Adoption is a bit of an overloaded term, so what I'm going to be talking about here is how you can encourage people in your organisation, your institution to make use of moodle or educational technology in general. Before I get into it too far, I just have been in interaction for myself, so I live in Australia, I don't know if you can tell by my accent. I'm currently living in Canberra, which is a lovely place to go hiking and there's lots of wonderful things to do around there. I have a family and they're enjoying the good schools there and so it's a nice place to live. For moodle HQ, I'm the research director, so I'm sort of the R in R&D. I'm sort of trying to drive things from the beginning a bit there. A lot of it is related to educational technology research, so trying to encourage that within the community and making people aware of it. So there's a forum and there's a Twitter feed for moodle research. We have a repository of moodle related academic papers, that's pretty recent and we're yet to make a big deal out of it, but it's something that if you're doing research or you're interested in research, you can share your research there or you can go and find other research there, which is really good. And obviously the moodle moots are not entirely research, but there is a component of research here, so involved in the organisation of that. We've got an actual research session tomorrow. All right, before we start to sort of get into the nut of this, I guess the main premise here is that if you're going to try and encourage people to use moodle, you've got to sort of think of them as individuals, because just like students, if you try a one size fits all training approach, it's probably likely to hit a very small proportion of those people effectively and there's going to be a lot of people who are either behind or ahead of what you're trying to aim at. So you need to be able to differentiate different types of users. Now, by what means would you do that? A good way of doing that is through this notion of adoption theory. So there was a paper on a diffusion of innovation. It's quite a mature sort of idea now and has been used widely. Basically it sort of plots a population of adopters on this sort of curve. So most people are in that middle bit where they're sort of about to adopt or they just have adopted and they're sort of moving through different stages. What I'm going to do is just sort of go through these different sort of groupings of people and talk about ways in which you can try and drag them just that one step forward. Now here's like the adoption theory in education. So let's start on the left. You've got these innovative people. They're really keen. They want to know, what can I do next? It's not working. Why is that not keeping up? Got too many copies of PowerPoint running here, I think. Let's try that again. There we go. See that? Let's go back a bit. So this diffusion of innovation. Basically, you've got laggards, people who are resistive to change. You've got the late majority of people who are not yet using a system, but they're considering it. People who are early adopters, they have, sorry, the early majority, they have adopted the system. They're sort of considering what to do next. The early adopters, these are the people who are ahead of the game. And there's always a bunch of people who are pushing that limit there and moving on. And what does that look like in terms of educational technology or education in general, really? The laggards tend to be the people who are really resistive. They're comfortable where they are. They don't want to move. They're saying, I don't want to do that. You've got the people who say, well, I'm not sure. You know, it's pretty safe back here. Yeah, what can we do about those people? There's the people that have adopted, but now they're not sure what they want to do. I don't want to, but how do I do? What do I do next? There's the people that want to do things better now.  What's next? They're keen. They're looking ahead. And I think I've said that three times now. So we should be one to. All right. OK, what do you do for the people who are the laggards? Well, there's no real incentives that you can offer them that won't be counterproductive in most instances. If you try and force things onto these people, you may end up with bad results. There's a notion of social norming that goes on. If it starts to become the norm that your organization and the people working in your own organization are using something, it becomes very hard for them to resist and they get sort of drawn for it. But there's not much that you can from a training or authoritarian point of view to do to drag them onwards. A good example of what you don't want to do, you don't want to emphasise nonconformance. You don't want to say, oh, those people in music or maths or something, they insist on doing it the same way that they've been doing it before. If you highlight those people, you're going to start to basically give an excuse to other people who don't necessarily want to do it either. I won't go into this particular example, but you can look it up, the petrified forest study. It's quite a relevant thing there. People have also done studies in conformance around, you know, things like water restrictions and, you know, basically adopting practices that save water and that sort of thing. The ultimate thing is, if others aren't doing it, if you can find examples of other people who aren't doing it, then you've got an excuse not to do it yourself. What do you do instead? Well, you want to promote the good. You want to emphasise the people who are using the system and using it well, and hopefully that social norming will then become apparent, they'll draw those people forward. OK, now, ahead of the laggards, you've got this late majority. These are people who have not yet adopted the system. They're not resisting things as much, but they need a bit of encouragement to go over the hump and get into that list of people who are using the system. So what incentives can we offer to those people? Well, the main thing is saving time. OK? If you can say to these people, yes, it's a bit of an investment, but in the end, you're going to save time. Think of all the time you're wasting doing this, OK? You can possibly save that time. All right. So the late majority can be given tools like the forums and the glossary to save them repeating themselves. You know, if they're answering things by email or if they're having to go to classes and repeat the answers over and over again, then some sort of mass communication facilitated within the learning management system will save them a lot of effort. Materials reuse. Obviously, if, you know, you can get them to bring their things together, then the next semester, then it's already there. A bit of refinement will save them a lot of time. So invest now and then you can reuse things later. Now, the term dump and pump got a bad rep, but it's a starting point. People have to start somewhere. If they're there, they're, you know, not using the system at all, they need to get into that next step. So a few things in Moodle, files and repositories that you can encourage them to make use of. External resources, basically they've got systems outside that they want to use, at least linking to those systems. It's not, Moodle's not meant to be the be all and end all. It's not supposed to be the all encompassing system. So linking to things on the web, LTI is, you know, something that's growing and something that facilitates a lot of external systems. Thinking about Moodle as the learning operating system, the place where things can be linked from and work from. Repositories are a way that, you know, advanced people can share their things with less advanced people and they can become more productive without too much effort. So, you know, within institutions or within departments, shared content. Media streaming repositories, obviously, if staff are having their things recorded and so on, making it available to them and automating some of that can be really helpful. And there are a number of standard, even, so YouTube, we've got standard repositories and things like that, but you can also link to other things as well. So that's sort of external stuff. Now, does this sound old to you? It should. Probably does, okay? You don't expect to hear this sort of preach that a Moodle moved. Probably because you're some of the people and you're further along that adoption curve. But don't forget those people who are behind you still. Okay, if you expect them to be at the same level as you, you're probably gonna find more resistance. Okay, so those people who have adopted, they've gone over, they've braved things, they're into the next sort of segment. They want to do things, they're not quite sure how. The incentive for them is easier management. All right, things like electronic assessment can save loads of work, thanks. If you can get things submitted electronically, there's such a saving of time and handling that that is really significant. You can quantify that. You can really make that obvious. Offering them means of assessing students' work in a more efficient way through rubrics and checklists and so on. It really does save time and it also adds a lot of other benefits and I won't go into that here, but. So Moodle offers and you've seen some of Martin's stuff that this has improved even further. One of the resistance sort of ideas that I've had mentioned to me is that people want to mark red pen on paper, okay, and they can't do that necessarily in an online sense, but now they can. There are equivalent tools and they can do it in a more efficient way. Automated assessment, so shifting some of the monolithic assignments, distributing assessment out and introducing some automated elements to assessment can really save effort as well. So obviously automated assessment with quiz and lesson can really make that a lot easier. Those people who have been doing it for a while, they want to know how can I do it better? What is their incentive? They're aiming for better outcomes for their students. They know that they've been doing this. They've mastered a bit. I want to see my students doing better now. The earlier doctors, they're seeing that, you know, transforming their way of teaching from this transmission model to more of an involved model will hopefully be seen as something that they can get better outcomes from. Peer-to-peer assessment is something that the workshop module encourages and that can bring the people together. A lot of research has gone into peer assessment and the benefits to learners from that. We also offer collaboration in a number of different modules. In fact, most modules in Moodle can have group modes turned on and you can bring things together. The group assessment is really strong. It's been encouraging to see that expand. Changing the way that you teach from that transmission model, there's a lot of other models as well. Different modalities, you know, obviously one-to-one, many-to-one, getting people to interact in different ways and also the system itself can be part of that. Different means of delivery, flipping the classroom and there's a lot more ideas coming about. Just ways of teaching that have come about simply because of the introduction of the learning management system. And the final group, they're keen. They want to do what's next. They want to be on the cutting edge. They're trying things. Their goal is to improve education. What can we give them to help them achieve that? Adaptive and personalized learning is something that basically shifts from this one-size-fits-all where everybody's treated the same product of which is a very sort of fragmented, holy understanding of things, going towards the not one-size-fits-all and recognizing that learners are doing this sort of in quite a different way. There's a lot of research following that. Basically, your goal is to create an understanding in the student's head, which has got a lot fewer gaps and the product of that is better learning later down the track. So in Myrtle, you can achieve these sort of different pathways, repetition, personalization. You can push people ahead. You can hold people back. You can get them to go around in cycles until they understand the concept using different activity completion and restriction settings. Course completion is a way of looking at a bit more holistically at a course level and there are other sort of means as well at the site level. If they're looking to push ahead, having an understanding of how their students are learning by looking at the data is definitely something that there's a lot of plug-ins and a lot of parts of Myrtle in core as well that are able to draw out that data and make it available to students, to teachers and to the people making decisions above them. And finally, obviously getting involved in the Myrtle project, and it's not just for developers. If you're doing research, it's a great framework. If you're interested in collaborating with other training people, other teachers, there is forums for you to communicate. If you're interested in making improvements to Myrtle, there's a tracker that allows people to communicate their ideas. There are plug-ins that people can review, try out, things like that, and there's QA testing of the next version that they can be involved in. Anyway, the take-home message then for this is that if you want to encourage adoption, you've got to recognize not all teachers are the same and you want to just draw them forward that next step, okay? In the same way, if you're heading forward, not all learners are the same. You want to use the tools to help improve education. Thanks.


There we go three-man first person What's up everybody and welcome back here to force motorsports seven definitely been a minute But we are here in an open drift lobby at Maple Valley short circuit We're just gonna have a little fun do some random drift lobby on the rig to just get ourselves more acclimated with positioning of everything That I have we are in our higher horse-powered Esda C5 Corvette and we're just gonna go send it We're just gonna stop talking and get into more of drifting today It's all about that drifting and trying to get some tandems with some randoms here in a public hopper Hopefully we don't have any Rammers that are gonna cause us some serious issues, but Yeah, forza public lobbies public drift lobbies. That's exactly what happens See it train of cars up there. So kind of stalled it in Stalled it in second gear Haven't driven this car in a minute, so we're definitely gonna have to Get our bearings straight again in this car. This one is 800 some horsepower Apparently this can do fifth gear This one is 800 horsepower whereas my other ESD a car is only 670 oh My that dude just came out of nowhere, but I feel like this car is definitely very stable still Even in the higher horsepower bands This thing likes fifth gear though. There we go. Let's say use it up there, but we kind of just took out our mirrors So oh my definitely have not been on a public drift lobby in a very long time, but we're here today just Shaking down the cars a little bit might bring out the SSR 370 also just haven't some fun getting sideways With some randoms and then try and catch this man's door. I should not just be the fourth there our bogs a little bit, but Catch up to this. Do you want to run tandem? Nope. He does not want to run I've got to find some people to start doing some tandems with I feel like we've definitely shaken down the car enough I was worried that guy was not going to be a ghost anymore. Oh So let's go back to pits reset our tires And reset our car for damage and then we're going to change it up a little bit and we are gonna put the camera down below and Throw ourselves in some first person For all the haters out there. Give me hate for being in third. This is for you guys.  I should be wearing one white glove and one black glove like my avatar, but now we're getting it a Little bit nice smooth slides a little bit too much there, but we're might need to switch down to lower horsepower that I don't think the tune is exact for this car We're also running the H pen and shifter not the sequential like I'm used to when I run this car So I'm trying to remember. Oh Boy, all right, so let's switch it up to let's bring the SSR 370 out and see We can get that thing go in sideways Just as well as we did our ease the event and I gotta find some people tandem with The money son, where are you at? There you are SSR 370 VA powered five on a horsepower Let's uh, let's see what we can do. I heard of Really powerful car. I don't know if the gearing is gonna be right for this car Definitely gonna try it Six gears where it's at with this car right now Definitely more comfortable in this car. So I spent more time in it right now recently Saves that entry though. Oh Public hoppers the glitching when people joined in lobbies that throttle so don't smack into the Go off track On ourselves a nice S13 to try and tandem with our old disease doing there. We go Three man first person Almost it. Oh too much Too much on the exit. So we're going for this man. It was ripping The E92 See my mirror. I think you just bailed it into the dirt So just having some easy fun here today to start the week off Hope you guys are Ready for the week and ready for a Slew of uploads this week. I'm getting hit by that a 92 now Think we might switch it back into third person and get my camera back. Oh, sorry dude It's if we got somebody following us to over through it We have skyline so apparently I was getting more acclimated with first person and Now I need to go back to first person because uh, you know, that's better Settle this car down definitely got to start getting this cartoon for the next round of SSR Apparently I mis-shifted there So if you guys want to keep seeing some random lobbies here on the channel make sure you tap that like button Subscribe do appreciate all the support from you guys and as always make sure you follow me on Instagram and Twitter All of which are found in the description box below. I'm gonna try to suck up on the door this 35 but that bump kind of screwed us Don't think the Z has the power to do Bank how I want it to Well, there we go Coming in hot but we're kind of losing him on there So as always I like thank you guys for coming back and watching and do appreciate all the support Like I said, I want to run some more open lot I want to run open lobbies here in fours and seven as well as horizon So look for those coming this week or next week and as always Stay sourced have fun, but I appreciate all the support. I appreciate coming back So until next time guys, I will see you guys on the track and torque drift or in lobbies. I Will see you guys next time


Hello everyone and welcome to another video, it's been a pretty rough winter so far, since living up north the weather has been so much warmer so I really underprepared this winter thinking it was going to be like the last. The temperature dropped to around 4 degrees some mornings and would only rise to about 11 degrees some days. This is really cold for Queensland standards which is more of a tropical climate. I had barely any warm clothes to get me through this winter so I did a big shop at my local thrift store and collected up some more items. I bought a few more jumpers as I only had one before this. I bought some more track pants, some pajamas, a couple of dressing gowns and some more long sleeved wooly tops. For most of June and July I spent rugged up at home under 2-3 layers of clothing. I didn't manage to find beanie, gloves or a coat so those are next winter's essentials. To help me get through the really cold days I made a few winter essentials. One of them was this cough syrup home remedy which I concocted together to help soothe my throat whenever I felt a cold coming on. It's a honeyspice cider remedy that's potent enough to calm and soothe a sore throat or cough. I don't often get sick which I'm really thankful for but when I do I prefer to let my body fight the illness naturally as much as I can. As this winter was colder than usual the air would get really cold at night and sometimes aggravate my airways giving me a cough during the nights. To help with this I would keep this homemade cough syrup next to my bed and take a spoonful whenever I needed it. It was instantly relieving and I found I could sleep better afterwards. I also used this remedy to help boost my immune system. For a few weeks during mid winter we had a nasty cough going round our house. Every one of my housemates got it unfortunately but I was lucky enough to avoid it and I owe it to this immune boosting elixir and the daily supplements I take which are vitamin C, quercetin, zinc and vitamin D3. The recipe for this cough syrup is up on my website www.SimplyNaturalNessa.com if you do want to make some too. I took this cough syrup about 3 times a day during the coldest times of our winter in the morning, afternoon and before bed and I found that's what really helped my throat. Another favourite winter essential of mine is homemade soup. My go to this winter has been creamy pumpkin soup which I make from scratch using fresh pumpkins I buy from the markets and my homemade veggie stock which I make in batches from leftover vegetable scraps. I find the flavour is way more intense than when I buy store bought stocks as I can simmer the stock for hours giving it a much richer colour and flavour. Whenever I make soup I whip up a batch of my homemade seed bread to go with it as I find there's nothing more comforting than wrapping myself up in a blanket with a bowl of soup on my lap, a cup of warm tea in one hand and a thick slice of freshly baked bread in the other to dip in the soup. I'm at complete peace in these moments. I've also started a new habit of making miso soup morning and night to help with immunity. It's great for removing radiation from the body and it's really easy to make. All I do is boil up some water in my saucepan. We do have a kettle but it's made of plastic so I avoid using it to prevent any micro plastics from ending up in my water. Once the water begins to boil I remove it from heat and let it cool to a warm temperature before I add organic miso paste. I don't add the paste while it's hot otherwise it can kill the beneficial bacteria and enzymes in the fermented miso paste. I mix it through until it's completely dissolved in the water and then I sip on it over a course of the morning or night. I really enjoy the taste as it reminds me of broth. And those are my winter essentials to help me keep warm during the cold, cold winter months. I hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead and that you take care of yourself during these cool months or warm depending on where you are. I hope you stay healthy and strong. I hope to see you again soon. Thank you so much for watching this video. I'm sending you so so much love and a huge hug from cold Australia.


You know, for me it is really interesting convergence among all the talks. We started out recognizing that we wanted input about soils and crops and forests and interactions, but I think in each of the talks what we really saw was a small number of very clear, very shared things. One is the need for a systems perspective and the recognition that this is a problem where if you push in one place you're likely to see an unexpected process or interaction pop up in another place and that unless you have a starting focus that recognizes the richness and the diversity of interactions you're likely to miss things and you're likely to have unintended consequences that could be negative ones. There's also a really pressing need for better information, better information about processes at every scale, better information about the photosynthesis, the crop yield, the microbial interactions all the way up to the social dynamics and the economic consequences. One of the things that was most impressive to me is the way that everybody talked about surprising factors that have the potential to be important levers on how much we can actually realize from natural climate solutions, whether that's the role of agricultural intensification in terms of freeing land for forests, whether it's about the opportunity to take advantage of new kinds of forest-based products to do a better job of substituting for carbon-intensive products like carbon and steel or whether it's to recognize that in an environment where government subsidies are really important they're also important risks associated with things like a universal carbon price. I also thought a really important theme that came out through all the talks was the relevance of being sophisticated about what we can get from the private sector and in many cases I think what we're really trying to figure out is how to navigate an environment in which there's clearly a role for governments, a clearly a role for big actors in the private sector and there's clearly a role for individual forest owners and individual farmers. There's no question that we're short of information, we're short of information at every scale, we're seeing some impressive opportunities come forward with new technologies and new approaches to gathering data but it's also clear that one of the keys to success is going to be being humble and thoughtful about recognizing the full set of interactions that are almost always important in settings that involve real people making real decisions that impact their ability to provide for their families. The take-home messages from today's presentations are summarized here and I think they provide a really sound basis for the workshop and a really good foundation for moving forward. I'll just read a couple of the key points. Soils hold large quantities of carbon and there are important opportunities for increasing soil carbon sequestration. Co-benefits super important across this space and every other. With forests we really need to think about forests as a system recognizing that there may even be unexpected places where the opportunities for carbon storage are likely to emerge. Throughout we really need to do a better job of measuring and monitoring not only to have a clear sense of what works where but also to build a system where participants in any kind of trading system would have confidence in the quality reliability and permanence of whatever investments they're making. And it's also really important that we avoid unrealistic or naive assumptions especially assumptions that are based on small scale trials in particular locations that are well set up for producing particular kinds of benefits and that those benefits may not occur once the same kind of solutions are deployed at other scales. And of course the theme that that penetrates through all of the presentations is that we need to be wary of its feedbacks that can occur through the social and economic and policy systems and especially in a context where subsidies are so important for the public state in forests and in in farm economies we need to be sure that we're paying attention to the implications of the kind of social and policy feedbacks that are likely occur. At least for me this sets an incredibly intriguing and an optimism inspiring but also a challenging pathway and I hope that all of you can join tomorrow when we'll come back and explore more of the aspects of how we build on these kinds of insights to really think about a system that produces concrete benefits for people and the climate. So let me turn it over to you to give the marching orders for tomorrow. Okay thank you thank you Chris thanks for moderating a great panel today thanks to all the speakers and panelists. I would also like to thank Jennifer Milne from Stanford Precord Institute for Energy for managing the Q&A portion of the meeting today and yesterday. So again yep tomorrow we will the theme is carbon management and mitigation strategies and we'll be convening again at eight o'clock in the morning Pacific time so have a great afternoon and we'll see you tomorrow. Bye bye.


Welcome everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the stock squish and I'm going to take here a look at the three big earnings that are out this week. It's Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Microsoft reports right after the close and then Amazon and Google Thursday night. So I thought I'd look at these three charts here tonight before anything happens and kind of get a gauge here on what we could possibly expect. So let's look at Microsoft. Okay, so the previous sign Microsoft was 116-18. This stock has been so strong. Look at it. This red line is a 200-perimovement average. The stock has not been anywhere near that 200-perimovement average. Woo! Look at it all the way in 2016. So the stock has been almost power trending. Really toe-to-toe with the market. In fact, I would say that this looks even stronger than the market. So I have to wait and see where it gaps, but I can tell you one thing. It's definitely going to gap. It could gap up. It could gap down. And then my process is I rate the gap. Now I can rate it tomorrow night, but I will probably wait until Thursday morning because I like to wait until the morning because the prices could change. But if this stock does gap down, okay, and if it rates well and telling you that it could absolutely fall off a planet because of the fact that it is so strong and it has so many people in it, so many buyers in here, so many longs. However, that being said, it also could make new highs in which case it could explode. So it'll be really interesting to see what Microsoft does. This is a top-top watch this week. You may not trade the stock all the time, but you should watch it. I mean, it's one of the stocks in the market that does affect the market and it affects the sector as well, which is important in the market, that sector. Now let's take a look at Google, which is Thursday night. Google and Amazon are both Thursday night. Google has looked horrible, horrible for the better part of the summer from since July it made new highs. It has drifted off ever since then. It's almost gone nowhere and the market's made new highs. I know that in my head before bringing the chart up here, but I'll show you in a second. Have the rally today with the market into the close. Anyways, Google actually hasn't looked good all year. Failed in the earnings back early in the year, dropped, fell. Man, this cannot get its butt moving this whole year.  I mean, it's in an uptrend, but compared to everything else, it's like, what? That's very interesting. Here we go. Google opened on the year 2018 at 10.48.34 this morning. It was at 10.70. That's insanity. There, just what I said. So this had only a 25 point gain here at one point this morning from looking at almost the entire year, up to the end of October from January to now.  So this is a top watch too. This is a top watch too. And this stock could move the market in the sector as well. Let's look at Amazon. And again, I don't know how these things gap. I don't know if they gap up or down. Just taking a look here and seeing what's happening in these charts recently, particularly after today. Amazon, of course, is a beast. I think the previous time this was around 2050-ish. Broke that 2000 level, but I mean, that was crazy level anyways. Very strong. And you can see here in this compared to Google, not so strong compared to Google, but you can also see this compared to Microsoft. Microsoft looks a lot better. So if you're looking at Microsoft, Google and Amazon, if I had to put them in a, put them in order, which chart looks better? Which of these things is not like the other? Microsoft is stronger than Amazon. Then two would be Amazon and three would be Google. They're all in uptrends. Now, obviously none of this has anything to do with how the reports come out because I don't know. But I'm just saying those are things to keep in mind when you're watching the stocks, when you see the gaps after the earnings, which Microsoft is Wednesday night, and then you will have Amazon and Google the next day. So I think the market's going to have a big move Friday and we're just going to have to wait and see what effect these earnings do have on the market from Thursday night into where the market gaps in Friday morning and the GDP numbers out Friday morning too. So Friday is a big day for the market if you're watching the market. Good luck everyone and have a great week.


What's happening YouTube? Thanks for tuning back into the channel today. We've got something really special for you We've got a one-piece driveshaft conversion going on for the Duramax It's kind of put in conjunction with the Kodiak driveline the new transfer case that Mark over here is going to be rebuilding for us But we wanted to go one step further and be able to do a one-piece driveshaft for my LBZ As you know the quad cab long beds, they've got the annoying two-piece driveshaft and Two-piece driveshafts just in general are just more failure points more moving parts means more failure points They've got smaller u joints. They've got slip joints, so we're gonna be doing the upgrade today. Make sure you guys keep watching So here she is up on the rack again, and no nothing is broken Of course as I said before we are getting rid of that ugly two-piece driveshaft there we've got a nice one that we are gonna up fit and Make work for our application. I'll go through the details of that when we get to it So we got the old driveshaft out of here This is the old two-piece driveshaft here and then the new one-piece one that we picked up from GM This thing is monstrous guys I'm talking like we're we're a good two and a half inches wider in diameter And it's gonna be a lot lighter a full aluminum setup. This thing is a killer setup So we're gonna look through this one. It's gonna be slightly different on a length But we're gonna make up for it with our yoke and other setups here I think it'll turn out really good, and we'll see what we can do with it So we've got the bracket cut out that originally housed our center support bearing. That's now out So when when we were looking into doing this one-piece driveshaft in the first place What kind of measurements were we looking at in the difference between the stock unit and this new aluminum? Housing sure. So what we wanted to maintain is the slip yoke that came out of the back of the case We wanted somewhere around two to two and a half maybe three inches tops of The yoke hanging out the back we didn't we can't have the yoke all the way buried in So we basically measured from center of the U joint to center of the U joint on the factory shaft and determined that the one that we got from the L5P trucks and even the late LMLs will will definitely work So as far as when you're going to be ordering one of these one-piece driveshafts What are we looking to order? Yeah, you're looking to order from like a 2015 and newer four-door long bad newly and that's going to come with the one-piece driveshaft and everything now as far as So we're looking at the correct length now What is the other thing that we're going to have to swap over sure then you're not to swap your yoke over because all those Structs are in 1480 U joints So we've swapped the yoke over so we got the 1480 yoke now We use the GM yoke with a new pinion seal washer everything's locked tight it What are you ordering this one from? This comes straight from General Motors. What what your model you think you can order anything from a 1 to 7 with a ZF6 truck Transmission because they were all the manual transmissions had 1480 joints in them. So just with the larger U joints We're going same width and everything just larger U joint Availability to it so everything else is gonna match up perfectly to that everything on the front spline There at the transfer case. It's going to be all spline the exact same on that one. It's all going to match up correctly So let's get this thing slopped up in here, and we're going to see where we're actually looking at So he was looking at the only other thing you're going to have to look at ordering is the new straps for also the 1480 rear U joints as well We don't have to worry about it because there's a few parts around in this area He's got parts and parts and parts and parts and transfer cases and parts and parts. Yep, we're good to go So drive shaft all into place you can see out of our like roughly Six and a half to seven inch yoke. We've got about two and a half two and three-quarter inches hanging out which is fantastic with the actual Rear-end travel that we've got into it earlier on the other two-piece drive shaft We were having issues going through rear seals on the transfer case Because that rear drive shaft was actually hitting into that seal not going to have that issue anymore We jacked up the rear end and even with the rear end jacked up and the Suspension at full travel. We've still got three and a quarter to three and a half inches of yoke Actually engaged in spline so that is more than enough for what we're looking at and this thing is just a big old beast That is all Standard drive shaft there for you, but it's a bunch of sexy drive shaft So hopefully this kind of build is going to be something that you guys look into if you have a quad cab long bed L BZ Lly classic body style the sizes of this drive shaft is going to match up to what you need It's going to give you guys more dependability. It's going to be a lighter driveline in general Bigger you joints and just a better overall driveline in general So again, I will leave the link in the description down below to all of the stuff that I ended up using I'll try to find those in the part numbers through GM But if not again earlier in the video I said what they went to and you be able to go to GM and get a hold of them to be able to find any of those parts Thanks to Mark again over at Kodiak driveline for hooking us up and being able to get us some awesome footage today Make sure you stay tuned for more to come on this. Thanks.


Hello, how's it going lads? Have you been getting any right in doing today? Welcome back to another video- Alright, okay, I'm sorry. What's shaking? My name's Cam. Welcome back to another video. It's gonna be a chill one today. Hell yeah, man! Okay, I haven't done a Q&A for like, it's been 84 years. It's been a while. Alright, what questions have you got for me today, dude? Okay. Sorry, I'm just feeling a bit goofy today and a little bit quirky. Have you written a death scene? I can't. I gotta stop. Have you written a death scene?  That's a great question, Blue. I have killed quite a few characters. In fact, I think I've killed most of the characters I've written, if we're including short stories. It's a bit of a hard question to answer, because obviously when you're writing a lot of deaths, you want to do them in different ways. I don't really have a preferred way of killing characters, so to speak, because I want each of the deaths to be like, a bit unique from the last. But I do still have an answer for you. I'm not going to give you a complete cop out there. I really like writing deaths where it's like, it's out of nowhere. Like it's just sudden and it's unexpected. It's one thing to have a character die from their wounds over a length of time, if you want that emotional interaction, where a character is dying in another one, begging them not to go. That's great. That's fine.  Like they just get obliterated. But it's also hard to do that, because you don't want to feel like you're cheating the reader. Like you don't want them to have invested all of this time and love into a character you created, and then just unceremoniously, goodbye. Goodbye. I like deaths where they die very quickly. There's your answer. Alex says, I tried to film a few videos once, and to edit them, just to see how much work it would be to start a YouTube channel. And I didn't post any of them, because I knew that long term, it would be too much work for me. I'm wondering how you deal with YouTube and still have time and motivation for writing, because I'm kind of amazed at the quality of your videos. It must take time to get this kind of results. First of all, Alex, that's really nice of you to say about the quality of my videos. Considering the way this video started, I don't know if that's still how you feel, but thanks nonetheless. I'm not going to sugarcoat it for you. Doing YouTube videos, what I think is the right way, is not easy at all if you have like a normal life. You know what I mean? I have a full time job. I try to go to the gym every day. I try to read. I try to write. And I think what people need to realize about making videos, or at least videos like mine, is that it's like a full day thing. In one day, like today, I might film like a couple of videos. And then, not on the same day, but like another day, I will spend literally the entire day editing them. It's like about four hours sometimes to make a video from start to finish after I've already filmed it. It takes a long time, especially the like video essay style videos. I do more of them, not so much on my writing channel now, but over on the channel where I do book reviews and deep dives into books and that kind of stuff. Those videos take a really, really long time to edit. I mean, you could upload really easy quick videos.  Me personally, I can't do that because if I just sat down and didn't edit the video whatsoever and just talked, I would go on a long ramble about something that no one cares about, or I would have a lot of awkward gaps in between, you get my point. Some people can do it, others not so much. And also, I like having heavily edited videos. I think it looks cool. I think it's entertaining. This is a perfect example of me going off on a tangent. The question was, I'm wondering how you deal with YouTube and still have time and motivation for writing. I don't write nearly as much as I wish I did. I'll say it like that. I should be writing a lot more than I am, especially right now with so many different projects going on. I think if everything goes to plan, I should actually have, by the end of this year, going up, or at the very least, very early next year, I should have two more short stories in two separate anthologies and my own collection of horror short stories. Long story short, making YouTube videos or at least the YouTube videos that I feel like I have to make is extremely, extremely time consuming. It's not easy. I won't lie to you. It's really not easy. At least like once every couple of weeks, I'll question whether I want to keep doing this. I always end up going back to yes, I definitely do, but it's just, it's hard, man. It's hard. The dream is that I could write and make YouTube videos as my job and then I could quit my full-time job. But realistically, I don't think that's ever going to happen and that's fine. I know that's, that's like a dream job.  Karina's side of Sam says, if you were in a horror, a fantasy and a sci-fi, what type of character would you be? In the horror, I would love to be the comedic relief that gets killed very early. I'm completely fine with not being the hero. In a fantasy, I'm just going off what I always do for like RPGs and MMO games, that kind of stuff. I always go with the rogue character. You know, like the stealthy assassin kind of person. That would be my, that would be my pick. And for sci-fi, let's be real old. I'd be like Futurama, just completely baffled by everything that's going on. Kate Kavanaugh. Kate Kavaugh. Hey, Kavaugh. Cap. Kate Kavaugh says, if you had to make another video that could only last for four seconds, like your love triangle advice video, what would the topic be? Do you want to see the video that Kate's referring to here? It's only four seconds, so I'm sure I can throw it in. Don't. Just don't. Yeah, that's, that's the whole video. If I made another one like that, here, I'll do one right now. This one is titled, Your mother asks to borrow your laptop, but you forgot that you didn't delete your search history after doing research for that weird horror book that you were writing. Hey, honey, do you mind if I jump, jump on your computer real quick? I just want to, I just want to have a look at something. Yeah. Yeah, all good. Thank you, honey. Wait, wait. Kaylee Ogden says, do you script your videos before filming? I hate to break the illusion, but I do. Ironically, no, not for this one. This video is not scripted at all, aside from the questions that I'm reading off the computer, but normally my other videos are, yeah, yeah, that kind of scripted. A lot of the time, it'll just be dot points with points for me to talk about, you know, with like discussion videos, that kind of stuff. But if it's like an in-depth video essay style video or something like that, where I want to make sure I'm staying on track and hitting very specific points, I might go so far as scripting out sentence by sentence. It just depends. Okay, Cava again. Cava. Now that you have had multiple channels for a while, have you noticed a difference in how the YouTube algorithm is treating you? Or are you glad to have separated the topics and wish you did it sooner anyways unrelated to the algorithm? That's a great question, and the answer is yes. I wish I had done it pretty much from the start. I really do wish. So for anyone who doesn't know what she's referring to there, this channel used to be my book reviews and book discussions and video essays. And writing discussions, etc. Used to be about reading and writing, but what I did somewhat recently is I separated my book and reading videos onto a different channel called Wolf the Story Nomad. And now on this one, Page Nomads Writing, I do strictly writing videos. I wish I had done that sooner because although you would think that the reading and the writing community like goes hand in hand, the simple fact is, and it makes a lot of sense when you think about it, is that a lot of people who go to YouTube for writing videos aren't really interested in book reviews, etc. And a lot of the people that might have followed my channel to hear me talk about books isn't particularly interested in videos talking specifically about being a writer. And unfortunately, when it comes to the YouTube algorithm, when you have half of your audience choosing to not watch your videos, which is completely fine for them, it kind of tells YouTube that your video mustn't be very good, so it doesn't get recommended to other people and it just ends up, like every video ends up tanking anyway. It was doing quite a lot of harm to my channel to be working that way consistently. And while this channel that I'm on right now hasn't really been getting any higher numbers than before I made that change, I'm still really glad I did it. I am a lot less stressed making videos now because first of all, the videos over on Wolf the Story Nomad, on that channel, they're doing really well. The videos are getting quite a lot of views considering the amount of subscribers I have and the analytics are pretty favorable so far. I don't want to jinx it, but so far it's doing pretty well and I'm happy about that. I don't want it to sound like it's all about the views and the clicks and so it's not, but like, I'm not going to bullshit you and say that I don't care about that stuff because of course I do, otherwise I wouldn't put so many hours into making videos. So that channel's doing all right but this channel, it's pretty much the same as always but then I also haven't been making a whole lot of videos on this channel compared to the past. That's another thing. Not so much in the last couple of weeks but I was making like two videos a week for that channel and one video a week for this channel. That's three videos a week which is a lot when you have a full-time job. So this channel doesn't have as many videos going up anymore therefore the algorithm doesn't favor me that much but honestly nowadays I don't care that much I'm just I'm glad I'm truly glad that I separated into having two different channels it's really working out well for me and I am a little bit disappointed I didn't do it a long time ago even back when I first started because I think if I had both this channel and the other channel would be a lot bigger. At the end of the day I'm still extremely lucky to have the platform I do have like this channel is still a lot bigger than I expected it to be when I started years ago so I'm fine with that I feel like the people that subscribe or are subscribed or stay subscribed to this channel and my other channel are getting the videos that they subscribed to see so that's what matters Aditya says Are you a character first plot second reader or the other way around? What is your preference as a writer? That's a hard question to answer because there are a lot of books where I enjoy the story a lot more than the characters and I am completely fine with that but I think in general I'm more of a character first person and I think that goes for my writing as well I think great characters can carry you through a not so great story but boring characters struggle to carry me through an even great story I don't know it really depends character first I'll say character first I definitely prefer having great characters Do you actually get scared when writing your horror scenes? Also, how do you write emotions or more specifically how do you write so the reader gets an emotion? I don't really get scared when writing horror scenes just because I'm like I'm the one writing them so I know exactly where they're going to go or how it's going to happen There's one story I'm thinking of that I'll have written where I wrote it and then I went to bed immediately after and I was genuinely creeped out and I was like wow I didn't know whether to be like impressed with myself or like embarrassed I will say though that when I was writing Welcome to Sand I felt a lot of the like misery and like depression that Joe was getting purely from me writing the story somehow I kind of when I was like coming up with the stuff that he did in his past and how he's reflecting on it it was it was weird because I didn't expect it to happen and it's never happened to me before but I was and I'm not saying it's because I was such a good writer but for some reason when I was writing you know these miserable moments for Joseph I felt it I really felt the misery I don't know if the reader's going to have the same experience maybe that only happened because I was the one writing it but I don't know it was just it was very interesting and let's just say I was glad once I finished that book as for how you write so the reader gets an emotion that's a very complicated question it depends I'm not like an expert when it comes to creative writing I guess I would just say that what I personally try to do is I try to make the reader empathize with the character I think the reader is more likely to feel what the characters are feeling if they have spent some time with the character and seen inside the character's mind you know what I mean Josie Gilmore says what's your favorite kind of character to write how do you start when creating a character I have a lot of fun writing a bunch of different characters um for example I really like writing like the goofy kind of you know dopey comic relief characters they're always really fun to add into stories but on the flip side of that I also really like writing the stoic serious characters that almost refuse to open up to the people around them because I like those characters because later on in the story when they do finally open up or get protective over another character or show that they care about someone else it's like a really wholesome and heartwarming moment I love writing that it always starts with their personality and then how they look etc comes after that I don't know I hope that answers your question have you always been so confident in front of a camera and speaking in public and do you have any tips on how to get more confident I always scrap my Instagram video ideas because I'm way too shy slash scared to talk absolutely not in no way I don't even know if I'm confident now I don't know if you can call this confidence I don't think I would do this in public the reason this is so easy and I'm so used to it now is because I know that I can edit this but then I guess I'm getting okay with the live streams as well it's gonna sound cliche but it's cliche because it's true and it's good advice the best way to get more confident in anything is to keep doing it I actually deleted the first ever video I made on YouTube which I wish I hadn't I wish I'd just made it private so I could laugh about it but I deleted it but it's me like kind of standing there you know very rigid trying to like give you a list of writing tips because that's what I did back then that's what I thought you had to do to be a writer on YouTube I thought you just had to give everyone advice that's what authorTube used to be it was just everyone trying to educate everyone else it was it was not great but anyway I would stand there very rigid my eyes constantly going down to the to the script beside me and sometimes in videos you can still see my eyes flicking over to my notes but this was bad it was like I was just reading off of it and I think at a certain point in the video you could even see me start the sweat it was bad I'm sure if you go back to like the earliest videos I ever uploaded even now it's probably incredibly awkward I would hope that you don't but you can if you want to I think the only thing I've done like as far as public speaking goes is when I interviewed Veronica Roth in front of like I think it was like 300 or 400 school kids I was terrified and weirdly enough as soon as I got on the stage and I sat down and I was talking to her with a microphone in my hand it was easy man it was so easy in fact by the time it was done I wanted to keep going I was having fun I don't know what to tell you it's just like once you start doing something it's it's kind of easy I would love to do like another interview or panel thing on a stage in front of people because it's just it's a good time it's it's a lot of fun do you have this existential pressure of having to be constantly productive in order for yourself to have meaning in life it's been bothering me just wanting to know if there are other people experiencing something similar to answer your question yes I'm not always productive but if there's a day where I so here's the thing for the last couple of weeks in particular I've been just kind of bummed out like about nothing in particular but it's just been one of those it's been one of those months it hasn't been great but even when I'm like not in a bummed out place there will be times where I keep procrastinating and for example I know I need to start writing up and filming some videos for the week I'll sit down at the computer and I'll be like I'll just play Terraria for like five minutes before I jump into it next thing I know I'm making excuses to myself I'm like I'll just do it tomorrow I'll do it before work or I'll do it after work and I push it back and I push it back and I push it back until like you know a couple of weeks has gone by and then I feel like shit I feel like I've just wasted a couple of weeks of my life I feel bad for not making the stuff I feel like crap about the fact that I've had this horror short story collection almost like finished for months and months the progress bar on that is literally at like 99% and I just can't finish it doesn't feel good and not to get too deep with it but like I'm turning 28 soon and I know to a lot of people it's going to seem really dumb me complaining about turning 28 because I know to a lot of people that's still really young and it is it is young I know but on YouTube in these communities I think I'm getting towards being one of the older people and you know when you see people younger than you succeeding astronomically like I'm happy for them don't get me wrong but it makes me feel like I wasted that time in my life you know I've been thinking a lot lately about how it feels like you know I turned 22 and then I went to bed and I woke up the next day and I was 27 it feels like like just imagine that happening to you imagine you go to bed you wake up and five years of your life is just just gone that's what it feels like a lot at the time I know I did a lot in those years I know a lot happened I know I created a lot of things but it just feels like I didn't do enough there you go there's a very depressing answer to your question you're not alone in feeling like that if you were any historical romance novel which character would you be? I'm talking everything from Footman to Magistrate to Wayward Brother and the love interest ooh la la I don't read historical romance at the risk of sounding really dumb I have no idea what any of those books you just mentioned are I'm still going to answer your question I'll say it like this I would not want to be one of those dudes in like that era of like Downton Abbey that looks horrendously boring to me I wouldn't want to do that a historical period that I think is very romantic that I would have loved to have been a part of fictionally speaking of course if I had the choice I wouldn't go back and do it because I would probably die from the plague the French Renaissance of like you know the Musketeers I think that's such a romantic time again putting aside all of the horrible stuff that happened at the time all of the murder and the disease but I love reading the stories you know of like these well-spoken poets of the time that would serenade you know women at their windows and I don't know it's just cool does world building always have to affect the plot or could we have characters doing something in a location just for the sake of showing off said location and still have proper pacing that is a really good question and it's something I've wondered from time to time like does every single thing that happens in the story have to have an effect on the major plot and I think the easy answer is no but you should also be really careful with that I think you can absolutely add stuff to the story that's just like a fun relief from the plot like a let's call it like a little side quest even especially when we're talking about fantasy when you want to really show off the world yeah absolutely I would say throw in a few side quests but the problem is if you do that too much then you run the risk of the reader starting to care a lot less about what is meant to be the most important plot line of your story it sounds like you're talking about writing fantasy so I would say throw in some fun side stuff to show off the world absolutely go for it how do you combat writer's block so I think about things that have motivated me to write before and what that usually ends up being is watching a most people will tell you to not do this but trust me watching a movie or show within the same genre that I'm writing for example if I'm writing fantasy I might watch the Witcher or even play the Witcher game or listen to fantasy sounding music when I want to get inspired or motivated I will bombard myself with media that is similar to what I'm trying to create what do you think of flash fiction or micro fiction love it I think it's a great thing for writers to do to really flex the writing muscle I've done quite a few something that I love doing is I like going on live streams and I'll have people in the chat in the live stream throw story prompts at me and then during that live stream I will write a flash fiction I've done it before and it's fun I usually upload them on Wattpad if your stories were to be translated into any language which one would you be most excited about seeing your writing in maybe this isn't exactly an answer to the question you're asking but I feel like it's in the same field I would love to see I would be most honored by seeing people in like Asian demographics or in the eastern part of the world enjoying my stories I think it would make me feel like I really have written something that kind of can transcend just western media I hope that makes sense kind of like when Emily Rota wrote Del Torrequest and it ended up being absolutely adored in Japan and it turned into an anime what is your work drink of choice normally tea but I don't drink it while I'm filming or streaming anymore because the people on the live streams will attest to this I keep spilling it on myself so big boy Cam gets to just use water now where does writing fit into your daily schedule do you write at a set time or just kind of wing it I pretty much have to wing it because my work schedule changes a lot some days I'll work like from 4pm to midnight other days I'll work from 10am to like I don't know like 8pm or so I don't know it's my work schedule changes quite a lot so I just kind of had to squeeze it in where it fits that's what she said do you write more than one project at a time and if you do how do you juggle between them working on two things at the same time is something I try to actively avoid just because I think it's it's a bad habit to get into if you keep doing that you're never going to finish the thing you started with so I try to avoid it but I have done it from time to time and I've done it recently during working on the horror short story collection I keep mentioning I started putting some real groundwork into the fantasy series that I want to release in the future as well and that's actually been really fun it's coming along quite well but I've stopped that for now and I've told myself no more working on the fantasy until I finish that collection what is your own process with critique partners and beta readers how many do you use where do you find them and what kind of questions do you ask them I've only done the beta reader process once properly I did it for welcome descent and it went pretty well so how I find them is through here I'll ask people on through a youtube video if they want to do it and usually so I've made like a google docs form for people to apply to be a beta reader and I got a bunch of applications and I ended up accepting like five people and then what I did is I sent them a form with just like a list of prompts basically just like a list of questions like how do you like Joseph as a character what do you dislike about him stuff like that just to give them a direction and then obviously they can throw in any other notes that they have what a couple of the beta readers did for welcome descent that I thought was just absolutely brilliant was that and if you're a beta reader I would highly recommend doing this assuming you get a digital copy of the story they literally went through the document and they made notes through the document with the story as they went like they would type in notes about a paragraph they liked or didn't like under the paragraph and explained why making notes through the entire story about every single thing that happened was a lot of effort on that part and I really appreciated it and probably was the best way to give me insight into the changes I needed to make where is one place you would like to vacation I could definitely see myself like on a beach with like a coconut drink just kick him back that sounds awesome however I also would really like to go to Canada just to spend some time in real snow and catch a few actual live hockey games around NHL season yeah I think I think going to Canada would be nice why is the sky blue because we all live on the surface of a giant that smurf penis no of any cheap editors cheap is a it's a it's a strange choice of word when talking about editors because it's not a cheap service assuming you're getting it properly and professionally done and that makes sense because you've got someone reading through your entire manuscript and fixing it that's not a cheap thing to do I don't know about cheap but I will recommend you the editor that I used for welcome to send because they were great and more importantly they were very fast as well they're called the expert editor expert editor dot com dot au they've got a price calculator on there where you can type in the amount of words that your story has and it'll give you a price I think when I used them it only took them like two weeks or something to send me back the finished fully edited manuscript and they were great I haven't really looked into the reviews from my book but I haven't heard anything about any typos or bad editing so I have to assume they did a good job that about does it that's my that's my Q and A for this two-year time period thanks so much for your questions I really appreciate it I really appreciate everyone who has been sticking around with my channel for so long it means a lot thank you thanks again for watching I'll see you in the next one catch ya