OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Okay, so again, my name is Francisco Pinedo from Solidar Adults School here in Solidar California. I am also a OTAN SME subject matter expert and today's session is Canvas in ESL. So mainly preparing students for post-secondary. So I'll explain a little bit about that why we started using Canvas here in Solidar. If you would like a copy of this presentation, you have my email down below, fpinedo.net. Then that way I could send it out to you. So I'll leave this screen up for a little bit. That way you could write down my email and then also I could be more than happy to share it with you. Okay, so the agenda for this short hour that we have this afternoon is I'm going to do an overview of Canvas in Canvas Commons. Brief intro into Canvas, which is a learning management system, LMS. So other ones that we have heard about are for example, like Blackboard, like Moodle, which we use a lot in adult ed as well. Also the why Canvas for ESL specifically. I have heard discussions where colleagues want to use Canvas for like high school equivalency. I think I believe there's a session tomorrow for the high school diploma and using Canvas for that purpose, but also for high school equivalency.  So I'm going to be going over like some of the ESL stuff that we found using Canvas Commons. Also how to import content into your Canvas shell, what I call it, your Canvas account. How to invite students and then I'll be doing a live demo. And of course I'm going to leave time for Q&A. So at any point you can go ahead and chat in a question that you have, I'll be more than happy to answer it for you. The objective for this afternoon is to inspire you to use Canvas and Canvas Commons for ESL students. So our focus here at Soledad Adult School, this is year two of us using Canvas. I want to say it's year one because the first year it was only my ESL class. This year it's my other two colleagues and myself using Canvas Commons for ESL. So it's, and then we did start in-person. So we were in-person with students using Canvas in the classroom teaching them. And then we went back to remote and so we're kind of been flip blocking me back and forth. But Canvas has been a great way to keep the student retention. We haven't really lost a lot of the students because we took the time to onboard them into Canvas, explained to them how to use it, guide them in the classroom how to use it. I teach the students how to use platforms for higher education. So just down the street from where I am, literally like a quarter of a mile away is the new satellite campus for our community college, Sahartnau Community College, and they use Canvas. So I thought, well, we should start teaching our students to use Canvas so that that way when they go to the community college, it's one less barrier that they have to worry about to be able to be successful at the community college. Also to teach you to select and customize content from Canvas Commons. So we'll be talking a lot about Canvas and Canvas Common. Canvas is like, think of it as your website, the site. And Canvas Common is where I pull in a lot of resources in that I'm going to share with my students. So the first question I always like to start and ask is, well, and I get asked, well, what is Canvas? So people for including myself, the first time I heard the term Canvas, I was thinking of another site that's very similar without the S and I was thinking, ah, doing pictures or flyers, things like that. But no, Canvas with an S, it's actually an LMS, a learning management system that is used by a lot of higher education institutions. And just recently in the last year or so, it's starting to be used more and more in adult education, which makes me very happy. Also our local here in Soledad, our high school, is also using, well, they were using Canvas last year. I don't know, I haven't really connected with them that much this year, but I do want to say that they're still using Canvas for some of their subjects. And for the same reason, because at that campus, they do also offer some community college courses in the evening before our campus was open here just down the street. So the instructors there were sometimes doing that teaching for the community college. So they also use Canvas in there with their students. It's a managed online course. You can create assignments, discussions, you can add modules, you can add your own or you can import from Canvas Common or you could share if someone shares with you something. It fosters students engagement and success. So the students are, for the most part, very well engaged. Again, I always tell them, like, if it's a post, you're gonna respond to it and everybody else could see. So that's when we talk about being a good digital citizen. So all that comes into play once we start using Canvas. And mainly for intermediate advanced ESL students, that was my suggestion. Of course, my co-worker, she started implementing Canvas with her beginning ESL. She has been very successful. So now I could say you can use it for any level of ESL. It really doesn't matter if they're intermediate advanced, but I began using it with more, I still teach that same group. So for me, it was easier for them to be onboarding with Canvas. And then my colleague, she was very successful with her beginning pre-lit class as well. So this is a overview of what I call the Canvas Shell. So you could see that this is my site. It's fairly simple. I don't wanna overwhelm the students too much. It has the basic information that they need, like the class syllabus, the Zoom link, my contact information. On the sides, you can see, oh, we have Linda says that she uses Canvas with beginning high level English students successfully. Yes, I think most of our students, if we onboard them properly and we teach them how to use it, we'll be very successful. My mindset changed when I started seeing that, it could be used for all students at all levels, not just intermediate advanced. But yes, it is very successful. It just will take you some time to teach your students how to get to that point where they could do it independently. So I have my area for announcements, assignments, discussions, some of them I don't use. You could see like the ones that have like the little eye with the cross. That means that the student site is not going to see that. So you can also do quizzes, grades as well. Well, there's two versions of Canvas. There's the paid version. I'm using the free version. This is the free version. In the paid version, which I know many like community colleges have, some adult schools that I've been in contact with also have the paid account. You're actually able to take attendance. So here in our community college, the instructors actually take attendance through Canvas for both in-person and for distance learning courses as well. So this is what I like to call my Canvas shell. It's very easy to customize. I kept it very simple, not too overwhelming for the students. So you're either going to click here, here, here and it's going to take you where you need to go. Let's see here. Here you could see, for example, in the assignment. So here you would see the students. I would upload the lesson for the week and then it would have the due date and then the student would come in into their Canvas account and they would click on whatever lesson we're working on and they would do the work on. So it's also teaching the students organization skills. Like, okay, I'm starting with unit five, lesson one, work my way down to lesson six. Lesson six was kind of big, so I broke it up into different parts. So then the student knows automatically and then they also get an email notification whenever I upload a content or when something is open in Canvas to do. So they know exactly that on Tuesdays, they're going to log into Canvas and they're going to see this week's assignment. Of course, you don't see this week's because this was a screenshot I took last week for this presentation. When the student clicks on an assignment, they can do the assignment within Canvas. So I don't have to be emailing them a document and having them emailing me back. I could simply select the assignment as an annotated document. So the student would see this when the student will open up this right here. Let's pretend I click right there and it took me to this one here. So in here, I'm going to be able to annotate, answer the question. You could see that there's a chat feature which I would click on it and then I would type in my answer right here. Of course, it will have the instructions here because this is not, this is from the teacher side so you're not able to see like all the things that I put but for the student side, I'm able to put the instructions, I'm able to put, do all that. And then when the student finishes the document, so you could see that this document is eight pages. So that means some of it is reading and it's reading comprehension. So I would give them a time of, let's say you have a couple of days to do it and then they would get a notification as well. Students could highlight as you could see here. They can also, if there's something that there's a lot of things that I say, okay, you're not gonna do number five, for example. So I cross it off or they cross it off as well or if they want to underline, highlight something. So it's very good because it eliminates a lot of the paperwork that would go into play if I was to print this out or the student was to print this out. And then at the end, there's an area where it says submit. So once it's submit, I get a notification that it is submitted. I do have a question of what is my opinion about using digits, 6.1. So, Marino, I'm hoping I'm pronouncing your name right. Is it referring to, I'm thinking it's referring. Yeah, how you organize the lessons that I start on the canvas. You had lesson six, or unit five, less, uh-huh, that. I tried that, oh, I get, okay. So yeah, like six point, okay. This year, my students, it's a very interesting group. I tried that and they were going in the wrong areas. So when I began doing like part A, part B, they seem to have gotten it better. And the reason I modeled it is because when the students here at the elementary school, they use CSaw and some other programs, that's how the teachers break it up, like part A, part B. So I think the parents are more familiar to see, because a lot of my adult ed students also have children here in the elementary school. So, and I've seen my nephews, CSaw account, which is another learning management system, and they kind of have it like part A, part B, part C. So I tried experimenting with that. You could see here, I still did it a little bit different. I was still experimenting. I put lesson three. That was a little bit successful. You could see right here, I'm doing it that way. But what I'm finding it easier is that when I tell the students, okay, today we're doing lesson six, part A or part B, right away.  So it seems to work. So again, it might depend on your population. Again, this year I have a very interesting group where it seems that this is working for me. But it might work for you. I mean, I do like the option of like 6.16.2, 6.3, definitely. Another comment, I didn't realize that there is a free version of Canvas. Is that Canvas comment? I'm gonna get to that point also. How do, oh, feedback on assignments. Okay, so once I go live on the actual, my Canvas show, you'll be able to see that. So I'm gonna hold those questions a little bit more later on of how do I assign feedback? Because I do give a lot of feedback. There's rubrics, there's a lot. So how does Soledad Adult School use Canvas? So we use courses that are college aligned because we are importing the courses from the Santa Ana College that they produce in Canvas Commons for Canvas. So think of Canvas Commons as maybe the site where you will, okay, I come from the time when I had a smart board and within the smart board, there was this external site where I would go and I would pull lessons. Some of them were free, some of them were paid. And then I import it into my Canvas account. So Canvas Commons is kind of like the repository maybe where there's a lot of lessons, units and even whole curriculum that I import. So it's college aligned because that's what they're using for their non-credit, I believe their non-credit ESL. It teaches them, again, it's giving them that experience of this is what I'm going to see in higher ed. And it's a great way for student interaction because students can interact with one each other respectfully, of course, responding to comments, responding to someone's work or we also in our classes, we have students do presentations. For example, at the beginning of the semester, like maybe like mid-September, they did a presentation about themselves, about their culture and students would comment. They would comment and they would, of course we would tell them like what is appropriate, what is not appropriate. So we do a lot of video audio. There's also an area where the student could record their voice and is reading like a passage or something if we wanna see how well they're reading. So it's a great way for student interaction and for student communication. So Canvas Commons is a free learning repository that lets educators to find, import and share resources. So Common is available for free for all teacher accounts, whether it's paid or the free version. You can always customize the comment. Like you'll see, I'll show you in just a bit how a lot of the content from Santa Ana College is not relevant to students here in solid at adult school. For example, when it says contact the school counselor, well, we really don't have a school. Well, we do share them with the continuation school, but we don't have all the resources that the community college has. So a lot of the information I do take out, a lot of the work again, because they produced it is relevant to Santa Ana City. So a lot of it or Orange County, I'm able to customize it as well. But I always give credit to the original owner. I make sure that whatever information I'm using, I always give credit in this case to Santa Ana College because again, it's teaching the students that it's always good to cite your sources. What can I do with Canvas Commons? So with Canvas Commons, you can search for content relevant to your subject, mainly ESL, so a lot of, I mean, there is not a lot for adult ed, but what there is, it's mainly for ESL, bill courses. I don't know if, I know my friend Jennifer, she was working on a Canvas for Citizenship. I need to double check with her, but you can build the course from the ground up. You could customize it on your own and build it. You can create, add your own lessons, add your own material that you're going to use. You would share the material with your colleagues. Again, we wanna make sure that we respect all of the, what we ever, what we upload, make sure we're respecting the copyrights for using X, Y, or Z curriculum. We wanna make sure that we are respecting the copyright policy for that, and people would recognize your content. So if you start seeing more and more, you're adding more and more things into Canvas, people will be able to recognize you. This last one here, I remember I was talking to Penny, Pearson, a couple months ago about this. Commons, Canvas Commons is an OER, an open education resource, based on how the course is copyrighted. So I don't wanna say everything in Canvas Commons is OER, because that would be not true, but it's based on however the, what the module, the lesson, the curriculum that you import, the course, how they're copyrighted. But again, because we do use a lot of the open education resources in Commons, the one that we are using is an OER. Do you have to share your, no, you don't have to share your material.  So think of Commons, so those, I come from the K-12 background, so for example, a site where I wanna think like with Commons is the teacher paid teachers.  It's kind of the same, except in this way in Commons, they're not charging. But it's, if you upload it into Commons, someone could be able to retrieve it. But if you keep it locally on your own, or maybe just share it with your colleagues, then it'll be, you will keep it private. Okay, hope that answers that question. Let me see here. So this is an example in my Canvas. So I have, for example, for my advanced ESL. Right now I have, it's a little bit different. This is a screenshot from, I believe, earlier last semester, I believe. So you could see that here on my dashboard, I have all the different courses that I have. Down here, you're going to see that there is a little C with an arrow that is pointing that says Commons. That's where I would click if I wanna go into Canvas Commons. But first, going back to a question is where they didn't know that Canvas had free, there was a free account.  So if I click on it, oh, it's not found, okay. So Francisco, I just went to, let me put the link in. Okay. Oh, did you get, okay, you got it. I'm gonna put the link into, okay, got it. Okay, so here to create your account is very simple. You would put your first name, last name, and then the type of account teacher. Now for the teacher one, you do have to provide a email that is attached to a educational institution. So if I do my personal email at gmail.com, it's not gonna allow me. It has to be a, for example, I use my k12.ca.us email and then here you fill out that information. So again, what you could do is you could create content, assignment quizzes, discussions, video conferences as well. You can upload video lessons as well. You would have some personalized learning, standard-based grade books. You can use the Canvas app. I have it here on my, on my iPad, and it's actually great for when you are doing the feedback for the students, it's so much easier to do it on the iPad, for me at least. I work a little bit different than everybody else, but at least it's easier for me doing it on the iPad than going on the computer and doing that. It also, it integrates with third-party applications. That's mainly again kind of like, hey, we could do this, but for the paid version. So I really just do it to create content, assignments, quizzes. Yeah, I do some of them, discussions. And then the video conference, again, we use Zoom. In our district, we can only use Zoom if we're teaching with students. So we don't really use that. We use Zoom in that. So if you don't have a account or many times in the community college, you do have an account, but you're very limited. I believe in the community college because I also work part-time for our local community college. I'm not able to import anything from Canvas Commons because of the way how they are set up, but because I also work in a school district, I use my regular school district account and I'm able to do that. And then I'm able to import from Canvas Commons. Let's see what I have here. So things to consider is using an institutional Canvas account might limit what content you can import. So that's what I was just talking about right now. If you are using, it might not be the same for all higher-end institutions that use Canvas, but my experience, what I've experienced from some local community colleges is that they won't even have that little function, that little C with the arrow. They won't even have that because it's so restrictive. So we know it can be a little bit restrictive sometimes. Free accounts also have limitations on things you could do, like for example, taking attendance, doing student reports, things like that, tracking, doing the charts. But then again, most of us in the adult school, we use X, Y, or Z attendance platforms. So we really won't, I mean, I personally don't find the need for it. And one suggestion is that please, please, please, don't tomorrow set up your free Canvas account and say, oh, Francisco from Soledad told us it's free and we could do it. Check with your admin first before starting a Canvas account. Yeah. Okay, so make sure you ask them first. If they don't know about Canvas, educate them a little bit about Canvas, let them know the benefit of having a Canvas account because I have heard situations. Okay, so let's just keep it at that. So always ask. So here in Soledad, like I said, we use the curriculum from Santa Ana College, all levels of ESL now from beginning all the way to advanced. It's aligned to community college standards because it was produced in the community college setting. Here in Canvas comment again, whatever I search, and I'm just doing a, I always like doing a screenshot just in case the internet decides to act up and not let me do what I wanted to show. I'm going to show you next, but let's say that I am looking for content. So I'm going to see here that there's a course. A course means it's the whole everything, like the whole, think of it as a curriculum that's from lesson unit one all the way to unit 10, all the lessons, everything's there. You also have modules which are like units and then you have lessons which would be like individual lessons. Again, you do have to find what material is relevant for you because if I type something as broad as verbs, it's very specific, but if I want, for example, past tense verbs or whatnot and then you could customize by grade level because Canvas is again, mainly geared for K-12. Adult ed, for example, Santa Ana, there's a couple of other places that do add adult ed content but most of the users in Canvas are K-12 instructors. So that's going to be that information. So for example, here, if I'm doing a search on verb tenses, here I could see that it's either a quiz, an assignment, a module. So these are small things. So these, and then it'll give you the grade. So you could customize, do the filter by grade as well. So again, you would think of your class and kind of see, well, you could easily see what's their grade level based on their CASA score. You kind of correlate that. And if everybody is on the same grade level, you could choose it for that level. But then again, you would get that information here. If it's a quiz, it's going to tell you the author as well, and then how many times it's been downloaded, how many stars of rating it has. Let me just skip this one. Okay. Okay. So let me go into my Canvas account and then to address some of the questions on the feedback one. So again, here again, when I go to the site, even with my credentials, it's telling me, do you need a Canvas account? Click here, it's free. Let me just click there so you could see. And then this one here is a little bit different than the link that Blair shared with us in the chat box or this one, or the one that I showed you as well. This one here, you would choose. I'm a teacher. But then again, it's going to take you back to this one. So whether you go, the route I just did right now or the route that was from the link, it's going to end up here. So here is where you would do your, and of course they're going to want to sell you right away, you know, the paid one. So when I log in, so here you could see, I have the courses that I have. So this is the one that I showed earlier, which is my real one with my students. So I really didn't want to play too much with this one because last time I did, and I had to redo a lot of the things. So as a teacher, I could see here I have my to-do list. Okay, so I purposely left these here so that you could see that it's going to alert me of what I need to do. So for example here, I have to do, or I guess these students turned in late because it's five students who submitted the work. And while that's loading, over here on the side, and then you could see sometimes I just put something as simple as great work. So this one was a reading activity that they did and then they responded. You could see how the student responded. They have their answers here. So then here I could add comments. So when they were talking about feedback, and again, I have this assignment that is just a point and a comment. You can also do rubrics as well. I mean, that's more time consuming even for me. So I try not to do rubrics. I mean, I do tell the students what I expect. And then here I could add the comment, let's say that the work, it was just not acceptable. I can reassign it to the student and then it will open the link back for them, okay? How do you make your worksheet interactive? Okay, that starts from whenever you're doing an assignment. So let's say that I'm going to do, oh, I don't have anything saved on this computer. But when I add an assignment, I would click right here. And then, so here I would put the name of the assignment, the instructor, the instruction, not instructor. It's an assignment, if it's going to be points, complete and complete, a letter grade, a percentage. And then, so this is where it's going to be. If it's going to be something that you want them to annotate online, you would do online. So see how when I have no submission, there's nothing. When I click on online, it's going to give me an option. Do I want text entry website? I do this one, student annotation. And then here I'm going to select the file, the PDF, preferably saves on a PDF. So when I upload it, let me see if I have anything on this computer. No, I don't have anything, like literally no documents on this computer. But let's pretend I selected a PDF, and then I do upload. So then what the student is going to see is a student is going to see this right here. They're going to see this document here, but now they could go in and they can write in it. So you're able to do there, the student will be able to do this. So, and then of course, there's different options. I always tell them, stick with black, don't give me one color here, one color there, because yeah. So the original, no, actually that's a good question. So the curriculum that we're using, because I'm teaching a ECEESL course. So we are using the, this course is from Mount Diablo Adult School that was on, oh, my mind blew it, for their early childhood education course. So it was a document, a Word doc. So then in Word, I converted it into PDF, and then I uploaded it into Canvas. So you could create your own worksheet in Word, Google docs, just save it as a PDF. And then once it's saved as a PDF, you can import it here, you know, as a PDF. Of course, for example, like this is from, from the curriculum from Mount Diablo. So we always give them credit. And then also within the curriculum, I believe you saw it here somewhere, it has also credit to the original author. So we also could do media recordings. If we want students to upload a video or upload a voice recording, we can also do that. Me, for my course that I'm teaching, it's a lot of the media doing a small video, like doing an activity with a child, and then also the student annotation. So as long as, as it's saved as a PDF, it will work. PDFs, because when the student opens it, whoops, when the student opens it, it will be a PDF. So then you could, but it'll be a PDF that they could write in, okay? So that eliminates a lot of paperwork for me in the discussions. We really haven't done a lot of discussions because it's more in the work that they do or the video. So for example, here is an example, and I think I have them blocked. So that's why no one's able to see them. So here the students would, for example, here, please introduce yourself to your classmates. So then you would see how some of them respond to each other. And so forth. I would add my course syllabus. For example, this is what I'm going to be teaching every week. There's also the calendar feature, which I've taught my students how to use a calendar to be more organized. And then you would see here the area that says comments. So for that one, let me log into the sample site that I have for this. Because then I'll probably do something and then my students will be emailing me like, why did you add this? Okay. So when I go into comments, let's say I'm teaching a ESL course. Pardon our internet here and saw that. It's a little bit slow sometimes. Okay. So what I could do is I could do ESL. You know, ESL, it's very broad. So it's going to open up a lot of different options, different things. So then that's where you would look at the information. Like if it's a course or this one looks interesting, it's a grammar course. It says it's all great. So I could click on it and then there's a preview. Okay. So the details look. So I could see here the details. I could see that it was from the University of Florida. On the preview, it will show you like a preview, pretend you're seeing the preview of the course. So if I like it, I choose it. If I didn't like it, this one here says ESL one. It's a course as well. So you could see on this one here, there are 29 assignments, 23 pages. There are one discussion, 12 quizzes, 114 files. So for example here, it's all about me and my family. So I would click on it. You would see that there is a video example, which is a YouTube video. Okay, so we watched the video. And then you would click here where it's like a Google slide. So you could see, so I could start seeing this one. And of course it's going to want to copy it into your drive. So those are some of the things that maybe, well, I like this, but I don't like this. And then here you can import it or download. So you could import it into your account and use it for later. So this is what I say, like take time to really look at what you like. So for example, for, and then, oops, I spelled it wrong. Here we go. Can you only, yes, you can only import parts. So here, for example, yeah, and that's right on time. Let me see, I'm sorry, I'm used to working with two monitors right now, only have one. So I can't really see everything. So Marine says you can, can you import only parts, not the whole canvas shell? Yes, so you're going to see this one here. So this one here from Santa Anna is the whole course. So that means it's everything. Or I could just do a module. So a module, think of it as a chapter. So for example, this one here is on health. It's for intermediate, high ESL students. So I could choose everything or I could only choose one. So let's say I like this one, but I'm only going to choose certain parts. I could use the filter to narrow if I want only courses, if I want modules, assignments, quizzes, discussions, documents, video. So let's say that I want only courses. So I could filter courses and then it's going to show me that from what I'm searching for for Santa Anna College, these are the courses. So let's say I don't want courses. I want modules and not courses. So then here it's only going to show me the modules that was produced by, in this case I'm using Santa Anna because that's what I typed. So then let's say that I find something that I like. Let's say I like this one here because I'm going to teach about employment. Maybe it's tied to a EL civics task or to something that I'm doing with my regular curriculum and I'm using this as supplemental. So then I would see the preview and everything and then if I really like it, I would click on the import. So here you go. And then you could see there's the introduction, and then the point system and everything. I would click import or download. So once I click the import or download because this is a module, it's going to ask me, well, where is it? Do I want it? Do I want it in all my courses? Do I want it in the one for my actual class or do I want it in for my OTAN? So let's say I want it only for the OTAN folder. I'm not going to click on it because of time and because sometimes it does take maybe a couple of minutes to import all the information into your Canvas account. So once I click here, you're going to see a notification on your screen that says it's being imported into this course right here. Because remember, there's the ECE and there's the OTAN course in my account. So in my account, I created one. So I imported the ESL, the beginning glow. So this is what I imported. So once I imported the whole course, this is what I'm going to see. And this is where you could really customize it, where you could edit. So I would go to edit. And then once you edit here, again, I'm sorry, it's our internet's really. So here I could customize and maybe this class, again, maybe I don't want this banner, but because it might confuse students, so I could take it out. And then I would say ESL beginning one and then the instructor name. And then here I could see, for example, you could see that there are links here that might not be relevant to my adult school, like the contact instructor. We'll see that one in just a bit. But like the virtual, we don't have a virtual welcome center here in Soledad. So I'll go ahead and erase that. We don't have a support. So I'm going to erase that. I will leave this logo right here. I will leave it because I always want to make sure that I give credit to the author. So then I save that. So now my, what I call the storefront is going to look a little bit different. Now it's, you remember the banner on the top? Now I've removed that. I've customized it. This is how the student is going to see it. So this is what the student will see. They'll see the homepage. They'll see this. They'll see the modules. So the module, so let's say module one. So these are all the activities that the student is going to do in module one. So let's say for example, this one here where the student creates their Canvas profile. I want that due on Friday instead of Wednesday. So then I would go in the same. I would go in, well, for that, I need to leave the student view because then I cannot edit and then I would go edit. And instead of saying it's due on Wednesday, I'm going to say it is due on Friday. And then I'll say that. So then the student is going to see that now it's due on Friday. So once you download anything that you download from Canvas common into your Canvas account, you can go in and you can customize it. You can customize it. You could really make it your own to fit for your students' needs as well. For example, here, the syllabus.  You could insert a PDF of your syllabus. You can here add a picture of the instructor in a short bio. If there's any material, any books that they need to purchase, the SLOs, the student learning outcomes. So that you could really customize it and then every time you do something, you would just make sure that you press save. Here you have rubrics also that you could create. So for each assignment, there is a rubric and you can customize it. So you can add more or add less. Well, in this case, it would be adding more. And then here, let's say that these are things you don't want students to see. So you could click them and unclick them. So if I don't want the students to see for example, files or something, it would be disabled. That means the student won't be able to see. So with comments again, is what I'm using to build my Canvas site, my Canvas that I'm gonna share with the student. So I could go ahead, I try to keep it since I upload one whole course. I try not to add more because remember, each course might be a different author. So sometimes if I'm referencing, okay, the work from Santa Ana, then I reference, okay, the work from this school, students will get a little confused sometimes. So, and then also sometimes it's not gonna be an easy like a seamless transition for that. So let me see. So on this way, so now I have my Canvas set up and everything and then I wanna publish it. So now I've done all the changes I need to do. So now I wanna publish it. So then I would click right here where I would say publish. I don't know why it's not letting me, but it will let you. You will click publish and then it will publish it. And once you have it published, you're going to see it. Oh, of course it's published already, that's why. So once it's already, when you're still working on it, you're going to see it down here where it says unpublished. When you're ready to go live, share it with your students, it's going to go from here to the top part where it says published courses. And then from there is where I would send it to, to the students. So if I want my students to access my Canvas, I would go to people and then here, so you could see these are all the students that I sent the invitation to. So then I wanna add a person. So I would add the person's name and then they're a student, they're in this class and then you would just click add their name again. I don't know why this step is a little repetitive and then their email. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, I will put their email right here. Sorry. So then I'm going to add the student's name and then whoops, hopefully that was someone doesn't have that real email. Once you click add user, it's gonna send the student an invitation for them to join this class. By them clicking on that link and then just confirming a few things like their name, the course and everything, you're going to see here who accepted. So see all these students accepted. This person here, she's actually a co-worker. So I told her to purposefully leave it there. If it says pending and you hear the student, oh, teacher, I couldn't log in or I forgot or I didn't get the information, you can go in and check and then you could see, you could resend it again. Or if they say they didn't get it or whatnot, you could do that and you will be able to resend the, oh, here we go. He has this, to resend. So this one here would resend it. Oh, I resend it to her. Need to let her know not to accept. And then that way you could just simply do that, okay? Files, that's something I really, right here when it says files, it's just things that I upload with the students. It's not really a lot, mainly what I use. So everything that I put in the homework in the assignments would appear right here as well. It's Canvas like Google classroom that if you have a paid account and send invitations to students, I really don't have experience with Google classroom. So I would not be able to speak on that. What I will be able to say is that if you notice the students that I sent the invitation to, it was their personal email, okay? Except this one here, this one the student had their heart now email. But everybody else, it was their personal. So it could be a Google email, it could be Yahoo, it could be one from the community college. It's open to, as you could see here, there's a student who has an email, this one here. Dot mx, that means it's an email that was created in Mexico. The students still here, they're using that email. So you don't need no, and I think I know where the question's getting at to like when Melinda says you're in the club or you're not in the club and this one, it doesn't matter the status, you can be in the Canvas club with, how does she mention it with the pub account or the non-pub account? Something like that, I'm kind of remembering when she would talk about Google in that regards, okay? I know in this TDLS, there's gonna be a lot more sessions with Canvas. So I hope I have sparked your interest in you using Canvas. I just do have to say one thing, it's not gonna be something that you could, I heard it today and I'm gonna start implemented tomorrow. It will take time, as you could see, just for me choosing the course, building the course, editing things, it will take time and it will take a lot of onboarding your students on teaching them how to do this from the student side. With me, it was easier because it was me and my team of two ESL teachers who we worked together in creating this. So you will have to invest some time, but the payoff has been great. We've been able to keep student retention at about 75 to 80% because they're engaged in Canvas. So it's, I know right now we're struggling a lot with student retention. So this is a great way to retain them. I would plan maybe for next school year if you're interested in doing something like this because we're already at March, most of us end at the end of May. So thank you very much and please, please, please do your evaluation for this session. I would really appreciate it and it will really help me for my future presentations that I do, okay? So let me see a couple of other, was the interactive PDFs were in the free version. Yes, so that one for Linda Lehmann, it was in the free version. I'm not in the student, my students use Kami too. Oh, yeah, I've heard of Kami too, yeah. Okay. Okay, so thank you very much everybody. Enjoy the rest of TDLS. Hopefully next year it will be in person and I cannot wait to actually be wandering around the class or wherever we're at in a real session, not just sitting here in a chair. Okay, thank you very much everybody.


the most random purchase of maybe all the Chinatown Cheap Eats. Okay, come on. Come on! Wenzel, oh, okay. Alright, guys, come to Supreme. Come see her from Wenzel. Hey. Alright. Damn it. Damn it. Welcome to part eight of our Chinatown series.  In this episode, we got for you a supreme Shalom Bao battle, secret Cajun seafood boils, fluffy cake dessert alley, and the most hyped of hyped roast meats. So hit that like button and let us know in the comments down below if we should continue this series. Chinatown, part eight, New York, let's go. But real quick, I gotta give a big shout out to our sponsor of the video, Bokksu. It is the most traditional, rare, and I think the best Japanese snack box subscription you can get. Let's look inside. So, coming straight to your doorstep from Osaka, Japan. It's a very nicely packaged box, discovered Japan through snacks. Each month has a different theme, so this theme is mochi. Look at all these snacks here. 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I wouldn't say that this is the biggest I've seen though. Immediately, Andrew, what are your thoughts on Joe's Ginger? It looks a little smaller. It is holding pretty well. It looks pretty thin. Actually, I'm pretty excited. I never had Joe's Ginger. I would say this looks similar to the ones that you would get in Shanghai. We are judging the pork Shaolong Bao, Joe's Ginger. Overall, pretty solid. It's my initial feeling. I've got to go in for my second one. You know, this is the first Shaolong Bao's of the day, but it's not the last. I'm going to go ahead and give this one a 3.8 out of 5. I was going to say a solid 3.75. Filling was definitely enjoyable. There was nothing bad about that Shaolong Bao, but since we're going to be trying so many guys, I have to leave some room for improvement, okay? Joe's Ginger Shaolong Bao, 3.75. Again, what was the last time you had one of these? Probably shooting with you guys. Whatever you want, man. I'm just going to eat it whole. Aren't you guys, I just ordered the pork Shaolong Bao's from Joe's Shanghai. This is probably the most famous spot in the city to get the gigantic New York style XLB Shaolong Bao's. Let's see how they compare. Aren't you guys, we've got Joe's Shanghai on the left side. We've got Shanghai Asian cuisine on the right side. What a name. Wow, Shanghai Asian cuisine. We are on the alleyway that connects Elizabeth and Bowery right now. Very famous low-key food alley because New West Malaysia, also a banger, a banger, is maybe a 4.5 out of 5 type spot on this street. So you actually have outdoor dining built up inside of this alleyway. Joe's Shanghai, $10. Guys, every spot has been about $10. Wow, the amount of soup inside of Joe's soup dumplings are incredible. I got to say, these are some of the biggest Shaolong Bao's you can even have. What I would say that I like really about Joe's Shanghai is that the skin is really thin, but it's big. But it doesn't break yet. It doesn't break, but it's thin, so that's important. All right, here we go. This is Shanghai Asian cuisine. The amount of soup, it looks different. It looks like a perfect bowl. Looks more like Disney-like. Yeah. Guys, it is interesting to see the difference in Shaolong Bao's. Joe's has some really good pork flavor. I'm touring all three spots that we've been to. Joe's Ginger, Joe's Shanghai, and Shanghai Asian Cuisine Enter. We're all good at different things. I can see why Joe's Shanghai won overall. Joe's just eat it out, though. Man, that pork broth flavor is so strong. Joe's Shanghai, it still might be number one. Anyways, guys, we're outside a supreme restaurant, so this spot used to be called Shanghai Dumpling for many years, and that's why it has over 2,000 reviews on Yelp. But recently, they changed their name. Maybe it was a change of ownership. We got to check out Shanghai Hooking right next door, too.  Guys, if there are two Shanghai Knees spots next to each other, what makes you think we're not going to compare the two? All right, you guys, the XLB Wars continue. We are a supreme restaurant on Mott Street. Like I said, guys, there are so many soup dumpling spots.  I'm not going to lie, guys. Might be pushing my number one. That's the most balanced one I had so far today. In terms of balance between the flavor, the amount of juice, the skin, maybe my only complaint is that the skin was a little thick, but as far as supreme restaurant goes, let me tell you guys, that's a good shallom bough in terms of balance. Thick skin, okay, I'm just going to eat it first. It might be the best one, man. That supreme XLB ranked number one in every category, but you got to look at an overall aggregate score. I'm not going to say anything until we try Shanghai Hooking. They've been in business for 10 years. Woo! Okay, these were only $6.95 though. That's super cheap.  Shanghai Hooking, AKA Shanghai Peace. Not bad, $6.95. I don't know. For me, I'm going with supreme. Really good for $6.95. Well, I got to say for sub $7, that was a good deal, but if I was going to just compare on just taste, supreme restaurant is pretty good, man. I would say the skin is a little thick. Yeah, the skin is a little thick. That's what I said in my review. However, I will say that the meat is not grainy. And the grainy meat is a huge knock. Are you guys from Shanghai? I'm the city very close to Shanghai, but I'm not from Shanghai. Oh, but you're from the area? Yeah, very close, yes. What, Suzhou, Hangzhou? Wenzhou. Wenzhou, oh, okay. All right, guys, come to supreme. Come see her from Wenzhou. Hey. All right, guys, I'm on Hell Street and I'm here at vegetarian dim sum house. As you guys know, there are a lot of Chinese vegetarian spots in Chinatown that you can choose from, but this spot specializes in dim sum, so I've actually never had vegetarian dim sum. All right, guys, here we are starting off with vegetarian dim sum house. This is the Pell Street trifecta right here. They're all the fried taro balls, so this originally doesn't even have meat, but this is one of the best dishes. Mm. Yeah, I can see why that's one of the best dishes. Honestly, I was very impressed.  David, here is one of my favorite dim sum dishes. The singyukyun. This is the bean curd and pork roll. Obviously, the vegetarian version. Vegetarian version. David, for me personally, this reminds me of that dish that mom and dad would make, the vizientarian chashu bao. They make their chashu look like meat. So it's not bad, it's easy to eat. I wouldn't say it quite tastes like meat. All right, you guys, as far as Buddhist cuisine goes in terms of vegetarian dim sum, I'm gonna go ahead and give this place a surprising four out of five. Because aesthetically, I'm not gonna lie, some of the other vegetarian spots, they seem a little bit more high end. This spot was just bringing the flavor. 4.25. That spot was good. You know, for the younger generation, Andrew, it's definitely desserts, boba shops, sneaker drops, supreme drops. It creates this type of hype. But for the older generation here in Chinatown, it's gotta be chashu. Yo, I have not seen a roast meat spot be so hyped to have such a long line, to have such a long wait, but it's hei hei roasted meats. I think that this kind of signals that, you know, even like the chashu spots are becoming more modern and stuff. So I'm really excited to see how it tastes. I don't know, maybe it's gonna taste really traditional. Maybe it's gonna taste updated. All right, so we made it to Columbus Park. We got our hei hei roast meats. And man, between just the packaging and everything, the cleanliness, David, this is looking different than any other spot in Chinatown. So basically the owner is a young Chinese Malaysian. And their goal is to kind of have something for 2021 that really shows the new modern age that they wanna see Chinatown enter. And everything here was pretty much under $10. Even this was $10. That was $10.75. Yeah, it was $10.75 with the additional $3 chicken leg.  People love boxes of meat and rice so much in Chinatown. I almost wanna say, could you say it's number one? Bro, I mean, this is what Chinatown is known for. It is the roast meats. All right, so I always say there's not that much duck pieces, but the duck pieces that are there look great. Let's do it. Is hei hei bringing the best roast meats in Chinatown in 2021? All right, right now. Are they bringing Chinatown into 2021? Yo, straight up, let me tell you that. That was fire. Moving on. Oh my gosh, look at this. Guys, as you can see the siu yuk is falling apart. Little crispy skin on top, let's get it. I got a lot of seasoning on the inside of the pig where they rub it a lot. Not bad at all, but a little salty. Stewed chicken. It's good. I'm not saying it's the best, but straight up, after having those three, it's up there. Ginger scallion. All right, Andrew, Andrew, as somebody who probably likes ginger scallion chicken even more than me, I gotta get your opinion, because you're more of a focus. You put more focus on this dish than I do. The flavor is as deep and strong as any other chicken I've had in Chinatown. I could see some people thinking it's a little bit too salty. If you wanna talk about flavor, they got it here at Hei Hei. Chashu here. Not gonna lie, it doesn't look that amazing, but I gotta try it. Middle tier, I'm Chashu, middle. Barbecue pork scrambled egg. Okay.  It's really crazy how much it tastes like. I've just been transported to Guangzhou. David, this looks like we got this out of the steamer at 7-Eleven, man. Oh! Wow, easy to pull back. So this is not Muchoe cow yolk. This is just... No, there's no Muchoe. This is just cow yolk, some style. Some Cantonese cow yolk. Braised, they call this braised Guangzhou style. Oh my God. Look at this jiggling. Oh, like some collagen. Andrew, I also was recommended this tofu. Oh, this looks good. This garlic tofu. Look at how much color this has. I think Heihei is a spot you have to check out because it is doing things differently. It's delivering a different style of food, fast food style. It's sealed. It probably carries well. The roast meats are good, particularly the chicken and the duck. But man, it was all pretty fairly priced. Yo, for me overall, I'm gonna go ahead and give Heihei roasted meats a 4.5 out of 5. I was gonna say 4.5 out of 5. Guys, this is a must try Chinatown cheap eat. It's new. It's clean. They're doing things differently. Way to start off 2021 with the banger. Bro, are they bringing Chinatown into 2021? I don't wanna just give them all the credit. Obviously, the people, it's the thinking, it's everything. But man, I think this spot has set a new standard. All right, right next to Vegetarian Dim Sum House, you got Meesum Cafe. This is a classic spot also on Pell Street. Ronnie Chang just filmed a movie here as well, but this is a classic spot. It's really gonna give you those old school cafe vibes. David, we have Meesum Cafe 52 years in Chinatown. 52 years. Five, two. Detective Jackie, you was filmed here. Shout out to Ronnie Chang. Okay, Andrew, you ordered a ham and egg sandwich. Now that's different because the egg is a kind of over easy egg or over medium egg. It looks more Western. Yeah, as opposed to a kind of like a scrambled egg. And then we have this really tasty looking shrimp and egg and I like it because if you look at that shrimp, look at how that's cooked right there. That's extra flavor, baby. Shit, hog out. Boom. This was the one that caught my eye. Do it, do it. Just do it. Every ingredient is way more American. The ham is more American and the egg is more American. Tastes way more homemade than a lot of spots. I'm really excited about this because it has my two favorite types of onion, purple onion and green onion. Man, I would say everything tastes really, really homemade. Yeah. Dude, this is Meesum Cafe. Might as well call that homemade cafe. Okay, mixed combination guys.  This is freshly steamed mixed combination. Boom. You know that I know about Zonesas because I have a favorite part of the Zonesa. Zonesas here at Meesum. Everything tastes like a grandma church made it. Yo, man. I don't know if there's anything more traditional than Meesum. Even the name is like, I feel like every, there's always a spot called a Meesum. It might not be my like favorite of favorite in terms of flavor wise. I think it's good. But in terms of tasting homemade with very little oil, very little, you know, MSG sodium. Meesum has got to take the cake. Man, if you want to kind of take a break from the Chinatown food style, which is a little bit saltier, Meesum Cafe. And not only that, you probably can't even make this for as cheap as they cook it for. My next spot is Food House. Shout out to them for snagging this name. I mean, it's pretty generic, but it's just Food House. Shout out to them. They have 699 double chicken drumsticks with rice. They also have a 699 pork chop with rice. To me, I've never had, I don't really know what a double chicken drumstick is. So I'm going to try it. I'll let you guys know if it's any good. This is Food House on Eldridge. Here, I just got a pound of Cajun shrimp here at Food House. It was unexpected. I saw this sign. They have, it's just like Boiling Crab or The Boyle or wherever else you want to call it. They got it here randomly. All right guys, moving down Eldridge Street. I'm here at 3AA Cafe in Delhi. I have no idea what they serve, but I'm going to go check it out. Let's see. What's up? Okay, thank you. Hey, what's your name? Kenny. Kenny, Kenny from Hong Kong, man. Where in Hong Kong are you from? I'm from Kaolunside. Kaolunside, which MTR stop? I just know stuff by MTRs. MTR? Yeah, which stop, which? My stop is, I think it's Prince Edward. Prince, Arbor. Prince, Prince Edward. Oh, Prince Edward. Oh, okay. I heard of it. Yeah, Prince Edward. I'll tell you 2-4 in case you didn't know. Okay, Kenny, this is some... And then Hong Kong style sandwich. So you will like it. All right, Kenny. Don't just say, okay. Sunday, five o'clock. The two bridges area, you know, four side division street right next to the train. Shout out to 3AA Cafe and my man Kenny from Hong Kong. All right, I had no idea that this was a hidden gem. Pape that. Guys, this is a part of a balanced Hong Kong breakfast. Shout out to Kenny. I'm not gonna lie that essentially did taste kind of like a Hong Kong version of a sausage, egg, and cheese from McDonald's. So I liked it. Yes, that's what I'm trying to say. All right, so I got the sandwich and this chocolate tea aisle for only $11. Guys, I can smell more of that funk, that fish sauce, that Malaysian style. This is not like your regular Cantonese Hong Kong-Chung-O-Hall. This is Chakwe-T-O, hawker stall style, man. Clean taste and like I got it from a hawker stall in the mall. Have a seafood boil, the most random purchase of maybe all the Chinatown Cheap Eats, most random. This is $15 a pound.  Food house. I'm just eating the whole shrimp, man.  So comparing it to places like the boil or boiling crab, it's definitely a little bit less buttery and a little bit less oily. A little bit more towards the traditional Cajun style, which is more like heavily old Bay seasoning. But man, just to get it on Eldridge Street, that is a deal, $15, one pound of shrimp. All right, here we got a $6.99 double chicken drumstick over rice. Mm.  All right, our next spot here on the Chinatown Cheap Eats crawl is on Essex Street. It's called Taco Recipes. And you guys, it's a Tex-Mex spot ran by a Chinese family. Is it authentic, traditional Mexican food? I mean, it is Tex-Mex, and Tex-Mex is kind of like Chinese-American food, a version of Mexican food that is legit, you know, even though it's from essentially Texas. But guys, Essex Street, I mean, we're talking about Mexican food, cooked by Chinese people. Let's go. I have a question. Are you guys, are you guys from Fujian? Oh, okay. How do you, what make you guys cook Mexican food? All right, everybody. So I got to talk to the lady working there real quick, and I wanted to know the story on why they're serving Tex-Mex. And it was actually because they learned Tex-Mex here in America, and they were kind of talking about like, Fujinis food doesn't sell as well to like, you know, the Westerners, but Mexican food does. And here I got the three tacos. Each taco is about $3, but it depends on what I got inside. Obviously, the chicken and shrimp one are a little bit more expensive than the chili one. Shrimp taco, $360. That was actually pretty tasty. The shrimp had a really nice char to it. Chicken, crispy taco. Food here was very healthy tasting, actually. It was very clean. All right, next for $5, I have a chicken quesadilla. Nice little single serving here. Quesadilla tastes healthy. Probably doesn't have the most flavor. It maybe doesn't taste like it was cooked on the street, but nonetheless, very solid. All right, next, this is my last item here at Taco Recipes, guys. This is the one y'all been waiting for. This is the chicken and steak combo plate. $9, $8.99. This is good. I recommend, this is a must-cop. Guys, $8.99. You get freshly grilled chicken. You get freshly grilled steak. It's in its own lane, and it's good. We're here at reception bar on Orchard Street, but there's a round-cake-cafe pop-up that's serving all the brunch food during the day. Here, we have each item that's about $10. So it fits in. It's barely in there. It's barely in there, guys, we're not. But you gotta look at what you're getting for the $10. Dude, it's like I said with cream, guys. It's a value. All right, talk about it. You guys, this is kimchi butter eggs croissant BLT. Take a look at this. It's a cheap butter BLT. Guys, I mean, you have a thick-cut bacon, you got fresh eggs, you have a lot of avocado. I mean, by all means, these are not the cheapest ingredients. So, yes. Over here, we have a ube boat toast for $10. Aesthetically beautiful.  Andrew, this is a kimchi-wrapped piece of bacon. So the bacon is cooked with kimchi cheese, thrown with avocado on a roll, $10.  It's really cool to see more Korean stuff in Chinatown. Yeah, especially, I mean, this is definitely on the exterior of Chinatown. But man, I mean, like we said, Chinatown is always very welcoming of all different businesses. Reception bar. Reception bar. Brunch sandwiches. Oh my gosh. How crispy this is. Kimchi butter, kimchi mayo wrapped up with a thick cut, almost like more Canadian bacon, more than American bacon. I could easily see that being $15 or $16 somewhere else. All right, guys. The kimchi cooked bacon is fire. The bacon hot dog sandwich or whatever you want to call this, get this one here. This is different. Last but not least, Andrew, we've got the ube boat cake. Wow, it's decorative. Wow. The round K was a hipster Korean cafe in the Lower East Side. They closed down due to the pandemic, but they kind of moved here and took over the lunch service at reception bar. Nighttime they're doing soju cocktails like this one right here. Daytime, you've got some borderline, but very good Chinatown cheap eats. All right, guys, on to the next spot. All right, guys, this is Chinatown cheap eats part eight. You know we gotta take it to places that you've never seen before. We are on Rutgers and Henry in the Lower East Side, more of the two bridges area. And guys, I know this is outside of Chinatown, but this is absolutely a hidden gem and a cheap eat. I'm talking about forever taste. It's actually one of the places I personally like to go to. I'm gonna show you what's up. All right, guys, I just got my food from Forever Taste. All this for $24. So the interesting thing about Forever Taste is that it's a Fujianese family, but the husband learned how to cook Shanxi food when he got to Chinatown. So that's why there's some very Shanxi dishes here that are even hard to find in other parts of Chinatown. So this is the Yopua Mian. I've eaten this dish in Beijing. I've loved it. This is only $7. Simple dish, lots of veggies, no meat, vegetarian. Personally, this is my favorite dish to get here at Forever Taste. This is the Fanqie Chowdan, which is the tomato egg. Woo! Yo, Dan, you smell that? I requested to get a little bit spicy.  I mean, I know this is a very homestyle dish for a lot of people, but this is the one here. This is a must get here at Forever Taste. And just like a lot of spots out here, this is on Rutgers Street and it serves all types of people. So you know they gotta have their Chinese American classics, but I wanted to try this one because they said this is really good. This is one of their specialties. This is beef with orange peel.  Look, legit, they're not lying about that orange peel. Look, my stamp of approval. This tastes like restaurant quality. Like, all right, guys, of course, it would not be a Chinatown cheap eats. If I didn't try the dumplings here, very cheap. Great deal. Let me just squeeze some of this. This is not a spot that a lot of people are gonna talk about. I think you're really gonna appreciate it if you live in this area.  I mean, I think it's really solid. So if you live around the area, you can get pretty much all the different types of noodles that you want here. All right, you guys, noodle village. I'm excited, famous for their joke. Probably, honestly, some of the best joke in Chinatown. How much was the joke? All right, so the jokes were about $10 each. All right, you guys, right next to the noodle village is Wok Wok. This is one of the best Chinese Malaysian spots around. However, the reason that we were kinda holding off putting in a cheap eats is they are more like towards the $20 range. But for lunch menu, lunch special, you know, they do have some cheaper sub $10 items. So we're gonna check those out. All right, you guys, two of the better and newer restaurants in Chinatown NYC, our noodle village, and Wok Wok. You have Hainan chicken, $10. Crispy garlic chicken over rice, $10. Roti cheese, Talor, which is $6. Hoken, Hakka, Tak Tak Mi. So that's for the Wok Wok Malaysian side, okay? And noodle village is known for a lot of things. They're known for being really solid at everything, but their best things are their jokes. This is a yupin joke, but with real fish pieces, these are not frozen. This is a satin chicken kanji, satin gai juk. All right, you guys, like we said, noodle village, Wok Wok, same space. I love the collaboration. They're getting along with each other, not seeing each other as rivals, but rather collaborators. All right, you guys, we have the Hainan chicken right here, $9.95 over rice, boom, boom. The flavor is there in the sauces. Next up, we've got the crispy garlic chicken. I was surprised to see this for $9.95 over rice. Normally I would say Hainan. Here at Wok Wok, get the garlic crispy chicken. This is cheese roti quesadilla with a chicken curry dip. So this was only like $7.  Andrew, I think we're on to something here. That's a winner. This is a winner. Last but not least, here at Wok Wok, we got the Toc Toc Mi. I don't think a lot of people know about these like Hakka noodles. Andrew, the wonton min comes pre-soy sauce. Everything's already set, but you know what, they give you this dish of garnishes on the side, and I just boom, Toc Toc at Wok Wok. Andrew, I love this at Bo-Ki. I love it here. This might be the most underrated dish in the Chinese diaspora. All right, you guys, you gotta try out these jokes. I know a lot of people like to get the preserved egg in the pork, but this is a European joke. This is a real fresh fish slice. I got some fish skins right here. I might just eat that with that. What? Honestly, the way Noodle Village does their kanjis or their jokes, they are very comparable to something you can get in Hong Kong. Listen, guys, one pro tip is to check out the cheaper dishes that more expensive restaurants have because sometimes that same quality and attention to care transfers over to even their stuff that's $10 and under. All right, guys, I'm here, I'm at Banh Mi Co-Oop and they are serving authentic Vietnamese food. Okay, come on. Come on. Okay, trying the pho. Wow, straight up, that is actually really beefy pho. It's got heavy cinnamon. The tendon is soft. And guys, I gotta say that this is definitely one of the more tastier phos in Chinatown. All right, you guys, we are looking at two dessert spots owned by the same company, Taiyaki Doe Club. We've just filmed here before, Andrew, but since then, Taiyaki has obviously added the Japanese souffle pancakes. These are actually, you know, you gotta be pretty patient to cook these. Yo, I love how Taiyaki and them are always innovating and bringing the new things that are trendy, even if they are high labor and it's a lot of trouble to cook. I mean, they're putting in that work. Look at that. So fluffy. Japanese souffle pancakes from Taiyaki. You know, interestingly enough, it actually does kind of have somewhat of the texture of a sponge cake. The Dalgona coffee. This is like the trendy New Asian way to drink coffee. Guys, Dalgona coffee is really good. If you've never had it, it's a different texture. It's like whipped coffee. One of these is Ube flavored and one of these is churro flavored. Light, chewy, almost like a chewy Ube beignet. Of course, you guys, you have the classic mochi donuts. You know, this kind of blew up recently. I want to say two years ago, only the good spots are still around. Wow, that one was good. Oh, are these better than the last time I had them? Yeah, super good for sharing too. Just fire, very light, everything. Dough club, Chinatown, NYC. All right, David, here we have three of the sponge cakes from Cam Heng Bakery. That is the classic spot across the street, but they have some new flavors that you didn't cover. All right, guys. So man, shout out to Cam Heng, the OG. And you know, they always make them shaped like boats, they were saying. It's just their distinct shape. So this is a strawberry one. Never had it before. It's good. This is good. I think this one's pandan. That's not green tea, that's pandan. I'm gonna give it to Strawberry. You were right. Strawberry. All right, everybody, time for a quick boba break. We're on this kind of like part of Canal Street right now that's like kind of sort of cut off and split off by the bridge, but we're on Canal in Eldridge. This is Moge Tee, and this is actually a chain from Guangzhou and has hundreds of locations worldwide, but just 20 in America and four to five in New York alone. Moge Tee, not more good. Woo! All right, we got the Moge Tee. Everything here was about $17, so you know, it's not the cheapest drinks, but they boast the high quality.   Blended black grape, the juice is at the bottom. Nice little salty, creamy topping. Creme brûlée, Uji matcha. You guys know Uji matcha, top quality matcha here. That's decadent, bro. This is super smooth and it's got all this creme brûlée cream right here. Man, I don't even know how many calories this is, but I don't even care. Yee-fong fruit tea, as of right now, the ones that I've had, that's probably the best fruit tea, okay? But let me try the Moge Tee. It's pretty good. I give it a four out of five. Guys, if you wanna get really good cheese foam and fruit tea somewhere, you can get this. Does it beat Yee-fong? Maybe not. Maybe not, it doesn't edge it out, but shout out to Moge Tee, guys. Chinatown, cheap eats, part eight. I've been looking for this dish since part six. It's the elusive chicken mushroom dish from 57 Bayard. We gotta see if they have it. Let me ask one more time. I don't know if I'm too late. But good guy fine. Oh, he's... It's like it's sold out. What time?  All right, guys, you know what? I didn't get the dish that I wanted, so I didn't even take a bite yet. I'm gonna give this away to somebody who probably needs it, so we do give a lot of our food away, by the way. We either eat it, we keep it, or we give it away to somebody. Okay, we are outside of Audrey Bakery here on Bowery, and of all the bakeries that we've been to in Chinatown that are Chinese-owned, this one definitely stands out, being a little bit more aesthetically focused. The owner is Fujiniz, the main chef of all the Bakery items is Taiwanese, and then you got a Chinese Cambodian guy working at the counter. Guys, I'm not gonna lie, I ended up spending $25 here. Look at this roll. There's corn, there's yok sung, which is the pork sung, sprinkle with a little seaweed on top. Whoa! Very interesting, David. I think you're gonna like this. Next item is the tuna sandwich for $4.75. Not super cheap, but it looks high quality. Has a little tangy kick. Very solid and healthy-tasting. I'll rock with it. Mixed nut bread, perfect for the holidays. Oh, it's a little chewy, crispy, crunchy. Giving me some holiday fruit-pick vibes, but on bread, not bad. Last but not least, we got the ham croissant, tomatoes, lettuce. Very high quality looking fruit. Audrey Bakery, not bad. I do think it's representative of where a lot of the bakeries in Chinatown are moving, especially ones that can appeal to a different audience. As you can see, there was all types of people in there. All right, everybody, we are at Tula Jours again on Division Street. I know this is like our third time here, but I just have to tell you, they're always doing different things, man, and it is a little bit more expensive than other bakeries, but they're always innovating. Listen, they have this cream puff pastry right here. I'm gonna show you. I mean, this is just so fluffy. All right, guys, here I have macaroons. They're $2.25 each. Not super cheap, but obviously with the quality and flavor, guys. Come on, this is a birthday cake one. This is a cookies and cream one. It's a tough call, but I'm gonna roll with the birthday cake one, just because I love birthday cake. This is West New Malaysia. Aren't you guys? New West Malaysia is inside this tiny alleyway here in Chinatown. They are basically serving Cantonese Malaysian food. So if you guys don't know, Malaysia has a gigantic Chinese population. It's a prawn noodle using egg noodles, but these are not egg, you know, tomean. This is a Hainan Curry Hall Fun. Hall Fun are these rice noodles right here. Andrew, they have the Pattaya fried chicken. This is sort of based off a Thai-Chinese style. They do have a little bit of Thai-Chinese influence here. It tastes like Thai fried chicken, presented in a different format, and maybe a 25% different spice recipe. Okay, so overall, the flavor of this curry is really on point.  Last but not least, we've got the prawn noodle here, the Penang Prawn Noodle. All right, so everything here at New West Malaysia was impressive. I'm gonna have to go with the Hainan Curry Noodle, man, because I think that that eatability while maintaining the flavor was a rare balance. All right, you guys, we are on Canal Street. Kind of crazy right now. I'm seeing all types of stimulus happen around me. We are at Anpan Man Bakery. Okay, as you can see, they've got the whole menu here. A dollar, $1.25, obviously used to be 80 cents. We got the Bolo Yau. Looking at a fresh Bolo Yau. Andrew, this was a special request by you. She heated it up, sliced the butter. I wanted to try this red bean bun because it looks crazy. It's like the shape of a bagel. It's all right, I mean, it's more for looks. But you get the Bolo Yau, butter and Bolo Bout. Let's go. All right, you guys, I would say that Nanya has a lot of dishes that are outside of the $10 range, but if you wanna come for lunch or dinner and get the rice dishes, you can get a Hainan Chicken with Rice for $10. You can get a Curry Chicken with Bone for $10 and a Curry Beef with Rice for $11. Overall, guys, I'm gonna give this $10 Chicken Rice from Nanya a 4.5 out of five. A less common dish, but one that people order a lot for $10 is the Curry Chicken. I might just have to go ahead and upgrade this to a 4.75 out of five. That's how close it is. Okay, we gotta turn the tables because I'm a huge fan of this beef curry. It does remind me of beef rendang, even though I can't say it's the same recipe, but it does kind of have that deep Malaysian-Indonesian kind of curry spice. All right, so a reason why we never filmed at Nanya is because it is not a hidden gem, but it is definitely on the tier of a cheap eat and it's so versatile. You can take a date here. You can be here by yourself. You can go here with your bros. It really fits all different occasions and I mean, that's it. I mean, that's how good of a spot this is. M&W Bakery, East Broadway. All right, you guys, there are so many bakeries. They're so low-key, but I'm super excited. This one actually has some unique items. You guys, they've got the lemon pie. Definitely worth 175. All right, everybody. I am outside of Xinhuang BBQ over here on East Broadway. It's a very low-key spot and they actually have a lot of stuff on the menu. I could have gotten a number of items over rice. For $8, I got two types of chicken and of course duck. This is a pretty decent spot right here. All right, you guys, we've got Chuhang Bakery on Mott. One thing that's very interesting about here is they actually have chocolate cookies. You guys, what makes Chuhang special is they actually have traditional things like mooncakes but they also have Italian things because Mott Street is a hybrid between a Chinese street and Italian street. You would not expect to find chocolate metalines at a Chinese bakery, but not bad. If you want a chocolate finger put by a Chinese person, I mean, this is where you gotta go. Moving on to more Italian things that the Chinese bakery has, this is a Neapolitan. It tastes half Italian, half Chinese. So that's the Chinese Neapolitan.  These are 50 cents a pound. Come get this peanut filled snowball mochi and get the Neapolitan cheap.  Andrew, we are at a brand new spot called Prince Tea House. It went from Queens, flushing into the city, very rare to make that burrow to the city transition. Usually it's urban city brand going into the burrow. What do you think this represents? I mean, I think this represents kind of how the Asian enclaves are growing. And this spot is not just in Chinatown. They actually have a location in East Village for there to be a very heavily Asian dessert spot that is in kind of non-Asian zones and introducing this type of Japanese-French-inspired dessert cafes to the rest of the population. I mean, I think it's important and it just goes to show you that something can be successful from the enclave and come back into the city. You guys, we've done eight of these episodes. We've eaten at over 125 spots. One thing I wanna say is keep going and supporting these Cheap Chinatown businesses but do not expect them to stay cheap because at the end of the day, a lot of people are actually undervaluing their service and their own work. So if you're a consumer and maybe you haven't been on the other side where you're producing a product or running a small business, you have to understand that it's great that these places are cheap, especially serving the consumers in the local area. Profit margins are razor thin and in some cases, not even there at all. And it is unlikely that one of these cheap businesses closed down and then another cheap business that's the same price will open in its place. So appreciate the cheap businesses while they are here but do not expect the new modern iterations where people are fairly paying themselves and being fairly compensated for the hard work and how hard they bust their ass to be nearly as cheap guys.  Let's check out Prince Tea House. You guys, we are ordering one fruit toast for 10.75. That's about the $10 price range and we're getting one brown sugar boba mili crepe for $10 as well.  We're here at Prince Tea House, straight from Flushing, Andrew. This is $10, this is $11. You know, a little bit pricey. I know that this spot can get pricey but these totally fit within our range, $10. And I wanna note that obviously it's dessert so you can share it. It's meant to be shared so you're not paying $11 per person. I would say share this with at least three people. Boba mili crepe. This is a French concept where you take a thin slice cream, thin slice cream, you know, all the way up maybe 27 to 35 layers each. Really popularized by Lady M. This is a Taiwanese brick tea toast and I think the really interesting thing about Prince Tea House is it's based off of Japanese French cafes.  As far as this boba mil crepe goes, I give it a four out of five. Very solid crème brûlée top. They torched it a little bit. I will eat boba pearls on this cake. I suggest using a knife. It actually tastes better when you cut the slices with a knife versus just attacking it. There is a lot of cream in that though, but let me just saw it in half. Yo, I think she think that that's why Prince Tea House has so much appeal. They're basing their whole aesthetic off like 1850s France, which I believe is the first time that Japanese sent an envoy to France to learn from them. All right guys, brick toast.  It's carved up a little bit, buttered, toasted. That's a nice brick. Oh, that's a tasty brick, man. Boo, let me get some of this brick. You know, I've eaten a lot of food, David. It's all just a blur to me at this point. All right, everybody. So we're gonna wrap it up right here at Prince Tea House. That was Chinatown Cheap eats part eight. Thank you so much for watching. If you made it this far and you have not hit that like button, please do so right now. If you haven't clicked subscribe, please do so right now. And please let us know in the comments down below even if there's more spots that we need to check out or even more neighborhoods around the New York area because we are going out to Jersey and Queens a little bit more. Yeah, the reason that we don't every day is because what we live right by here so it makes it a lot easier if we got other stuff to do during the day. But it doesn't mean that we don't come up with a plan we can go executed. I mean, listen, a lot of people still ask us, hey guys, how many more of these are you gonna do?  I mean, I think there's still some. We may have to elevate it beyond the $10 range to start covering the other spots because I feel like the spots that, you know, serve $20 things they need love too. That's true. You know what's funny? When we first started the series, it was under $6 then it was under eight and then we had to bump it up to under 10 just because, I mean, to be honest with it, we're running out of the really cheap spots. But yeah, guys, thank you so much for watching. We enjoy doing this series. Please check out all the other episodes if you have not and please support your local businesses. Thank you for watching and until next time we out. Peace. All right, everybody.  It's more important than ever to support the community and protect oneself and protect one's family. So below you'll find some links to legitimate organizations and also some resources to report potential hate crimes and of those sorts. So stay safe, stay aware, talk to your family, keep them safe. And again, thanks for watching, subscribe and until next time we out. Peace.


Dragon Ball Z Infinite World, one of my favorite old-school Dragon Ball games, and it's insanely hard. For the past couple of weeks on this channel, I have been fighting tooth and nail to complete this game on the hard difficulty. And as of today, we are getting into the final stretch as we are going to be taking on the final set of Majin Buu fights. Will we actually be able to complete the saga that most of my comments have been warning me about since the very beginning? And now we have finally returned to the Majin Buu saga. We didn't fight a lot of Buu last time, but today we're going to be starting off with the canonical order. We're going to go with Majin Buu and just try to beat him with Goku. I actually don't know. It says I have transformed, but will I be able to obtain Super Saiyan 3 in this fight? That might make it too easy. In before this entire video is this one fight with Majin Buu, I would not be surprised. Do I start in Super Saiyan 3? Oh, I have to work there? Come on, let's go. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why do you have 17 million help? Combos! Oh my goodness. Jesus. Stop. He's good. Did I forget how to play? Jesus Christ. Oh my God. Oh my God. He almost hit me with his ultimate.  Tell me I'm alive. I don't know if I'm alive or not. That's a retry. No, I still remember how to play. God, that chip damage goes insane. This is a Super Saiyan. Wait, I can't go any higher. This is Super Saiyan 2. Wait, I don't have Super Saiyan 3, but how's... God damn! God damn!  This guy is insane with it. He's actually just cracked the video game. Super Saiyan. Oh God. Get off me.  Come on. Unlock Super Saiyan 3. Unlock Super Saiyan 3. Got him. Let's go. Don't kill... I grabbed him. Oh my God, I'm not giving up yet. You thought I was giving up, but it's not true. I'm giving up. I'm giving up. This is a Super Saiyan. That's a Kaio Ken. Damn! Not Kaio Ken, Goku. Not Kaio Ken. Damn. Wait, was I not even a Super Saiyan 2? Was I just a Super Saiyan 1? He's so amazing at the game. Why is Majin Buu so good? I feel maybe I'm just worse at the game. Oh, get out of my map. Come here, Majin Buu. Now go Super Saiyan 2 on him. Or maybe one. I don't know which one I have. Oh, easy. Please, please, please. No, no, no. Oh, now we're cooking with gas. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right, all right. We can win. We can easily win. Whoa, nice guard. Not Kaio Ken. I can't tell you. I can't tell you enough how much we don't need Kaio Ken. I don't know why I took my sweet time getting up to Super Saiyan 2, but I did. Burst, burst, man. Burst, burst, burst. Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn. He's going to stun me out of Super Saiyan.  Majin Buu, please take mercy on my son. He's got combos for a damn. Oh my god. He's got combos for real, man. A thousand damage. God damn, he's good. All right, let's go. No, wow. Unfortunate was that, man. I'm coming back for you, Buu. Don't think it's over. Yeah, it's not even close to done. Let's go.  No, no, no, no. He's so good. Okay, okay.  Play the neutral game. Play the neutral game. Oh my god. He faked me out. He faked me out. Run, run, run, run. No, no, no. Defense, defense. Clutch up, clutch up. I think we won. I think we won. I think we got this. Oh no. How many times? Jesus. Oh my god. No, go kill. He got swept away. I'm still alive. Well, I guess I'll sit through sex loading screens. All right, Buu. I'm back after your angry explosion. You might not have known it, but I was already dead. This is a Super Saiyan 2. Oh, how did you go low? This ain't Tekken. God damn. Oh, beautiful vanish. So that's going to even up a game a little bit. Obviously it's 7 million health bar, so we're going to have to work a little harder. But as of right now, we're tied in the amount of damage we've done, which is all I can really ask for. I'm going to go full power and burst. Shit. Oh, big mistake, Buu. Infinite key, baby. Oh no. No more infinite key. No more infinite key. No more infinite key. My infinite key went away. Truly my infinite key went away, and I'm sorry. God, this guy has hands. Majin Buu has hands, man. Get off me. Get off of me, Buu. Oh, oh my god. That was so close. Infinite key. We got the stun. What's the deal, man? Do you just have infinite? Do you just have normal infinite key? No, no, Mike. Did he combo that? Okay, he did, and I just wanted to make sure that I was dealing with the most professional player I've ever seen in my life. Oh, Super Saiyan 2. Now. Whoa. What?  This is a Super Saiyan 3. I didn't know I had a Super Saiyan 3. That's so sick. You're going to love this. Oh, I feel unstoppable now. All of a sudden, I feel unstoppable. That actually was better than just knowing I had it, man. Dammit, he's good, though. Oh, I can't believe I have Super Saiyan 3. This is over. You're cooked, Buu. You just don't know it yet. Okay, maybe I'm good. No. What a drop. What a dodge. Okay, back up, back up, back up. This is the round we win. The round I find out I have Super Saiyan 3. God, he's good. God, he's good. God, he's good. He's so good, man. No. No. My confidence is falling. My confidence is falling. He's so godlike. He's literally godlike at the game. All right, Buu. But your days are numbered, man. Your days are numbered. You're going to love this. Dammit. I can't waste time teleporting around. Wait, what if I can just go into burst mode and that counts as an infinite key? Let me try that. Okay, no. No, it does not. It does not. I'm in the most pathetic state of my life right now. You know, not too long ago, against Napa, I would have loved to have Kyle Kent.   All right, if I'm going to lose, I'm going to lose in fashion. I am so upset, man. Why did the video cut off at a certain point? I literally ended it and then I came back and look, you can see I got...  I did beat it, but you know what? This video series, I want it to be complete. Okay, I want to look back on these videos on my channel and go, Yeah, I remember doing that. So if I don't have the video where I beat Majin Buu as Super Saiyan 3, what does it matter? I'm doing it again. I'm literally doing it again, even though Majin Buu was the most difficult fight. It was ridiculously hard. Oh, my God, dude. Come on off. Come on. All right, we're back. Look, I'm just going to pretend like it didn't happen. That's for my mental well-being. But look, I'll just repeat it. I'll just do it in one try. Yeah, no, he's still the hardest boss in the game. Yeah, no, no, no. Yeah, he's still that guy. He's still like, yeah, he's still, he's still that individual, huh? He's still that individual. Yeah, yeah. Hey, while I'm struggling, go back and play the audio from when I beat him the first time. We still have the audio, so just show everybody how happy I used to be. This is it. This is it. One, two, three, four, cancel. One, two, three, four. Let's go. You should have never tried me. Oh, my God.  That was difficult.   Dude, I'm just going to retry. All right, how did I beat him the last time? I don't remember. All right, first I punished him. Nice. That's good. You're going to love this. Okay, get off of me. No, no, no, I can defend. I can defend.   Eat it up, Goku. Anyone. Hold on, Goku, hold on. Hold on anyway. Fight through it.  That didn't even take that much health. Are you kidding me? I don't even, I didn't even feel it. Why are you doing beam attacks that way? Oh, oh, oh. He's good. He's good. He's good. He's got cancel combos, man. He's really about that lifestyle. He is about it. Boo is about his life. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I'll take it every day of the week. Get off me. Nope, nope, nope.  No, that's not how you do it. That's not how you make me fear you. Oh, I'm going to get a stun, and then I'm going to win the game right here. Boo, there we go. Stun, big stun. Oh, he can't fight back. He's struggling. He's struggling. He can't, yeah, try me, dude. Okay, I just have to be ready for anything. Deflect those. Deflect those. Get those out of there. He messed up. All right, he could try to, he could try to. No, no. He put the mitt and saw me. He got me with a grab. I wasn't expecting a grab. Anything else I was expecting. I was just about to bring the hammer down on him, too.  Come on, if I could do it once, I could do it twice. I could do it twice.  No, you're going to love this. How are you dodging this? How are you this much of a menace? No, don't even try that. That was embarrassing for both of us.   Did you have to go down right now? Almost. Super Saiyan 3 speed. There we go. That's what I like to see, baby. I like to see, look, let me see that green health bar real quick. I'm about to even the playing field. Oh, big mistake. Big mistake, Boo. Big mistake. He's dodging, but that just increases your stun gauge. All you're doing is making yourself an easy target, Boo. You've got a lot to learn. Get off me. No more grabs. No more grabs. No, no, no, no, none of that. No more, Boo. No more. The time for games is done. Boo, you're just embarrassing us at this point. I am a Super Saiyan 3 of a legend. Kamehame. Please, please, Kamehame. Come on. No. Kamehame. What? Get out of my game, Boo. Oh, my God, I did it once. I can do it again. And I got another A. I'm just, I am just consistent with it. I just stay consistent. My goodness, man. Oh, my God. That was the most tragic thing I've ever seen happen. And he still put the hands on me. All right, you know what? Now I'm ending the video. No!  It was one step ahead. Truly a chess master. Run! No! If you guys want to see more of the infinite world, even through all the struggles of my videos, stuff, and messing up, leave a like and subscribe. Other than that, I have been down to do it. I will see you in the next one. Bye!


My name is Damani Harrison-Porter and I am the Mark beginning associate at Manor X. When I applied, I didn't actually expect to get a call because nothing on my resume was close to a space type of industry. But I got the call and once I had my first interview, I actually got excited about it. Something that I was honest about when I interviewed is, you know, when you were a kid, you always dreamed about going to space being an astronaut, you know, doing something equivalent to space. But as you get older, you realize you're not good at math. You don't really like science that much. And you kind of let that dream go. When the opportunity presented itself for me to fulfill one of my like biggest childhood fantasies, working in the space industry and continue to do what I love, I had to pounce on the opportunity. And that's how I ended up here. Space sustainability at Manor X is one of our biggest things that we're focusing on into the future. So we have a lot of projects and grants that we're getting that are allowing us to do that. So my job is to make sure that people are aware. Of course, people don't know about the many aspects of space farming and outposts and things like that. And my job is to make sure that people know. I didn't know there was so much of a passion for space sustainability until I got the job. But I realized that now and everyday people should know about what's going on in the world around them. Don't think that just because you don't fit the mold of something that's not meant for you. I definitely don't see people who look like me a lot in the space industry.  We may not see it, but there are a lot of people who look like us here. And we may do a lot of background stuff, but we're strong, you know. So don't think just because you don't see yourself represented that you're not welcome in that room. You're always welcome. Or if not, make yourself welcome.