitting around my dining room table, 12 Republican, no not 12, but 12 people, a group of Republican, very small group of Republican, mostly Democrat, a young high school student about to graduate. He's leader of Bernie's party in Vermont within the school in my town. And he sits there, I mean I don't have to look beyond my town to see this. He sits there and says, the only fair form of government is socialism. It's not fair, it's not fair that my father can afford to send me to college and others can't go because their father can't. So what's your point, Ellie, we know that- It's, we don't have to look beyond our own school. It's right here, it's infected our state in a nasty way. So that's why I'm dedicated going to every school in this state that will allow me five minutes or 50 minutes to speak on this very subject and to give an education to the students that apparently they haven't had in recent decades. So that's my role. If you wanna help, if you wanna help find, if you know anybody who has any position or decision-making authority in school or a civic organization where they've young people, old people in between, talk to them and get me invited there and I will speak and I will teach the antidote to burningism. I am the antidote. I am the unburning. I am the unsocialist. I am the person who proclaims that all men are created equal and that we're given unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that without the right to keep your own property and to live your own life free of overwhelming government control there is no life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and I'm here to help us preserve it. So get me a pulpit or a place to speak and I'll show up. So if you wanna, you don't have to do anything, just get me the place and I'll be there. That's what I'm doing for the next year. So I'm not spending a lot of time complaining about what we already know about how bad things have gotten. I'm talking about what the antidote is and what the truth is and when you flick on the light in a dark room, the darkness isn't there anymore. What's troubling me and I feel like I'm on my knees for is parents are afraid to say anything because their kid at school will be ulcerized in time. So they let it take place. It's been a gradual deterioration over decades and it's not gonna be turned overnight. It's gotta be counted with truth. It's gotta be counted with the principles that made this country the greatest country in the history of the world. And the reason it's so great is because of the amount of freedom. So we gotta speak out. Yes. And allow the kids to speak out and with the light of Christ. And it is, it's really being dimmed down in a big way in the educational arena. And I don't know if there's more on the itinerary for today but I think Mr. Kovner, are we all going to be able to join you and listen to your testimony at the Capitol when it happens? I don't know. It's in 146th and 3rd floor, I believe, from 1.30 to 4 o'clock. You know when you're speaking, that right? I suggest a few o'clock rather than people that were done with it earlier. My testimony was going to be very short. I learned about this last night through Grand Pages editorial that he puts out every week. And so I basically prayed about it and I put down a paragraph of words. Whether it's going to have any influence on it, I don't know, but I'm going to do it in that show and see what happens. Can anybody know? I think anybody can pop in. Yeah. I think it would be an excellent thing for any of us who have the time to attend the hearing for part of all of it to be there and to show our support for everyone who speaks up in that committee. If you're going to speak, you have to be on the agenda. Yes. So of course we're not going to be able to do that, but we can go and show support for you and everyone else to. Because you guys are cool. But I would suggest you, we've had a private conversation. And the reason why Larry's doing this is because he believes this is what God wants him to do. He prayed about that. He got answers to prayer. And he's going to send in his calling. It's as simple as that. I'm here because I prayed about that. And I'm going to step in to God's calling. If you take a look at all the Old Testament people that God used, they weren't people that wanted to do the job. Moses said, hey, I'm not a very good speaker. He stuttered and God said to him, I'll give you the words. Gideon, driving away out of fear, God used him on a millionth. And you take a look at him, all of the Old Testament greats, they weren't necessarily people of pride, good words, profoundness, we would just call them God. And they weren't necessarily obedient. They had to be convinced to do what they had to do. But if you call them God, you can't step into what he wants you to do. What's the alternative? You can either walk with him or you can run away from him. Simple as that. Any other questions or any other comments people would like to share or any other prayers people would like to make? Just want to thank you for making the venture and being part of what we're doing here. And it will be projected in other settings. Thank you for stepping in. My pleasure. Thanks for arranging all the time. I second that and I pray that you'll have many openings. Many. Thank you.


hello everybody welcome to another episode video thing today I've got something special for you guys today I have recently been making a few steps in my YouTube journey I guess and I've set myself up a patreon account for all of you who don't know what patreon is patreon is basically a sort of like a crowdfunding style thing that allows you to so I give some money maybe monthly to a youtuber or some kind of creative content writer and to give them a little bit more revenue to work with in terms of video equipment production just desire to do YouTube videos the reason why I have actually started to do this patreon is because a lot of the videos that I want to make are actually unmonetizable so it means that I can't make any money on them usually because they're to do with controversial subjects especially when I do some you know meaningful videos on you know like suicide and depression and self-harming I would never get any sort of revenue from that at all and a lot of the videos that I make that I make a lot of more of my money on are actually the ones that mean less to me so it's it's a bit of a trade-off there and I have to sort of put a lens on my content a little bit so that I can actually sort of make any any sort of money on this that's the reason for my patreon account obviously if you don't know what it is before it might seem a bit strange I obviously I'll link my patreon down in the description if you'd have a look at I have set it up all the goals and stuff that I'm gonna do if I reach a certain amount of money per month and there's also this tier system that allows you to donate as certain amount of money and if you pass a certain tier then you get certain rewards or stuff like that so I'll just break down some of the tiers that I've got the first tier that I've got is sort of the bog-standard one just for anybody who wants to donate a little bit of money to myself and maybe like one dollar a month which is obviously not that much but in that in that reward sort of a Facebook group so I've set up a specific Facebook group and invite people on patreon who have you know don't start to donate some some money towards my my content and that Facebook group will sort of provide you a bit more insight into my videos my ideas I'll do some polls on it and all around us give you the opportunity to give your your opinions and that will be taken to you know more of a high degree into consideration when I make my videos so it'll mean that you'll be able to if you if you're supporting me you'll be able to sort of dictate to some to some level and what kind of content I put out in the second tier I think it's like five dollars you'll be able to I'll list you at the end of my YouTube videos and the patreon I'll give you a shout out for you know the support that you're giving me which I think is fairly due I do believe that in that tier you'll you'll receive opportunity to get first dibs on the merchandise that I'm trying to work on and if you want to get them and obviously in the future once I've get it all set up I might add some some discount codes or put some deals on for anybody who's part of that tier this the third tier is sort of a more personal side to it and if you if you really join my content and want to sort of getting in contact with me just just have a chat or just a sort of brainstorm some ideas that you may be having for the channel that that tier is sort of like a Skype tier so every every two months I'll give you a give you a video call and we can we can chat about stuff if you want to anything that you want to chat about as long as it's Pete it sucks it's friendly and you're not just trying to slide in the DMs or something the third tier is the the gold subscription thingy subscribe a group I can't remember what I've called it but basically all that happens in that one is I'll highlight you at the end of my videos as kind of a gold member thing and I'm also going to set up a Facebook messenger group with myself and any of any of the people who get that tier meaning that you can have more interaction with me and give them up more of your opinions on stuff and then obviously as my channel grows and I get a bit more of my merchandise sorted out I'll try to sort of hook you hook you over some new free gear if I can and try and try and get your opinion on the type of you know t-shirts and merchandise and stuff that you want and that's the that's the main thing I'm not going to be buying these I'll probably buy one just as a so I can wear it around and be like hey this is my merchandise but for most of it will be based on you what you what you want to be honest and the last tier is the moderates tier so this is this is for anybody who is who is really really into into my channel and it's basically it's got all the benefits from the previous tiers obviously and probably out in the future when I set up my merchandise you'll get a lot more merchandise considering you're a moderator of my channel and you also get moderator status on YouTube meaning that you can help me sort of sift out any of the unruly comments and stuff like that but if you abuse this you will not be able to be moderator and I'll have to have to have a little bit of a chat with you beforehand just to make sure that you're not gonna delete everybody's comments or something and but hopefully hopefully that doesn't happen and you know if you want to to be a part of my channel in a significant way that might be a good way to sort of get yourself in there and obviously because you're a moderator I'll take you vet you your word in your opinions very very seriously but yeah so all of these tiers that I've covered are they do have certain prices to get to them but I am very willing to you know if you send me a inbox on Facebook at my Asperger's growth page asking you know you know maybe you want you want a certain tier and it's a bit too expensive and then maybe I've made it too expensive because you know I'm not really sure what what the average price for stuff are but we can always we can always chat about that if you want to and if you you know if you're if you're a big fan and you've been a part of my channel for a while obviously like I'll give you those those statuses anyway and you know for a lot less and then I would throw someone that I didn't really know that well so I hope this will be a positive step for my channel you know it's very hard for me on youtube considering the kind of stuff that I like to put out and I think just having this aspect of more community engagement and more more reason for my for me to and communicate with you guys and will help me a lot to sort of grow and let you know you can let me know the kind of stuff that you want to see which is the main thing and I'm here for I guess yeah my hand is getting very shaky right now it's very sunny out today it's a Monday and it's absolutely beautiful yeah so it's a positive day to start this new section of my channel as I said down below in the comments I'll post the link to my patreon and also put it in the description and whatever so if you want to check that out please do and even if you do even if you're not wanting to you know have a go at it or anything just having a little be will be nice yeah so thank you very much for watching it's been a short video today just to highlight new changes in my channel I hope everyone receives this very well and obviously if it is too expensive don't go in the comments and raid and tell me such a I'm such a horrible person just let me know and I can I can change it around and stuff so yeah thank you very much for watching guys see in the next video and hopefully see you on my my new patreon page see you later guys


OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Okay, so I'm Barry Bukin and this is video discussion prompts and other fun and easy activities for ESL classes. I've been an instructional technology teacher advisor for the last several years for the Division of Adult and Career Education for the Los Angeles Unified School District and I've also been a subject matter expert for OTAN for at least a decade. I don't exactly remember how long now. So I've had an opportunity to use a lot of these projects and also work with teachers who use these projects and I think you'll be happy. So hopefully after this webinar you'll be able to implement several projects or activities including some video-based discussion prompts and here's the key I hope with little or no preparation that's sort of what I'm going for here. So in any case one of the project that I was trying to work with right now is a get-acquainted cahoot I'm sure many of you are familiar with cahoot you know people have been presenting on cahoots for a good number of years but basically and what I'm actually doing is building one right now this is the get-acquainted cahoot and I would do this at the you know like within the first week of a semester and what I would do is let me see if I can get my mouse going. I would line up you know pretty much all of my students in a long line around the classroom pose them against the the whiteboard and take this headshot and then eventually you know after they got to know each other a little bit but of course nobody really knows everybody completely do a cahoot in the first week to get students to make see if they started to learn everybody's name. So this had a couple of purposes one they get to know each other and two it would introduce them to you know using cahoots in sort of a non of threatening way. So hopefully we'll come back to that a little bit later. But the first project that I think you know it's a nice good starter everybody seems to love food you know if you anything do anything on social media you know from Facebook to Instagram people really are taking you know pictures of food whether they're at a restaurant or they're at home and you know taking selfies you know of the food and so there are a few projects that you can do with this excuse me for just the moment okay let's take a look at the next project or the first project. So it's not only just taking the you know the pictures which are a lot of fun but then you know converting that to some sort of project that's appropriate for the class level and language level and technology level that you're working with. So in this project you know you can not only are you taking a picture of the food but maybe you're planning a full dinner and then you can add some you know civics type skills or other skills and you know define a budget and then maybe send them to the internet to find the ingredients so they can figure out how much things are going to cost and then either write about it or do a PowerPoint so for example you know this would have been this is a student response a little bit of writing you know the ingredients of the shopping list with the cost and you know that becomes a project and then depending on you know what technology you have or whether you're in a face-to-face class or online class or hybrid class you know presenting that dinner to the rest of the of the students and then that sort of you know is an easy segue into then the next type of project and basically very very flexible pretty much any topic that you're discussing in class can easily be converted to a PowerPoint presentation or a discussion in an LMS you know and again it's mostly just you know inserting a picture into your Word document into your PowerPoint into a Google slide and and then a little bit of text and then again depending on your you know your context doing that presentation in a Zoom meeting or for the rest of the students or doing it in front of the class but very very flexible and you as the teacher you have lots of options you know in terms of parameters you know you can create a checklist of the types of things that you want to see in the presentation whether it be certain you know grammatical structures or certain other things that you've been studying in class you know from the not just the topic and so this really great project anytime dropping things into a PowerPoint presentation you know if we have time later and and you're not really familiar with PowerPoint or with you know Google slides I can do a real brief how to make an easy presentation so here are also some other examples of that but with slightly different format this would be like in an LMS so this is a an actual project by one of our my colleagues and the idea here was as you can see this was back actually back at the beginning of the pandemic and it was to encourage parents to set up a special a home school place a work a school place at home so the parents are asked to take a picture or pictures of where there's children are are doing their at home school work or the zoom meetings and so again another nice idea from this is you know people like to share what they're doing with their kids you know they're real proud of of that and this was a really nice project some parents really did go out of their way to make the home learning set up uh very very nice for their kids and to differentiate it from the couch for example it wasn't just a couch anymore uh it's the you know this study space same thing here uh you know really really uh proud of you know what the projects that they did to help their kids in school or study online you know along the same idea this this comes out of actually CTE again a series of projects involving students taking pictures with their phone and doing a presentation or demonstrating that they understand the steps to a particular project for tasks so in this particular case the teacher you know has given them expectations and then the students had to you know just as they would in the class where the teacher could see it set it all up at home take photos and then submit the photos to demonstrate that they're aware of the proper sequencing of tasks for the CTE but it doesn't you know obviously it's not just a CTE type project anybody in you know can adapt this in ESL or academic settings to demonstrate anything that requires a sequence of events so once you get those photos then a really great extra project that I'll go into a little bit more depth in is uh turning them into a scrambled power point puzzle and so the idea is to take those same pictures that perhaps demonstrate the sequence and scramble them so let me get out of this share and share something else okay and um let's see uh let's see uh Toshiko if you can hear me can you check the chat um I sent you a message okay and let's also just do one more so let me stop start a new share hopefully you can still see that um are you able to see the um the slideshow this is steps for painting your nails no it's just it's a really large gray box it says slideshow and let me let me stop sharing again thank you for that I think that's better I see the green line yes you're good okay so this was an actual student project steps for painting your nails uh basically what happens uh if I do the slideshow the student created this and quite a few uh pictures and with all the steps so once that that's the project in itself in this particular project there was the student also recorded their voice describing the steps but to turn this into a scrambled project for which then can become a discussion prompt for uh other students in the class uh this is what I would like this is what I would do well first of all I'd probably get rid of the title slide because that's we don't need to do that okay and then probably I would uh delete any of the uh the recording so you can see the little icon here you know you can click on that and and delete it uh if there are uh voices because uh sometimes they say you know first I'm going to do this second I'm going to do this next I'm going to do this so we don't want to give the the clues uh away so you know you can delete all the sound if there is any uh and then the point is we want to change the order and scramble the order so the default uh display for uh powerpoint uh you're probably very familiar with it uh along the left side you see all of the slides and then uh the slide that's highlighted uh is displayed uh in large format uh in the center and uh that's like your workspace but um what I like to do for the scramble uh case is uh under view you have some options and one of the options is called slide sorter okay slide sorter and what that does is it sort puts the slide in number order you know just as if they were uh arranged vertically okay so but these this you can drag around so if I click on one I can drag it and just you know at random change the order I hope that's random okay and then what you can do is go back to your presentation or you know what you might want to do is you might want to save that so you save it save it in the same place and then just call it scrambled you know painting your nails scramble so now it's all in it's not in order so let me just enlarge it just a little bit and uh I want to open it up uh to the uh to the group uh you can unmute your mics and then uh try to describe what you think uh would be the first the first step so you can if somebody has an idea uh unmute yourself and sort of give a description of uh what you see and which slide you think may be first and and oftentimes uh there really isn't a wrong answer uh you know it could just be uh that's the basis for a discussion itself um maybe slide eight is the first slide because they have all the nail polish out and they're going to choose the color that they want okay I mean that sounds legit to me uh so so you know working with the group you know I move that into into position it looks like slide nine is the last slide okay that makes sense to me well why do you suggest that well it looks like she has 10 painted nails in slide nine so that looks like it's the last slide to me of course number six oh yeah go ahead no never mind okay so and then as the teacher of course you can establish a conversation with the students you know you know asking for reasoning uh etc etc let me go back to uh to another possible way that this uh you know could be uh useful you go back to your normal one of the things sometimes that I do with this you know get rid of that little um I make the the picture just a little bit smaller all right and then I'll insert uh a little text box at the top with a letter so depending on you know what and and also you could probably get rid of the any of the the extra background stuff you know so you move that up at the top so that that way what happens you know you do that when it's in the initial view slide sorter see so that way there's letters so that for you know if it's too hard to differentiate between a particular slide it's easy enough to say oh let's put slide a at the end let's put slide b next oh yeah slide c next and then of course uh so you can do this as a group activity uh with the whole class so everybody's speaking everybody's participating but you can also save that individually and then distribute it and then the students who get it have to put it into the order individually save it with their name on it and then turn it in as okay I think this is the correct order so um this is really nice again uh you know in ESL classes I use this to to talk about you know adverbs of sequence but CTE people or really anybody uh can can use it to uh demonstrate knowledge of a particular task uh any questions on that oh okay I see in this um the slide uh in the chat um can you do this in google slides uh basically yes I can't demonstrate that at the moment but yeah oh uh my uh my colleague Natalie uh is saying yes it's called uh grid view uh uh Natalie I sent you a text message by the way oh yes great okay I see that you just answered okay any questions about this particular task or activity okay I I don't hear anybody so we'll we'll go on hold on for just a moment let me stop the share and okay let's get back to the presentation let's start a new share okay so um right ready for that okay so the next activity and this would be something that um I'd like to sort of establish uh at the beginning of any semester uh I called it find English in real life treasure hunt and um I made it known from uh the beginning of the semester that uh it was really great if students could bring in examples of things that we talk about uh in class and so uh and this would just you know it didn't happen all the time but it would happen frequently enough so in this particular case I just you know we were as you can see from the slide uh we were talking about uh contractions and you know I was going through the I am not and discussing a little bit uh the difference between uh academic English and other non-standard forms of English and uh paint and you know the next day a student came and said look I found this in the newspaper uh and so there it is uh you know some of you may be familiar with boondocks um you know but he he was he was able to connect what he was studying uh in class with something that he saw in real life and so uh I would encourage that you know and of course with phones nowadays um you know it's real easy to find uh public examples and so um these are a couple who were doing passive voice uh in that particular class and so uh you know these were things that the students found in this room just take a picture of it and bring it into class okay so um the next project uh I call one word homes uh and this is something that you can do in publisher not everybody has publisher uh anymore uh but you can also do it in PowerPoint um and so let me stop the share here oh actually first let me show you a couple of student examples um as you can see the idea is just to illustrate a word uh you know with the image so this is an actual student example you know it's very clear cut very literal another one fairly uh literal you know this being a team but then also you get ones that are a little less literal a little bit more conceptual that the shaking of hands symbolizing friendship so um my question to you is uh has anybody ever seen this before being able to uh form uh words and then uh use pictures to illustrate the words okay so uh let's see oh by the way let me take a quick look back into the uh chat uh I'm getting uh you know are you willing to share your slide presentation with us uh yeah um I didn't actually make this one into um a pdf yet uh but if you uh if there's enough time at the end I can all convert it and and drop it into the the chat okay well thank you for those of you who are saying that these are great ideas that's always nice to hear okay so most people have not heard of the uh this idea so what I'd like to do now is um we'll share uh first I'll do it in publisher uh if you still have publisher and then we'll do it in okay let me share then we'll do it in powerpoint because I think more people have powerpoint okay let me get to my share button again and find what I want to share okay actually let me you know let me pull it on this other screen I'm working with two screens and that's why I'm turning my head to the side frequently okay so how how is that this is uh publisher and I already have one uh up and uh on display uh but let's just go ahead and start over so this is called word art so this is a publisher page and it's going to work very similar in powerpoint but you insert and then you look for the thing called word art and you may not have ever seen this before uh if if you've been using a publisher or worked for a long time it was there they they changed the way it works a little bit but you can still do the same thing so uh you see these sort of letter styles and we'll go through a few of them and you also see some things that already look like they've been uh formatted so you could pick one of those right away uh and then it just says your text here so let's say uh you know you wanted to talk about roses okay and you can make this size rather big uh and say okay and so you can drag that into the center and then just expand it so it fills up your page and uh you know of course somewhere on the the page you want you do want to show your students uh about um you know or you know have them put their name on it put the date you know as a uh a text box that's that's simple enough okay um see and then you know you can go through you can try a few different things see what it looks like okay uh you can they have these shape effects as well or change also change the shape you get more things um and obviously for this project um you want the letters to be as thick and as large as possible so you can understand what the photo is um so in any case what do you do with this how do you change it from a solid print to a photo so uh over here under uh the fill for the for publisher okay this may look familiar to you most of us never really go beyond this part where we change colors something but if you keep on going down it says picture and then you get that standard search and hopefully my internet here at school will will work well it's going a little bit slowly look good let's try it again if not we'll do something else and look for a picture that I actually have on the computer now this is awkward okay so let's stop that for a moment and I'll look for a instead of doing something that you know they have that screen that lets you choose things online uh we'll do it with a picture and this then I'll find something we'll say I guess work offline there we go uh let's do okay so but you saw what happened to fill that so obviously now that's not roses anymore so I have to go over to edit text and we'll say lunch so again basically all you're doing is matching the word uh with the photo behind okay uh and you can you know by it by clicking on it and doing the format you know you can say well you know maybe this that one looks better no not really uh how about that one okay that's that's pretty good another thing you may want to experiment with they have this one little thing called spacing uh and you know when it loose means there's more space and less letter so you probably would want very tight and you get more of the um the picture so that's with uh publisher and I can do that again uh but let me go back and let's try doing it now in uh power point and let me share one more time our point is very similar same general idea actually let me uh see if I can drag this over to my other screen but we'll drag nicely not really okay let me stop to share and drag it first and then share again okay so same type of idea in a power point slide but more people have power point than publisher um so again it's the same type of thing uh we want to insert and there it is word art uh pick the letter okay uh let's maybe we'll do the sunflowers so it's a slightly different type of thing uh you can let me get my mouse back okay I get as large as we can uh and then you have text fill and there's your picture and maybe this time it will work let's do sunflowers okay there that seems to be working a lot better at the moment you select it and insert it and there it is okay now so this acts a little bit differently in publisher if you change the size the whole letters changed in this case it it doesn't quite work that way so back back at the home screen there's a couple of ways you can just choose a huge number make it a little bit larger but I also found this works really well increase font size so it gets that much bigger that might be a little bit too big for that okay uh and then you also have uh some other types of things shape effects so there's a few other little things that can happen to it all right and text effects and this is the one where you all of a sudden you see this transform and so you have some different styles now and so you just want to you know encourage your students to find the one that sort of illustrates uh you know gets the image out there the best possible way okay and there you go so again uh in powerpoint you have text fill and picture okay um you also have uh back at that home uh tab you still have the uh the the sizing the character spacing so it gave it a little bit more see from you know less letter to more letter okay so um any questions about that let me get back to the the chat see what's happening uh Natalie uh what do you think somebody's asking anyone know if this is possible in google slides I think it is but Natalie is my local google slides expert on campus what do you think are you checking okay I'm pretty sure it is uh if we have time at the end we can you know open up google slides and and look for it um there's a question do you have tips on how to explain all these steps to lower level uh ESL students um again uh you know everybody's teaching situation is different repetition a lot of repetition uh demonstrating the steps and you know if you're in a live person of person class uh demonstrating the steps uh repeatedly is uh is helpful just a moment uh you know that's all I can say uh and again uh just repetitions right so um and Chris is asking do the students create their own slides yes that's in this particular case that's the idea the project and you know it's it's just again it's just I call it a one word poem a way to express themselves uh with a little bit of creativity with the vocabulary uh that they know okay so let me stop the share and we can move on to the the next thing do that work uh let's see so um do you see this website called uh makebeliefscomics.com anybody can I do that right yes we can see it okay great so um along these same lines this is a really really excellent website uh is there anybody who's heard of it uh Bill Zimmerman started this uh many many years ago uh you know for ESL uh teachers and it's really grown over the years anybody has anybody heard of it okay we have one person okay so there are many many many things that that can be done uh with this website uh but the one that I like to talk about most is this create comics uh so I'll stop the share and we'll we'll do it live I'll make sure that location let me share the screen now that everything is lined up so it's a pretty intuitive website uh you have that you do have to um create a like a free account you can it just uh you know increases a little bit of the security you can just use your you know let's typical sign in with google or you know use an email it's really very very minimal but uh the default is this three panel uh comic strip you can add more panels if you want and again this is you know you demonstrate this to um you know to your students just like I'm demonstrating to you uh you show them let me that you have some tools here and then characters here and this is a whole another uh type of prompt but basically we're going to focus on this one characters and the tools and so the first is highlighted the first uh panel is highlighted you do have to name your comic so I'm going to call this tdls 2022 and you do need a name okay and let's just take a look at some of the characters so uh hopefully you can all see that so lots of different you know fantasy or more realistic characters uh quite a bit of uh options and so basically what you do is you pick a character when you then you have a few different poses that are possible and when you select the character then it appears in the in the panel and that this is where you can start using the the tools so the the first one is move it's the default so you can just move it anywhere move your character around this one is scale which when you click on it you get this little thing you can make the the character larger smaller uh when you have more than one item in the panel you have to bring to front okay flip you have to you select the tool and then you click on the character and it just flips it that's exactly what it does this is nice this is new for those of you who haven't seen this uh or have been seen this for a while you can now record uh audio and then finally if you're really not happy with something you can delete that one particular item so once you have a character then I use the back button and now we're going to get to the talk balloons okay so for example you have some things and the same type of thing you you select the one you want you can move it and then you click just to write oh in this particular case that I didn't have enough room so I I have a choice I can go back and get a slightly larger uh presentation okay I'm sorry a slightly larger uh speech balloon maybe I'll do that so I want to delete that one we'll get a slightly larger one okay uh if that's all you want in that panel then you click on the next panel get a new character go back find another character okay move it around go back get your speech balloon you have different styles again etc etc uh to do the audio you know you would click on the audio and you record the voice now let's say that was those are the only two I want so I can click on that and I'll subtract one are you sure yeah okay so now that you've got it and maybe you've added uh speech to it you want to uh save it okay and then you want to figure out how you're going to distribute it so you you basically have three choices print share or email so if you're you know connected to a printer uh you have a print button you can share it to all sorts of you know directly to Facebook or Twitter if you want but also you can email it to yourself or email it to your teacher by filling out a little form and then uh emailing it so this is the sender's email and then this is who you're going to send it to so in this case I'm going to send it to myself so at that point then you can create a new comic or go back and edit it if you know like if like for example they turn it into you and you notice that there's a a graph grammatical error or spelling error they can come back in uh edit and uh where they find it is view all save comics see and so then you see a list of the saved comics so uh and I really encourage you to look at some of these other things that he has it's just really really packed full of what he calls starters so you can see that for example you know these are like pre-formatted prompts uh that you can have your students pick and then they you know some of the work has already been been done for them let's check the um uh and you ask if you can copy from one frame to another you know I'm not really sure uh I haven't done that for a while okay so let's get back to our see what we're doing from time okay what I want to do uh is uh briefly uh do you remember that um Kahoot game uh real quickly let's see what it may be like in class okay so uh if you um have your mobile device go ahead and uh we're gonna go to um kahoot.it for those of you that uh no uh no kahoot let me get to uh the game do I put it so I'm gonna share the kahoot game for a moment and let me share this all right so um are you seeing the game pin no we just see you uh just see me maybe I didn't actually start sharing thank you for that how about now yes now it's in okay so for those of you who uh have never played kahoot it's sort of a fun game you have to go to www.kahoot.it I see some people are already popping in okay and uh you enter in the number 6689302 and then it will ask you to type your name and it looks like we've got 11 people so far we've got about 36 participants in the in the webinar so we'll wait a little bit give people more time to uh join and um this workshop uh was slated to go for 60 minutes but we haven't gotten to any of the videos uh activities yet which uh I think really are the ice cream uh of this webinar so uh I'm I'm fully prepared to go a little bit longer I hope uh you'll stick with me so I've got about 20 people playing are there 21 are there more who wish to to join or should I go ahead and start the game give me if you don't mind give me some feedback go ahead and start or wait a few more moments I think you're probably good Barry okay thank you for that okay so uh let's go ahead and start so this is the name game hopefully uh since you've been looking at the chat for a while or you've been looking at the webinar so uh on your mobile device uh select the name of this person for those of you who've never played kahoot uh on the left you see a timer on the right you see how many students have answered and so uh pretty good that is uh Patricia and it looks like uh most of you got that right so we'll do next and very good so Angie's out in front very nice Angie with our rod coming in second and Betsy in third place and ec and gm on the scoreboard as well here's the next question okay counting down four three two one all right most people answered ha that's correct that is me quite some time ago but it nevertheless it is me good job okay let's see if that changed the scoreboard our rod moved up to first place congratulations Angie okay ec Betsy and Sabina is now on the board sorry you know what we have to skip that one I forgot to put the correct answer my mistake that's what I was trying to do uh at the beginning of the presentation that's uh that's Julia we'll do one more very nice great job uh so in any case I'll stop it uh right now but that's what do you think about that um you know for the first week of class uh doing something you know of course you have to know how to use Kahoot but you have to be able to grab the student uh photos but it's a really great activity for students uh it introduces them to uh Kahoot and it um you know helps them get to know each other okay so uh the one comment if great if we have student pics so again you know like I did write today if you're online I use the zoom to take screenshots of people I did ask them permission before I did that if you have you know if they're in person you know you just take take their pictures I used to just line everybody up in the room and one after another click click click click over the you know my many many years of doing it um I only had a very few students who you know resisted and that's okay okay so uh let's get back to the presentation and we'll do some of the video prompts and then we'll we can wrap it up so let me share my screen and we've got the presentation make sure I'm in the right spot okay so uh again I've got three uh separate clips and the idea here uh in these clips uh is to uh be a prompt for discussion so uh in this first one I'll start the clip uh hopefully let me know if you can hear the sound or not you should be able to hear the sound uh and the idea is to watch it and then we're going to talk about what we think is going to happen next how's the sound by the way uh yes okay so um unmute yourselves and just uh let's just shout it out what uh what do you think is going to happen next maybe he can't find his keys to get in the car okay tornado you think there'll be a tornado okay someone pulls away in the car somebody pulls away okay he rolls down the window rolls down the window okay somebody in the car rolls down the window and and by the way you could do this in you know in groups there's a little bit of a competition if you wanted to that often was fun or have students come to the board if you're in the class or you know like posted on the jam board you know they're different uh suggestions okay so we have a few suggestions so uh let me go to the next clip sorry let me do it that way was that a surprise to anybody I wouldn't have guessed that exactly and in all the years that I've done this nobody's ever really guessed that okay now what do you think will happen next that animal will spit them back out Mary I think okay so we have uh one person saying spit them back out okay any other suggestions maybe the car is a submarine maybe the car is a submarine okay I think you're all still stunned okay well let's take a look go ahead that creature will come for the car for the car boy car okay and do what I don't know maybe take it under the water with the with the jogger okay let's take a look get it what do you think do you think that that would be something that your students might enjoy doing nobody oh I see in the chat I see people are saying yes okay great oh and also there was I yeah I didn't have the chat open I should keep the chat open uh Laura it suggested a UFO will come to save him yeah but anyway the the name of this uh this was originally a commercial for Toyota the name of the clip is called bait car okay let's take a look at the next one this one is really great around Thanksgiving it doesn't have to be Thanksgiving turkey but that's what I call it let's take a look okay what do you think will will happen next the turkey will fall on the floor okay that's one idea does anybody else have a different idea it goes through the drain it goes through the drain okay thank you all right well let's go ahead and see a creature from the lake comes through the window grabs it I like that I like that but no oh who said that who said it would fall on the floor I did but it's more like she dropped it more than it fell right okay I think within the you know linguistics uh fall on the floor will is close enough so congratulations on that let's take a look at the next clip okay what do you think will happen now it'll fall again okay we had a suggestion it will fall again it'll go out the window okay there's a woman falls in the drain Laura said it'll go through the window uh that was in the text but who said it out loud it'll fly away it'll fly away okay the woman falls in the drain let's see pretty good if you said it would go out the window but nobody quite guessed exactly the ending all right here's the final one let's take a look just putting the feeder hose into the back of the machine we're getting water directly from the lake over there is that blanket or it's like a warm okay guys it's nice it's got company okay so what what will happen next okay see a polar bear okay that that first clip did have a little bit of a clue so uh let's just go ahead and watch it it's got company just move away from it's a bear it's a bear it's fine we're fine we'll probably walk over here we're fine you too sir now please let's just give the bear a minute he's gonna move on just let the bear be okay what's gonna happen next the bear will jump on top of the washer okay or try to crawl inside try to crawl inside okay it will put its bear suit into the machine so Venus says it will put its bear suit into the machine and I think it will turn on the machine too with the suit in the machine and the machine turns on okay well let's take a look oh and by the way Evelyn is asking uh what's the turkey video called I like to find it on youtube well guess what as your as your door prize everybody for coming to my session I've actually saved all these videos pre-cut and I'm gonna share share them with you at the end so you don't actually have to do any searching at all and you don't have to do any editing unless you don't like the way I've edited okay let's take a look oh I'm sorry I didn't go to the next one there we go I know somebody's really happy with themselves great job boy very few people ever guess that okay so now what's gonna happen he'll take off this second bear suit okay anything any other ideas at some point that washing machine has to turn on I would think okay let's take a look oh I think this I didn't I don't think I advanced hold on let me let me go to the next one there we go all right so congratulations to those of you who predicted that uh he put his bear suit into the machine and uh turn it on now what's gonna happen next I think he's gonna take a photograph of the people take a photograph of the people the camera's right there right anybody else I think the people will take a photo with him like a selfie with him okay that's a good suggestion yes uh in the chat Laura says he's gonna dance okay let's take a look okay what's gonna happen next you just want to wait and see okay here we go sitting in my chair sitting in my chair all right you guys some of you have some great ideas are pretty close what's gonna happen next oh and we had also a he's going to remove his shorts that was a great guess he's gonna open it well before the cycle's done okay he's gonna open it before the cycle is done let's go ahead and see what happens there you go congratulations for those of you who made it all the way through a real creative commercial uh for Samsung washers um but anyway what what do you think uh you know do you think that these uh this type of clip uh is something that would spark discussions or you know conversations in your classes yes and and especially maybe if you um you know have a prize for you know correct answers uh I think um there were there were always a lot of fun and you know what you can do of course is you know you can continue doing you know looking for uh commercials and things that have that little surprise uh ending I mean that's most of the commercials you know try to aim for that and the very successful ones uh do that so um I did want to mention uh a particular website that I actually learned uh at I think it was I'm not sure if it was last year's tdls or just in the meantime at a webinar uh Melinda Holt uh introduced this to me uh if you you know think about working with videos uh this is a really and also audio this is a really great website 123apps.com uh I just took a screenshot of the first few but really simple to use audio tools and video tools so like trimming you know trimming off of a longer video really really easy uh so I'd like to um encourage you to uh to do that okay so in the comments um Michelle says John West salmon bear fight ad is another good one so I'll have to uh I'll jot that down myself I can go take a look at it John West salmon so are we are are we saying the salmon is like fighting the bear is that what that it means I think John West is a brand name for salmon and their their advertisement is known as the bear fight or bear versus man not sure I see okay well we'll take a look for that so um as promised um I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to get you all of these uh video clips without me having to upload every single one into the chat so um what I've come up with is a I uploaded all of the clips uh into a google drive that I that should be um you know available to anyone uh with the link okay and then I took all of those links and I um I made a word document okay and so I'm sharing the word document in the chat and then uh hopefully uh and I also I also added this website in there as well um to help you remember but hopefully and I did double check this this morning you know just by going down in sequence uh to all the URLs you know you should be able to download uh the different um let's see you should be able to download the different links so uh before we uh you know finish up um can somebody verify that the links in the the word document are working for you and and if not uh I will I mean I'm fairly confident they will work because I did work hard on this to make sure that it would work for everybody but I will put my email uh that's good okay the first thing works if that's any indication so great work for me okay fine so I did put my email in there in case there are any issues or if you have um further questions um you can uh email me uh let me go to the uh the slideshow uh and um save it as the pdf uh and I the truth is I don't know uh if um the videos will come through when you save as a pdf maybe some of you who have more experience with that with no um but uh in any case you actually have yeah I mean you don't really need the the the videos in the powerpoint because you have the videos uh individually so let me see if I can get that now okay so hold on just the moment let me let me see where I saved it current folder okay yeah try it again um okay so I'm having a little bit of trouble finding where I just saved it as a pdf let me um keep working on that um there was a question from Angie did I use the one two three apps to cut this video into clips um I did adjust it yes uh that's the trim one uh also uh you will see that uh in that word document you have the whole entire video so if you want to cut it into different clips you have the actual entire video uh to do that with and and the one two three apps is really easy it's like a web-based uh interface uh you know you just select the video you want to upload you upload it a really easy interface appears and you know you just move a slider uh at the front and at the back to trim it then you just down you save that and download it uh and it pops into your download folder uh as a you know with the trim that you want it's really quite quite easy okay so let me just let me figure out why it's not why I don't find the pdf uh same as maybe I'll just put it on the it should be there let me try again share for my computer and uh there we go okay pdf okay so there you go I was successful and uh you should have the the slide presentation as well so without uh further delay uh we can start to wrap it up uh there was a comment uh earlier about it originally scheduled for uh going until 230 this time slot is was from one to 230 but if you look at the descriptions uh presentations were of different lengths so originally this was I had thought to do this in in 60 minutes but that didn't really work out anyway so I'm glad we have the extra time so uh if you do have a chance uh to use any of these ideas you'll have my uh email uh it's always great to get feedback uh on my ideas uh and see let me know how they work with your class so unless there are any further questions uh I think that uh we can tell Patricia to wrap it up