Hi everybody. We're going to wait just a few seconds to see to let people have a chance to hop on. I know we've got a few already. If you don't know me, I'm Laura Dietrich and I'm the project coordinator at Northwest Arkansas Give. So you've probably gotten emails from me and maybe we've met and I've had a chance to talk to you in the past. If not, if you're new, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. I think you're going to get a lot at this webinar. So today we're going to cover just kind of a quick high level back to the basics. So if you are new, this is going to help you out. If you are new to your organization, this will help you out. And if you've done this before, it'll be a great refresher. So again, my name is Laura Dietrich and Sarah from Mighty Customs will be taking over here in just a second and she'll do the presentation. And at the end, I have a chance to have some Q&A. So we hope that you have questions. If you think of something during the presentation, feel free to put that in the chat box and we can try to respond or you can save it to the end if you want to. So you go to the next slide here, maybe. There we go for you. So if you are new to... Oops. Okay. I think Laura's video and then hold on one second. I will keep going. So as Laura was saying, so if you're new here, kind of some a little bit of information about the NWA gives basics for the event this year. So the site, nwa-gives.org is the site that you'll be going to where you'll be logging in, registering your organization and continuing to just fill out your pages and all that good stuff. You're fine. Sorry about that. Can you hear me? You're a little broken up, but I think we can hear you. Sorry about that. It just kicked me out. So, okay. I will take my video off. Maybe that'll help here. You got to taste my video. So nwa-gives started in 2018. Can you hear me okay? Yes. Can you hear me? Okay. So nwa-gives started in 2018 and so we've grown quite a lot in just a few short years. The main purpose of our organization is to highlight nonprofits in Northwest Arkansas. Anyone that is a 501c3 that serves Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin or Sebastian County can participate. We are going to have our big giving day on April 6th from 8 to 8 and that is the day we kind of focus on. But in the meantime, for the rest of the year, we want you to be successful and we provide lots and lots of training. So I think that's kind of over where we are and I'll let Sarah take it from here. Sounds good. So for my part, I'm pretty much going to be kind of walking you through, if you're new to a giving day, what they are and how they work really briefly. A lot of you are returning participants, which is exciting. So then we'll go into kind of a platform, walk through, where I'll just give you a quick refresher in case you haven't been in the platform in a while, showing you how to pretty much update like sections of your page, where to find your retention reports and stuff like that. But basically, what is a giving day? How do they work? A giving day is a supercharged day of philanthropy, bringing together a community and donors for specific causes. So you all are the amazing causes that makes NWA Gives possible and our awesome hosts, the NWA Gives Board of Directors, they are bringing you all together and rallying you and having rallies literally to help get you all motivated and gear up for this giving event. The goal is to raise, of course, as much money as you can within a short timeframe. By having a short timeframe, that increases the sense of urgency for donors to give to your cause. It gives you a talking point, you can secure matching grants, you can make it a big deal, as big as a deal as you want it to be. And then you work on spreading awareness through social media, through your email message marketing. And we all kind of work together, come together on this one particular day to raise as much money as we can and meet any of your other goals as well. So if that's like securing new donors or securing matching grants for the first time, this gives you a lot of incentive to kind of grow your event in the way that you want it to for your cause. So what does your organization need to do? First, like Laura was saying, you need to register to participate. And then once you're registered and you're approved, you can log in to the MWA Give site, and you can start to customize or just start to update your profile. So you can start planning your fundraising campaign, like I was saying, thinking about your strategy for social media, your strategy for email. Are you going to have an in-person event? Like what are you going to do to really attract donors to give during this time period? Then you'll invite your supporters so you can invite them to fundraise for you. They can create their own peer-to-peer fundraisers so they can work in tandem with your campaign and spread the word and share their own personal page link to try to help you get more donations. And then at the end of the day, you're raising just a ton of money for your organization. So I'm going to stop share briefly and switch over to our demo site to show you what it looks like when you log in. Let's see. Share screen. All right. So you've come to the MWAGives.org site. You've been approved. You got the email message. You're ready to log in. If you're brand new, this is where you're coming all the time. You're clicking log in in the top right-hand corner. It prompts you to log in either with Google, Facebook, or your email account that is attached to your organization profile that you registered. If you're brand new, this is also where you can come to create an account, which is nice. So I'm not going to log in because I'm already logged in over here, but this is kind of what it looks like. Once you are logged in, this little kind of drop-down menu will appear and your organization will be listed. This is how you access your page, so you can click into your organization profile. So we'll pretend that it clicked in and I am on my profile, The Animal Humane Society. This is your overview. It's your landing page. It's where all your metrics live. It's where your little tag says that you're registered for MWAGives. If you're not registered, you can also see that here. It'll say that registration is now open for MWA Gives if you've previously participated. You'll have that little tag because it knows, hey, you participated before. Registration is open if you want to participate again. So you can register through that section. Your overview is really helpful because it's going to give you kind of a quick look at any metrics that you're interested in, which is really cool. You can kind of filter different things. You can move these tiles around. But the bulk of what we're going to talk about today is going to be your organization page, which will be the landing page that we're donors are seeing when they come to your page. It's all about you. It's got your logo. Fundraising tools is really great. This is where you're coming to create your matching grants or to pull a widget and create a widget to add to your own website to try to capture donations that might not come on the MWA Gives site, but you want to capture them so they're counted towards your totals for the event. You can do that. This is where you can come for your fundraiser templates so you can customize like a peer-to-peer fundraising page, fill in information, your logo, make it easy for anyone who's going to be peer-to-peer fundraising for you. And then campaigns, of course, we'll get into that as well. This is where all of your peer-to-peer fundraisers live. Reporting is going to be a very useful tool for you. You can see all your donations if you have recurring donations, if you have offline donations that you need to add so that those get counted for your totals on your organization page. You can also this year see retention, which is going to be really helpful. So if you have participated in the past, this retention section is going to be really helpful to come up with a strategy during your event. You can see who has given to you last year during MWA Gives and who has not given to you during this year's campaign. So you can come up with a strategy, pull those emails, send them all a quick note on the day of the event if they haven't yet given. And then, of course, your checkout flow is going to be a little section you want to refresh or update if you haven't as well, just making sure like your thank you pages up to date, your donation receipt, thank you message, and your donation form. So we will get more into each of these.  We'll start with the organization page, since this is the front-facing page of your organization's profile. And like Laura was saying, you can use this page for your year-round fundraising as well. That's one of the great perks that comes along with paying the registration fee. You get access to your organization page until the end of the year, which is really wonderful.  Obviously, you're logged in as an admin, so you're going to see this dashboard.  We'll go back, turn on edit mode, and then you can see all of the sections available to you for editing. So I'm not going to get too deep into this if anyone has questions, since a lot of you are returning. We also have another webinar from last year that's like really getting into the details of page setup. But I do want to keep this a little more higher level and allow space for you all to ask questions as well. So like I said, so many areas to customize, donate. This is where people are clicking to donate and give to you fundraise. This is a button where they come to fundraise for you as then create a peer-to-peer fundraiser for you. You can also toggle off the fundraise button if you don't want it on your page. Metrics bar, this is going to be key for you so that you can make sure what you're raising is reflecting right. If you haven't been in using the page, that's fine, but you'll want to choose the date to calculate to start the calculation. So that would be the early giving date of March 30th at 8 a.m. So you want to update that. And then again, your about page, just totally customizable, very fun. You can add videos, you can add photos, you can customize the text, you can change colors. Think about really what your message is and what your campaign is about for NWA gives. That is going to be what you really want to fill in in this section because donors are coming. They might not know about you. They found you in search. They want a quick look at what you do. Why are you fundraising? What's the money going to? These types of storytelling is going to be really key, especially when you're trying to attract a new donor. So figure out your messaging. You can add photos, a lot of good stuff. You also can add one additional tab, which is cool. So if you wanted, this could be all about your organization. And then you could have another tab that's like, here's a deeper look at two of our projects. These are two projects that we're focusing on for NWA gives. Or if it's relevant for you, meeting your staff or meeting the dogs at your foundation. Little things like that can really make your story very moving. So make sure you use it. It's here for you. So add some cool content. And then as you scroll down, you can feature campaigns. Easy, easy to use. Just turn it on. You can look for the fundraising effort you want to highlight. This is pretty much peer-to-peer fundraiser. So if you have people fundraising for you that you want to highlight, you can add them here. And then really cool, new this year, we had a lot of requests that people wanted in giving activity a feed on their page. So this is a fund section. You can hide it or you can show it totally up to you. If you do choose to show it, we honor whatever the donor requests when they're making their gift, whether they want to be anonymous by name and amount, or whether they want to be anonymous just by name, or they don't want someone to know their amount, whatever they select on the checkout process is going to be reflected on the activity wall. So this is a demo site. So all of our employees just didn't toggle it. But if it was anonymous, it would say anonymous gave $1,000 or anonymous gave just anonymous stuff like that. So you all can rest easy knowing that whatever the donor has selected will be reflected in the activity wall. A couple other things to point out. You can see all of the campaigns that are supporting you. So all the peer-to-peer fundraisers, you can also add a gallery, all sorts of really good stuff. So I would recommend if you have previously participated just coming, taking a look, refreshing the content, make sure you know the dates are all updated for 2023 and playing around with this stuff. You can also update the colors of these buttons if you're brand new, and you're looking for a way to kind of create like a nice page that reflects your organization's brand. Moving into fundraising tools. This is what I was talking about creating a fundraiser template. So you have the option to create one template.  So this year, if your goal is to get at least five people peer-to-peer fundraising for you, this is a good thing to incorporate into your strategy. Pre-filling a template, a title, a goal, an image, making it just like a nice page for someone to have to set up, having some pre-filled sections. Really easy to use. So then once, you know, you have your template ready to go, you can send out links for people to fundraise for you. Then all of those campaigns are found in your campaigns tab. So you can see how much was raised, you can see the name, you can see who owns it, whether you own it as an admin, or it's a peer-to-peer fundraiser by somebody else. There's a lot of, we might because just loves data, so we have just a ton of information for you all over the platform. If you find that you have an out-of-date fundraiser, and you're like, I don't want this showing in search, this is messy, you can easily toggle discoverability and hide old fundraisers. So if you have fundraisers, people who fundraised for you last year that maybe aren't fundraising this year, you have the ability as an admin to come in and toggle that discoverability so that only the current fundraisers are showing. Back to fundraising tools, the section is also where you'll add matching grants. You can queue up your matches, you'll see the live matches during the event. If you have queued matches, they'll show up here as well, showing upcoming. And then once they close, past matches will live here, and all of the data that goes with them. One thing to note about matches, a gift can't go over into another match. So if you have, you know, one match live and there's only $50 left, but somebody donated $100, that extra $50 that they gave wouldn't be matched, and wouldn't apply to the next match, just a heads up, because sometimes we do get questions about that. But it's really easy to create a match, you just click create a new match, and you can add the name, you can make it hidden, if the sponsor doesn't want to be recognized, you can add pictures, you can set the date, set the start time and time, you have a lot of kind of options when it comes to how you want to set up your match type. You can of course do 100% match, like a one to one, if someone gives 100, they get $100 from the match. You can also set up to a maximum amount.  So a lot of donors can have the fun of having their donation matched. So you can play around with this really user friendly. If you have questions, you can always reach out to our support team and we'll help you get set up. I do find that matching grants sometimes have a lot of questions. So we also have a really great support articles about matching grants and all that good stuff that you can check out as well. Just like I was talking about, this is a cool little mini donation form or donate button that you can add to an external website. So if you have your website for year-round fundraising and you're worried that maybe somebody will get confused, not really is that they need to give on your NWA Gives page, you can add a donate button to your outside website and when they click it to make the gift, it's going to direct them to the donation form for your NWA Gives organization page. So you can capture those maybe accidental donations that really you wanted someone to make on your organization page.  The only thing to note about this is that it doesn't allow a section for a designation, but this is really just like streamlined donation form for people. And then moving forward into your report section, of course you have just like I said, we love data, we have a ton of reporting for you. All your donations for the entire giving event from last year are going to live here. You can toggle the time period, the custom date range, you can also select the campaign. So you can view specifically by last year's giving event if you wanted to pull that report of everybody who gave during last year's event. And then as donations start coming in, you'll start to see all of them stack in this little donation area. You can download of course a full CSV report as well and you can also add offline donations if you have offline donations that you want to add during the day. Back to reporting, like I was saying, retention is going to be really important. If you previously participated last year, your retention report is going to list out all of the people who gave to you during last year's campaign. So you'll select like NWA gives 2022. And then you can see all of the donors, the amount they gave, where they gave, and then you can download that list and then email them all. So you can sort by status retained or not retained. So work it into your schedule on the day of the event, you know, probably by sometime in the morning and maybe sometime in the afternoon, you're going to want to come here and click not retained for 2022 and see who has yet to give. And then download and send them a quick email. Hey, you gave to our campaign last year. Our campaign is live this year. Please don't need. You'll probably have worded it a little better than I did right then, but that's the gist. And then of course, your disbursements. This is a demo site, so we don't have disbursements, but once you get disbursements, they will show here and you can find all the details after the event with all the amounts. Check out flow. You have your donation form, you have your thank you page, and you have your donation receipt. All of these are customizable, starting with your donation form. Just like on your organization page, you can toggle the edit mode and see what it looks like to a donor. You can also grab that direct donate link. So if you're trying to have a donate button in an email, grab your donate link and attach it to that button so that when someone clicks donate, it brings them right to this beautiful form that you've created, making the process just really easy for them. So on edit mode, you can see all of the sections that are editable for you. So take a minute. If you've previously participated, make sure all of these, you know, still make sense for you this year. Is there anything you want to add? You can, you know, make that judgment call. But we always suggest, you know, between four and six different donation levels. This helps people really just give you a better idea, helps you give people a better idea of what it costs to do different things at your organization. And sometimes people come here and they might make a decision like, oh, I was going to give, you know, 20 bucks, but oh my goodness, I can't transport rescue dogs. That's so cool. And somebody might be willing to give more because of the description that you've included. So make sure you take time to really think about that and let people know. This is where you can also add one additional question. So we automatically collect, you know, email addresses and like mailing addresses. But if you wanted to collect a phone number, maybe your organization does a lot of, you know, phone calling to donors or you want to thank donors, this is where you would need to add like, what is your phone number? So super easy to use. This is pretty much what it looks like at its most basic level. Excuse me, all my talking. Let's see. Okay, so then you're going to thank you, Paige. This is a message that pops up after a donor gives to your organization. So they've clicked that donate button. The website pops up and says, thank you for donating. Your receipt has been mailed and then underneath it will be your thank you message. So definitely, definitely add a little thank you. It doesn't need to be extensive, but it's nice for a donor to see a thank you right away. I'm sure all of you as organizations have like a thinking process that you go through and you still should definitely do that. But this little thank you is really just a nice little touch. They'll see that you received their donation. You can add a video.  You can really get very designy with this section. You can add images, maybe an image of your staff like cheering, whatever you would like. But yes, definitely take some seconds to come through here.  Maybe you want them to consider being added to your mailing list. You can direct them to that with this. And then of course their donation receipt. All of the donors are going to receive this receipt on the side. It'll be customized as an NWA gives receipt, but the message that you include here will be also included in their donation receipt. So again, just something quick. Thank you so much for your support. We'll be in touch, you know, whatever you would like. So these three sections. And then your settings is where your organization info, your disbursement settings. Do you have checks or do you have EFT? Maybe you had checks last year. Unless you want to do EFT, you can set that up in disbursement settings. General settings. If you have alternate search names, maybe you go by something completely different. You need people to be able to find you. You can add those search names here. And then of course your social sharing. So make sure this is up to date. Perhaps last year you said support us during NWA gives 2022. Just make sure your dates are, you know, updated to this current year. So that is a quick look at everything. Also admins, if you need to add somebody on your team, you can do that through this window. You'll just go to create a new admin. And they'll get an email saying that they've been added. You can also, you know, approve. If you're already an admin, you can approve other people who have requested to be an admin. But yeah. Super easy to use. I'm going to switch back to our side Joe. So start thinking about any questions you might have. As I'm going to go through just the amazing NWA gives resources available to you all. So of course we have the non-profit toolkit available to you all. It has timelines, tips, templates, just a ton of stuff to try to make your campaign easy, seamless. Of course, you know, these templates, you'll have to go in and add a little bit of your sparkle. But for the most part, like we just have a ton of really great stuff for you. Step by step instructions. And then of course NWA gives has their own resource center that specifically has quick video guides and just other tips. So check out those two areas. And then of course, sign up for our next webinar. It is happening March 2nd. 2 p.m. Central, it's going to be all about peer-to-peer fundraising and communication strategies for your donors. So that's what our suggestion is for your email timeline. Social media, tips and tricks. I mean, social media is a wild animal. But we'll let you know our tips and tricks, what we've seen work. So be sure to sign up for that. That's found in the non-profit toolkit on the NWAGives.org site. And then of course, the FAQs is a great resource center.  You can pull right from there. And then of course our support. The NWA Gives support team and Mighty Causes support team are available to you. I have the dates, the time, not the dates, the time. Well, I guess Monday and Friday is dates. The email to call and the phone number. And then one thing we didn't really touch on a lot last year was the Mighty Causes resource center. So we have of course a support library.  How do I resend a receipt? How does, you know, how do I sign up for EFT? How do I connect my Instagram account? Stuff like that lives in the support center. But the resource center is really cool because we have a bunch of prerecorded webinars. We have one that's all about peer-to-peer fundraising. You can check out. We have one that's all about matching grants. So if you go to mightycauses.com slash guide, you can see and download ebooks. We have a ton of blog posts about different topics.  So if you're looking for how to, you know, jazz up your campaign this year, we have a lot of cool tips. And I will add that link to the toolkit because I don't think it's in there, but I'll jump a check. Questions? Anybody or Laura, if you have anything you want to add? I just, that was pretty fast. But I think if you can and just, you know, give yourself an hour to peruse the website and really look at your page, I think you will find that it's very simple to kind of go in and add information to customize your site. It was a lot of information because you get a lot of things with mighty cause. So I really love the widget. And I think if you can add that widget to your website to get, you know, donations, you can keep that up all year around and, you know, process anything through our page anytime. So yeah, any questions out there? Anybody raising their hand that I don't see? I don't think so. Maybe they're typing. We'll give it a second. So peer-to-peer fundraising, I know, and matching grants can sometimes seem very daunting. But really, that is your opportunity to really talk to people that are already supporting you. So if you have people in the past that have been wonderful donors, great volunteers, people that you can count on, those are the people that you are going to want to invite to do your peer-to-peer fundraising for you. So they will be campaigning on your behalf and maybe they have their own goal. Maybe they want to raise $500 for your cause. And so they are really helping you do the work of that day of giving. So really think about who, make your list, talk to your board. Your board members are great people to do peer-to-peer fundraising for you. They should be invested in your cause and they know a lot of people. So that's a great person. Those are great people to ask to do the peer-to-peer fundraising or even a matching grant. Maybe your board would like to come together and pull a thousand dollars and they want to do that matching grant for you. So although it sounds daunting, you're asking people that you know are already invested in your cause and are willing to help you do the work. So I hope that kind of clears that up or is helpful. Let's see. Thanks James. Anyone else have any questions? If you all saw anything, I know this was like a more high-level kind of like overview. But if you saw something and you're curious and maybe you want to learn more, you can always just reach out to our support team and ask a question like, hey I've never done matching grants. I'm feeling like I don't know where to start and they can help you out. That's what they're here for. They're quick. They are super friendly. They also can do one-on-one kind of trainings on Zoom. So if you wanted to kind of schedule something with them, they can show you around the platform in greater detail than I did right now and kind of do like a more one-on-one walkthrough of all the tools. So that is definitely available to you. All you have to do is just send a quick email to support and say you're interested and somebody can help you out. I don't hear your audio if you're talking Laura, but I thought I heard something. Well I got kicked off again. So I'm coming back in. So sorry about that. Another thing I want to just make sure you guys are aware of. I missed what you just said Sarah. So if I missed something, I just want to encourage all of you again to sign up for the one-day intensive on the 21st. If you haven't already done that, as soon as you get off this meeting you should go to our page and you should sign up for that. So that is going to be a day of networking for you, meeting other nonprofits, we'll feed you lunch and it's going to be at the Thaden airfield here in Bentonville. But it's such a great day of learning and collaboration and just feeling very plugged into the nonprofit world here in Northwest Arkansas. We live in a very unique place so there's lots of amazing work being done and you just never know who you will meet that you might be able to bounce ideas off of or collaborate with. So I really encourage you to sign up for that event on the 21st. That sounds fun. I want to go to that. It's going to be really nice. And also if you don't mind in the chat, would you just type for me what organization you're with just so I know and I can keep up with keep up with you guys. Thank you Linda. I'm glad that you learned how to do that. That's really cool. Sounds good. Are you writing these down Laura? Do you want me to screenshot it for you? All right. Well thank you everyone for joining. We're really thankful that you're here. We're excited to have you for NWA Gives again this year. Again, if you need anything please don't hesitate to reach out to Laura's team or to the Mighty Cause team. And then if you have any questions just let us know and we'll be here to support. Thanks again everyone. Have a wonderful afternoon. Thank you.


The simple reason a relationship with a narcissist won't work. You probably already know why the relationship won't work. When things weren't going right with a narcissist, you may have remained positive and hopeful. You may have tried to force things, but no matter what you do, it is destined to fail. Because the narcissist is only in it for themselves. They're seeking attention and admiration for themselves. While you are in it to give something to the narcissist, to give them a better life, to make them happy. So you're giving them all of your love while you're getting nothing back in return. There's no reciprocation, and that is why it can't work. Because the narcissist is only in it for their own wants, needs and desires. They're not in it for you, which is why it was already pre-ordained right from the start. There was no other way that this could go, because they have a warped perception of how your relationship is supposed to be. 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The narcissist doesn't care about you. So when things go wrong for you, don't expect the narcissist to be there. The narcissist doesn't value you. And that is why the relationship won't work. Because your feelings and opinions do not matter to the narcissist. It doesn't mean anything to them. Because their feelings and opinions are always right. They're never going to follow your lead. Because they think they're the best. And sometimes they don't even see that they're invalidating you. Because they lack empathy.  They will never take responsibility for their actions. They will never admit their faults or mistakes. If something goes wrong, they will blame you. Because they don't want to accept that they have flaws or imperfections. They want to have a good image. So they have to think that they're always right. They see everything as a game. And they must win. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. 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It's been a hot minute since Khloe Kardashian updated her real estate portfolio but in recent news she's moved to the exclusive gated community of Hidden Hills. While a few of her famous family members already live here, this all new modern mansion happens to sit right next door to her mom Kris Jenner's new house. Khloe and Tristan Thompson, her on and off again man and baby daddy, agreed to buy the newly built estate together and pay an 8 figure sum for it. Khloe recently unloaded her longtime Calabasas property to move into her new digs and you'll never guess who bought her former place. In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Khloe Kardashian is a media personality, socialite, producer and businesswoman who rose to fame for being part of probably the most famous family of our time. Since 2007, she's starred alongside her Kardashian-Jenner fam in the reality TV series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Its success has even led to spinoffs such as Kourtney and Khloe take Miami and Kourtney and Khloe take the Hamptons. From 2009 to 2016, Khloe was married to Lamar Oda, who she married only a month after meeting. While they were the stars of their own reality TV series Khloe and Lamar, they ended up divorcing and their relationship was often the subject of tabloids. In 2009, Khloe was in the second season of the Celebrity Apprentice, finishing 10th out of 18 candidates by being fired by Donald Trump. In 2012, Khloe also hosted the X Factor alongside Mario Lopez. Since then, Khloe's had her own talk show Cocktails with Khloe, as well as starred in and produced the fitness docu series Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian. Aside from her TV stints, Khloe's found success in the retail and fashion industries with her sisters Kourtney and Kim, launching several clothing collections, fragrances and more. These days, Khloe is back with Tristan Thompson, who's also the father of her daughter, True. She's also amassed a whopping net worth of $50 million or more. Hey guys, it's Kara the Vampire Slayer, and to today we're bringing you another house tour here in Famous Entertainment. I noticed 95% of you watching aren't subscribed, so hit that subscribe button or ring that bell to be posted a new video daily. You guys requested this one, and while we already did a vid on Khloe Kardashian that was back in 2019, so it's time for an update. We'll look at her long time mansion she sold in Calabasas to a surprising buyer, where she's moving to and hidden hills and more. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram to chat, and as usual, let me know who's house tour is next in those comments down below. Alright, let's get into this video. In October 2020, it was reported that Khloe bought a brand new mansion. The Kardashian-Generes are known for many things like their family dramatics, a grip on fame, and above all, their love of hidden hills. This guard-gated community deep within LA's San Fernando Valley is the most exclusive around and served as the family spot for many years, even before keeping up with the Kardashians was the thing. Last April, Matriarch and mastermind of the clan Kris Jenner sold her freshly redone Hidden Hills mansion for $15 million to Katerina Harf, daughter of Koti Chairman Peter Harf. He is the dude who helped oversee the brand's $600 million deal with Kylie Cosmetics. In typical Kris Jenner fashion, she wants to keep her family close. It seems Khloe's new home acquisition is right next door to her mom's new pad. How convenient. The pair reportedly inked eight figure deals to buy newly built homes inside the gate that just completed in 2020. While the exact price of Khloe's new mansion is unknown at the time, it apparently cost well over $10 million, and her man Tristan Thompson bought the place with her. The two mansions are located on Ashley Ridge. The pocket of Hidden Hills often considered the most desirable. Neighbors include Jeffree Star, Lori Lawland, DeMar DeRosin, and more. While we have yet to scope photos of Khloe's new home, we can see how the new builds the neighborhood look and get a solid idea. Khloe and Kris's new mansions are built in 2020 by the same local developer and pack in over 10,000 square feet of living space each, sitting on 1.5 acres of land. Khloe's new home was designed in the popular modern farmhouse style and is rumored to be a whopping 16,500 square feet. While the Ashley Ridge mansions were already gorgeous, many were ripped down to make a way for the new builds, which are apparently even more impressive. It's also said Khloe's new crib has eight bedrooms, 9.5 baths, and every amenity you could ever imagine. There's an eight car garage, cupboard patios, a guest house, movie theater, lounge, home gym, and office. Also, outside there's, of course, a beautiful pool with inset spa. The two properties used to be part of a single large estate that rambled over three acres of land and included a sprawling mansion of almost 20,000 square feet. Once upon a time, this mega home was even leased to Britney Spears. After Miss Spears moved out, the owner sold the place in 2012 for $7 million to a local developer who quickly demolished the home, but then let the land sit vacant for years. Eventually, the land was passed to the ex Ponzi scheme Woodbridge and then to the most recent developer. He subdivided the lot and spent 2020 putting the finishing touches on both Khloe and her mom's brand new mansion. Khloe moved into her new home before Christmas and she took to social media showing off her gorgeous decorations. She uploaded a series of pics and videos to Instagram, giving fans a glimpse inside her festive upgrade. Khloe's Christmas tree was tall and decorated with silver and green ornaments with sparkling white lights. She also showed her cozy fireplace with a smaller tree on the other side, each of them all white. This article reports that Khloe moved into her new property back in November and already began making the place a home. It's likely only a matter of time before she shows the entire mansion off. Before buying her new mans, Khloe long lived in a Calabasas estate just next door to Hidden Hills One. She sold her home for $15.5 million, a record price as the most ever paid for a house in Calabasas. It's also more than double the $7.2 million that Khloe paid for the property over six years prior when she bought it off Justin Bieber. This time, the buyer is also someone famous, none other than Darman, the cosmetics entrepreneur turned YouTube famous lifestyle guru who quickly announced his purchase via Instagram. For the past few months, man and his partner Laura G have documented their house hunt on social media and welcomed their first child earlier in 2020. Built in 2005, the gorgeous Tuscan Villa-style compound served Khloe well for many years. It's located in the estates at the Oaks, a double-gated community where other homeowners include her sister Courtney, Travis Barker, and more. Set on a high ridge with panoramic views of the hills, the 1.3-acre property is covered in lush landscaping, bright roses, and rolling green lawns. Inside, Khloe appointed top designers Tommy Clements and Walter Fernandez to transform the basic mansion into a sophisticated modern abode. The home features jet-black hardwood floors, cream-colored walls, and designer furniture throughout. It spans 9,320 square feet with six beds, 10 baths, and features like a curved staircase in the foyer and a sexy back lip bar. The gorgeous estate also offers six fireplaces, an elevator, vaulted ceilings, and floor-to-ceiling windows in many of the rooms, letting in natural light. Among the common rooms, there are a few choices of living in family rooms and a dining room with garden views. Not to mention, the gourmet kitchen with only the best appliances, a breakfast area and bar, and a butler's pantry and kitchen. Other details of Khloe's former home include arched walkways, terracotta floors, and hand-painted tiles. The master suite here boasts a sitting area, fireplace, and balcony. And if you'd rather hang out elsewhere in the mansion, there are rooms like a state-of-the-art theater, a games room, and an office. Outside, the property is just as amazing because there's an outdoor bar area with thatched roof, secluded patios to dine on numerous fountains, and a pool and spa. If that's not enough, you also get a spacious guesthouse that's a mini-replica of the main home. Khloe may be moving on, but she really loved this home and took every opportunity to show it off. Even when she moved back in November, she said goodbye to the home on Instagram, posting a story walking through the empty house. Khloe then took fans to what used to be her daughter, Tru's bedroom, saying, "'We are out of here and the new owners "'get a beautiful, blessed home.' This home is so special and magical. I have the best memories of this beautiful, beautiful home, and I'm so happy to pass it on. More memories to be made." Well, I'm sure Darman is already enjoying it. All right, guys, that brings us to the end of our Khloe Kardashian house tour. We'll have to wait to see more of her brand-new Hidden Hills mega mansion, but we know Khloe likes showing off her homes, so I think we'll catch a peek very soon. For now, we know some of the details and that the home is massive. What did you guys think about Khloe's upgrade and her longtime Calabasas home? Would you want to live right next door to your mom? Be sure to let me know down in the comments. I think by looking at any house Khloe's lived in, she has great taste and carries it with her wherever she moves. So I know her new spot is nothing less than impressive. And honestly, I'd probably be down to live next door to my mom. It would be super convenient. If you haven't already, I'd love it if you guys subscribed to my personal channel. You can click the link after this. How can I say no? It's basically a mammoth. It's oozing out, but it don't hog it. Thanks for tuning in. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and I'll see you all in the next video. Bye.


So this lecture is part of an online commutative algebra course and will be about fitting ideals. So first of all where does the word fitting come from? Well it's actually the name of a guy who invented it, it's not some funny adjective or anything like that. That was back in the 1930s. So the fitting ideal is sort of invariance for a finitely generated module M over any ring R. You might think if the module is finitely generated the ring should be notary, but in fact we don't need to use that. And the fitting ideals are going to be a sequence of ideals. There's the zeroth fitting ideal of M, which is contained in the first fitting ideal of M, which is contained in the second and so on, you get the idea. And the ith fitting ideal, let's call it the nth fitting ideal of M, is a sort of obstruction to generating M by n elements. Well it's not really because people got things a bit muddled up. Instead of working with the fitting ideals it would really be better to work with the quotient by the fitting ideal. So you take the quotient of R by the nth fitting ideal and this is now a module, a cyclic module. And it's really this module which is the obstruction because if M is generated by n elements then this quotient, this module vanishes. So when you say this is an obstruction, it's a sort of funny obstruction, that if M is generated by n elements this isn't zero, it's actually equal to the whole ring R. So as usually in mathematics definitions and terminology have got a little bit muddled up. So it's for historical reasons we use the fitting ideal rather than the quotient of R by the fitting ideal, which should probably be more sensible. So let's start by defining the zeroth fitting ideal. So we're going to define the zeroth fitting ideal of a module M. Now M is finitely generated, so it has a presentation. Well which means first of all there's a map from R to the n onto M. So this has a basis corresponding to the generators, let's call them G1 up to Gn of the module M. And then we need some relations and there may be an infinite number of relations. Remember we're working over a ring that might not be fine, might not be notherian, so there's no particular reason why the kernel of this map should be finitely generated. So we get some possibly infinite module, infinitely generated module of relations. And let's write down what the relations are. Well the first relation is going to be given by elements R11 up to R1n and we'll give you the relation R11G1 plus R1nGn equals zero. And then we get R21 up to R2n and we get a relation R12G1 plus all the way up to R, it should be 21, sorry about that, up to R2nGn is equal to zero. And so on. So we get R31 something and what we get here is a matrix with n columns corresponding to the generators and possibly an infinite number of rows corresponding to the relation, so it might be an infinite matrix. And now we can define the i-fitting ideal is the ideal generated by the determinants of all n by n minors of this matrix. What that means is you pick n rows and the elements of those n rows will give you an n by n matrix and you take the determinant of that and you do that for every possible subset of n rows. So that's really rather a lot of them and that gives you loads and loads of determinants and the ideal of R generated by all these determinants is a zero fitting ideal. So it's a rather complicated looking definition. Okay fine, well there's one obvious problem. This seems to depend on the presentation because a module m will have many different presentations and if someone takes a completely different presentation they will have a completely different matrix here and get a completely different collection of determinants and are they really going to end up with the same fitting ideal if you do that? Well the answer is yes you do end up with the same fitting ideal. So let's explain why. So how can you change a presentation? Well there are some obvious ways of doing it. First of all we can add a new generator g to m but then we also have to add a new relation g equals R1 g1 plus plus Rn gn. If we've got n generators we can add an n plus 1th generator to provide we also add a relation saying it's a linear combination of the generators we first thought of. Secondly we can add a new relation as a linear combination of known relations and we can add an infinite number of new relations. If our ring was finitely presented we'd only have to add a finite number of new relations but in general you might need to add an infinite number all at once as a single step. And we can also do the inverses of these. We can remove a generator if one of our relations says it's a linear combination of previous relations and we can remove a relation if it's a linear combination of known relations. And any two presentations are related by these operations and their inverses. And this is quite easy to see because if we've got two presentations so we've got R to the m goes to m goes to 0 R to the something else goes to R to the n goes to m goes to 0 and what we do is we take these generators and then we add the generators of this other presentation one by one so we apply step one a few times so we now get a presentation of m with m plus n generators. And then we can add all the relations of this second presentation to that which we can do using step two. So without modifying m we've added all the generators of the second presentation to this and we've added all the relations of the second presentation to this. And we can now undo these steps we can now throw out all the relations of the first presentation since they are now redundant and then we can throw out all the generators of the first presentation since they're now redundant using the inverse of step one. So all we need to do is to show that the fitting ideal doesn't change if we do these two steps. So the fitting ideal of m does not change under steps one and two. And let's see why this is so. Well let's have a look at what step one does to the matrix of generators. So we've got this original matrix of relations like this and then we're adding a new generator which means we add a new column and obviously this new generator doesn't affect the old relations but we have this new relation saying it's equal to r1, it's equal to some linear combination of the old generators. So our new matrix adds one extra row and one extra column to our old matrix. And now we're looking at the old definition of the fitting matrix is the determinant of n by n matrices of the old matrix. The new definition means we're looking at determinants of n plus one by n plus one matrices, sub matrices of this new one. But you can see that these two are actually the same because if we've got n by n matrix in here then we can just add this row and this column to it and that will have the same determinant up to sign because if you add a new column with only one one in it then the only way of getting a non-zero determinant is then the determinant of this n plus one by n plus one matrix will be the same as the determinant of the smaller n by n matrix. And conversely, if you choose n plus one rows here, you're generally better have the first row as one of these rows otherwise your last column will be zero so you're getting the determinant of n plus one rows here including this first row and then if you just cut out the first row and the first column that's not going to change the determinant. So the determinants of this matrix, the n by n determinants of this matrix are more or less the same as the n plus one by n plus one determinants of this bigger matrix. So step one doesn't change the fitting ideal. Step two on the other hand, what we have is we might have our old matrix and then we're adding in some new relations which are linear combinations of these old ones and again this doesn't change the determinants of an n by n matrix because if you take n rows of this new matrix including this row then that's going to be a linear combination of the matrices you get by taking one of the rows in this linear combination. So it would be a linear combination of determinants you get by taking n rows from your original matrix. So both step one and step two don't change the ideal you get by taking all the determinants. So the zero fitting ideal of n actually doesn't depend on the presentation. So let's see an example for this. Let's take m to be a finite abelian group which is just a z module of course. And try and work out what a zero fitting ideal is. Well, m can be written as a sum of cyclic groups so it's going to be z over n one z plus z over n two z and so on. And this gives an obvious presentation and the corresponding matrix of generators is just going to look like n one n two up to whatever the last one is. And there's only going to be one way of taking an n by n determinant of this so the determinant is going to be n one n two up to n whatever it is. And the fitting ideal will be generated by this so the fitting ideal zero fitting ideal of m is just the ideal generated by the order of the abelian group m. So in other words z modulo fitting ideal of m is just a cyclic abelian group with the same order as m. So in particular we see that this vanishes if and only if m is generated by zero elements. So this is an example that the zero fitting ideal is the obstruction of generating m by zero elements in this case. Now that's done the zero fitting ideal. What about the higher fitting ideals? So let's have a look at the ith fitting ideal of m. Well this is going to be defined in the same way. So you remember we've got a presentation r to the something goes to r to the n goes to m goes to zero. And we've got this big matrix r one one r one n r two one and so on. And we take the ideal generated by the determinants of the n minus i times n minus i minus. So we take n minus i rows and n minus i columns and take all the determinants of those. Well as before this does not depend on the presentation. The proof is similar but maybe a slightly more tricky because instead of the n by n minus you've now also got the possibility of choosing only some of the columns. But otherwise the proof is fairly similar. So let's try and work out the fitting ideals of finitely generated Abelian group. So I suppose m is a finitely generated Abelian group. So we can write m is equal to z to the j. So we might take j copies of z plus z over n one z. So on plus z over n k z. So now what we're going to do is we know we can do this so that n one divides n two and two divides n three and so on. And if we do that then n one n two and so on are uniquely determined. So we have the following presentation where we can write down the presentation as a sort of matrix. Write it as a big one. We can write some zeros at the beginning and then we get n one n two n three and so on up to n k down here. So we can easily write the presentation as a diagonal matrix which makes it really easy to work out what the determinants of sub matrices are. And now you can see from this that the zero fitting ideal of m is going to be zero as long as j is greater than one. And this will be, you go up to the jth fitting ideal is zero. And then if you go up to the j plus one fitting ideal of m, this will be n one n two up to n k because it will be the determinant of this sub matrix. And then the jth plus two ideal of m, well you've got a bit of choice here because you can pick all but one of these. But you want to take the ideal generated by all possibilities. You take the smallest possible determinant you can get by throwing out one of these. So that turns out to be n one n two up to n k minus one because k is the biggest number. And this would go all the way up to the fitting j plus k is now equal to the ideal one. So here we see that m can be generated by j plus k elements. So this j plus kth fitting ideal becomes the whole ring of integers. So in other words, the obstruction to generating m by j plus k elements vanishes. You'll also notice that the finitely generated Abelian group is actually completely determined by its sequence of fitting ideals. This isn't actually true for more general rings. You've kind of different modules with the same sequence of fitting ideals. You can also think of the fitting ideal in this way. If you take the z-modulo, the i-fitting ideal of m, you can think of this as being the size of what is left over after killing i elements of m, or rather this is the minimum size of what is left over. So you try and choose i elements of m to make the quotient by those i elements as small as possible and then z-modulo, the i-fitting ideal, that that's its size. For example, if you just... never mind. So for any module m, m being generated by i elements implies the i-fitting ideal of m is equal to zero. Sorry, it's equal to the whole of r. It's the quotient by this that's equal to zero. Converse is true for finitely generated modules over the integers or over local rings as well. We won't actually prove this, although they mention it next time when we're looking at local rings that are local complete intersections. Okay, so that's the end of the summary of fitting ideals. We're going to use fitting ideals next lecture when we talk about local complete intersection rings.


Good afternoon or good morning as it is here in the United States right now. My name is Robert Talbert I'm a professor in the mathematics department at Grand Valley State University in the state of Michigan here in the United States I'm really grateful for the invitation to speak to you This is a somewhat unusual setup and that I am pre recording this talk on video In fact right now as you're watching this I am giving another talk at another conference So I have the distinction today of giving two different talks simultaneously on two different continents So even though I'm not personally with you today I hope that my talk will stir up some ideas and bring about some important conversations among you About teaching and learning and as I'll explain in a moment I've set up some resources online that will allow us to interact and discuss what I have to say I'm going to be speaking today on the flipped classroom. You've learned a few things about the flipped classroom But in brief this is a course design methodology in which direct instruction moves from the class meeting times Into individual out-of-class experiences and the resulting time in the class meeting is repurposed For active work on more difficult cognitive tasks Typically this looks like students encountering and making sense of basic new concepts before arriving at class time I've been a practitioner of the flipped classroom now for about five years I've taught several different mathematics and computer science courses during this time using the flipped classroom model And I've written about it extensively in journal articles and at my blog casting out nines Which is published by the Chronicle of Higher Education and which you can access at the URL you see there on the screen I'd love to tell you that my experiences with the flat flipped classroom have been uniformly positive But unfortunately that would not be totally truthful What I'd like to share with you today are some of the failures that I've had with the flipped classroom What I've learned from them and some of the success stories that have resulted now before I truly begin I want to mention that I have set up an online discussion forum to field your questions about the talk and about the flipped classroom Generally, I'm going to give the URL and some instructions for using this discussion board at the end of the talk today And you'll be able to post your questions and get answers from me and from your colleagues So for now just make a note of any questions that you have and that don't get answered during the talk and post those to the discussion board later So let's get started So the first thing that I wish I had known about the flipped classroom when I started using it is That the flipped classroom has many benefits for students, but students will not always understand those benefits automatically The first time I ran a flipped classroom was five years ago I was teaching an introductory programming class designed for mathematics majors I designed the course and had chosen to flip it because I felt that students will learn computer programming best when they are actually Programming rather than listening to a lecture about programming This class meant once per week for 75 minutes The students watched videos and did practice exercises to prepare for class Then the class time was spent working on group programming assignments where students would apply the basic knowledge of programming to real life problems So there are a lot of advantages for running a programming class this way Students get access to high quality video and print materials that they use to learn basic concepts before class And then those resources remain in place forever for students to go back and use later Students also get practice learning new concepts independently Which is a critical and I would say the most critical skill that a student can acquire in their entire college education Students also wrestle with the hard part of a subject not in isolation from me But while I am physically present right there for them to consult Students also get large chunks of time to work on activities that help them make sense of the subject Now I could go on and on about the benefits of the flipped classroom The flipped classroom made sense to me because not only are students learning the content They are also learning broader skills that will serve them in learning any kind of content Whether they're in school or in the workforce Now most of the students in this computer programming class on the other hand unfortunately really hated the class What they expected from the class was for me to get up and lecture and do lots of examples of programming while we were meeting For many of them and for many students in general Teaching and lecturing are the same thing And so when there is no lecturing going on in class It means that there is no teaching taking place and that they are not learning anything The students didn't see the benefits of the flipped classroom that I've outlined here It was really hard work for them and their only concern was accumulating enough marks to pass the class They're not so much with preparing themselves for using the content or building their their self-regulated learning skills for later in life In short, the students and I came to this class with two completely different sets of assumptions about the very purpose of the university course And that disjointedness really resulted in a lot of significant friction Now what I learned from this experience is that university students don't have the same set of values as we instructors have as regards their education And although the benefits of the flipped classroom are real and obvious to us They just don't compute with many students who have a more grade conscious mindset And so the piece of advice I would give to new flipped classroom practitioners is Communicate on a regular basis to your students exactly why you have set up your class in a flipped format Demonstrate the usefulness of the skills that they are acquiring and explain to them that working this way allows you to help them more And sets them up for success later on not just for a good grade now Now I do want to share one success story from this programming class One student came to my office early in the semester with a concern about the class She claimed that she simply could not learn this way with having to learn basic concepts before class and then work on programming in class without a lecture When I asked her why she thought this way, she said she didn't know but she was sure that she could not learn this way So I asked her what are the three most important things you've ever learned in your life I believe her answer was speaking English her native language Being able to walk on her own and being able to eat on her own. That's a pretty good list I asked her to tell me then about the lecturer that she had for each of those tasks Because she's clearly skilled at speaking and walking and eating And so since she can't learn without lecturer at least so she says she must have had a really good lecturer for each of those things But of course, this is kind of a joke because she learned all of those things independently with help but also on her own I think this example made an impression on her because by the end of the class She was one of the better programmers in the course and she listed an improved ability to learn independently As the one thing she got most out of the course Once she realized that she did not really need a lecturer to learn new information She was on board of what we were trying to do And I think if we in higher education are interested in producing lifelong learners. This is a very important consideration to keep in mind The second thing I wish I had known about the flip classroom early on is That the biggest problem students have with the flipped classroom has nothing to do with the content of the course But rather it's simple time and task management I don't know what it's like for students in france But in the u.s students in school prior to university have highly programmed lives They spend hours in school and then more hours outside of school on sports school activities like music or drama and so on But although they're very busy very few students seem to have ever been held responsible for managing their time Or their tasks or the projects that they have going on This is mostly handled by their parents And it shows because when they arrive at university with a great deal of freedom They have no idea how to manage it and they end up getting into trouble academically because of it I didn't realize until just last year How much the flip classroom is predicated on students being able to manage the flow of information for a course independently But it makes sense. We assign students things to do prior to class in order to prepare for what will take place in class We expect students to manage their time wisely and get that pre-classwork none on time And that pre-classwork is not as simple to manage as a homework set Students have to decide how much time to give to watching video to doing reading to asking questions and so forth There's a lot of time management involved for students in a flip classroom And I think I was not aware of just how poorly prepared many students are for this For example, I had a student last year in a flipped calculus class who was consistently not turning in pre-class assignments on time If at all When I talked to the student about it, I learned two things First the student was taking nearly four to five hours to complete the pre-class assignments But they're only designed to take 45 minutes or less to complete and the student never sought out help He just assumed that they were really time consuming assignments and didn't realize that he was doing a lot of things inefficiently Second the student had actually never used a calendar before His entire life his parents had remembered his appointments for him Until he got to college and then just tried to keep all of his coursework and due dates in his head So half the time he would simply forget something was due because he didn't have it written down And the other half he would remember but not manage his time wisely So what I learned from this experience is that part of what flipped class instruction involves is explicitly teaching students how to manage time tasks and information And my advice to new flipped classroom practitioners is to make sure you devote time yourselves to discuss these issues explicitly and intentionally with your students For example, there's an assumption at my university that students should spend at least two hours outside of class working on a class For every hour spent inside class. For example, my calculus class met four times a week in 50 minute sessions Students therefore should plan on spending at least 100 minutes per class meeting Let's round that up to two hours working on the class That's two hours outside of class four times a week just on calculus I found that it helped to actually break down that two hours into specific atomic tasks to complete For example, students should devote one full hour to completing their pre-class assignment Which consists of about 15 to 20 minutes of video plus eight to 10 pages of reading plus some short exercises I would consider that actually to be a fairly short amount of time And students with weaker background should probably maybe double that amount Then students should vote another hour each night for other tasks like working on homework coming to office hours And so on Again, I don't know what it's like for students in europe But in the us students often make it through their primary and secondary schooling without much need for outside study time The average study time for students in high school in the us is maybe three to four hours per week total So when they get to university, they have the idea that it will be roughly the same amount of time commitment But in fact it is definitely not Now I like the flip classroom for many reasons One of which is that it forces students to work appropriately hard on their studies outside of class and doesn't allow students to simply slide by In many ways, it's a more academically rigorous approach to learning than a traditional classroom But it does take a certain amount of meeting students halfway and teaching them how to manage their time And I had to realize in that in addition to teaching content I needed to make time explicitly to talk about how to handle the course load But this is good, I think because again It's building those larger thinking and learning skills that students will need when they're done with school In fact, the calculus student I mentioned earlier is a success story He's an engineering major and by the end of the semester He had a little paper calendar that he brought with him everywhere and had learned not to keep things in his head But to commit them to a system and I think he will find a lot more success in school and as a professional engineer that way So the third thing I wish I had known about the flip classroom earlier Is that the flip classroom entails significantly more work at the beginning than a traditional classroom Now that statement might scare many of you away from using the flip classroom But I wanted to emphasize this phrase at the beginning In a minute, I'll explain why over the long term the flip classroom actually might yield a lighter workload Certainly a workload where you're going to focus on more important things So where I really encountered the heavy workload of a flip classroom first was in the fall of 2012 When I was scheduled to teach a class for our math majors designed to introduce them to the concept of proofs It's a writing intensive class and there's a lot of mathematical content in it And it has a reputation of being one of the more difficult classes in our program I decided to flip the two sections I was teaching mainly because I wanted students to spend time in class writing proofs and solving problems Not listening to lectures about writing proofs and solving problems We have a textbook for the course that lends itself well to this approach But I decided also to add video content to the course I made an outline for a video series that would cover the entire course And it eventually became a youtube playlist with 107 videos over 14 hours of video content on it I started on this video series a month or so before school started I did not finish it before classes started and in fact I was having to set aside an entire eight hour day Each week just to produce videos enough to keep ahead of my students On top of this I had to actually teach the course which as a writing intensive course involved grading 60 drafts of proofs Each week from students in addition to other grading tasks and in addition to a third course that I was teaching It was an incredible amount of work I finished the semester completely exhausted and wondering why I had decided to do this in the first place Now what I learned from this experience and advice that I would give to new flipped instructors is the following First prepare your flipped course far in advance and start working on it early I should have been working over the entire summer prior to this course to produce those videos But instead I had to put everything into the fall and make the video content while the course was running And that was a big mistake Secondly take it slow and if it makes sense for you don't necessarily flip the entire course the first time you're teaching it For example, you might choose to flip only a select number of class sessions like every friday Or if you have a lab session flip that or if you have an exam preparation session flip that Or just once a week when you want to have problem solving time There is no law that says a flipped class has to be entirely flipped It is certainly okay and maybe even preferable if you do this a little bit at a time Third and I can't stress this enough work with a partner if you can Now last year in 2013. I was undertaking to flip our introductory calculus class This was going to involve a lot of video making again And I had absolutely no desire to cause that much work for myself again So I found another instructor in my department who was willing to try flipping her calculus course as well We got together and agreed to split up the video making responsibilities roughly 50 50 By collaborating and having each other to use for ideas We were able to produce the bulk of a 91 video playlist for calculus in just 10 days time during the summer And then we were able to work at a normal pace during the semester And that calculus course is actually going to be my success story Now I said earlier that flipping a class takes a lot of work in the beginning But over the long term it could actually save you time if you teach the same course over and over again For example, I teach calculus quite a lot this fall I'm teaching calculus again and all the videos are completely made. I don't have to remake the videos The only thing I have to do is design in-class activities. That is a lot less work It's a lot more fun and it's a much more important for student learning The fourth and final thing that I wish I had known about the flip classroom is something I touched on earlier And that is that the flipped classrooms success depends on communication In fact, I would say that anytime in the past where the flip class has not worked for me as well as it could have It's been because of a failure of communication Maybe I didn't explain the workflow for turning in an assignment correctly Or I didn't communicate an expectation for the amount and kinds of work students should be doing outside of class clearly Or maybe I didn't touch base with that one student who had a problem and so on Usually my failures with the flip classroom have come down to either not communicating myself clearly to students Or not being as open to communication with students as I could have been For example in the programming class that I mentioned a little earlier where so many students had negative reactions to the flipping of the class I think a lot of this came from just assuming that students would understand the benefits of the flip classroom Automatically and just jump right on board But that was a failed assumption What I should have been doing instead was communicating why we're flipping What this will involve what students will get in return and then soliciting student feedback on a regular basis On how things were going More than that I should have been checking in with students personally on a regular basis to see how they Individually are doing I can absolutely say that better communication would have taken that bad situation and made it manageable But if communication is the key to a successful flip classroom This is actually very good news for us because communication can be very easy These days when I do a flipped classroom, I make sure I'm doing the following things First of all, I spend a good deal of time at the beginning of the term talking explicitly about the course setup Why it's going to help students learn and what the benefits are Secondly, I try to be super abundantly queer about the instructions for doing work in the flip classroom Which includes instructions on time management Thirdly, I make sure that I am soliciting student feedback on a regular basis in the form of anonymous surveys Clicker questions one minute status updates given at the end of class and so on Just giving students a lot of chances to voice their concerns voice their approval and say what they need to say And then I act upon any serious recommendation for improvement quickly to show students that their voice is being heard and that it matters And pulling students aside in a friendly way individually if they have any serious concerns about the course Fourthly, I try to maintain several open channels of communication for students to get help and to ask questions email and office hours and online discussion boards in addition to question and answer time in class So students never feel like they are being left completely on their own to teach themselves the subject without help Finally, I make sure to celebrate student successes For example, if students do really well on a pre-class exercise I will praise them for it and point out that they did this all on their own They did not need a lecture to understand something new Every flip classroom I've run in which I've been intentional about the quality and quantity of communication Has resulted in most students not only learning the content better than they would have in a traditional classroom Just as importantly they feel more confident about learning than they normally would because they've seen enough concrete instances of being able to learn independently that they finally believe in their own abilities They haven't had that belief for many of them since they were toddlers Realistic self-efficacy is one of the most important gifts we instructors can give to our students And the flipped class gives us lots of opportunities for this So those are the four biggest things I've learned about the flipped classroom that I wish someone would have told me about at the beginning Although the flipped classroom is something of an old idea I think its time has finally come to be in the mainstream of modern higher education It benefits our students and helps them to build lifelong learning skills and regain some contact with their basic human abilities to reason To learn and to grow I thank you for listening and I want to leave you with some instructions on the discussion board that I mentioned earlier That we can use to continue our conversation So to help further this conversation about the flipped classroom I've set up a discussion board for this talk and for flipped classroom topics in general at my website Just go to proftalbert.com Slash questions and you'll see a list of the questions that are currently available Each item in the list is a question and some of these questions will have an answer thread underneath them For example, this question has two answers to it at the moment while this one has none If I click on the question name It will take me to a place where I can see the question and the answers And then add my own answer or comments if I want to If you want to see a list of all the questions currently available click the button that says questions To see only the questions that have not been answered yet click unanswered to ask your own question click ask a question To search the questions and answers for a specific term type in that term to the box here and click search If you like a question or an answer you can vote for it or upvote it by clicking on the up arrow This will help distinguish better answers from not as good answers You can also include typeset mathematics in your question or answer as well by using basic lay tech and enclose inline math with slash parenthesis and displayed math in slash square brackets I'll be checking the discussion board actively during the week and you can continue to use it for as long as you like Although I am not a french speaker if you would prefer to give your question or answer in french rather than in english Please feel free to do so and I have a colleague here in the us who has agreed to help me with translating Again, thank you very very much for the invitation to speak with you today Thank you for your attention and I look forward to seeing you on the discussion board