Switching lanes now on the Sports Max zone as we speed into our track and field segment on this magnificent Monday, Kingston College and Excelsior High retained their respective girls and boys titles at the two-day corporate area championship which ended at the Ashenheim Stadium at Jamaica College on Saturday. The Perthland Whiteup Kingston College emerged as the boys' winners for the tenth time in the 11th stagings of the event by finishing 78.5 points ahead of Calabar. Here is their sportsmaster Richard Smith after the North Street-based boys hoisted the brand-new Dave Myre Trophy. The team performance over the past two days was very good, very great I could say. We had a little miss up and down but we had overcome that and the boys had a high spirit coming into the second day knowing that we had a great lead and overcome opponents. So I could say that we had a good spirit and then this would help us basically going into champs, boys and girls championships for the different overtakes coming in the next two weeks or two weeks or four. Forte Scattery-Cettering Non-Potest, meanwhile the green and gold Eagles of Excelsior eaked out their eighth consecutive girls crown in a title race which came down to the final event as they finished four points clear of Wolmers. Here is the Excelsior sprint coach Joseph Small. I mean for the two days it has been a hectic two-day championship but obviously we could have managed the athletes as I can see come down to the last race so it was very hectic for the girls but nevertheless they come out victorious and in the A-type title they also performed well and I almost can't guess them. Yeah let's have a look at the final points tally now for both divisions, the girls, the Excelsior team coming up with a four by four hundred meter victory that gave them the title and finishing on 360 points four ahead of Wolmers girls 356 immaculate high in third spot and 298 followed by the Queen's School 200, San Andreas 163 and Alpha on 162 Merlegrove St. Hewes High, Holy Childhood and Campion College and running off the top ten. Here's how the boys tally ended four hundred and fifty two points Kingston College on top, Calabar second at 371.5, Jamaica College third that was their home base the Ashenheim Stadium JC there finishing behind Casey and Calabar, 316.5 points, Excelsior High 195 points were fourth and Georgia's College fifth on 146 points, Wolmers finished six on 140 then Campion College Holy Trinity, Arden High and Kingston High making up the top ten spots. It's a momentum for both Kingston College and Excelsior Ricardo you were on commentary for both days given all that happened at the Ashenheim Stadium was this as some people feel the best corporate era championship of all time. Yeah I think so Lance and Mariah 29 records broken over the two days, two records equaled so you could count that as 31 by any stretch of the imagination that is impressive and the performances were outstanding we're talking about world class performances at the under 20 level and because of that and when you consider as well that a lot of the track performances and especially the sprint performances were done in negative wind reading then it makes it even more significant and really a number of athletes also got pretty close to champs records which I felt was outstanding as well so Natrice East for example in the class three girls 200 meters running 23.27 seconds that shocked me because in the history of class three girls running there is Kevona Davis who is the champs record holder at 23.07 that was 2017 there is Anisha McLaughlin now will be who was 23.11 in 2001 for homework technical and then there's Natrice East at 23.27 what she produced was extremely special on Saturday so I think when you put everything together in my opinion yes the best corporate area and then the way the girls championship finished as well going down to the final event I can't recall anything like that happening at corporate before where either the boys or the girls championship race or well yes championship race title race went down to the final event yeah and I heard you mentioning on commentary that the organizers for the the crescendo of the event could have considered switching and making the girls event being the final event because it was the entire audience was on tenterhooks watching what would happen there because Woolmer's needed to win for a tie but any defeat would mean Excelsior would have won so the boys title was already decided with the purpose dominating and to have the final event being the decider for the girls the organizers could have made that the crescendo event couldn't they yeah I guess they could have but it would have required a very late change and they didn't expect that yeah they didn't expect that an intracanfield sometimes you don't want to make those late changes I mean uber pointed out on commentary that it would only be a five or ten minute difference but athletes warm up for their events at a particular time and so on and the original schedule had the girls going first and I don't think you can blame them for following through on that but I don't think it took anything away from what we saw on the girls side and the way this ended there were points of this four by four race where it looked as if Wilmers could create the upset and end in a tie and let me also say had Wilmers won the four by four although they would have ended in a tie on points Wilmers would have won the title because the tiebreaker is the number of gold medals won and Wilmers are ahead in that category and so even now that they've lost yes had they been able to finish in a tie they would have been grounded champions I didn't realize that you mentioned the trees east just now and this is something that we have seen over the years in track and field at the high school level in Jamaica where class three performers outgun or outperform or produce better performances than class two and class one athlete so we saw the trees east her 100 and 200 meter times as a class three winner was better than the class two and class one winners so for our viewers this is a case of 13 14 year olds running faster than 18 19 year olds and as I said it's it's something we have seen generally in Jamaica's track and field but it continues to be something that is is news catching isn't it or newsworthy yeah so I think the trees east is special especially so at 200 meters clearly she's very good at 100 meters as well but I think at 200 meters she's a real special talent she is going to be extremely difficult to beat at champs I like Etienne as well the Dominican who is now at Edwin all in high school and started the season at 1170 at Jamaica College and has looked very good throughout the course of the season the central championships comes up over the next two days Tuesday and Wednesday so it will be interesting to see what Etienne produces she is chasing the Dominican junior records at both 100 and 200 she already has the 100 record whether she'll be able to get the 200 record is another thing but east is special lads last year she went to the carifter games I think as a 13 year old and I thought she had the goods to win the double there but unfortunately also felt she was extremely tired and you could see that that got the better of her and young Nabi out of the Bahamas was outstanding take nothing away from her in front of her home crowd another outstanding talent there as well and she caught the double but I would be surprised if Natrice East did not sweep everything before her this year although there are other quality competitors I think she is such quality right now she's going to be tough to beat trying to recall those two races in the Bahamas last year I can't recall Natrice East losing by far in both the 100 and 200 she got close in at least one of them I recall really poor starts at both 100 and 200 meters she tried to run back but I just think she didn't have the gas she didn't have the gas it was a long season it was a tough season she had just come off a difficult boys and girls championships and it's always difficult when you're just coming off one major event and then having to travel for another major event and she was only 13 years old so I think that showed a year ago but I think the experience of that plus the fact that she is a much improved athlete will serve her well and she'll become a senior if you will at the under 17 level at Carifter this year so I think all of that will serve her really well yeah what about Michaela Gardner reaching individual 10 gold medals that's special you know that's a special achievement before I even talk about her I want you to hear how she reacted to the fact that she'd gotten to 10 individual gold medals all time at the corporate championships gold medals oh my god I feel so I feel so I didn't know what to say but 10 gold medals has an improvement oh my god I just can't believe but 10 gold medals means that putting a lot of work lot of work and this means I'm coming at champs he's coming at champs oh my god she she that's good to express herself she was it was too good and I understand yeah what she has achieved is quite special um so when you think about it we're not talking about 10 gold medals including relays we're talking about 10 individual gold medals four times now in her corporate area career she has done a double whether it has been 200 400 or 100 200 that is special and this time around it was also special because I felt her teammate Abigail Wolfe looked really good in the 200 meters leading up to the final and she was able to hold her off to shrug off that challenge interestingly Abigail Wolfe attended Holy childhood she's only just transferred to Wilmas the last time Abigail Wolfe she's had a lot of injury issues um competed at corporate was in 2020 and she was actually beaten by Michaela Gardner in the 100 meters Abigail Wolfe won the class two 100 meters at champs in 2023 that was last year so she is real quality there and she joins the Wilmas fold but Michaela Gardner is special her father the late Michael Gardner ran for Norman Manley at the Issa Boys and Girls Athletics Championships and for Jamaica at the Carifter Games as well won a champs gold and silver medal I think it was in the early 2000s real standout performer for his school at the time and she has followed that lineage as well as her younger sister by the way who got two silver medals in the class four girls event Michaela Gardner so there's Michaela Gardner and there is Michaela Gardner yeah really good talents and and just a quick thing to close off this Michaela Gardner thing she has one now or she has those 10 corporate area gold medals individually at champs she has two individual silver medals 200 in class four she was beaten by Alana Reid who we know last year set records at 100 1092 Jamaican junior record and she lost to Alana last year in the 200 meter she was second behind Alana Reid so it shows that she has a lot of quality she can go across 100 200 400 meters I know Ubert feels that she is one of those athletes who can make a successful transition into the senior ranks and we just look forward to see what will happen with her yeah Ricardo because of the quality of the girls category or should I say lack of from a national perspective yes at corporate yeah corporate area championships won't tell us too much about girls and boys championship because Wulmer's and Excelsior are not expected to challenge the the big guns for that for the for the for the girls title but in the boys division where KC Kanabar and Jamaica College are the top schools they're also the top schools for the All Island high school boys and girls championship so did you see anything over the weekend in the boys championship that would have been an indicator to what could happen at boys and girls champs yeah so before I answer the question on the boys side last I just want to take the girls aspect quickly because you are right Wulmer's Excelsior won't be contenders for the girls title at champs yes what they will provide though are some of the most outstanding individual performers so for example Wulmer's will come with a young lady by the name of Tiana Marshall she will go in the class to 100 herders quite likely in the 100 as well she won the double at corporate 1192 for the 100 meters but a staggering 13.20 seconds for the 100 herders she is the top athlete in that division in Jamaica for 2024 so far but she's not even the favorite because there are two outstanding athletes out of San Diego Brianna Campbell and Brianna Davidson who have done well at the carifter level as well and when they come together I think we're going to get one of the all-time great herders clashes on the girls side at champs that's one of the events actually that I'm looking forward to most at champs because there is so much quality there the sprint herders for women sprint herders class almost mirroring what's happening globally because the women's sprint hurdles is one of the most unpredictable events on the global circuit there you go Lance the she broke on Saturday so Tiana Marshall on Saturday broke Akira Nugent's corporate area record Akira Nugent's champs record is 1291 and still intact and I think if one of these girls don't break it come champs they will get really close and 1291 is serious running at this level so really look forward to that to the boys now Lance what did I see one I saw Kingston College our favorites to retain their boys champs title two and JC fans please forgive me I see that Jamaica College has a team that can challenge Kingston College definitely saw that I really hope though that when they get there and the fire in the belly is required to get the job done that they will have it on those days that is what I hope for Jamaica College because if they have that fire that is required to push you over the top and get you to where you want to which is the title then I think it's going to be a dream race yeah if they don't have that fire then like we saw at corporate Calabar could slip in and if either of them slip up Calabar has the potential this year to upset but I think that is far-fetched because I think the best two teams on the boys side Kingston College and Jamaica College yeah but you're doubting Jamaica College is fire because you didn't say but I guess it was it was inferred that Casey has that you know that already they always have it okay that's the one thing you cannot take away yeah they always have that fire they're always ready for battle and I can't say that Jamaica College is always ready for battle and so you're you're uncertain at times whether they will show up in the way that you know they have the potential to and if they do then you have a terrific race but if they don't then Casey could run away with it okay Ricardo pretty comprehensive in your recap of what happened over the two days friday and saturday as the ace and lead commentator at the meet but is there any other performer or performance that you haven't mentioned so far that you wouldn't want to wrap this segment without mentioning yeah performer maybe the young man from excelsia um demarco benet who won the class two boys 400 meters he ran 47.43 which is just off the corporate era record of 47.41 that's really good running in class two however problem for him is that the fastest athlete in high school in jamaica this year at 400 is another class two athlete nicole bramwell out of calabar who has run 46.75 which is faster than everyone else in high school in jamaica this year he was a carifter last year he is actually the carifter raining carifter under 17 champions so i think that's going to be a fabulous battle when they go head to head this kid is also good at 400 hurdles he is the favorite for the 400 hurdles title and bramwell showed his class at 200 at corporate with a 21 45 run in a negative wind and i also cannot leave lands without talking about two walmers boys um one maria ross who everybody who follows um high school track and field in jamaica closely knew coming into 2024 that he would start as the sprint double favorite for the class three boys um events 1099 in a negative wind on friday night um tells you that he is firing firing and and ready to deliver something special there's a young man from calabar a chet brown who won the 200 in 22 38 who i think will be dangerous but ross is still the favorite and i also have to talk about geary card because i saw him winning the 200 on saturday 20.87 lands i'm starting to think that this kid is special he's had a lot of injury issues over the years he was a star at prep school lots of injury issues coming through the high school um circuit won a silver medal at carifter a couple years ago 2022 and at champs in class two he started this season by running 60s against the big men at gc foster college and i thought he looked really impressive um ran 10.88 for 100 meters in a minus 5.6 meters per second wind last week and then he's never been good at 200 and this kid just runs 20.87 and you're like wow coming into the season i'm stealing 15 seconds the android daily the second fastest jamaican june of all time um carifter champion 2022 1008 last year started 2024 as the massive favorite then you have hector from jamaica college opening at 1031 um daily opened at 1040 last week but then goes to western champs this weekend and finishes fourth in the 100 wow and doesn't make the 200 final and you start wondering what's going on and if he is not up to par then geary card could be the man for the double a lot of exciting story lines it's it's listen high school track and field in in jamaica is just too sweet at the moment yeah i think i think the record says that and tradition um verifies the point as well we go to break we'll be back with more on the sports mic zone after this


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Good morning and thank you very much for this opportunity. In my presentation today I will address the question of data ownership from a legal perspective and I let some of the difficulties we have in applying the legal concept of ownership to data. And this is the outline of my presentation. I will start an introduction looking at why data ownership is an emerging issue in relation to data collection and use. Then I will explain what ownership means from a legal point of view. And I will then explore the application of the legal concept of ownership to data and what kind of challenges we might arise from that. There is currently a law reform project in England and Wales concerning digital assets and there have been a lot of interesting discussions in the concept in the scope of that law reform project in relation to information data and the concept of ownership in that context. And I will try to draw upon these discussions in my presentation as well and I will conclude by looking at what might be the way forward for data ownership. So data has crucial importance in environmental sustainability. The United Nations considers data as key in the progress of achieving sustainable development goals by 2030 because data can guide efforts in identifying where the needs are and help users to develop solutions and take timely actions. And in order to tackle environmental challenges, the UNDRA commands that we need well-developed tools in place to ensure data gathering in the first place and increase the amount and quality of data. And we are in a position to do that, to do the technological progress and vast volumes of data can be generated today by sensors, by the use of AI digital humans and so on. And this brings up the fashion of rights and duties in relation to data collection, including its usage and sharing, data sharing and in a way, we think that if we can identify the owner of data in a given case, these questions might seem to be easier to answer for us because recognition of data ownership could also provide legal title and property rights over data. However, when we speak of data, ownership may not be a straightforward concept or a suitable legal concept to use. First might be a useful thing to illustrate that by an example from the US concerning farmers and agriculture technology providers, which I came across in an OCD publication when we were doing the horizon scanning in the network. So accessing and using agricultural data has become very important for farmers' success and some of the big agriculture technology providers already potential in this and they start to integrate sensors with their equipment and they were able to generate a large volume of data by data and this data have economic value as well. Since it was an important source for certain companies, building biotech crop insurance and as well as traders as well and the agricultural data was controlled by agriculture technology providers and this raised concerns in relation to potential harms to farmers including financial expression. So various discussions took place in the US including the question of who owns agricultural data and if the farmers, it does the farmers data so they should be able to use it, they should be able to control over it and when data is used by others for financial gain, farmers should be able to gain benefit from that as well and these discussions in the US eventually led up to drawing up some principles in relation to farm data in the US. So one might think that recognition of date, recognition of ownership over data is important but from a legal perspective it's not as straight forward as we think. So property and ownership are defined and understood, categorized very differently among the different jurisdictions. So this is an area of law, property law differs significantly among jurisdictions. So ownership means the exclusive right to use, process and dispose of property and property is defined as anything that can be owned and in terms of categories of property, English law has real property which is basically land and personal property, any other thing than that. So there is also further division in English law between things in possession. So these are the things with physical existence, they can be processed such as a car or things in action and these are legal rights or claims enforced by actions such as that and that's it, that's the two categories we have under English law and law recognizes ownership over these assets and provides legal regimes for sharing benefits of them through different forms. So I can run to my part to you while doing that I can keep the ownership, legal ownership of my farm while we are in the possession of my farm and I can assign that to a third party which is a different form of sharing and I will come back to that there is a lovely form in relation to digital things. So where does data sit in this categorization? In many jurisdictions, notion of data ownership does not exist in law so in legal terms we don't have such notion and instead of data ownership law concerns rights and duties that arise in relation to data and there are different reasons why this is the case. So information as a thing do not attract proper tracks under English law and in many other jurisdictions as well because it is not right holders. So what does that mean? If I give you my book, you have my book and I don't have it anymore. If I give you a piece of information you have that information and I have it as well so we both have that information. So in legal terms information that's not something that can be bought. When information is structured for example through an electronic database, in turn information may give rise to IP rights or when information is recorded on a piece of device then you might have property rights for the device but not the information itself and there's already a legal framework in place to protect information via confidentiality, IP data protection and so on. And the situation is similar with data as well. So the law does not grant a special status to data and the idea of owning data is very different than owning other things. Another difficulty we have in relation to the idea of conferring ownership, legal ownership to data is that there are multiple people involved in data cycle at some stage. So they take on different roles in this data cycle in generating data or creating it, using it, complying it, selecting it, structuring and so on. Because of the special or because of the role they take on in this process they may each claim data ownership, legal ownership. So data cycle is based on interaction involving or between multiple people and it might not be always easy to determine who should be the owner of data in question, who has the greatest right to it. I would like to mention very briefly about the recent war reform project from England and Wales, one digital assets. So this has been conducted by the Law Commission of England and Wales and very recently completed. So the Commission published their recommendations to mix AOL to the government reforming English law on points. And the motive behind this project was actual digital assets, actually crypto assets like mixed coin. But the scope of the project got bigger and they concerned as a number of different types of digital assets, digital files, digital records, email accounts, domain names, carbon emission trading schemes, as well as crypto assets. And the Commission said that some digital assets are neither things in possession or nor things in action. So they don't fit in the traditional categories of properties and they recommend legislation confirming that they should be still able to be subject to property rights and under certain conditions. And the reason I wanted to mention that is that actually shows us how law is, how much law is challenged by the technology and these are the concepts that law have for centuries and now they all need to change to respond to the questions of digitalization. So what did we know so far about data ownership? From a legal perspective, the concept of ownership is not easily applied to data. There are also arguments that no one should own data and data should be kept open instead of being subject to property rights. Then what the question becomes is that is ownership actually a useful concept for data? Legal frameworks in place are already very complex, not necessarily easy to understand or implement in this area, we get more and more regulation, legislation to respond to digitalization. So would it be a useful thing to add another piece of legal framework bringing in a concept which may not be useful to bring them to this already complex picture? So if we are trying to achieve here, if it is providing a better protection to data or privacy and so on, could this be achieved by alternative ways than comparing ownership to data to someone over data? For example, placing more focus on the concept of control rather than ownership or data rights and if we move away from the discussion of ownership, this may also open up more possibilities for alternative data sharing models like data trusts. Of course, I have talked about law but there are ethical considerations as well. I think Ron mentioned it yesterday in his opening speech, such as the rights of indigenous people in relation to data about their communities, peoples' land and resources. As a last sentence, I would like to say that these are very new discussions and questions for law. So if we consider the GDPR, it entered into force in one interview or two and so we are very much at the start of a conversation rather than yet. Thanks very much, Floris. Time for a few questions. I've got one. Is it that aspect of confirming that about data before the whole sentence? Is that actually going to make a difference to anything in the immediate future, that confirmation that data is the third type? Yes, I think that's important. They obviously have the motive to give recognition to crypto assets in English law but I think we should see how things will develop in that. I think it's a very big substantial reward to recognize digital things or digital objects as a third category in law. And then as Tim has asked about AI derived data from a body of it, pre-existing training data, how does that complicate ownership of the derived data? Yeah, I think that's another question we have in relation to how the AI generating data, all sorts of questions related to AI generating data, if it can be on Google or the rights and duties it creates, and there is a current consultation in the UK in relation to AI regulation, so I guess there will be more regulation on that aspect as well. And then Richard asks about, quite often, as institutes, we talk about owning data as an institute, is that just legal? Is it just a license? Yes, the rights you have over data but in legal terms, it's not ownership for all of the law firms. But as a bit, Richard. Thanks very much.


Hello, so today I wanted to do a quick video. I'm we're on the road. We're actually going back from From Charleston back up to Charlotte and my wife had to stop off to do some work in There in Panera anyway and and it just reminded me because Usually it's always been the other way around like you know, it's been I'm always the one who has to you know Stop off and work somewhere because I've been a freelancer and you know My wife works in an office so she usually is the one following me wherever I go someplace And so that brought me down to the sub you know to this subject that I wanted to talk about About being a freelancer with a spouse a boyfriend girlfriend a significant other who is not and the difference is and how that can be an Issue or problem. I'm gonna try to go somewhere else fewer cars and anyway, so you know and how to deal with that and And you know how to have two people that were working basically on different wavelengths and how they can Deal with you know things along those lines. So I'm not sure where I'm going here. Anyway just try not to get run over and So So yeah, so where do I start so first of all I like to say Okay, I really need to find a better place Okay, I'm gonna continue this somewhere else Okay, this place might be a bit better as long as it doesn't get too loud Hopefully it's not too loud kind of right next to the road But I hopefully you can hear me and anyway, so I was talking about Being a freelancer and having a significant other who isn't or maybe you are not a freelancer But you're with someone who is and just having to you know How to reconcile these two very different ways of life I mean if you think about it on the surface, it shouldn't matter your freelancer You do what you need to do your spouse maybe works for a company They do what they need to do and that's it except obviously it's not like that at all And the first thing the main thing I think that comes to mind is the fact of Taking what you do seriously, you know and so many freelancers entrepreneurs people who work for themselves in any form or fashion You know the worst things they have from there and I've even done a video of this about dealing with your friends You know who think this way, but whether it be friends you're gonna go a bit more in the middle Hopefully it's a bit more quiet Sorry we have some loud cars passing by here. Let's try to do this Anyway, one of the main things is You know about taking what you do seriously because what you do is a job and many times They think you're just sitting at home doing nothing all day That's why I did in the video where people like ask you to pick stuff up for them to do favors for them and stuff like that And it's really annoying and this is the same if you have a boyfriend girlfriend spouse or anything like that They'll ask you to do the errands to buy groceries to clean up or something because you're just sitting at home doing nothing While they're at work all day and it really is a change of mentality Especially for the person who's working in the company because let's face it you as a freelancer is an entrepreneur working out That's kind of the new thing. That's the not standard thing. So it's kind of different and they need to Kind of get used to it and accept it How however having said that you as a freelancer as the entrepreneur also have a duty to take what you do seriously Like I mentioned before No one's gonna take what you do more seriously than you do So if you don't take it seriously and treat it as a real job No one else will so you have to and you know and that way other people will treat it seriously as well And if you say no no I have my certain office hours And if this even means going to a co-working space or to an office or just staying at home But sitting aside office hours closing all doors and being like I'm getting work done and that's it Then that's how it is and you know, you have to be your own boss Meaning you have to be the guy who stands behind your own shoulder and says get to work We need this done by 3 p.m. Or whatever it is and as long as you take yourself seriously It's a lot easier To for other people to take you seriously and if you don't take yourself seriously with your job No one else will and so that's to me the main thing you have to do and That and that the spouse has to understand just because you're at home doesn't mean you're twiddling your thumbs and watching TV You're actually getting things done Usually a lot more than people in the office with its face It's been a lot of time talking at the water cooler going out for cigarette breaks or whatever, you know stuff like that so I mean That's yeah, so that's the first thing to keep in mind the second thing is you know at at this point It just becomes an idea of flexibility for us It was a lot of stuff because I like being location independent And that was an issue with her with my wife because she worked at a company And so we had to figure out at the beginning she kept working out and I kept doing my thing But then and her job was also really stressful So she quit that job and then we were you know traveling around for a while But you know just because we're traveling around and living in new places doesn't mean I'm not on not on the clock I still am I mean I still have to get stuff done. So many times we'd be stopping at coffee shops all over because I need to get stuff done and you know sometimes the clients like oh I need this done, you know quickly and so we have to stop at whatever coffee shop And it just reminded me because we're literally driving and she had to stop here at this Panera bread Because of an emergency with her work even though today is technically Memorial Day But you know it happens and it happens so many times with me that I can't not be understanding And I think so many times we'd be traveling or I mean not many times But it did happen definitely that we'd be traveling I had some emergency I had to find a coffee shop and work and then you know she either would walk I remember at a coffee shop in Taiwan, you know And she'd walk around another time and Milana had to do it and then she hung out with a friend there Monaco too when we were there she hung out with a friend So it's always you know she's always been super nice about it We've figured out a way to you know work around it And she doesn't complain because as I just heard we were in all these different places around the world Which was thanks to kind of my lifestyle. So just the fact that I need to interrupt every now Then to get stuff done it's kind of a small price to pay if you will and But whatever your situation is that's the thing you're gonna have to be a bit open-minded about it Both you and your significant other who's not a freelancer. I think more them And so they need to kind of understand that what you do is real and that there's certain downsides maybe where you might be called to do something last minute, but they're definitely many upsides as well and Ultimately, it's both of you guys's choice to To be that way and as long as you have a real business and you're able to earn money and earn a living from it And where you're able to build it up so that eventually you can do that Then yeah, of course it makes sense. You do that then you need to see with your significant other How you feel if one of you should take their job more serious here less seriously I'm not gonna go into all the pros and cons and the details about if you want to be location independent And your spouse is working how to go about that also because it's starting to rain So actually I'm gonna stop this right now Anyway, I just wanted to touch upon some of these details about when you're a freelancer You're an entrepreneur your significant other isn't and some of the issues that can come up And I don't know if you have any of these issues have any of them You know I've come up for you or other issues come up definitely let me know because I would like to hear about them But you know my wife and I have been together now six plus years and she's always been an office worker I've always been doing my own thing as an entrepreneur. It's a freelancer and It's worked out so far So yeah, I can't get into it in another video if you like but I just want to kind of bring this up just because it came to my mind now on this Memorial Day and So but otherwise, I hope all you guys are doing well and I'll talk to you in the next video and That's it for now before it starts raining too much. Okay. Bye


How's it going guys and welcome back to the channel. My name is Rick. I'm an HVACR technician Which is heating air conditioning or refrigeration. I also do gas generators That's the reason why all powers reached out to me because I've done a review in the past on a portable power station And they also seen some of my repair videos So if you're interested in checking those out make sure you check out the links at the end of this video What we have here today is the all-powers model R4000 portable power station. It features 3600 watts of capacity and 3600 watt hours with a peak capacity of 6,000 watts this power station also features a 30 amp RV plug here on the front 420 volt outlets that are rated at 20 amps a piece a 12 volt 10 amp car plug on the front it also features for USB a ports there rated at 18 and 12 watts a piece and it also Features 200 watt usb-c ports for quick charging it for your computers or phones This particular model was provided by all powers to do the review on under the understanding that I would give them my fair Honest review and they said that was fine. So that's what we're doing today They also sent me a 400 watt solar panel system to charge this or any of your power stations That would benefit from solar panels all powers also provided me a discount link that I'll be putting down in this description down below If you click on that link it also helps support the channel and you still get the better deal without paying anything extra I recorded over two hours of testing of this portable power station I tested it by running my whole house with it and gave it a hard load test with the microwave with the furnace running now with the generator This big you're gonna need something to load it up with I'm not real big into resistive load testing only Which I did do a 1200 watt heater on this but resistive load is only some of it now You actually have three types of loads out there You have capacitive resistive and inductive loads That's reason why I tested this out on the whole house that way you'd have a combination of all those That goes into something called power factor closer to one that your power factor is the more efficient your generator is gonna run So I did more of a real-life test on this what I did do is I tied L1 and L2 together at my breaker panel with an Isolated transfer switch so that it was broke from the utility power and I was able to power all my 120 volt outlets I do have some 230 volt outlets, which they do offer a 230 volt machine But this here is 120 volts so I was not able to test it on the water heater or the well Let's go ahead and get started with some of my footage that I ran I'm gonna show you the actual amperage and voltage that I measured on the solar panels I'm also going to demonstrate the device running the whole house And I'm also going to show you how the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi work on this also. It also has available voice commands We finally got a day now where we have enough sunlight that I'm able to test the solar cells as you can see the sun is Really beaten down right now. It is exactly 230 in the afternoon what I'm doing right now is I'm trying to run the battery down a little bit so that we can charge it It's been charged at a hundred percent. I've been waiting for a good day to do the review on this We're gonna go ahead and carry it out there It does have two handles here on the top so you can grab right a hold of it It does have wheels on the back which makes it easy for transporting They do have rubber bumpers on the back so that if you have to set it in this position You're not gonna scratch the back up. You hit your handle here push the button pull it up to one snap and then the next and And now you've got a little two-wheel cart version of The power supply which makes it really easy these plugs are pretty self-explanatory They can only go one way so you want to make sure that you're actually using the ones that are designed for it They go together and they click into place Same thing here This solar panel here is rated at thirty seven point four volts four hundred watts peak powers four hundred watts give or take five percent Open circuit voltage is forty five short circuit current is eleven point four five amps maximum power voltage thirty seven So there's some of your basic specs on it on the back here. We've got a fulcrum leg That's gonna help hold the unit up when it's up in the air Obviously this ain't ideal bringing it out here in the yard But if you're out camping it's gonna be pretty much the same scenario. They did a really nice job with the Clamps here so that you can keep it all together until you're ready for it Just push the button That unfastens that And this is no real small solar cell, I mean it's a total of five this is the very first time I've done it I just know that you want to have it lined up at the Sun. We're gonna set this thing up All right, so we've got our meter here. We're gonna go ahead and check see what our DC output is on the solar cells Okay, we're putting out forty four point six volts All right, they made this pretty simple. You've got a rounded edge here square edge there Let's match it up Plug it in we are charging according to this at 323 watts we are now 338 watts we'll turn on the AC power which we've got it on coming down to our AC power running 112 volts point three and far as frequency We're right at sixty point three three. This is a clean wave Sine wave pure wave sine wave, so it is running clean. It's gonna be safe for your electronics This is what a cheaper power inverter looks like this is the one that's in my truck. It's a square wave sine wave It's not as clean of power even worse yet is the Milwaukee power top Where wave here and if you look at the bottom the frequency is not even accurate and just to prove It's not a fluke off of the meter there and I would say it's pretty accurate And here we are with the pure sine wave on the all-powers So the frequency is correct four tenths is not a big deal But the most important thing is the wave pattern there is nice clean now We can go to a faster sampling rate right here. We're at five milliseconds a little bit lower You can see there's a little bit of a distortion there in the middle, but my goodness.  There's one millisecond. You can see a little bit of a ripple right there in the middle Here we are plugging into the wall perfectly clean I'm looking for some heavy loads that we can run on this because like I said, this is 3,600 watts continuous 6,000 watt peak and we have a 30 amp plug here, which is perfect for a camper What I'm going to do is I'm going to adapt a plug and then feed it through my transfer switch built into my breaker box And then I'm gonna run the house off of it. We're gonna see how long this lasts Like I said, you hit that push button there. It actually has spring load on it So it does pop up Makes it easy to pull out. That's made out of what feels like aluminum They've got some pretty good size brackets here to help hold it And they even have an extra bracket here in the back to help maintain any possible sagging or anything like that This unit does weigh right at about a hundred pounds. Like I said, I work on usually gas generators So the solar thing is a little new to me But what I really liked about this and this is what was really awesome about all-powers I said, hey, I want to run this with the solar panel because the battery backup is really awesome if you're going to be stealthy Say we have a power outage say you're doing prepping and you want to be quiet I have a quiet generator that I would be able to charge this So if you didn't have the solar say you're in the middle of winter You obviously you don't want to leave these things out in the weather non-stop It's not made to be left out in the weather year-round. It does have a leg there I just didn't see it now. I do have an amp meter. Let's go grab that We just zeroed it out there with the orange button And we clamp it and right now we're coming in right at nine amps We are running right at 43 volts kind of curious if you're just putting your hand over it Look at that just by putting my hand. This is how sensitive this is So just putting my hand right there. Look what the amp draw does it drop down to 7.4 Just from my hand like that. That's over an amp of current I lost by just blocking that little bit there. It is very vital I had no idea that it made that big of a difference So P over I E P is wattage E is voltage I is current so we know the current and we know the voltage So if we go and do the voltage, I believe like I said was 44 times the current times 9 396 So to go by true charging here, we're right at that 400 watt mark This is actually putting out the wattage that they rated it at This is the all-powers are four thousand model that we are working with here now The EV charging is capable of charging up to 2,000 watts the AC charging plus solar can do up to 4,000 watts and EV plus solar charging can also do 4,000 watts solar charge can be variance of between 12 and 150 volts with a 40 amp maximum coming into it and up to 2,000 watts now this product does offer uninterruptible power supply It's able to switch over and less than 15 milliseconds So if you lose power this will automatically switch to the battery backup and then continue to power the device That's plugged into it now thing. I noticed different about this one here Is you're actually being powered off the wall until it needs to pull it from the battery That way you're not running the battery down damaging your cells in the battery from way it appears last time I did this it fold folded in on itself and Folded back on itself as long as you kind of Do it back and forth like this and then the last one comes around like that There's your handle so you're able to pick it up and move on down the road to your next adventure I honestly believe this is going to be the best thing to have if you're really wanting to live off the grid Be prepped just in case because you never know you may not be able to get a hold of gasoline It just really depends you've got to have multiple different backups redundancy Come around here to the back push in let it pop up. We do have our main breaker on We have nothing connected any of these now you can charge it with the EV port and this solar sail at the same time Or plug it into the wall There we go We turned it on All right now we're charging at 313 watts now the solar panels do come with one of these cables which the Solar generator did too. It also comes with a plug here which plugs right into the panel and gives you two different plugs here on the end So you can charge some of your portable devices like other smaller Portable power supplies and things like that now we are able to charge this with 120 volts while it's also charging with the solar panels So let's go ahead and check our rate real quick. We're at 271 watts right now It's dropping as the Sun drops. Let's go ahead and plug this in So you can see both of these running at the same time here And this all depends on the mode that you're charging at The mode that we're in right now, which we're in work mode. We're in mute, which is the slowest In mute mode, we're in the slowest. That's 522 watts off the grid and we're doing 270 off the Sun Now if we change that setting now we go back into work mode and we take it up to standard mode and hit okay Go back to home. That's gonna jump from 517 to around 1,021 watts Now we go back in there one more time and we go into fast mode hit okay Go back to home and it's gonna jump up a little higher now We're charging in at 1540 watts off the utility and we're doing 270 watts off of the solar panels Like I said, I'm not a humongous hurry here. So we're just gonna go ahead and let it run in standard mode Hit okay to confirm it To turn voice on and off you can go into there turn on voice. Okay all powers Now you can give her a command and have her do different things So we've got a few commands here, which are kind of funny So the first thing you do is you say hello all powers Then if you want to turn it on you can say output open and it just turned it on Bluetooth open Just turn on Bluetooth Wi-Fi open Beeps open But those are some of your Voice commands that they've got there. It's not what you would normally think I don't know if it's really that needed myself personally It's it's neat. I rather use the Wi-Fi because it gets you more of a range with Anywhere of the Wi-Fi is that Bluetooth can be somewhere in the 30 foot range, which We got the same app for both. So you go to the all powers app, which just looks like a you up and you down We do Bluetooth add Step one turn on the phones Bluetooth, which it's on after short press of the Bluetooth button turn on the screen Long press again to enter Bluetooth mode. I did not have much luck with this. I'm not really sure what the story is I'm confused it it don't make sense. So if I go in there and Clear out my notifications and if I go into Bluetooth settings, let's go into connections go to Bluetooth Uh, Bluetooth I don't know if I see Samsung tv Do not see the all powers on here Yet the all powers is on now. We can turn the dc off turn the ac off Which ac may not turn off because we're charging Here's your bluetooth on bluetooth off We can hold it It says for a short press of the button I Can't get it to to do anything Voice on and off Wi-Fi settings now the Wi-Fi was a lot easier Choose your account you want to go in here in I went with Google Please agree to it. Yeah read and agree down at the bottom Hit google Okay There's my Wi-Fi device right there click on it. It's offline See here's where your eco mode is if you want to turn it on you can tell it to shut off anywhere from one to four and six hours later Um, I haven't got a need for that. I'm going to be with it whenever I'm or using it We're not connected to it right now. We're offline So we've got to get the Wi-Fi turned back on here. I think we've got an issue with the Wi-Fi Wi-Fi we need to connect. I have to enter password hit enter connect It should connect here connect There you just sort of click So now we come down here We should be connected. It says offline we clicked on it. Yeah, we're connect Connection status connect instead of connected. It just says connect There's just some translations here hit the home button now. We're reading 17 percent. We have 17 percent there We can look at it and see that we're charging at 1275 watts which 1275 that would be pretty much right on the money 241 plus 1032 Now I just went to 238 and you can see as the sun is continually going down That it's it's basically losing the wattage. So you want to charge this thing in the middle of the day When the sun's brightest not at currently right now we're at 520 and like I said, we're in the middle of march I'm in Ohio. So it's not going to charge at the fastest rate today I found the Wi-Fi to be really nice turn on dc here. Click it boom just came on turn it off Turns off I can monitor this while it's setting down at the breaker box or whether it's out here in the garage And like I said, it's basic of what you need here Time remaining raining power 18. So it's charging You can go in here standard mode Mute mode whatever rate you want say I just changed mute mode and it's dropping down to 500 to go back to standard mode And it just beeped and it's gonna go back up to a thousand. So yeah, you're able to see what's going on there It's pretty simple to use voice on voice off. I don't think the voice is Needed I'd rather use this to me if I'm close enough to talk to it I'm just going to hit the buttons and turn it on and off So for giggles, I went ahead and stood them straight up and went ahead and just did some flip flopping there Just to see if it make much of a difference We're right at 176. So did drop some we're going to go ahead and lay it flat to see what that does I went ahead and laid them flat just to see what we'd get We're at 31 watts 32 watts So it does make a huge difference how it is aimed at it. So that's what I wanted to show you Is if you're obviously not getting good contact with the sun that way But that's just a quick demonstration of what the solar panels can do for you and why you may want to have them Depending on whether you want to rely only on plugging it in So I have it out here in the garage hooked up to the house What this plug does it takes 120 volts 30 amp circuit And splits it between both legs on your breaker panel So you're not going to have 230 volts because this does not do 230 volts They have some available, but this particular one here is 3,600 watts at 120 volts or 110 depending on what you want to go off of So what we're doing right now is we're powering the whole house Currently we're doing 900 or 893 watts 60 hertz at 114 volts our temperature is 44 celsius This little shiny button right here That's the same as your home button. I think it's a mistake in the software If you hit the 85 percent mark here, it shows you what your battery voltage is. We got 48.5 The power consumption same as before 893 watts We've got 2.9 hours at my current wattage that's going on and the 20 celsius is what my Current battery state is down here at the bottom. We've got our dc Which we can go back to our front page. We can either turn on the dc and do that at the same time as the ac And do it right here or you can just actually hit the button there and turn it on and off This is the power button for the 120 volt section here work mode This is how you want it to charge fast mode mute mode or standard mode Mute mode is going to give you the longest. It's going to charge the slowest That's going to protect your battery from fast charging fast charging obviously wears the batteries out We're in standard mode right now You have the backlight. This is where you adjust your how bright you want it So if you're in a 10 or a camper or whatever That's where you would turn that down. So it's not too bright. So right now We're going to go ahead and cook something in the microwave. All right. We got some lasagna here The microwave is this is an 1800 watt microwave So there's the specs on it. All right, let's go ahead and put this in for 45 seconds and let's go outside It just kicked on the light. It didn't have a problem there. Let's go outside. All right So that's kind of putting a load on it. You can see right now. We're at There the fan just kicked up We're at 21 to say 2,200 watts at that type of rate that we're doing You've just dropped your time run time down to 1.1 hours So if you want to run something that big it's going to eat up your power awfully quick I would not say this is going to replace your generator for the house But it would be good for a camper or a tent where you have some heavy loads But far as being able to replace the generator. I don't think so Not when you're losing it that quick Now that should drop out here in a second soon as Yeah, the microwave must have shut off because we're down to 888 watts now something you could do is you could run a generator like this one here to charge this This is capable of 2,300 watts continuous 3,000 watt peak. It is clean power It's got about two to three percent distortion And you would be able to run that to charge the box down here and that way you wouldn't have to Maintain, you know the gas generator, you know, you get rid of the noise things like that So essentially if the clouds were out you weren't getting the sunshine that you were hoping for the power still out And you want to be able to charge it up I would recommend maybe having a small generator like that to be able to Charge it up in the meantime If it's at night time, you're not going to be drawing a whole lot of power depending on what it is You're going to have potentially the gas furnace You know, if it's a heat pump, obviously it's not going to be able to run. It's 230 volt for me I have a well my well is 230 volt Same thing with my water heater. It's also 230 volts. So unfortunately, this is not going to be able to run any of those things Now I have an 8,000 watt gas generator. It's able to do 230 volt And if I stage things I'm able to run each one of those individual components But I don't need 8,000 watts all the time. So one thing that's nice about this device here Is it's going to be able to run the small things like a c-pap You know lighting tv little things just to keep things working You don't always need a mega generator to do it Something you can do with this is you can put multiples of these in parallel Now this is a kind of a costly unit now one thing to keep in mind I have a refrigerator in the house a deep freeze here I have another freezer over here And I've got a small little refrigerator here So the wife just ran the microwave for her dinner stuff and we ran the fans up on the higher Speed we're still at 1,025 watts. So we must have one of the refrigerators running 66 so far I'd say we'll have to look at the playback, but I say it's probably about an hour and a half Okay, now we want to go ahead and connect this to the wi-fi on the phone So I've already connected it by entering the password into the device We're going to go ahead and hit data We're going to click on company and when we click on company all powers Up comes the qr code. We're going to scan that with the phone and that should link them together We just had the power turned off on us. It is down to 5% the Unit ran for two and a half hours So to put it simply um, this would probably be great for a camper where you only have one or two things running But far as running the whole house. I'm going to say probably not going to do it unless you are running bare-bone minimums It's big. It's powerful. It's capable of running it. No problem whatsoever It can't replace a gas generator. That's just all there is to it now granted you can run six of these in parallel From everything I'm seeing everything they seem to be really truthful with it This is ul rated according to the book. It has it also in some of the plugs they've got there And so far everything I see build quality wise seems to be very well built We're currently at 72% We're running right at a load of 1200 and 18 watts We hit our battery icon there. It shows us our voltage of the actual battery is right at 48 volts power consumption is 1200 watts the State of charge is 71. We have 1.8 hours left and the temperature is running at 20 Celsius This little chinese writing right there is basically the back button or the home button I did speak to the factory and they said they're going to correct that in a firmware update But it's basically your home button taking you back What we're connected to right now is the 1200 watt honeywell and it's been running non-stop So we are running that until we run this thing down We're going to see if it comes out to the calculated two hours and a half that they put it at So we've got two hours and ten minutes out of this thing and it finally just shut down Yeah, so we're actually doing a live stream with these guys But yeah, it just shut off two hours ten minutes five percent left over and we ran a 1200 watt heater down there All right guys Hopefully you enjoyed the video and you found it informative in my opinion. This is a really nice device. It has clean power It has a lot of capacity depending on how much loads you're going to be pulling It's going to determine on whether or not this is going to be the right device for you or not When I ran this on the whole house I ran it without any concern of trying to conserve power if I would use a strategy of power management It would have lasted a lot longer. I think it's a great unit. I think it's uh got sustainable energy It would be great under the right circumstances If there is a power outage, it's going to last for a long duration and no gas is available Like I said, if you're an apartment complex where you can't run a generator Or if you're somewhere where you need to be quiet, whether it be a housing authority, whatever the case There's a lot of different scenarios and only you know that scenario after 3,500 cycles This still retains 80 percent of its battery life which calculates off to being about 10 years being used every day I think it's something definitely worth considering. If you guys enjoyed the video and you want to see more like it Make sure you give it a thumbs up. Leave a comment down below and until next time. We'll catch you on the next one. Thanks for watching


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For this computer. Okay, so I'm back to recording or I'm on the record now. Sorry about that. So how many of you guys just just by How many of you guys have been asked to help kids get pictures or to access this type of thing online. Okay. So did many of you. Now Google is just one resource. It's obviously a resource that a lot of the kids use. So that's why I bring it up. But there are a lot of other tools and resources out there that provide educational reuse Appropriate pictures and and resources and things like that. So two of my favorites are photos for class calm and so that one's a really nice one that you know that they have given you permission to use those pictures. Also unsplash is a really high resolution great pictures. And so those are two great places to look so photos for class calm and unsplash so we can put this in notes and we'll kind of add them as we go along. Yep. So we'll add those to the slides. So you have those resources as well. And like Stephanie said, we if if you're interested, we could do a whole bunch more on this during our summer training. Because this is definitely something that I know that I would ask my parents pairs to do a lot to help me with. So something that I figured was probably good information for you. Okay, so one thing and you guys have probably seen this in the news a lot. There's, there's these apps. They're kind of hidden apps that kids are starting to use That may look like an appropriate or an educational app, but the intent of the apps are very We'll say just not appropriate. So there is in the slides. There's a ABC news report that recently took place. If you click on that link. It'll tell you about some of these apps. And I can take you to just a few of those now. But what they do is there's one of them. That's actually called a calculator app and it It's called the calculator. It looks like the calculate a calculator, but it actually is a photo vault where kids can take and hide pictures in this photo in this calculator app.  So another one. And this one has been pretty popular And this is a good video to watch because it'll walk you through some of these, but this ask FM. This is an anonymous question and answer app, but it's been it's not it's never been used for and a good purpose. It's actually been used to for bullying and for Very inappropriate things. So that is not. In fact, we we banned that app in our district when I worked at rune central because of The implications of it. So some of these things, like I said, some of them are hidden out. Some of them are apps that the kids might have or have access to, especially at the high school and middle school levels. If you see some of these, you may want to bring that to a teacher's attention. Or even an administration attention. And again, if you would like more on that we can talk more about that over the summer because there's there's actually more than I'd like to even Cover with you. But there's a lot of those apps out there. So Do you guys have any more questions that kind of I just skim the basics of digital citizenship and in those components. You guys have any questions that I can answer on that for you before we move on. Okay, great. So now we're going to jump into a few of the technology tools that you mentioned you wish you would see and I'm going to need your feedback on this because The survey results, like I said, were There was a lot for a lot of them. So I wasn't sure what ones to cover and at what level because technology there's so much involved in all these different tools. But here's your survey in case you've never seen Google Forms. I can pull up The information that you filled out for me and get a quick overview of the top ones and one of the biggest ones was the interactive whiteboards.  So a smart board, you may have a an interactive board in your school, but it may not be a smart board. A smart board is a product. Same as a brand. It's like us saying Band-Aids are for all bandages and Coke for all kinds of pop. And so, but it was one of the first ones around there. So I think we latched onto that name. Yep, smart boards and Prometheans. Those were actually the first two interactive boards that came out and smart was more popular in this area because it was produced In the United States and they have this huge community of teachers that have created all these great Lessons and designs and shared with everybody. Now Promethean has done an excellent job of that. To catch up with smart board as well, but that's another interactive board and then some of you might see an interactive board in your classroom. That's just this arm on your whiteboard. That is called a Mimeo and then there's another one that's called an Inyo. So those are all different kinds of smart boards. There's more information and videos on these linked to each one of these kinds. But I wanted to point out on these interactive boards, a couple of the I don't know what this is a couple of the Sorry about that. These boards actually function like the cool aspect of these boards is they do a lot with layering. And so You can create these really fun games for students by just layering objects and you can kind of think of it as one of those overhead transparencies. So kids like to have the ones that are created where you can hide and show different things. And so I wanted to show you an example Of what that looks like. And again, I'm working from another computer. So I have a lot of stuff open here. So ignore Ignore my desktop if you can But I created a That's not that one A math lesson for a teacher and it had a lot to do with with layering. And now I'm not finding it here. So when I was in the classroom I taught third grade and we did a lot with our math meeting board for section math. We would do that. I created all the lessons right on to my Promethean board. So it was interactive. The kids liked it more. It was a great way to use our board. I think in the kids were up actually using the pen. So there's some cool functions like are you going to do magic. No, this one is this one should be a math lesson that I created. So there's I mean there's some some tools when she talks about layering that use like invisible ink and it's almost like a scratcher ticket that they can scratch away that That color on top to have the answer revealed or whatever. So there's some really fun things and Tina mentions that she made this but on actually like she said in this smart boards and then the Promethean planet actually have games already made up for you. So when we were kind of talking about this, I thought When I had my board and it was new especially we loved it at inside recess time when I have the kids in the room and they were all getting kind of crazy. It was a good time to just go out to one of those sources and pull a game and that was already made for me. And like Stephanie said, the magic of all of this, it's magic to the younger kids because it's just kind of hide and reveal sort of games that you can do. And I have to apologize. I didn't make this one but I did get this one off of Promethean planet. The one I was looking for wasn't on this desktop. So basically this one is from a math lesson and this a Saxon math lesson, which some of you might be familiar with. But as you can see you can just pull these this it's a big square and all of that stuff underneath is just layered underneath the square and you pull it down to reveal And those of you who do Saxon math probably recognize you know this is The opening Saxon math lessons and you can just put them all right in here and it's This is probably a lower elementary example right like K or one And the neat part about this is these are all objects so you can very easily duplicate them just by clicking and then selecting duplicate and you can change them however you wish Just by clicking and so the the manipulative is how I always use this stuff is I would actually have manipulative tips for the kids and if I was up at the board I would use the exact same manipulative on the board. So that I could model for the kids and they could all see but the kids could be modeling the same thing at their desk and it was very easy to recreate some of these. And like Stephanie said if you guys are helping kids with lessons and you have access you don't even have to have the board itself. If you have access to this software I created all of my lessons on software on the computer I did not use the board to create the lessons in fact it was a pain to use the board to create the lessons. So if you have one of these interactive boards in your district and you want to know more about how you can use these to help support your kids. Let me know I taught with one of these type of boards for six years and I've used them since then so there's a lot of resources in here like I said manipulatives there's games there's all kinds of stuff that your kids can utilize. So now I'll just while we're on this to one note on copyright that when Saxon math produces all those problems of the day and everything those are copy written problems. And so when I left the classroom one of my friends said you need to sell all your lessons on teachers pay teachers go sell them. I make some money off of them and I absolutely couldn't because those were copy written all the math, the problems that they had the order that they had the word problems that they had. That was all copy written so well and then and another good thing about that is when like Stephanie mentioned before you can go to those sites and get the ones that teachers already created. But when you download those they become your your tool and your resource at your disposal so you can change them and modify them to fit your needs, however you want. So that's another good reason to use those already created ones because then you have a template. So I want to ask, before we move on, I want to ask of you guys what sort of things or what questions do you have on interactive boards or what kind of things would you like to see with the interactive boards, even if we don't cover it today it might be something we can look at this summer. Please, please, please speak up and let us know what you need here. Is it, is it more technical and just how to use it. What are the tools or is it more on how do I create something. I think the teachers probably would create the what you want to use but I would be more interested on just how to use it. How to use the software. Okay, how to how to like pull the things off their computer and put it onto the board and. Sure. Great. Okay. Anybody else. Thank you. Okay, so how many of you I'm just curious.  Then do you have any interactive boards in your district. We've got three in our school. Three different kinds. No, I think I believe they're all smart boards. All smart ones. Okay. I think that's what they are. I think it says smart board on the boards. Wonderful. And I'm assuming you have those at the elementary level. Correct. Yeah, they're all in the elementary. Yeah. Okay. Lynch. Do you guys have. What do you have or do you have interactive boards. Yeah, I'm going to unmute you. Hold on just a second. Okay, there you go. I think they're smart boards. Okay. In elementary. There's some element there's high school. Okay. Okay. Fantastic. Thank you. At the middle school. Do you guys have any interactive boards at that level. We have smart boards in every room, I think. In every room. Yeah.  Yes. Yes, they use them a lot. Yeah. Are you asked to use them very often? No. How about if there's a sub? Are you asked to come help step in and get things going? We usually ask a student, they know more than we do. I always trained like three kids in my class, like you are my tech guru when I've gone do this for the entire class. Yeah. You know, and, and this is just a side note. I started on the smart board in the smart board software. And I know Promethean has it. And I believe Mimeo has it. I'm not sure on how it works yet. But as a teacher, you could actually record your entire lesson. From the board itself. And then replay it when, so I use that a lot when I was gone. Because I can replay the entire lesson for my students and they can see it from me. And then the other part about that was, is if a student was gone, I could actually have them watch the lesson. While the rest of the class kind of moved on. And then I could touch base with them later. So that's a really cool feature. That I think is highly underutilized. Because you're already up there teaching the lesson as a teacher or as a para. Why not record it so kids can have it to, to refer back to later. So just, just a side note for you. Thank you, middle school. All right, Deb, how about you? What, what do you have boards in your district? What sort, do you have, what level? I believe they're smart boards. Okay. Thanks. And they're throughout the school. Okay. So you say throughout the school at all levels. Yeah. Wonderful. Interesting. Okay. Um, and Cindy. Cindy's group. Do you have, what do you have in your district? We only know about the elementary. And we're guessing we've seen one smart board in one classroom. Okay. Okay. Use the overhead projector more than anything else. Really? Yeah. Okay. Maybe they need some training. I'd be more than happy to come out and do that for them. So make sure you mention that. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Okay. All right. All right. All right. We get you already. There we have. I guess they tell me we have smart boards. Okay. But we're supposed to be getting the. They're looking into getting that. For me, for me fans. For me. I said. Yes. Okay. Very good. So for those of you who were interested in that, um, you know, I think that in the future, maybe this summer as we have some time for technology, we look at the actual tool tools and how to open up. Um, a flip chart. That's for me. Name for them. Open a flip charts. Be able to write on it. Use the different tools. Change the pages. Some of the basics of it. Maybe there. Yeah. Yeah. And that way, if you guys are asked, even just to use the tools themselves, um, knowing how to use them on the computer. Is, um, gets you miles ahead. So we will definitely look into that. Okay. So another part of the survey was some, some Google components. And one of them was, um, the Google calendar. And so what I thought I'd do for this is just to show you some basics of the Google calendar. A lot of our districts actually use Google because Google for education is free. They give you free all these tools for free. And they give you unlimited storage for free if you have an education account. So that's why Google has pretty much immersed itself into the education. Platform. And they provide some pretty awesome resources. So.  If you have any questions, I'm going to jump into my calendar. I want to warn you if there's, I have a lot of stuff on there. And so I hope your guys's don't look anything like that. Yes. You calendars are crazy. Crazy. So I'm going to, I'm going to take into mind, but don't make it. Don't let me make you panic here. So. Um, Number one, you can look at, uh, different views of this. Um, yeah, I'm going to turn off a few.  Um, if you look at over here on the left-hand side, um, I have tons of calendars and I'm just going to shut some of them off. So we as colleagues can share calendars, but what's cool about that is if your school is using it and you have a calendar for each teacher, maybe you'd know the days that they were gone, the days that they were going to be there when tests were coming up. Um, I'm just going to show you a few simple things and a few tips and tricks here in a Google calendar. So number one, if you just a keystroke for you, if you want to look at the entire month on your keyboard, if you're in Google calendar and you type the M, it will change it to month view. If you type a W, it's going to change it to a week view. Um, it's going to change it to a month view. Um, if you type a W, it's going to change it to a week view. And if you hit a D, it's going to change you just to that day. So that's just a quick tip. I am oftentimes, um, flipping between those views. And you can also do that up here, but it's just easier on a keystroke to type that month. Is M. Week is W and D is day. It makes perfect sense. Right. So, um, if you want to add an event, you can do it a couple of different ways, but I find the easiest is to jump in that spot in the calendar and just click.  So this little screen here is just really a quick access screen. So you can type in the type of an event here. Um, and then you can set that. Can't type and talk at the same time. Um, but you can set the name and you can set the time for the event and you can always click on that to change. You can also click in here and just set a specific time. Um, but if you come down here where it says more options under that, I 90% of the time where I actually probably 98% of the time I create an event, I always go into the more options because within here, you can set the, the name, the date, the time. You can set it to say it's all day. You can say, Oh, this is like for birthdays. Um, I set the birthdays to repeat annually. So every year. So then I don't have to add it to my calendar each year. Um, certain meetings that meet at a certain time every month, those repeat for me. Yes.  If they use Google calendar, you can set notifications to come to you. I really like this because if I get an email and I have to remember to do something specific, I copy the email right in here. So I know exactly what it is. I have to look at. And then over here, if this is a meeting that I need Stephanie to join me on, I can start typing in her email. And then when I save this event, it's going to send this to my calendar as well as Stephanie's calendar. And it's going to ask her to accept it. I'll get an email saying Tina's invited me to an appointment or whatever. So, and that happens automatically when you save, I'm going to get out of here. I'm going to discard that. So it doesn't show up in my calendar. You might have also noticed that there's a lot of colors. It's colorful. So it assigns everybody a different or every calendar, a different color, even my own calendars that are, I have several different calendars on my own. And they're each in a different color. So Tina must be blue on my computer. Tina's yellow. And everybody's will be a little bit different like that. And you can customize the colors. So maybe even for your use at home, you want to use Google calendar for each member of your family and keep track of your kids and where they're going all the time. Each person could have a different color. And the other part about this is if you use Google, it actually syncs very nicely with your phone. So you can get that information on your phone or set up events on your phone as well. So you always have that option in any pretty much any mobile device. I wanted to show you real quick because we got a lot more that we can cover. But if you want to add a coworkers calendar and you can start typing in their email address here, and then you could select that coworker and it will add their calendar. To your. To your calendar list that you can turn on and turn off. So if I want to go back in here and now it's kind of acting funny. But if I want to turn back on, we'll turn this calendar on. If I click on that, I don't have any events this week for that, but it will turn those notifications or those. That color. For that calendar back on to my list. So. That is kind of just a really basic. There's actually a lot more in Google calendar that I could show you, but I didn't want to take too much time on one. You guys have any, questions or anything I can help you with on Google calendar or, you know, a time that you got hung up with it, something that exactly you need to help us. All right. So I'm going to move down to Google drive. So again, because of the Google for education platform, a lot of your districts probably have started using Google drive. And if you don't use Google drive, the office 365 also has some of these similar components. So you may be using something. Basically it's called a cloud sharing. Document where your district might be sharing things to you. To a file. I think it's like a file cabinet. And it's like a file cabinet. And it's like, it's like a file cabinet. It's like a file box. I think it's like a file cabinet. And it's, but the cool thing about it is that people can share things with you electronically. You can send things out and share them or you can just store your, your things there. Tina and I have a share folder in ours. That's all about Paris. And so we share all of our presentations that we're making all of our handouts and flyers and things like that are all located in one folder. So, and really it's, it this is taking the place of what you always probably used to put on your computer or on your desktop on your computer. This is cloud based. And what that means is that basically you can collaborate, like Stephanie mentioned, but if I, like I told you earlier, I'm on a different device. And so if I use my username and password to get in on this second device, I have complete access to all those stuff as long as I have an internet connection. So a good, good story about this is I was on vacation on a cruise one time when I was applying for a job and I needed to send my resume right away to a district. And so I went to a little internet cafe in the middle of this island was able to access my resume because it was digital in my Google Drive and sent it within three minutes of them asking. So, or that's cloud based. Yeah. And today Tina was having trouble with one computer. So she got on another computer and everything's, everything follows you. So you're never without it. So a lot of the questions that I get on Google Drive is somebody has shared something with me said, you got it in an email and then you can't find it again. So in Google, if somebody has shared something with you, that is not your document. It is actually you have what's called your drive, which is over here. But you also have this little button down here on the left hand side that says shared with me in the shared with me. This is where all of the documents go that somebody else might have shared with you. So if you're having trouble finding something in that you're looking for, if you come down to shared with me, you can, it's more than likely probably in here. Now Google Drive, the Google, whole Google platform is based on Google search. That's how Google started. They wanted to make a good solid search engine. I'm kind of a Google nerd. I read the Google book and so I know this, I know the history here. So basically they started their whole platform on Google search. So within Drive, because I have so much stuff in here, like these are folders within folders, within folders. To me, if I go in and search a folder, it might be within five other folders. That's not, that's time consuming. So if I want to find something, if I come up here to the search and start typing in either the title of the document, I can come down here and do a, an advanced search and I can search for the type of document. I can search by owner. So if I know Stephanie shared something with me and I want to say, okay, I want to search stuff from her. If I put in her email address, it will search for stuff that she shared directly with me. I can search by date. I can search by title. I can search by any of that stuff. So as you guys start getting more stuff or your district starts sharing stuff in these cloud devices, especially within Google, search is probably going to be your best option. But like I said, I always like to highlight with people that this shared with me is also over here because if your administration is using Google, they're 99% of the time they're going to share it via shared with me and it will be stuck in this folder. So if it's stuck in this folder and you want to file it, I'll just choose this one right here. If you want to put it into, say, like you put stuff on your computer desktop. If I want to do that, I have to go under shared with me and then open up the document. And as soon as it completely loads over here, it's going to give me the option to add it to my drive. And of course it's really slow because I opened a big one. Sorry about that. As soon as my icon pops up over here, it's loading. It's really slow today. But cool thing also about all these Google items are that they automatically save for you. So I know back in the old days, you know our computers would die on us or something in the middle of working on something. And but with Google, it always is saved especially with kids. I think that that's an awesome feature because we know how they were about saving things and they might forget. And I remember losing a paper once because I didn't save. It was heartbreaking. Okay, so that one's not going to load. I think there's too many images in there. We'll try this one. This one's just should be a one page document. So something really quick for you to note. Do you see how this button says view only? That means I have no access to edit this document. So when you share with somebody, you are giving certain credentials on whether you can edit the document, whether you can make a copy or whether you can just look at it. And this one, I can't click in to modify it all. But notice this little icon that came up here. This is the option to add to my Google Drive. And when I click on that, it gives me then the opportunity to go and put this into a folder that I have created in my drive. So it's no longer going to be in shared with me. It'll be in my drive in that advisor folder. So, um, and that, that is just a very basic. Oh, I did want to show you one more thing. And we're almost out of time. So I'm going to show you this real quick before we get out of drive. But if I go to new up here, there are more options than just creating a new document. You have, you could create a folder. You could go to your computer and upload a document that you've saved on there. You could actually go out to your computer and upload an entire folder that's on your computer into Google Drive. You can add a document sheet, Google slides. And then under more, you have a lot more options. Um, so anytime you want to add something in Google Drive, if you go to that blue new button, and that's pretty standard in anything Google. So it's all free software free, you know, things that we used to have to pay a lot of money to put on our computers is now, um, internet based and free web based and free. So awesome. Okay. So, um, we actually have four minutes left of our presentation and some of the other topics that you were asking to cover was a little bit with Gmail and then some assistive technology things. So I wanted to highlight to you that in, in this, uh, presentation, which will be up on the Paris of the SU eight website, there will be some more, um, details in there for you on those different topics. This one's kind of a fun one. When you're creating Gmail, um, emails, it will help you with keyboard shortcuts that I use all the time. It's huge time saver. Um, so make sure you check those out. And then, and we might be asking you for some more details on each of these categories for the summer because we spent, um, might try to spend some time on technology. So yeah. So be looking for that because we need to get more feedback on what you guys want and it's hard to cover some of these tech resources and tools with you in the short amount of time that we have for these zoom sessions. So if you would like to see more and you want to send an email to me right away, that's great. If you want to see more on any one of these topics or something that we miss, um, you're welcome to email me right away. We're already kind of making a list of ideas for the summer. Um, or you could wait, um, until we send out a form to inquire later. Um, but you're welcome to send me an email now so we can, um, start adding to our plans already. So do you guys have any questions or anything that I could cover for you before we hang up for the day? Anything that would help you in the next month, make it through the last part of the school year. Okay. Silence. Well, we, um, you know, we know that these topics are broad. So, um, you know, as we send out a survey, which we will send out a survey about what you need this summer. Um, we hope that you fill it out and let us know because really these trainings are all about you and your needs. And so we want it really to be, um, things that you need to learn to make your job easier. Um, and so we've been talking about next year and next summer. Um, we have our date scheduled. So please save the date, August 10th, 2018. We'll be back here in Nealy at this time at our fairgrounds building, which is large enough to host, um, us all. Um, and we'll be covering lots of different topics that day. Um, we know that we want to have some time spent for different age levels, um, pre-school, upper elementary, secondary. Um, we know we have some tech topics that we think we should cover, but we'll be surveying you and your principles, um, about some other topics that will be pertinent at your school buildings. So as you wrap up your school year, this might be a good time to kind of process your whole year and what, what you could have utilized throughout the year or things, ideas that you might, um, have for us to cover over the summer, that would be helpful for you as you go through your next school year. Um, so be keeping those in mind. And again, if you wish to share those through an email or contact us with us, that would be great. We will be sending out a survey, but it's always good to have, um, whatever details you have, especially if you're thinking about it right now. Yeah. Or, and share them now and, or email to with us a lot at any time you want something email with us. So. All right. Any other questions, comments, concerns, ideas, anything you want to share. Okay. Everybody reach your hand up in the air. And pat yourself on the back. You made it through a school year. You made it through all of these Carol webinars. And, um, we're so proud of each and every one of you and the dedication that you have to kids. Um, my very first principle said, I want you to teach the kids a lot. I, you know, you need to get through curriculum, but if I have to tell you one thing, go love your students. And I know that each of you do that every single day. So thanks for showing up and making a difference in kids' lives and make sure you reflect today on all the kids that you have helped this year because you've helped a lot. And that's, that's important. So thank you for all that you do. Hi guys. Happy summer in a couple of weeks. Thank you. Bye. Hi guys. Happy summer in a couple of weeks.