OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Hello, everyone. Good afternoon. Thank you for being here on a Friday afternoon. I appreciate that. Today we're going to talk about finding and curating OERs. So lots and lots of information out there. So we're going to look at briefly what's out there and how we can compile it in an organized manner. So my name is Diana Vera Alba. I'm an OTAN subject matter expert. I'm also an ESL faculty and OER coordinator at San Diego College of Continuing Education. So a little bit about myself. I've been an online instructor, teacher, trainer since 2012. I have taught in the modalities of distance at hybrid, high-flex and fully online courses. My experience as a trainer includes online faculty mentoring, OER and keep coordinator at my district, Canvas course design trainer, accessibility trainer, OER and zero textbook cost trainer, and OTAN subject matter expert. So my free time, I enjoy gardening, photography, and I love animals. So I have lots of pets. And there's Penny. I don't know. I was wondering where she went. So before we get started, I want to know how familiar or comfortable you are with Creative Commons licenses. So if you can please vote in chat and type one, if you are not familiar with Creative Commons licenses, type two, if you are somewhat familiar with Creative Commons licenses, and type three, if you are very familiar with Creative Commons licenses. All right. Thank you for voting. Thank you. All right. That's great. This helps me pace this presentation because I do have a lot of slides. I also have a lot of information to go over. So I do see a lot of twos, maybe a one and a three. Great. So I can kind of fly through that portion of the presentation. Of course, you can raise your hand or I don't mind if you raise your hand while I'm speaking or post the question in chat and I will stop for your questions. Okay. So thank you very much for that. So today's topics we're going to look at how you should share your personal OERs or how you can share your personal OERs. We're going to look at choosing the Creative Commons license that's right for you. And it varies depending on the resource. So some of my resources I licensed some CC by some some of them I licensed some CB at CB by SA. So it really depends on the actual resource. You don't have to use the same license for all your resources, but I'm going to show you the Creative Commons chooser, which is really, really nice product that you can use and it's free. We're going to look at attributing your own work and the work of others. Okay. There's a lot of information here so I added a five minute break here if you want it. If you don't want it, we can power through. We'll, we'll know when we get there. I'll let you vote on that. We're also going to look at how to share your OERs with others. So we're going to look at one of many tools out there but OER Commons has a great tool and we're going to briefly look at that. We're going to look at how to build a digital OER ZTC library for your institution or for your students. So we're going to look at the differences between repositories and referratories and using Canvas as the LMS for building your library. So there are other options out there like Google sites, Google Classroom. But I'm going to show you my example that I created for our faculty using Canvas. So let's get started quickly with the definition of what open educational resources are. And this is from the US Office of Educational Technology, their 2010 technology plan. Open educational resources are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license. That's one of those Creative Commons licenses or public domain that permits sharing, accessing and repurposing, including for commercial purposes and collaborating with others. Okay, so this is really fitting, covers all aspects of OER's, what they are, how they can be used and how you can share them with others. So let's take a look briefly at the Creative Commons licenses. I've shared, if you've been in my other presentations, I've shared other charts like this. I'd like to include many different styles of charts depending on your liking. There are many out there. So this one was nice and concise. At the top, you notice the green arrows going up. These licenses have more permissions. That means more things that you can do with that resource. And as you go down the list, the licenses towards the bottom have fewer permissions or a little bit more restrictive. Okay. Then the second column, of course, are the icons with the licenses and to the right of each of the icons are some definitions. Okay. So this chart was licensed CC by which is this license here. So as long as you give permission to the original author, you can use this in your presentation, you can use this with your faculty, you can use it in your canvas page or site. Okay. So I'll go quickly through each of those licenses. So the first one is public domain and public domain sometimes has the CC zero spelled out or sometimes it just has the zero with the circle around it and the public domain. And this is the least restrictive. It means that no attribution or credit for the original author is needed. So you can adapt it in any way you wish, even if you use it commercially. Okay. So there are many reasons why we see this type of license. So perhaps a public domain book, such as those in the project Gutenberg site. It could be a book with no copyright. Maybe originally was created with a copyright. Maybe it wasn't. But most of these books, especially on project Gutenberg site are books where the copyright has expired. Okay, so when does the copyright expire so as a general rule for works created after January 1 1978 copyright protection lasts for the life of the author, plus an additional 70 years. This is a general rule. There are some exceptions. And it really depends on the country. So one of the lengthiest copyright is from Mexico and other countries as well. So if you are interested in copyright, I did add the link for FAQs on copyright down at the bottom of the slide. And if you're curious, yes, I am going to share the slides at the end of the presentation. So what are open educational resources? Again, they must include the five Rs, which are these permissions. So you should have the right to routine reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the resource. So if you have these five Rs, then that resource is considered a true OER. Okay, there are resources that are missing the remix and revise, for example, those are still great resources. An example of that are Ted Ed videos. Those are open for you to use in your classroom. Open to use and share with your colleagues. You just can't change them. You cannot revise them. You cannot remix them, but there are still great resources. So quickly I'm going to kind of, since most of you are familiar with Creative Commons licenses, I'm going to go through this portion a little quickly. But again, it's there for you in the presentation. So CC by means that you must give credit attribution to the original author. So CC by includes those five Rs that we just talked about. You can adapt and use this resource commercially, if you wish. However, attribution is not negotiable. So attribution, you must give credit to the original author. Okay. And I'm giving credit down here at the bottom. So CC by SA is a CC by license plus the share alike. This means you must attribute it and share any adaptations you make with the same CC by SA license. So CC by SA includes the five Rs. So you are able to remix it. You are able to change it. If you do make those changes, your new revisions or your new changes have to hold this CC by SA license. That's what this means. CC by NC is a CC by license plus non-commercial. So here's that non-commercial logo. And this means you can use it with attribution. You can adapt it, but you cannot sell it for a profit from it except to recuperate costs of printing, for example. And CC by NC includes the five Rs. CC by NC SA is a CC by license plus non-commercial and plus share alike. And this means you can use it with attribution. You can adapt it, but you cannot sell it or profit from it. And you must share it again using CC by NC SA. Remember when we, when you see the SA, your new revisions have to include the exact same license that the original author had. So this license also includes the five Rs. So it is considered a true OER. So now we're going to get into, if you notice I had kind of a green light around the licenses, the first four. So now we're going to get into some that have the red around the license and we're going to see what that means. So CC by ND is a CC by license plus no derivatives. And this means that you can use it with attribution, you can retain it, you can share it, but you cannot adapt or make any changes to it. So CC by ND does not include the five Rs, right? It's, it's missing the remix and revise, right? So you cannot make any changes to it, but you can still use it and share it. So this license, which is the most restrictive is CC by NC ND. This is the license that Ted Ed holds, okay? So it's a CC by license plus non-commercial plus no derivatives. So this means you can use it with attribution, you can retain it, keep it, you can share it, but you cannot adapt it or make any changes to it. You cannot sell it or profit from it, except to recuperate costs for printing. So CC by NC does ND does not include all the five Rs, okay? Because of the non-derivatives, no changes, it has to remain the same, then it, it does not include those five Rs. Okay, any questions as I went through that rather quickly? Okay, don't see any changes. Hi, Jenny. Yes. So Ted Ed holds, Ted Ed videos hold this license. Alright, so let's continue. So we're going to watch a quick video just under two minutes about Creative Commons licenses. This video will introduce you to Creative Commons licenses, which may copyright easier to understand. Let's say you create something. This thing could be creative, like a picture of your cat, or scholarly, like an essay about cats.  When you are the copyright holder, people have to ask you for permission before putting your cat picture into a PowerPoint or adapting your cat essay into a movie. Getting permission can be time consuming and complicated for both the creator and the user. This is where Creative Commons can help. Creative Commons exists to make permissions explicit and straightforward. Creative Commons licenses use icons and simple language so that creators can make their intentions clear and users can be certain that their use of a work is legal. These different licenses help people understand if and how they can use, share, or build on a work. This icon means that only non-commercial uses are permitted so no one can profit from using your picture. This icon means that no one can make changes to the original work, such as photoshopping a dog into your cat picture. This icon means that someone can change your work, but their version must be shared under the same license as yours. All Creative Commons licenses give credit to the original creator, preserving your reputation as a creative genius while the world engages with your work. Licenses can be attached to most things, including blog posts, images, artworks, journal articles, and more. To learn more about Creative Commons licenses, visit the Creative Commons website or check out some of the other videos in our series. Okay, any questions about Creative Commons licenses? All right, great. So why and how should you attribute OERs? So attribution is important. It's part of the buy and the CC license. That's where you give credit to the original author. And it's important because OER identifying the author, you can legally borrow someone else's work or identify the permission level. You give others to use your own work. So now that you can identify the license and their permitted use, we can look at how to correctly add attributions to your work and the work of others. So I do have a question. Is Creative Commons only used for digital work? No, actually, it's not only for digital work. You can add it to a book that is published and printed or a resource. It could be a worksheet. So yeah, it's also for printed material. And you will see it in books more so now than before. So when attributing work, remember the acronym TASL. Okay, because these are the four things you're going to need when you are attributing somebody's work. So you need T for title of the resource. A for author. So who created that resource? S for source. So where did you find the resource? And L for license. What type of Creative Commons or perhaps public domain? Did that author intend to use? Okay, so you're going to need those four things in order to attribute someone's work or your own work. So some open resources provide a ready made attribution. So for example, I like using Pixabay for images, unsplash. There are many others I like to use, but in particular Pixabay and unsplash. When you download that image or resource because they have more than just images on their site, they automatically give you the attribution. So that's super easy to use, right? Because you download the resource. And then as when you download, this pop up comes up and you just copy that attribution. And paste to the bottom of the resource. So that's really convenient. So this image at the right had a ready made attribution. And these attributions typically appear near the image when downloading the resource from the website. So for resources that do not provide ready made attributions, there are several attribution builders out there. And the what the two that I like are the open attribution builder. And this can be used to attribute your own work or the work of others. Okay. And for those of you that are not really familiar with the licenses yet, or you're not sure what you want to add, what license you want to add to your own work. I recommend the Creative Commons license chooser. Okay, so let's take a look at this one. And I do hear somebody has noise in their background so if you have noise, if you could please mute yourself. Thank you. So this is a Creative Commons chooser. And this it's in beta form right now this well they have, let me step back for a moment they have a chooser available and they've created a new and improved, which is in beta form but we can still use it. I will go ahead and add this in chat. And it's also on the slides. So you don't have to go there unless you want to follow along. So this asks a series of questions and many of them are yes or yes or no questions. So as you answer the questions, you will see a pop up here on the right, and it starts building your license for you. Okay, and it's beautifully done. So let me show you. So the first question, do you know which license you need. If you answer yes it's going to tell you okay basically you don't need this chooser, just go ahead and add the license to your resource. Okay, but if you're not sure which license you want to choose, you're going to choose no, and then click next. Okay. So do you want attribution for your work. So when someone else uses your work. Do you want them to give you credit. If you answer no, then it's going to automatically give you the public domain license. Okay, so here's the logo. Here's what it looks like. You can click on see the deed because you can add this to your resource. You can just grab that link and add it to your resource along with the logo and you're done. Okay. So remember with public domain, the creators giving up their copyright, you're allowing re users to distribute remix, adapt and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes, without giving you credit for your work. Okay, so that is zero restrictions on this license. So if you say, well, you know, I still want to get attribution I still want some kind of credit on my work, then you're going to choose yes, and it already popped up with a license, right. So there's CC by. Okay. I'm still going to choose next because I may this may change depending on my next questions. So I'm going to choose next. Do you want to allow others to use your work commercially. So if you say yes, it stays the same. Nothing changes because with CC by people can use your work for commercial purposes. If you say no, then it adds the symbol with the dollar sign with the slash through it meaning for non commercial purposes only. Okay, still has the CC by you can get credit for your original work. Others can distribute remix, adapt and build upon. They just can't make money or profit off of it. Okay. So I'm going to leave it there and choose next. Next question. Do you want to allow others to remix adapter build upon your work. If you say yes, license stays the same. If you say no, oh, I added the non derivatives. Okay, so that now I'm not allowing downstream users to make any changes to my work. Okay, so that's what the ND, no derivatives, no adaptations of your work is permitted. Okay, I'm going to say yep, I'm going to allow downstream users to adapt my work so I'm back with my CC by and see license. Okay, I'm going to choose next. The next one. Do you want to allow others to share adaptations of your work under any terms. So if I say yes, they can use whatever license they want with their remixed work doesn't change my license at all. If I say no, it adds the share alike the SA. Okay, so remember this means that others can still reuse remix adapt build upon for non commercial purposes because I still kept that on there. But if others modify or adapt my materials, they must license the modified materials so the new materials under the identical terms that I had on my original work. Okay, questions so far. Okay, alright. And then next. So that's the end of the license questions. So now I have my license. Okay. If I choose next. I'm going to confirm that I own or have authority to license the work. So it's my own original work, or I have the authority to license the work that means it could have been a CC by which gave me permission to create a whole new license. So if the original work that I am remixing had the CC by license, I have the authority to license the work. Okay, so I'm going to mark yes. So you have to mark the yes 12 of these otherwise it will not let you use this license. I have read and understand the terms of the license the terms of the license appear here on the deed. So you want to make sure that you understand fully understand what this license means and if you don't remember, you just click on the deed, and it will take you to the creative common site where it is defined and tells you exactly the terms of this license and what it means. Okay. Yes, I have read and I understand the terms and the last one. I understand the creative commons licensing is not revocable. So once you add this license to your work and share it out to the public to your friend to a colleague to your students. The license becomes not revocable. Okay, if I have not shared it yet and they change my mind I can go back and change my mind before I share it out. But once I share it out. It's not revocable. Okay, so I understand that if I add this license it is not revocable and that goes for any of the licenses. Okay, so I'm going to choose next. Now I'm going to add the title of my work. So I'm going to call this Diana's Diana Vera Alba's masterpiece. Okay, I am the creator of the work so I'm going to type my name. If my resource appears on a website or an open site where the public has access to it then I'm going to add that link here, or a link to my profile if I have an online profile I can add that as well. I'm not going I don't have to I'm not going to add it and I'm going to add the year I created it and once I press done this kind of shakes to let you know here is your license. So now I can copy this as is with the CC by NCSA link on there. So this is my full attribution. If I want, if I don't want the abbreviation I can toggle over to the right on this blue button and it spells it out. So instead of it saying CC by NCSA. Now it's spelled out attribution on commercial share like 4.0 international license. Okay, so it depends on your preference which one you want to use. Okay, so you can copy this, you can add it to your resource. Okay, there's also the HTML version. If you want to add HTML to like canvas or something like that with your license you can even on canvas. I usually just grab this, or I don't use the HTML but you can if you want an XMP I have never used, but it downloads metadata for you if you if you choose that option. Okay, but here is everything nicely built. Just by answering a series of questions of what I want and don't want my downstream users to you to do with my resource. Okay, so this is for a website and Jenny you were asking about print work. So if I want to add this to print work I just toggle and I copy this. Okay, so that's the abbreviated version or the full license name version. Okay, any questions. Yes, Jenny. So it says it appears I should be very careful before I add a license since I can't change it later. Right, you can change it later as long as you didn't share it out. Once you share it out. It's cemented on your work. Okay. And that's to save the integrity of your work and the integrity of these licenses, right, because if you shared out with CC by and later on you say wait, whoops, no, I don't want it used commercially. Kind of too late because somebody already has your work with that CC by where you gave permission for commercial use. Right, so you don't want to confuse the public. So that's why they have that on there. And then the next question should I add that on every page of my worksheet, you can if you want. So if it's a worksheet that created you created on word or Google, you can just add it to as a footnote. And then it'll add it to every page for you. Now for canvas. For the canvas page that I created or canvas account that I created, I only added it to my home page. And that's because that canvas account or any elements digital library that you create will have multiple licenses because you will probably not own everything if you use it as a repository. So if you add resources for your faculty those resources have to maintain the original license of the author. So I only add my license to the home page because that's the only thing I created everything else is a resource that somebody else created and I add the license of that resource to that particular resource. All right, any other questions. Okay, all right. So I hope you found that tool useful. I loved this tool, especially if you're kind of not sure right and like I said, you don't have to have add the same license to every piece of work that you create you can change it for each work that you create. All right, so that was the creative commons license chooser. There's also something called an open attribution builder I'm not going to go over it here but I do have a video at the end of this presentation that I created for faculty at my district that shows you step by step on how to use that open attribution builder. So for the open attribution builder you already have to kind of know which license you want to use, or if you're attributing somebody else's work that's easy they already chose a license all you're doing is taking their license and adding it to that section in the template so it's also a very easy to use template. Just remember that you need tassel right the title, the author, the source and the license and the template you just plug it in and it creates the license attribution for you. All right, so we're going to look at using OER Commons to share your resources with others. So let's say you've already created these great resources and now you want to share them out. Okay, you've added you've gone through the attribution builder or the one that we just that I just demonstrated. Now your resource is licensed it's ready to be shared with others. Maybe you've shared it with your colleagues but you want to share it out in the open world. So OER Commons is a great public digital library. It's a repository. That means that they store lots and lots of resources. Open educational resources and users can explore, create and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum and provide access to free resources for students. Okay, so OER Commons is a great, great tool for you to share. The other thing I like about OER Commons that I haven't seen in other repositories is that it has an adult education filter. Okay, so most of us here teach in an adult education or continuing education institution. And this OER Commons repository has a filter for that. So that's really nice. So in order for you to use OER Commons to either save or add your resource, you do need to register. You're free to create an account with OER Commons. So you need to do that first before you add a resource. And then we're going to watch the introducing open author video on the OER Commons site. So let's go to the site, OER Commons, just so you know that each of these sections are within OER Commons. But if you want to go straight to register later on when you are viewing this, you can click on register, create an account. I'll also show you on the main site where that's at. And then the OER Commons video is linked here, but it's also on the main site. So let's take a look at OER Commons. So when you get to the site looks like this. This is where you could start your search for OERs. Okay. To sign in or register is here. So if you choose sign in, I already have an account so I would sign in. If I'm a new user, I would register here. Some institutions already have OER Commons accounts and what they do is they house everyone's, they try to house everyone in their institutions resources together just kind of to keep track and have their own little mini repository for their institution. So you can do that if your institution does that. I just registered on my own. So you choose register and it's very simple. First name, last name, email, create a password, confirm it, and then claim you're not a robot. Okay, so very easy. Once you register, you have several benefits. So once you register, you can add your own resources, but you can also save resources that you find. For example, I do this a lot. I go through and I look to see I help other faculty find resources. If it's something that I want to add to my OER Canvas account, I can save it here. If I, if I'm doing a search for one topic and maybe I find 20 different resources and they didn't go through all of them, but I'm just quickly like making my own to-do list. I can add them here before I download them. I can add them to my account and then save them for later, delete them, keep them. So that is a nice way to not use your own bandwidth, use your own memory on your computer. You can use their cloud storage. Okay? OER's cloud storage. So those two benefits there. So if you are ready to upload resources, remember you have to create an account first. And then once you create that account, you can go straight to the get started here. I recommend that you watch the video. So let's quickly watch that video. It's a five minute video and you'll see how easy it is to use their tool. Welcome to our open educational resource community, a network of dedicated educators committed to improving teaching and learning. In this video, we'll help you get started using our OER authoring tool, Open Author. We will learn how to author a new resource from scratch and how to remix an existing resource. To begin, make sure you're logged in before you click on add OER in the global navigation bar. Select Open Author from the pop-up menu. This will open a new draft of a resource for you to edit. We recommend you first give your resource a clear title and upload an image. Next, you can begin adding structure to your resource using sections. Give the sections a name and add content within each. This can include writing the main body of content that students will see, attaching resources related to the section, and articulating any specific instructions for the person teaching this resource in the instructor nodes area. You can also import from Google Docs and OneDrive to add content to your section. Within the content editor, there are various tools to support the design and creation of your resource, including pasting text from Word, formatting headings, stylizing the font, adding numbers, bullets, indents or quotes, and changing the alignment. To make your resource more dynamic and interactive, you can add hyperlinks, images, tables, video, mathematical equations, and definitions. While editing your resource, it will automatically be saved to your drafts and your profile. You can click Save and Preview to get a sense of what your resource will look like when published. To support collaboration, we have a feature that allows you to add co-authors by clicking on View and Manage Authors. Search for your co-author's name or email, then select the box next to their name and click Add Co-Author to give permission to others to edit your resource. Before publishing, we recommend utilizing the Accessibility Checker on each section to ensure your resource is accessible to all learners. When you click on the Checker, it will identify any accessibility issue within your section. When you're ready to publish your resource, click Publish and describe your resource clearly so that others can find it more easily. Select an open license and add any relevant standards or keywords. When you've added all the information needed to help make your resource more discoverable to others, click Publish. Resources that are published in OpenAuthor are available to users in multiple download formats, including the Braille Ready EPUB 3, PDF, Thin Common Cartridge, and SCORM. Now that you've seen how to author a new resource from scratch, let's see how you can remix an existing resource using the authoring tool. When you find a resource that is remixable, simply click on the Remix button while viewing the resource. This will create your own copy of the resource in the authoring tool. Next, give your new version a different title and begin customizing for your specific teaching and learning needs. When you have edited your remix and are ready to publish, click Publish. Be sure to update your description before publishing by citing the changes you have made to the original resource in the descriptive fields. To find resources that have been published using the authoring tool, select the OpenAuthor 2.0 box under the Content Source and the Advanced Search. We believe each member of our OER community has their own unique expertise and experience to contribute. That is why we developed our authoring tool to support the creation and sharing of educational resources. As with any new tool, the more practice you have, the easier it will be to use OpenAuthor. Remember, you can always go back and edit and republish your resource. In fact, we encourage you to update and improve your resource over time. Thank you for being a contributor to our OER community. Happy authoring. Welcome to our Open Educational Resource Community. Okay. All right. Any questions about that tool? So I've uploaded resources. It's actually very easy to use. So that is just one of many. I'm going to show you another huge repository is Merlot. And Merlot is similar to OER Commons Look in that the search, you can begin searching for open educational resources at the top. So Merlot is considered both a repository where they house many, many, many resources. So they have over 100,000 resources in their site. But they're also a referratory, meaning that they refer you outside of Merlot for other resources. So let me show you what that looks like and what that means. Sorry, let me go back. I added ESL reading as my search. So I'm going to search for ESL reading resources. So here is the Merlot collection. There are 194 resources for me to look through under ESL reading. Okay. This is the referratory where they're referring you out to other libraries on that same topic. So if I choose other libraries, there are one through 10 results of other repositories and there are more and more and more. There are actually quite a bit of other repositories or other websites where ESL reading OER exists. Okay, so this is a nice way for you to discover other sites that you could search in. Okay, for those, for that same topic of resources. So these are other libraries like Merlot. And then the last one is just a general web search. Okay, so this is the first 100. And there are lots and lots of resources. So this is the wild web. Right. So it says Merlot is always displaying up to 100 results, regardless of filter. So if that is too many for you to look through, you can use their filters here. So in the wild web, they don't have the creative common filter within the Merlot collection. There are lots of filters that you can add. Okay. So that is the difference between what a repository is where they house the resource and referratory where they're referring you out to other resources or other sites that may house these resources you're looking for. Okay. I just wanted to point that out because we're going to look at what you want to do with your site. Okay, we'll look at that later on. So I'm back at the home page for Merlot. If you scroll down Merlot also has their own builder and they also have a tutorial. So if you want to add resources to Merlot, then again, I recommend that you watch the video. They have a very nice content builder just like OER Commons. One of the questions that I, oops, maybe I do have a question. I've used a website called live worksheets.com and not sure if there was a license being used. Should I attribute in this case? Jenny, you want to look at the terms of use on live worksheets.com to see if they own that resource or you own that resource. But we could talk about that, Jenny, later on. But yes, you want to see what the terms of use are on live worksheets if they allow you to license your own work or not once you add it there. I'm not sure. So what I was saying is, I get a question, if I add my resources to OER Commons, should I also add it to another repository like Merlot? And my answer is yes, because the more repositories you add your resources to, the more they will be shared out. So if that is your goal to share it with as many people as you can, I would do that, especially if it's a book. Okay, so some faculty at my district, including myself, are revising books. And so we want to share it once we're finished, we want to share it to as many people as possible, as many faculty and many students out there as possible. So we will likely upload to several repositories. Okay. Any questions about sharing out to these repositories? Okay, so I know I went through that quickly. But again, you have the links here and you can use them. Okay, so now we're going to get to the real fun stuff. So now that you've gathered all these resources and you've created your own resources. You can build your own digital library, right?  So I did this for my faculty, I am the OER coordinator at my district. And so that was one of the steps that I wanted to take is not only teach our faculty about OER is what they are how to use them, but also give them a starting point when they are researching kind of like nudge them to look what's out there look what I found for your discipline and hopefully get them excited about using these types of resources. So you can, when you are building an OER or ZTC, ZTC stands for zero textbook cost and that's usually attributed to textbooks.  And to get ideas, you can go to college and university OER sites. So most US colleges and universities have an OER section in their website. And so you can go there for inspiration on how to organize materials. Yes, you are inspired and you're ready to go. You want to use either an LMS like Canvas, Google Classroom, or something like that, or a website. I used Canvas and for my site, I use it as both a repository because I do have some resources. I don't have hundreds of thousands like Merlot and OER Commons, but I did want to have at least some for our faculty to look at. But mostly mine is a referratory. So I refer faculty out to the sites where they can find resources in their discipline. You can house an OER course for your teachers in Canvas. That's the other nice thing. It can be a combination of a repository, a referratory, and also a professional development section in your Canvas site. And it can be maintained by your Canvas OER coordinator or a campus OER coordinator or a resource teacher or some type of lead in your district that is hopefully going to do trainings like this for your faculty. So, oops, let me go back. Yeah, so that was for organizations. And again, for ideas and inspiration, I would go to look at other college universities and OER sites. When you are organizing your materials, think about organizing your materials by discipline so that it's easy for your faculty to find and to use. You can use topics like Creative Commons licenses and maybe my slides or maybe you create your own slides from my slides on teaching faculty about the Creative Commons licenses. You can link out to attributions or attribution builder like what we saw today. You can house different types of materials so you can categorize them by books, images and artwork, and other repositories. So I'll show you how I did that on my site. And like I mentioned, I created a site that was built in Canvas and it has been shared on the Commons. So if you are a Canvas user, you can find my OER for SDCCD Canvas site by searching for Diana Vera Alba in Canvas Commons. So that is available for you and it is licensed so it is free for you to use, but I'm going to show it to you. Before we go there, I want to talk about, I have some resources here for you, sorry, about toolkits to build a digital OER ZTC library. So again, you can use Canvas. Some folks use Google Sites. That's also a nice open way to share things out. You can also use design software like Canva to pretty up your site. H5P, I have an asterisk because I use city labs. I kind of use a combination of city labs and Canvas and you'll see in just a moment, but I have those linked out if you're interested in looking at those. You can add relevant resources to your site like OER lessons, OER books, OER resources, training modules, videos. I have a combination of all of these. I wanted to give faculty different ideas on how to present their resources. So I have a combination of all of these.  So I wanted to give you some ideas for building yours as well. Okay, so let's go to my site and remember that you can use materials you find in OER for SDC CD Canvas shell. So you can use any of the materials I have there. I've licensed it CC by SA and remember this is the license that means you can adapt to tribute. You have to give me credit, right? You have to attribute it because it has the buy. But you can make adaptations of it and you must use the same license that I created if you're going to use my site. So let's take a look at it and I'm going to show you the student view so you don't see my behind the scenes messiness. Okay, so when you arrive to my Canvas course, there is the homepage here. I have some graphics, a welcome message here. This is really important to create a quick video, a tour of your Canvas shell or your site. It's really, really helpful for downstream users for your faculty to know exactly how you organized it. So we added that short video there. And then I have some quick access buttons. So if you hover over these, these are quick access buttons. Now, this is that Design Plus software that I used. Okay, so if you go to the commons and you don't see these pretty little buttons, it's because I'm using software. You can create these buttons without the software. You can create these buttons on Google draw. I've done that before for other Canvas shells. So you don't necessarily need the software. It's just kind of fun and useful to have it there, but it's not free. Okay, so I will premise with that it is not a free software. And then I have some information. I have a survey that I would like faculty to fill out when they come in. There's a general video about why to use OER. And then information about my office hours and my contact information. Okay, so that's what's in my home page. So once faculty are familiar with the modules and the way it's organized in modules, they can use these quick access buttons, but I'm going to take you to modules so you could see how I organized it from the top to the bottom in the module section. So I have a section called OER coordinator resources. So this is both for myself and for faculty because if they want to build out something I have some resources for them to use here. I have a section on Creative Commons licenses. So if a faculty member, I'm Creative Commons certified. So if a faculty member is interested in getting their own certification, there's information for them here. There's information like I had for you in the presentation on the types of Creative Commons licenses. So let me show you, I'll show you just a few of these pages so you kind of get an idea of what that looks like. So I love adding videos because that is a quick demo of what is to come. And so there's my quick under two minute video. I talk about the six Creative Commons licenses, green light, white, green light, yellow light and red light means on each of these. And have the logo, if they want to use this logo, they can click on the PNG here and copy and paste that logo directly onto their resource if that's what they want to do. The definition of this license is here. It's also linked out to the Creative Commons site. And what you can do with this resource what you must do. So as it goes down the list it goes to the more restrictive licenses. Now with the red what you cannot do. So I try to color code it and make it appealing and user friendly for our faculty. So that's this, this one section on Creative Commons, the types of licenses. There's information on public domain Creative Commons videos and just general OER videos are here. There's information on attribution. So I wrote an article for OTAN on how to attribute Creative Commons, how to attribute original work using Creative Commons licenses. So that is there. I also created how to use that attribution builder it's also on my slides but the video is here for faculty. And then this is my list of now projects now project icons that I use. And what I did is I had a list that I was keeping for myself and I thought I should share this with others. So these are icons that I frequently use. And what I did is I tribute attributed those icons. And so if someone wants to use that icon they can copy the icon and copy the attribution and it's ready for them to use so I alphabetized it. There are so many pages. I love using icons, but this is here for our faculty to use. If they don't want to use it from here they can grab a copy. It's downloadable and they can save a copy for themselves. Okay, actually it's a Google Doc so they can make their own copy and it'll stay in their drive. So let's go back to the modules. And then there's a section, general section on finding and using OERs. And then the OER presentations that I've done are here. I need to add more. I send out a OER newsletter to our faculty and they are archived here. So here are the OER repositories by topic. So these are image and artwork repositories. The ones with stars because faculty asked me which ones do you use the most. So I start the ones that I use the most but all of these are great. I should have starred Pixabay because that really is my go to I forgot to do that but that is on there. So these are repositories categorized by image and artwork. And then large repositories. So if faculty go to any of these, if they click in here, it doesn't just take them to the site. It also I have an explanation of what it is the link out of course an example of what they will see in the site. And here are topics or sites for open access books. And then the last are almost the last section. OER by discipline. So I have OER for various disciplines, not all disciplines but various disciplines. So I will say I am not a librarian. I'm an ESL instructor who happens to love OERs. So I don't know everything about the other disciplines. Faculty have helped me find resources as as I'm helping them find resources they're helping me build this section of the site for them so I am not a librarian and expert on it. Every discipline but thanks to our faculty they have helped me build this for for all of us to share. So there are the different disciplines here. And then I teach ESL so I know a lot of topics in ESL and there are ESL by different courses. So for example if an ESL instructor wants to take a look at some resources remember I said this is a both a repository and a refrigerator. So it's a repository because I am housing some resources for our faculty. I'll have the name of the resource and these are an alphabetical order in here as well. The title, the link out to the resource if it's a book or something like that. I let them know what they can do with that resource so this one's downloadable it's available in digital format. I have the license so they know that at front. A little bit of information about that resource and any other additional resources or links out for that resource. Okay, some of these are a little bit longer they have a little bit more so for example I teach reading so that I included a lot of resources for reading because I use a lot of different resources. And so there's books in here. Lots and lots of books for teachers to to use at different levels. Okay. But again, it's a combination of a referratory where I'm referring out and a repository where there's things that they can easily download in here if they'd like, if they like that resource. Okay. And it keeps going this is an alphabetical order again I have some resources on healthcare high school diploma in high school equivalency and then the last part of it is our free free resources. So these are resources that were shared with me by faculty when when they come to my office hours or my my presentations, they might have shared resources with me that are free. Not necessarily licensed as an OER but but still good resources. So there's some resources here for games for vocabulary resources and charts. Okay. Any questions. Any questions and chat. Okay. So if you want access to this and you use canvas and you're not at my district because if you're at my district I could just add you on to this one. Not a problem. But if you're not at my district, let me leave student view so the comments shows up. So if you want access to this resource, all you have to do is go to comments here on the left global navigation bar. And in search, you're going to type my name Diana there. Alba and there are a few things that I have uploaded you're welcome to use any of them. So the resource is here it's called OER for SD CCD. When you go in there. It's not going to look like mine remember because I have that design plus software, but when you download it, at least it will be categorized for you. And you can add or delete or remove things that do not apply for your district, or at least you have an idea of one version of organization for this type of resource at your district. Okay. The license is here CC by SA right so creative commons. Oh, and see, sorry, creative commons, non commercial share alike. Okay, so I want you to use the same license, give me attribution and share it with others. Okay. Any questions about finding and downloading. Okay. All right, let's go back. All right. So, on this page I have some resources for you. General resources on creative commons licenses. We looked at Merlot and we are common so those, all of these are links out for you. The now project houses over 3 million. Yes, 3 million free icons. Great, great resource. If you like to use icons. There is a great OER toolkit that was shared with me. Let me show you what this looks like. You need to make a copy so you'll have a copy of this awesome resource that was shared with me at an OER conference. And it was created by Cheryl Cooler Casey. And it has lots and lots of links and resources so if you want more resources for your OER library that you're going to be building for your faculty. There are tons and tons of resources and she has categorized them quite nicely here. So, I believe there's eight pages, yep, eight pages of resources from this wonderful OER librarian I believe she is. She just has tons and tons of resources so have fun. So that is her toolkit. Here's the link to that open attribution builder from open Washington, Pixabay where I used a lot of these images that I had in my presentation so they have images, videos, music, and more, and they're all openly licensed. Here are some videos how to use the attribution builder. So how to use this attribution builder I created a video for our faculty and I'm sharing it with you. What are creative commons licenses that's that short two minute video that was in my presentation I added it there. There's my attribution builder video. I'm going to show you step by step on how to use the attribution builder that I didn't go over so that one is here for you it's a six minute little over six minute video. So, this is a summary of what we went over we looked at how to share your personal OERs, the types of designations and licenses right we looked at public domain and the six creative commons licenses. You also looked at attributing your own work and the work of others. So you can use an open attribution builder like the one I have in the video, or the creative commons chooser that we looked at today. There are others out there as well. So all you have to do is, if you're interested Google open attribution builder and you will get others as well. If you want to look at others. And then how to share with others we looked at sharing an OER commons. I also showed you Merleau. We looked at that open author from OER commons. And then, lastly, we looked at how to build a digital OER ZTC library. We talked about organization of the site and looking at my canvas example but I also recommend, like I mentioned, most colleges and universities have an OER site take a look at theirs and see how they organized it. And, you know, maybe it'll just be a one page or on your website and maybe that's all your faculty need. And so it's up to you how you want to create your resource library for your faculty. And I want to thank you for being here today on this lovely Friday afternoon and thank you for attending our finding and curating OER webinar.


Intuitively, the limit as x approaches a of f of x is equal to l, when f of x is close to l, as long as x is close to a, but not equal to a. And in fact, mathematicians were comfortable with this informal definition for a couple hundred years, because, well, it worked. But some non-mathematicians were quite critical, and in the 19th century a more formal definition of limit emerged. So the key step in this mathematician process is to put a definition on what we mean by close to. So we might remember that x and y are close if the absolute value of their difference is small. And so we get our formal definition of limit. Now, we want f of x to be close to l. So we can make the difference between f of x and l less than some error, epsilon. We also want x to be close to a. So we can take about x and a being some distance delta apart, absolute value of x minus a less than delta. We also want x not to be equal to a. And so we can guarantee that by also requiring this absolute difference be greater than zero. Now, we also have these epsilons and deltas floating around. And so we need to determine which came first, the epsilon or the delta. And so a basic principle in life is start with what you want. In this case, since we want f of x to be close to l, then we want this epsilon to be our starting point. So we might phrase it this way, for any epsilon greater than zero, there is a delta where if x is close but not equal to a, then f of x is close to l. For example, let's prove the limit as x approaches two of x squared is equal to four. So definitions are the whole of mathematics. All else is commentary. We'll pull in our definition. So we know our starting point is we want the absolute value of x minus two to be between zero and delta.  So we can work a few steps back from the end and we see that we have to do something with this absolute value of x plus two. So remember, you can assume anything you want as long as you're explicit about it. So let's see what we can do with this absolute value of x plus two. Since we're looking at x close to two, let's consider some interval around two, say how about between one and three. Then on this interval we have... So in this interval, we can replace the absolute value of x plus two with something smaller or something greater. Now, since our proof has to read forward, we want x plus two to be less than what we replaced. In other words, on the previous line we had something. We replaced it with absolute value of x plus two and because that was smaller, we maintained the inequality. So we'll use the upper bound five in the previous line. So we assumed x was between one and three and in this interval the absolute value of x plus two is less than five. So if we had a five, we could replace it with something smaller and maintain the inequality. And now let's take one last step backwards and now the only difference between our two lines is that one has a delta and the other one has epsilon fifths. Again, if we want to replace delta with epsilon fifths, because this is on the greater than side, we need to make sure that delta is less than epsilon fifths. Now, we typically make one last simplification. Note that if we pick a small enough epsilon, we'll be in this interval between one and three. So we can replace this requirement with the fairly standard phrase sufficiently small and say that for sufficiently small epsilon and delta less than epsilon fifths, we have absolute x squared minus four less than epsilon whenever x minus two is between zero and delta. And that completes our proof.


Personal finance practice problem using one note coupon rate and current yield calculation prepare to get financially fit by practicing personal finance. You're not required to but if you have access to one note would like to follow along when the icon on the left hand side practice problems tab and the one one one two zero coupon rate and current yield tab also take a look at the immersive reader tool practice problems typically in the text area to with the same name same number but with transcripts transcripts that can be translated into multiple languages either listened to or read in them. Information on the left bond one bond two bond one says we have the face value of $1,000 the semi annual interest or a coupon payment of $50 it was issued at the face value. Now note when we think about the bonds we can basically think of it as though we are loaning money to the issuer of the bond the issuer typically being a corporation or a government entity. If the corporation or government entity issues the bonds right after they were created then they may be able to do so where the market rate matches the rate that is on the bond and therefore they may be able to issue it not at a premium or discount but for the actual face value of the bond it's more likely as time passes from the creation of the bond and possibly the bond being sold for example on the secondary market. Not buying the bond in that case from the issuer but from other investors that there's going to be a difference from the rate on the bond and the and the market rate which will result in us having to purchase the bond at a discount or a premium. So if we think about this first situation where they just created the bond they're going to issue the bond right away there's no difference between the market rate and the rate on the bond then they're going to issue it at the face value. Remember also that this coupon payment if we think about a bond as in essence us loaning money kind of to an organization government or corporation then they're going to be paying us interest on it. It's a little bit different than when we take out a loan such as a mortgage because when we take out a loan we typically pay it back in equal installments having both an interest and principal component of each of those payments. On the bond we're going to be paying in essence we're going to we're going to get paid basically the principal kind of back at the end although the discount and the premium kind of mess that up a little bit and then we're going to get a stream of kind of like the interest payments. Which is going to be the coupon payments that we're going to be receiving. So you might be given for example the coupon rate in which case you would then need to determine the coupon payments for example or you might know what the coupon payment is and then the want to determine the coupon rate which is the case here. Also keep in mind that you got to be familiar or understand what's going to happen with the semi annual payments that interest is not paid monthly it's paid on a semi annual basis. Okay so let's first think about the coupon rate and and this will be the same as the yield the current yield in this case and here's our two calculations down below because they were issued not at a premium or discount but at the face amount. So we've got the annual interest payment so note that we were paid semi annually for the $50 so for an annual payment because we usually think about in annual terms when we when we calculate the coupon rate and that's something you got to kind of keep in mind. If they're going to be paying us $50 each half period each six months times two then that's plus two 50 times two we get the $100 and then we're going to compare that to the face value and that's going to be the value of the bond the amount that we're going to get at maturity and the amount. And this case that we paid for it because we didn't buy it at a premium or discount but paid the face amount of it. So we're going to take the 100 divided by 1000 and we would get then the 10% or 0.1 10% now if we were given the 10% and didn't we're not given the 50. Then you can figure out the 50 semi annual interest or coupon payment by taking the 10% coupon rate times the 1000 that would give you 100 divided by two because it is semi annual you're getting $50 every six months. Now this all also happens to be the same as the current yield in this case because because of the situation of not having a premium or discount so the annual annual coupon payment divided by the bond price which in this case is equivalent to the face value. So let's take a look at bond number two where those two things will be different. So we've got the coupon rate is still going to be the $100 because we got bond number two face value of 1000 the semi annual still 50 but this time we did not buy it for 1000 we bought it at a discount we bought it for something less than the face value of the bond. That kind of messes things up with our loan with seeing it as a loan a little bit because at the end of the period we're going to get $1000 back but we only paid up front we're loaning basically 950 so the interest gets a little wonky there which means we have to do our present value calculations and so on to figure the price of the bonds which becomes you know a little bit confusion more confusion when when we have a discount or premium but in any case this first calculation will be the same be the hundred hundred dollars divided by the face amount the 50 times $200 divided by the face amount 10% no change to the coupon rate but if we're trying to figure out a rate which will be an easy rate that we can calculate that will be comparable to other types of investments for example we might be more likely to use the current yield and remember if you're looking at other investments you're trying to say where am I going to invest my money and you're looking at different kinds of investments it's useful oftentimes to think about the return you're getting on an annual basis so so you basically want that's kind of the calculation we're looking at but we're not going to compare it to the face value because we didn't pay fate the face value of 1000 we paid 950 for it so we would take the $100 divided by the 950 and that would give us then the 10.53 so 100 divided by the 950 would be the 10.953 about moving the decimal two places over now this estimate is a is a little bit more useful for us to figure the the current yield you know what we're earning which we can compare to other investments however it's not a perfect kind of investment as well because we can we can see that the bond is a little bit more complicated in that we put down you know this is what we're earning or this is the interest we're earning based on compared to the price we also got to realize that we're going to we're going to get you know the earnings for for however long the bond term is and we're going to get $1000 back at the end of the term so this is kind of a pretty quick you know back of the envelope as they would say calculation and then we can get into more more in depth calculations calculating something like the yield to maturity for example which will take a look at in future presentations


We're back here live in San Francisco, California, for the Node Summit, Node.js is the hottest thing in the developer community. Rapid rise in popularity, application development. We're here with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE.tv's flagship telecast where we go out with an HD studio, talk to the smartest people we can find, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, executives, we don't care if they have knowledge, we want to share that with you. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE.com and welcome back and pleased to announce the new vertical publication called DevOpsANGLE, which is a new section of SiliconANGLE dedicated to the developer community around Node, around DevOps, around OpsDev. However we want to talk about it, this is a phenomenon that is changing the guard in computing and computer science and coding, this new mindset, this new architecture and it's really exciting. So Node Summit is really the first event that really changes the mindset around development, where JavaScript and HTTP are the front stage of development and systems design to build scalable mobile apps and web apps. So I'm excited, we're excited at SiliconANGLE.com to bring you the coverage and I want to introduce Charles Bieler, who worked behind the scenes investing in a lot of companies. He's a partner at El Dorado Venture Capital, a very successful business over there, he's invested in Compellant, Solta Dell and a variety of other companies. Charles, welcome to the back to theCUBE, CUBE alumni, thank you. I'll see you've been working behind the scenes, financing a lot of the companies in Node, it's an area that you have interest in, you also know the enterprise space, you know the storage space, SiliconANGLE as you know has been covering the storage like a blanket, we're all over the IO concepts, David Floyd just wrote a manifesto around IO infrastructure, IO used to be confined to storage and networking, but now we have IO issues around changing an architectural fundamental change and how codes being written and Node represents that. So share with us your inner dealings and content that you can share with us around Node and what your experience is. Yeah, absolutely, so we actually started this conference and we started it because we're big believers in Node and really big believers in what Node represents in terms of the ability to start to deliver real-time communications, real-time connectivity to millions of devices at a time. So I started this with my co-conspirator Mark Lewis who I know you guys had some news about yesterday, I thought did a great job with and Andy Janks, one of the guys who works with him and we were talking last April about Node and the conversation was what's interesting about it, what should we do with it? And the agreement was it was past this point of just a cool technology if you guys were playing with and there were enough businesses out there who actually deployed it, were starting to deploy it, it was time to expose that in a different way. So we started Node Summit. Along the way, I spent time with folks at Joint and subsequent to that ended up joining as an investor and I'm on the board. You just saw the big $85 million announcement we came in to around just prior to that. Phenomenal company, obviously they're the ones shepherding Node in the community. I think they've done a fantastic job of really making sure it's a community effort, not a joint effort, it's the most important thing to them because their business is not about Node, but Node is one of the things that they see as a key driver to where their business goes over time. So Node Summit, obviously we'll talk about some validation points because as a VC you look, you see a lot of deals and obviously there's some validation here, we're going to get to that in a minute. Let's talk about Node Summit, the event. So we've covered Hadoop Worlds and we've covered Stratas, we've covered VM or a lot of other shows and this one has a nice balance between tech, developer, developer, developer, developer, but it's got validation in the business side mainly because it's moving so fast. You don't have the tracks, it wasn't designed that way. So talk about why the conference was designed this way. Just to kind of clear the air because there's some people on Twitter saying, hey, no tracks on not enough technical side but it was by design to put it this way. So explain to the folks the purpose behind the designs, the first conference was a ton of momentum and I don't know if you saw but yesterday I called the Node category four hurricane mainly because there's so much business interest and there's stakeholder in this, so talk about that. So we tried to be really clear when we started the conference that we did not want to be a Dev conference. The Node conference is a phenomenally good conference around Node. Michael Rogers who's here, he's on stage later and I think he's going to come speak with you guys who runs that, JS conference. We didn't want to do a Dev conference. What we really talked about when Mark and Andy and I sat down was let's do something that tries and it's not just a first conference but in some ways it's the first time anyone's ever tried to do this with an event which is let's bridge those communities, let's get the Dev guys here, let's get the hardcore Node community here and let's bring in more of as they like to affectionately call us the suits and talk about not just what the technology is but what's interesting about it and why enterprises should be and in reality are adopting it. And some of it we got right, a few things we'll probably change next time around assuming there is one but I think there will be and it seems to have worked in that we're getting some of these core developer guys, the guys who DevOps angles and me covering day and night coming in and saying, you know, I'm realizing my role here is I know Node and I need to be an ambassador to a much larger community of people who are just understanding what it is and it's just been fantastic to see the Node community embrace it. I frankly think it says a lot about the community in Node specifically, the way they work and at the end of the day and you've met with them it comes down to the guy who started it, Ryan and his personality is one of the most down to earth casual people you ever talk to, very laser focused on making Node something that works for everybody and I think the entire community around Node has followed suit. Yeah, we were talking earlier with Tom Hughes Crocker who wrote the book on Node that this community is a respectful community but professional, right? So it's an interesting developer community because there's not a lot of mudslinging. There's some arguments and some debates here and there but for the most part, not a lot of group think some contentious, good conversations but respectful and very professional and so it's kind of refreshing to see in this day and age of arrogance sometimes around and people having some integrity here so I just want to say congratulations on that. Thanks, and on that, and Tom's a great example of it he's phenomenally got, we've got him as a judge here spending time and I wish I could tell you what the magic secret was. I think to some degree it's because the Node guys who realize that the world isn't all about Node and there have been some of these communities who have over time have lost sight of what their main purpose was and wanted to be sort of all things to all people. I think you see with Node, they talk a lot about other projects, a lot of things that integrate in and work well with Node and are important for Node-based apps to work and that's somewhat unique with some of the other communities as they've grown over time. Talk about the validation now. So let's get back into some of your working days within the community. You said you saw Node kind of a rise in the scene, companies are out there talking about some of the validation points. You're an investor, you're well educated, you look at deals, you can sniff out a good deal, you got a good instincts. What jumped out of the screen on you on this whole segment? Obviously it's growing. You can see the social proof as Angelus talks about what's the validation points? You said, hey, this is a winner. Well, first I have to thank you for using investor and educated in the same sense. We don't get that much, we appreciate it. How do we have that in there? So really it happened as I started to spend time with some of the people at Joint who already knew. Brian Cantrell is a VP engineering and I have known each other for years. We sat on a board of a magazine called ACMQ. A lot of smart people sit on that board, all of them smarter than me and a great opportunity for me to kind of hear what's going on, hear what people are talking about. And as we started talking about does this conference make sense, we started to hear stories from guys who were here yesterday. So Emerson, Emerson's a hundred year old company that makes really boring technology you install in homes. But when you step back and look at it and some guys came up to me afterwards and said, so that company could have the largest deployment of node in the world on a device basis in six months. They're literally rearchitecting their systems in node because they've seen the value of what node can do in terms of the efficiency in sensors and in large networks with lots of nodes. And so those types of companies, Ericsson's and other ones here, you see Yahoo, you see eBay, both announcing platforms for developers, heavily based on node. Rackspace who's got some folks here and running around just announced last week some things they're doing around node. So we're just seeing some of these big companies come in and start talking about it publicly and we're hearing about a lot of other companies and since they've never told me this directly, I'll out some of them, Netflix. The first time I went and did a search in Google for node.js, one ad came up and it was an ad from Netflix saying we're hiring node.js engineers. This was 12 months ago. Netflix has done a lot with node internally. They don't, I think, wanna talk about it publicly which is absolutely up to them. Bloomberg has done a lot with node. They've talked about it somewhat publicly. They would love to have been here and if we go to New York for the next event, they said they'll be there. Some Twitter guys are here. I don't think they've got anything out in deployment but I know they're spending a lot of time with this. And frankly, and last night, or yesterday the Google guy didn't really, it was a no comment comment. I've heard from multiple guys over there that they look at node in a number of situations to decide is this a use case for it. So these large companies are adopting it a big way. LinkedIn's been very public about it. It's beyond just hey, I'm hacking it and I'm a little startup in a garage which I'm sure we'll talk about more but it's these big companies validating that this stuff's ready to go. There's a lot more work to do but we're comfortable putting it out and having our customers use it which is pretty compelling. What's your funding thesis as you look at startups out there? Obviously you're seeing a lot of startups here with the node jam day two here at Node Summit which is really all about the startup side of it, kind of a demo day if you will. Jamming on node yesterday was the day one. It was the official kind of the conference. What's your investment thesis around the kinds of dollars you deploy? And I want you to talk about it in two categories. One, the kind of capital you outlay in a series A, series B and then what you see as a duration of the financing. Total capital you might put in. So we're a relatively small firm. We're huge, huge believers in capital efficiency for companies, especially at the early stages. We also are enterprise focused. So historically capital efficiency and enterprise startups didn't necessarily go hand in hand. Node is a perfect example of things that are changing that are making that possible. You can get more done in less time. You spend less money getting there. So we're seeing companies where we can invest today, half a million dollars. So Badgerville is a good example of one of our companies. Half a million dollars. Four months after they launched that company they were generating revenue. They generated more revenue in the first two quarters than they raised in those two quarters. And last year they had just a phenomenal year, raised a big round that Northwest led we came in. So what we like to be able to see is really low capital needs on the front end. And it's an ethos between the entrepreneur who believes in it, the technology they're using that allow it, things like joint where you don't have to buy data center spacing where you can turn up an instance when you want to, you can turn it down when you're turning off when you're done. It allows you to get capital efficiency through a much longer cycle of a startup. We see more progress in a shorter period of time. For the startups there's less dilution and less money at risk. And then as these enterprise startups start to get to where they need scale. They have sales teams, they need to build. They do need to spend more money. They need more capital. So for us, half a million on the front end could be eight, 10 million overall. But the bulk of that money is going to come after these companies have been able to start scaling. And at El Dorado, we've actually been doing a lot lately specific to the enterprise space to build programs to help extend that efficiency through the sales cycle, work with channel sales, work with sales strategy. Because we actually think it's possible to do things like compelling $56 million raised. We think nowadays you can do compelling on potentially as little as half of what it took them from when they started Node 2. That's why you put all the big money in the $85 million round. You got to spend it. Otherwise you're not going to be able to raise another fund. The $85 million round was an interesting one. Well, I'm an entrepreneur. I'm usually capital efficient with Silicon Angle, self-financed it, and growing it internally with no outside capital. And we don't need any more money. We're cash flow positive and growing. And it's exciting. And I can tell you right now that technology will be an enabler to actually scale faster. And one of the exciting things that I see with Node is this new architecture change around IO infrastructure and that now with cloud, this opens up the mobile market for entrepreneurs to actually not only do more with less, because that was the classic cloud store in the web, but actually a person who builds an app doesn't have to be a total network guru engineer. So that gives them so much more head room at the scale point for validation. Meaning the revenue point and market acceptance, which as you know dictates venture investment. It's like the venture capital is the classic. It's like the bank. You get big money when you don't need it and you can't get money when you need it. I don't want to go that hard, but you know how it is. So the point is I can get validation and say, I can have a million users on $150,000 in capital or a half a million dollar around. So that's insane. I'm looking through the bright lights right now. An entrepreneur I know, starting a very interesting company called Swiftstack. I'm sure you won't mind if I out him. But exactly that he does. These guys haven't raised any money. They've closed and deployed a customer already. They're still clearly in beta, but you can get so much more done in less time. And we're seeing it again, it's across the board. The consumer internet companies have done it for years and it's been a great trend. We're seeing the enterprise guys start to figure out good ways to take advantage of it. All the stuff you just outlined on the front end, those are the key drivers that we see. And for us again, we're a small fund. So being able to do these small deals, being able to invest in companies that we only need half a million dollars for 18 months. You know what, fantastic. It doesn't exclude you from our perspective. It actually makes you more attractive. We're just starting a new vertical publication called Bootstrapped Entrepreneurs Only, and it's going to be dedicated to all the people who sell finance. Who can't afford PR, we'll do it for free. We're big fans of the trend. It is, and it's efficiency. Look at Angel List, right? Classic example of efficiency in the capital market. Naval's done such an incredibly fantastic job. And he's here today, which is great. I'm seeing what you really appreciate. But when you really look at what he's done and what his objectives in it were, which are not monetary objectives, it's all about building a community. I've seen in 15 years in venture, I've probably seen 40 different people come in and say, we're going to be the marketplace for startups. We're going to be the place to go. None of them have ever worked. These guys figured it out. Jason said it earlier, I go every day, I checked that site. Jason was saying, it's the one thing he checks in the morning. He unfriended his mom on Facebook, but he checks the whole site. They've just done a fantastic job. It was why we wanted him here. Because they're like everything else. They're all about capital efficiency. They're all about really driving this change.  Like one of my co-organizers of the Nodes Summit. Staying behind the scenes. He's on a roll. So obviously we don't get some valuation numbers. What was Joanne's last round of valuation? It was no comment. It was good, but it was no comment. All right, well, Charles Bieler, great investor, young gun in Silicon Valley, cornering the market, Nodes Summit here, by just having a great presence. Congratulations on putting this event together. Great vision. I know you worked hard.  And Nodes Summit's really an important trend. So congratulations. Thanks, and congrats on DevOps Angle. It's the first big online publication to really see this as the next wave and jump into it. As you know, it's a very different type of conversation than what you see on a lot of the sites, including some of the stuff you guys are driving now. I think it's very timely. And so we were thrilled to have you guys want to come here and be part of it. And launch it here. And I can't think of a better place to do it, or a better guy to do it with. Well, we'll continue to talk to you. Clint Finley will be heading up Ops Dev and DevOps, whatever we're going to call it. This guy should call it DevOps, but it's kind of the industry term. But we're going to cover it like a blanket. It does cross into the enterprise eventually. DevOps now is a developer market. So we do have services Angle, which is pure old school consulting, big consulting business like Accenture, HP, and EMC. And those guys run huge services businesses. It's EDS and those guys, huge, huge business. DevOps is really kind of the emerging model. So very disruptive. Again, I call this category four hurricane. This marketplace we're on node because it's ripping trees down and some building shingles are going off. But it's not a category five yet. No. But it's a four.  And the community, if you talk to these guys, they don't want it to be a category five today. Their biggest fear, as we're having a conversation with one of the core committers to node, they do not want node to be over-hyped. And it's hard to avoid it because it probably is. They don't want it to be all about height. They want it to be about reality. And they would much rather take a slower paced growth effort here. I think they love that this is going on, but I think to some degree a little nervous. That does this expand it to a point where it's ahead of its skis and they're trying to be really careful about that. Which I applaud because it's a long-term approach. You heard Brent and Ike in there earlier talking about JavaScript and some of the things they're doing now. He said, these things don't change quickly. Give it time. Here's what we're working on. Here's what we're doing. And we're seeing the same thing with node, which in the long run will be good for everybody who's starting a company and trying to find a way to be more efficient as they develop things. What do you think about the trending on Twitter? I mean, I was pretty impressive yesterday that node summit was number three globally around this. So obviously there's an online community. We all get what it means to have good IO and HTTP as a first-class citizen in terms of the design side of the systems and apps architecture. Well, first I was blown away. Clearly it shows that, one, you guys have a ton of people watching it from here. There are a lot of people following it just using a hashtag who aren't at the conference itself. There are a few things interesting that happened yesterday that got a lot of attention. Probably the biggest one was Scott Guthrie at Corporate VP of Services and Tools of Microsoft. Phenomenally intelligent guy, very technical. Comes on stage with a Mac. Opens up a Chrome browser and loads a node.js application up into Azure. We sent out a tweet from Modes Summit on that. It had within 20 minutes, we had 45 people retweet it. I mean, there's a lot of interesting things that are happening here that I think have surprised a lot of people in the dev community, Microsoft being one of them. And I think that's helped a lot, but really it just shows it's an interesting topic. It's a fun thing to talk about. It cuts across many layers organically as a community. It's growing very rapidly. It's got some disruption elements in the business side. And obviously the big whale vendors like Microsoft, like HP and EMC and these big guys even like SAP will be impacted by this. So I love it. It's the San Francisco way, but it's not just San Francisco. It's global. We've seen people from New York. We saw some Israel. We saw some UK. We're going to have a UK guy on here. It's just booming. So learn node, check out node summit, pound node summit. But I was going to say it says a lot about Mark Lewis, right? Chief Strategy Officer of EMC at the time we decided this conference would be a good idea. Says a lot that someone in that role at a company like that would be looking at node this early. I know Paul Martz, big believer in node was trying to be here to speak. Steve Herrod came from VMware instead. And there's some people who are paying a lot of attention to it, quietly observing it. But it's not lost on these big guys. And to their credit, they're speaking about it publicly, they're supporting it. And I think it bodes well for the overall community as it continues to grow. Someone just stole my line on Twitter. Node.js is a gateway drug to MongoDB. I wrote node.js is a gateway drug to Hadoop on Monday. Yeah, we've got, you stole my line. One of the Mongo guys is going to, one of the 10 Gen guys is going to be here. We've talked about with next, the future events, really talking about some of the things you plug in around node. And Mongo is obviously one of them. So this is, it goes back to the community thing. It's not just node, it's everything around it. And so far these guys have all really worked on it. I just hope that it just doesn't get mangled up by the big vendor whales trying to put the brakes on it. How it always is with the big vendors. They want to come in and kind of control it. So we're hoping that it continues to be a commercial success at the same time. The development side can pace with that. So congratulations on all your work, Charles Bieler, with Eldorado Venture Capital. One of many VCs here. I saw Insuk Ray from Rembrandt Ventures, another great VC, friend of Silicon Angels. So thank you so much for all your support. And I appreciate it. And again, thanks for being here. Be back in five.


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