Hey, everyone, welcome to figure fantasy. So we're here to do a little bit of a showcase for a backs out Empress and also we're gonna be combining her with a frost team See how she goes what the mechanics are and let's check out the lineup with this first attack Actually, I've been trying this out Been very very successful with the previous stages now that we're here in the harder stages We'll try to finish this out. So off to Off to this stage and let's see this line up. So initially this will be your basic lineup.  So you have rain here. Ren has frost damage in I think her passive So also, we have Empress of course at the back here. As you can see, she is in the same line giving crit to Vazir win and to Rinn so next is of course for Empress She has frost damage buff to the team next is going to be Zephyr. Zephyr is here Zephyr has frost to can give frost to two random enemies. Ayane Okada is the only one here That's out of her brand. So if you don't have Ayane Okada Definitely, you could bring Krosos if you want to bring an all-tenma team. That's not a problem. So you can swap out Ayane and put any Krosos and the last one will be Vazir win So Vazir win has frost damage to all enemies with her ultimate. So again, this concept is basically going to give you a a Full decked out frost team, but of course there are other alternatives if you don't have one of These figures or two of these figures again, Ayane can be swapped in a swapped out for Krosos The rest I will explain it or I will also explain the gears that I have equipped with them So let's try this one out Okay, so again the concept for this team is put at least three DPS Units, I would consider Ayane a DPS unit because of the damage that she brings as you can see there That was Empress decimating the field She really dishes out a lot of ultimates, especially if she kills one as you can see there She's like a machine gun So very big damage for Empress as you can see let's move on to the next and I'll talk to you about the other alternatives that you can put in your frost team Okay, so for other alternatives to the frost team you can put in Mako For additional you could add Mako to your to your six man team. Just in case you're allowed to do six I think I'm allowed to do six now. Sorry. I forgot so can still deploy one more So let's deploy Mako there Mako additionally gives more crypt to your team The other one that you can explore as well is put in dead master because again Empress is there and the other one that you can explore is also Sani It puts Sani in but at this point I'm not putting her in because for me what she just gives me is The is frost resist so for this time at six deployment. I'm gonna use this lineup So with dead master in tow, so let's see how this does Okay, so with additional crypt with additional healing definitely There's gonna be a massacre as you can see a lot of damage coming in Damage there damage everywhere Empress really does Shoot a lot again You'll be amazed what her gear is later on when I discuss the gear that she has so Again, she is a magnificent Specialist hope hopefully guys you were able to you know, let's just drink HP and let's move to the boss Okay, so let's see what she can do with the boss here Hopefully we can clear this out deployable zero. So let's go Okay, so again We are going to be Relying on a lot of crit here a lot of healing and a lot of damage, of course So at this point dead master is doing a lot of damage Look at that HP bar of the boys. It's Goes down quick We're at five already and we're still good with HP at this point so far so good Brett for So There you go. We're at two at one and The last bar is about to be out So again a lot of damage with the crits all around and there you go There you go guys So this is your frost team. Let's go over to the equipment for each of the figures that I Mentioned here. Okay. Let's start off with the subs I'm gonna I'm gonna start later with the with the what they call this with the main Lineup so for if you want to consider cruises in your frost team, you can He has to have lifesteal set and defensive set. That's important the badges I put eternal valor badge on him. You can actually put a you know a different badge But he has a dormant for a defender. This is not exclusive to cruises You can put this on any defender. So that is what I equipped him. Next is going to be sanny I haven't Haven't built sanny that much She doesn't have any any, you know anything equipped at this point only and the dormant and also this Badge for frost so again for those who are planning to put in sanny you can actually put her as the sixth one But I'd like to add additional crit a while ago in the lineup So I did bring in Mako for that matchup So moving on to the next which is Mako, which I was discussing earlier. She's ready at five diamonds Mako is is going to help you a lot because she gives crit she gives healing and She heals faster than Zephyr. So both of them will have to alternate heal Heals at this point.  So let's move on to the main Main team so Everybody has frost or frost he gives frost or frost damage in any other way. Let's start with RIN RIN's parts is going to be Quickset my initial build of green was mainly ultimate But I switched to quick set Because her life steal is keyed on her combo with her basic attack. So again I'm switching this out because she performs better here. She survives better here and I don't see, you know, I don't see anything wrong with switching from ultimate to quick set If you still want to do an ultimate set, it's it's not a problem. It's it's your preference But for me at this time, I'd prefer her with a quick set So she also has a eternal phantom badge and she has here This is for a vanguard So this is not an exclusive for her and that's how she is built. Okay, so moving on to Her her companion on the front we have here Ayane Okada. So Ayane and I love this girl Very all around I am much sure why she's in she's in Galatea But at least she does give a lot of help to Galatea at this point I equipped her with defensive set and lifesteal set to keep her dishing out those There's frost in the in the front plus accuracy is high so that she could she could continue dealing frost as You know the higher the higher her accuracy She can the the person the higher the percentage that she can do frost that is why she has an accuracy badge and this is her Exclusive adornment So reduces damage taken during her ultimate Okay, so that is it for Ayane. We will go next to Vazirwin my girl the girl that literally made me play this game Okay, so parts She of course has ultimate and also she has crit to maximize her damage output. She has End time frost badge, of course, and this is just Actually a bonus. I don't have an adornment for her So you could just feel free to equip any other adornment there guys and the next one would be Zephyr Zephyr, of course Same built as before built her with all HP then you have Eternal Eden badge same as Mako and she has here an exclusive enhancer for helpers or periodically Pyrrhodic healing also restores five energy and reduces the next damage taken by 20 So again, nothing special I just built them with the specific gear that they need and Moving on to Empress which I maxed her out at five diamonds already As you can see here her gear is nothing special the same way I built her in the video is still the same so with Ultimate you have here your ultimate power plus 40 or Your four piece ultimate parts then you have here crit plus 10 So you have to make the most out of her bonuses She has plus 30 plus 30. So again, it's a lot guys. So she She's good By the way, this one the end time ultimate badge She can use this badge as long as you don't have the one that recommended before This really really is one of the best badges even if it's a purple rarity For those who hit hard on ultimates. This is one of the best we keep your figure So do not hesitate to use this one and I'm using her Adornment which is This is boost all damage by 10% for seven seconds whenever an ally Lands a crit and also frauds a target for seven seconds. So again She packs a punch. I tell you Do not really hesitate to to level her up to five Diamonds because she is a very nice investment guys a very nice support to have and She actually really bolsters your frost team at this point So do not hesitate get her Frost teams now have a good, you know, good roster to build around. So those are my Figures from my frost team. So what do you think would this frost team be of you know interest to you guys and Put your comments down in the comment section. Let's discuss. So again, this is the warden. Thank you Stay safe. Take care


Particularly those of you who don't support the show, use super chat. That's the way I'll answer your question. So, I think modern culture is sad and pathetic.  And again, it's reflected in the fact that we care so much about what these people think. Any of these people. Instead of just enjoying what good they produce. And many of them don't even produce anything good. All right, let's see. So, Gervais said some funny things, but I think completely inappropriate for the setting. All right, let's see, what else do we have? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, wait a minute, we got this. And then if you've got any more super chat questions, happy to take them. But, no, that's wrong. All right, we are going to take about the wackiness of California. The wackiness of California. So, it's the beginning of a new year. A new budget in California. New legislation kicks in. And you get a sense of how we've seen people are now, I don't live in California anymore. So, it's even more insane from a distance. It's not an accident that California is seeing a huge exodus of people. Interesting. I mean, so many people think everything's about money, but the fact is wealthy people are not leaving California. Wealthy people are not. It's poor middle class, poor and middle class people are leaving California. Not if you're very, very poor. If you're very, very poor, you should become homeless. I'll talk about that in a minute. But, if you're poor, or if you're middle class, you can't afford to live in California. They're just driving you out. If you want to start a small business, you can't afford to live in California. They're driving you out. Massive exodus from California. Now, I see one of my listeners has won the multi-million lotto prize. Cool, well, some of the money you should invest in the Iran book show and become a supporter. That'd be good.  So what has California done? A few things. Well, one, it passed a law last year that kicked in basically January one that basically outlaws or makes it very, very difficult to hire contractors. So basically this law is supposed to force Uber, Lyft, and the dozens, dozens and dozens of companies that have risen that are similar delivery services that basically use individuals as subcontractors. It's trying to force them to view them as employees, give them benefits, give them salaries, give them 401ks, treat them as full-time employees. Now that, of course, would be destroy Uber and Lyft and all these entities. Indeed, a judge today, I think, in California ruled that it didn't apply to truckers.  It would raise crisis dramatically. Now Uber, now a lot of the companies I hear are ignoring the law and paying the fines associated with it. And they are, in the meantime, lobbying to pass a referendum in November that would basically reverse the law. And in the meantime, they're just paying fines to the state of California. But this is the insanity. Here are companies that have innovated in dramatic, amazing ways, used technology to allow millions of individuals to earn money off of the car that they have. And California wants to make that impossible. California wants to intervene in that relationship and force Uber to treat them as employees. When that would destroy, again, the business model. Raise costs and destroy our ability to enjoy the fruits of these companies. So Uber today released new guidelines for their drivers that are trying to make it clear even more that they are independent contractors. So for example, if you get turned down for a ride now, it's probably because the Uber drivers are gonna have more control over who they take on a ride and who they don't. Which rides they accept and which rides they don't. Because Uber's trying to make the argument, no, no, no, they're really independent contractors. So to do that, they're giving them more and more and more and more control. And Uber as a company is gonna be more and more and more hands off. Who's gonna suffer? My guess? We are, the customers, the consumers. But state of California is gonna go after Uber. They're gonna go after Lyft. They're gonna go after these countries. They are, they have a law. It's called, what's it called? It's called something 50. And AB5, it's called AB5. So that's number one, I was reading. Now second, California is just announced that they're gonna launch their own brand of generic prescription, a label of generic prescription drugs. So because drug prices are so high, the state of California plans to create their own drug company and then subcontract the creation of generic drugs to other companies and then sell it under the brand name of the California. Now, now we're getting into real socialism. The government owning the means of production. The government actually selling, producing and selling directly to consumers. Now imagine, imagine how destructive this is gonna be to the drug industry, to the prices, to legitimate drug companies when they're competing with the government. State government doesn't matter, but it's with the government. And California is a massive market. And imagine, I don't think I have to spell it out for you guys, what long-term consequences that has. Massive long-term consequences to the health of Americans. Already California has taken over Medicare, Medicaid in the States and the state is negotiating with drug companies for drug prices on Medicaid. Again, just like Europe, a destroyer of the profit motive, a destroyer of the ability of companies to invest, to do R&D, to provide us with new drugs and this is in California, the capital of biotech where you think they should know better, but it is a haven now for socialists and this is the thing about California and socialists. California is really, really rich. California has become really, really, really successful in spite of all the stupidity and evilness of California politicians and the California government, California remains rich. It throws out huge amounts of tax dollars to Sacramento.  Silicon Valley continues to work. Hollywood continues to work. Those are the two big industries in California and as long as the producers continue to produce. And again, it's not the producers leaving California. As long as the producers can continue to produce, as long as the producers do not rebel, as long as the producers do not shrug, California can continue for a long time to do nutty, insane things. Now one day, they'll go bankrupt but that could be decades from now and imagine the innovation, imagine the wealth creation, imagine the progress we would achieve if the state of California backed off the most productive people in the world because California is one of the most productive places in the world. Silicon Valley housed some of the great geniuses of our generation in the world today and they are being hammered by regulations, by controls, by taxes, by stupidity instead of being set free to make us all richer in life. It truly attracted you. One more thing California is doing is the governor of California is recommending $1.4 billion to help solve the homeless crisis in California and Los Angeles is contemplating a $3 billion project to build a whole mini city for homeless people with shelter from the rain, rains a lot in Southern California and air conditioning and homes and shops and a whole little town. Now, it's I guess Sony me who sees the problem in these things. With homelessness this is how it works.  Insenives matter. If people are in the threshold of homelessness but they know that if they become homeless they'll get all the stuff they already do to poor but they can get even more if they're homeless maybe even a free house then they're gonna become homeless. If homeless people in Chicago hear that California is gonna spend $1.4 billion on homelessness in California guess where the homeless in Chicago are going? They're going to California plus the weather's much better. It's just unbelievable that they don't get it. The more money you spend the more homeless there will be. The solution to making to the homeless problem I mean you've got a mental health problem which is a major problem but most of the problem of homelessness is twofold. One, the high cost of living, the high cost of housing which is completely dependent on government could be solved easily by freeing up housing by freeing up developers to build houses everywhere. And second, by stop funding it by making homelessness even more painful than it is. I mean it's not nice to say but it's a reality that the more comfortable you make it the more money you throw at it is the more homeless people there will be. The worst that I'll get. If you build it they will come, absolutely. If you build a home so the homeless there'll be more homeless because there are one more homes. What you need is to build homes cheaply so that people don't become homeless to begin with. And what you need is to change the code to make building homes cheaper if California became inhospitable to homeless people they would leave.  Now all of this, all of this is driven by altruism. Our focus on homelessness we have to throw more money at it nobody will criticize the government for it everybody thinks they need to solve the homeless problem. The homeless problem is the problem of the people who are homeless and it's a problem of the people whose property rights they violate. And the only way to solve the problem of the homeless is to stop letting them violate property rights. But that cannot be done because of altruism because we're going more about the homeless person because they're needy and they're suffering than we do about the property owner. And it's what prevents us from going to war with Iran. Because who are we to assert ourselves? And oh Iran they're poor and they're struggling and we shouldn't assert ourselves that would be too self-interested. That's altruism. Altruism which cripples our ability to be self-interested. Not only Trump is altruistic, Trump's just a pragmatist. But his people around him is advisors, certainly the Democrats and everybody else and the Republicans and everybody is an altruist. That is the standard of morality. There is nothing else. They can conceive of an alternative. And that's what guides everything. All right, so California is batshit crazy. I mean it's just amazing.  You see they have the House, the Senate and the governor and they have a supermajority in the Senate. So the Democrats can actually pass anything they want. And this governor is about as left as it goes. So they're gonna pass everything left as they can. So you're gonna see a real experiment in California. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist. Using the super chat, and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show, many of you stepped forward and actually supported the show for the first time. So I'll do it again. Maybe we'll get some more today. If you like what you're hearing, if you appreciate what I'm doing, then I appreciate your support. 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Part 2 on Charlie Munger. So let's discuss risk and investment attitude. Risk to us is the risk of permanent loss of capital or the risk of inadequate return. In academia they say risk is volatility and most of the investment community likes to think like that. However the question is how much can I lose? That's it. Volatility take advantage of it and if the stock price drops buy more. Using a stock's volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. This is why I love Munger. He tells 95% of the investing community that they are nuts. Mathematical models and all that is for nuts people. Just look at the margin of safety, the value, the earnings and you'll do good. Continuing on volatility. Volatility is an overworked concept. You shouldn't be imprisoned by volatility. Some great businesses have very volatile returns for example. Seas usually loses money in two quarters of each year and some terrible businesses can have steady results. If you find companies that over the long term are stable but in the short term are cyclical, take advantage of how the market sees. Everybody likes stability however you can really make money in volatility.  Everyone else is trying to please Wall Street. This is not a small advantage. From the comments I get a lot of stability, dividend, I'd make 20% a year. You can't make 20% a year every year. You can make 20% on average if you one year you make 60% and the other 0%. Don't expect stability. A lot of judgement, a lot of discipline and an absence of hyperactivity. I think most intelligent people can take a lot of risk out of life. Very simple. Judgment, rationality, hard work, discipline and don't overdo it. Don't get over excited in investment. Each person has to play the game given his own marginal utility considerations and in a way that takes into account his own psychology. If you don't like losses, if losses make you miserable avoid investments. Very simple. So adapt your strategy to your own nature and your own talents. Trying to follow somebody is not good. There is no one size fits at all investment strategy. So even when you watch this channel try to learn fit what fits for you and that's it. For example, excellent quote. If we'd use the leverage that some others did Berkshire would be much bigger but we would have been sweating all night. It's crazy to sweat all night. I want to get rich so I could be independent and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. The main difference between Munger and Buffett. Buffett wants to be the richest in the world.  On overvalued markets there is a lot to be said that when the world is going crazy to put yourself in a position where you take risk off the table. So always focus on taking risk off the table. Can you invest in this environment? So in 2017 stocks are extremely risky so think about taking risk off the table especially if you're well off and rich. Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment council would disagree with. If you're comfortably rich and some else is getting richer faster than you buy for example investing in risky stocks so what someone will always be getting richer faster than you but don't risk to lose your shirt to run after other people. Very important quote. Always compare investments what we have been doing with a table at the end of each stock analysis video. Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs. In other words it's your alternatives that matter. That's how we make all of our decisions. Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life.


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69 million dollars. That's how much Beeple sold one of his NFTs for. The NFT market recently hit over 20 billion dollars and everybody is going nuts. Famous people are even getting into the mania, like sports stars, politicians, rappers, and even dead people. What the? The weekend even put an NFT in one of his latest music videos.  And that's exactly what I'm gonna teach you to do in this video. And by the end of this video, you are gonna know more about NFTs than 99% of people in the world. And who knows? Maybe you might be the next NFT millionaire. Or maybe you make an NFT, spend $50 in gas fees in order to post it online, and then nobody ends up buying it. That could also happen too. You really do be like that sometimes. But all joking aside, you never know. And that might sound like a bold claim. So let me tell you step by step what I'm gonna be showing you in this video. And by the way guys, this video was very expensive. And it took forever to make. And then I also have a gift later on in the video that I am gonna give you that also took a long time to make. And so if you don't mind, could you please just gently tap that like button? I mean, I would appreciate it, but no big deal if you don't. I literally don't, Kara. So really quick, before we get into the video, there are timestamps down in the description below. I'm also gonna go over at the very beginning what the whole video is going to be about. So first we're gonna go over what exactly an NFT is. Then we're gonna go over why NFTs are so popular. Then we're gonna talk about the use cases for NFTs, AKA why do they actually have value? Then we're gonna go over the main websites and the biggest players in the NFT space. And these are gonna be sites that you really need to know if you wanna get into NFTs. Then I'm gonna be going over via live demonstration first, how to buy an NFT, then how to make an NFT. And again, I'm gonna be doing all of this with live demonstration. Then I'm gonna take that NFT that I made and I'm going to list it for sale. So we'll be talking about how to sell an NFT. And then after I do that, we're gonna go over how to flip NFTs for profit. And then I will be revealing the best free websites and tools for doing research on NFTs. And then I'm gonna be revealing some secrets on how to get into NFT projects when they are first minted. And that basically means right when they're released. And this is basically how you get in on the ground floor level. And you are the first one to know about it before it even gets dropped. And then keep in mind, I do have a present later on in the video for you as well, which you're really gonna love. People absolutely love my presence. This is something that's gonna help you if you're interested in NFTs. And it's genuinely a present, it's completely free. You don't have to enter your email address or anything like that. It's just a sincere present for me to you. All right, so what exactly is an NFT? NFT stands for non-fungible token. And non-fungible basically means that it can't be duplicated or replaced by an identical item. A dollar bill, for instance, is fungible because all dollar bills are more or less the same. And then a token is an asset that resides on a blockchain. So a non-fungible token is basically a unique digital asset that resides on a blockchain that cannot be duplicated. Now, these digital assets are typically collectible and they can be bought, sold, or traded. And this could include, but is not limited to, artwork, music, digital real estate, and collectibles like trading cards. So for instance, you could buy a Pokemon NFT that's attached to a trading card and then you could slide it into a slot and all of a sudden you see the Pokemon in 3D right in front of you. There are also NFTs for items within video games like skins, weapons, and avatars. And we're really gonna get into that one later because that one's extremely interesting. And the possibilities are almost endless here. Individual creators, literally anyone out there can create a unique digital item, put a stamp on it within the blockchain network, and then sell it to somebody without the need for a third-party intermediary like a pawn shop or an art dealer. So instead of artists having to get extremely lucky or get chosen by somebody or rely on the charity of others, they can make really good money on their own. Now let's go over why NFTs are so popular. Now NFTs have technically been around since the launch of Bitcoin back in 2009, but it wasn't until recently that the NFT market has really taken off. NFTs have become one of the biggest crypto crazes of 2020 and 2021. NFT sales were around 95 million in 2020 and over 12 billion in 2021. We've seen digital artists like Mike Winkleman, also known as Beeple, sell an NFT for $69 million. We've seen athletes like Michael Jordan and Leo Nelmesi launch their own collections, but you don't have to be famous to sell an NFT. In fact, the most expensive collections were not started by famous people. CryptoPunks, for instance, was launched by a two-person team in 2017 of Matt Hall and John Watkinson. And there are 10,000 CryptoPunks. And the last time I checked, the most expensive one is CryptoPunk 7523. And this one CryptoPunk out of 10,000 recently went for $11.7 million. So this is why you're hearing all the craze over NFTs. We're seeing politicians get into it, all kinds of different famous people, but that begs the question, why would anyone actually buy an NFT? AKA, why do NFTs have value? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? I mean, this kind of seems like something where you would invest your money and then immediately lose everything. Damn, it's gone. So going back to the $11 million CryptoPunk, you might be thinking, why would anybody spend time on that? I mean, after all, you can just right click it and save it right to your computer. And yeah, you can absolutely do that, but there's one problem. You think it's funny to take screenshots of people's NFTs, huh? You don't actually own the picture. Let's say you actually owned a painting of a CryptoPunk in real life. You could take that, you could frame it, and you could mount it on your wall, and everybody would know that you own it. And why did they know? Well, it's really obvious. It's in your house, it's mounted on your wall. You can do whatever you want with it at any time. It's not quite the same online though. Things are much more complicated in the digital world. Verifiable ownership of a piece of art is very difficult for anybody to tell online. And that is the number one reason why NFTs have actual value. And this is honestly really important, and you have to understand this and how significant it is. Non-fungible tokens are a way to have verifiable ownership of something online. Each NFT is verified on the blockchain and has a unique token ID that anybody can check at any time. And the history of ownership of the NFT is attached to that token ID and is on the blockchain. Now, you might be thinking that's great and all. You have the verifiable ownership, but let's be real here. It's probably almost completely free for all these projects to create these NFTs and then post them online. And you are sort of right here, but there's a catch. The number two reason that these NFTs have value is because they are scarce. There will never be another CryptoPunk 7523. And the fact that it was one of the original NFTs to explode in value and get to that $10 million mark makes it even more rare. It's almost like having a rare trading card, like an original Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan or Charizard. It's pretty much like owning a piece of history and that's why they're worth so much. But you know what's worth more than an NFT? You are and don't forget it. Now let's get on to the number three reason. Number three is because people get to flex. It's kind of a weird way of showing that not only do you have a lot of money, but you're also really tuned in to what's happening in the world. You're basically ahead of the times. This is why you see superstars like the weekend buying NFTs in his music videos because it's almost like owning a super car or wearing branded clothing. And whether you like it or not, people like to flex. This is why you see a bunch of famous people on Twitter putting NFTs as their profile picture. The number four thing that gives NFTs value is the history of ownership. Oftentimes the people who owned an NFT can actually increase the value all on their own. Think about it. There is a record of every single person that owns the NFT. So if somebody famous buys an NFT and then ends up selling it later on, it's almost like they put their autograph on it. They owned it at one person and it will always show that history of ownership no matter what. And number five, which is probably the most important thing of all is utility and yes, NFTs can actually be useful. And that's where we're gonna be going over in this next section. NFT use cases. Now, after hearing reasons one through four, you probably understand NFTs a little bit better, but you're probably still a little bit skeptical about this magical internet art. Well, the first use case is going to be gaming. Now, in order to understand this one, I'm gonna go ahead and tell you a short story. Back around 2004, 2005, I started playing this game called RuneScape. And at one point I owned an item called a party hat. It was basically this little paper hat that you could wear on your head in the video game. And when these little hats first came out, basically everyone had them. It was an event that you had to do and you would get these little crackers. You'd open the cracker and you would get a hat. I didn't start RuneScape in time to actually do those events. It was an event that was for Christmas, I think in 2002, but I started RuneScape a few years after that. And at one point I was able to own one of these hats. So at first they were basically useless and they were worth maybe like one gold piece, which is what the currency was in that video game. Now they're worth 50 billion gold pieces. Now that probably doesn't mean anything to you, but just to put this in perspective, this part is going to blow your mind. Now back in the day, you could have bought one of these for around $30. And now the most expensive one is worth over 12,800. And this is for a game that isn't even that popular compared to Fortnite or Call of Duty. And it's a single piece of clothing. Now imagine how much really rare in-game items would be worth on those games, probably in the hundreds of thousands. And let's not forget the fact that in RuneScape, it's actually pretty difficult to exchange items for real life money. In fact, I think it's actually against the rules. Whereas with NFT technology, not only would it be much easier, but it would probably be incentivized by the company themselves. So this would create a situation where people are incentivized to play new games because if the game gets really popular and explodes, a lot of these early NFTs are going to be worth a lot of money.   If over a few years I bought a bunch of them and I saved up around a hundred party hats, I could be retired right now. You can also sell NFTs of certain characters within the game as well. And this is something you see happening in a lot of upcoming games like voxies. And just as an example you could probably relate to, I know a lot of people probably play Call of Duty and everybody remembers the famous rose skin that was released on modern warfare as well as Warzone. And if you had this rose skin, you had a serious advantage over other players because you were basically invisible if you were in a dark corner or just in a dark area in general. If you missed out on it too bad, you can't get this.  I can't even see him! I can't even see him! Now imagine if you were able to just buy that skin for yourself as an NFT, then you could be the troll that's camping in the dark corner and killing people. Much better, right? And honestly, I could just go on and on about this one with virtual reality, the metaverse, all of this exploding onto the scene, it is going to be unstoppable. And I really do think, even though this is kind of scary to think about, the future is gonna look a lot like the movie Ready Player One where people are gonna be spending a lot of times basically in video games or in the metaverse. And video games or the metaverse is probably the biggest use case of NFTs, in my opinion. It's the one that I'm most excited about. But number two is going to be digital proof of ownership. And you could use this for a lot of different practical cases like property deeds, tickets to movies, concerts, sporting events, car titles, and of course, art. Number three real life use case is exclusive access. In some cases, owning an NFT will give you exclusive access to groups, clubs, parties, and people. So for instance, a famous musician that you're a big fan of may have a monthly party where anybody who has access to a certain collection of NFTs can attend. So if you own that NFT, you have the right to come and meet them. The number four use case is DAOs or decentralized autonomous organizations. And this is basically a group of people who own a token or in this case an NFT and they vote in order to make decisions. And an in real life use case for this one is making shareholders of a company have an easier time voting on the direction of the company itself. So right now, if you are a shareholder of a company, you technically can have some influence on the direction the company goes, but it's really difficult and you have to go out of your way. If they just made stocks into NFTs, it would be much easier for you to vote on the direction of the company. So the company could say, hey, we're thinking about either launching this project or this project and it's gonna take a lot of resources. Which one do you think we should go for? And then you could just instantly vote via your phone on the direction of that company. Another thing that would be made incredibly easy is voting for elections or different laws in your country. So there's just so many different use cases and I could just go on and on here, but the video would go too long. So I just wanted to show you a few of them just to show you what is possible with NFTs and why they're such a big deal. So how do you buy and sell an NFT? So before we get into how to buy and sell an NFT, there's a few things that you want to consider. First of all, what marketplace do you think you should use? Then you need to consider what cryptocurrency you need to use in order to fund your wallet. So some of the biggest crypto websites are going to be OpenSea, Axi Marketplace, Larva Labs, NBA Top Shot Marketplace, as well as Rarible. In this particular case, when I go over my example, I am going to be using OpenSea and the cryptocurrency I'm using is going to be Ethereum. So the first thing you need to do is set up a Web3 wallet like MetaMask. And you need this in order to fund your wallet with Ethereum and then use that Ethereum on OpenSea. So you would go to a website like MetaMask.io, you'd click download. Gonna go ahead and install the MetaMask. I'm going to add it, gonna give it permission.  Now, if you already have a wallet, of course you would import it. But in this particular case, I'm showing you guys how to do it. So you would go create a wallet. You're gonna go ahead and agree. On this part, you would create a password, very standard. Then after you agree to the terms of use, you go ahead and create. And then it's gonna take you through a series of steps in order to secure your wallet. At this part, it's going to reveal your secret recovery phrase.  You don't wanna have it just in one place in case a fire burns it or something like that.  It's a good idea to have it in several different places, especially if you're gonna be putting a lot of value on this wallet. And boom, just like that, it's that easy. You now have your own MetaMask wallet. Now, you would basically use the wallet by going up into the top right and you would see that it runs on Ethereum. However, you can hold a bunch of different tokens on this wallet. You can buy tokens, you can send tokens, you can swap tokens. Now, the way that you would actually get tokens to your MetaMask wallet is the easiest way to do it is to just buy some on a website like Coinbase. So you would buy Ethereum, for instance, and then you would transfer that Ethereum onto your wallet. And for this video, I actually did that several days ago in order to get ready for that. So I will go ahead and roll that clip right now. So in this particular case, I am going to be transferring some Ethereum to my MetaMask wallet. Now MetaMask is a very common wallet that people have when they use the Ethereum blockchain. So from the homepage, what you would wanna do is go to the top left, click on Assets, and then you're gonna go ahead and click on the Ethereum. Then you wanna go to Wallet. And then over here, you see that it is already ready to be sent. So in this particular case, again, I'm going to do 1000 Ethereum. This is where you want to copy in the address of wherever you are sending your Ethereum. Now be very, very careful with this process. First of all, you wanna make sure that you get the right string of letters and numbers. And that's what it's gonna look like, a bunch of random letters and numbers. And then second of all, you want to make sure that not only is it the right string of letters and numbers, but on top of that, you want to make sure that you're sending it to an actual Ethereum wallet. Because if you send Ethereum to some random wallet like Solana or Bitcoin by accident, you may never be able to get it back. So I went ahead and I pasted my wallet address in there. I'm just gonna go ahead and put a note here, ETH1K demo. And then I'm gonna go ahead and click Continue. It wants you to review all the important information and make sure that everything's right. And it looks pretty good. So we're gonna go ahead and send now. And in this particular case, I have set up two factor authentication on my device. And so that's where I would enter it in. All right, awesome. So it is done. So like it says there, usually the transactions take less than 10 minutes. All right, so I looked for a little bit and I found a collection that I thought was interesting. It might actually have some resale value at some point. And some of the more expensive ones in this collection have actually gone up quite a bit. This one does have a lightsaber here. It's the Wales collection. So I am gonna go ahead and buy one. So basically you just have to connect your MetaMask wallet. And then once you've connected your MetaMask wallet, it should be really easy. Check this box, confirm checkout. Now here's the crazy part guys. The whale itself is about $40. The gas fees for this transaction are going to be astronomical. The gas fees are gonna be about $90 in order to buy this NFT. So I'm gonna go ahead and click confirm, lock it in. All right, and about 10, 15 seconds later, I am now the proud owner of a whale with a lightsaber. And by the way guys, the way I found this NFT was there's a ton of different ways that you can sort them.  You can sort them by single items or bundles, sort by recently listed, recently created, sold, received, ending soon, price low to high, price high to low, highest last scale as well as oldest. On the side here, there's also some really good stuff you can do. There's a lot of filters and all kinds of stuff you can sort there. So, you know, what I did is I did minimum and then I did a max over here. I think I did 150 or something like that. And I clicked apply. And then from here, I scrolled down, looked at a bunch of photos and I found one that I thought was pretty cool. All right, so next we're gonna get into how to create an NFT step by step. And this part is kind of simple. I mean, you just design an original photo and then you upload it onto the website. Now, you can actually go to websites and have other people create them for you. An example of this is Fiverr.com. So, if you want to check on Fiverr, you can just type in NFT here. And then you can see here that there are many artists who will create NFTs for you. There are even artists who will create 10,000 NFTs for $70. Okay, so you can literally have an entire NFT creation and an entire collection made for you for around $70 on Fiverr. Now, if you don't wanna have somebody else create the NFT for you, there are many free ways of creating artwork online. Canva.com is a great website for creating artwork and it's completely free. PicMonkey.com is also a really good one. I've used both of these in the past. GIMP is another really good program you can use to create artwork. And then a paid version that I personally use just because I think it's the best is going to be Photoshop. And this is sold by Adobe. It's a really powerful piece of software. There is a bit of a learning curve with it, but I use it to create my thumbnails, for instance, and a bunch of different artwork. So, you can basically pay somebody else to create it or you can create it in-house.  So, on the main page here, you're gonna go up to the top right and click Create. Gonna connect my wallet. And I am going to go ahead and drag my NFT in there. It is a picture of Hummus, if you couldn't tell. All right, so the link I'm gonna leave is to my YouTube channel. Put the description as Hummus. And then I'm gonna go down to the bottom here and click Create. And there you go. I just created my first ever NFT, Hummus. Now, in this particular case, I just uploaded one photo. You may want to upload a collection. I mean, there's collections on here of 10,000 photos. And there are ways of doing that don't require you to upload them all manually. They're very difficult, very detailed to do. What I suggest if you want to do that is to actually just hire somebody on Fiverr to do it for you. So, going back to Fiverr here, I'm gonna say Upload NFT. Okay, and there's a bunch of different gigs that offer to upload all of your NFTs to OpenSea. And these range from $20 all the way up to several hundred dollars. So that's what I personally recommend. The ways of uploading them, they're really buggy. It's very complicated. It takes some knowledge of programming and all kinds of stuff like that. So, this is what I recommend doing personally. All right, so the next part of this video is going to be how to sell an NFT. So, we've uploaded this beautiful artwork of Hummus. Wow, look at this, do you know what this means? Now, it's time to unfortunately let it go and sell it. So, we're gonna go up here to the top right and click Sell. I'm gonna go ahead and list this for a very reasonable 0.1 Ethereum. I'll put the duration as, yeah, we'll just do one, how about six months? Yeah, that sounds fine. And I'm gonna go ahead and click Complete Listing. It is connected to the wallet again. And it looks like it's gonna cost me about $98 in order to just sell this on OpenSea. So guys, if you appreciate me doing this video, please make sure to gently tap that Like button. And by the way, I'm gonna give you an alternative later on in the video to show you much better ways of listing NFTs and selling them that will cost you basically nothing. So, I confirmed it and it took about a minute and it looks like the transaction went through. So, now I just have to sign. Awesome, so this is listed. It's up there, you can see it if you want to and it's good to go. And it looks like it's wanting me to set up email notifications so I will know when someone buys this. So, I'm gonna do that. All right, so I verified myself, set my account up and everything is good. So, this is my account, Shane Hummus, picture of my Hummus Bowl there. And I am now the proud owner of a pixelated picture of Hummus as well as a whale with a lightsaber NFT. Now, I just need to start secretly paying influencers to promote my NFT.  Just kidding, obviously that is morally questionable and it would probably get to the point where you might end up going to jail. So, this section is going to be how to flip NFTs. Now, I just wanna mention here that you should be very careful because there's a lot of people doing some very sketchy stuff here. And because of the fact that this is a pretty much completely unregulated market, they are promoting NFTs in a way that may or may not be illegal in the future. They put you in jail right away, right away. But anyways, I'm gonna go over a bunch of websites that are incredibly important for you to know about if you are going to get into the NFT game and start flipping them. Now, the first one is going to be rarity.tools. And this is basically a website that covers all of the newest and upcoming mints. And minting is basically what I just did, where I published it, but a lot of them will actually say that they're going to be minting an NFT before they actually do it. And the reason for this is of course, to build hype, get people interested in it before it actually hits the market. Now, if you know that an NFT collection is gonna end up having really rare, high-priced NFTs, you probably want to get in at the very beginning. And that's what rarity.tools allows you to do. Think back about the time when PS5s came out for the first time, right? So PS5 was released, people were going and buying them right when it was released at the store. And then they were flipping them online sometimes for double the price. This is basically the same thing. A lot of people, if they think a collection is going to be valuable, they will buy them up right at the very beginning and then they will flip them right afterwards. So this right here, you can see all the collections at the top, CryptoPunks is still number one. You can also click here and see upcoming. And notice most of them are Ethereum, of course, but you also see some that are Solana. And Solana, by the way, is much cheaper than Ethereum. So I'm really hoping that Solana kind of overtakes Ethereum because Solana is so much cheaper. It's basically free in order to upload NFTs if you use Solana. And then one thing that's really great about rarity.tools is you are able to categorize the different NFTs in different ways. So for instance, let's go ahead and look at some of these collections. So this is the Vox collectibles. And what you can do is you can look at all of these with different traits. So for instance, let's say you want to only look at the ones that have a Mohawk, right? So that's what this Hawk chop is, I'm guessing. All right, so you click on it. And yeah, a lot of these have Mohawks. And then you can sort these different traits by rarity, price, high to low, recently listed, et cetera. Now you'll notice that there are certain traits that these NFTs have that for whatever reason people end up paying more for them. So I'm gonna sort the ones that actually have glasses and what it shows you here, this is something very important for you to know is the price floor. So it looks like the price floor for these is 2.9 Ethereum, which is approximately like $12,000 or so. And what the price floor is, is it's the least expensive NFT in that collection, right? So let's say the most expensive NFT is like a hundred Ethereum or something. Unfortunately, your collection is only as strong as its weakest link because that's how people like to look them up, right? So the price floor is 2.9 Ethereum, meaning the least expensive one is around 2.9 ETH. You can also look up the seven day volume, the total volume, the seven day price average, how many different owners have these different boxes? All of these things are incredibly important for you to know for you to gauge how legitimate an NFT collection is. My second tip is to use an NFT marketplace other than Ethereum. So the most obvious one of course is Solana. Now Solana is one of my favorite cryptocurrencies. I absolutely love the technology. And Solanart.io is probably the biggest marketplace for Solana NFTs. Now, like I said, one huge advantage of using Solana over Ethereum is you remember those ridiculous gas fees that I had to pay like $80 to $100 just to sell or buy one? Well, if you use Solana, those fees are going to be pretty much negligible. Now Solanart is really cool because it gives you information in such a way where it's pretty easy to read. So, you know, for instance, shadowy supercoder, this collection has 10,000 NFTs. The average price is about 91.9 Solana. The volume over the last seven days is 1.7 million. So it's very active. And it's got a market cap of 178 million. You can also look at the volume percentage over the last 24 hours. So it looks like it's gone down by about 48%. And then the floor price looks like it's around 79 to 80 Solana. And then you can also just click right here and look at the price history. So it looks like the average price here for a long time was around 30 Solana. And then recently it went up to around 90 Solana. So recently it tripled. I mean, this is just incredible information to have at your fingertips. You can also filter this by the attribute. So you can look at all the different types and see which colors are selling for the best. So let's click on gold. Looks like gold is not selling for that much. It's around 30 or so, so that's not great. But for whatever reason, Noir looks like it's going up. So it's actually selling for around 36. And again, for each attribute, you can look at the daily volume, the daily sales, the total volume, the total sales, et cetera. Now, I don't wanna just talk about Solana. VeChain also has their own marketplace. Polygonmatic has their own marketplace. So definitely check around depending on whatever your favorite cryptocurrency is.  And this is mostly just kind of a common sense thing. But honestly, this is still incredibly important. It's kind of like in basketball, you know, learning how to dribble is really important. Learning how to shoot is important. It's the basics, it's the fundamentals, but that doesn't mean that it's not one of the most important things that you absolutely need to know. With that being said, looking at high volume. High volume is incredibly important, especially early on in the project. So let's say you didn't buy something from the project right before it dropped because you weren't sure whether it was gonna be good or not and you're still wanting to follow it and evaluate it. Well, if something has been out for like six months and you only see like one Ethereum in its history, that's probably a bad sign. That means that not very many people are interested in it, it has a very low volume. If it has a high volume, that means a lot of people who viewed it and a lot of people have participated in it. There is a ton of interest there. Now, when it comes to buying projects right when they drop because you believe that that is going to be a profitable project, this is the part where you kind of just use common sense. Let's say there is a creator that has dropped projects in the past that have turned out to be huge sellers, something like the Board Ape Yacht Club. If they then list another project and they have the starting prices similar to what the Board Ape Yacht Club is selling for now, you wouldn't want to buy that. And the reason for that is because when the Board Ape Yacht Club first started, they were selling it for very reasonable prices. So something seems too high, especially at the very beginning than just simply do not buy it. However, let's say the people who created CryptoPunks announced that they are coming out with another project and it's really reasonable. That would be something that you might be interested in jumping in on. Now, those are two very obvious examples. Usually you wouldn't use the ones that are the most popular, but I think you get my point here. Now, for number four, I'm gonna go over some other tools very quickly that are really nice to use, they're awesome. Not really gonna have time to show you how to use them but they're great resources that I've used. All right, so the first one is IC Dot Tools. This is another one that's just really great to find those niche collections that are really undervalued. And it's great for visualizing all the statistics that you need to know and doing research on them. So this one, for instance, will show you the trending collections. So for instance, there's the Angry Pit Bowl Club. It looks like this one's trending and it kind of shows you the volume, the average price, the sales, the mints, et cetera. And you can also quickly access their Twitter, see if it looks legitimate or if it looks like they maybe bought Twitter followers. You can go to their official website and check it out. They're Discord, you can check out their Etherscan, like all these different things that are good for you to do your due diligence. Another good one for doing research is nftpricefloor.com. And this is just yet another way for you to find those undervalued projects. Another one is app.tratesniper.com. And this one is specifically good for looking at different traits, like seeing which traits are likely to end up being valuable. So let's say there's a certain collection and you're not sure which one to buy, but with your knowledge of the different traits and which ones are the most valuable in other collections, you can kind of predict which of those NFTs are going to be the most valuable. And traitsniper.com will really help you with that. Another great website for doing analytics research specifically is gonna be dune.xyz. And another one that's good for analytics, but it's maybe a little bit more user friendly is nftgo.io. In the next part, I'm gonna talk about how to participate in an actual NFT drop. So you would go to a website like rarity.tools, you'd click on upcoming, and then you'd look at a collection that you're interested in. So you find one that you'd like, let's say Tiny Tigers Special Christmas Edition, you go to their website and it will usually prompt you, yeah, it looks like right here in order to sign up for it. So you'd click here, you'd connect your wallet, and boom, you would be able to get it right when it drops. All right, guys, so I showed you all the secret websites, that was my gift to you in this video. And really quickly, I wanna go over the pros and cons. So some of the pros here, huge opportunity for starving artists. Artists historically have kind of been screwed over in many cases, like there's artists where some of their works are worth like a hundred million dollars, but during their lifetime, they were starving. They were poor. And it wasn't until after they died that they were finally compensated for the value that they gave to society. And then even in modern times, it could be pretty bad with a lot of record label companies screwing over artists. You hear about this all the time. And so this is a huge opportunity for artists to basically cut out the middleman and get compensated for the value that they give to society. Another pro, smart contracts. You can attach a royalty contract to a piece of artwork and get paid every single time that it's bought or sold. This is something you can do automatically and indefinitely. The other pro is you can flex. That's pretty self-explanatory.  And this is the thing that I'm the most bullish on. I cannot stress how big this is going to be. It is going to be huge. And I know this because I have spent tens of thousands of hours playing all kinds of different video games. And I've also spent tens of thousands of hours doing finance and investing in crypto related stuff. And I can see how these two things are going to interconnect. And then another pro is there is just huge upside. NFTs are still relatively new. Some cons here, it is extremely speculative. Most NFTs are going to go to zero. They're gonna be worth nothing. And then market adoption is going to be very slow. And the reason for that is because most people don't see the value of NFTs. Now, after watching this video, if you watched it all the way through, first of all, thank you, you are awesome. And second of all, you probably see the value of NFTs now. Our grandparents didn't really understand how credit cards work in the same way that our parents a lot of the time don't understand how cryptocurrency works. And many of us probably don't understand how NFTs work. However, that never changed the fact that credit cards eventually caught on and now pretty much everyone uses them. But it did take a while and market adoption can be slow. So my conclusion here, this is not financial advice. Be very, very careful if you are going to buy NFTs. This is something that is complicated. It takes a lot of practice. So what I would recommend you do is look at NFT drops and then try to predict which ones are going to be valuable and write your predictions down, wait a month after the drop and see which ones come true. Then go back, reverse engineer why you were right or why you were wrong. Hope you enjoyed the video. Check out my other videos right here. I made them just for you. Go ahead, gently tap that like button, hit the subscribe button, ring the notification bell and comment down below any thoughts, comments, criticisms, et cetera. And I will see you next time.


Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Seiji Akatsuka, and this is the first time for me to come to Singapore, and so I'm excited to meet you.So the purpose of my presentation today is to make new friends and have a good beer after this event.So today, me and two of my colleagues will have presentation.Firstly, I will introduce our company.Then my colleagues will introduce our service, Cloud Automate.And finally, we will give you short presentation, short demonstration.Let me introduce myself.My name is Seiji Akatsuka.Please call me Seiji.And I'm contributing Joe Zuzi as a member of National Health Team.And I'm Pokemon level 18, still 18.And my life work is Kaonuki Journalists.This is the most important thing for me.And about Kaonuki, did anybody who knows Kaonuki?Okay, I introduce about Kaonuki as a journalist.This is Kaonuki.This kind of board is usually located in sightseeing areas.And I'm taking over 300 pictures about it.And sharing with people for 20 years.This was located in Las Vegas, Nevada.This is my home town.Like this.And I provide ideas to people to make Kaonuki.And of course, I give people some advice to take more impressive pictures.Like this.And I take this.This is Samurai Kaonuki Board.Our name is Saburo.And I hope anybody to try it.Anyway, I should back to introduce our company.Our company, Saburo Works, is a professional AWS integrator.And our head office is located in Tokyo.And Saburo Works was established in 2000.And so we have been well using Singapore region also.And we are one of the premier consulting partner in 2014 and 2015.This is our location.Our head office is located in Tokyo.This is Miyagi prefecture office.And Osaka prefecture office.And this is Fukuoka prefecture office.And this is our subsidiary company.Name Sky 365.Delivering 24-7 MSP service.This service can be largely divided into three services.One is consulting and integration.And the next is MSP 24-7.And we are delivering automation tool for AWS service named Cloud Automator.This is a service.I will talk about three topics for describe our company.Especially our culture.First is our work style.We are remote.We can connect our office through online anytime, anywhere.We decided not to purchase any server machines for ourselves from 2008.Because we started to use AWS in 2007.This is Japanese morning.We don't like to go to office in the morning.Almost stations in Tokyo are very crowded in the morning.So people get tired before they start to work.But this is our office in Tokyo.They are all relaxed and have good concentration.If you are interested in our office, please come to see.Second topic is creativity.We are creativity.Some of my colleagues who made a system that can book restrooms in our office.My colleagues who are working out there have been confused about restrooms.Unfortunately,ment room has just two small rooms.So they decided to create a booking system with serverless architecture.Those are small restrooms.Is that for me?Some devices put their status to AWS.We can get status or send some request through chatbot.This is chatbot.We can check when our restrooms are available.We can make booking and check how many people are waiting now.This bot also mention us when our book one is available.Hey,it's your turn.Recently,we are known as restrooms company in AWS community in Japan.Last topic is automation.We love automation.This is our service cloud automator.Cloud automator is AWS operation tool for automated daily operations.Just like taking back up of EBS, S3,RDS and so on.We can be free from these daily routine works with it.That's all.If anybody interested in our company,I'd like you to follow these information please.You can see restrooms booking system in our blog page as well.Thank you.


Mr. Mohamed, can you tell us about your participation in the conference and what issues are you going to discuss in your lecture workshop that you're going to present in the conference? I will be talking about a variety of topics and a very important one is how to use mobile devices in learning, especially for the new generation of students. Because the new generation of students, they already have the mobile technology. So what we need to do is to utilize those technologies in the learning process. Also the new generation of learners, they need different teaching strategies and one example of that, they need to know how to use games. So we should be looking at how can we use games in the education system so that we can engage students. It's very critical and also we need to empower the students with the technology because the students are inquisitive. They like to explore and so we should give them the opportunity to actually use the technology to explore so that they can learn on their own. It's very, very important. So how do you predict students will respond to the mobile learning technique? Have you ever tried it or what do you think the reception will be in Arab countries for this technique? My observation in North America is the students already use the mobile technology for interaction, for social interaction. So we need to convert that into more academic interaction. But one of the challenges in the Middle East, in the Arab countries is to convince the parents to get the students to use the mobile technology because the parents don't have an idea of what's the mobile technology, how you can use it for learning. So it's a big challenge. How do you convince the parents and the teachers of the benefit of mobile technology? We welcome you here today in the ISD Education Conference and we'd like to know your participation, what topics are you going to tackle in the conference and tell us more about your participation. I'm Mala Bauer. I'm the Executive Director of Cybersmart. And we provide online professional development to teachers and a free curriculum to students to empower them to use the internet safely, responsibly and effectively. I'll be speaking today about looking at the issue of cyber safety and recommending that we look at it from a paradigm within an educational context as opposed to a law enforcement context. So our discussion is framed around what can we do to support ICT literacy and learning and teaching as opposed to a framework where we're discussing the dangers of the internet. So this cyber security topic, what are the most important issues within this framework are you going to tackle in your workshop or presentation that you're going to give? Well, what I'm doing is giving a quick overview of what's happened in the United States over the past 10 years where the discussion is really focused on the dangers of the internet, frightening the parents, the teachers and the children and resulting in an ineffective response so that the kids really aren't more safe online. And in fact, what's happening in the United States is the response is preventing the schools from embracing the excitement and power of the online resources and online tools that we could be using to give our children a much better education. So I'll be speaking about looking at it very differently so that we can make our children safe online and empower them to select the most appropriate resources and do the most effective research without saddling them with this really ineffective notion of fear, which research has shown is actually not in fact what's happening with children. We will attend your presentation and we hope you best of luck today. Please tell us about your participation today at the ICT in Education Conference and what topics you're going to discuss in your lecture or workshop. Well, we're going to look at one-to-one computing through the eSchoolbag project and look at the theory behind it, the practical aspects of it, using it through maths, English and science and the research that shows how valuable using one-to-one laptops are. So are you going to compare your experience in other non-Arab countries and apply it to the Arab world or what are you going to... Yes, one of the things that we're going to stress is how important it is to, with one-to-one laptops, all the work that should be done should be actually linked back to the children, to their culture, to their homes and families, so that they start from where they know before exploring the outside world. Thank you very much. So how can you predict the reception that Arab students can have to an eSchool project and how can the education system in the Arab world be receptive to this or not? Well, our experience, although very brief, my colleague Angela and I, I think we're finding that the schools are extremely receptive to the concepts of using technology effectively in their classrooms and the experience with the one-to-one laptop programs in schools so far has been well received by both students and teachers. So what requirements does any school require to have such an eSchool program integrated in its educational system? I think what we're finding and what research is telling us is that a few things need to be in place for a successful one-to-one laptop program. First of all, you need very dedicated teachers which we definitely have here in Qatar and you need very, very strong leadership that can support those teachers and of course you need children who are really keen and enthusiastic and that's very evident as well. So we thank you for your time and we hope you're best of luck today in the presentation. Thank you very much. Thanks. Lynn Thomas from Cognition Consulting, so I'm from New Zealand but we're up here working with the independent schools and my workshop is creating digital stories to enrich literacy because I feel the whole, the multimedia and all the ICT is very motivating for students learning and I find the whole digital story thing, getting students to write and that whole flow of story writing using the computers. They still do their planning off the computer but they put it together in a multimedia way so using all the tools of ICT so you've got your recording, your voice and getting your images and things like that. So how is the education system in your country in New Zealand different from here about the infrastructure and about how can you see the reception to technology here as opposed to your country? I think you've got a huge amount of technology here so you've got the infrastructure equipment wise. For us back home we haven't probably got so much of the technology in all those computers so you've got the network systems here. It's just making good use of it and I think it's about just upskilling teachers and getting them to have confidence to use this equipment with the students so you don't get that until they feel confident to use it. Once the teachers are confident and have lots of ideas then they'll go with it so for us we're a little bit further down the track but I think it's just those steps and it'll all happen. You've got the equipment so I think good things will be happening. Hopefully. Thank you very much for your participation. Thanks a lot. Can you kindly introduce yourself and tell us about the topics you're going to discuss today in the conference? Certainly. My name is Douglas Butler. I'm a mathematics teacher from England and after many years we decided that it's possible to visualise mathematics in exciting ways and we've developed a software called Autograph and I will be showing that here at this conference. It is actually the first software I believe that does full right to left Arabic notation for mathematics but we also do it in a version which has western left to right mathematics notation but the Arabic interface I think many of the teachers here are struggling to teach mathematics in English but it's not their first language. It's a particularly difficult subject to teach in your own language I always think so to teach in a foreign language needs every help they can get and that's one of the reasons I'm here today is to show this new version. So in your opinion how can ICT help in simplifying mathematics or making it more appealing to children? Oh it's amazing. When I show these graphical images and amic images to adults they nearly always say ah if only I'd had that approach when I was at school I might have understood what on earth was going on. There are a lot of hidden depths to mathematics. It's the most fascinating subject. It's the one you never stop learning about but I always feel that the clever children get it anyway. It's the next layer down. They peel off because they just can't see what's going on but now with graphical images like Autograph can present they can zoom in, they can look in detail, they can vary parameters and not only in two dimensions but also in three which is really difficult to imagine on a two-dimensional board but the third dimension is just fantastic. So we wish you best of luck today and thank you for participating in the conference. Thank you very much.