From Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering InterConnect 2017. Brought to you by IBM. Hey welcome back everyone, we're here live at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for theCUBE's three day exclusive coverage of IBM InterConnect 2017. I'm John Furrier, my co-host Dave Vellante, our next guest here is Greg Pepper, head of Cloud Security Architects at Checkpoint Software Technologies. You got it. Good to see you gentlemen. Welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for having me. The company is big. You're seeing compels on networks. Every company out there is buying security, so there's been a securities sprawl. But now you guys have a stock that's trading at a very high 52 week high. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you. Some people forget about us. We've been doing this for 24 years. We've been the leaders in this industry for over two decades, but sometimes we're the best kept secret in the industry. So, I'm going to leave some of those secrets here. I know you guys are publicly trades. You can't go into too much secret sauce as a public company, but what's the software secret? Obviously, relationship with IBM is part of why you're here, but what's the checkpoint secret sauce right now? Well, I think first and foremost, we've built upon a legacy for the last 20 years. We didn't just acquire technology through acquisition, duct tape and paper clips and called an architecture for our customers. We've built upon a consistent common platform building on our core strengths. I think the second thing that really differentiates us from some of the other guys you mentioned is our commitment and focus of security first. We're a security company end to end and everything we do is built off of those tenets. And especially with the growth and security in the data center, this migration to cloud, the industry's kind of come back around to software. And though for a while, we delivered hardware appliance to customers because it was a preferred consumption model, when customers go to the cloud, whether it's SoftLayer, Azure, Amazon, Google and others, we don't have hardware to bring with you. So you need a software defined security strategy to play in the cloud today. What is that software defined security strategy? What's the hottest product that you guys have that's working best? Well, everything we have builds on our core competencies of management and the gateways themselves. But these days is not enough to just be a firewall vendor. So advanced threat prevention, the ability to both prevent and detect malware from getting on the network, rather than just alerting that something bad happened, or providing additional access controls with data awareness. I don't need to plug into the network to tell you people are going to YouTube, Netflix, but what's the information about your organization that's being posted out there? Those are the interesting things that we can help differentiate and alert customers to what's going on. So the perimeter is with the cloud, all these APIs, microservices coming down the pike with cloud, that's the challenge. I mean, this whole idea of being data and secure and software focused. How do you guys play in that world and what's this focus there? Well, the biggest change is moving away from the traditional management architecture to one that's driven by code. These days, especially in the cloud to be agile with DevOps, you have to have security be able to be deployed, program, manage, and monitor all through an API. And this is something over the last few years we've enhanced our products to enable automatic deployment in the cloud providers, automatic management, and also integration with people like IBM Q-Radar in a highly automated way. So the big discussion in the last couple of years in security has been, hey, it's not enough just to dig a moat around the castle. The queen wants to leave her castle, so we've got to, security's got to be everywhere, it's got to follow the data. And also response is another major focus of discussion. We've got to shift spending there. How is that impacted? First of all, you buy that. Second of all, how has that impacted your business and your strategy? Yeah, so we definitely do agree which is why as part of our end to end security strategy, the laptops, the desktops, the mobile devices is an area of increased focus for us. We really just having the traditional perimeter alone is not adequate. The second thing we started to talk about is the ability to move into the cloud. A lot of the competitive solutions out there don't play as well in the cloud because they're dependent on proprietary hardware.  Whereas for us, our software defined security strategy, when we go to Amazon, Azure, SoftLayer and other cloud providers, 100% of our core capabilities moves along with us. Okay, so talk that through the value proposition and the customer impact. So it's more flexibility. Is it lower cost? Is it speed? Is it better response? Well, I believe the primary driver for cloud adoption is agility, not always cost savings, although in some cases that is the case. However, the ability to grow and shrink on demand. In the past, our traditional enterprise customers would consume technology for their max resources. Right, if I'm a large department store, I need to be able to handle Black Friday. Well, that's one week a year that you need that peak utilization. So that ability to scale up and scale down is one of the major things driving people to the cloud. Well, security has to have the same model. We have to be able to automatically deploy, scale up for those large scale events, but then also come back down to an average runtime use to help customers save money. How about analytics? How does that play into the security business? Yeah, I mean, look, the whole reason we exist is to give interesting information for technology to be able to chew on. Right, and the ability to provide the forensic auditing accounting for access controls and for our threat prevention, whether it's on the perimeter, in the cloud, in the core, on mobile and endpoint devices, there's a reason that for 20 years we've been the lead in the industry is because we provide the best forensics data and integration with all the mating leaders, SIM vendors out there. You have a 20-year stare with Checkpoint. Obviously, the companies evolve a lot since then. Talk about their relationship with IBM. Obviously, we're here at IBM Interconnect. What are you guys doing with IBM? Yeah, I mean, IBM's one of our best partners over the last two decades. For over 18 years now, they've been a customer, a reseller, and a managed services security partner. So there's multiple organizations within IBM that have a relationship with Checkpoint to help secure the corporate assets, customer projects that are in managed data centers, or even just purely security-managed services. One of the exciting projects that we've been working on that was demonstrated at the security booth was an automated security deployment for the hybrid cloud where the IBM team worked with us to help take security, automatically roll it out into Amazon and Azure, but also bring it into their MSS environment. Their managed security services was zero touch and they're able to provision, have it managed, monitored, and ready to rock and roll in less than 30 seconds. And they were doing that all in software. 100% in software, 100% in code, with no human intervention. All right, so take us through some of those use cases going forward. So as you go talk to customers with IBM or on your own, you're on a lot of whiteboards, I can imagine. So what are some of the whiteboard conversations you're having? The security architecture is kind of a moving train right now, what are some of the patterns you're seeing right now? Sure, well, first and foremost, there's a lot of cloud novice. It's just new for all of us. So in the walk, jog, run mentality, we all need to come up with the basic terminology and fundamentals so we can have a more advanced conversation. Once we provide the basic knowledge transfer, the second step is how can you help me lift this legacy application and move it to a cloud-centric application, yet still give me the same levels of security and visibility, because I can't go to the board and tell them, oh, we screwed up, we moved to the cloud and now our apps are not secure. So matter of fact, for our largest customers, the most critical applications will not move to the cloud unless they have a clearly defined security strategy in place.  Absolutely. Oh, how have you had it? I mean, a lot of people are kind of crawling, but now also multi-cloud is a big theme here. Yes. So now you're looking at multiple clouds and some workloads might make sense for cloud one, two, or three, depending on the workloads, but some stay on-prem. 100%. And now you've got the true private cloud trend where I'm going to have a cloud-like environment on-prem, so that's cool. Development environment looks the same as the cloud, but I got multiple clouds. How do you guys deal with the multi-cloud and this idea of being consistent on-prem and on-cloud? Well, first and foremost, being a software-defined gateway, we have unique capabilities that's the same on-premise, Amazon, Azure, Google, Softlight, and others as well. Since we're not dependent upon hardware, we have consistent capabilities across all the clouds. The second thing I want to add is from a management perspective, we've built, excuse me, tight integrations with all the data center and cloud providers. So we're able to trust Amazon, VMware, Cisco, OpenStack, Google, and others, and real-time integrate their applications and objects and metadata into our security policies, further tightening the integration and automation capabilities between those cloud providers. So you're actively working with all the clouds to integrate in tightly to manage the security, so you've become the Switzerland for... Look, we were the first of the major security vendors to both be in Amazon and Azure. We were the first to achieve Amazon security competency. We were the first to support basic things like clustering and scale set support, which has been a very common deployment in the cloud as well. We've been in this cloud game for the last seven or eight years now. As I like to joke, we've got cloud uptimes longer than some of my competitors have been in business. And Microsoft was actually down in the cloud. We've published a report today on SiliconANGLE.com. Free cloud vendors down in a week. I'll give Amazon a little bit of a week there, but it's still, I mean, you're still going to see some of these bumps in the road. But security, you can't have bumps. You got to be rock solid. Well, the thing with today in cloud, whether it's the application of servers, the storage and securities, you have to anticipate for that total failure situation. Heaven forbid what happens if an East region went down. Case in point, when Amazon had their storage outage, Netflix was not interrupted at all. Now other organizations that were only deployed in a single region were impacted. So this is where I think from an application architecture, one, we have to think beyond single region, single cloud provider. We have to anticipate the total catastrophic failure and how does our business continuity and disaster recovery work? And then security has to be an integral portion of that. We can bolt it on after the fact, it's got to be part of the foundation. Great, great point. And by happy software, it gives you so much flexibility. I love that hybrid cloud example. But I want to get your thoughts on what you said earlier about lift and shift. That seems to be the parlance of the generation. It used to be rip and replace on the enterprise side, but that's not as easy as it is to your point. You can't just throw it to the cloud. You might have some gaps. As people look to lift and shift, which I always say is, be careful. You got to have some concerns. How do you advise your customers when you say, hey, we're lifting and shifting to the cloud? Well, for those people, I say don't bother, right? If I'm going to move the same applications and same products and processes from my private data center to the cloud, why bother? If we're not taking advantage of the agility, elasticity, automation, and all the benefits that cloud has to offer, companies should be building new cloud-ready applications for the cloud. We should not just be lifting our legacy applications and like for like, moving them to the cloud. Because we're not going to get the benefit in return on the best we can do that. And it's risky too, by the way. I would agree with you. So net new applications. No brainer. If the cloud's available, why not? Absolutely. So now let's go back to the workloads. Some clouds have better, like analytics use cases, a great cloud. Sure. Just throw IoT data into Amazon or Azure or Office 365 is Azure and Amazon gets Kinesis. Good stuff and you got Blue Mix over here. So you start to see that swim lanes of the different vendors. How do you view the differentiation between the vendors? And how do you advise customers that hey, Greg, I don't know which cloud to go to. What's your advice? Well, first and foremost, there's pros and cons to everyone's offering out. It's kind of like Red Sox Yankees, you know. Well, let's stop right there as Yankees for sure. Right? You think? Absolutely. You really think? Well, maybe not in 2017, but. Who's the Yankees? Microsoft or AWS? Really, I mean. You know, Microsoft is probably Yankees right now. Then again, for Microsoft as a Red Sox fan, I'd say, and it's a tough call. You know, Crustail is the Yankee killer.  Anyway, let's go back to that. So what I was going to make a comment of is, look for the adjunct services behind the basics. Beyond the basic storage, compute, and networking services that everybody has as kind of table stakes. So for example, if you're someone who's a very heavy Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint user, you're using their business application suite, well, probably migration to Azure is a more natural transition. Right? People who are similarly in the Google environment and using the Google suite of applications, right? It's a benefit to moving the applications there. And to be honest, people who are purely just into the raw compute horsepower and they're probably the most mature and, you know, largest cloud platform.  So we try not to sit here and determine which of the three clouds is better, because for us, we play in all of them. And our security footprint has to be consistent across all of them. You know, I'll share with you an anecdotal use case, but one of my retail customers is building a commerce platform in AWS. But all the corporate applications are moving to Azure. And separately now, they're looking at Google for other global applications as well. So for them, they're going to be in all three cloud providers, just with different applications, finding more natural homes. Justin Youngblood was just on, he said, you know, IBM data said 70% of all organizations, 70% of the organizations have three or more clouds, right? Infrastructure clouds, right? So, back to sort of security, I mean, the market's booming. In a way, it's unfortunate that the market's booming. It's because it's such a huge problem that doesn't end. It's great for you. But you know, each year we look back at last year and say, okay, we feel more secure and we don't. So what's happening in the market? Are we finally going to get a handle on sort of how to deal with this? Or is it just always going to be this, you know, good guy, bad guy, leapfrogging sort of endless loop? Well, the big change these guys have, the bad guys are pros. This is their full-time job. They're very well-funded, trained, and able. They only have to succeed once. Well, remember, the cost of defense is exponentially higher than the cost of offense. So what it costs my banks and hospitals to secure their environment is 10 to 100 fold over what it costs the bad guys, either in the US or some other nation state, to attack those environments. I think the biggest challenge that most of our customers face, to be honest, is technology saturation. They've bought every product known to mankind. It's alley to joke. For every threat, there's an app for that. And most of our customers have bought all three of them. But then they struggle operationally with the technology. And this is more of a people-in-a-process issue than it is a product issue. There's a lot of great technology out there. Ours and other vendors as well. But if it's not implemented and maintained properly, those potentially represent the weakest state. And there's new threats emerging. Ransomware, for instance, is, to your point, they're over a man and the cost to even compare or defend against that, but they're already hacked. Now they'll pay the ransom in Bitcoin to get their stuff back. And look, it's cheaper, quicker, and faster than maybe just whack the system and try and do some forensics cleanup. Then deploy an next generation endpoint to try and detect and mitigate against ransomware, disk encryption, or other bots that may get on the endpoints themselves. I almost feel like the mitigation, I mean, you've got to have perimeter security, obviously, and continue to invest in that. But I feel like you're never going to stop somebody from penetrating your organization. What's the average status? On average, the company is penetrated for 200 and whatever, end days before they know, 220, 250, whatever number you want. So there's got to be more investment in remediating, responding, managing that complexity. And so I guess the answer to my earlier question was, well, not anytime soon, we're going to have to continue to invest in new approaches, new methodologies to deal with this inundation of data, which isn't going to subside, right? Well, but part of it too is in the past, most of the security controls that companies invested in, they put at the perimeter. So they're overprotected on the perimeter, but now the attacks are coming in through the side door, spear phishing attempts. Or internally. You know, they're coming in from laptops or mobile devices that leave the organization and come back in. And since most customers lack internal segmentation, a very small infection becomes a very big problem very quickly. So a lot of our customers now are trying to figure out, how do I take what I've done in the perimeter and treat my data center or my campus as untrusted? Segment in silo and create smaller fault isolation domains, said heaven forbid there's a breach or an outbreak, it's contained to a smaller sub-zone, rather than, you know, look at the target situation, which came in from an HVAC vendor, moved into a payment system, and then exfiltrated millions of credit card records. And or, not or, but and techniques to allow the response to focus on the things that matter. And like you said, organizations CISOs are inundated with technology and they don't know necessarily which threats to go deal with, right? They've got so much data and to the extent that they can narrow down those high value threats, you know, that's going to help solve the problem. That's why I was asking the question about analytics before. Well, that's where I think the partnership with IBM is so important for us, right?  But for most customers, that's a lot of noise. Give me the interesting bits of information. I don't care about these 10 million alerts over the last week. One of the most critical things that my team needs to address right now. And those are the things that collectively, IBM and Checkpoint help us. So how about the competitive landscape? You guys are kicking butt, you know, you're well over a billion, what, $1.7 billion company, right? A little more of it, yeah. A little more than that. Almost a $20 billion market cap, which you said earlier, John. Stock's almost at an all time high. So obviously compete with Palo Alto. You compete with HPE, with Arcite a little bit. That acquisition, they sort of, you know, that's... You know, they ingest some of their core products that were competitive, like Tipping Point. Yeah, right. You know, they've kept some of their Arcite and other big data analytics. They drive service and storage and services out there. But they're as much a partner as they are a competitor out there.  Right, and actually we're in the endpoint in mobile space as well, which brings in the semantic and McAfee and Kaspersky. And so, right. Okay, so what's your big differentiation? So I think first and foremost is that we have an enterprise management solution that goes from the mobile to the endpoint, to the cloud, to the network. We do it all through a singular console. Right, we have the most scalable security platform in the marketplace today. And to be honest, we have the best security solution out there, both in terms of the effectiveness, as well as the manageability. And you're profitable and you're growing. I'm going to throw that in. We've been profitable since day one. Great, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. Give you the final word on the segment is Outlook going forward. I'll say all the cloud vendors, you work with them all. All trying to be enterprise ready. Yes. And they're all with the enterprise cloud. Amazon is now the enterprise cloud. Google was flaunting it at Google Next. They got some work to do. IBM certainly is in the enterprise. Oracle's in the enterprise. Microsoft's in the enterprise. So enterprise readiness and the next few years as security evolves, what are the key table stakes that the cloud guys need to continue to work on, continue to invest in, continue to innovate? I think the first thing, and this is across all technology, not just cloud, is that interoperability is the new best of breed. All of our customers are going to have a couple of trusted partners. No one enterprises single vendor end to end. But we have to be able to play nicely in the sandbox. So whether it's working with Cisco or McAfee or Microsoft or Symantec, if I don't work well with the other investments my companies and customers have invested in, they're not going to have me around for very long. Yeah, and that's the truth. The multi-cloud world and workloads will fit best because the SaaS also defines some of these big cloud vendors as well. So Microsoft SaaS's Office 365, if you have Microsoft, that's going to be some things for you. Greg, thanks so much. Appreciate it, great commentary. We check point, software technology, talking security, head of architecture here. Greg Pepper, thanks for joining us. This is theCUBE, more live coverage here. Day three coverage from theCUBE after this short break.


Andrea here. So let's talk about you're becoming a teeth wining technician and you're getting all of this information either as a dental professional or not a dental professional. You might be looking into it to see if you can start your own teeth wining business. And what you might find is that it might say, it probably will say, no, you cannot without the supervision of a dentist.  But that's a very copy and pasted answer. Take my words with a grain of salt if you like, but hear me out for a second. How is it fair that your neighbor down the road can purchase Amazon teeth wining products which are not good, not FDA approved and they can start their own business? That's basically what that's implying. You cannot have your own teeth wining business without supervision of the dentist, but anybody can purchase whatever they like from Amazon and have their own teeth wining business, but they're not using the proper products. To get FDA approved products, you do need to take a teeth wining course. And to get a certificate, you need to take an approved teeth wining course to get those FDA approved products. That is what you want. Are those FDA approved products? And that's what I help you guys go through in the whitening pro academy. You have access to all of that. You take an extensive training course with me. It's not just a simple two hour course. You learn infection control. You learn disinfecting stains, the teeth, enamel, how to apply the products safely, how to market your business, how to advertise, so the whole thing. And so you are the best person to apply those teeth wining products to your clients. Not your neighbor who maybe didn't even take a teeth wining course. They have purchased proxies on Amazon. Look it up. You can find them, but they're not good products. You don't know who's making them. Anybody can sell a product on Amazon. They can. I've looked into it because I was kind of curious. Anybody can do it. So how would they be allowed to do it?  And then you see, oh, I can't do it. Wait a minute. So then you stop your research. You just go, okay, I guess I can't have my own teeth whitening business. And you stop, but your neighbor is still doing it, making $200 a client. They're making great money. They have their own business. They have their own freedom. It doesn't seem fair, does it? But you, whether you're a dental professional or not, have had the training to apply the products properly and do the best for your clients. So I suggest, if you're really worried, reaching out to your dental hygiene association or your dental assisting association, don't reach out to the dental board because they don't care about you. They don't. They're just going to give you a copy and pasted answer. I personally never reach out to the dental board because I don't care what they say because they're not my board. They're not the board that regulates me. But you might be wondering, well, Andrea, I'm not a dental professional. So how do I find this information out? Well, guess what? You can have your own teeth whitening business because it's not regulated.   Sorry. You have knowledge. You have the skills. So why not have your own business? Of course, there are certain circumstances. You can't become a doctor and then just all of a sudden perform surgeries out of your own house. Things are different, of course, but for teeth whitening, it's not like that because products are so easily accessible to purchase online by anybody. So it's much better to go to a dental professional or a teeth whitening technician who has been trained, who's not a dental professional, but trained how to do teeth whitening. You're providing safer services for your clients. So look into it a little bit more if you want. Feel free to reach out to me, but so many people stop and they're worried when they just quickly Google something and it says you're not allowed to do it. Well, your neighbor is still doing it. They're making great money and they're doing it in a safe way. So what's the issue? There is none because they've hopefully been trained on how to do it. But the point is, unfortunately, you guys do a search on Instagram, Facebook, social media, teeth whitening technician. You will find tons of people who really shouldn't be teeth whitening technicians because they are just John Smith down the street who didn't take proper training. Maybe they just Googled how to be a teeth whitening technician online. They purchase products from Amazon and they're the ones performing teeth whitening on your clients when you could do a much, much better job and receive and your clients receive much better results. So think about it. You can do it. Your teeth whitening isn't regulated, but you have to do it safely. And this is where a teeth whitening training course comes into play. So reach out to me if you have any questions. Feel free to comment and I'll see you guys in the next one.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here We're gonna talk about a few different horror topics in this video here today. Well, just three. We're gonna talk about scream 7 We're gonna talk about terrifier 3 and then we're gonna actually talk about surprise surprise ready or not 2 I'm gonna kick this video off by talking about scream 7 So a variety has learned that Courtney Cox isn't talks to her prize her role as Gale Weathers in the scream 7 this news comes after Daniel rpk Reportedly heard that she was locked which again must mean if she hadn't already signed that he must have heard She's going to sign so might as well call it a locked return I'm just trying to paint this from his perspective all I heard about Cox was that she was down to do it Even though she hadn't even read a script This was from a recent encounter that she had had like I said before Just make good use of Gale and there should be no problems Yes, I have heard and read about Melissa Barrera silence when asked about Neve Campbell reaching out to her but I Want to draw attention and raise a question on something really quick Does anyone Really believe that Kevin Williamson was spy glasses first option to direct scream 7. I'm just asking us to leave fandom for a second and just be realistic My point behind this is just consider that this company spy glass went after radio silence for screen 5 and 6 Then they exited them according to another recent report With an interviewer. I think it came from Melissa Barrera They exited them because radio silence wanted to commit to Abigail and spy glass didn't want to wait Then they brought in landing both parties radio silence and Christopher landing have more history directing than Kevin Williamson So after losing landing, why would you say hey? Let's go get the person who has only directed one movie the creator of the franchise love him to death But there's no way that that's what happened Spyglass struck out in their efforts to secure someone is what I've been hearing and that's not Hard to believe considering Kevin is the one who ended up getting the job Allegedly one director wanted nothing to do with the project Unless Melissa Barrera was involved and unless Geno Ortega was involved or unless it was a reboot of sorts All again seems fairly believable considering who ended up in the director's seat I'm sure Kevin Williamson will do a tremendous job. I'm just trying to point out the obvious There's no way he was your first choice. There's absolutely no way. Why would you go from? Tenured directors to Kevin Williamson. Just something to think about Diving into terrifying three. So Damian Leone a tweeted this out recently He said can honestly say we just filmed one of the most insanely horrific scenes of the terrifying franchise And you'll never believe who couldn't handle it on set. The behind the scenes is hilarious Can't wait for you all to see now what film is still underway and without any behind the scenes images associated with this tweet I can only imagine what happens in this horrific sequence that he's referencing We've already seen some of the most grotesque things from these first two movies So what is art the clown cooking up for us now if he's even featured in this sequence that Damian's talking about I'm going to predict that the person who couldn't handle it was either Lauren Lavera Or Howard Thornton who plays art the clown I want to lean on Thornton just because it would be unbelievable and ironic considering He plays art the clown who does some of the most grotesque things in the franchise Chris Jericho has also recently revealed some interesting details about his time shooting this sequel He made these comments back in january during his rock and wrestling rager at sea cruise. He says yes terrifying three I will be doing that. It was cool. I actually had to get this computer mold of my head Back in the day you would put paper mache or whatever it was over your head Now didn't Jericho also previously say he won't last long in the film? So with a comment like this about his head Will we see a headless Chris Jericho?  Time will tell Now let's talk about some cast members who could potentially be involved Mason McCarty and Alexa Blair may be joining the mayhem art has planned for us later this year Phil Falcone posted this image of the two and we see he's rocking his terrifying two shirt And Damian Leone like this post as well. So this is all just pure speculation on my end But who could they be playing if they are in fact in the film? Well, terrifier three is expected to have a time jump since jonathan is now in college And I'd imagine this is jonathan's friend or roommate and the girlfriend character Characters that were both highlighted in the casting call that came out for terrifier three But let me know what you think about that regarding terrifier three and scream seven down in the comment section below What do you think about Courtney Cox being in talks? What do you think this sequence is the Damian? Damian Leone is talking about in relation to terrifier three Do you think Chris Jericho will end up losing his head during terrifier three? We're gonna shift gears and talk about ready or not two So ready or not two is in the works with adam robatel reportedly in talks to direct and tomorrow weaving returning as grace Now this came from jeff snider shout out to you. He's been reliable and very reputable in the past But where can the story go since she was the sole survivor? Well for starters lex examine the original ending that we almost got according to radio silence themselves There was almost an ending An ending where these rich suits Gathered around the table to acknowledge mr. Lebel or something like that Effectively establishing that this demon has indeed made deals across the globe or the nation And some of the most wealthiest people are tied to it Chavallella specifically told bloody disgusting this back in 2019 He said we also wanted to do this intake where we were these two joe schmoles walking down this extravagant ballroom A lawnmower law go and they walk into a convention hall And it's it's a lebel conference and there's a whole bunch of rich people there to show the expanse of it all So like a post credit scene I guess I have no idea where ready or not two goals If not down the very obvious setup grace voluntarily turns herself into a widow in an effort to escape her newly twisted family And while lebel nods at her for the victory it's more than just a show of respect on my end She likely is now going to be a very wealthy woman now with a debt that she's inherited because Of that wealth. That's from the that's from the lebel demon to that family So if you're taking on their wealth, you're gonna owe him a sacrifice The same way we were seeing how there was a sacrifice that was made at the beginning of the film I don't think anything's broken just because grace broke grace won the game She's gonna now have to give lebel something in return for her newly received wealth I could see a movie playing out where grace Is forced to go after someone Maybe she becomes in contact with other people who are rich and elite because of lebel And at the end of it all we're going to be exploring morals and what's right and wrong Maybe grace will die because she turns on these other people who are lebel connections Or who are connected to lebel and she decides to help her fiance escape it After she initially agreed to kill and knock off her spouse because if she doesn't lebel told her If you don't give me a sacrifice, you only have 10 years to enjoy your wealth or i'm going to kill you You make your decision. I think we could see something like that play out where it's morals versus Like she's having a moral warfare inside of her mind That's all i'm trying to get at but let me know what you guys think about this down in the comment section below If you haven't already, of course, make sure you subscribe turn on post notification I never miss a video in the description. I'll have links to all of my social media accounts I am on facebook, twitter and instagram You can message me there to let me know is any movies and those are reviews You'll let me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next video


Hey everybody, welcome to the Wallach Way. I'm Jessica. Today's video is going to be our holiday homeschool plans. Since Emily was in preschool, we have always done what I affectionately have referred to as Christmas schooling. Our personal lives are ridiculously busy from Thanksgiving to New Year's, and the last thing I wanted was to add more stress to that by trying to carry on with our homeschool. Now to mention homeschooling, at least for us, regular homeschooling with all of the hoopla of the holidays is really, really difficult. So we've kind of always done some form of Christmas going. It's looked a little bit different every year, but also some things have looked a lot similar. This year we have a lot going on in our external life even more than normal.  We have some pre-committed family events, and so I really decided that I wanted our Christmas schooling to be kind of simple, but also very meaningful. And so I took the traditions or the things that mean the most to us, the ones that have us cozying up and enjoying our time together. And that's kind of the focus for this year. And so for us, that means books, games, and movies. Like, those are embedded into our family traditions, and I didn't wanna lose those. And so that is a lot of what our Christmas school is going to look like. And because I said I wanted it a little bit simpler, that means we've dialed back a little this year. So I'm also going to be showing you our Christmas morning time in this video as well. Normally, that's its whole own video, but it is scaled back and very simple and meaningful this year. So I'm just gonna do everything together. So for our morning time each day, we will be reading from Unwrapping the Greatest Gift. This is a devotional. We absolutely love this. When Emily was younger, we had the one that had the pop-up tree with the ornaments, and we really, really enjoy that one as well. But this one is kind of a little bit more in-depth. It's still just as beautiful, just as meaningful. It's just a little more detailed in its writing. So this is the one we'll be using this year for our family advent. And then we are adding another advent, which is an Advent Carols Countdown. So this one includes a Christmas Carol Countdown. So each day there is a Christmas Carol. There's lyrics for that Christmas Carol. There's a QR code to scan to listen to it. And then there is some kind of story behind it. So either a story behind it or maybe even the history behind it, but it tells you more about that Carol. So I thought this would be a fun way to bring some Christmas Carols into our morning time, but still be five or 10 minutes or less. We've also already been enjoying the Halle Hades Minute Mysteries here lately. There's like 15 in each book, but this one happens to be the Christmas edition. I like to read these aloud to Emily because then she really, really has to be paying attention with her listening skills and well, there's no better way to say it. If you're raising a tween or a teen, you know listening skills are something they really need to work on. So I read these aloud and then Emily tries to solve them. They are super quick and very simple. And sometimes it's just like one little word you have to listen for. So I really, really enjoy these. I'm excited to do them this Christmas season. And then of course we have our Christmas Mad Libs. This is Christmas Chair Mad Libs. Emily would never let us have Christmas time, Christmas morning time without them. They're her absolute favorite. So that's kind of gonna be the things that we're doing every day. And then for read aloud, the things we will be reading aloud during our morning time will include a Christmas Carol. This happens to be the illustrated version. We have three or four different versions of this. I'm gonna let Emily pick. This is the one I'm leaning towards though. And the reason we are reading this one aloud is because we're actually gonna be doing a unit study with it. So the unit study we will be doing with it is a Christmas Carol novel unit study. This is a brand new release here at the Waldog Way. This will be the majority of her language arts for the Christmas school because it includes vocabulary, comprehension, writing, figurative language. We'll also tie in a lot of other things cross-curricular. We'll be doing some Christmas Carol math. We'll be doing history and geography and learning more about the Victorian era. We're actually going to be baking some recipes based off of the Christmas Carol and doing some crafts. We're hoping to have a Christmas Carol feast at the end of December. So this is going to be kind of the majority of what we're doing in December because we just think it's gonna be really, really fun. And then the other thing we will be reading aloud is Juniper's Christmas. Now this is by the same author as Artemis Fowle, which is why we're reading aloud versus Emily reading it independently because I loved that series. This is actually her Christmas book club book. So she takes book club classes with Mary Hannah Wilson all year long and Mary does a specific December class so that if you don't want to commit to a whole year you can just do a Christmas book club with her. And this is the one she's doing this year. Now she's doing it for eight to 10 year olds as well as 11 to 13. During the school year, Emily takes both of those book club classes but since December's book is the same for all ages, she'll just be taking the 11 to 13 year old class with her since that is actually the age group that she falls into. Last time I talked to Mary there were still a few openings. So I will make sure I link all of the stuff I'm mentioning in the description. If you think your kids would be interested they should definitely sign up. They can read it, they can listen to it. However, they prefer books but we love her book clubs. And so Emily will be doing that. We'll be reading it all out together but then she'll take the book club with Mary. For just a couple of things for hands on while we're doing it in the morning time I keep puzzles under our coffee table so it is now stocked with Christmas puzzles from years past. But then also we have the us born Christmas doodles just to give her something to doodle if she just needs to keep her hands busy. We also have the little sticker dolly dressing Christmas. This is actually leftover from last year she only did one or two of them so we've pulled them back out. And then the last thing I have we've done these for three years now and I keep having to order them again because she does them all but we got different ones this year. So these are just like color your own Christmas cards so she colors or paints and then we send them out as Christmas cards. So they just come, you fold them and they come with envelopes and everything so there's red and green envelopes in here and most of these are like hand drawn original artworks come and keep saying he's gonna make some one day but for now we just pre-purchased them and she colors or paints them and then we send them out as our family Christmas cards for the year. Okay the last thing that we might be doing this is at Emily's request and I'm saying might because our Christmas season is already very full so I'm not trying to cram it full even more but Emily asked if we could return to holiday fun around the world for a few of the holidays. We did this 2020 and 2021 as the bulk of our school year because well that was the year we all stayed home and let's be honest we needed a little more fun in our life so there are 30 holidays included in this for the entire year. She specifically has asked to focus on some of the winter holidays that she really enjoyed when we did them a few years ago such as St. Nicholas Day, St. Lucie's Day, Las Posadas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Epiphany and Lunar New Year. Those are the ones that she would like to revisit. I'm hoping that we can revisit them because thankfully holiday fun around the world makes it super simple. Basically I can just pull this and everything's ready to go for me and we already have all of the books on hand because we've done them before. We can bake the recipes. It's not like super in depth and I love that it's memories that we can make again that she can carry on with her. I just don't know how many we're gonna get to so this is a might and we still will probably only do between four and six of them depending on what our schedule looks like. So keep that in mind. Even somebody who writes the curriculum doesn't use it in its entirety always and that's absolutely okay. Also, we have a tradition and we have kept it going and we are going to keep it going that on either Friday or Saturday nights leading up to Christmas, we do a book and a movie. We've done it for as long as I can remember. And so we will be doing how the Grinch stole Christmas and normally we read the book and then we will watch one of the Grinches. We kind of rotate through who gets to pick because each of us has a favorite Grinch movie and they're all different. I think this year is Kevin's year to pick which probably means we're watching the original. We have Elf. We always read this book and watch Elf. This is normally like the first one we do because it's everybody's favorite and we typically have spaghetti for dinner. No, we do not add the candy to it but we will sometimes jokingly put candy and syrup on the table. We just don't actually put it in our spaghetti. Emily tried it one year.  We also have Home Alone and Home Alone 2. This is always one weekend when I know we're not going anywhere because we will stay up really late and actually read and watch both Home Alone 1 and Home Alone 2 in the same night. So like I think there's one weekend the entire month of December that we won't be going somewhere and so that's the Friday night that we will do Home Alone. And then we always save the Polar Express for as close to Christmas as possible. So I think this year it's like the 22nd or 23rd and then we read the Polar Express and watch that movie. Now, we don't do anything extravagant but we do discuss like what was different in the book in the movie. You know, which did you like better? Which version of the movie do you like better if there's multiple versions like The Grinch? We also obviously will be doing a very large Christmas Carol book versus movie study and so I think what my plan is for that is for us to do our family book and movie nights on Friday and then on Saturday night to watch a different version of the Christmas Carol through the entire month of December. So like the Muppets Christmas Carol, the Jim Carrey one, Scrooge, that's all I've got off the top of my head but that's what I think we're gonna do. So really we'll end up with like a family movie night every Friday and Saturday night and they'll both be tied into a book and a movie comparison. Now the last thing about Christmas school that we will be doing will be including a little bit of a Christmas-based writing and math that will include Christmas cards, thank you letters. Emily always gets to do this math budget project where she gets to buy for people when we make her budget and I have all of the details for that in a blog post. So I'm gonna link those for you in the description. I have a ton of different Christmas writing and math-based projects that we will be doing over the course of the month. Nothing crazy, just small little things that we can weave in here and there. We also will read a ton of Christmas picture books. We keep all of them right here in this basket and Emily gets to pick one whenever we have a downtime or multiples depending on how much downtime we have and we just snuggle up under the tree and drink something hot. Of course right now it's not exactly cold in Florida but it will be cold soon and we'll be drinking something hot and reading our picture books and we play a ton of Christmas games. We have a lot of Christmas themed games and we really enjoy playing them. We are typically playing a game every night after dinner at minimum during the Christmas season. So I'm also going to link our favorite Christmas books and games for you in the description as well. So make sure you check that out if you're looking for some more Christmas themed books and games to add to your Christmas school. And now I would absolutely love it if you would tell me do you guys Christmas school in your home school and if so what are your Christmas school plans for this year?


We are at 2.30 the start of an exciting CNI so thank you all for coming little ground rule this session is being recorded now you won't be recorded but we're being recorded and what that means is that we are bound a little bit to this general tabling area so that we're recorded so we may not be as animated as you would normally find us but we'll do our best puts a whole damper on the interpretive dance portion of our presentation it does it does and I know that you are looking forward to that I'm Scott Walter I'm the University Librarian at DePaul University and I'm joined today by I am Janice Scurrio I am the Information Technology Librarian at DePaul University and the third person on our on our program Megan Bernal who's one of our associate University librarians I wasn't able to join us today so but she's represented here and certainly in the process we'd like to start by just saying thank you really to all of the folks who did makerspace programs at CNI over the last few years because it was those programs that really helped us to realize how important it was to shoehorn makerspace into the most recent phase of our library renovation and if you heard Joan speaking just a few moments ago about the role of creativity in the curriculum and the role of spaces like these in bridging the gaps between the curriculum and a co-curriculum you actually heard her singing a lot of the same songs that we sang on campus we would like to focus today as you'll see not necessarily on the specifics of the spaces will describe in terms of their technology or their staffing program or what have you but really more about the approach that we took in again I think doing exactly what Joan was talking about trying to build the makerspace as part of larger University perspectives and initiatives especially around innovation entrepreneurship and community engagement and you'll see those themes I think throughout our presentation today and our hope is that by talking about it in that context what we're laying the groundwork for is a stronger argument for academic library makerspaces as a strategic investment in campus programs and partnerships that are designed to promote that sort of innovation and teaching and learning and scholarship again that we've already heard about today now if people do want to talk about technical details we will be happy to do that in the Q&A and you'll get a little taste of them in the presentation so we've got five slides from the maker community around DePaul as well as in Chicago so in the upper left hand corner we've got some people working with 3d printers from the Coleman entrepreneur center and over to the right you see yours truly working with two students in the maker hub below that photo we have the steam lab from DePaul college prep a school that we work very closely with to the left is the maker lab at the Harold Washington library in downtown Chicago and in the center what's in the center is the IRL oh yeah that is the IRL that's very small photo that is actually our complimentary space in the loop on the loop campus the idea realization lab or the IRL in short and we will talk a little bit about them later on yeah and so again we've really tried to to center our maker hub within the library with a real understanding of the broader maker community in the city of Chicago and we'd also like to present something of a counterpoint to something that we've experienced maybe you've experienced we've seen the literature and we've heard it when we've talked to people about why to make the investment in maker spaces this is from Barbara Fister Barbara Fister who I love and am friends with sometimes uses 3d printer as a as a shorthand for fads in academic libraries and often and you'll see in her in her columns and so on sort of a little bit of a of a nudge against maker spaces and around 3d printing and in addition to sometimes associating it with the idea of fad ism in this presentation she taught she seemed to counterpoint the idea of investing in in emerging technology and in maker spaces with a social conscience and I think hopefully what you'll see is that certainly at DePaul we don't see those things as being opposed in any way at all and we did encounter this sense of fad ism or the broader question of how are you pushing the limits of what we are comfortable in thinking and planning for in terms of library space and the library's technology program even from some of our colleagues on campus I had to do a lot of advocacy and justification for the presence of 3d printers as well as other experimental technologies on the library and that was especially you know with our campus information technology and our campus facilities operations who are working with us on this renovation and we're really pressed to think about this as a core component of a library renovation as opposed to some other sort of of campus project and we do want to talk a little bit about why we chose the name maker hub for the library's maker space as opposed to maker space or maker lab or something cute that might have been drawn from Chicago's industrial history which would certainly be possible I think the stockyard was one name we threw yes yeah but turns out that has some negative connotations but what we want to well we'll talk about the hub and spokes in terms of the maker spaces and you saw them a second ago Chicago public the K-12 schools the idea realization lab we're also really thinking about these spokes going out to academic programs and you'll see connections when we talk today to in faculty development programs out of the provost office our office of teaching and learning and assessment our student affairs programs our liberal studies programs so we want to think about it really as a hub not just of maker spaces within the city but of this really emerging focus on again as Joan said creativity in the curriculum all right and here are our spaces as they are so above is the maker hub itself located at the DePaul University library I was a part of the planning team I am also the lab manager I run a staff of two student workers and myself so that is who runs the the maker hub at the bottom is our complimentary space a space that was planned in tandem with ours actually very coincidentally the idea realization lab which is run by a very prominent member of the Chicago maker community and we'll get a little bit into that later okay here's some other maker spaces on campus like I mentioned before the Coleman Center's maker lab also to we've got what else do we have here we've got the Art Museum the School of Music and the School of Theater they all have kind of their own pop-up maker spaces so the huge problem with having these spaces kind of siloed off is that they're very restrictive to students that are enrolled in those specific programs before the maker hub and the IRL opened there was really no place for the entire University community to meet and have access to this sort of technology so yeah we're very proud to offer those services to pretty much the entire University and I think in addition to that universal accessibility that probably all of you understand the other thing that I think we were able to bring to this and it's the nature of librarians right we bring people together and we make connections there were all these little things that were popping up there were 3d printers in business there were 3d printers in the basement of the physics department there were making like activities yeah in theater they were building sets in the Art Museum but there wasn't that discussion of really looking at it across campus as we'll talk about and there wasn't the framework for people to come together to talk about these things everyone was doing it in isolation and in addition to building that space what we've really tried to focus on building these past few months is those set of connections from people who are otherwise separate interdisciplinary kind of structure we wanted to bring someone who works in the basement of Bernhol which is where the physics office is and someone who works in the art department which is in an entirely different building all together they may never cross paths otherwise but we've actually had people meet in the maker hub and collaborate people who would never talk to each other otherwise and that's pretty cool so with that as as introduction I wanted to turn for a second and just tell a little bit about DePaul so people understand and again sort of our framework so DePaul is among other things the largest Catholic University in the United States this infographic gives you a little bit of sense of of the program the size of the program about 300 different undergraduate and graduate degree programs and and a real focus as we'll see on again on the community our student body is highly diverse again one of the reasons why maybe I pinged Barbara's comment about being engaged with low income communities we are a very highly diverse student body in terms of ethnicity race in terms of socioeconomic status and one that is committed to community engagement not just as part of our mission but really in thinking about our enrollment management strategy and again thinking about as well we'll talk about this notion of really thinking about making across the lifespan we're really beginning to see that in the city and knowing that that was the case and knowing again the nature of our enrollment strategy was part of our thinking about how to develop the program one of the other things that DePaul prides itself on is its innovation especially its innovative approaches to teaching and learning and its continuing commitment to its mission so and when DePaul talks about innovation it usually highlights a few key points that were relevant to us in thinking about the Maker Hub rapid development of academic programs developing those programs in the context of community partnerships and investing strategically in spaces and services and staff required to support the faculty and students in those campus in those programs and we've been happy that over the last few years especially as part of our renovation work we've started to see senior leadership of the university include the library in their discussions of what it looks like to be innovative at the university so for us that's a real win that was a discussion going on at the university that in years past wouldn't have highlighted the library as we'll see that approach to innovation also presents some planning challenges so within that in that's the institutional context we also wanted to give you a quick sense of the renovation process so this work was done as part of an ongoing four phase renovation of the Richardson library phase 1 in 2011 phase 2 in 2013 phase 3 just this past fall in 2017 and we're not going to get in phase 4 I should say TBA we're working on it and we're not going to get into the details of the renovation today people have questions we're happy to answer them and if people want to see how the maker hub sort of sits within the context of the broader phase this phase of the renovation I did bring a little handout that you can look at if you'd like after the after the session I think the key thing to remember and the thing that we wanted to highlight and talking about the renovation was that especially in phase 2 and phase 3 we really did look to inform the renovation process and the programs that were developed or brought into the library as part of the renovation with a clear focus on collaboration across campus engagement with those campus partners and thinking intentionally about strategic initiatives identified by the university and the way in which the renovation and new staff new services would help to move those initiatives forward cool I'm just going to talk a little bit about my baby the maker hub the maker hub softly opened on September 6th 2017 and when I mean a soft opening it only opened with two pieces of functioning equipment so one thing I'd like to quickly mention is that technology is great but it's also man-made it's prone to break early and often so be prepared to identify common issues and a quick course of action to resolve them so while we were planning the space we were really meaning for it to be an entry level space where students who were working on class projects as well as extra curricular projects would feel equally as welcome so after some negotiation a go negotiation with our facilities people and our architectural planning team we were given a 500 square foot space which is smaller than my first studio apartment in grad school given this constraint we had to make an executive decision on the focus of our space as this made our equipment selection very limited we wanted to utilize each area no square foot left behind we wanted a diverse array of equipment but we knew we'd need to have a more entry level space meaning that we'd have equipment with a relatively low learning curve and a low training curve as well from a staffing perspective we kind of knew that our staffing model would be pretty skeletal so we wanted equipment that didn't really require supervision as it's less dangerous as say an industrial CNC router or a drill press so the whole idea was to offer a learning environment that wasn't intimidating to use with friendly staff people willing to assist and consult as needed looking at other academic library makerspaces we noticed a trend supporting not just curriculum but like I mentioned before also supporting personal interests as well and so to our surprise we found a growing user base for 3D modeling and product design prototyping fab labs many undergraduates are being taught concepts of 3D modeling with CAD programs such as Tinkercad sometimes as early as elementary school students make these 3D models in school then realizing that they can make these creations come to life using a 3D printer and as the students enter college they're not only used to prototyping technology such as 3D printers but they almost expect them especially as they make their choices as to which higher education institution to attend so one thing I'd also like to point out that the Maker Hub is a lab it is a maker lab but it's also a classroom we'll also get into that a little bit more later on but otherwise we've got three 3D printers currently one 3D scanner we have a sewing machine a bunch of hand tools drills wrenches cutters saw as typical things that you'd find in your dad's garage and we also have a baby CNC router it's about yay big most of our students use it for cutting things a wood we haven't had it used for any other extensive projects other than like carving but hopefully that will change once more people know about it also talking about the IRL so I talked a little bit more about the IRL or the idea realization lab so the IRL is kind of like our big sibling located on the loop campus a short half hour train ride is it about a half hour it's about a half hour train ride cool in downtown Chicago so coincidentally both our space and the IRL we're planned and we're scheduled to open in tandem so the library Maker Hub and the IRL like real life siblings have many things in common but are still very different so the IRL's lab manager Jay Margolis he's a great person who already operates a hacker space maker space in the south Chicago suburbs and so he's a prominent figure in the Chicago maker community and so he brought his experience with running a full scale maker and hacker space with the intention of being a space on campus that would be accessible to all students regardless of program enrollment a concept that was completely absent on our campus before our spaces opened so Jay's vision included an unstructured learning environment stacked with knowledgeable people available to offer guidance to people interested in making not necessarily for classroom projects sound familiar the concept of the hub means that if someone has a project that outgrows the scope of what we can support at the library's maker space we'd send them here they have more equipment more consumables more space more staffing more storage and that's perfectly okay these spaces are meant to complement not compete and by planning to acquire similar materials by working together on training programs and certification programs and some of the legal protocols in regards to waivers and so on it really is designed to let people move seamlessly between the two spaces so if you are trained and certified on you know on a printer or a router or what have you in our space to the degree that that same tool is being used downtown you can just move that straight on now obviously again when you get to downtown they actually have more things larger things more dangerous things but we are trying to plan them together and working especially with OGC general counsel to make sure again that this really sort of new new set of activities on campus that had never really occurred before would be understood by the people who would have to sign off on them legally and and so on lots of meetings with lawyers lots of meetings with lawyers you never think about that when you're building a maker space we had a lot of meetings with with general counsel about making sure that this was going to be safe and secure and everyone would understand what the requirements were we're not talking about space lab this is Jay Margulis is down south Chicago maker space it's enormous but we wanted again to just for those who were interested in it you could see what space lab looks like and it did provide some of the seed ideas for the IRL but another important thing that again we learned as part of our planning was that we learned that it wasn't just Jay there were other people around campus not in libraries not in information technology in different parts of the university who had been involved for the last few years in some of these community based fab labs and maker spaces and they were really excited about bringing it to campus and you know these sort of maker space veterans where you know they were they helped us in the planning is that what you need to have this kind of certification program you need to think about this if you're going to have volunteers or in our case student employees and it was so it was a design again that that is very reflective of DePaul's character in that we really looked to design our spaces in a way that learned from the experience in the larger maker community so there was an active community in the city and there were people active in that community in the university and in the library and and that was good but there were also a number of obstacles now we're not going to talk about these obstacles in depth both because of time and because you're probably familiar with most of them I don't believe any of them are unique to us I would say as I suggested earlier that there's some truth to that old saying about living by the sword and dying by the sword DePaul's approach to innovation is one that prizes rapid planning and implementation and that has been beneficial to us in the past and it was beneficial to the development of both the maker hub and the idea realization lab but it also meant that both were designed very quickly they iterated on the run and we did have to do a lot of work to bring campus wide as I said earlier campus wide groups like information services and facility operations sort of into the fold and thinking about library space in this way and we had to do it in a model a budget model that as I'm sure you're all familiar with included no new money for any of these things and since this was such an entirely new concept on campus we had to deal with a lot of ambiguity especially with our external IT support namely kind of determining which things would be covered which things wouldn't and yeah we're still kind of trying to fish things and feel things out to this day yes we are still feeling things out we're going to talk again I'm noticing the time and want to make sure we have time for questions so I'm going to breeze through this piece just to talk a little bit about these are some of the opportunities that came in these first few months in terms of making those connections across campus our teaching commons we'll see that in a moment our Studio Chi Digital Scholarship Center some of the other initiatives we rather talk about them in particular rather than outline them but what I did want to make sure we mentioned briefly was this DePaul makes which was essentially sort of a a grassroots network of people working around the university in academic departments and student affairs in the library and IT and who had an interest in this and have sort of worked to build essentially a campus-wide network looking at the design and implementation of maker technology and the integration of maker technology into the curriculum in the absence of a formal structure there never was a formal structure for it we've built it ourselves and Janice has been the key person in the library for that go ahead and talk about some of the programs absolutely so the smiling gentleman in the photo is the the mastermind behind the DePaul makes movement his name is Dr Eric Landahl he is a faculty member from the physics department so he helps staff open hours he also holds tons of workshops for faculty looking to integrate maker technology in curriculum so he's a big proponent of the maker movement especially in Chicago he's very passionate about DIY so especially making simple electronics Arduino also to he taught me how to solder I had no idea how to solder before I met Eric so yeah definitely cool guy to work with so he taught the wildly popular teaching in a maker space workshop which wasn't just open to DePaul faculty but also higher ed professionals from all over Chicago which was pretty cool yeah so this is one feature we wanted to make sure were highlighted part of what Eric did in addition to being our maker in residence this year in the maker hub he did develop this workshop that was delivered as part of the teaching and learning certificate program through DePaul's office of teaching learning and assessment that I think he did he did two workshops one in Lincoln Park one in our downtown loop campus full in both cases and has brought oh more than 30 faculty members from departments all around the college all around the university through the maker hub specifically to talk to them about how you might use 3d printing and other maker technologies in your courses and again if you want to see a little bit more about what that workshop how was described you can see the link right here another thing that Eric and Janice will be doing next year is a first year seminar so this is going to this is going to go in the fall as part of our Chicago quarter some of you have heard me talk about Chicago quarter before it's our first year seminar program all incoming students at DePaul take a class in their first quarter about the city of Chicago and it can be anything it can be about music it can be architecture it can be politics it can be al Capone it can be anything there's over a hundred of these classes offered in the fall quarter and a key component of those courses is that they actually get you out into the community so you're actually you know in the city and you're going to places and meeting with people and so Eric has proposed this course it's going to be called what do they say Dave it's going to be called here the maker movement in the maker movement in Chicago and so he'll be taking not only will they be using the maker hub and the idea realization lab but they'll actually going to different maker spaces around the city of Chicago and learning about the maker movement the diy movement and and doing that as part of their introduction to the university so this we think is going to be really really interesting oh and then again because we we talked a little bit about instruction we're talking about this idea of the maker space as as a classroom we did want to talk very briefly about the work that we've just really started in thinking about how to integrate student learning outcomes into the use of the maker space so this is a strong focus at DePaul over the years we have developed undergraduate information literacy learning outcomes we have recently over the last couple of years been working on primary source literacy in terms of our instruction and special collections and archives and so again it was natural once we launched the maker space for Janice to begin working with our instruction team to think about the question of what is learned in a maker space and this austin community college example was one example she found of student learning outcomes associated with maker space use and this sort of of creativity curriculum if you will but it's something that we're really just beginning to explore again not just within the library's instructional program but thinking about our work with you know with the art museum with student affairs with the faculty members who work through the office of teaching learning and assessment to do their own work on student learning outcomes so i think it's going to be very exciting uh hopefully within the next year or so is that about the programs oh um yeah this program uh was a program put on by the institute of for business and professional ethics which is a department of the department of philosophy which talked a little bit about some of the ethical issues surrounding 3d printing say these make-it-yourself physical spaces and yeah they also demoed 3d printing actually it was me i was the one who demoed 3d printing during this during this workshop and they just spoke a little bit more about being a little more mindful of some of the potential repercussions of the maker movement and i think one interesting thing they addressed is waste which i thought was really interesting since in our lab in particular we recycle all 3d printed failed prints we have a fail pale directly next to our 3d printers and i think in the six months we've been opened the fail pale is like maybe yay big so it's like like maybe three feet wide and maybe like one foot high so not very big and so we also invite students to take things out of the fail pale and build new things out of them so kind of creating like franken creations out of other people's failed prints so really nothing really goes to waste in the maker hub but it's still good to be mindful and to think about some of these potential repercussions as we make things in our lab yeah what we've really seen again in just the few months we've been open is that programs that had not been engaged with the library in the past are coming in you know physics i don't know if there'd ever been a library instruction class for physics and now we literally you know we're teaching physics classes in the library in the maker space the the engagement with that entrepreneurial initiative across the university and having a center for it on the lincoln park campus as opposed to our downtown loop campus where it has been historically centered has brought business programs again into the library in a way that we hadn't seen before and there have been great downstream impact as well so not only are we having public programs like this which is a collaboration between physics sorry philosophy and business but the colman entrepreneurship center started sending its startup advisors to our learning commons so we were at we were adding startup advising to the programs the tutoring programs that and the peer assistance programs that we were offering through learning commons again something that never would have happened if they hadn't seen us as being contributing to to the entrepreneurial initiatives across campus so very exciting and then we want to end and then turn over to questions by just talking again about this community engagement idea and sort of coming full circle to that that charge uh that i suggested early on that investment in maker technology or 3d printing might somehow suggest that you were not engaged with the community in chicago at least that is certainly not the case maker technology is something that is increasingly available across the lifespan and across the educational and cultural heritage community k-12 schools academic libraries public libraries school libraries museums all are either have or are building maker capacity and the reality is is my experience as the father of a chicago public school student uh was really instrumental in sort of opening my eyes to how important this was because my daughter's first experience with 3d printing was in fourth grade in a in an entrepreneurial program co-sponsored by chicago public and northwestern university and as we were touring high schools around the city last year i got firsthand you know i was able to see firsthand how many high schools had this had some component of a maker space or a computer lab that had been outfitted to do critical making or some kind of modeling and it became very clear to me that we were going to be far less competitive for some of our core students coming out of chicago public schools if the technology available to them in college was not as good as the technology available to them in their high school uh or again we are a very diverse city and there are many high schools that do not have access to these tools in their schools but the chicago public library has done incredible work in bringing maker technology and media content creation to youth services shout out to you media you media some of you may be familiar with chicago public library you may not know that it was designed collaboratively with de paul originally the college of computing and digital media and again for those of you who are our local aficionados you know that you media's most famous alumnus chance the rapper continues to be an advocate both of public schools and of libraries in the city but what we saw was really the emergence of certainly a k-20 maker community and we also saw that more and more of our students were looking to move into sort of a a lifelong engagement with maker technology through the programs that were available either through chicago public or community-based programs like space lab and so in thinking about that it really helped us to think about not just the approach we were going to take to it but the connections we were going to be sure to make and so we do try to build in these connections with the community with our public library with the chicago maker community and again even with some of the things you don't think of as a maker community um like our film school's connection with cine space chicago if you watch any of the chicago fire chicago pd that's cine space that's where those things are being done one quick thing i'd like to also mention about lifelong learning um we are also open to alumni which at first i thought was kind of a revolutionary idea but there are a couple of academic makerspaces that also open their doors to alumni as well the university of ellenoy at chicago is one um there's us and i think that's pretty much it but again to kind of support that a pursuit of lifelong learning coming back to dipole and kind of um spreading your knowledge maker knowledge as even after you leave yeah all right so it's been a busy six months mostly for janice uh but we're excited about where we're going and again we think these connections are helpful in in building ongoing support for this growing part of the library's program and the campus technology program and with that we'll throw it open to questions


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