Hello. Thank you for joining me for this short project update at CNI spring 2021 virtual membership meeting. My name is Don Mitchell and I am from the DOA J directory of open access journals. And I will talk to you today about a project which has seen five organizations come together to try and stop or reduce the number of open access journals disappearing from the internet. The title of my presentation is a collaborative approach to preserving at risk open access journals. This is a summary of what I'm going to talk about. It's essentially the different stages of a project plan. So you can see this presentation as a project plan. I'm going to give you some information about the objectives, our method and what the deliverables are and an estimated timeline by which we hope to have completed the first phase of the project. A quick overview then. We often hear in the world of digital preservation that journals are simply vanishing from the internet and sadly this isn't a new phenomenon phenomenon for us. We refer to this group of journals as a long tail of journals and by the long tail, we mean a large number of small, single journals often run by one or two people that may be unfunded. They might be done for pure sort of enthusiasm for the subject matter, and they are poorly resourced, or at least they have limited resources. And we often see that these journals are at risk of disappearing for reasons which I will go into in a second. The project group consists of five leading organizations that are best placed to make a project like this work and I'm extremely happy that DOJ has been able to collaborate with these organizations and I'll give you a bit of information on those in a second. The idea is that we're going to create a central hub from where preservation agencies will be able to harvest consistent metadata and full text, thereby reducing the cost of undertaking a project like this. We're hoping to be able to remove technical and financial barriers that may be in the way that prevent these journals from taking part so that we can find a free and low cost option is very important. Phase one of this project will target diamond journals and by diamond, I mean those journals that are in DOAJ that do not have article processing fees as we often see that in open access models. Article processing fees are a way for journals to earn revenue, but there are many, many journals, more than 65% of the journals in DOAJ do not charge article processing fees. These are also known as APCs. So here are the five organizations involved. As I said, I'm very proud that we've got some great names come together for this project. CLOCKS stands for Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe and that is a sister project to LOCKS and has run out of or is in association with Stanford University and really offers a very complete archiving and digital preservation service. DOAJ, of course, we index over 15 and a half thousand open access journals. And we have an entire range of journals in terms of size, scope, subject matter, funding, geographic location, language. And probably we are the most diverse index of open access journals in the world. Public Knowledge Projects specifically for this project, the Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network, which is an archiving solution offered by PKP, PKP best known of course for its OJS open source journal platform. The Internet Archive, hopefully known to many, if not all of you, they offer great services in terms of archiving, and it's an absolute pleasure to be working with them. And then the Keepers Registry and the Keepers Registry, which is, which was recently acquired by the ISSN International Center is a service which aggregates and standardizes information about journal content, where it's preserved, what range of content. So these five organizations, I think, is going to be recipe for success. What problems are we trying to solve? Well, first of all, journals vanish from the Internet. And when they do so, they take with them the research that they've published. And this of course leads to broken URLs, broken citations or reference rot. This is a huge problem, especially if you're an author, and you've published your research in that journal. As I mentioned briefly earlier, some of the existing archiving and preservation solutions that exist today do come with financial and technical barriers, which may prevent some journals from taking part. We know that of the journals selected for this project, many of them don't have any income source. So paying to join an archiving service is very difficult. There's no problem here. There is for every journal that approaches an archiving service. There is an initial investment in time and technology, which is set up, and that set up process itself is often unique. It's often very expensive to do, and it can take a lot of time. This project hopes to reduce or remove the impact of that problem. And there are of course, thousands of small publishers, the fourth problem here, and there's a lack of standard practices. Everybody has a different website, everyone has different metadata, everyone has different abilities to export. And this makes archiving very difficult. Lastly, but not least, by any means, the fifth problem there. Awareness among journal owners, editors and publishers about why archiving and preservation is so important is in fact very low. And we hope that with this project, we can reduce the impact of that problem. You'll see there I've included a link at the bottom to the latest paper on this issue of journals that vanish from the internet, and that was laxo et al. I've linked to the preprint I do believe it was recently published in a wily journal. So we want to assist JAS I ST for those who are interested. So the objectives for the project. Well, of course, we want to increase the number of journals that are in DOA J whose content is being actively archived and preserved. So through through our joint efforts with the other four project partners, we want to provide an important piece of sustainable infrastructure that will be in place for the open access publishing community. If the phase is successful, we would love to see the, the output from this project becoming a permanent and sustainable piece of infrastructure for journals to take advantage of. We want to make sure that the solution overcomes financial and technical barriers to therefore encourage these journals, especially the unfunded journals to take part in archiving solutions. We want to foster best practice and standardization where there isn't any at the moment, among that long tail of DOA J journals. And lastly, we want to raise awareness as I said, among the editors and journal owners or why archiving and preserving digital content is so important. So, what's the scope of the first phase of this project. There are approximately 7500 diamond open access journals in DOA J that when they submitted their application to us, they said that they are not actively taking part in an archiving program. So that's the group of journals that we're starting with, they're in DOA J, they don't receive any fees for their services, and they have said that they are not actively being archived in any archiving program. DOA J only accepts journals that have an ISSN and an ISSN is extremely important, particularly in this context because it is the key persistent identifier, which is used between the archiving agencies and the keepers registry. The advantage that we're only starting with DOA J index journals is that it greatly reduces the possibility of that these journals might be predatory or questionable. 50% of the journals in that 7500 are actually using PKP's OJS journal hosting platform, so it made sense immediately to bring PKP into the project. The project successful phase two will extend to other DOA J index journals and perhaps even journals that aren't in DOA J although we would encourage them to to apply. So how are we going to achieve this. We are in the process of writing a survey that will be sent out to the 7500 journals. We will hopefully be in Portuguese and Spanish and hopefully be in the United Nations Six languages, although we do need to find the resources to make those translations possible. That information, the information that comes back to us those responses will divide the journals into three groups. The first group, hopefully the, or maybe the, the majority group will be those journals that are on OJS. And we will direct those journals to resources that tell them how to take part in the PKP PN. There is a small hurdle in that the P that your journal version that the version of OJS your own has to be greater than 3.2, but with documentation and mentoring and training we're hoping that we'll be able to encourage people to get their OJS content into the preservation network. The last group will be those journals that can produce and export both article metadata and full text, and we will encourage those journals to participate in clocks. The last group will be those journals that, for whatever reason cannot produce an export metadata or indeed do not want to produce or export metadata, and they will be encouraged to allow Internet Archive to crawl their sites. Internet Archive provides an automated solution, which will, which will go across websites in just and take copies of the content. It's very automated, but it's also very easy for the journals to, to take part in that option and in fact Internet Archive are doing it already today. And we're hoping that we will be able to sort of provide greater coverage for the Internet Archive by pointing some of these journals in their direction. One of the things that cropped up as we were putting as we're doing the scope and the research for this project is how important a permanent article identify is when it comes to facilitating discovery and archiving. So if you see archiving digital preservation as a sort of precursor to discovery, then when these services ingest article content, then they match the metadata and the full text and everything hangs around a digital, a permanent article identified the most common of which is a DOI. Using a DOI allows a copy of the article content to always be found. So if, for example, a journal has disappeared offline, but it is archived in clocks, then that trigger event of the journal disappearing will release the clocks content. And the using a DOI will allow those that content to be found again. However, there are, there is a technical investment and a financial impact to using DOIs that some journals can't afford and or are not able to take part of. And the second part is, even if some journals have a DOI, then they don't always ensure that those DOIs resolve a large proportion I'd say maybe about 20% of the journals that we're looking at for the phase one of this project. They don't use DOIs, or at least they haven't said that they use DOIs when they, when they sent their information to DOAJ. DOAJ is hoping to collaborate with Crossref and have permission to assign DOIs to the article content on behalf of these journals. So when the journals indicate that they are willing and able to be part of this project, we will hopefully be able to assign DOIs to the articles. So that will be a sort of extra benefit to this project. So what happens then, there are of course, different ways of ingesting the content. And there are different options which I went through earlier. The first thing to do of course is that if approximately 50% of all the journals are using OJS then we do want to encourage them to get into the PKP PN. So we will allow journals to find out if they're on a compatible version of the OJS, and we will give them the information that will help them get their information, their article content into the preservation network. The journals that are not on a compatible version will be given advice on how to upgrade, or will be asked if they want to participate in the second or third option, the second option being clocks, or if they want to allow the internet archive to crawl their site. So for the clocks option, Internet Archive and DOAJ will maintain an FTP server. So a journal is indexed in DOAJ. It will, it will say that it wants to be part of the project, and then it will start uploading article metadata and full text to an FTP server that is maintained by the Internet Archive. Clocks will collect the metadata and full text from that FTP server. That will be one interface for clocks to interact with for all of the journals that have chosen to take part in that option. A journal cannot provide metadata and the Internet Archive is going to crawl their website, then there will be sort of moderate human QA provided as the Internet Archive crawlers ingest the content. But Internet Archive do provide tools which allow the journal to go in and report or improve the completeness of the holdings for that journal. And finally, all of that preservation data, which is the status, you know, is it active or not, which certain the name of the service, is it clocks, Internet Archive, PKPPM, the range of the content, that is all aggregated in the Keeper's Registry, which provides this essential central database for finding out what content is preserved in which service. So what are the deliverables then? As I mentioned earlier, we want a sustainable solution that facilitates archiving for unfunded open access journals. We want to ensure that the aggregated archiving data for these journals is available in Keeper's Registry. A goal that we've set is that at least there will be a 50% reduction in the number of unarchived journals in DOHA. So we've set that goal fairly low. From previous experience when we go out to journals and ask them to take part in something, response rates have been slow, and often responses trickle in over time. I think it would be naive to expect that everyone's going to respond at once. There will of course be a bulk response, but we do think that there are, this is more of a long-term project, but we're hoping that there will be a bulk of responses up front. And we want to have produced better documentation and training tools in multiple languages that will help raise awareness and will be there for people to use sort of separately to this project. Here's an estimated timeline. This is very estimated. We started the project really sort of the kickoff was in November 2020. And we are now in the first quarter of 2021, just, and we are sending out the survey to find out how many of those 7,500 journals are interested, how many of them want to take part. We are hoping then to buy the third quarter of 2021 to pull together a smaller group of journals that will be a act as a pilot that we will sort of push through the system and learn from our experiences there about what works what doesn't, where the documentation and information needs to be improved, and then we'll apply that to the larger group group of journals. We expect then that the project, the pilot project shouldn't take that long and we'll be able to open up to the larger group of respondents by the end of 2021. And then in the beginning of 2022, we will do a review of the project. We will find out sort of take a stock of our situation, how many responded, how many have been successfully archived. And as experience shows, uptake can be slow. So we'll just leave that project open, but we will, of course, just then talk about a phase two, could we open up the project to a wider group of journals. Can we get funding to help sustain the project and to make it a long term solution for the benefits of the wider open access and scholarly communities. So thank you very much. That is the end of my project update. If you'd like more information, I have listed there the names of my colleagues in the project group, and we look forward to receiving your questions. Thank you very much.


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Stevenson gets the 68-51 win over Rutgers-Camden here in the first round of the ECAC, Glenn Clark with head coach Jackie Boswell, coach a game in which y'all pulled ahead early and they threatened a couple of times, but you were able to come up with answers each time they threatened, and now you're on to the quarter-finals. Yeah, it's really exciting. I thought they did a really good job. They're a really good team playing a tough conference. So it was great for us to be able to place somebody different, and you're right. I mean, they battled with us the whole way. Nothing was given, and I thought that was really good for us to be tested like that. So I appreciate the way our kids kind of responded to all of that pressure, and we were able to just keep that lead and stay on top. It was a great job. Speaking of response, obviously it's difficult when you lose in your conference tournament. How proud are you of the girls for sort of keeping focus and being ready to go tonight? Yeah, I think that's always really hard, but the ECAC provides us with an opportunity to keep playing in post-season, and it's our job as coaches to convince them that this is important, and it is important for our seniors to be able to keep playing, and it's important for our future to be able to get our program to where we need it to get to. And so any time you get an opportunity to play in post-season, that's what we tried to convince them of these last couple days, and I think they really took it to heart. Our practices have been really good leading up to today, and now we get to move on and see what happens. What did you think of Olivia Coleman's to Kembe Mutambo impression? They're blocking everything in the second half.  I thought, actually, I thought she did a great job one-on-one defensively against Abasi. I mean, she's really good, and we forced her to take some tough shots, and I thought it was Olivia's defense that really did that. It was a great job. And then Hannah Chris tonight, who just had these spurts where it seemed like nothing could stop her and hit a couple of really big shots for it.  I think they were on a run every time that Hannah hit a three, and that's important. That stops runs. Charges in three stop runs, so Hannah hit them right at the right time. I thought she attacked really well and just kept her composure, and I mean, that's the thing that we need her to do. And I think that's, it's been a tough year for her to have to do that as a sophomore, and, you know, really happy for her that she was able to do that for us tonight. It'll be Springfield on Friday at two o'clock, and then, you know, just for the general, the weekend, what's it going to take to go on a run and try to win three games in three days? It's going to be all defense. I mean, it's a lot of games in a short amount of time. A great, again, great championship set up for us and great experience. So we're looking forward to the challenge. It's going to be tough. I think we just really have to rely on our defense the next couple of days. Coach, congratulations on a win. Thanks as always, and best of luck this weekend. Great. Thank you. She is Jackie Boswell. I'm Glenn Clark for GoMustangSports.com.


Well, hi Paris. Thanks for joining us today. We are here to discuss ELL supports and equity. I am Steph Lundgren from ESU 8. And I'm Claire Caten from ESU 8. We're glad that you can join us. You see our email addresses below our names. And just know that we're always here for you if you have any questions on, you know, it's something might spark interest or you might have a general pair of questions you can always reach out. Claire's going to start by talking about English language learner support. Okay, so I'm going to have you go ahead and go one more slide. Okay. I am, I serve schools for, oh, go back one. There you go. I serve schools through title three I work with Mark Brady out of ESU seven and together we help support our schools that have English language learners. And this has been a growing area and so we continue to learn about this and my guess is that majority of you have any other student that you work with or someone in your school and so hopefully this is just some general information that can help you support those students when you work with them in the classroom or in small groups or whatever it might look like. So to begin I just want you to think about a highlight from your semester so far it's hard to believe it's April. But think about a highlight from the semester so far, but the trick is when thinking about it, you have to use words that do not have an R and S and in or a T in it. Okay, so if you're with watching this with a small group go ahead and discuss. If you're by yourself you could write some things down, but the highlight from your semester so far, you can go ahead and pause this recording and jot those down. Should go on. Okay, so you probably found it kind of challenging to come up with words that don't have an RS and or T in it when describing your highlight from the semester. So that's just like English language learners as well. A lot of times they have stuff they want to say to say with the in front of the class or to their teacher to their peers, but they just can't find the words to say it.  Okay, next slide. Okay, so the equation for EL progress is comprehensible input plus low stress opportunities for output equal language development and content attainment. So if you go one more slide stuff. We really highlight the words input and output. So the info. The information we're giving them. Plus giving them opportunities to respond and say what they're thinking. It gives us our good, our language development and content attainment. Okay, so we really want to focus on what we're giving them making sure it's digestible pieces, maybe in smaller chunks and wordings they understand using pictures. So whatever we're giving them, we want to be able to be sure that they can understand it. And then we also want to provide them the opportunities to output so to speak that or write it or whatever it might look like because that is really going to help the language development of these students. So this is really important being an English learner does not exempt a student from participating in your class or in your small group. This is something to remember a lot of times we say are quick to say, get out Google translator. Well, really, we want these students to have success, but we also want them to practice using their language and participating in your class. So that might be again in small group or with a partner or maybe the teacher or yourself go up to that student and ask them for an answer. Before presenting it to the whole class and maybe they can talk through what their answer is, but again, being an English learner does not exempt a student from participating in class during your small group. Claire, I remember when I've had EL students in my classroom, it just meant that they needed extra think time. And so sometimes their answer to a question might come a couple minutes later. But just remember they're thinking through that question that was being asked or whatever. And they just need a little bit more time to think and process. Yeah, I can totally relate to that or maybe even just, they might not understand one word in the sentence or in the question you asked us as soon as you explain that one word, then they are able to formulate a response. So, think time and giving them the scaffolding they need is so important. Okay, so we have three different stages of English learners. So we have the emerging, the progressing and then nearly proficient. So if you are nearly proficient, if you have students that you work with, I want you to just think about where do you think they are at. So, you can see that the emerging students, the characteristics, minimal comprehension does not verbalize, they cannot nod their head yes or no, they draw or point to different objects. They might have limited comprehension without scaffolding, one or two word responses. So these are really those beginning students, those emerging students who are very, very new and fresh to the language. Then you have your progressing students. So those who have been here maybe a while or those who have been in school for a little bit and they're starting to catch on and learn some of that English language. They might have good comprehension. Maybe just have a hard time verbalizing it. They may make grammatical and pronunciation errors, but they're still speaking. Maybe they misunderstand a joke that is made or misunderstand a question that is asked. So again, you can see progressing and then you have those nearly efficient who make very few grammatical errors and are moving towards being out of the EL program. And so, once you think about your students, if they're emerging progressing or nearly proficient, you can look over at the site and look at the prompts for the tiered questions. And so, instead of saying, tell me, maybe you're saying, show me, maybe there's visuals in them and they're pointing and showing you something or they're circling a picture or you're asking, where is it? So again, you're using a lot more visuals with these emerging students. You might be using yes or no questions where they just have to shake or nod their head.  Well, why is this or how can you explain this in a couple sentences? Those short answer sentences. And then for the nearly proficient, you're really starting to think and retell a story or why do you think this and getting that higher level thinking. So again, you have those emerging progressing and nearly proficient students. And again, you're starting if they're at that top that emerging, you're just slowly scaffolding and helping those students progress until they become those nearly proficient students. Because the neat thing about these students are they learn really fast. The more they're emerged in the English language, the more they're going to learn. Yes, it's probably overwhelming for them, just as it would be overwhelming for us to have to learn a second language as well. But the more they are immersed in it, the faster they're going to learn it. And when we're talking about scaffold, scaffold are those supports that help students until they can be successful on their own. So sometimes we call that I do it, we do it, you do it. So I do it would model something. We do it would be helping them through doing it together many, many, many times before that you do it when they could do it all on their own. Yes, I always remember I think it was Anita Archer saying it's I do it I show you, and then we do it we do it we do it we do it we do it then it's you do it they do it on their own. So, and someone else even added y'all do it before the you do it. So now they don't have teacher support but they have a peer support where students are working together before they have to do it on their own. I haven't heard that I like that. So, again, these documents, I can get these to stuff if she wants to send these out in a document format, but again, these emerging students each year they these students have to take the Elpa test, and it will give them their level and so their ELP level is one or two those are considered the emerging students so maybe some of the students you work with have taken this and you can ask their teacher for their levels, and that's where you can see where they are. But again, we're different reading supports so using visuals, responding to questions non verbally pointing drawing again these are just more laid out steps that you can take for students of each level. So these emerging students are those ones who are going to need a lot a lot of support and a lot of that we do it we do it we do it. Using graphic organizers. Using a bilingual dictionary for one or two words again you're still encouraging them to use English but they might not know if there's a math problem, a story problem. And they're talking, we'll see an example later in our video, but you might be talking about a stuff I think it was you always who talks about a student who didn't know what a lamp was. Yeah, yeah, they don't know what a lamp is so you might have to look it up in the dictionary so they can get a better understanding, or you can point to it so just those one or two words they might need that help with and so using color coding. Yeah, there's just lots of different ideas for those emerging students that you can do. I like that build background language to and thinking about the things that they would need to know and have that kind of vocabulary lesson before that could really help them. And maybe if you're working with these students and small groups, maybe you're pre teaching a lesson and building that background knowledge, I am a big advocate for those about pre teaching, especially with these students. So they might hear the lesson with you in a really small group before they have it in their whole group later. And, you know, Paris, you guys are one on one with kids, and you can kind of maybe see sometimes when there's confusion, and maybe the teachers with the whole group and, you know, doesn't isn't right there to, you know, whisper that little bit of support or help in the year. So we teachers really rely on Paris I think in these instances to help out. I'm not sure what we would do without you guys. So then we have the progressing students so we have them emerging now we're moving on to those progressing maybe they've been here a couple years, or maybe they have been in a different school and have started learning the English language. And so again, you can take a look at this different reading supports trying supports mass supports. So providing sentence starters. That's a big one with this, providing them multiple opportunities to read, you know, maybe it's just small bits they're reading at a time because you don't want to exhaust them. But they read it, then you read some and then you give them the opportunity again to read more. Again, that building background knowledge appears sentence starters anchor charts sentence frames. So sentence frames would be. We could give an example Claire of sentence frames. It's very similar to a sentence starter correct. Yes. Or, yep, it could be a sentence starter so when I go to the lunchroom I, and then they fill, they fill in the rest, or frames could also be where you even talk about the who what kind of thing so that it helps them build a sentence and sometimes even written on like sentence strips. So those strips of paper and it could be parts of sentences and they could put them together. And because, you know what different languages sentences are constructed in different ways that's called syntax of making it sound like a good sentence in our language so we could help them that way to I think one important point here for the math supports is giving them formula charts so maybe a multiplication chart just for a while until they get the hanging of that and feel some success, and then you can slowly pull that back. But again we want these students to feel success and be able to do some of that work on their own so giving them a multiplication chart. They can easily find the answer, write it down well they just had some success in our building that confidence. Good. And then we have our nearly proficient students so these are those three fours mostly fours on their LP test. They're really moving to get out of the ill program. I've been here a while, maybe their parents at home speaking English but their native language was Spanish or something else. And so they're really starting to build they might be, you might expect them to have longer sentences, maybe even a paragraph. Again, you can still provide resources for them to use absolutely. This gets more into the conversation piece to going back and forth to build and expand on their English knowledge. So, you know, Claire I worked a lot with reading things and we've learned how it's important background knowledge is and see that on all of these all of them, build background language and then for math also build background knowledge and so background knowledge is all those things that we know about the world and to like mix in with what we're learning about math or reading and be able to use that information and I think, you know, because our students have come from another place we might assume that they have background knowledge on a topic that they don't. And I mean, one time it was the easiest word was like wreath, I was working with a sixth grade EL student in college and she didn't know what a wreath was. She didn't know what a wreath was on the door and I would just have assumed that right and we know what happens when we assume. So, I think building that background knowledge and helping them understand the background of what something means I mean it might be something pretty simple and a math story problem, or in a reading passage that we kind of take for granted so we just always have to be watching for those things that they might not know about. Yep, absolutely. There's many things on top of what we just talked about that you can do so the physical classroom I know you guys are assisting in the classroom but maybe there's something you can spot in the classroom that they really need. You can get share that idea, but word walls with visuals if you look at this map the math words a lot of them have that visual so there it's their math vocabulary, plus a visual can be really beneficial. Really building that knowledge of and this is something you guys could really work on with students is what can you say instead of I don't know how can you problem solve this or if you are really struggling and you don't know. Can you talk to appear and so we want to have a little productive struggle, but we want them to have success you know so really helping them understand if I don't know the answer. Can I try still or am I just not confident. Do I not know it and I need to ask a peer or a teacher, you know so really understanding where we are at and what knowledge we have in it. Peer work. I know last year I worked with some of you pairs on cooperative learning. So working in small groups. The more they hear their peers talk the more they hear that teacher use that English language the more they're going to catch on to and who doesn't like working with a friend and so having a quick conversation or having a worksheet and checking with a partner or something like that can go a long ways just building those relationship peer relationships in the classroom. Having the agenda and targets posted on the wall they're just like any other student they thrive off of routine I know I thrive off of routine and so if there's something different in the day. I'm not aware of that some students benefit from a visual on their desk so they know exactly what is coming up next. And so, if they want that predictable routines. So whether that's you. If you're in the classroom with them and you're kind of helping them understand okay once we are done with this we're moving on to this next thing and just talking them through that because they like predictability. Anything you want to add to that one. I totally agree and I think that the relationship building is a big thing because I'm and I think Paris you're doing that with students just like we talked about before. They know that they can go to you for help, but just remember also to not give too much help. I think sometimes kids get so reliant on having someone around to help and so they don't have to get do those harder tasks. It's kind of uncomfortable to watch a kid struggle sometimes and we don't want too much struggle, but Claire called it productive struggle or that you know it makes your wheels start turning in your brain it makes you have to figure something out for yourself and that's a good thing. And what probing questions can you give them without giving them the answer. Lots of times we call that help don't tell in pair trainings and so you know how can you help them along to get the answer without just telling them and doing it for them. Yeah. So if you have worked with any EL students or you know of any students in your building. I want you to just think about we've talked about that emerging the nearly proficient the progressing students. Just think about what stage do you think they're in, and what effective supports are in place and if there's not really anything that is being done for those students and yours if you're working with a small group or one on one. What is something you can take away. What might be helpful what support might be helpful moving forward like I said I'm going to get stuff the documents so you can look through those and there might be one thing that really stood out to you like our knowledge or using anchor charts or whatever that might be but just thinking about that student where might they be and if you don't have any effective supports in place what can you do for that student. And so we have a little video. See if stuff has it if not I will pull it up on mine. I think we'll probably get a get an add oh maybe not my friend knew that I was having such a terrible me and she sent me this box warm wishes are going to be hard but that's all right because we're going to try really hard isn't that right Cameron. Yes. Okay great everyone listen up. So we're going to want to work on we get ours from the answer the information story okay. We're going to go ahead and scratch your test and try to act as a test. Oh, that's your tips. We're going to create you're going to be. First on page 30. If you saw I broke up a book when I was at an examine. No, it's not practical. We're going to take notes from the story and we're going to turn it into a math problem and we're going to walk through it together okay. Three blocks. So everyone write three blocks. How long did it take him to run three blocks. Very good six minutes. All right so then we have a three blocks and six minutes. How long will it take him to run 20 blocks. What do we do. Eight minutes is that per block. Eight minutes. Okay, no it's not eight minutes. Michelle 18 minutes. No, not 18 minutes. Yes, Enrique 40. 40 yeah very good. How'd you get 40. I don't know. You don't know what 40 is the right answer. How did you get it. I forgot. Okay. Does anyone know how we get 40. Yes, my sense. Yep, that's right. Very good. Great. Can you tell us how you got that. Yeah, very good. Can you explain to the class what you did here how you got that. Joe, you want to lose your recess. No. Okay then. Thank you. Can you take a walk with me. I don't want you to worry about the test. Just try your best. Okay. Do you understand. Not important. You're right, my sense. It is important. I have to go. I'm sorry. Okay, Steph. No. Okay then. Thank you. Please. Can you take a walk with me. I don't want you to worry about the test. Okay myself. See. Just try your best. Okay. Do you understand. Not important. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay, Steph. I'll have you stop the video there. So there's a lot to unpack from that video. You have a student. He's probably an emerging student. There were vocabulary words getting mixed up, you know, he heard the time. So he looked at the clock. He made that connection. He heard blocks. And so he was thinking of the math. Hundreds block, not running the. Blocks around town.  That because he was able to solve the problem, but he had no idea how to explain to his teacher how to solve it. You know, so when you think about that, he was really struggling then classmates started laughing. So. Instead of that teacher just asking him to explain, you know, maybe she goes up to the board and writes down that work and talks through how he got the correct answer and gives him some feedback. And so we're getting that correct answer because we want him to feel some success. And as that video showed things were just jumbled in his head. He didn't know how to get speak it. But deep down he did have some of those math skills. And also at the end when she was telling him that that test wasn't important. Well, a lot of these students really want to do well. And so I was just saying, oh, it's not important. You're fine. Well, no, that's, they want to do well too. So there's a lot to unpack from that video. I'm sure you guys took away something other than that step. What was your, the big thing you took away from that video? Well, I always think, and I always told my EL students that I admired them so much because I can't imagine what would happen to me if I had to go to a new country and speak a different language and listen to it and try to learn that language and learn other subjects through that language. And so I really admire all those students who persist all day long, all week long, all year long. And, you know, try to keep up and don't give up on it too. Right. Yes. So as we wrap up with this portion, I just want, again, if you work with this EL student, maybe you don't, maybe you've worked with another student. It doesn't matter. Something that affirmed in my practice was, so what is something that you're already doing that was, we maybe touched on today and you're like, yeah, that is something I should continue doing. Or if not, what is something you can try this week? What is something that you can take away from today and implement in with your small groups or with a student tomorrow in school, whether that's a sentence starter, whether that's some peer chat, whatever that might look like. So go ahead and think about that. And I am going to turn it back over to Steph. And I think on the next slide, it has my contact information. If you have any questions or you can reach out to Steph and she can put you in touch with me. So again, thank you for having me today. And Claire, Kate, and if you need anything, let me know. Thank you so much for joining us, Claire. It's nice to enlist the help of all of our ESU staff in working with Paris. So Paris just know Claire's available and so am I if you have any questions. We're going to delve in and another topic to pair well with thinking about EL supports is equity. Another E, right? So embracing equity in our schools. What does that look like? That's been kind of a catchphrase lately. We've heard a lot about improving the equity in our schools. And so what does that exactly mean? Well, I'm one quote says it meeting students where they are as they are. And so sorry that our pictures are covering that up a little bit, but meeting students where they are as they are is like that mindset that we can have as we think about equity. Equity is a reflection of an educator's humanity toward the students here she serves. How are we serving that student? How are we making sure that they feel valued and appreciated? And how are we meeting the needs of all those kids that we work with? So oftentimes we see this graphic and equality would mean that everyone receives the same support.  Was that box enough for the child in the purple? No, because they can't see. Was it a little bit too much for the child in the blue? Well, yes, because that that one is is up very high. And it seems to be just right for the child in the red. But when we're talking about equity, it's that students receive the support they need when they need it. So in this case, the child in the blue didn't need the box to stand on. The child in the red had their just right support of one box, but the child in the purple needed two boxes, needed a little extra help, extra support. And where we really want to go with our society is to get to that liberation where there is no fence blocking their view where everyone has the access that they need. And we don't need to have that fence in the way. So this is a long quote, but stick with me here. An equity mindset teacher is a teacher who utilizes a variety of appropriate instructional strategies that consider the differing academic, social and emotional needs of each of their learners in a student centered, culturally responsive, culturally relevant, barrier free, equity mindset classroom where student individuality, student cultural identity and student voice matter exponentially. Wow, there's a lot there. There's a lot to unpack. We have a big job as educators, don't we? We have so much to consider when we think about that whole child and everything that they are and making them feel valued and like they matter and that we value all the parts of them, including their culture. I love that barrier free equity mindset classroom. We're going to remove those barriers so that everyone has access to what they need. So one step is thinking about student individuality. Are students visible or invisible? So many students are physically present in the classroom, but don't have presence because they don't feel seen. Educators must ask themselves what they are doing to prove to individual students that they care about them and are committed to their development. I think we all would say we care about our students, but are we thinking about that new one who might be a little bit different than someone else or that shy one that doesn't speak up? Are they visible or invisible? Are we celebrating all of our students? Two, student cultural identity. Is it accentuated or denied? Okay, so students not only come from and face different realities, something that purported color blindness fails to acknowledge. It used to be said, if some people said, I don't see color, I just treat everyone the same. But I think we all want to see who we are and part of our self and our expression should be in our culture and in who we are and being able to celebrate that there. So color blindness fails to acknowledge, but they also need knowledge of their own background and the shoulders on which they stand. They need teachers who can breathe life and relevance into curriculum. So can we talk about our curriculum, the things that we're learning and how that could relate to our culture and make it really relatable for kids. And three, student voice. Is it distinct or obscure? So honoring student voice means both valuing students perspectives, contributions and communication styles, and helping them find their own voice and sense of purpose. It also means helping them develop the courage to use their voices. So how are we doing that? How are we letting them speak up about their feelings, their thoughts and how maybe their culture influences their feelings and thoughts. We need to celebrate all and make sure all of our students are feeling heard and seen in our classrooms. And I want to credit this principal who has an article and he gave a speak at the ASCD conference last year with many of these thoughts. So thank you to him for helping us better understand equity and what it can entail in our classrooms. It's a big topic. Boy, we could spend a long time on equity, couldn't we? Actually, we could maybe more the summer when we all get together. I'm going to save the date. Our para training this summer, I'm going to move our pictures over again. We'll be on July 31st. We hope you can mark your calendar and start talking to your principal about coming to ESU 8 on that day. We'll meet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. like we always do in August. Lunch will be provided. We always have a lot of fun along with the learning. And this year, our theme is gardening, right? Definitely has the best themes for you guys. Hey, having the paras in is like having a party. You have to have a good theme, right? When you have all your friends over to visit. So, Paris, we know how much you do every day and you amazed me.  You help it run better. So this last little bit from April till the end of May can be the tough times. So hang in there.  Don't forget to do that in April and May as well. Take care of yourselves, hang in there. But please mark your calendars for July 31 and a good day together. Have a good rest of your school year. Thanks everybody.


One of the biggest challenges that we face as dropshippers is knowing exactly what products to sell. With so many dropshipping suppliers and millions and millions of products to sell, it's no wonder that we can get easily lost inside all of these products, list a whole bunch and then wonder why our stores are not selling or not selling enough. That will not be the case for you if you watch this video because here I'm going to talk about the best product finding methods, the best way to conduct product research for the Facebook marketplace so that your store will also start selling just like our stores. So watch this quick intro and let's go. Hello everyone, hope you're all having a great day today. My name is Yuan from AutoDS. I'm the content manager and I've also been dropshipping for the last several years and in this video we're going to talk about the best ways to conduct product research for the Facebook marketplace so that you can find real hot trending products to sell on your Facebook marketplace shop or store or whatever you want to call it. Now one second before we begin I want to remind you guys if you're new to our YouTube channel this is the part right now where you need to subscribe to always stay updated on all of the latest and all of the hottest topics that we have coming out in the dropshipping world and also like this video if you appreciate the value. Having said that let's get this show on the road. How can we find the best products to sell on the Facebook marketplace? Let's begin. To start off the two main suppliers that we're going to talk about in this video is Amazon and Banggood and the reason for that is because Facebook requires or they don't actually require but they recommend you to use either UPS, FedEx or USPS shipping labels when you provide tracking information and that is because Facebook can track those packages and see that they really got delivered to the end customer and if the end customer if the person who's buying from your store opens a claim on Facebook that they did not receive the product and you didn't use UPS UPS or FedEx tracking numbers then you will have a much harder time proving to Facebook and proving to the buyer that the package was delivered. Now this will not be the case for you in most scenarios since once a buyer receives their product they're not going to open an item not received case but you also want to get your payments faster from Facebook and in order to get the payments right away up to one or two days after the customer gets their product you want to use UPS USPS or FedEx tracking numbers so this is a big recommendation it's not a must but it will help you maintain a better cash flow and win item not received cases if the package really was delivered it will be very easy to prove it. So Amazon and Banggood these are the two suppliers that offer UPS USPS and FedEx tracking information in most of their orders Amazon sometimes uses other shipping carriers but Banggood most of the time those are the shipping tracking information that you are going to get from those shipping carriers so let's start with those suppliers and see how we can find the best products to sell from there believe me there is more than enough products inside these two suppliers to really start profiting well on the Facebook marketplace and if you've been watching our videos you can also see our Facebook marketplace dropshipping account we have a YouTube video that I uploaded recently to our YouTube channel where you can really see the products that I'm selling where I'm getting them from how much I'm profiting and so forth so let's go ahead and begin the product research session the first thing that you want to do on Amazon or on Banggood is go to their best seller section and see what's selling there why do we do this because this increases the chance of importing a product that really will sell and it won't just sit there collecting virtual dust so the first thing that we want to do is see what's selling so we're going to click here on top sellers now we can choose any category that we want to find these best selling products for example let's go with lights and lighting so here are the top products that have been selling in the lights and lighting category and these are good products I can already see some of them that already are on my dropshipping stores so this is a great place to begin what you want to do next is start importing these products to your stores now I'm not going to go over the import process here we have more than enough videos on how to import products from any one of your suppliers to AutoDS and from there to the Facebook marketplace now the good news here is you are not limited to the amount of listings that you can list on the Facebook marketplace so you can start off by listing let's say 10 best selling products on each and every one of these categories you will see once they are imported to your Facebook marketplace store and you enable the shipping options you will start to get sales not on every listing but on the bigger portion of them they will start to sell and once a product starts to sell what you want to do is search for more products that are similar to that one that just sold or a different product with similar features different variations different colors styles forms and shapes and etc so forth now you may be asking yourself isn't this a little bit too simple just going to a supplier clicking on the best selling products and start listing those products I mean aren't these products way oversaturated everyone is dropshipping them and people that want to buy them already have more than enough sellers who are selling them the answer to that is true but it really depends on what selling channel for example if you try importing these products to ebay you will most likely already find them there but if you search for them on the Facebook marketplace you'll see that nobody else is selling them that is because it is an untapped marketplace and now is really the best time to join if you haven't done that yet if you haven't joined if you haven't started selling on the Facebook marketplace yet then I highly recommend to check out our youtube channel because we have more than enough content on the Facebook marketplace as you can see right here in front of me and also our blog page where once again you have a lot of content on the Facebook marketplace like the requirements that you need right before you begin the best Facebook marketplace categories to dropship and also a full in-depth a to z guide on how to dropship on the Facebook marketplace from a to z now let's get back to the topic at hand so we talked about going to your suppliers pages and checking out their best selling products those are the ones that you want to list on the Facebook marketplace you don't need to check any competition simply list your products there is no limit to the amount that you can list so it's a very easy place to start and all you need actually is a Facebook account as long as you have a Facebook account and you meet the rest of the requirements that we wrote on the requirements to dropship on the Facebook marketplace then you can start selling right now today so as soon as you go to these best selling pages the best selling categories the best selling products inside the best selling categories as I mentioned what you want to do is start listing them to the Facebook marketplace you can use the one-click importer like you see right here you can use the AutoDS extension to grab all of the products on one page extract them export as a CSV and simply import that CSV file and this is if you just want to do it in bulk if you want to import as many listings as you can without wasting too much time this whole process takes about one minute so dive into these best selling categories add all of the products that you see on these pages and you will start to notice what starts to sell and start multiplying by adding more products that are similar to those ones that are selling now let's see how that is done on amazon so here I am on amazon and on the top left you're going to click on bestsellers that will take you to this best sellers page now the thing is amazon is different from banggood because not every category here on the left side on amazon is perfect for the dropshipping business model some of these categories are not relevant at all that is why you really want to read the best facebook marketplace categories for dropshipping in 2021 and here you have a list of the categories that you do want to go inside and drop ship from and what categories you want to stay away from so give that a good read we also have a video on it on our youtube channel and once you know what products you can and what you cannot sell then you'll know what category you can dive into for example home and kitchen is great for the dropshipping business model so I'm in the best seller section I clicked on home and kitchen and here I can break down the categories some more so let's go with home decor here are the best selling home decor products and as you see here I can still break it down even some more and this is always a great idea because that way you're getting less and less saturated products even though there is no such thing as saturation right now in the facebook marketplace it is a great idea to narrow it down break it down and find that niche find that sweet spot that is selling well and start adding as many products as you can from that niche so here for example let's go with door mats and that's it we cannot break this down any further this is the final subcategory so what I want to do here is add these door mats that have tens of thousands of reviews on amazon and no one's selling them on the facebook marketplace so what you want to do is simply start listing them you can add them once again using the one-click importer if you want to save time or using that extract feature that I showed you here so I'm going to delete and extract and here are all of the item IDs from amazon from this page into this little extension extract it export as a csv and import that csv on the ad products on autods upload csv and it's that easy to add those products to autods and then to the facebook marketplace so that is how simple it is to grab best-selling products and products that will start to sell on your facebook marketplace store what you want to do is simply go inside some of these best-selling categories narrow down the categories get to the last subcategory and start adding those products this is really the best way to start selling on the facebook marketplace I also have virtual assistants on my facebook marketplace stores and this product research method simply proves itself over and over again right now is really the best time to start selling on the facebook marketplace I cannot stress that out enough and if you've watched my previous videos and also a live case study that will start to show up on our youtube channel soon you will see everything that I'm doing inside my facebook marketplace dropshipping account every product that I'm importing how I'm doing it you know already how I'm doing the product research because I showed you in this video and I would like to leave you with another tip right before this video finishes so when you start selling these best-selling products there is another way to get even more products that are similar to those ones that are selling but really get it before everyone else and really kill the competition here so for example if I know that a product is selling well for me and I already added more products that are similar to that one what I want to do next is beat the competition before it even begins on the newer products that are going to come out in this category so here's what I mean for example let's go back to banggood and instead of top sellers best sellers we're going to click on new arrivals you can also find it on amazon right here on new releases on this top bar right here so you have new releases new arrivals whatever you want to call it now here what you want to do is you don't want to play the random game you don't want to just start adding any new product that just added itself to amazon or to banggood because there is no proof that this is a good product and that you're not wasting your time so what you want to do here is look for products that are already selling well for you for example if you just sold a gaming keyboard or an led keyboard like the one that you're seeing here and now you want to look for new products that just came out in this field then here you can see it so you clicked on the new releases and you went to the right category and then you want to add more products that are similar to the one that just sold for you so here's this keyboard here's another nice colorful keyboard let's get that one too and I can also click on the category so this belongs on the computer or maybe it's consumer electronics here computers in office and here I can find more keyboards since I found that a keyboard started selling well for me now I want to add more and more so I'm just going to open them in new tabs and as you see here I have all of these tabs open with all of these keyboards and all I have to do is click on this import to auto DS button and continue multiplying my success from there now once again the biggest advantage here is that you're going to start selling products before everyone else is selling them and it's not just any random product from the new seller section it's products that have sold for you in the past and you know that these variations have a very high chance of selling again the best part here is once again you're doing it way way before any other drop shipper now on the one hand right the facebook marketplace I mentioned that it's not saturated so it doesn't matter if you are selling a product that has tens of thousands of reviews on your supplier's website and you can find so many people selling it on ebay and even on Shopify that doesn't mean that it's not going to work on the facebook marketplace the opposite it has a very high chance of working so definitely check out new releases don't just add any product from new releases but products that have started selling for you so if you haven't started selling yet stay away from new releases stick to the best sellers and add those products and watch them start to sell then look for them in the new releases so that pretty much wraps up this video on how to really find the best products that will sell on the facebook marketplace and also not put your account in jeopardy because you want to use FedEx UPS and USPS on the majority of your orders I hope that you guys found this video informational and that you found a lot of value in it don't forget to like this video and subscribe to our youtube channel because this is the type of content that we deliver along with so much more thank you for watching and happy dropshipping on the facebook marketplace


participating in the summer reading program at the Boysville Public Library Wizarding, I heard that there is not going to be a program this summer! Oh Unicorn, I'm so sorry to have you feeling this way. I have some good news to share with you. Good news? Good news. Although the summer reading program, which we're now calling Summer Adventure at the Vorkel, will look different this year. Libraries find an exciting summer. Oh yes, we're imagining something very new this summer, but it'll be a wonderful mixture of online and at home and outdoor adventures. Oh wow! As we imagine your story, that's the thing. Oh that's so exciting! We have selected some fantastic prizes that you have an opportunity to win. Oh prizes! Did you say prizes? I love prizes! And there's programs at the library too. Are there programs with unicorns and magical creatures? This is the magical trunk of adventures. Shall we see what's inside? Yes, yes, right now please! Would you like to select some of these things and tell us all about them? Come on wizard, how can I tell you all about the programs if I don't even know what the programs are? Come on! I will win my magic wand and you will have the power, the knowledge of what is in this box of magical adventures. Let's do it! Wonder! This is going to be the Steve Song's concert, Steve Song's of PBS Kids. He is going to do a special concert just for the Borisville community. On Wednesday July 8th at 6.30 on Facebook Live page. And if any of the children out there want to do some singing or some dancing moves, we have videos posted on the website so that you can be part of the fun. Oh excited! Should I pick another? Sure, of course. We have some adventures for four weeks on Tuesday mornings from 10 to 10.30 starting on July 21st. And it's going to be a wonderful with the science teacher Mrs. Leanna Hawkins. So registered for that, that's going to be so much fun. Wizard, would you like to pick one? I would love to have a whisk. And we have some measuring cups. And a bowl for the cooking with Jodi Fitz program, which is for three different levels of grades of kids. From every Tuesday morning starting on July 7th, we'll have a virtual storytime. And we should have activities. This one is for the... It has all the instructions and there are lots of fun activities that go along with the theme of dragons. So there will be several storytimes, it'll be a lot of fun. I have to ask, will there be a storytime about... What? There will be a storytime. Oh yay! This year the art teacher will be recording for his YouTube channel so you can watch it anytime and go outdoors and pick some supplies and make your own gorgeous spectacular magical creation. She's awfully cute though. Magical creature. And we're going to have a magical creature adaptation. Might live. What do you think Tief saw? I think she has to eat kind of soft food because she might have a hard time. Well this program with Leanna Hawkins was very popular too and all filled up. But you know what? She is going to post her video to ToriTube channel so you can watch it anytime and make a magical creature adaptation all your own. Cogla Princess. And this will be a Family Re-August 2nd at 6.30 and Miss Monica will be leading this program. And you'll read the book and you'll all get a copy of the book. It's for grades K through 3 and they're parents. You'll talk about the book. You'll do fun activities. And can we say guacamole anyone? Guacamole. Guacamole. I love guacamole. But you know what? I have to be really careful because sometimes I get green splatters all over my lovely white fur and we don't want that happening. More discussion on July. Of course because we all have to have some really good news. Rob Buye will be joining us. We will be joining. We will be giving away books. We have digital copies you can download. We also have copies you can check out at the library. But we also have brand new copies that you can pick up at the library and take home for your... We're going to have a yoga class for children and also for adults. So if you want to join in the practice of yoga with me, Unicorn, you can go online. I think there's one more. Wizard, it is beautiful and it matches me beautifully. Well, I have some exciting news. Do you want to hear it? I want to hear it. On Saturday, August 4, high school in the parking lot so you can drive around. But make sure that you check our website for the most up-to-date information. Do you want to see if Humpty Dumpty gets himself off the ground after falling? Falling off the wall? Do you want to see Little Bo Peep and her sheep? You just have to be there. It's for teens too. Check the online calendar. My favorite grown-up who happens to be the most sparkly and beautiful unicorn, my mother. And I take after her, you know. I sure do. So I'm going to go online. I'm going to register for the summer reading program and start logging in my books because I am a huge reader. And I know that I'm going to win a lot of prizes. And I am also going to check out the online calendar to register for all those really fun and exciting programs. So remember everything is better with a unicorn and that you can be a unicorn too. That you sparkle wherever you go. One of the perks of being a wizard is that I can change myself into whatever I want. And I think unicorn has so much fun I want to be a unicorn too.


Uh, yours is upside down. I found this beautiful gallery wall on Etsy, but it was like $850. I say we could definitely make that one. So we went out and got five 1x6s, made a couple of 45 degree cuts, and repurposed some frames we had around the house. And we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do a builder make it? So do we. We do it every week. This week we're making a gallery wall, which is basically just frames for our frames. Yeah, well, it's more than just frames for our frames. We're going to build frames for our frames. We're going to build a big artistic border around frames. Some of the frames we already have, I picked up a couple of extras, but some of them I've just took family photos right out of. And we're going to make a big artistic wall of frames, a gallery wall, a gallery wall. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. We really just needed a couple of 1x6s, some picture frames, some stencils and paint. Step two, now we're going to make all of our cuts. We're just going to make like 6 18 by 18 inch frames out of these 1x6s. I'm going to set up a jig so that all of them are exactly the same size, all the sides, and I shouldn't have any problems putting them together. Step three, now we're going to assemble all of our big frames using some pocket holes. You could probably use some glue, but we don't have time for that. We've got time for the glue. Nobody gets time for that, so we're just going to pocket hole them together. We put pocket holes in about half of the boards, two for each frame, two sides for each frame. And now we're just going to glue them and screw them together with a 1 1⁄4 inch pocket hole screw. Now we're staying. First tee. We'll run to a basketball game, so we'll let these dry. Step five. Now we're going to paint. We're going to lay down a base paint for all of our big frames. Base paint, big frames, two are going to be black, two are going to be country gray, and two are going to be a French linen. Our base layer is dry. We're going to start adding our stencil design. I picked up some stencils from Michaels. We could make them on the Cricut, but a lot of times folks are asking if they can get them somewhere else. So I just picked these up at Michaels, and Garrett's not even using a stencil. I'm using tape. He's making stripes. Tape them. Yeah, stripes. All right. Let's do it. Dabbing. Dabbing. Oh my God. Step six. Now that it's time to paint all of our little frames, or the ones that we are going to paint. Yeah. So some of them I had purchased and are empty. Some of them I literally took out family photos, and we're going to paint them and attach them to our larger frames. So can I lay them out and we'll decide what we want to do? Let's lay them out. All right. I've kind of done a little pre-design here. Nope. You go over there. You go over here. Some of them are already the right colors, I think. Some of them. Close. This green one doesn't really match the scheme, so I'm going to paint a few of them.  I think it's going to need some wax. So no paint. We're just going to add a little distressing wax to make it like this one's bright white and doesn't go with this, but I think Garrett is going to add some black wax on it. Okay, black wax. And while he does that, I'm going to paint this one black and I'm going to paint this one country gray. Now we're going to glue the frames to the big frames, the small frames to the big frames using Gorilla Glue, so it'll seal the gaps, make it look concrete. Okay. And the last one is this 8x10 frame, the big frame. The opening on the back of the frame is larger than the opening on our back frame back. So we think for this one, we're just going to add some Velcro strips to the back and attach it that way so it can be removed so the photo can be changed. Black Velcro so you can't see it. Wow! Magic! Alright, so all we can do now is wait. It says like two hours, but we'll give it like an hour. Which means tomorrow because it's late. What do you think of this week's project? It was really pretty easy and it makes such a huge statement for such a simple project and a repurposed frames that I had. I literally just painted them. Yeah, it was like a super simple project too. I mean, five 1x6s, a couple of 45s with some pocket holes, that is easy right there. So I know you're thinking to yourself, what happened to all that staining they did? It looked great, right? Well, that was my plan. The plan was to stain them, distress them so that you could see the dark stain underneath, but after we did all of this painting, I couldn't bring myself to sand it all off. So I left it as is. So that was a little extra step that we might not have needed to do. Yeah, or use the vinyl stencils. I wouldn't have felt so bad about taking some of this paint off and making it look old. Right? Maybe a little bit easier. If you like this week's project, leave us a comment down below. You know, I love to read those. Tell us what color scheme you may have used or if you're interested in building the same wall. You should leave a lot of comments because she has to answer them all. Yeah, sometimes I'm not great about it. Step four. That's five. You did that before, but I wasn't. Step. Now we stain.


Who's up first, Jimmy? Yeah, how about, you know, I know it's got the heat down there. How much are you pushing, maybe hydration throughout the week leading up to this one? We're gonna do drink pickle juice, drink Gatorade. I don't, you know, I mean, it was warm a little bit the other day for us. And it's what the conditions will be. So then we'll have to go down there and play with the conditions and, you know, rotate some guys. If we need to rotate some guys, you know, wherever we see fit. How has Will been this week as far as leading the offense and taking all the reps? Same exact way he's been the last two weeks. He's led the offense and taken all the reps. And then when you've had Tannehill on the field with him, how is that interaction with him? Same way that it's been in the meeting room and, you know, really nothing's changed from that regard. It's just, you know, Ryan's in a different role right now. You know how number two is now? Is that a game time decision? That'll probably be a game time decision here seeing where Ryan continues to, you know, where his health will be, he'll be listed as questioner boy. He can take all the reps this week. Has Mike Brown done in his, since being activated into his return with him? Good, I mean, he's ready to go. It's just, you know, working through different spots in the roster. But Mike's attitude's been great. Getting back into it with the show team and some reps and, you know, being ready to go. So hopefully we'll know more here next week. Did Chris clear the protocol? He did. How has allowed him to play so well when he's maybe been in there and kind of fit into what you preach here? How you mean Chris? I just think that there's a professionalism. I think he's gotten into better shape, you know, physically than where he was when we worked him out. He's got some savviness, he understands and stays on his feet. Works well with the right guard. I think they communicate well and hasn't been perfect. But certainly, you know, he's played some good football for us and has been consistent and we are excited to have him back. Talk to Terrell Williams about the run defense yesterday. And he used the words, we're totally fine. Didn't seem really concerned at all with the lack of production from the defensive line in the last four games. Do you agree with that idea that this run defense is totally fine?  That's what Terrell said, you know, I think that there's not a panic. I get that, do you know what I mean? You know, we have, there's a lot of snaps on there that are good. And again, when you give up double digit runs, you know, those add up and the X play runs and, you know, I appreciate your question. Nothing is fine. Like we're three and five. So it's never going to be fine. There's always this process of, you know, you have to do it each and every week.  We've seen that over and over through the course of my experience in the national football league when it's like, man, we should be great. They're averaging this or whether it's the pass, anything that statistically, you know, it just, you have to go out there and prove it. So one week doesn't mean something's going to happen. The next week, you have to be able to go out there and then do it consistently and not get lackadaisical. Just not get saying, hey, they're not going to run it because we don't have a contract with them. We don't know what they're going to call. So you have to be able to prove yourself every week as a player and as a unit and as a team. So Toriel's saying totally fine. Shane's saying kind of it's just six or eight plays. Like is there a handle on what you really are right now as a run defense and as a pass defense? Because it seems like there's this feeling that like you're good at both of those and you're just, this is an aberration. Are you good at both of those? And this is just an aberration or are you not good at both of those right? No, again, we've, there's times where we've been really good.  I again, you know, we're not going to tie in everybody's words. Paul, I'm not going to do that. I appreciate you guys's questions. My goal is to try to get us to be more consistent and understand that every time you have a call defensively, since we're talking about defense, that there is an understanding of where you may be light and what you're trying to do in split safety defense or the things you have to do against post-safety defense where, you know, they're going to try to run maybe some play action. You have to be able to take something away, but then also know where you are a little bit shy. And that's my goal here to everybody, whether that be the coaches or the players, especially the ones that have to go out there and execute it, that they know what everybody's job is and they have to be able to say, here's what I have to make up for. Here's how I have to fit the run and or here's how I have to transition. Here's how I have to cover it over in this particular zone.  I have to be able to take away the flat on 32 when we're clouded. Like all these little things that just show up, you know, that are just going through my mind here as you process the last game using those as examples, like running back to the flat and cover two on 32. You don't really think that they have a play. I've never run a roll pass under cover two. Like we try to call roll pass here before on offense and if you see a cloud corner, you probably aren't going to have a successful play. So we all need to understand those things. So whatever anybody said or didn't say, my goal was to get everybody to understand that we have to know the call, we have to execute it and be willing to accept some of these things that happen based on the call and say, hey, been through this. It's cover three. It's two by two. They can't beat us on four verticals. And if they run something else, because that's what I tell them. Like if they run four verticals against cover three, shame on you. And if they go somewhere else, then I'll be able to at least live with the process. Is there a discount in knowing the calls? Is there a discount? No.  Like we've beaten the tight end pretty good. He's beaten them up and he's crashing them down in there and the back starts to go in there. And then the back bounces out and we don't go and make the tackle. So it's like, man, yeah, we want to be able to do that. Maybe do it a little bit sooner and clean it up for the corner. But you know, weave door, all right, it's taking it and crashing the guy into the C-gap. Warren comes in, doesn't like it, bounces outside. Somebody's got to go run and make the tackle. I was going to ask you about we were actually, seemed like some decent production from him last year. What are you expecting a little bit more along those lines this year? Kind of what's your e-bellion? I don't have the same expectation for everybody that they show up ready to prepare as a starter that they play hard, that they take advantage of their opportunities whenever they may come. We keep adding guys that only activate so many guys. And he played a lot more, you know, mainly. So I guess is he meeting your expectations this season? He's worked hard and again, he's had some plays that he'd like to have back. Just like everybody else. So again, he's worked hard to try to figure out a role on special teams or where that may be for when he's active. As group of guys as, you know, whatever, and obviously, you know, we know they have some injuries in that secondary, but they still got some good players in the back up. So are pretty good as well. So, you know, we're not taking anything lightly. You've seen plenty of young quarterbacks played with plenty of them. What stood out about Will in the past couple of games, you know, maybe in comparison with other guys and generally, how? Will compared to some of the younger quarterbacks I've been around. I really can't compare him to young quarterbacks I've been around. I've played with a lot and all of them, you know, have strength and weaknesses, just like everybody in the league. But Will, I can speak for him himself and not compare him to anybody. He seems composed. He seems very competitive. Seems like he want to win. He takes everything, everything serious, not just on the, you know, on the game field, but practice field as well. And this is what you got to love about him. He, he, he want to be that guy. He want to, he want to be the one that, you know, are in those situations that we can count on.  How do you like the way he's kind of taken command of the offense? You see the relationship he has with you. He said you're open even when you're covered. No, just trying to be there for him, for him to continue to feel like that. I would see not just myself, other receivers as well. We got to be reliable when it comes our way. There's going to be mistakes, growing pains, that's part of the game. But for us, we, we feel like we, we got to be reliable and it's on us. We don't want him to feel like the pressure's on him. Let's go out and have fun. You're saying, you're saying, you're saying a thing to him this week. Now, guys, this kind of business is usually, you know, Mike makes that announcement official. He's the guy moving forward to give him an extra boost or just let him keep rolling. My business is usual. Just let him keep rolling. The guy loves football. That's all you can ask for.  You know, he, he takes everything serious. The way he approaches the game, you got to respect it.  So, you know, just let him do his thing. You've been in locker rooms that have gone through quarterback transitions before. Just how do you feel like this one has handled everything with Ryan as well? You know, I can only speak on my job and what I, what I've got to do. And honestly, let's go out and be reliable for whatever quarterback is throwing me the football, man. You know, I don't really get caught up in anything else around without me patrolling. What if when you guys got a first-level arm like Will does, what does that do for you guys as receivers when you're going to catch the ball down? Because he may put it somewhere where somebody else can't. Just trying to be reliable. You know, obviously, it's the NFL. He's a quarterback and we're receivers. So, wherever the ball is behind us in front of us, we feel like it's on us to go get it. He has a strong arm. I think everyone sees that, but it's, you know, getting on time and it starts at practice. Good run to him. You guys worked through the first part of the season. You say anything to him or how he's kind of handled himself as a pro since you've been here? I got a lot of respect for Ryan. I always have. I always have and I always will. I competed against him for many years when I was in Houston and I competed against him when I was in Arizona as well. So a lot of love for Ryan and the way he approaches the game and the way he goes about every day of being a professional. Three and five, a lot of season left, but is there a feeling within the locker room and the team that it's kind of now we're never kind of kicking the pants to get this thing into gear here? Take game by game. That's all we can do. Control, we can control. Not look ahead. We got Tampa Bay this week and that's what we focused on. You got completely consistent with your receivers, obviously, but they've got two good ones. You watch guys from a four. What do you think about their, I guess, Evans and Godwin? I got a lot of respect for those two receivers over there.


Good day, fellow investors. I want to really tell a personal story about my investing history because it will show you my mindset which, as Buffett says, is crucial when it comes to investing. And I don't know whether I have been fortunate or I have had the right mindset when it comes to investing, but I have done really, really well for myself in the past 15 years. So we'll go through my best investments, how it all started, what is my return that I achieved for myself in the past and what do I expect to do in the future. So let's start by when I started. I started investing in 2003. I remember that my parents had some shares. There was a tender offer. My father and my grandfather sold them. My grandmother was in the hospital. She didn't sell. She came back from the hospital six months later. They sold at the second tender for 100 percent higher price. My 18-year-old mind went, whoa, whoa, whoa. I could have made 100 percent in six months. So what did I do? I started researching stocks. I went to the list of the complete stocks that we had on the creation stock market. It was about 50 stocks and I read some books. Okay, how does Buffett invest? Just buy good stocks, good companies, good businesses with a low price earnings ratio. And I found two such stocks. One was Tesla, not the current Tesla, but Ericsson, Nikola Tesla. It was Ericsson's subsidiary in Croatia that was a global business developing communication technology for mobile systems in countries that Ericsson from Sweden wouldn't go. I don't know, Kazakhstan, Africa, etc. They were extremely profitable and they had a dividend yield of 33 percent. You heard that right, 33 percent. So I invested some money in that company and the other company was a bottling company from Croatia, a very strong brand. I called all the people I knew across the country, also in neighboring countries and asked them what kind of bottled water do you have in your fridge and everybody was confirming I have this, this and this. They were growing about 15 percent per year. The price-to-earnings ratio was six, seven and I put most of my money in that bottling company. So that was 2003, 2006. The bottling company went from 10,000 in two years to about 50,000, 60,000 when I sold everything. So I made six times my money and the Tesla, Ericsson, Nikola Tesla stock went from a 33 percent yield to a 3 percent yield. So also with the dividend I made about 10 times my money there. So I sold everything. I think it was 2006, 2007 and I was completely in cash in 2007 with my portfolio being up about four or five times. So that was one. Then I was a little bit experimenting with part of my portfolio in the U.S. and I sold everything somewhere in 2008 because I wasn't happy. I lost some money. I think it was a 15, 20 percent loss. Then in 2009 I invested in a tobacco company because it was trading below cash, below cash per share and in another shipping company that didn't do so well. So this company mitigated the loss on the shipping company that I sold very quickly. So we have actually I'm still long that shipping company with six shares or something but I don't even take that into account because that was a split or something and I never sold. I never registered those shares. Who knows what's that word now? Nothing. However then in 2010 I found another company that was growing 10, 15 percent. It was a tourist hospitality company. 10, 15 percent growth, no debt, 8 percent dividend yield and price earnings ratio of six and there was a highway that was being built from the center of Europe straight to the sea where this hotel company was. So I bought that I think 70, 80 percent of my portfolio went into this company and another 30, 30 percent, 20 percent went into a company that had a 5 percent dividend yield. Fast forward five years, 2014, 2015. This company continued to grow at 15 percent a year making a lot of cash, paying the dividends and I sold everything in 2015 for the company was four times up. I reinvested a lot of the dividends so let's say that was a five-beggar. The 5 percent dividend stock went up just 50 percent which is not bad. So again from 2010 to 2015 I was up again four, four times let's say on my portfolio which is something very, very good and this is where the bulk of my past returns came. From 2015 my biggest investment in 2015 was real estate on which I expect to cash in in the next six months. So a lot of money, a lot of the focus went on to the real estate investment because it was the best risk reward investment. I could buy a house with no money down. It was a really bad market here in the Netherlands but the cost of renting was 50 or 100 percent above the cost of a mortgage. Not even the not just the interest on the mortgage, the complete mortgage with a 30-year payoff. So I said either house prices are going up to the rent prices or rent prices are going down to the house prices so okay I don't lose anything. Fortunately for me house prices went up to the rent prices as the market turned from a very pessimistic to a very positive market but when the deal closes I'll be happy to make a few videos on that and how I invested in real estate. So without counting the real estate investment up to 2015 my stocks were up 20 times. Since 2015 I invested a little bit. Navson did really good. Amira I still ended up positive on that because I traded a lot on the fluctuations. So I was still up about 15-20 percent over the past few years but I remember my money is mostly in real estate now until I cash in and then I'll go for checking out what will I do with that money. So this is what I wanted to present you because it's really about the mindset and I'm again now I have this have this Eriksson Nikola Tesla and the bottling company the tourist company and the real estate so practically three great times when I invested and that's what I'm waiting again. I'm waiting for great businesses great assets low risk no risk of permanent capital loss great cash flows great dividends and growth. When I find those stocks those criteria again I will again deploy a lot of my money I was 80 90 percent I think 100 percent in stocks in 2010 because that was the best time to do that. 2015 I made a lot of money on stocks real estate was really cheap so I really focused my focus on that and to do that properly. I spent eight months me and my wife looked at more than 100 properties really physically and I would look at 20 30 properties online. I knew every color of every wall in the 50 kilometer square area that I was looking to buy a house. Similar now I'm doing with stocks following carefully what to buy when to buy and when those stocks hit my five criteria then I'll go in big because I know that then I'll get my 15 20 percent 25 40 percent yearly return. At this moment in the market that's very hard to find and that's something you can see on my stock market platform exposure that is really really low. We are waiting for opportunities and I have the feeling those opportunities that I really like will come soon. Let me first sell my real estate so that I can deploy more money to the stock market when the opportunities come. So I wanted to share this because of the mindset that comes sometimes is just better to do nothing or learn about the markets how things see because I see a lot of you chasing those returns chasing those stocks. Oh this stock is going up and down. No it's about finding great businesses at the right time and that's what I do and that's what I'll keep doing and that's why you see my exposure being very little now. So that's something to keep in mind and I urge you to check my stock market research platform because then you will see what's my stock exposure stock market exposure and then you will understand how am I playing this market how am I investing in this market or better to say just looking at the great opportunities looking at the risks reward and then investing when the risk is low and the potential return is high. Thank you for watching. Looking forward to your comments I hope I have given you a good insight into my investment mindset and that it will help you out in time too.