Okay, so I have this, originally I invited all the Chinese board directors to join me for this panel, but unfortunately a couple of them did not get the visa in time. So last minute actually I invited these esteemed panelists and they all have something to do with the helping out, building up OpenStack community. So first of all I'd like to provide an introduction. My name is Annie Lai and actually I work for Huawei and I'm also Huawei's platinum member board representative. I've been sitting on OpenStack board for a little bit two years now and also I'm one of the organizers help organizing the first China Day we had in Beijing last year and then this year we're having it again July 24th, 25th. So please remember that and if you want to go to China or you live in China, definitely welcome you to attend and this year we get a lot of support from the foundation. Jonathan, Mark, Lauren, Ellen, Clark and a couple of TECs, a few PTLs, they're all going to go to China and participate in this OpenStack China Day because you know there's a huge community there and we want to make sure that the community in China can be integrated very well with the rest of the OpenStack community and some, we see a lot of excitement especially we get a lot of young people you know fresh out of universities and stuff. We really want to make sure that we can help them on board and then you know add value to the community and feel they are really truly you know part of the community. So with that, that's a long introduction, I apologize and I'd like to introduce our four panelists here and first of all, Yanli who is part of the Costco organization and I'll just have her introduce herself.  And I come from China Electronic Standardization Institute, usually we call it SESI and the role of SESI in China is just like the NIST in the United States and I'm also the Secretary General of China Open Source Cloud League, sorry I'm just a little nervous, and this is Costco and Costco is one of the biggest open source organizations in China and we have more than 140 members in China and about 50% of, sorry, 70% of members provide cloud service based on open source, open stack, so that's my invitation. Hello, I'm Kui Shi, I'm from East Tank, East Tank is a company founded three years ago and I take charge of solution function design and also the product solution and the architecture. In the past three years we East Tank have accumulated more than 100 customers in different areas including financial and large enterprises and also energy companies and also in the past three years our products are in the keep growing and we support more and more features of supply of the customer machine and service for the customers and also we have in large other service area including the daughter and the companies and so on and also we go deep in the basic software including the operating system from last year, so okay, I will introduce some details about our customers and let's let, okay, thank you. Hello everyone, my name is, hello, yeah we can hear you, echo, echo, maybe a closer one, okay, my name is Shu Chiang Huan, I'm with 99 Cloud, I'm in charge of the 99 Cloud product IND. 99 Cloud has been found since 2012 and we have customers in various verticals such as banking financial and energy area 99 Cloud have many putting a lot of resources contribute to OpenStack, we are the top three contributor in China and top ten contributor global wise, we are the evangelists of the OpenStack and the cloud solution in China, we like to spend our efforts to help our customer improve their business by using OpenStack and Open Technologies, thank you. Good afternoon everyone, my name is Shen, Shen Wang from Intel, so I'm also the engineer manager of a small team in Intel based in Shanghai, as a working on OpenStack projects like NOVA, Neutral, etc and I am also individual director of OpenStack Foundation Board and I have been on the position for three years, so we are also as an Intel employee, we do hardware and we are also working on the open source software but we don't make any products, we don't make any distribution based on OpenStack but we provide technical support for our customer and OpenStack vendors in China, so this is why I'm here, thank you. And Shen is also an author of an OpenStack book, I always try to promote his book but he never paid me, all right, so very quickly I just you know in case you're not very familiar with the China market and I just want to give a little bit of you know overview here, like I said earlier China region is fast growing and it ranks number two in number of OpenStack users according to the latest OpenStack user survey and also it has the second highest number of OpenStack developers and right now we have one platinum you know member Huawei and even though Huawei is actually a global company we sell to you know everywhere all over the world but we're based in Shenzhen China with offices all over the world and we have since last year we have a lot of you know Chinese companies applying for the gold memberships and then right now we get I think totally including I mean I'm talking about you know Chinese region so that includes the Taiwan as well in total I think we have about 12 gold members so that's a pretty substantial number of you know Chinese gold members and and then you know we also do these are the names in case you want to see these are the names of the companies and the latest addition we just got Unicom and China Unicom and Fiber Home they just got their gold membership accepted by the board on Sunday and so as far as community efforts standpoint and so you know this group of people definitely they are the heroes of the Chinese OpenStack community they have done tremendous work going the China market and I don't know why this keeps going this way and I just want to give a quick overview here you know all these companies have been traditional who is technical here can you guys help me keep this up and yeah he must be so so you know these these companies including Huawei we are regular you know event sponsors and you know people have sent a lot of people these companies have sent a lot of people maybe you got a reboot sorry a lot of you know what I can just talk about it that's fine I find it works if I stand here yeah yeah just he can be my assistant okay but make sure you don't block people behind you so no it's okay why are you guys why don't you let him sit here and you guys move down there or you can you know what I don't even need to see the slide you can just do it over there so so you know we we send speakers here and then and then like I said China Day we're doing it the second time and I specifically invited theory who is the chair of TC and I've talked to him that you know we got all these Chinese you know member companies as well as developers and we really need to you know mobilize all these developers in China and to you know kind of help them understand a lot of them are new so want to help them understand what's going on in the open-stack community and then in the open stack itself and see where the gaps are so you know we all can contribute together you know in one direction because we definitely don't want you know multiple directions you know development of development efforts happening from various regions so we are the foundation you know from the community standpoint we're you know trying to grow this region trying to mobilize these developers and and China Day was definitely very you know was the beginning of that and then this year we're doing it again and we're gonna do and also we're gonna have an operator meetup so we're gonna gather up all the open-stack users in China and then talk about their experience their you know challenges in operating open-stack clouds and these guys are also they have enabled a lot of open stack you know use large operators in China later I'm gonna have them talk about those use cases that they have helped build and then also we have bug smash this is actually pretty I think it's pretty unique to China you know Shane and so this is an event that the you know Costco and Intel and Huawei we kind of organize them you know it's a tradition we do it twice a year and we gather up all the developers together come and fix bugs and also throughout the process we also provide training to young you know new open-stack developers so so far we have fixed over you know five six hundred bugs and actually the I'm gonna put a plug for you so the next bug smash event in China is next week in Suzhou in a beautiful city Suzhou so if you want to fly to China next week please you know participate in a bug smash event it's free to join and and then also we do you know a lot of there are a lot of member companies they all organize various meetups for various topics and objectives so we see a lot of community works happening I think what's happening what's really lacking is you know have more tightly integration with the rest of the you know open-stack community especially the US because of the you know time zone differences sometimes really hard for them to you know to wake up and you know do the conference do the IRC you know with the with other projects people in working projects so okay so thank you Shane you did a good job and I think we're done with the presentation and so okay so I'm gonna start asking questions first of all Li Yu I'd like to ask you since you represent a government entity and describe you know the Chinese government's support in you know open source in general I know open source is very hot in China but I'm sure has something to do with the support from the government so please describe government support in open source okay so in recent years open stack make great development in China first of all definitely the most biggest contributors as the Chinese developers but meanwhile the organizations as Cosco and contribute to the development and the promotion of open stack in China and yes we have done many things last year we we helped to sorry I'm just a little nervous my speaking it is just not so good so it's actually very good we helped to build the ecosystem of cloud computing in China and we helped to guide the members to sorry I'm just a little to learn about open stack yeah to learn and then to participate in to contribute yes and we just guide the members to to hold the technical event just like open stack box smash and meet up and also we kick off the work on on the on expose on the combination of open open source and the standard and we know in 2015 ISO published international standard of cloud computing named reference architecture of cloud computing and in Cosco we gave this we gave this international standard solution based on open stack I think this is the first one in the world and I think this this work is is a great work and will keep on promoting promoting yeah promoting this this this work that's all yeah yeah we definitely want to you know we want to thank you know Cosco for you know contributing so much efforts to help grow the China community so for the rest of you guys I heard you know like Chinese government has some major cloud initiative can you guys share with that that you know the what exactly is the cloud initiative in China the everything has to be on cloud or tech or technology you know any kind of technology initiative in China that's triggering all these companies investing in cloud and is there such a thing the China initiative from from the government perspective there are some organized organization to promote the open stack and also the open source community and also there's many different organization to collect all all guys all the companies that force on the cloud solution companies to gather together and to as an organization to hold the meeting and all the conference all the other and also as a bug smash and meet up and etc that's a that's a good phenomenon that there are more and more people joining the open sign community and also more people and all 18 year to to contribute in the open signs open source projects and also that in China I from my own opinion that there's more there's still like very there's still a lack of 18 year open stack 18 year in China and we need more especially for not the beginner of the open sign of all is fairly of the some 18 year uh which can accumulate a very deep technology such and not only not limited on the open stack and also the the level the the the deep level of the uh the technology such as the operating system and also the some very basic software so uh because that uh open stack is a platform but if we supplied a total solution we should prepare all of the uh stacks not only the open stack and also the low low level uh of the uh uh technologies so the ability to integrate and integrate all of the uh technology not to show them uh a complete solution for the customers so not only all the open stack or the meet up or something else there's also some uh as uh as the open source uh community such as the safe and also the companies and other uh open source communities that also uh there's some specific organization or some uh community or website that to gather uh people or 18 year together to to focus on improving or promote promoting the community in China so that's a good phenomenon that uh all the cloud related open source uh communities that's more and more people join the uh the community and more and more engineering join and different companies that uh makes their own cloud a cloud solution or the product uh better and better and uh more and more customers will uh will willing to adopt the open stack as their platform of cloud solution all right okay thank you so I want to ask uh 99 cloud you guys actually enable state grid yeah that's a huge project and uh can you talk about that sure that's based on open stack yeah large scale 99 cloud uh held state held uh state grid enable uh 26 prorins uh cloud we held them to um how to help them to manage the over 30 data center in uh in China distributed in the 26 prorins we held them Larry how provide our solution to them help them build uh engineer team help them to enable their legacy data center equipment and use it in the cloud uh overall cloud solution and help them centralize all the cloud resources so they can use a centralized platform to manage resources uh distributed around uh in the China and also we uh have close working on their uh business we are uh putting the the cloud solution in the energy industry help them to uh put uh migrate their application from their original platform to our new cloud platform and improve the operation efficiency and their business agilities yes okay so we see a lot of actually e-government kind of initiatives going on you know because government wants to modernize their infrastructure and also be um also there's this industrial digitization um movement that's going on right now so a lot of um you know member companies uh here actually are very much involved in those projects um so next um I'd like to ask get a developer perspective because Shane has written a book to help Chinese developers learn about OpenStack so I want to ask Shane from your perspective you know what are the challenges of Chinese developers when they try to first learn about OpenStack or and you know develop OpenStack and integrate it into the community what are their main challenges I think the I have two uh major challenges as a developer one is a time zone issue as Annie I mentioned is it's very hard for developers to stay very late to join the meetings in the community and second issue as you know the language issue so I think the people especially for the Chinese developer they are they are eager to learn new technology and also contribute but it's uh then it's it's very hard to say and you're hard to speak out so they they talk less and they develop more yeah especially for developers yeah yeah that's true and uh I think the other issue we have is like in uh in China a lot of customers uh the Chinese is a a sort of language so for the customer it's very hard to use English software so they will do a lot of customization based on OpenStack so especially they they have specific requirements um but for this they also equal to um satisfy the requirements and contribute to the upstream however most of the features most of the features are from the customization uh they are not able to upstream them and this is uh I think this is a bigger challenge because they are put a lot efforts to maintain those features they are locally yeah I think I have one thing to add that is uh the resource the education resources is not so uh equally in China as you we know Beijing and Shanghai is the largest uh OpenStack engineer uh location right but if we have customers in the uh southeastern or south south president we cannot have engineer there because of the education so I think the government should have uh those cloud or side or engineering resources uh improve in different areas have they equally can provide such education to our students they can become a qualified engineer right right and I have a question for uh Chris so you guys also provide you know OpenStack enablement service can you talk about some of your use cases like what kind of OpenStack clouds you have um help uh so uh yeah I will share one case of my customer uh the postal saving bank of China uh anchor name is PSPC it's the fifth uh fifth largest bank in China uh and at least uh uh in Hong Kong stock last year and this is a department of the China Post uh and it's separate uh split from the uh company and the separate company uh about 10 years ago it uh this bank is the fifth largest uh because it serves about half of a billion people in China and also all over the all over around the world and uh from the from the uh because it's funded just the 10 years it's uh you can say it's a new bank but it's very large and also they the architect uh architecture is very traditional and in the uh in the recent a few years that there's uh mobile payment and also some uh internet uh financial trend that uh it can it must face us such as the trade and also they have the the the uh uh uh uh uh it uh uh in actually beginning is threatened by the internet some internet companies that uh uh the traditional the site location is not on the and it's not uh at a bunch in the current days so they must change to to to give very uh flexible and also uh cause a saving solutions for their new applications especially because that in modern days uh the mobile pay and also the uh online uh online uh financial is very easy uh very uh easy to access so that they are must have the new method to access to the bank so such kind of application is very modern for the traditional uh companies and also for the ppc so they in current years they have developed a new new business application model that they have must have to uh scale out very flexible and also to to uh attract more people to uh for their new business uh business model so such kind of the the background that there is uh um very willing and equal to to to move to the uh cloud solution so in the past about the two years ago we started to uh as a cloud solution provider to construct the the cloud platform uh and also in Beijing and also hopefully there are two data centers and we also uh that's a very large uh scale at more than five five to six hundred uh uh a service thank you okay thank you so we heard one use case from the government project one from banking and i'd like to share with you one in automobile so uh huawei we actually help enable don't phone automobile which is one of the top three automobile companies in china and um they chose open sec for their digital transformation projects and basically they what they did was they used a cloud open set platform to consolidate to virtualize all of the resources and then come up with the one standard cloud platform and one and then cloud services they deployed cloud services from their data centers into all various you know sales and sales and support offices all over china so that was also another um large scale and deployment so a lot of um so that's my observations a lot of projects open set projects in china are large scale and um i think uh in barcelona and china mobile also got the uh super user award so china tend to have big big projects and can you guys explain why that's a case or everything in china is big insights yeah yeah i can share some uh reasons so china uh has a large population so that's uh so any data estimation that's a large scale i'm also interested in large scale uh so actually um uh so uh we um defined the uh different sort of customer in china one of the most important customer in china we call it is soe it's a state-owned enterprise it's like a china mobile like uh don't phone or the mobile and uh state-grade uh all soe companies yeah so uh yeah so i uh i think uh so my team has been supporting uh china mobile for a long time so um at the i think that's uh uh austin at austin summit as a china mobile come to us came to us to and ask uh they don't want to be the first person to try open stack in china but uh as a strategy as a national strategy they want to move on to open stack but they don't want to be the first person because they uh they don't trust open stack can deal with large scale problem so later on i this team bell is here i i introduce uh china mobile to team bell and they have thousands of nodes to run open stack so they uh the team bell introduce uh the uh brief architecture of open stack how they just uh to conform convince them to use open stack yeah that's uh but so for for the use uh for the usage i think that is true and uh like china mobile has uh has many data centers each data centers contains thousands of nodes some of the requirements are wheeled so you cannot imagine and uh but so basically the customer uh the customer requirements is from the the daily use they they are uh proprietary users like vml users they they want to move on to open stack and they don't want to change the behavior so this is the reason and they have a lot of uh users the data center has a lot of users and since they have a lot a large population this is the reason yeah see we have so many you know large operators in china we should really get them integrated into our user community because i'm sure they have a lot of precious you know insights and best practices that um they have that they can share with the rest of the community i'd like to introduce another case in china mobile they have a data center in another city in china and the data center can contain three thousand nodes all the all the nodes are for ironic only bare metal yeah bare metal only three thousand nodes is this special yeah and just shan mentioned the uh the so we right so we come so e company they are giant in the uh china also giant in the globally you see the fortune 500 company they are maybe top 10 or top top top five from the um 99 cloud experience like we are enabled stay great they have over 6 000 nodes to providing the engineer energy application to provide the china china the engine and energy business to such as a billing and and and the controlling such like business and on the other hand i think uh why china has such a big requirement or huge requirement on cloud or because we are we have a great the uh increase amount on our economy like like some small company they have uh see the opportunities on the uh uh like some online commercial business they require a large uh server requirement to fulfill their uh the business increasement and like very famous the or mobile mobile bike such as share economy bike they are they have grown very dynamically or dramatically on their user uh requirements so they need a cloud infrastructure to support them great so just for a few more minutes i like to kind of explore you know what are the things that as a community or as a you know open set foundation can do to help further you know um mobilize and enable and grow the chinese open set community what are the things that we can think about um to you know to help the chinese developers and users okay i think the first thing maybe uh the chinese chinese engineer they won't have a summit in in china right yeah yes yes i think that is the top maybe top priority for us raise your hands if you agree wow we see a lot of hands yeah okay so uh if we have one summit in china they we can um have more people draw it to something we can bring more requirements into the open step foundation help us help the foundation to improve the open stack because we are maybe the i think largest market in in globally right right right exactly and so in the meantime that's why we have china day to kind of tie us over but we still need that official summit in china so anything else if not i like to open up the question for the you know from the audience if you have any question feel free to ask um we have all these chinese experts here and who can you know answer some questions sure thank you do you take open stack from trunk or do you buy a vendor like a Huawei solution so i think it varies i can answer you guys can answer too i think it varies right and i think for large it's the same as the rest of the world large enterprises generally um you know they want to kind of you know the stuff on the trunk sometimes is not enough for their requirements so they generally work with the vendor but then but then you know at the same time you could have some big enterprise if they have a large IT team i suppose they could but the trend is large enterprises or those SOEs they will work with the vendor and then right now we're also trying to get them more integrated into the open stack community and foundation that's why you see china telecom china mobile china unicom they are all gold members and they all have an open stack team themselves as well to you know to learn more about open stack themselves for those giant company they prefer to build an engineering team and maintain the and maintain the trunk version or maintain their own version and for some small or medium size company they prefer to use the vendor support version okay any more question if not oh one more okay yep just like the way you know here we have competition from public cloud right compared to private cloud what about alie cloud you know something here in the market do you guys want to comment about alie cloud alie cloud is not another sort of customer like we call it's an internet company like alie by do and tencent bat bat yeah just like a google alie baba tencent for alie cloud they don't use they don't use open stack since they they have to make some differentiation to the competitors so they develop their own cloud infrastructure yeah yeah so so it's very similar to us market right us we have aws in china there's b8 you know there's alie alie cloud and but we we do think because there's so many member companies are supporting open set in china we are actually getting a lot a lot of a lot more synergy than alie cloud yeah any more comment if not we have people coming in for the next session well thank you so much for your time and thank you panelists


I have already sold over a thousand dollars worth of stuff from one trip to the Benz. Okay, Bolo Buddies, thanks for watching. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. Okay, Bolo Buddies, I sold over a thousand dollars of stuff from this day of shopping at the Goodwill Benz. Seven hundred and fifty dollars of those sales are going to be in this video. The other sales are in part one, so make sure you go check out part one. This is what it looks like. I will try to remember to link it down in the description and the comments. So did I know when I left that I found so many great Bolo's? No, to be honest with you, not really. I knew that one thing was definitely a big money Bolo and you're going to see that in this video. The one item was a complete surprise. So you just never know what you're going to find at the Benz. I have Benz days where I find only bread and butter. This was just an amazing day.  I'm usually there four or five hours. That's why I split this into two videos because it would have been over an hour long. And for me, that's just too long. So you've got two videos to watch. You can watch them back to back or you can come back later and watch. I did pick up this puzzle for a neighbor. She wanted these types of puzzles for her grandson. So I told her I'd watch for her. That was sealed and I was so excited to find that for her. All right. We are going to keep digging here and I can't wait to show you guys these Bolo's. Oh my goodness. There's one Bolo that I have priced at $81. It's on sale for 81. It has not sold yet, but it is a big money Bolo that I did not know about. So definitely learned a lot from this trip. I do take risks when I'm at the Goodwill Benz because I'm buying by the pound. So I'm not spending a lot of money on items. So we're going to keep digging here. What I always ask my viewers to do is to please down in the comments. If you see something that I missed or something that you would have picked up that you like to source, let me know that down in the comments with the timestamp. That way everybody watching can go down and check out the comments and come back to the video and look at what you find because I don't know everything. I don't know a lot actually. I got pretty lucky. There's another item that I sold for $200 that was complete luck with a storyline behind it. So stay tuned for that as well. Just an amazing day and I am just so grateful and thankful that I have a Goodwill Benz that's close to me and that I love it so much. The first time I went I wasn't too sure if I was going to like it and now I just absolutely can't wait to go again. I just love it so much. I think I already said that. That's how much I love it. All right you guys, there's some roller skates. Should I grab those? And then I think this is a name brand but there was only one and I don't do a lot of shoes. Would you guys have picked this shoe up? I know some people will pick up shoes and they will sell even single shoes. I've done that with American Girl Doll shoes but not people shoes. So let me know down in the comments. All right we're going to dig. Oh this is so exciting. This is one of my favorite videos. I do have the video where it's titled I Will Make Thousands and talk about an amazing find. That find was a little bit different. That was one set of items that I will sell for thousands and you've got to check that video out if you missed it and I will try to put that at the end of this video or link it down in the description as well. All right we're going to be coming upon one of the big money bolos here shortly. I did pick up other items that have not sold yet. So what I like to do is list everything and I pop up screen shares of how I listed the items. So if you see a screenshot and it does not have sold beside it, that means it is currently active in my eBay store. Some of the items have been cross posted and some of them have not.  Definitely a Bolo. I've sold that before. It is blazed in the Monster Machine. That one in particular does well and you can price a little bit higher. I also picked up that little mermaid toy. So I start my items on eBay and I cross post to Poshmark and Mercari. I use List Perfectly. There's a demo video down below if you want to see how that works. You can get 30% off your first month of List Perfectly with coupon referral code Bolo Buddies. But I definitely recommend that you check out that video. It may be something that you can utilize to make more sales. I always say that the more platforms you're on, the more eyes on your items, the more chances you have to sell your item. So check that out down below in the description. All right we're going to keep digging here. I love a good Bolo. DVDs. I pick them up if they're sealed. I've talked about that in my past videos. If you're new here, thanks for being here. If you've been here a while, thanks for coming back. Let me know down in the comments how you found the channel and be sure to subscribe if you have not already. I'm sure I'm missing things. I know that every time I do a Goodwill Binz video, I get so many comments of things that you would have picked up and I want your knowledge. So put those items down in the comments. I will not be offended if I miss something. And for those of you screaming at your computer or your TV right now, I am so sorry. I missed your Bolo. Oh my goodness. I know when I watch other People's Binz videos, I'm like I would have grabbed that. I would have grabbed that. I would have grabbed that. And it's easy to do. It's easy to miss things for sure. I do check Barbies if they're vintage. I will pick them up. I do pick up some of the modern ones also. You're going to see in this video a modern Barbie that I sold. Should I picked up that picture? I didn't. I threw it back. I always pick up Paw Patrol. I have a whole pile. I actually have totes full of Paw Patrol that I need to get listed. Some of them I list individually. Some of them I list in small lots. It really just varies. I did pick up this little Ohio State Trinket thing. I haven't listed it yet.  I'm not really sure what that is. I don't know what I'm going to do with that yet. Sometimes things I'm just not sure about.  That little turtle I could not identify. I used Google Lens. Can't figure it out. So it's sitting to the side. We'll probably go in a toy box. Okay. Okay. Digging, digging, digging. It's the best part, right? You do see that I wear a glove. I definitely wear a glove. I actually had on a pair of cut-proof gloves. You know those things that go in corn, corn on the cob? One of those stuck through my cut-proof gloves. I did update to another new pair. Here's some diapers. I do check diapers. I will pick up vintage diapers. I know that a rural squirrel, she has Ben's videos. She picks up diapers and donates them. Here is my Big Money Bolo. Boom. Check it out. I sold these on auction and it kind of got nasty. I had quite a few people messaging me with not very nice messages and it was kind of weird. I'm like, okay, this must be a Big Money Bolo if people are getting aggressive about it. And I ended up selling them on auction for $115 and the buyer messaged me and said that they wanted to back out of the payment. So I went ahead and canceled the order and I was kind of excited about it because I felt like I could get more. So what I did is I relisted them at a buy it now and somebody scooped those up super fast for $200. So I am so glad the person that wanted them for $115 canceled and I sold them again for $200. So definitely a Big Money Bolo roller skate wheels. But they are not all created equal. I had no idea when I picked those up that they were going to sell for that much money. That was definitely just a nice surprise. Right now I'm picking up magnets to the Leap Frog toy. It's a little device. I always pick up those magnets and that was a little people prints. I went ahead and listed him just a bread and butter item. And I've still got two Big Money Bolo's coming your way. One sold for $275 and the other sold in 10 minutes for $150. So you want to keep watching. Just amazing. Picking up small toys. Again, I locked those up or I will make toy boxes. I saved the toys. All the small toys that are lightweight. I save them. I grab them and I put them in a little container and I buy them. And I bring them home. Some of them I list separately. Some of them I lot. I put that costume back because it was just the head. So going to dig. We're going to keep digging here. PJ Masks. That was a PJ Masks figure. That is another thing that I pick up all the time. Any figures, pick them up. I did sell this Barbie. It was the Bee Barbie. I was surprised at how quickly she sold. I think I sold this one on what not if I remember correctly. If you guys are not on what not, definitely check it out. People have auctions over there. There's also buy it now sections like a marketplace. I am Bolo Buddies over there. There's a link down below. If you use that link to join, you can get $15 to shop and that's free money that you can go and buy something to possibly resell. Over in my Facebook group, people are sharing things that they are buying on what not and reselling on eBay. It is a fantastic place to source. So again, my referral link is down below. It's called what not if you haven't heard of it. Highly recommended. I love it. I've been sourcing on there and have found some things already flipped them for a profit. So I'm waiting for my big money Bolo over there, but I have definitely flipped things for profit that I've bought. $15 of free money is always nice. We are going to keep searching here. Keep digging. Going to try to find some more Bolo's. This one caught me off guard. Typically, I'll pick them up and I'll scan them and then I'll throw them back because they're not worth anything. But this one I kind of had an idea that it was going to be a Bolo, but I just did not know it was going to sell for $275. And there's even some that go for $300 to $350. So had I been a little more patient, I may have been able to get more for my item. With that being said, I am super happy with what I sold my item for. I mean, I had probably less than 50 cents in the item. Checking the sunglasses and the eyeglasses cases, I always check them. I recently did a video where I was talking about people selling just the cases. So that's something I'm going to dig a little more into. It was a Bolo category video that I did. So definitely check out my Bolo category videos. That's where I pick a category and I do kind of a deep dive into things that are selling for big money in those categories. So I have like bathroom Bolo's, art Bolo's, which would include like art supplies and stuff like that. I do plush Bolo category videos, just tons and tons of content like that over on my channel. So definitely check out another video if you're new here. I do not just do Ben's videos. I am a channel that's really focused on educating on items to look for to resell on multiple selling platforms. I did pick up this Hulk and then I picked up another one. I have not listed those items yet. I did pick up the Power Rangers and they sold pretty quickly. So I'm going to pop up those screenshots of which ones have sold so far. Two of the listings have sold. I did grab some other stuff that's kind of just sitting to the side. I'm not sure what some of them are. I'm having a hard time identifying them and I may put them in toy boxes. So stay tuned for that and maybe future what sold videos. Look at all these hangers. These hangers are so hard to dig through and it always seems like there's an abundance of them. Everybody wants to donate their hangers. I guess it's great for somebody looking for hangers. All right, let's see here. We have got a bunch of little toys here intertwined into these hangers. I think I saw a white one that I might have missed. Is that a white Power Ranger right there? Did I miss one? Shuckers. That vehicle right there I couldn't identify so I haven't listed it yet. Right here it is. Right here. Fire emblem path of radiance. It is a GameCube game. At that point I just threw it in my cart. I didn't even open it to see if it was there. It was sitting right there on top of my cart for anybody to take. Oh my goodness. I am so glad nobody took it because people will thief from your cart. I did grab that white Power Ranger. I don't know if you guys saw me snag it. So here later in the video I actually opened that up and you guys will be able to see the game is actually there. Such a super big find especially in a category that I don't sell a lot in. So you know I'm learning every day. I've been doing this a long time but I'm still learning. Fisher price, little mail cart. I think they paid 10 for that. It was a bundle deal and that's the nice thing about small toys also. People will bundle them and it will increase your chance of possibly getting another sale. Those two items are not listed yet. Probably going to bundle those with some other items and still researching but I tried to get as much listed as I possibly could that I felt confident about before presenting this video to you guys. That way it is educational and you guys are learning what to look for. It's not just me digging through the bends. Not that that's bad. A lot of people can do bends videos and give you great information without listing the stuff first but I just want to list it first that way I have actually looked into what items are selling for. One Goodwill Bins channel that I love to watch is dumpster diva. Oh my goodness. Now she doesn't pop up screenshots or how she listed things but she has a very different business model than me. She looks for things at the bends and her viewers reach out to her and she lists things on Mercari for them. It is super super cool but she's just built that reputation of people can message her. Tell them tell her what they want and then she builds those listings on Mercari. It's incredible. If you guys are not on Mercari I do have a link down below. I highly recommend Mercari. You can get $10 to shop when you join with my link below and another $20 to shop when you sell $100 worth of stuff. So definitely check that out. It's a great place to also source inventory but I enjoy and I really enjoy buying and selling on Mercari. That Carter's Blanket was just a bread and butter. I would call that a lovey. It doesn't have a stuffed animal stuck to it. I think it may have it one time or maybe it came with one. Not 100% sure but grabbed it as a replacement. Someone will be looking for it. Just a nice bread and butter item. We're going to keep digging. Looking forward to seeing what I missed. Who says that? I say that. Go subscribe to Dumpsterdiva. I will link her down below in the description. You guys are going to love her channel. She is pure entertainment. She talks while she's at the Benz. She's just talking to you and it's live footage from the Benz. It's not a voiceover like this. So pretty cool. All right. Here it is. Here it is. It's in there. Everything is in there. It is complete. What an amazing Bolo. I did grab this baggie. I always say look inside those grocery bags. I pulled out this squeak toy. It's a squirrel and I listed that. I feel like I listed a couple more of these things but I couldn't remember what they were called. I didn't pop up the screenshots for you guys. Some of them I threw back. I don't know if they're bath toys or what's going on there. They were marked on the bottom. I feel like I listed a few of them but I could be wrong. I might have thrown them back. My cart was so full this day. Oh my goodness. It was just overflowing. Overflowing with goodness. Right? Okay. Let's keep looking here after we get done looking through all these little toys. I showed this in part one because I found the blue one. I think I left the blue one to the side and then I found the yellow one and I was like, you know what? If I've got two, I'm going to do this. And I ran into another YouTuber and he has a new channel. I am going to link him below.  Hey, it's Columbus Picker here at the Goodwill Benz Outlet. Come check out my channel, Columbus Picker, on YouTube. All right, you guys. He's linked down below. Go show him some love with a sub. All right. Look, I got a little narwhal. It's just a little mini plush. I did pick that up and looky here. Oh, I just threw it to the side. I threw it to the side. Oh my goodness. I just threw the bolo to the side. Did you guys see it? Rewind. Rewind. That was my rewind sound. We'll come back to it because I definitely picked it up and it sold in 10 minutes for $150. Oh my goodness. That's so funny because in part one, I totally missed it and then I just missed it again and then I go back over to the plush for the third time and I finally grab the bolo. I just can't even believe it. I did pick up that Superbook. That was not the one, but that was just an example of one I've sold in the past. I did pick up these pillowcases and one of them sold right away and the person came back and was a repeat customer and bought the other one from me. I think I priced those too low, but either way, super happy with the sale. I didn't have a lot of money in them by the pound and somebody was probably really happy to get some really nice pillow cases and they were still in the sealed packaging, so that was awesome and awesome find. I cannot believe I missed that plush. You guys, go check out part one. Should I have grabbed this little gumball purse? That was kind of cute. I don't know why I didn't grab it. I probably should have. Darling. Okay, we're going to look through the purses. I usually go over to this section after everybody has already gone through it, because when they bring out the purses, everybody is just all over it. I mean, you can't even move and I kind of sit back and wait. I'm kind of one of those people and I have a tendency to lean towards the hard goods anyway. That hat was super cute. I should have probably picked that up. That was really cute. Super, super cute. Should I have grabbed that hat? Vera Bradley. Sometimes I grab it. Sometimes I don't. Let me know down in the comments if you would have picked that one up. It was pretty. It was pink. Maybe I should have grabbed it. I know that certain patterns and certain styles can definitely be a big money bolo. Most of them are bread and butter. It really just depends and I just don't have that knowledge on Vera Bradley purses. I just don't. I've not studied it and I did not want to take the time to look up the pattern and the style of the bag, so I left it behind. I do also take into consideration condition that says TikTok. Was that a fanny pack? Would you have grabbed the TikTok fanny pack? Let me know down in the comments. I'm not a big TikTok person, so I left it behind. All right, that is some sort of vintage hat. Maybe I should have grabbed that. It's kind of fancy. Cute little bear. I don't think I got that. I did get this guy. He is listed. It's a great little Christmas guy. All right, I'm finally going to show you this $150 plush very, very shortly. Just incredible. Right there. Did you see that? That's in part one. Go check out part one. There it is. Sold in 10 minutes. I listed it for $200. Had an offer within 10 minutes for $150. That cheetah right there. Those realistic looking plush can definitely be big money. I have a whole video on, it's a bolo category video like I was telling you about, on realistic plush. Definitely check it out. Some of them just go for crazy money. I did get this cat. It ended up being a bread and butter. All right, you guys, we are getting close to the end here. We've got about probably five or six minutes left of digging. So I still have some really cool finds. So stick with me. You have seen the three big money bolos, but again, over $750 in sales in just this video. And that's not including the items that I still need to sell. All right, it was a great day. And they're not all great.  I've got a couple of Ben's videos that you're going to watch and you're going to see everything that I sold was pretty much just or purchased was pretty much bread and butter. So this was a really good day. A really good day at the Ben's. This is a cookie monster, 3T to 4T. What do you call it? Little costume. And I've got that listed. And there was a big bird costume that somebody had in their cart. And there was this other couple then they were eyeballing it and they were waiting and waiting and waiting for them to throw it back. And the person didn't throw it back and they ended up leaving. Well, after they left, they threw the big bird back and I ended up grabbing it and I looked all over for them, but they had already left. So I was like, well, I'm not going to leave it behind. I felt really bad because I knew how bad they wanted that big bird. And I looked for them. They had already gone. So I went ahead and bought it and I sold it. I can't believe how fast it sold. So I think that's probably why they wanted it. They probably knew it was a good seller. So that'll be here at the end of the video. I'll show you guys what I sold that for. And it sold very quickly.  So I can't even imagine walking around looking like big bird. This is a chunky plastic knife. And it actually had pretty decent comps. And I've got that listed in my store. And here it is. This one right here, this is part of it. And here's the other part. It's a Bolo. It is a Kenner Fur, I forget what it's called. You can rewind there and look at my title. But I've got that listed for $81. And some of them go for way more than that. That's where I decided to price mine at. What do you guys think about all these Bolo's? Makes you want to look at plush, right? But as you can see, most plush is bread and butter. Most plush is long tail, but sometimes you get lucky and you score a really good one and it goes for big money. I did grab this little plastic caterpillar looking thing. It's like a developmental toy. This is a PJ Mask villain. Grabbed that. If you guys are new here, I would love for you to subscribe to the channel, hit that thumbs up, and share it out if you know somebody that would be interested in watching a Goodwill Binz video. And I am going to show you here shortly that big bird costume. I'm not going to put it on. I'm sorry, but I am not going to do that. This is not a one of those videos where I go in and I try stuff on for you. That is not not my thing at all. All right, let's see what else we find here. I think there's two more sold items before the end of the before the end here. Let me know if there's things that you source for personal use from the Goodwill Binz. I found these amazing panties. They are vintage, new with tags. And here is my big bird. He sold for $23 plus shipping, and he sold really quickly. All right, let's look a little longer here. Those panties were a super score. With the original tags, you can definitely sell vintage panties with the original tags. And I have those listed. I believe they were listed at $58 or best offer. So just right on the right buyer. And as you could see, I held them up to the light to show that they are sheer. That's always a good thing to do when you have those vintage panties. They're very, very popular. They do very well. Certain brands go for more. Search sold vintage panties. You will be shocked. Definitely some big money bolos. So far out of all the items that I have found, which one is your favorite? I did pick up these and I am making small lots right now and I'm going to build some toy lots with those. I did pick this up, but it ended up being broken. So that was really unfortunate. I have another one that I got at the Binz that I use all the time. I did check out these games. They were not anything that were worth picking up. So I ended up putting all of those back. I put them in my cart and checked them later. Just grab them and then keep moving and sourcing and looking at other stuff. Sometimes if I find vintage games, I will part them out. Other times they're just not worth it. They're not worth the time. Some people have whole eBay stores where they just sell items from parted out games and stuff like that. You can definitely make that your business model and you just list it and then repeat by adding to the quantity as you find items that are the same. I do find a little toy truck. You're going to see that right here at the very end that sold really quickly. It was an unexpected Bolo. So you're going to see that. And again, I just asked that you guys would subscribe to the channel and thank you so much for being here. Make sure you leave me a comment down in the description. That definitely helps me in the algorithm. I appreciate you all being here. The video is not over, but I just wanted to get all that in. I just wanted to make sure that I thanked you all so much for being here. We're looking through this tote, which is probably somebody's throwbacks. I grabbed some of the little toys. A lot of this stuff people leave behind. I do not leave the little toys behind. They are some of my favorite things to pick up. And I can't remember if I got this Woody or not. I think he was kind of in bad condition, but I have sold Woody before and he can definitely be a Bolo. I also like to lot Woody up with, I think her name is Jesse. And I've sold it that way as well. So if you list them together, you're going to make more money, obviously. I do check out the mugs. I'm looking for Starbucks. And here is that truck. It was in pretty bad condition. And I sold that for a nice amount of money. All right, you guys, thanks so much for being here and thanks for watching.


Hey, what's happening guys, it's your boy, Nick Che, coming back with another video. Yes, we have switched up the set a little bit. We wanted to try something new on the channel, but I hope you guys enjoy this. Today, we are talking about how I stay motivated in college. I know this is a stressful topic for myself to cover because I'm always constantly trying to figure out how I'm staying motivated, how I'm finding inspiration to succeed not only academically, but also creatively as well because you guys know that's a huge important factor of my workflow. First off, I want to give a quick shout out to the homies over at Homeland LA. They sent over this shirt, it says, fighting for more Asian representation and honestly, it's so fire. I absolutely love this shirt. They also have a ton of other products that are absolutely fire. They didn't pay me to stay into this. I just really support the brand and the message that they're promoting. So I'll have them linked down below. Make sure to go check them out, guys. The shirt is really so fire. I love it. But let's just jump into it. I think the biggest thing to stay motivated and have inspiration in college is to set goals for yourself. Now, this is a huge thing for any college student so that you always have something to be working towards. You know, as students, it's easy to get caught up in the routine of things that you never really take the time to set goals for yourself that you have things to complete and have things to work towards. I think a good way to set this up is to do either daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals or even semesterly goals. And for me, setting those out at the beginning of the semester, at the beginning of every month just gives me a clear outline of the exact things that I need to accomplish so that I'm just way more efficient with my time. And anytime I have a few hours laying around where I'm not doing anything, I can just pull up my goals list and see what I need to accomplish. So right now, obviously, a big goal in mind is to hit 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. This has been, you know, just a very long-term goal for me and something that I have been continuing to work to establish and work towards and fulfill that goal.  These are all tangible goals that you could easily work towards. And if you put your mind to it and put in the hours that you can easily achieve, if you just once again put in the work. Number two, I think a big thing is to find inspiration because as a creative, you're always going to be needing some kind of fuel and fire to motivate you to do more fulfilling work. Anytime I see a new Sam Kolder or a JR Ali video, I'm constantly inspired by the work that they do, that it just pushes me to become a better artist and learn more techniques and push my creative potential that I wouldn't have if I didn't have this inspiration and motivation. Now, a mentality that I've kind of adopted is honestly to kind of see it as a competition. If you don't find yourself competing against the other people in your field to do better than them and to outwork them or to put in more hours and do better things, then, you know, you're setting yourself up for failure. But if you see life through a competitive lens, it's just going to give you a little bit more of an upper hand because you're always thinking in that game mentality. Now, obviously everything in life isn't a competition. So don't take that too close to heart, but, you know, take some inspiration from the words that I'm saying and hopefully you guys are able to apply it to your own lives as well. Number three is that you need to take a step back and see the bigger picture. Just as like a photography metaphor. But in reality, too, like realize that college is just a few short years in your life and that if you don't find the motivation to do what you need to do right now, then then realize it's not the end of the world because you have your entire life ahead of you that you can accomplish everything you need to. And for me, as someone who is constantly trying to be productive and do the most of my time, there are days where I just need to take a step back, relax, watch Netflix for a few hours and be unproductive.  It's just easy to get caught up with stress and anxiety of deadlines and papers and essays and things that you have to get done.  Number four, going off of that. It's very important to take breaks, especially when you've been going at things for hours on hand. There's no point in trying to cram another few more hours after you've already been studying all day. So, you know, take a break, relax when you need to. And once again, just take time for yourself. Finally, for me, number five is that, you know, it's easy to get caught up in a creative rut. Everyone gets to a point where you feel like you've already done everything you could. And for me, anytime I feel this lack of motivation, I just remind myself what the bigger picture is and go back to my goals list and really see what I can do to accomplish those in the most efficient way possible. And I know a lot of this may not seem tangible, but in reality, it very much is. Everything I've said in this video is stuff that is applicable to any single person, regardless of whatever stage in life you're at, you can always have goals. You can always find a way to be motivated. And once again, I understand I've been there. I know what it's like to just not have any motivation and not want to do things. And, you know, feel like it's a waste of your time to be studying or doing busy work or doing stuff that isn't really applicable. But a big metaphor that I've kind of adopted over the years is to do the thing. And what that means is to do the thing of putting in the work, doing the things that are hard, doing things that are difficult and aren't going to be easy because at the end of the day in the long run, that's what's going to make you a winner. That's what's going to be able to help you overcome your obstacles.  As the great Miley Cyrus said, it's a climb, guys. Anyways, guys, that about wraps it up. I hope you enjoyed these quick tips on how to stay motivated in college, especially with the end of the semester coming year. I know a lot of you guys can just feel unmotivated. And I hope that this was able to help you. As always, if you enjoyed this video, make sure to leave a comment down below, let me know any other types of videos you guys want to see. Subscribe for more videos. And as always, don't stress, finesse.


Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, none of my friends in grade school or high school traveled at all. In fact, I could count the number of people that even had a passport that I knew on one hand. I get to college, U of M is very cosmopolitan. You have a lot of New Yorkers, a lot of people from California, a lot of rich kids from overseas who come there. So there are a lot of kids studying abroad, getting travel, all this fun stuff. And I really wanted that. And I was like, you know what? I wanna take a break from school. I'm gonna take a gap year.  And I wanna travel. How did your dad feel about that? Not thrilled. And he said what I think any blue collar dad at that point, and mind you, he was concerned about his pension now. He was not making money with the city. He was very concerned about himself and making house payments.  Not paying for you to fart around Europe and find yourself. What is wrong with you? So I have this biology degree and I don't know what I wanna do for a career. I know that I wanna make some good money so I can save up to go on this European backpacking trip. So I get a job in a lab doing research. And in undergrad, I really just barely went to class, got good enough grades to test well to get into medical school, but I didn't do any extracurricular activities. I didn't do any sort of research, projects, anything like that in my college career. So now I'm thrust into a lab and the lab that I joined, my boss at the time, my principal investigators, what they're called, he had put together a amazing proposal that got funded to look for head and neck cancer stem cells. So my job essentially was I'd scrub up, I'd go in the OR, my boss would be doing a surgery on someone's head or neck or tongue. It was oral cancers. He'd cut some of the tumor out, give it to me. I'd run down to the animal room, I'd grow it in a mouse and then I would do a bunch of flow cytometry on it and try to target specific cell populations to implant in future mice to see if I could regrow the heterogeneity of this tumor. Fascinating project and I'm basically fresh out of college and I'm doing it. I'm running a $3 million machine. I got this grant that's riding on me and my work and after a little over a year, almost a year and a half, I have six mice. We do a number of serial assays to figure out the small population of cells that were CD44 positive, CD24 negative. For those of you who are total bio nerds, these are cell surface markers that I was basically testing for and I could inject a hundred of these cells and I could regrow a tumor in a mouse. My boss is ecstatic. I'm telling my dad I'm gonna be a published author so all this skipping out on medical school that my dad was worried about, I was like, hey dad, I got a scientific career starting here. I'm still doing it. So I was really focused again on making my dad proud even though I wasn't fully fulfilling his dream for me and I walk into the lab and my boss says, Stanford scooped us and I'd never heard that. I didn't know what that meant and I was very confused. I said, what do you mean Stanford scooped us? He's like, yeah, we're not gonna be able to publish our paper. And I said, what? We're not gonna be able to publish our paper. And he's like, yeah, unfortunately, this really famous stem cell biology lab at Stanford, they also isolated head and neck tumor cells that they think are cancer stem cells and they're gonna publish in PNAS which was a fantastic journal. So basically they've beat you guys to the pun? Yeah.


Hi, my name is Bud Hunt, I'm an Instructional Technology Coordinator in the St. Rain Valley School District in Northern Colorado, and I want to share with you today for the K-12 online conference some ideas that we're thinking about and how they relate to learning. We call this presentation, Make Hack Play, Lenses for Learning. In a minute I want to define these terms for you and help you to think about how we're thinking about ways that these ideas can be lenses for our classrooms and our professional development spaces, but first I need to tell you a story. It was about three years ago that I was invited to attend an event with the National Writing Project called the Digital Is Conference. During that day we spent some time looking at and thinking about and discussing what it means to be writing online, what it means to be composing in digital spaces. It was a very interesting event, we looked at a lot of student work, and there were teachers there, there were researchers there, there were business folks there, it was just a good mix of people talking about these sorts of things that were emerging, and we looked at a lot of student work. I remember saying during the event that this felt like the beginning of an explosion of writing and composing and making, and I'll come back to that word making in a minute, but I also noticed at that event that so much of the work that was really interesting that I was seeing at this event was happening not in the classroom, but near the classroom. It was happening in after-school clubs or after-school care, community centers, museums, classrooms after the lights had been turned out and folks had gone home for the day. I thought that was really interesting and I started to wonder about what the role of school was in situations like these and these types of learning situations. Are schools the ceiling of learning and is our work with standards, the ceiling of what we should expect from kids, or is it the floor? We use our time with students not just to work towards those standards but to work from those standards into those bits of interestingness that I saw in places like digital is. It really got me thinking about learning and its place in a school. About that same time I was introduced to the work of the digital media and learning group. It's a group studying learning in all sorts of places, not just schools but in the community. What happens when learning happens at school and not at school and what are what are learners doing right now? They've since released some principles. They call them the connect and learning principles that lay out the six things that they think are essential for good connected learning. They talk about production centeredness, that you're making stuff, that it's interest driven, that it comes from a place of shared purpose, that peer culture is very much a part of connected learning, that it's openly networked and also that it's academic and important. I left that conference wondering about those types of folks and learning in school and places like that and I came home to my school district and around that same time a colleague of mine and I were rethinking what it meant to do professional development for the teachers that we work with. We were certain that the one-shot classes that we were offering weren't beneficial.  They were four hours or eight hours of here's how the here's how the mouse works or here's how word works and we didn't like that as a model for learning about technology specifically but in general learning at all and from there we developed what we call the digital learning collaborative and that became a project where we helped folks work through two years of learning about technology. That first year is just a year for them to learn and explore and a team of committed folks to think about a piece of technology or to dig in and try it out with an emphasis not on teaching it to students or using it in the classroom but just figuring out what it's about and what it means and then in year two we ask our teachers in the DLC to go through a teacher research process to apply what they learned in their learning year into their classrooms and to pay very close attention to what happens when they do that. This was this was hard learning for folks to do it was a very different model of professional development to spend a year exploring something to not be told all of the answers to the questions that might come up to help them figure out how to figure out what those answers might be and where they might find them and it took a took a special sort of teacher to be successful there and I say that same meaning that I think most teachers are capable of this work but there was something present in some of our successful teams that that seemed to be missing in some of our teams that we would say weren't as successful or that really struggled in this process. Paul Tuff would call this grit as we thought about it we realized that it was really about agency about this sense of understanding that that one was in control of their own learning situation to some degree even amidst constraint and and culture and obstacles and things. More on that in a second I mentioned the connected learning work and in March I had the opportunity to hear Rafi Santo speak in a very short presentation about why kids need to know how to hack and he put some language around some ideas that I'd had for quite a while about why tinkering and fiddling and playing are really important and coupled that with this conversation about agency that Michelle and I were having in our school district along with our colleague Kyle Addington and the notions of connected learning and and some of the really interesting work that was emerging from from that research and ideas we realized that that we wanted hacking to have a place in our school district to some degree so we we brainstormed what a a four-day hack the curriculum session might look like and as we as we as we tried to figure out what that could look like we realized that this wasn't another class this wasn't an opportunity to teach just one thing one time we realized that these notions of agency and hacking and and and making as I mentioned earlier composing these are really essential and thus the the center for make hack play was born so let's let's talk about these lenses and we're not certain of many things here but we do know that these are important and I just want to blow these up for you and hopefully help you to be thinking about where making and hacking and playing make sense to you and your work so to make means to give certain properties to something to cause to be here to become to compose or represent making is writing and and making is composing and making is building things we are we are creators and the maker movement has has really emphasized some of these elements making brush bots for example or making websites Mozilla is doing some really interesting work and helping people think about what it means to not only consume the web but to make the web and recognize that the web is is made of people makers on television like mythbusters will show you that gadgets and circuits are great the maker education initiative is an idea suited to making kids into makers these are important ideas but they're not just about the circuits makers don't just make technology it's about the actual making my children when they paint and draw and write and build things are makers in that same sense and making isn't just about electronics it's about any act of creation we know that creation comes from its synthesis and it involves higher order thinking and taking knowledge and being aware of what's come before and and that leads us to actually hacking which is improving a system not necessarily building something new but fiddling with something that's already there most of the making that we do is really hacking we we write a poem that's hacking language that's been used before or taking our feelings and experiences and putting them together these this sort of tinkering often is expressed in code you know and when you say hack in a school environment sometimes folks get a little nervous we're not talking about folks who are breaking things or destroying things we're talking about the original sense of hacking is a definition improving a system making it better fiddling with what's there to make it great but that's not just about code you know we hack the the classroom spaces that we find ourselves in we we as hackers begin to believe that we can influence what we're working with and that we have agency in whatever system we find ourselves in and it requires a deep knowledge of the system and of the structure and of the culture of the thing that you're hacking in order to do this well just like making a birdhouse requires extensive knowledge of of woodworking and tools and math and measurement and the needs of birds so too hacking requires that you understand the the parts and the pieces that you're taking apart and putting back together so we're thinking about you know what does it mean to hack our classrooms the third teacher and other folks have done great work to help us think about redesigning the spaces that we learn in to to make them more beneficial to learning but what is hacking the textbook look like what does it look like when we take the book and and through the use of oer and other things really start to fiddle with this notion of the book of stuff of learning what it was hacking our curriculum look like and how might we hack school these are questions that we're openly wondering about in fact we were asked very specifically as a result of some of our teacher research in our school district to to explore this question of how do you make school feel less like school so we're engaged in some teacher research work around that and that's a hacking project lastly let's talk about play play is a multi definition word but in our sense of course we mean the elements of fun but I think this notion of play as the removal of constraints or the movement or space for movement a state in which action is feasible these are these are definitions of play that don't usually get pardoned upon play but they're just as important when you are able to play in a system it means that you feel freedom even though there might not be much of it but you found it and you you're figuring out how to fiddle that that freedom can lead to hacking and fiddling with the system it can lead to creation too because you understand the constraints and the limits and you're able to make something happen within those improv is a great playground for thinking about play we we like to use the the techniques and and tools and language of improv when we talk about play inviting people in to play with you yes and thinking these are these are important elements of a playful learning environment and they're essential so when we think about how can we make school and not like school we want to set a high bar for learning we don't believe that the standards and the and the core instructional work of an educational system are the ceiling that's the floor and there's lots to build on ultimately we want all of our students to reach a place of agency we want our teachers to be there too we believe that active agents are better learners they're more thoughtful learners they are more capable learners and they learn much more interesting things and they're really going to make an impact in whatever system they happen to find themselves in so those are the lenses of hacking making and playing we hope that you are exploring these ideas we'd be very interested in learning more about what you are learning as you go I hope that you are thinking about how you might apply the lenses of make hack and play in your work but specifically one of the constraints that you face in your teaching or in your work how might you fiddle or create your way through or around those constraints in order to affect change or to improve outcomes for your students or to improve opportunities and then where the moments of creation and play in your learning it's oftentimes really easy to forget about the importance of making something to of using your hands to express a concept over necessarily taking in all the time where are you being playful where's where's the freedom for your students to move in your systems and how are they moving those are just three of the many questions we're trying to better understand and explore here at the center for make hack play just three of many questions you might ask yourself as you're thinking about how to apply these lenses and where they fit for you you can learn more about make hack play at make hack play.org we hope you enjoy the rest of the k-12 online conference thanks for joining us we'll see you on the internet


Thanks a lot, Bird. I'm joined by James Harden. James, after they went on a rally to force overtime, what did it take to close them out down the stretch in OT? You know, they're a very good team. They're very disciplined.  They don't beat themselves. And we've known that for these last 20, 30 years. So very disciplined team. We did a really good job of just sticking with it. They made some big plays in that fourth quarter. We just kept our composure and, you know, made some big time shots in that fourth quarter. I mean, overtime. You talked about the success pop and the spurs have had over the years. And what ways does that reflect what you guys are trying to build now in Brooklyn? The same type of mentality, the same culture, you know, that same winning mentality. And we've shown, you know, a lot of growth since I've been here. We've got a long ways to go, but, you know, we're on the right track. And we're doing an unbelievable job of just staying locked in, game by game. Did you know this was the first regular season win for the Nets in San Antonio since 2002? I didn't know that. There's going to be a lot of stats like that. But that's what we're here for. We're here to compete every single night. We got different guys in lineups. Our job is to go out there and give ourselves a chance every night. And we've done that. Last thing, how is the chemistry that you've been able to develop with your teammates? Your seventh triple double in 22 games with the Nets, how has that chemistry either met or exceeded your expectations as far? I just try to come in and make an impact on the game. Every single possession, the best that I can. And my teammates have done an unbelievable job of helping me with that, coaches as well. And so I want to just try to bring my knowledge to the game and my skill set to the game and to this team. And hopefully that's good enough. Looking forward to seeing you in Houston on Wednesday. Thanks a lot, James. Thanks, Rudy. Bert? Michael, apparently James Harden knows your segment. I did not know that.