So this shield may as well be called Hey Mum Lock No Hands because this has been created in such a way that you are more or less invincible. You don't have to shoot anything and while this shield does all the work for you. Because you all know of the 40 star right? You know how that works. Well amp that up 10 fold and that's what you have here. How's it going guys? My name's DPJ and if you enjoyed the video leave a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. So if you guys want to get your hands on this it's pretty simple drop a like on this video and leave a comment down below stating your game attack and your platform of choice. Or you can join my discord linked within the video description where open lobbies will be done on this beast or visit the creator's facebook page linked down below. Multiple ways of getting some amazing item people.  The idea for this shield and his creation was from his pal Zeus Criter so yeah credit to them both. And his amazing facebook group loot squad mods dedicated to modded items if you do want to check it out is also linked down below. So the standard 40 star has the benefit of when damage do you spawn a novel around said enemy.  This is the weapon. Now I tried this against various bosses as you can see as long as those more foes shoot at you they don't stand a chance and I mean I tried this it isn't my usual thing the shield capacity is way over what I want it screws other things too but at the same time it's super fun to see in action so I just had to showcase this to you. As I know people out there would love to get their hands on it for sure. Now this item works combined with an artifact but it's all good both items will be given away the artifact just makes this more efficient. So yeah guys the shield literally allows you to run by that enemy and kill them works everywhere too so shame they took away that XP farm within the Guardian takedown because this would have been crazy there but if you do want to run the Guardian takedown or the first raid and you don't want to shoot a gun I mean just run with this it's absolutely ridiculous but yeah it's definitely worth a showcase in my opinion and I hope you guys enjoyed the video again drop a like and a video and leave a comment down below to be the chance of getting this before anybody else but yeah guys my name is dpj and this has been a showcase of this incredible custom-made ulti star and on that note the end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leave me a like truly helps out and remember subscribe and turn notifications on if you like what you're seeing want to see more but guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one


back to everybody for the afternoon session of the workshop on effective writing effective conference papers. This is session 5. Before we begin or do anything, let me just briefly explain to you the format because we have had a number of queries on the chat. This you can think of the session as a combination of a tutorial and a discussion session. So, we will be leading the tutorial from here, but you will be doing some of the exercises at your end and many of these exercises are perhaps 15 or 20 minutes long. I will decide as or I will let you know as time goes on how much time you should spend on each part of the exercise. So, you will work on the exercise in pairs or in groups. Essentially you need one computer for every 2 or 3 people to work on this exercise. You do not need a hard copy or a printout of the exercises. The files needed for the session have been uploaded on Moodle under assignments. There should be a folder called files for session 5 practical. So, if you have not done it done so yet, could you please make sure that these files are present on every PC that the participants are using and as and when required I will tell you which file to use. If you still have any queries, you can perhaps type them in the chat window. So, let us begin and as professor Sunoj mentioned in his talk earlier, any coincidence to your work, your writing is entirely deliberate and what I mean by this is one of the purposes of this workshop is to iteratively improve your papers as you heard from professor Patek this morning. And in order to iteratively improve, you have to start somewhere and in order to provide examples for you I need some samples. So, what I did and what Dr. Mukhtar Atre will be doing tomorrow is we viewed through a lot of your submissions and I must say here that it was very encouraging to see over 400 pre-workshop submissions of your drafts because that is what that will be what you will use today and tomorrow and maybe even next week to apply some of the guidelines that you learn today. So, much of the examples much of the samples you might see are from some from your own writing. Do not think that it is a criticism or a judgment on your writing and in fact you are helping us by providing a samples. So, that we can all work with them and we will all learn in that process. So, at the end of today's session please remain in the labs only you have you need a computer you need a PC for the session and by you I mean every part is every group or group of participants needs to be working on a PC. So, the lab is where you need to be for the entire session today you do not have to move around from here I will I will say when you have to work on the PC and when you need to be listening to the presentation and I think your coordinator can help us help you with that. Let me talk a little bit more about the format and what facilities you need to have. Participants need either a laptop or a PC to work on some of the exercises, but they will be interspersed with sessions where you will need to watch the slides from here and listen to me. So, ideally you would be working in a lab which also has speakers and which has a projection screen. In the absence of that what you can do is still work in the lab and I am hoping that there is at least one computer in the lab which is connected to a view. So, you can use that when the session about when you need to listen to me. I think most of the times you will be working on the exercises yourself except when you have to hear about the instructions as to what to do with the exercises. So, I hope this helps clarify what this how the session will be done. Again if you have questions please type it in the chat window will try to sort out your difficulties. So, we will right away begin with an activity which will help you identify features of good papers. In this activity you need to look at two papers A and B and these two papers are on the same topic and in fact they are written by the same authors except that one is a first draft and the other is a final draft. At this point beforehand you do not know which one is which. What you need to do is first take your time to read both papers actually I would say read one by one. So, pick up paper A and if you open paper A what you will see is that the each paragraph has been labeled as A 1, A 2, A 3 and so on. I will try to upload it on this PC also in a moment, but you will be you should be able to see paper A both papers are only two pages long. Each paragraph has a code associated with it. Paper A has codes which go from A 1 to A 9. The goal of this activity is to identify what is the purpose of each paragraph in that particular paper. You will work in groups, take about 10 minutes to read the paper and also open a file which is called activity 1 worksheet because that has a table. The table says I will show the table to you in a moment, but the table says what gives you the code of the paragraph and it has a blank column for the purpose where you have to write what is the purpose of the paragraph. What I mean by purpose of the paragraph is what is that paragraph doing for the entire paper. Is it serving is it introducing the research questions or as we saw in the morning is it establishing the importance of a problem or is it describing the results. So, you should not write the content of the paragraph and especially I do not want you to summarize, but in a single sentence please write what is the purpose of that of each paragraph and some of the paragraphs have been worked out. So, I think the first two or three paragraphs have been the purpose of the first two or three paragraphs has been described there in the worksheet itself just to help you do the rest. So, again read paper A and fill out the corresponding part in the activity 1 worksheet. I think please do this for about 10 minutes and I will interrupt again after 10 minutes. I got a number of responses on the chat window and it looks like more than 15 centers almost 20 centers have done both A and B and almost all centers have finished A. So, this would be a good time to discuss a little bit and we will discuss then I will give you some more time for paper B and then we can then we will see what to do after that. So, what we will look at now is what is meant by purpose of each paragraph we will first do for paper A you can follow along if you have done something like that. A1 and A2 had been mentioned in the worksheet itself.  So, let us see if you were able to do it for paper A. In paragraph one the problem context is introduced the importance of the problem is mentioned and I will just read out a few sentences where you will get these hints as to how you know whether the problem context is introduced or how you know where the contribution is stated and so on. So, if you look at the last two sentences in paragraph A1 the second last sentence in paragraph A1 says in this paper we focus on students interaction with the LO's we connect students interaction with the LO's to the design features knowledge about this connection will help LO creators design them to be more effective for teaching and learning. So, the sentence we connect the interaction to the design features is what these authors are proposing and in fact not just proposing they are doing a study to determine what is the connection between students interaction with the LO's and the design features of the LO's themselves. So, the contribution has been stated upfront clearly and in the first paragraph itself. The second paragraph is perhaps more explanatory it has a lot of the related work on how to design learning objects it also has described what are good features in learning objects as done by or as mentioned by other people in papers. In the third paper you have to be a little careful because a lot of important information is packed into the third paragraph it is a very short paragraph, but there is a lot of important information. There are two questions at the beginning of paragraph A3 this is where the problem is being stated or the research questions are being stated. Again what I would like you to note is how clearly they are being stated and they are being stated in a question form question 1 and question 2. Right below it in paragraph A3 this is at the bottom of the first column it says to answer the research questions a qualitative study was planned involving observations of students screen capture and video footage interviews were conducted and so on. So, in the last part in this part what the authors are telling us is the broad solution approach they are describing their methodology, but in a broad overview fashion they are not yet giving us details and if you remember what we saw this morning that first give the broad overview of the solution and only then come to details this paper is following it. Let us now go to paragraph A4 if you look at A4, A5 and A6 all three paragraphs are still describing the methodology of the study, but if you just look at the size of the paragraphs if A3 talks about the methodology in three lines, A4 talks about the sample that is the people in the study in an entire paragraph almost 12 lines, A5 and A6 describe the instrumentation the measurement process of the measurement tool in the study and A6 talks about the procedure of the experiment. So, taken together A4, A5 and A6 completely in great detail describe the methodology, they are an extension of A3 where the broad solution was simply outlined and now the details are being provided in the paragraphs A4, A5 and A6. What I would like you to pay attention to a little bit is if you are writing about a strategy that you used in your class or if you are trying to do a research study on how much students learned because of a new technology tool. Your methodology section has to have three important aspects one is how did you choose the people in the study that is called a sample. Secondly, you have to say how you measured what you wanted to measure this is called the tool or the instrument and third you have to describe the procedure of the experiment. So, A4, A5 and A6 are the methodology sections let us come to A7. In fact, let us take one step back before that if you take if you look at A4, A5 and A6 the authors are not just describing their methodology or how they picked their sample they also tell us why they chose that particular set of people or why the measurement tool that they are using is appropriate for their study. So, let us look at a few sentences from the paper. I would like you to look at the last sentence in paragraph A4. It says we selected this group of students as we wanted to study students response to a topic not yet covered in their syllabus. So, not only do they describe who their sample is or what their sample is they are also telling us why it is the correct sample for the research questions. And if you remember from A3 the research question was what is the exploration procedure adopted by a student. So, they want a student who does not know about this topic and they are trying to find out how well the student is able to do a self-study about this topic. Similarly, if you look at look at paragraph A3 itself at the bottom they say that since the questions are exploratory and need a lot of rich data to answer observations and interviews are a suitable method. The authors wanted to prove whether a teaching method was more effective than a different teaching method they might have used a pre-test and a post-test design. Instead here they are doing observations and interviews because they want to explore how students are interacting with a new technology. Going on to A7 A7 in A7 the authors talk about how they do the data analysis. What are the different categories on the basis of which they are going to analyze the data and they follow it up with A8 with the results where they simply apply the analysis on to the data that they have. So, the results in A8 have categories and the categories are called graphical user interface response and feedback response to assessment and feedback and conceptual understanding. These categories had already been chosen in their analysis section. One more thing you might want to make note of in the results section is that there are plenty of graphs. Finally in paragraph A9 the purpose of paragraph A9 is to connect the results to the research questions. So, what this exercise or through this exercise what we try to do is to get into the authors minds and try to understand what they were trying to convey by means of their paragraph. And I hope you were also fairly successful in doing so because a lot of the clues into the author's mind is provided in the paper itself. I read out some of the sentences to you earlier I pointed out some of the features. So, when we analyze papers especially if you are a referee or even if you are trying to understand somebody else's paper what you need to do is try to understand what is the author trying to convey by the sentence or this paragraph. It is a good idea to go at a paragraph or a section level first because sentences are too fine grain the resolution is not is too fine you would not be able to usually it is little hard to find out what the author means by individual sentences. So, look at a whole section look at a whole paragraph and see if the author's intent is clearly coming out of the writing. What we will do now is try to repeat this exercise for paper B. So, I will just do a quick discussion of paper B and what you may have found is that or let us do the discussion and then I will ask you another question. Paper B in B 1 the authors are describing what their project is doing. The first half of B 1 is what their project is doing and the second part of B 1 talks about some related work on how to design learning objects for education. Beyond that it is a little difficult to understand what the authors were trying to say what was their main purpose it is it is a little hard to understand beyond these two sentences. B 2 is reasonably clear it says the B 2 describes all the features of the learning objects that the authors are using in their study. B 3 describes the authors research study and almost immediately they describe lot of details of how the sample was chosen and how they determined what kind of interaction students had with the learning object. So, I want to point out the sentences what they said is there is a sentence at the top of column 2 in B 3. We kept a record of the field notes which contain details of the manner in which students navigated through the learning object whether they easily found the icons, home, demo, quiz, glossary, whether they were able to manipulate the interactive variables and so on. So, right away they tell you a lot of details about what they were looking for in the research study and after that there is more description of related work on the benefits of visualization. This was paragraph B 4. Let us go to B 5 unfortunately there was a typo I am sorry about that. B 5 the number B 5 has been repeated twice. So, I am just calling it B 5 page 1 and B 5 page 2. B 5 page 1 talks a little bit about results and it talks specifically about results on how easily students are able to navigate through LO's in the entire paragraph. B 5 on page 2 has bulleted points on results, but again I was not able to easily summarize what common topic the results were on. They were about 7 or 8 bullet points of results on B 5 page 2 on diverse topics. The last paragraph in this paper B 7 looks like a conclusion and the authors are making some strong claims in B 7. For example, they are saying that it has been shown this is the last sentence in B 7. It has been shown that in many science and engineering subjects visualizations improved student performance, collaborative learning and problem solving. So, B 7 seems like some combination of a summary and conclusion. What I have for you now is a question similar to what we did in the morning. So, I am going to pose the question on this slide and I would like the participants to vote whether they let me put the question up. Which paper did you find to be better written? Share your answer with the your fellow RC participants and coordinator if you could please type in the majority answer in the chat window. We will do this exactly like what we did in the morning. If you do not have interactivity in your lab I will ask you this question again when we go back to the lecture hall. But I think a lot of you do have since you did already send me a lot of chat responses earlier. So, from your participants which paper did you find to be more clearly written? Let me interrupt majority of the answers. I would say maybe 34 out of 35 say that A seems to be better written and you would have found it to be much easier to identify the purpose of the paragraph in paragraph in paper A. It was very clear in paper A that paragraph A 2 had related work paragraph A 3 had the problem as well as a broad solution paragraph A 4 describe the sample and so on. So, moreover the first thing we see from comparing the two papers is that in paper A the purpose is very clearly outlined. But let us also look at a few more details and I am not going to go through all of these right now. I want to let us do a few of them at least. If you look at paragraph A 1 the problem is first motivated from a very broad picture. They start by saying what are the benefits of visualizations and then they say that in order for these benefits to actually take place one needs to have good design features in the learning objects. So, if the good design features are not there in the visualizations all the stated benefits may not happen and then only then the importance of the specific work is established. So, they start with a broad picture and slowly bring the reader as professor Sunoj mentioned earlier. There is a flow to the paper from a broad picture and they are walking you through till they talk about their own specific problem. If you look at A 3 one very good characteristic there is that the research questions that the authors are trying to do is very clearly stated in the form of questions. So, a big guideline I would say again I am not going to call it a rule, but a very strong guideline is if you pose your problems as questions instead of statements it is much easier for you to understand what you are trying to do and of course, it is much easier for the reader to understand what you were trying to do. In each of the methodology paragraphs as we saw earlier the details are described and then they are justified. Why are these students chosen for my study is justified in A 4? If I say why the measurement tools or how the measurement tools capture all the data that are needed for the study? A 6 is again important look at the amount of detailing in A 6. So, I just want to take a break for 30 seconds go back and read A 6 and ask yourself if you had to repeat this experiment in your college would you be able to do so? So, those of you who have the paper in front of you you can do it right here. Let us look at the result section in A 8 again there are important features here. You heard a session by Professor Gaithonday this morning about the importance of graphics. So, if you look at the results in paper A you will see that bar charts are used to depict the important results. So, even if the reader has not looked through some of the earlier text they can look at your bar charts and understand what you did and what you found. There are summary bullets classifying the results into different categories which have already been determined. So, you do not have to wonder as to which result is trying to answer which question and this in particular I would like you to contrast with paper B. Paper B also has a lot of results, but in paper B the results are given as a long list. They may be true they may be well they may be correct and they may be well studied, but the reader does not know what to do with the results. The reader does not know how they answer the questions. One more thing you will notice in paper B notice or you will notice the absence is it is not clear ever in paper B what exactly the authors are trying to do. I hope I would like to encourage you to go back and notice that this is one this is half this characteristic is missing and perhaps that is why most of you found paper B to be much harder to read. It is not badly written the English is perfect I would say there is some structure to the paper. So, here is an example where the authors know their English they have done good work, but the flow is missing and the important sections that we talked about this morning the important characteristics questions are not mentioned. So, even though a lot of results are mentioned and even though the details of the study are mentioned you find it very hard to follow paper B. Look at the methodology section in paper B and I am referring to let us go back a couple of slides. I am referring to paragraph B 3 the authors start by describing the research study. They say that we did a research study consisting of 8 students and the rest of the paragraph is about the students and about the measurement. What they do not tell you is what is the research study about what they were trying to find out. So, they are violating the rule of overall idea first and details later. They do have the idea in their own minds that is why they were able to do a study and get such good results, but they are not being they are not clearly stating it in the paper. So, these two papers are illustrating to you some of the characteristics we saw in the morning. Let us talk a little bit about related prior work. Both papers talk about related prior work. What happens in paper A is the prior work is categorized and what I mean by categorized is all related work or all previous work related to design of learning objects appears in the same place. All previous work related to the gaps or related to the benefits of the visualizations appears together. So, there is a classification done of the related work. This is some form of synthesis that is happening. Secondly, the gaps in the related work have been identified, analyzed and stated. There is a sentence in paper A paragraph A 2. It is a last sentence. While the design of Oscar learning objects is based on results of prior studies, we study the effect of the design and pedagogy of the objects on students in the Indian environment who are not familiar with learning by self study. So, they are identifying what is missing in the prior studies or what gap is there, what has not been done in the prior studies and in the very next paragraph in A 3 they are telling us how they plan to fill that gap. So, that is explained by the analysis and synthesis. This is completely missing in paper B even though there is a lot of prior literature. So, there are two problems in the literature, in the previous work mentioned in paper B. Firstly, you will see pieces of it in all the paragraphs. There was B 1, B 4, a little bit in B 2. Secondly, they mention a lot of literature on the benefits of visualizations which are not the focus of this paper. So, there is no point talking about literature that is not related to your study. Thirdly, there is no analysis of the gaps done. So, when you do literature survey, what you need to do is the analysis and the synthesis. So, what we will do at this point is I hope this exercise at least gave you a practical example of one how to read a paper and analyze it and B what points to keep in mind when you are writing the paper. So, there is a summary of all the points that we talked about. So, let us take a short break. I think there should be T in all your remote centers available. So, if not T, then take a walking break or something. Let us reconvene at 420, let us say 425, 15 minutes and we will do two things. We will spend about 20 minutes on summarizing the characteristics of a good paper, 15 to 20 minutes since we have done it a couple of times and we will not do any more activities. I will open up the forum for discussion because we have not done any interaction today except through chat window. So, we will do a quick summary and then interaction. So, if you would like to come back to the lab and you have a view in the lab with interaction that is fine. If you do not have a view in your lab and you want to go back to your lecture hall that is also because we will not be doing any more activities. So, let us stop, take a break for about 15 minutes and we will come back for a long interaction. Welcome back to the last session of day one of the workshop. Before we go on, I just like to make a quick announcement about the exercise that you just did because we have been receiving a lot of queries on where you can upload the worksheet and why Moodle is not allowing someone to upload their assignment and so on. So, there is no need to upload your worksheet. The whole purpose of the exercise was for each of you to be able to analyze papers and that is why you had two papers, one good and one let us say that could use a lot of improvement. And by reading and trying to analyze those papers, I hope you got an idea of what are the features that are required. In the next few minutes, we will do one last summary of these features taking examples from paper A, but the worksheet that you just did that is for your benefit if you would like you can save a copy of it on your PC or take it home and so on. There are plenty of more opportunities for you to upload worksheets and homework.  So, if you are raring to go and upload something hold on for a few more minutes. A couple of more queries. There is an activity 2 in the folder on moodle. We will not be doing that right now. So, we will postpone that to tomorrow. You do not have to look at activity 2. After about a 15 minute summary, we will open up the floor to questions. We will do an interactive audio video question. So, if you would like to move your participants to the lecture hall for that that is fine or if you would like to stay in the lab and you have a view in the lab that is also ok. There is one more question on whether we will share the slides. All slides both from today and tomorrow will be shared on moodle. It just might take a couple of more days for us to upload them on moodle, but all slides the even the two paper well you have the two papers, but the comparative table that you saw some time ago somebody asked for it. All of these will be uploaded on moodle as soon as possible. So, as we saw in the previous session paper A does did seem a lot easier to read and we saw some of the reasons for it. So, let us do a top down summary now and now I would like you to think of these points not from the perspective of paper A or B, but from the perspective of what you should be doing when you are writing your own paper. A well written paper has or contains a focus a clearly identified focus. The focus of paper A was that learning objects can be effectively used only if they are designed well. That was the main idea the focus behind the entire paper. Their experiments also the study that they did was also trying to determine how to design them well so that they are useful in teaching and learning. They were not trying to prove anything in the study, but they were trying to make a connection between effective use and good design. So, that was the single key focus in paper A. It was not about the benefits of visualizations, but it was a connection between effective use and good design. Next key contribution of the paper clearly stated we spoke about this in the morning and I think we also discussed this when we were looking at paper A. There is a sentence first paragraph last line it is a fairly prominent position. We connect students interaction with the learning objects to the design features and in the next sentence they are telling us who would benefit from this contribution or who is the target audience for this paper. Knowledge about this connection will help creators of learning objects design them to be more effective. So, lesson for all of us writing is state your contributions clearly and put them in a place where they are easily found. The general recommendation is to put them in your introduction. First paragraph is great if your introduction has two or three paragraphs put them somewhere boldly in the introduction. Next point problem clearly stated in the form of question. So, here you saw an actual example from a real research paper which does that. What it does not say here is what not to do well, but you saw paper B. Paper B said we did a research study. So, a problem is not what you did it is the questions that you would like to be answered via your paper. It is easiest to fulfill this goal to clearly state the problem if the problem is in the form of a question because then you can reread your results and see if they answer this question and if they do not you know that something is inconsistent. Maybe you have to repeat your study or maybe you have to do it with a different sample or maybe the questions you were asking were just too difficult, but the moment you have questions the entire paper can focuses or the readers attention at all times is towards the questions. It anchors the paper, importance of the problem well explained. We again saw that this was an important feature this morning and in paper A there was a sentence which says that the use of learning objects can lead to effective teaching and learning only if they designed well they need to be pedagogically rich and so on. So, this was the key focus of the paper, but this is also why doing the study is important, why answering the questions you saw in the previous page are important. So, if we know that good design leads to better learning or more effective I would say better learning if we know that good design leads to more effective use then we better know what those good design features are. Next point related work stated and analyzed I think when we were looking at the tables we saw this what you I would like you to focus on is how related work has been theme in this paragraph. The two themes are student use of computer simulations to engage with and explore science topics that is one theme. Second theme is design development and use of multimedia learning objects. So, there is a clear theme they may have read 10 papers they may have cited 10 papers in there or 10 journal articles in their research paper, but they have all been categorized into clear themes which again are related to the research questions because design and use of multimedia learning objects have to deal with the research questions. We did talk about analyzing the gap in the paper that is the bottom paragraph here that what is not present in the paper or what is not present in previous work needs to be stated clearly and that is the basis of the research questions. Results are easily understandable, clear and for scientific presentations it usually means include tables, graphs, bar charts, scientific diagrams, flow diagrams, flow charts, block diagrams depending on what domain you are from. So, the two papers you compared had to do with the teaching and learning using technology, but these guidelines that emerge from it hold true in all papers. In fact, professor Gaithundey spoke his entire session was on how to make diagrams more understandable. So, I do not have to talk to you about the importance of this. Again if you want an example of a bad if you want a bad example think of paper B lots of results, but not clearly understandable. Then explain it with overall idea first and details later. So, in paper A paragraph A 3 explain the overall idea that a study was planned, it involved observations, screen capture and video and why this study is suitable for the research problems that is all it says in the overall idea that is sufficient. The details were the sample tool and procedure one large paragraph, fairly large paragraph each. Solutions were not just described and explained they were also defended and what defense means is firstly good results are a good provide a fairly valid justification for the solution approach or for the idea that you have that you think would solve the problem. So, results are clearly shown, but not just that they are reconnected to the problem it is closing the feedback loop that you pose a problem, you suggest how to solve it, you solve it and get results and now you show that hey look the results actually indeed solve the problem that I had posed a few paragraphs ago. I think this appears in the last paragraph of paper A that students navigated through the learning object on their own accord without following any particular order and shifted between the various sections of the object and somewhere else in the paper it was written that these were the design features that were incorporated in the learning object that students were given the opportunity to go back and forth between the different sections. So, here they are saying that the results seem to confirm it is preliminary evidence still they are not making they are not proving anything, but they are finding a pattern or a connection between students behavior and the intended design features of their learning objects. So, after you write your results usually you will write a section you may title it discussion or you may just simply call it results and discussion it is the part that comes along with and write after the results where you have to make sense of the results you have to say why are the results important, how do they reconnect to the problem that is how you will defend your solution. What I would like you to do is or what I will do for you is go back to the table for a moment let us look at paper A and simply look at the purpose and now please concentrate on the order because so far we know what is inside each section. Now, let us just look at the order and the sequence problem context introduced importance mentioned contribution stated related work broad solution then details of solutions in A 4, A 5, A 6, A 7 is data analysis, A 8 is results, 9 is connect results to research questions. So, what this paper A is doing in addition to the other characteristics is having a coherent consistent mainly it has a coherent flow which contains all of these. I am not saying that this is the only order you have to follow, but whatever the flow is it has to be coherent one violation of the coherence as we saw earlier is if you give a lot of details first and do not describe the overall idea. Another violation is if you do not talk about the problem at all the research question and jump into the answer that would break the coherence in the flow. So, that is about it for what are the aspects of a well written paper and I think we have had several activities and several sessions where we have talked about it. What we will do tomorrow is now see how to take an idea of some problem some idea that you have and I will describe how we can do it and convert it into a research article. And when we do it we have to make sure that all these features are present. In the process we can also talk a little bit about what are the different sections that must be there in the paper and so on. But it does not really matter to the referee what you call the section whether you have a separate section called discussion or merge it with results or whether you have a bold title called methodology, but what the referee is looking for are all these features. So, let me mention to you the as I had promised mention to you the homework that I would like you to think about today. So, today is a really short homework give me a moment. Okay homework and another announcement. So, what next tomorrow we will discuss how to convert just forget the word template right now, but how to convert an idea of your idea coming from your work into research article and how to section it out and so on how to organize the paper. So, I want to make a quick digression seems like a digression right now, but you will see how it is connected to what we have been talking so far. I did mention this in the morning briefly that there is a conference coming up on technology for education. And the reason I am talking about that conference specifically is that the aspect that connects all of you together is that you are all teachers. So, even though you are from different domains teaching is the common thread that runs through all of you. So, many of you would have at some point either come up with an innovative teaching learning strategy or you have implemented some new tool in your class or found out a new way to use a technology. There if you are if you are able to convert it I would not say convert it, but if you think that there is some research you could do around that idea. Use this workshop as an opportunity to write up a research article and submit it to the conference called technology for education. So, couple of slides on it. The conference is in July it is in Hyderabad. The submission deadline is somewhat close, but if you already have an idea to begin with we can see if we can do something. The main goal of the conference is to promote learning and teaching through the use of technology. And what the conference organizers and the chairs want to do is to encourage students, teachers and researchers to present results of their R and D efforts in education through the use of technology. So, you see here education is coming first technology is coming next, but the two go hand in hand. There are several areas of focus if you go to this website you will be able to find it. It is being hosted at triple IT Hyderabad, but there is a national and international program committee. This is the fourth in the series of such conferences perhaps some of you have already attended the ones earlier. The next slide is interesting because how you can participate is by submitting a paper, but I thought some of you would be asking the question why should I submit a paper. Apart from those I will get a bullet point on my resume and I will gain recognition you know those choices we throw throughout this morning. Apart from it why should you be submitting a paper. Again we talked about this today morning that you can get to practice your technical writing skills and apply the guidelines that you learn or that you refine in this workshop. In the workshop we can only do short exercises. Writing a real research article will give you practice in a real life scenario. It will help you get clarity in your own research and you can get to communicate your work with your colleagues and the opposite of that. You can get to find out what work your fellow teachers and researchers are doing. Maybe you will pick up tips on what other teachers are doing in their classes. So, how do you go about doing this? The first thing you need to do is the homework. So, today's homework is very short even though it looks like it is one page long. Think of one innovative teaching learning strategy you have used. As I said earlier it can be a strategy you implemented in a large class or maybe a group based learning solution for problem solving or you may have used Moodle in a very novel way in your class and you want to ask what is this doing? How is it affecting students learning or students perceptions? Is it changing teaching practices in any way? So, at this point I am not asking you to think of any questions. All I want you to think of is one innovative teaching strategy that you have used. I am going to call that as your idea. Write this idea in no more than two or three sentences. One sentence is sufficient in your notebook, but please write it out and bring it tomorrow and then we will see if we can use it to how to use that into and try to see what research study you can plan around it. So, with that I think let us conclude the lecture part of the session.


As she represented Hawaii, Miss American Pageant as one of our very own Miss Hawaii 1987. Today we are coming to you live from my home in downtown Honolulu and from the studios of Think Tech in downtown Honolulu, where we share the views of over 35 dynamic hosts covering very diverse topics. Today, I would like you to get to know the heart of my friend, Miss Luana Alapa as she shares her OHA journey and knows her purpose for running for the office of Hawaiian Affairs. What Luana would like you to take away from today's discussion is staying focused and keeping your eyes on the prize. It's all about staying positive despite negative people and being able to see good in everything. Hey, come on by Luana Alapa. Aloha. Thank you so much, Wendy, for having me. I have a feeling we're going to have a wonderful, fun time. Well, we only got 30 minutes, so we'll have a wonderful, short time. Whoo-hoo. All right. Okay.  So that's how I knew you, Miss Luana Alapa, Miss Hawaii 1987. So please tell me about your reign, and what did you do as Miss Hawaii? Well, during my year of reign, it's been a magical year. It was a magical year for me because of the fact that not only are you selected by an esteemed panel of judges to represent your state in the National Miss America pageant, but also you're an ambassador. An ambassador of Aloha, like a cultural host, so to speak, as we, Miss Hawaii's travel is, she travels all over the world promoting our Hawaiian culture, the beauty of Hawaii to many of the visitors who will come to Hawaii as well. And at the same time, you know, I had a chance to meet a ton of people from all walks of life, from celebrities like the Dolly Partons, the George Michaels, I don't think I remember those people, but they were also the Robin Leach lifestyles of the rich and famous shows. Thank you, girl. I swear, I had an incredible year, but I'm also meeting the most awesome people, but it was also people in general from the different countries that I traveled to from Australia to New Zealand. I went to Rotonga, Samoa, Tahiti. I've been to places like China, Beijing, China, and so forth. Just wonderful places that I had an opportunity to share my love for Hawaii as well as being Miss Hawaii. It's just an honor. Anyone who has had that opportunity at that time was really, really well taken care of. And of course, it was all about showcasing Hawaii. And the years that have been involved in pageantry from that point after, it was all about helping other women to achieve their goals in the pageant industry. So it wasn't just about me, but it was also ensuring that others will have that opportunity. So I got involved in the pageant industry as a state director for the Miss Hawaii pageant, the Miss Hawaii for America. They all fall under the same umbrella. So I hold a franchise rights to it. And of course, I have a daughter, by the way, but you know, she got involved. She wanted to, you know, try our hand at it. And naturally with the support of myself along with many others who wanted to get on board to help her, Miss Hawaii Teen USA. So it was, it was a, for her, just that was it. It wasn't like I'm going to be running pageants forever. No, it was a one shot deal for her. Just like me, one time at Miss Hawaii and that's it. Now we move on to other things. And I, for me, that, but I don't think you really moved on because I know that you continue mentoring a lot of young women to match out who Kaya Kua created them to be. And so that's the whole idea, like even myself being involved with almost 25 years under my belt with all of you young ladies. It's because we want to find the right representative so that she could showcase Hawaii and represent Hawaii in the best light. And so you've got a big job on your hands because there are many, many qualified young women here in Hawaii. And your role is to guide them and make sure that they just, just make sure that they are maxing out who they were created to be. Yeah. And they know the whole idea behind the women itself. For me, it's, I enjoy working with them and seeing them grow from the beginning with like zero confidence to towards a pageant. It's like a whole different woman that has come about because of the cooperate. We teach everything from interview techniques, poison posture for the speech.  You're the girl from olacai and I'm the girl from Miley. So a lot of training going on there. But if you can make it as Miss Hawaii, I tell you your job is a big job, but very well done. And you took the responsibility and I'm sure it'll never stop because you're always the pageant mama. Yeah, I enjoy it because it's, it's been a part of me for about 30, almost 30 years that I've been producing these events and meeting women from all walks of life. And I love that. Love their backgrounds and so forth. But I think more than anything, it's always about seeing the fact that they can become the better version of themselves. Just learning and they're not really taught that in their home per se. Yes, something like this would probably help them along the way. It surely does. I mean, I've seen it done and I've seen you create so and you will continue. So keep, keep building Hawaii's women as beautiful as we can. And it's not just the outside, but it's the heart and that's the beauty that the heart and the brain are working. And I always tell, we can paint the barn, but it's the heart that we can't put, we can't change. But they got the right heart and the right mind to represent Hallelujah. Amen. Amen, girl. And I know that you didn't just stop with those with those girls, those women of Hawaii. But tell us a little bit about your family and your your children.  No, it's about reality. OK, no, I don't have the castle in the sky and all that, you know, that goes with it. No, you know, I got married and I raised two children. But, you know, I also suffered from a broken marriage and I became a single mother in the early 2000s. And I was responsible now because I used to be a state home mom. And now I'm on my own raising two children and to add to the mix. I had two more children, foster siblings, Native Hawaiian foster siblings who used to come to our neighborhood. My house was the kids central. Everybody was I love it. I did everything for the neighborhood kids. I threw out Christmas parties. I had ice cream Sunday night. I had movie night and these two kids in particular came around a lot. And pretty soon they didn't leave my house. They didn't want to go home. And I was like, no, it's 12 o'clock. Me died at school. Don't take me home. I'll take you home. Right. But then I learned more about their background as they shared some insights, what happened to them.  And the father, as I found out, was abusive and so forth. So they lived a life that wasn't, you know, the normal. And so when they saw what I did for my kids, as well as for the neighborhood kids, they wanted that they wish they had that help when we can have that. Wow. And then one day I got a call from CPS saying that they had the children. If no one wants them, would I take them? And what are we going to blessing? No, I said, of course, I'll take them. The one wants them off with a feel. You know, for children to feel not wanted. And so but it took a little while before that happened because they they ended up with their mother's sister, and that was a whole another episode. It was not good. Well, so you said I will and you did and you adopted. So you you're responsible for four amazing young adults in our community. I'm so proud of you when I saw that.  So, you know, I just love that that's what you've done. And on top of that, single parents and I take my my hats off to them. I love them that have to raise their family and go to work and everything else, which is what I did, but at the same time, I wanted to still have a sense of normalcy for my four kids. And that was the way I ran my home. So it was open, loving. There was no fighting. I mean, there was never, never any of that. And it was part of each other and so forth. So the kids are reflection of you. The kids are also reflecting a reflection of their parents. Right? I mean, you have you want to see how a person is? Look at their home, right? Look at their right. Yeah, you look at their home and how and how needed is or what it looks like. You know, I mean, not that we're judging, but you can have an idea. You know, yeah. And I know that, you know, in the community, I volunteered with many different organizations like the Food Bank and many years with the Hotel Coalition with Mr. Noel Trainor as my director and working with him. I missed him so much. He did so much for the Hilton and the community. But I know now that you've always been community minded as well. And you've done so much for our state. And I know you've been very active with the Food Bank. So share with us a little bit. What have you been doing with the Food Bank recently? You know, so well, a lot of my work has been in the volunteering for a variety of organizations, such as mentioned, Susan G. Coleman, there's Toys & Toys of Tots. I work with the volunteer with the hotel and travel industry, the HUD's program, IHS, Project Shine. I've done work with Salvation Army and so forth. But the one aspect that I love is being a part of the Food Bank, because to me, food is your lifeline. You know, without food, we can't survive. And and you'd be surprised that people that are going without food, you know, they'll have one meal and that's it. It's the rest of their day is done. So I wanted to get more involved with the Hoi Food Bank, which I've done. And and at the same time, I really enjoy the facts that of giving back and of course, another part is that besides food is water.  So I try and lubricates our joints, but you're getting old. And so so that, you know, that sets in. So you'd be surprised at things that happen as you get older. But water always found a wonderful tool and wonderful must have to have in our life, but aside from the aside from that, though, the food distribution, what I've been involved in with the Hoi Food Bank, it's just been amazing because of the smiles on the faces of the people we see then it is that that makes my day. That's and I know that not only do you volunteer with the food bank and now, of course, the need for more organized food, food drives have just been going out the door and another one here, another one there, but so needed. So please share with us a little bit about Mahalo Malama Meals. OK, so the Mahalo Malama Meals, basically that was a banner that we had made to think it's that was a picture of my team of volunteers in Molokai that helped distribute the foods to all of the Kapuna Nevee families, and we wanted to show our appreciation for the organizers of Malama Meals. So it was Ahmad and his partners that helped distribute the meals. These are ready cooked meals that was flown over and we had a time frame in which to deliver these meals immediately. So it was our grab the meals and everybody split to their designated spots on Molokai that they delivered the meals. And that was part of the drive as well. We go to the homes of the Kapunas and to all the family's Molokai and the expressions on their faces, priceless. They were sold just so appreciative just for a meal, you know, because we don't know where the next meal is going to be. And so that Malama Meals banner was an important way which we could show our appreciation. Wow. That's amazing. And I understand that you help to coordinate that and bring it there to Molokai. I mean, like kudos to you for every little one more thing well done. You know, and all the work and I know all the work and meetings and coordinating that it takes to just even to have a simple food drive as that. But the reward at the end of the day is prices. And yes, I know that that's what fuels you to continue to continue. And then I under I also understand that your father instilled upon you and your sisters, so being of service to others is one of the greatest keys one should do in their lifetime. Absolutely. You know what? Kudos again to your daddy, because he's done a good job.  And they're continuing in his legacy and his teaching. So your dad must have been an amazing man. He was absolutely. He was I know he's smiling proudly on all of us, you know, being able to serve our people. You know, it was as you mentioned, it's a lot of work. It was a lot of coordination. And I'm so blessed to have the most amazing people, volunteers on Molokai to help distribute these meals. We served over forty five four thousand five hundred meals went out every week to our families. So it is quite a task. But again, as you mentioned, the rewards are just priceless. And I know that by being a part of being of service to others, you know, it'll always be a part of me because it's what my dad always stressed to me and my sisters about giving up yourself at least one time in your life to do something for someone else. And of course, that's a natural for us anyway. So I love that. And that's, you know, that's another thing that we have in common, Luana. A lot of people would say, oh, yeah, when I get old, I go and volunteer. I go and donate. But you know what? You and me, we didn't wait like a lot of other our friends. We didn't wait. We didn't say when we're old, you know, because we've been doing it for the last 20 and 30 years. And now we're old and we've been we have 30 years under our belt. So we didn't wait. So all you young, you're cakey out there. Don't wait. Don't wait until, you know, you have only time to sit on the couch and watch prices right or something. Get out there, volunteer, join a community and just do it because it's so rewarding. It's priceless. When you see you doing it, they want to do it too. And I'm very blessed to have my kids be a part of my meal distributions. Whenever I have a chance to volunteer to do that, it's like automatic. So again, it's it's what we as parents do that our kids follow. And by doing that is a wonderful way of showcasing the values that we still upon our family and our own children. Exactly. And you know, I'd like to add that one point is my daughter is not an academic or an athletic or she doesn't play a musical instrument. However, when she did go to college, they gave her $48,000 scholarship and I said, what did you make a mistake? Where did this come from? Why are you giving it to us? And they said because she had like 14 years of community service under her belt. And I didn't let her take all the credit from the time she was five. OK, she only could start taking credit from the time she was like seven. And then what it was was if I didn't force her to do it, you know, like, come on, you got to help mommy. No, it was like, OK, mommy's going to go to the heart walk if they woke up and if they came, that's when they got I let them put it in their journal and get credit for it because it was of their will. And I know that the job was done because now they enjoy it and they become an addict to community service like their mother. So that's so so valuable, so valuable. OK, so now years have passed and I see you on a Molokai a lot. I'm like, hey, what problem is there in a Molokai? It's like expensive. Go back and forth back and forth. But I didn't realize you were spending a lot of time on Molokai.  Well, here's how it, you know, first of all, I've been a Molokai since we were little. You know, we come from divorced parents. So my dad and my stepmom moved to Molokai. And of course, me, my sisters and I stayed with my mother, my stepfather and my eight. So of course, we traveled back and forth through our youth and so on. And that was many of this back in the seventies that we're doing that. And then, of course, my sisters, one of them, who had lived there for a bit and moved back to Oahu and vice versa. I just did the traveling back and forth because on Oahu, I did a lot of my raising my own family and my career and so forth.  They're on their own. They're going off to college. One is married, has two children and other works for a floor laying company.  I'm an empty nester. Right. This is the time to head on over back to Molokai to help roads and and I stayed on my father, my late father's five acres of land in Ho'olehua. Now, my father, mind you, had a blueprint, a massive blueprint that he designs for the purpose of developing the five acres there. One in particular part of our land is like commercial zone. So he already knew when he selected that lot, he had plans for that lot. And part of it was to establish a cafe and then the farm to table like what we have today now, I want to play with you. I want to come already have you in the plans. And it was all about servicing our people. You know, those who came to visit would would have their meals. Basically, it was farm to table like what's up with trainers today. And then he wanted to build a cultural center to showcase our Hawaiian culture, our language, our through hula chant, learning of the lua, the art of lua and so forth. So he wanted that built on the property as well. And then, of course, to the garden, the healing garden that he wanted built. He wanted there because of the Hawaiian herbs. Of course, as you know, about Hawaiian herbs and the medicinal aspect of it. He wanted that he also wanted a garden so that when people came over, they were able to walk through and see the most beautiful plants and flowers. They go visit the healing garden as well. And then, of course, girl, this is where you come in. It's all about the tower gardens, right? Go up, go up, go up, go up, go up this way because it takes up a lot of land. So we got to go out in less water as I've learned. So that's some of the things I want to implement in my father's property. But guess what? That takes money money money. So I have I'm beholden to grants and so forth because of the cultural aspect of what my dad's blueprints are about. And we're and I know that we're able to fire grant moneys to help build this for my my father. Well, I'm the only one my family could do it because my sister, my younger sister lives in Washington, D.C. Then my older sister in New Orleans, you're apart. She runs the family checking business that is in all the stores today. And she's been doing that for many, many years. So middle sister here. Since I have an empty nester went back home. Let's get to work, girl, lots of time, lots of energy. I don't want nails, case of dirt field. It long, long, long. But you know, I saw a picture. You just looked over a picture and I saw one of the pictures I put up one, which is, of course, caught my eye. Such a beautiful sunset from your property. But what you are doing on the other slide that I didn't submit is that you all were having a movie night in your yard. And I love that because I always do that. And I put the projector up and oh, everybody comes. Yeah, I love it. You know, the fact is that, you know, I can do more things on five acres, especially that one area that I showcase the hour. I get to look at that every day. The most beautiful sunset. It is just striking. Yes, it was. It is gorgeous. And I have like my family over when we have like all the tables there. And then we have we love it, love it. It is so amazing. And so, you know, now we're going to segue into another topic of your life, another chapter, you've always been one to make a big difference. And it only makes sense that you would want to represent the people of Molokai. And of course, of all Native Hawaiian culture. Tell us how this this decision come about for you to run for OHA. Well, let's run it this way. It didn't happen overnight. You know, I was asked many years ago to run for OHA. And I just brush it aside, didn't take it seriously. And plus, you know, timing is important, right? So I was married at the time and I had my kids and my focus was my family first. So that I spent 20 plus years doing that. And now that my kids are, you know, they're on their own now and so forth. I'm moving back to Molokai because they have their house here, not get my house there in Molokai, my dad's property. And I was asked again, hey, why don't you come back to Molokai? Because would you really consider, you know, running for OHA? And I'm like, I don't know about this. This is all, you know, what that takes. You're going to be putting yourself out there for the public, bubble, blah, and so on. But the words that kept coming back to me over and over are those words my father said to be of service to others. And that was a deciding factor for me that if I could, while I'm here in Molokai, to do all what I need to do, why not be of service to our Hawaiian community there, but not just just besides Molokai community, but everyone in general. And if I could do that, why not utilize this time to run for OHA? And that's how all of that happened. Now, I've never thought I would be in a position. You remember now I have my comfort zone. We all have our comfort zones, but taking yourself out of that comfort zone, just like running in a pageant, you're coming from your own back in a backyard, your own home. Now you've got to go out and expose yourself to everybody. Innovating suit. Innovating suit, that's the direct. And in heels. And in heels, yeah, I challenge anybody to do that, yeah. Right. And to answer questions in front of everybody and so forth. So I knew that I would be doing the same thing that I would be teaching my own contestants to be able to step out of the comfort zone and to do something different for once for themselves. This one was not about me. It was about our Hawaiian community. And that was the overall deciding factor on why I decided to go for it. Right. Second, I was probably the last one to enroll or sign up. I became official candidate. So and I bought, by the way, lots of prayer, lots and lots of prayers, lots of prayers behind you. And that's why when I saw that and I figured, you know what, I wanted to just showcase to the people of Hawaii, your heart and your service, your community's service, heart in all of this and for them to see and decide on that and then, of course, all the different issues or issues of the heart that you can understand and research and dissect and you're going to make the better decisions for the people. And I think that's most valuable is that everyone sees your heart within the reasoning for you going in. So I'm just so proud of you and just just 100 percent behind what you are doing. And I know that, you know, another cause very deep in your heart is the breast cancer awareness, which is this month, October is breast cancer awareness month, thus we're wearing pink. So you come up with great causes to wait for. So talk to us a little bit about your commitment with the breast cancer society. Sure. Well, the reason for breast cancer is partially because I volunteered with that organization to help raise awareness. And part of it is through the Susan G. Cohen, I've also participated in the Susan G. Cohen runs and attended their galley events and so forth. I've had my state pageant queens also volunteer for this wonderful organization. And so I knew that breast cancer was an area that it's close to my heart. I also had several former, a couple of my former Mrs. ways have also suffered from breast breast cancer and they are survivors today. So I knew this would be a wonderful way in which I could be a part of continuously, especially for this month of October, being breast cancer awareness and the color pink, that I have the pink. Yes. And you know, there are so many people very dear to us in our pageant world. Of course, Angela, Dr. Angela Pratt. Yes, she is 100 percent behind all of this wearing pink and all her events and everything she does along with her mother, Barbara Pratt. Yes, yes, yes. Very, very dynamically involved with everything. I got myself involved because of them and their support. And so, Naturop, you're going to follow your friends for a good cause. And so that's where that that whole pink theme that come about on the in my month of October and what I'm going to be doing for the rest of this month, as you know. And you've been representing well. I mean, another good friend of ours is Ivalani Sayu. And she, like yourself, has a healing garden and, you know, just welcomes all what he needs to come so that they can come. And I'm sure you're going to have the same invite for your property and your venture is that people can come there and just just be with nature and heal to be still in nature and to be and to be healed. And that's what we all need is to have a place of safe haven that we can go and feel comfort that we want to just let our bodies let down so that our bodies can take over to heal itself as we're doing the right things and giving it the right tools to heal. So I'm excited to see and be a part of this from the very beginning and see it come to fruition. So I'm going to keep you in on my radar and watch what you're doing.  You've been campaigning, waving at the sides of the road. You're you rally your supporters and friends to bring awareness for breast cancer as well, so not just for me for OHA, but be more aware of breast cancer as we are right in the month. Is it that you are doing the two things that matter so much to women? So tell us about your sign waving events. I know you had one in Kahala area. Yes, so I've had several events. We've had three already. We got several more this week and the next week until the end of the month. And of course, I love to do it all year long, but no can. Because everybody has their real jobs. But the pink campaign, this is what happened. Just a little quick story on it. We had ordered back in September, we had ordered more signs for the general elections and to post more of it and it was in the colors of blue and green. And they came in bright neon pink and 50 of them and I'm like, oh, my God, we're going to get pink signs and this is awful and blah, blah, blah. And of course, we weren't going to pay for it. But they sent in the correct ones later. But in the meantime, we were stuck with pink. So I thought I'd be in it next month. Wait a minute, a fall moment. You was the one who knew what he was doing. He did that for me and oh, my gosh, I'm so excited. So with the pink signs, I said, wait a minute, let's incorporate pink as part of the pink campaign where we have the sign. But also I had other signs done that says the pink cancer awareness with the ribbon on it and those signs along with my own campaign sign.  You were chosen with the fine appointment. You're right by you through this all. I tell you, could not be even more efficient and you know what, indeed, you know, the best part. So when we're standing on Kahala, you're going by and the lights come to a stop or all the cars stop and you see the women, they're like this, looking at us and they're praying and throwing kisses.  And they loved it and I had to catch on more and more people wanted to jump on my pink campaign and I've got more volunteers because of the pink campaign because they're what breast cancer survivors. Amen. Yes. And you're in support of them and we want to help them through these times. Yes. Wow. I'm so excited.  So we just want to say mahalo, mahalo kea kua for bringing Luana to us, mahalo kea kua for your heart and for making a difference now, today, yesterday, today and our future. So vote Luana Alafa. I give you a plug. You don't have to be both I, you can just vote. It's open to everyone. Mahalo for being with us so much. Mahalo. Hello, everybody.


How's going on guys right? It's Mark and I'm back with another eToro tutorial Where today I'm basically just gonna go about what a dividend is Does eToro pay dividends? How much does a company pay in dividends? And how to find that and how to see it in your account basically So I'll go over all those things and as always if you have any question about any questions about any of those You can reach me in the comments or you can reach me in Instagram which will sort of links in the description and that sort of stuff so First of all, what is a dividend? So a dividend is basically it's pretty straightforward It's basically just the the profits that a company pays out to its shareholders So if you own shares in the company, you're a shareholder and if they pay dividends or payout profits then you'll get a small portion of that depending on What what they're willing to pay out basically Does eToro pay dividends? Yes, it does It pays dividends obviously depending on the companies that you're investing in if you're investing in companies that don't pay dividends And eToro is not gonna pay you anything, right? So That should be pretty self-explanatory, but I thought I just clear that up Another question is when do you get the dividend payment from eToro? So that will depend obviously on company to company They follow a basic timeline so a basic dividend timeline is going to be your declaration date the ex-dividend date the record date and the payment date so Declaration date is basically the company's Board of Directors get together and they say this is what the evidence is going to be and then they'll probably announce the timeline from there So for the ex-dividend date Etc. So the ex-dividend date is pretty important. So that's something you want to pay attention to it's Basically, you have to have the stock before That date you have to own the stock before that date to be paid With eToro if you have a cfd position. So basically anything that's leveraged for the most part as a general rule of thumb You'll get paid the dividend to your available balance on the ex-dividend date If you have a real asset You have to own the stock for two business days Before the ex-dividend date So if the ex-dividend date is a friday, you'd have to own it by the wednesday wednesday first. Yeah friday for example sake so that's that and then with the Record date, you know the company best at you just checks to use Entitled to the dividend and then the payment date is when it's paid, which is usually about a month after Everything's been announced As I said, but if you have a cfd on eToro, then you'll get the dividend to your available balance on The ex-dividend date if you have the real asset You have to wait until the payment date And dividends are also typically paid once every quarter. So once every three months you can usually expect to be paid some kind of dividend And so just for your own reference sake, so if you are interested in Creating like a dividend type portfolio First of all, a higher dividend isn't always necessarily the best, right? So if there's a company that's paying like 10 percent Dividend yield which Dividend yield is basically just the annual dividend divided by the current share price So if the shares down then the yield can be higher, right? Because the share price will be Lower so you'll get more bang for your buck if that makes sense Um, but yeah, just because the the dividend yield is higher. So if it's like 10 percent or something like that It's not necessarily a good thing. So you might want to look into Um, the company behind it. Um, another thing for reference is established companies tend to pay dividends versus um, growth companies. So for example Um, things like Microsoft apple, um, that sort of stuff will Pay dividends whereas Something like tesla for example Um Doesn't I'll check. I'm pretty sure they don't I'm just because they're reinvesting all of their money into growing the company and expanding And that sort of thing. So, um, that'll bring us on to the next thing. How do you check on eToro? How much a company is paying in dividends? So Let's look at tesla just for reference sake and it's booming right now. So We'll have a look Um, so you'll go on the stock. So if you've got it in your portfolio, you can check it here And You got feed stats chart research, right on anything on the most stocks on the toro You want to go on to stats? Um, and then they've got a little thing here that says dividend yield Um, so you can see the dividend yield on this is zero percent.  So basically, um over a year period You'll get 0.66 percent based on this current share price um of whatever you invest so Where does that show up in eToro? So If you have a look so you can filter this so you see this fee section, right? um, this Is your dividend payment if you can't see this if you go to this little wheel here You can change what shows up. So if you clicked on that, for example It gives you a whole bunch of different options and then obviously select fees and put that in there So i'm gonna filter for my dividends So none of those so you can see fires is paid 7.22 dollars Uh, that's paid 4.83 dollars and so on and so forth. Um, so that's what i've received in dividends now Just wanted to freeze that here for a second. Um, this is the editing version of me. So, um, yep, that's correct. So the Dividends once the company pays them out, you'll be able to see them Individually in the fees column Um, but the dividend also goes into your available balance So you can buy stocks of it you can withdraw if there's enough for you to withdraw It basically just it's like you deposited money. Um, the inverse is Also true. So again, if you have a sell position on itoro and you're accountable for the inverse They will deduct the dividend from your available balance. So it'll be minus Itoro if you're if you have a buy position, um, then you're entitled to to all of the All all all of the dividends, whether it's a cfd or a Real asset so cfd is basically if you're leveraging it, it's going to be a cfd And if it's times one that it's going to be a real asset Um, so you're entitled to the dividend if you if you have a sell position If you don't know the difference between a buy and a sell position Um, i'll link a video that i've done before um with that But if you have a sell position, right, so you're betting against the company If the dividends get released and you hold a sell position You will be liable to pay The dividend, right? So if they paid out for example, $7.22 here This would actually be minus $7.22 and that would be deducted from your available balance on itoro because you're betting against the company so you need to um Kind of like subsidize that basically Yeah, I think that's everything I think that clears up The whole I mean, I think if I had a pound for every time I said dividend in this video, I'd Be able to retire. So that's the thing. Um, I hope that clears it up If you have any questions or anything doesn't make any sense As I say hit me up. Let me know. I'll try and explain it a little bit better. Um, and yeah, if you enjoyed the video Give it a thumbs up subscribe if you want more um content like this uh, yeah subscribe if you want more content like this and Um, share if you found it helpful. So there you go. Thanks for watching and I will catch you guys some other time