Well, good morning and good afternoon to those watching online and welcome Welcome to this event entitled Libya General Elections 2021 discussion series with Libyan leaders This event is in both English and Arabic on the event page Please choose the player which works best for you And this is being live streamed and recorded. I Am Michael Yaffe. I'm the vice president for the Middle East North Africa Center here at the United States Institute of Peace And for those of you who have been here to US IP before welcome back And for those of you who are new to US IP welcome and permit me to say just a few brief words about the Institute US IP was created by an act of Congress in 1984 to serve as an independent non-partisan institution dedicated to peace building Particularly with the prevention the mitigation and resolution of violent conflict We conduct research convening and working conflict zones around the world with a field presence of 16 in 16 countries and US IP has been working in Libya since 2012 Where we conduct research for informing policymakers and practitioners about conflict related issues and help build a local peace infrastructure By strengthening the capacity of key stakeholders like women and youth in institutions like the Ministry of Justice US IP recently began a project with funding from the US State Department To increase election security by working with the Ministry of Interior to strengthen the police's ability to partner and problem solve with local communities In light of the upcoming election set to begin next month Today's event is a timely conversation with Fidel Lameen founder and lead member of the Afaa Awata political party This event is the second in a series of moderated discussions US IP is hosting to provide a Neutral platform for Libyans seeking to play a critical role Including high office and a future permanent government These are not just any elections They will provide Libyans with an opportunity to have their say in the representation Including the first elected president of Libya And elections of course are just the beginning of the journey to set Libyan a path to deal with real issues of governance and Sovereignty's issues like the presence of mercenaries in the country farm meddling Institutional disunity minority inclusion Transitional justice and other and other questions that need to be decided by a representative government In the spirit of fostering dialogue the leaders we host will have several minutes to give opening remarks After which I will ask them questions in order to explicate their positions and their views. I Will try to ask the same questions of all speakers in this discussion series So people who can hear and compare their unique responses After I finish asking questions, I will then turn to the audience members for their questions To the audience here it in person at US IP headquarters welcome And I encourage you to please raise your hands to pose questions to mr. Lameen when we get to that portion of the program To those watching online You can send questions through Twitter at hashtag Libya elections US IP We will try to get to as many questions as possible Now I am pleased to introduce mr. Fada Lameen Mr. Lameen is the founder and lead member of the Faka Walton This is a new political party with an agenda aimed at building the Libyan Democratic straight state Through empowerment of youth and women as a critical element of peace built as a peaceful and prosper prosperous Libya It is he is the former director general of the national election and social development board Which is an official institution of the Libyan prime minister prime ministry? He now serves as senior technical advisor to the board He was also a coordinator of the independent group of the UN led Ashkarite Libyan political dialogue and the any architects of the Libyan political agreement that currently that the current government of Libya Trans that have for life with the transition under UN Security Council resolutions Mr. Lameen led a diverse Libyan team to develop the groundbreaking project Libya peace and prosperity a 15-year integrated economic plan to develop the country He chairs the national dialogue preparatory commission in Libya to foster inter Libya dialogue He worked as a member of the team assigned by the prime minister to review and implement government economic policy And previously mr. Lameen mr. Lameen worked in Washington DC in various capacities Including as a non-resident fellow of the Atlantic Council Sharing his expertise on democratic transitions countering violent extremism and regional economic integration With that, let me turn the floor over to mr. Lameen and we look forward to your opening remarks. Thank you Thank you very much Much appreciated. Thank you to the US IP. Thank you for the invite and for making this platform available for us to to interact Regarding Libya and also to highlight how important the situation in Libya is not just to Libyans, but also to the To the international community, I think we are looking at Libya right now from a very different Perspective, it's not Libya the oil rich country, which is not that rich anyway as many people think it is but Libya is very important from the geopolitical point of view to the region and to the Globally as we see shifts in the international Global world order as we may call it so Libya is a very important piece of this this puzzle that We have to make sure that it's stable secure and prosperous in order to help its own people our people and also to To be able to be a center for stability for the for the region and at the global level so I do thank you for Making this form available. I think it's it's a great opportunity for for us To think across border lines about what we share and the concerns Elections as everybody talks about elections elections are usually tools means to to Not to change government but to enable people to participate publicly and and the Affairs of their own country and decide their leaders, but sometimes they become a transitional goal in themselves once you tried so many Difficult ways in order to bring Legitimacy and stability But you fail Then you have to to Make the transition Not through dialogue, but only but to to to move forward to give the general public an ability to to determine Their destiny and the way forward and I think in normal circumstances elections and and transitions they don't Usually jive well because elections usually there is a winner and a loser and post-conflict has you know, you want to try to find Some kind of a common ground But sometimes as an in the case of Libya since 2011 we have seen that we have went through processes of the First TNC the transitional council when it appoints two Prime Ministers executive bodies in 2011 and 2012 early late 2011 early 2012 then that led to an election that election provided Legislative body a hyper body legislative and and and and more for Executive in a sense it has mixed powers also that also resulted in in some kind of of a government that came out of of that That body there and GNC at that time and that GNC You know provided the two prior to Prime Ministers one in 2012 one in 2013 the end of 2013 early 2014 when the first Prime Minister and After the election was was sacked that led to a war Then the international community came and and And we engaged in in the ashrat agreement to stop the the conflict the civil war and The UN process appointed through Dialogue a Prime Minister of Mr. Saraj came to be The the dialogue was supposed to create a government of national accord But once the Libyan sign that agreement They end up not abiding by it. So the agreement and fail in implementation That failure led to continuous division so became a government, but it's not of a national accord It's not of a national sort of accord the division would to kind of to government continue to be And what I'm trying to say why are we here for election? that After a while the conflict continue led to several scrumptious here and there led to the 2019 invasion of Tripoli With the presence of of foreign troops mercenaries the conflict got worst from Libyan Libyan Conflict to an international Nationalized conflict with the Russians the mercenary the Turks the mercenaries from different countries That was devastating conflict That also led nowhere but Devastation and loss of lives the United Nations also stepped in to create a Process that's called the Geneva process this Geneva process was supposed to develop a road map it Developed the road map part of the road map to come with a government of national unity One of its tasks to to To lead to an election To create the needed legitimacy as all the bodies in Libya that are right now in conflict none of them has any kind of Real legitimacy they're all expired body in terms of the one that were elected at one time or another others they created their own presence through sheer force or or via other Influential processes within the region be it regional or tribal The conflict the armed conflict stops G&G and you was developed it is struggling to become Government of national unity so that national didn't work the unity did not work and And that speaks to the importance of the road map that we have right now, which is a Process that's supposed to lead to a national election this case. It was important for us to have A government that is Elected by the Libyan people That's the only option that was left after all options national options UN processes options all of these things fail in many ways There was a lot of international interference as well regional international interference that also had its Its impact and casted its shadows on the Libyan situation in this case In my view what we have I've been for a while Advocating is what I called a reset We need a total reset of the scene. There are so many bodies are sitting there None wants to leave Except the other leave at the same time so either they all leave or they all stay so it's all or nothing and Who would be the best judge to decide on this except the Libyan people? I think we have tried in the last ten years so many different ways of finding a way out of this conflict finding You know a light at the end of the tunnel processes by Libyan themselves processes by Libyan institutions and and also processes through the United Nations Mediation unfortunately Those processes did not succeed I think The only processes we have not tried yet is to have the Libyan people Decide directly one man one vote And one woman one vote one person one vote one citizen one vote for them to decide their own future We should not be fearful of of the Libyan choice We should not undermine it. We should give it a chance because I think it will create the need legitimacy That will carry us The election is not a is not a goal in itself at the end of the day. We still need to evolve and Go through that transition in order to have a constitution in order to have a Reconciliation and all the process to build the state, but election is is is a very important stop you know for For us to create the legitimacy that is needed In order for the Libyans to recognize And decide what their leaders are about at the same time for the international community To to understand that there is an elected legitimate Libyan leadership that they can deal with and That will lead eventually with the power that was installed To this elected Executive body and is this later body for them to call for the secession of the international intervention at the same time for for the mercenaries and other Forces to to leave leave the country and to create the needed process to move forward Libyans We've been suffering through Three difficult things number one There is a continuous a state of fear among the stakeholders in Libya That fear have generated some some of this fear is is genuine some fear this fear is Imaginary, but nonetheless it's a there is an atmosphere of fear who will take what will do what to the other Who will take revenge who will try to cast away the other? forces the lack of of of Comfort the other thing is is is a lack of confidence. There is no confidence Among the Libyan that fear will lead to the absence of confidence and we have to work on that and I remember the ashrat agreement and the In the preamble of the agreement Measures of building cover confidence measures where stated very well, unfortunately or never implemented The third thing is lack of the common platform Since these two are the the driving forces In in the interaction in Libya it created It never gave the opportunity for the For the stakeholders to think about what it what's what's common. What do they have in common? so building in Bridges and and and common ground that will lead to To think in that sense those who are fearful or opposing to election Because of of the fear of the future they would love to have the status quo as long as possible Because they fear a feel that they have some presence some influence as long as change come They don't have any guarantees. They don't see themselves in the future as they should because of the two First thing fear and lack of confidence that led to lack of common Platform that can lead them together to the future that's feeling of exclusionary feeling that continues to to evolve that also led to each party which stakeholder is Seeking help and support from an international Or foreign forces or entities and became clientile processes where Where everybody is somehow hooked to Regional or international You know interests at the same time and that complicated the situation Libya is is is is very important and I think Even the international players all over The world I think Libya is essential Geographical location the Mediterranean issues being in North Africa being part of the Middle East somehow being the gateway to Africa these are very important elements and And the international You know the countries that are Engaged in Libya, I will love them to have an economic competition rather than Having Libya as as a battleground I think we will be welcoming them, you know bringing their investment bringing their expertise partnering with the with the Libyan people Libya can Include all these opportunities so I Would I would call for those who are afraid of the election not to be fearful of the will of the Libyan people I think We should have that kind of trust or respect that they will make the right decision But at the same time you want to make sure that everybody gets a chance to be engaged in this process I'm totally against preconditions that will exclude People from the process we need as much Wider ownership of the election process We need to get everybody get a fair chance at a shot at this process and let Libyan people through election be the judge Pre-conditions will lead to narrowing the the field and deciding on the behalf of the people who should be and who should not and this is somehow It's undermining the rights of the European people to decide who they want Let's have a process. Let's have a clean process as much as possible It's not going to be the the the best and the cleanest the ideal but You know we should not let Perfect be the enemy of the of the good. Thank you Great. Thank you for those very rich opening remarks. It's a lot to build on and number of questions come to my mind right away but but let's talk let's stick with elections for the moment and Since you raised some several Issues there including that there are some who are fearful of elections have a stake in The current status quo But so what is your overall assessment whether or not elections will actually happen on time scheduled for next month? for the presidential elections and then Parliamentary elections to happen soon thereafter. So how do you see it? Do you think it's definitely going to happen? I? Think so it's we are beyond the point of if it's going to happen or not the question is how Terms of timeline in terms of the processes themselves People who oppose the elections spend so much time and effort some of them are a genuine concern some of them are hyped Execuses Mainly I Would love to have seen those who have serious concerns address these concerns have a conversation and try to mitigate these concerns and fears instead of of making them as Big as possible hype them to the level to the point then come to the today to the point You said therefore there should be no election. This is not the way things work. We We we have problems. We solve problems. We have concerns. We deal with concerns We have issues we work through our issues, and I think that's the way it should be and I think the sooner they realize that is The only thing that can unite the Libyan people or any people in the is when they look to the future Not look to the their current divisions the future can unite people you cannot change the past You can work through the present to develop a better future. So it will happen We have to work through the process the United Nation Should have been more engaged in Libya in terms of the the mission in Libya in mediating Mitigating this these issues and difficulty and they have done some and I think they could have done more but also it falls into the shoulders of the of the Libyan people to to work with themselves and being positive in in in working through the process at the end of the day we want to save a country that is Continuing to to suffer greatly for the last 10 years Great. Thanks. So my understanding is that the registration process for the election is still being finalized But that said let me be forthright and ask you if it does become finalized Are you will you be running for president of the country? Will you want to be the first elected president of Libya? well, I'm to me The goal is is not who should be empowered the goal is to make sure that ultimately We get where we need to be So getting the Libyans to cast their votes to to make choices to have as many choices as as possible Not to narrow their their field to the point that becomes To create apathy toward election and I think that we can do that very easy because this guy's not this guy's this No, no this notice. So who do you want? Oh? Choose me. It doesn't work though or soon nobody lets us stay I mean, I I heard one gentleman at one time said the best System for Libya is a fragmented system. I don't know what is fragmented system means if you need to state Or you don't need a state fragmented system where everybody have a little bit of influence and power Fragmentally and there is no state. It doesn't work this way I'm I'm thinking about it. I'm looking at it as this possibility and I think It's not To get to power and what are you gonna do with it once you get there? And I think there are a lot of things that we we need to to consider The first day in office Would you just say hey what we're gonna do next or do you have a plan? There are too many things we have to work on the reconciliation process. We have to put the house in order We have to look at the economic situation. We have to look at the dire economic Status in Libya, it's not as as good as so many people think we have to think about these mercenaries We have to think about our relations with so these too many countries and You know sort these things out We have to bring the basic services that make the stable economic Social we have to think about the education that is collapsing We have to think about health care and health system is is undermined The basic services also It's not about just pumping money into people's hands I think it's because that can raise inflation and devalue the the Libyan currency so Anybody who can tackle and think and has a good team that tackle should be should consider it I'm still considering and Somebody can do it better than me. I'll vote for them Well, let's let's go down this line though. Let's say that you do run and you do become elected You would be the first president of elected president of Libya, which carries a lot of Importance to that a lot of significance Could you just give us some sense of your kind of philosophy of leadership? And and vision that comes with that. How would you lead? I think anybody who would takes over and in this kind of circumstances They have to they have to have a deep understanding of the of the status of the Libyan situation Not just the economic side and not just the political fragmentation not just the the the presence of so many forum forces in Libya Libya has became a point of place of conflict They have to understand the the the level of Importance and complexity of the geopolitical place in Libya. You have six neighbors You try to calm three three others will be unhappy you get to five the six one will be by the time we get to the six year the the the first one will be having issues So it's not easy and and the the goal is to build a state And not not a regime not a system only building a state means Inspiring the people creating citizenship Providing the basic services making sure that people have have the level of of of You know Good living which is they have to have a good economic system good Health system good educational system good services. So they become at least Capable of participating in at a higher level if you think of your basic needs all the time Which is how that's how Libya was for the last 50 years I think people become very pathetic into a process and they became dependent and then you need a smaller Government you don't need a big government you have to empower younger people and women and and To to become pioneers in and not in the work of government, but to in the old Ernie areas of life economic development. They have to have the chances there to to build their own careers The government should be a supporting factor not an employer having almost Over to build a million people working for the government in Libya is it's crazy and and people do that Because they don't have an opportunity to work anywhere else and government unfortunately all these government they create Companies so government owned companies and institution that they own so that Instead of providing the assistance for the private citizens So the conglomerates to work on on their own and develop the economic side by themselves. So Government owned companies. It's it's ridiculous in me because to me. I think in a sense that What you do is is you create that continuous state of dependency on the state so and that will make it difficult for the citizens to to be able to Have an oversight or The government to be accountable to the state what makes people accountable and The government accountant to the people is when people pay taxes and And the government becomes an employee of the Libyan people not the other way around So that kind of dynamics need to change We have to create a common Sense of purpose common platform We have to evolve the slowly but maturely as a Libyan people Everybody should be involved. We have to carry everybody Carrying few and living the others the others will make sure that you are not going to go anywhere so it's it's a monumental task honestly and it has to be done by Bringing people together. You have to have them. You might disagree with them, but you have to have them at the table Exclusionary processes will never work If I could continue along this theme you talk about Fragmentation as a concern and unity a process you just talked about I was wondering if you could talk about this issue of How do you how do you do you as a leader bring unity? What are the symbols that you would want to bring forth to to create this greater unity? How would you deal with? Tribes which have been felt marginalized Particularly in the south how do you bring unity from east and west? How do you also deal with the issue of a government which has tended to be centralized and triply and yet allow for power to be Decentralized into the into provinces so a lot of different balancing acts and so this issue of how basically do you? Unify the Libyan people Well, I you know what I I always think of Libya when when you see it from the outside and You you have We have a doctor here. We have so many superficial wounds They are not deep, but there are many so they bleed the body is bleeding all over the place But these this bleeding is not is not it's not very deep But when somebody has you know keeps scratching himself or herself Harshly I think You have to treat that There are so many issues, but at the same time those issues are not very deep rooted issues I am from half from the east half from the west. I was born in Benghazi I live in Tripoli my father from the west my mom from the east to me. There's no east and west, you know Others who don't understand that when when there is there may be some regional, you know difference in terms of traditions and cultures and The way that people think about things and that's enriching that shouldn't be something that we have to do well on in a negative way I think The failure in creating a Libyan identity for the last 50 years I think that was something that it has to be addressed What unites Libya? They are Libyans and and and that sense for a long time we have we had a regime not a state in a sense that The regimes identified with with the people with with individuals Libyan system evolved from Federalized system under the king to Central system afterwards to a system that I don't know how to prescribe it but a regime controls the state the absence of that created so much fragmentation and Bringing those people together you have to you have to unite them about a citizenship to a state to a country that they they They belong to and they They want to build and they see a future for themselves and their kids and their grandkids We want to stay well and unify Libya for the next for the next Hundreds of years not for every five fifty years or hundred years. We have to you know Rebuild again or Find ways to deconstruct and and rebuild each time that's not how you build countries that That's not how we build society. So there are many things. What should be the system? That people should Enjoy living with We should we should consider it. We should consider the federal system. There is nothing wrong with the federal system probably a federal system in Libya will not be a three typical Regions as historical as they used to be because each region has its own Configuration within itself the triple attenian region. It has a four or five region The eastern region has at least four regions within itself The south the same unfortunately the south has been neglected Continuously for a long time most of the people in the south moved to Tripoli now Tripoli is a city The capital should host no more than a million million and a half now. It has almost three million people Because lack of service left of security in the and the south The south is is is is a very very important region We have to stabilize The presence of Libyans of citizens in the south we have to provide opportunity Because that's how you you you create there are so many opportunities that you can we can develop in the southern part of Libya There has to be an investment there has always been Promises of investment of billion of dinars and and so on but never Developed never came to fruition promises don't solve problems actions do and I think Libya needs needs needs more people and and and and it has to accommodate Working people from other countries we have to think about how this can be brought Needs and need help in that sense and and this has to be done through a Illegal system and and a system that will provide us the opportunity to to take the best brains and take the best possible Help that we can get We have to make sure that we have Clear arrangement and agreement for our security with the neighbors especially in the south the threat of of terrorism the threat of illegal immigration in terms of Human trafficking is is is very big issue. It's a it's a shameful Thing that we have in Libya right now, and it should be addressed very seriously You you touched on a number of points and questions and answering questions that I wanted to ask But I'm very keen in making sure we're keeping with time here But let me just finish with this issue of unity and you raise this issue of the past and the history Libya And so it raises the question of transitional justice This notion of how do you deal with what has occurred in the past without Relitigating it and there are those that basically say there should be a general amnesty For those who committed human right violations And then there are those who say no there should be some type of process where victims can Address their abusers. How do you view this issue of dealing with the past and transitional justice? Well, I think it's very it's very important. It's very it's very delicate at the same time I think you are between one to the administer justice as much as as you can and and also in terms of building a state the state cannot be built the revenge and Vengeance no matter what happened. I've been you know, I oppose Qadhafi for four years and years and I Wasn't happy at all. I deplored the way he was he his life was ended And and I think we have to Be cognizant if we are calling for a better Behavior we should be the first to to apply that There is a difference between Addressing issues related to transitional justice And at the same time being very cognizant of the important at the end of the day over the greater goal of building a state that's why Tools like the isolation law that was Implemented in 2012 that was a very bad idea and I think we've seen the impact of that in in Syria and in Iraq The You have to balance between making sure that what happened never happened again and Making sure that you don't become subject You don't become hostage to the To to these processes that will blind you to the point that you don't see what you're trying to To to build in the future because otherwise you become so Entrenched and so much in the chains of of of the moment of the present or the past Which is worse even than the present Balancing these things are very important the responsibility of statesmen is to build the state Responsibility of the institutions is to provide justice to the individuals at the same time You know There are ways of reconciliation that should be should be used and we are not going to reinvent the wheel At the same time if individuals feel that they can address their concerns and their Their grievances three through the legal system They should have the right to do so Number one for for those who Have committed these acts they have to understand that they are They are responsible but at the same time More important at the level of the state level and the future level is to make sure that Whoever thinks about something like this in the future. They will understand that will be consequences for those It's a preventative measure that we have to think about We encourage people to to forgive and forget for the benefit of their Of their children and grandchildren because as I said vindictiveness is not going to help anybody We encourage the state at the same time to provide some measure that mitigates some of the of these issues So they can be funds for that for for these kind of Of things but at the same time We have to have a legal system that is functioning that can look at these things and provide we don't have it so we we cannot put the The the current Carriage in front of the horse as I say we have to make sure that the We have our our priority to sit in an order which is to build a state to have a legal system to have a System that can provide justice at the same time So people sometimes they have to be a little bit patient. It's nothing is instantaneous as we think Who sits the priority? What should be now justice or now? Reconciliation these are very important questions now building a state or now just carrying a war so whoever is going to win first These are the sitting this kind of tones and priority is the one of the responsibility of the leadership and and you have to convince people of that Being mindful of the time here I have a whole bunch of other questions, but I want to open the question to the people in the audience first I'll take one question from the people here, and then I'll Kind of ask a question from people who have asked questions online So please Thank you very much. Mr. Lameen for your excellent insights and thanks for US IP a quick question While we all agree that the elections is the best thing coming up in Libya To get Libya moving forward I am quite concerned about the imperfections or the challenges that are ahead And I wanted to get your perspective on how are we going to manage some of those at least in a broader picture? We are dealing with a constitutional basis that has yet to be Finally defined it does impact, you know how the system of governors may be especially that we're conducting both a presidential and a parliamentarian election Do we have some? Framework that we think is going to be able to deliver that We have the concern of the threat and security of participation and ensuring that these are transparent elections Do we have a good sense of Are we going to be able to manage that especially in light of the fact that this is only a few weeks ago from now? and then generally we we we have Potential breakouts from an imperfect election so even though we want to make it happen We don't want it to become the recipe for potential division or potential war in the future. How do we grapple with all these? Thank you Thank you. Um, I think it's These are the questions. These are the issues that we should have a conversation about instead of Targeting the whole idea of election and make sure that will never happen because if you kill the idea You don't have to deal with the with the difficulties that That comes with it. So people usually they go for the easy thing kill the damn thing So get rid of it and and because we do have we don't so we can go home and and and Watch TV or play cards Of course, that's not the case These are issues. These are serious issues and and as far as the The constitutional base, I think there are constitutional base I disagree with people who keep talking about it not defining it. What is the constitutional base? It's an election law. We have elections before so we are not starting from scratch This is this election law that we have in 2012. We have to amend it a little bit in 2014 can it carry us it carried out us out in a couple of times and get us some result for all these people whom An institution that they believe that they are legitimate and they continue to cling to legitimacy after they expired Well, we can we can we can use this and we amend it. There was there has been a pathway By the HOR and the state council to come together and do that They have been coming together and failing to do that. I question their sincerity most of the time and getting serious about Going away being reset it That's a it is there is a conflict of interest inherited in this process So I think we do have enough to start with The election the election law that was passed by the HOR It's it's a good start. I'm not saying it's perfect probably They need to vote in it to make sure that it's it's voted on and and and and made sure that it will be You know protected from many Litigation legal litigation as many as possible. It doesn't mean that there will no be be no legal Litigations it should be and and it's okay. It should be addressed at that level It's not going to be a perfect election. I have never seen Perfect election. I think people in the United States that have seen election and Bush versus Al Gore before we've seen the one recently Of course, there is a that we have a there is an election in in in Iraq. That's not a perfect election There are militias there. There are so many and has to shabi and others who I mean they came from war There is Iran there is all these guys, but there was an election election is it's it brings you closer It sits you one step further into a process of stabilization. So we have to see it this way It's not the the ultimate goal. Whoever sits in will will never let's make sure people who complain about there is no Constitution in Libya. We have seen a Constitution that is molded by In such a way probably will be trapped so much in Tunisia. We've seen the civil you know Servant who became present To cover the whole process and suspended the Constitution so there is no Full guarantee of anything. I think We have to work through the difficulty. We have to have conversation negotiation Dialogue name it where you want to name it, but we have to bring all the people as I said who have concerns to discuss this concerns to have them Invest in this process to see that they can be part of the future of this process To to make sure that they feel they will not be targeted by the outcome of this process. These are things that are not going to be Guaranteed via constitutional Process or or or or or just a law? I think these are human interaction. They have to take a place. I Think we have enough to do it difficulties. Yes impossible. No We have also to think about what what if election doesn't happen? I think I can guarantee you division war and all the other Dissemination of a bad agent a bad outcome. So sometimes you take the The whatever is least it has the least worst consequences if I can say that thank you So I want to turn to some the to an online question that we receive we received a number of questions just for your Knowledge and to acknowledge that about the election itself the questions range from what happens if Someone doesn't accept the outcome of the election You know to what happens if safe Gaddafi wins the election if Haftar wins the election Well, you know asking all sorts of questions about what how do you see the consequences of all that? But I'm gonna I think you answered some of these questions just now But so I want to turn to another set of questions. We got which concerns more foreign affairs And these range from the questions of how do you expedite the withdrawal of foreign fighters? What is the plan to address Russians expanding presence in Libya And Russia look role as a kingmaker You know how does foreign mercenaries Complicate the peace process in Libya. What are the plans again for the removal? What is needed from the United States to support Libya stabilization and strengthening? Libya what can be what can the Europeans do? What can Libya's immediate neighbors do so there's a bunch of questions here really about foreign affairs So if you could try to address all those And one swoop that'd be great. Thanks. Sure Thanks, I think Let's start with the With who can have the credibility to call For the withdrawal of these mercenaries and foreign troops in Libya, of course There is a mix of troops and and mercenary Libya. I believe and I think Only a legitimate Directly elected president can do that has the legitimacy Because he has the voice of the Libyan people Everybody else we've seen right now As as the different stakeholders everybody each one has a stake in one side or another one side has close relationship with the With the Russians and and and the other mercenary the others had has close relationship with the Turks and the other side Russia claims that she they came in via the HR's Mandate The the Turks come came through the GNU G&A Request so each one has a claim and we we cannot We can argue this forever and it will not work And everybody wants to stay in the absence of breakthrough I think the status quo will continue and to to to continue to get worse not better And in that sense elections very very important And to in order to address the whole issue of foreign presence in Libya And I think it has a voice it will be a process it's not going to be overnight There would have to be a negotiation of course those forces are not going to withdraw because you asked him to withdraw You have to provide a lot of I don't want to call it in sentence But things to that extent the carrot and the stick at the same time Probably Libyan people If things get worse, I think probably will will will defend their own homeland if they need to there is no doubt about it, but We don't want it to get to that point. I think there will be a lot of ways and opportunities for the for the elected leadership to negotiate and And and do have offer. We need we need cooperation from all sides Libya can offer an opportunity to all sides to to participate and become a partner instead of An adversary in terms of the internationals I think I I Like and I appreciate the fact that the United Nations in the United States has been consistent In its message regarding the election, I think they have seen the the the outcome of the processes in the last ten years or so and The issue of Libyan stability is is is very very very important Not just to Libya, but to the region. We've seen the impact when Libya got into engulfed into a conflict and and chaos arms from Libya Reached so many different countries. You cannot imagine, you know in years And and very far away in the last few years So that consistent message is a stable Libya and And we have to give the people that a chance to decide for their own leadership and we need an elected leader that can You know lead the country and lead the process towards stability somebody that the world can deal with Who has the the voice of the of the Libyan people and it's I think it's very important for the other countries I think There are interests in Libya Libya is a neighbor Libya is an influencer Libya is influenced These should be it should not fear from an elected process Dealing with a legitimate elected leader is much better than the dealing with a bunch of self-interested groups who are somehow hooked to Other foreign actors in one way or another they sometimes they talk on their own behalf sometimes talk on behalf of somebody else This fragmentation is not effective and it doesn't It's not helpful for the neighbors. It's not helpful for our for for Africa. It's not helpful for the Mediterranean as we see Opportunity, I think we can we can do better with with partnership instead of conflicting interests in Libya Great, well, thank you That hour went by really quickly I have to admit and we didn't get a chance to come to all the questions I would have liked to ask and I'm sure from our members of our audience as well I hope that you can talk with them as we come to the end of this program And I'm sure there are more questions from people who are watching and sending them online But we are at the end of this hour and I want to thank you so much for this Opportunity to hear your views You were very comprehensive in addressing a whole bunch of issues as well So you answered I think a lot of questions along the way, too. So on behalf of US IP again, thank you so much And thank you to Robert Barron to Nate Wilson to Ezra who helped put this together to our interpreter Nabil These are all very useful and I have mentioned this is a series of discussions that we're having with Libyan leaders So I hope people would tune in for the next time we come together with another leader and again Thank you. We wish you all the best. Thank you very much. Thank you Appreciate it and I enjoyed it and thanks for for your For hosting it and and thanks for the audience who came and participated and for all those who address the questions I'm sorry if I couldn't get the chance to address the other question. I hope my answers to the To some questions Delft with some of their concerns. Thanks very much Thank you. Thank you


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Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebrakes.com here doing 2019-20-50 prison retail one-pack break number 266 random team edition, where we're giving away three spots in the Mamba Mixer at the end of the break. The way this works, one pack break, prison retail, randomized list teams, customers, break the pack. At the end of the break, we'll take all 30 names, randomize them, top three customers, and the randomizer will win a spot in the Mamba Mixer. So there you go. Here is our list of customers from Oliver Soria, first spot purchased, all the way down to Nick Stover, last spot Mojo times four, and the teams from the Washington Wizards back up to the Atlanta Hawks. Dice World randomized both lists, combo them up five and a six eleven times. Eleventh and final time from Jay Goans down to Takume Abe, eleven times on the randomizer, eleven times on the dice. Now, let's do it on the teams. Eleventh and final time. Trailblazers down to the Houston Rockets. Okay, so we're not gonna go through all the names on here, but we'll look at some highlights like the Pelicans and Narek, chances at Zion, Heat, Tyler Hero, Nick Stover, Grizzly's, John Morant, Martin Close, Nick's, RJ Barrett, Jay Goans. There you go. All on camera. Did you check in your car? So let's print this out. Here's our pack. Joe called a silver John Morant in here, which would make Martin very happy. Well, right on top, Kelvin Johnson. He's playing pretty exceptional right now for the Spurs. San Antonio Spurs, Takume Abe. Nice. Kelvin Johnson rookie there for you, Takume. In my car. It was? Yep. Told ya. Here's the silver, Clyde Drexler, and it's bam out of fire. Not bad. Miami Heat, that's going to Nick Stover. I pulled a silver out of a filler pack. I pulled a Zion silver. I know you did. Like three, four weeks ago. Something like that. It was a glorious moment. There you go. So that's, see it. That's the single pack break. Now let's kick back over to the randomizer and give away those three spots. So here's the original list from Nick Stover, last spot mojo back up to Oliver Soria. Dice roll. Two and a three, five times. One, two, three, and fifth and final time. So five times, five times. From spots four down to 30, thank you guys very much for getting in on the break and hopefully I can do better for you next time. There are going to be more fillers. Next one is in the store already, but special congratulations. Two, Takumi Abe, Jay Gohans, and Nick Stover. There you go guys. You three just won spots in the Mamba Mixer. And there you go. That was 2019-2020 Panini Prism Retail One Pack Break, random team number 266 from jaspyscasebreaks.com. I'm Sean, jaspyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for hanging out. I'll see you next time.


Welcome to gamify your remote classroom and today we're going to be looking at quizzes and quiz lit. I hope that's what everybody's here for. Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I'm retired, I'm president of Contissol and I'm a technology enthusiast. And today I'm going to show you just two ways to gamify your classroom remotely with quizzes and quiz lit. And we're going to start off with quizzes. Now I have taken screenshots of all the screens for you so that when you get an account you'll know exactly what you're going to be seeing. So with quizzes the most important thing to remember is how to spell quizzes. And that otherwise you will get a site that you don't want to get. So take a note of the way the word is spelled. It's Q, U, I, Z, I, Z, Z. And that will be the most important thing to remember. So when you first go to quizzes, if it's your first time, you will see a screen like this. If you already have an account you can go to the upper right corner and click on login. But if you don't have an account you're either going to want to hear start for free or click in the upper right here is in the middle or click in the upper right corner where it says sign up for your first time. And one thing that I really love about quizzes is that there is no paid version. This is completely free and you cannot pay for it, even if you want to. So make sure that you for the first time you're going to sign up or start for free. And after that, you will log in. Okay, so when you sign up for the first time, like I love Google, and I don't like to remember a lot of passwords. So if it allows me to sign up with Google, I sign up with Google. That way you don't have to remember any password. And you don't have to remember which name you used. It's always Google, when possible. The next screen that you'll see and this is when you're signing on for the first time is that you'll have three buttons here, the one on the left says as a teacher, the one in the middle says as a student. And the last one says at a business or nonprofit of course you're going to choose teacher. I don't right now encourage you to have your students sign up with quizzes you don't need them to sign up in order to play your quizzes. So you can also sign up as a parent or other, just in case you are not a teacher or school administrator. Okay, if you use your Google email you will not need to do all of this but if you don't use your Google email you will need to put in all your account details. If you decide on a password, please write it down so that you don't forget. And then at the bottom of the screen you will click on continue. It's going to ask you to select your organization. You can so I live in Pismo Beach, and so San Luis Obispo County is my county so a lot of the schools that come up for me are in San Luis Obispo County, but I don't teach there. So you can search for your organization by name, or this is what I do at the bottom of the screen here in purple. You see, can't find your organization added here so if you can't find your school, or if you're not in a school, you can just add it there. Okay, so now that you've gotten in now I understand we want to see the word adult education there and it's not and I think we will get adult education there at some point if more adult educators log on and say that they want that. So what I do for now since I'm not teaching, I'm doing professional development, but if you're an adult ed teacher you could do university educator because universities do teach adults. So I'm sorry about that, but we still have a lot of work to do in in proactiveness for our group of people that we are that we need to be there as well. So at the bottom in purple, you'll see there's a done button at the bottom of the screen click on the bottom of the screen for the done button, and you will then get to the next slide. Okay, so I picked professional development. And the reason they ask you this information is because it's going to automatically look for stuff that fits your category. So when I get to my first quizzes screen, it's going to look like this for professional development, but you don't need to use any of the quizzes that show up here because you can, you can search for a quiz. So let's go through what's on the screen because there's a lot of text and some of it might be pretty small. So along your content is in the center here, and I'm my featured content is either mathematics or educator professional development.  You'll see create a new quiz. Find a quiz. My quizzes reports classes collections and memes settings and log out. My favorite feature here is find a quiz. It allows you to search for a quiz on any topic and you can even search your book and find quizzes that teachers have already made. So I did a little search myself. And so I don't know if you all know that I wrote I co hosted a series called project success. And there are people who have made sets of materials for project success. Here I took up ventures you can see there's a lot of stuff and ventures. Yes Donna this is the game of iotan trading. And then stand out I did stand out but any book you're using you can actually search for the book in the game in quizzes and you will find games that are already made that you can tweak so you don't have to. You don't have to start from the beginning. Okay, so once you click on a let's say you wanted to click on taking a stand chapter 18. I did Google apps. You'll see this information here. So I can see in the middle of the screen that there are 10 questions here. I can edit or delete any questions by clicking on the edit button on the top right of the screen. If I click on the edit button I can make changes to this. I can delete questions. I can change the time right now except for 30 seconds but you can change the time. And you can assign it for homework or you can play it live now. And you also you can practice yourself but unless you have an account you wouldn't be doing that. I want to say that the assignment for homework is really fantastic because you can send it out to your students and they can play it before they come to class. You can play it after they're finished with class and you can see their improvement that way. You can also play it live if you want but I think in the world that we now live in assigning it for homework is really great and it gives them a leaderboard so when they play the game they'll see where are they fit on the leaderboard. And if they like where they are they'll stay but if they want to be number one they might play the game more than one time. So let's go to the next slide. You can change how, so here I went and I clicked on the edit button and now you can see that there's an edit button for each question, edit question number one, edit question number two, edit question number three. The red are the wrong answers and the green are the right answers. Yes, Barbara this is, I wouldn't make the quiz on the smartphone but it's easy to play it and you'll be trying this out on your own phone to see how easy it is. But you can use it on phones. So you can edit the amount of time that they have. I can't remember exactly all the different seconds there are but I think there's up to a minute or so. And you can also copy. So let's say you have a question that's similar on both of them. You can copy the question and just change the answer. So you can copy. That's this on the top right next to edit is copy. You can add new questions if you want. And you can teleport now teleports really cool. When you click on teleport, you get quizzes is intelligent smart software. It will know that you're doing Google apps here and it will look through all of its documentation to find all the questions about Google apps and will display it for you and you can just click on a question and it automatically comes into your test. So it's really cool. Oh, sorry. I just zoomed away. Okay, so teleporting is really cool. I encourage you to try that.  That's what I would do on that question. Okay, I probably should tell you he wants to know what to do about adult and which we covered already so. Okay. So let's go on. Don't want that. So once you have edited your questions the way you want to, you're ready for to start sending out the test, but before you send it out, there's a lot of settings you need to know about. So before I go on somebody wants to know if I can elaborate on teleport. So Yeah, I can just show you actually let's just do it. So I'm going to go not to this one. I'm going to make a new screen. And I'll show you teleport. Susan, this is Anthony. There's also another question about if you're duplicating games or questions. Is that what you have to do first in order to edit it afterwards. No, and here I am everybody. My screen. Yes, correct. Okay, so I'm going to just go ahead and edit this. And you see, I don't need to duplicate it at all. It's here. I can duplicate a question. But you don't have to duplicate like you do in Kahoot. Here's teleport. So let's see what teleport brings up. This can be very interesting. So here are all the different quizzes that have Google apps, and I can click on anyone. And let's say, let's say I want this one. I just click on this add button right on the right hand side of the third section, click add. And it's now going directly into my quiz. I think that's pretty cool. And here are the minutes. So you have five seconds, 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds, 40 seconds. You know, I think 15 minutes is a little bit long unless you're having a serious discussion question.  But I don't think usually I do 30 seconds. And if it's a really difficult question, I might go 45 seconds. So that's teleporting. I hope I answered that question. So let's go back here. And back to present. Okay, so we're going through the settings now. And there are a lot of settings. So I like classic, especially now that we're teaching remotely as kind of unless you're doing it on zoom live and break. It's hard to do it as a team. I don't usually use these games to test students I use it mostly for placement so I know where my students are when they come into class and where they are when they leave class. So, sorry. So these are the first sections there's a lot of settings so I made two screenshots for you.  If you're doing it as a test you probably want to say once. But in my case, I have I think students learn by practicing. And if they want to take the quiz more than one time that's fine with me so I usually put it to unlimited name factory. This is to protect high mostly high school students if they use names that are not appropriate. So, I usually turn this off if you want your students to only use quizzes generated names not their names then you want to turn this on that's up to you. But it's only they can't make use their own name. Francis, she asked is quizzes a Google app no it's not. It is a independent game. So that's there now show answers in game after the students take the take the quiz the do the answer I want them to see whether they got the answer correct so I turned that on if you don't want that you can turn it off. Show answers post game. Allow students to review questions and answers at the end and I leave that on to so they can see the ones they got right and the ones they got wrong if you don't want them to see that you can just turn it off. Here are some more settings these are your power ups. I like all of these on because it's fun for the students so students get bonus points and other fun abilities this is automatically generated by quizzes. Timers students get to see the timer so they know how long they have to answer the question. So I turn that on. Leader board is shows where they come in order students love having a leader board a leader board is also been shown in research to motivate students to try harder. I love shuffling the question so if the students take the test twice, they're not going to get the questions in the same order. And I also love to shuffle the answer options so the answer options will change every time so they can't really memorize where the answer is or what the question is because it's coming at them in a random order. Also, I love redemption questions. So if students get a few questions wrong. It will give them those questions back again to redeem themselves. And the last thing that I love are these memes and I'm going to show you the memes there's you can make your own memes. It's really a lot of fun. And the students when they get a correct answer or an incorrect answer. They will see the meme that you made. So mercy asked does teleport at all the questions from that quiz or only one one by one. It's going to answer the quizzes. You can only teleport in you can't don't teleport the whole quiz, you search for a whole quiz, and then you edit the quiz, and you can teleport extra questions in if you want. So here's what so this is what a mean looks like. So you have correct means and you have incorrect means on the top here you can see left side is correct and the right side is incorrect. You can click this plus button to add a picture and you see here I have put you can add your own pictures. These are mine. So these are my correct means Susan is happy correct answer killing it. That's also a correct answer. And then I have my incorrect means like this one here is incorrect. It's try again with a little sad teddy bear. So you can make sets and you can have sets of memes. So let me show you some of my means that I have here. Let's go. Let's finish my quiz. I added that one question that I reported. Here's my test. I'm going to assign it for homework right here. So here are my settings. Everything is the way I like it it knows who I am so it keeps the settings that I had the last time. And here are the different kinds of means that I have and as you see, I have all different kinds of means, because I love memes. So here's the ones I made for OTAN. So these are the correct ones when you're playing the game today these are the ones you should see, I hope. Okay, so back to the game. I actually play a game so you get the feel for this after we go through all the settings so you see how I did everything. Okay, so we are ready to play this game so you're going to use your phone now.  And then you're going to put join my quiz.com in your phone. Join my quiz.com. And then you're going to enter a game code, and the game code is four, six, five, seven, nine, four. So I will wait and see when we get enough people to play the game, I will play the game.  This is going to be fun. Remember we're doing Google apps so I know, yeah, we're doing Google apps on this one. So we got a lot of people everybody's getting in really, really fast. Yes, Michael, the game can be accessed on a laptop, a Chromebook, a phone, a tablet, a computer. I really like the phone better than the computer. It's easier to win. Okay, shall I start you think Melinda and Anthony. There's quite a few people. Sure. Okay, we're going to start. Now I'm going to, I, I, I'm not going to leave the screen up for you. This is very different than Kahoot. When you play this game, you don't need to use this. My screen at all. You just use your phone only. The screen gives the teacher information. So what I'm going to do is not let you see the screen until you're finished so that you don't get annoyed by it, but, but you'll see it later. So I'm going to start it and then I'm going to cover it up. So you should be getting the questions on your phone now. There's 10, well there's 11 questions I think because I added one. There were 10.  And like I said, while you're playing, I'll just talk. You can search for any one of your textbooks, you can search for grammar points, you can search for vocabulary points, you'll find stuff that's already been made that you can tweak. So in a sense, you ask, can you show how a student can use the zoom screen and play the game on the iPhone. I don't recommend doing that. I recommend that you use the zoom time for real conversational practice. I really recommend that you send these games out to the students in advance or after class to review or to show you what they know. You can, I mean, it's really hard for students to use zoom on a phone and then go to another app. That's really like overkill, even for me sometimes. It's so easy to lose the zoom screen and I really think teachers should be using their zoom time. It's a fraction of the time they usually meet their students use it for real live like group practice and practice with the teacher and then do these activities at home. Let the students do it. These are fun. Generally your students will do them because they're fun. And they like to be number one. And the leaderboard will do by accuracy and also by speed. Somebody who is a Google nut will be very good at this, since I didn't really teach anything so. And if I see that a student is first and they made no mistakes and they they have a streak like I love memes. She has no mistakes. And she has all the 10 questions. I will say that she does not need my lesson. And Megan also does not need my lesson. So now I'm going to show you what the screen looks like. So this is what I am seeing as you are taking doing your zoom your your little game. So this is how I can see it and you can see what how everybody did and what mistakes they made and you guys did like a really great job. So probably, I would not have to spend too much time on teaching you the stuff that was in the questions. You can also just show the top five. If you don't want to show the whole class and also you can see it question by question, so that you can get an idea of, of what's in there. So Dennis, yeah, it was your you learn something right Dennis that's the whole idea behind this is that you are you didn't understand it so then you learn it. Okay, that you don't make it get a great score the first time. I like to do this before my class I send it out and usually people have a really hard time. Then I teach my class and then I send them out another similar one after class and you can see great improvement in their scores. So that is I think what I have for quizzes. Let's go back to the PowerPoint. Let me grab back the screen here for you. Okay, so now you're seeing my screen again. I'm not going to play these videos for you they're in the PowerPoint but I know that sometimes people. Oh, so you can share it these are all the different ways that you can share the link out to your class if they're using Google classroom. You can also remind canvas school ology Microsoft teams and you can even send a tweet out if you want. There also is the link that you can send out as a text message to your students so that they can actually just click on it. And right here. That's all they need. It'll, it'll get them into the game they don't need to do the joint thing like you did. Okay, Francis teleport means bringing questions into your quiz from another person's quiz. I'll show you Beverly have I'll go through real quickly the steps on making a new quiz. I don't usually make a new quiz because I like to use quizzes that are already there. But let's just say I wanted to teach the past tense. So I'm going to look for a quiz first past tense. And here's one. It's got seven. How many questions are here I think it's good. Let's see. It's got 17 questions. A lot of questions. I like 10 questions. Oh, it's got 10 questions. Good. So I'm going to look at this now if I don't like it I'm going to be able to edit this. So I click on the edit button. And I can edit the picture here I can click this and put another picture. I can change the name of the quiz. I can decide whether it's visible to everyone or just visible to me and so when I'm working on a draft generally, I will be just visible to me. Yes, I will Monica don't let me forget I will show you the how it the record shows you there's reports for you. And then if I want to change each question I want to change maybe I don't want to use cancun. Maybe we want to say I went to a museum. Okay, save. And then this is kind of British English right so we'll change it to vacation where did you go on your last vacation. This is how easy it is to edit, and you can just change a whole question save. Now if I don't like a question.  Then let's say I want to add a new question I'm going to I can teleport find some other questions and past tense. This is why teleporting is so nice. Let's just add this question in multiple choice. I can go back. And it's going to be question number 10 this is the question I just teleported in. Okay, then when I'm ready. I like what I have. I finished my quiz. And I'm going to keep the name there I'm going to save it. And I have to pick a pick other there, because it's not professional development. So here's my quiz, and I can now sign it for homework or play it live. Like I said in the situation we're now finding ourselves in. I don't really feel that we should be playing these games on zoom I really think you should be having the students play the games before or after the zoom lesson. So let's take a look at the reports. Here to reports. These are the reports that you get. Here's the one that we started an hour ago the one that we just played I got accuracy you get to see your accuracy. So let's click on it. And I can see everybody's report. I can download this to keep it for my records. It's downloading. Let's see. There it goes. It's on the bottom of my screen. There we go and I've downloaded twice, but see this nice Excel file that you get. You can import it into your records. It's just a beautiful file. Let me show you what it looks like might take a second or two to open. Um, that that team asks this question. I want to answer it because I think it's a great question. Editing the quiz will only change it for me but the original stays the same. Correct. Yes, the person who wrote the quiz when you open it in your account, you're actually opening in your account and it's your quiz. So their quiz stays the same. You don't have to worry about them losing their quiz or you changing their quiz. The Excel file is taking just a short time to open up but I oh here it goes. Not too bad. Let me bring it over here to show you how beautiful I really want you to see how nice these files look so easy. Just click download and there. There you go. Look how beautiful that is you have your incorrect questions your quick questions the ones that didn't get to attempt. The questions you have each person individually how they answered what their percentage was and it's all in a beautiful Excel format that even I don't know how to make. And it's all done for you so it's great. So I want to show you that I have some videos that you can watch. I'm not going to be sharing them today because it's just a video and you can, it's at the end of the PowerPoint. So there's one here on teacher tech. It's probably going to start playing but I really don't want to play. And then the next one is here on about musing how teachers how should teachers use quizzes and it gives you some pedagogy. And then here is how to use collections and collections are really good when you're teaching multiple classes. So that you can actually have your collections all organized in like folders of type. So I see there's a lot of questions. Do you want me to help you go through these questions. Yeah, you may want to you may want to kind of re show us again how to do some of these things. Okay. Okay, so one question is the quiz questions themselves. Are there only multiple choice questions. Yes, I think in quizzes they're mostly true faults or multiple choice. Okay. Can you show us again also. Oh, do you want to look again at on the quiz questions. I'm in the wrong program. Sorry. I want to just make sure that it's a, let's see, I'm going to create a quiz just real quick to see what it shows up and I'm going to give it a name test. And we'll say this and go there. Oh, so these are the choices we have other choices multiple choice checkbox. The difference between multiple choice and checkboxes that checkbox allows you to check more than one answer. Fill in the blank, which is tough because you have to make sure you have all the options for students who make mistakes and in case and such. Then you have a poll so you can actually do a poll on this and you have open ended, which I don't know how they would score that. That would be hard to score, but I've never done it. You should just research it. Can you show us again how to get to the reports section. Okay, so you're going to log into your account. Okay, so right here on the left side of your screen, there's a toolbar that says reports. If you click on that, you'll see reports for all the games you've played. And I have like a lot of reports. Because I do this a lot. Another question about reports is, does it track quiz scores over time. You would have to do that by having a, you know, taking the Excel spreadsheets and and merging them. It doesn't, it doesn't do different. It doesn't do that. It does each quiz that you play with the students is an individual Excel spreadsheet. Another question is, is there a limit on the number of quizzes that you can have going at one time. I think you can only do one quiz at a time. So, yeah, I don't do classes because they have to this collection. I think you can only do one at a time, unless you have more than one account. Because it gives you a unique number. Okay, and then there are a number of questions about sharing this. So can you show us the share options again. But I think some people don't quite understand like, okay, you know, depending on the, on the program I'm using how I actually can share it. Like what is it that I'm actually doing to share with the students. So game that you play. That's what your students would get when they, when they, when you share with them. So let's go back here to the Google apps one. And let's assign it for homework because you have to do that first, before you get anything to share. And then you have to decide when you want them to finish it. Let's say that if I, if I'm sending this out today on Thursday and my classes on Monday. I want them to finish by 20th. And then here are the settings I go through all my settings to make sure I have it. And then I pick if I want a meme said I pick a meme set. And then I host my game. This is all you have to do all of this before you share, then I'm going to host the game. And now I can share a link. I can go, I can give this, which is the join my quiz.com plus this code, or I can give them a link like this. And you can go to Google Classroom and send it out that way you can send it out from remind, you can send it out through Canvas you can send it out through Schoology, Microsoft teams and Twitter and here is the link. So if you copy this link, and you send this link to your students, all they have to do is click on the link, and the game will open up for them. Does that answer the question? Yes, I believe so. Yeah, I think people weren't quite understanding that if you know if I have this link, what do I then do with it. But you just told us that you can post it in a number of places depending on what programs you're also using with students. And Beverly wants a link to the videos you will get those are in the PowerPoint not to worry. Okay, and then can we go back. There's still are some questions about this teleporting business. And then can you also show us again how to add a question. Okay, so my here's my test. Let's go back to the Google apps. And okay, so I'm going to edit this. So I click on edit. Oh, yeah, I can leave. And here is my teleport. So it knows that I'm doing Google apps. So if I click on teleport, it's going to search through its database of all the quizzes that people have made and show me all the different Google apps that there are. So I can go through, I can go through each one individually. I usually look for something that's similar to mine. So here, let's say I picked this one, which Google apps allows me to create a quiz poll or survey. I like this one. So I'm going to add this into my quiz. So I just click this add button. Now I had 10 questions. I think this will be question number 11. And when I do that, here it is. I can edit it some more. Or if I change my mind, I can delete it. I can change how much time I give. I can decide to change its format. I can do multiple choice checkbox fill in the blank if I want to change that. Or I can just say, okay, it's great. It's question number 12. It comes in right at the bottom. Does that answer it? I believe so, yes. It's very easy to pull in questions from other teachers test. You basically don't have to make your own test. You can just pull in what other people have done. And then when you're done, you have to make sure you finish the quiz. Don't exit, finish the quiz. And then you're ready to send it out. Share it. And Susan, just to clarify, when you share that link with students, it is a live quiz, right?  I would not. No, I wouldn't do it from here. I would do it from here, assign homework. I don't use, I would play live if I had a face-to-face classroom. I'm really, really, really not recommending that you play this on Zoom because it's really not a good use of the student's time when they can do it for homework.  And then you hit ready, host the game when you're ready. And then you get a link and now you share this link and they can play right from here. Okay. And then what, I didn't see it and Justin asked about, is there an embed code at all? Like, could we embed this within an LMS or on a website? I don't think there's an embed code for this. Okay. I think it's a link. It's only a link. Okay. There's some questions about, okay, again, back to the sharing for a second. So I think people are maybe a little bit confused about this because they're asking about sending the link to a Zoom session. Right, because people want to play the game on Zoom. And I just, I'm really just trying to instill a little bit of pedagogy in here that I really don't, I mean, you can do it and the students can play the game while you're in the Zoom room. I just don't think it's a really good use of time. Oh, I think maybe the question is, you want to share it with the Zoom invite? So do this in advance when you send out the invite? Maybe. Maybe, yeah. The questions are not entirely clear, but it is possible, right? If you're, you could post that link or add that link to your Zoom invitation going to the students. Correct. Correct. You could and say, do this before you come to class. Yeah. Yeah. What about, Susan, have you talked about flashcards? This is new. I have never seen this before. It's brand new, but apparently you can now make flashcards. So let's click on the link and see. There you go. You can actually give it, look at this. Now you can send your students some flashcards so they can study in advance. This is very nice. And you can just hit the space for it to flip. So now this is a new feature of Zoom that you have these flashcards. Okay. Should we go on to Quizlet? Let's see. Let's just get these last questions here. Do you happen to know, is there any way that a student could pause the quiz? So they've started the quiz, but they want to pause it. Do you know if a student could do that? No. And I just usually tell the students, take it a second time. Okay. Because it is based on speed and accuracy. So if they pause, they might as well not finish. Okay. So just stop. And I have it so they can take it unlimited times. Okay. And can you show us one more time where that flashcard button was? Yes, if I can find it again. It's brand new. Let's see if I can spell quizzes. And let's go back to my quizzes. And I think we just hit the game. And we went to assign homework, host the game, and then we saw, yeah, right here. There's the flashcards. Now how you send these to the students? That's a good question. I guess you'd have to send them. I don't know if this will work. I'm not really sure. I wasn't prepared for this one. We should probably move on to Quizlet. Okay. So the videos, there's actually three videos, teacher tech, two minute one, how do you, good classroom practices with quizzes and how to use collections. So now we're going to move on to getting a Quizlet account. And some of you might already be familiar with Quizlet. But there are some new features to share. So I'm going to start from just like I did with the other one from the very, very beginning for a person who has never been on Quizlet. You are going to go to Quizlet.com and you're going to download the app and Quizlet kind of wants you to download the app. You don't really have to, but it encourages you to download the app often. So it might be just the best thing is to download the app. So after you do that, the next step is you have a choice again. My choice is always to continue with Google, but this one you can also do Facebook. But if you want to do another account, you have to go through all of this. And you have to put your birthday in here because students who are under 13 are not allowed to be on Quizlet without a parent. So it requires your birthday for that reason. So you put in your birthday. If you want to lie, I guess you could do that. You create a username for yourself. You create it, you put your email in there, your password, or you do the easy way and continue with Facebook or Google. Now you're going to get here and you're going to see try it free for 30 days. Start your free trial. Do not click on that button on the right. Do not, do not, do not click on that button. If you click on that button, it'll ask you for your credit card. So what's your, okay, because of the Corona virus Quizlet is giving teacher Quizlet's for free and Anthony, can you chat the link for that so people can go there. You have to go through that link to get the pro version for free. So did you. Claire, yes and no, I will, she asked the students have to create an account with Quizlet and it's yes or no. And if you're okay and Suzanne says if you're working with a school account, can you download the app. On your laptop, it's difficult because of the protocols. You don't have to download the app.  So, yeah, you can do it without downloading the app. So did the, did this get chatted out to everybody. Yes.  If you go this way, it's going to be free for you. I don't know how for how long, but I want to show you normally so in case you don't do this and six months down the low road you want to do it, how to get away without that credit card thing. So here you're going to click here, you're going to see this and you're going to say I don't want to put my credit card in there. But if you look to the very top right of the screen, I have a red arrow here. This is the only way to get to the free version, and it's in really small print. So you have to remember to look at the top right and go or continue to the free version. You'll have to, you'll have to have this slide to remember how to do that. So once you get there, you're going to see this button unless you get the free version. I mean the upgraded version you're going to, you're going to see this button all the time because they're going to continually remind you to get the teacher version. But again, just like in quizzes, you can find your quizzes by using the search button. So I did a search for adjectives. And here are all, oh, sorry, sorry. Here are all the different, all the different adjectives. Now, they have premium content now. So you want to make sure you search for just free content because premium content is not free. And I usually do sets. There are the study guides are not free. So I usually do sets and I created by all because I don't really care who creates them. I want to browse through them. So here are the adjectives ones that I have, and I can just pull any one of those into my account.  So again, you have to, I have this in here twice because it's going to ask you, you're going to see this one. You're going to click start now on the top of the screen on the bright turquoise button. And then the next one is going to see the same button, but it's going to say create a study set. So you have to click that twice. And now you can create a set. So I'm going to now take you into the, my Quizlet account. So these are all my, all my sets that I have. And here's like parts of a car washing your hands. Here's the alphabet. I did this for a really low level. So this is a straight flash card set. The students can hear the word, they can see the letter and then I have a word next to it for a is for Apple. These are baby. I made this for my low beginning class, but I didn't really want to go through the alphabet. So I wanted them to be able to just practice and see basic words with each letter. So that's the way I made that set. Now, you can see here, I'm going to, let me just create one real fast for you. Let's talk about quizzes, quizzes vocabulary. New words. So the first word is teleport, right. So I can put in here teleport. Now, automatically, I can click on image. And it will look for images of teleporting. I don't even have to have an image on my computer. I can just turn it and then look, it has different, different meanings, but from my meaning of teleport is find extra questions from other exams, something like that. Now it has a lot of languages. I don't know how well it. It has different types, but it does have a lot of different languages. There's more than these. These are the ones I've used recently, but there's like Russian and Arabic. There's all kinds of languages in there. So that's basically how you do it to make your own. And you just, when you're done, you have to have at least four items. You click the create button and you have a quiz that you've made. So now let me go back to one that I've actually made. So here's one that I made with the alphabet. And here I have all these activities. I make those flashcards once and you get all these activities. So the one that I really want to share with you is the learn activity. The learn uses brain research and it gives the students words and either they don't know it. They're familiar with it means they may have gotten it wrong once or twice when they were going through the slide set or they've mastered it. That means they've gotten it right so many times that Quizlet knows that they have learned this word and it brings back words that they don't know to review with them. So here we go. So this is the ocean. So the word, the letter because I'm doing the alphabet is oh, so I click on it. I got it right. So let's get one wrong. Let's say this for example. So now I have a choice. I can, in this case, you can even hear it, but I don't think I hit the listen button. There is audio here. So I got it wrong. And it's going to come back at me later. So this is a learn activity. Really, really love using this with students. And then it has right. So here is a I think the answer is E. Because we're just doing vocabulary. Let's see if I got it right. Yeah, I got it right. So that's what the right is. It's hard to do this with the alphabet. There's a spelling which I the students love because spelling is always hard. And then there's the match. I'm going to take you out of the alphabet because kind of too easy for us. And let me go back to my quizzes here. One more. See if it's going to take me back one more. And this is one that I made for the parts of a car. So this is called a diagram. And to do a diagram, if you recall correct before when I, I'm going to show you again how that is real easy you just bring in a picture, and then you can put in the different terms that you want there. So let me show you this. Let me go back to my account. And I'm going to, here's one I just made recently. So I just bring in this map so you just can click, and you can zoom and you can zoom out you just import any picture you want and then you can put little terms on it so let's let me actually, I don't have a picture that I can actually edit with you guys on here, but Okay, we'll just create one. We'll try. I want to find my create here we go create. So I can bring here is here's where you choose an image. I don't know what I have on my computer to choose. But I'm sure I have been taking a lot of screenshots. So here we go. Put the screenshot in there. This is vocabulary so it's good. So now you see how I get this little cross here on the screen and says click to add a point. I just click here and say, start. And I can change the language but I'm just going to say, add definition. Begin here. Add. You can have a circle. You can do if you have the pro version you can do rectangles. You can pan the image and you can add a shape but when you're on the free version. You can only hit the circle, you can only do it this way. Web address. So you see how easy it is to add points in for. So I'm going to go back to the join code. Code to. So that's how easy it is to do this. So you can add diagrams as well as having flash cards. Okay, so let me go back. I don't want to create this. I'll create it. Okay. There we go. Go back to my sets. I'm going to do a diagram and I showed you how to do cards. So now I think I have a game that we can play. Yes. So we're going to try a game. This is called Quizlet Live. So I've never, I want to say that this is a new individual version of Quizlet Live before it was made for in the classroom but this is made for individuals. It is on descriptions. It is adjectives. So let's go ahead and you're going to go to www.quizlet.live and you're going to put in the join code. Should not need the app to do this. This is exciting because I've never done this before. This is a brand new feature. So we have 41 people. We have 111 in the room. Be interesting to see if we can get 111 people in here. I don't think so. Okay, it seems like 63. It stopped at 63. Okay, here we go. Enjoy. Start game. All right, so now you're playing the game. Okay, I finished. Click to continue to stats. And you can see here what you did well with, what you should study. Let's see exit game as I played. And let's see the report. The reports are down over here. So let's see where the report shows up. Okay, that's my students. So these are my stats, but I don't know where my class report is. Yeah, I'm not sure where the where the report goes on this, but you can do it and it's fun. And the students can do it from, they can do it on their phone during zoom. I don't know that they can do this at home unless they're, you're, you're telling them at a certain time, they all have to get on there at the same time still. So that's something I don't like about, I like quizzes better than Quizlet is that they kind of have to be online at the same time while they're doing it. Yeah, Adriana, the curly hair picture didn't show up for me either and it's probably my fault. I probably don't have a picture in there. If you have pictures in there, they will show up, although they show up very small. So what questions do you have? Somebody said they couldn't see the questions at all. Yeah, this is new. I had never done it before. I was telling people that Quizlet live really wasn't appropriate anymore. For Quizlet live wasn't appropriate for the remote classroom, but now they made this individuals, but you still kind of have to be all online at the same time. So not sure I like it. I do like quizzes better quizzes better for that. And again, I have two videos here for you how to use Quizlet and the teacher guide for Quizlet. So in the slide deck, you'll be able to watch those videos in case you have questions you don't know. Marisol, repeat about what you said about Quizlet or quizzes. Repeat what? Susan, I think you were talking about why you might choose or use one versus the other. Okay, so quizzes is great to send out to your students for formative assessment. Quizlet is better as a vocabulary tutor for students so that they can review vocabulary words. And the PowerPoint will be linked with the OTAN website with all the videos in there soon. Correct, Anthony? Yeah, we're trying to get them up there as quickly as we can. Correct. Usually the PowerPoint slides and other resources will get there first, the recordings will get there later. Susan, I have a question about the Quizlet. Did we do the individual or did we do the teams? You did the individual one. The teams one, you have to have the students face to face. This is made so that you can be live. You still have to be live. That's the problem with it. So you can have the students compete at home, but it's still got to be done live. Okay. Do you see Thomas' question? Maybe we could just kind of recap how you built those sets. His question is, is there a way to pull individual cards from one set into another set? Let's look. So here is it. So again, it doesn't have that teleport option that quizzes has, which is so nice. But if you, you can, so let's say you can search for something. Let's start with that. Let's search for past tense. And then I see all of these. So these are, so now I have to be careful because did I say free? No. See, I put all. So some of these I know are not free. Especially when they say best teller on them. So I need to go back and get free. So here we go. Let's just take this one. See if I like it. So now it's in my account. I don't have to duplicate anything. I can go through and see what's in there. And I can edit it. Maybe it's here. Print, info, share, customize. There you go. Now we can do it. So it's customized here. Customize. Let me go back.  Right here. It looks like a copy icon. It's called customized. You click on that. And then, then you are, you can change it and do whatever you want with it. But you can't teleport. So I don't know if you would want to use breakout rooms and zoom. Suzanne asked, can you use breakout rooms to form teams and do Quizlet live? I don't know if you want to use breakout rooms because in the, because the students are teamed, they, you could be on zoom and tell your students to, I don't know if your students are on the phone with zoom. But if they're on the phone with zoom, they have to like switch out of zoom to go to Quizlet or click on a link from a chat box to go to Quizlet. And then you could play Quizlet individual, but you wouldn't put them in breakout rooms because the Quizlet is going to define their groups, not the breakout room. And that would be really confusing if you made breakout rooms and students weren't in the right team. So Betty asked a question and what that was what Anthony and I were just searching for how to do.  I'll go for you again because it was, it's changed. You do a search for let's do stand out. Now let's do ventures ventures. Let's see what we got in ventures here. Okay, we got a lot of different terms with ventures. Let's do ventures. Textbook or unit, unit one. Let's see what happens because ventures has different meanings. Here we go. So here's ventures one unit one. So I want to grab this because I'm teaching ventures and I'm starting my unit one. So what I'm going to do is here's the, the ventures unit one I'm going to go over here to customize and grab it. That's how I grab it into my account. And now I can make changes to that and do whatever I want with it. She has a, she has a diagram in here but no name. So I added that point. And then here are her cards that she has. So now I'm going to say create. And I have the link. I can share it on Google classroom. I can share it on remind. I can add it to my class or a folder if I have classes, different classes. But here's the game. And the students can just play it. So I like to learn. And so this is zip code. And we'll make this one wrong. So that, that all these games are automatic as soon as you put it all in there, it all comes. Susan and then Thomas was also asking, okay, so if I have these sets in my account, and I have questions. So let's say, for example, I have three sets. I like to take five questions from set one, five questions from set two, and five questions from set three and put them into a new set. Do you know how to do that? Basically, he's, he's wanting to like recombine questions that he has in various sets into like a new set, for example. Yeah, I don't, I don't think Quizlet makes that easy to do. You'd have to copy. It doesn't have that beautiful teleport option. But no, no, no sets that you already have. Right, you have to go through them in one by one and pick it out. It's like, I don't think there's any way to see. I mean, I don't know the answer actually, but I, as far as I know, you can't do that kind of thing. Okay. Sorry, Thomas. This is a question to research. Yes, your students can access your sets with the link that you send them, and they don't need to sign into Quizlet, but Quizlet will ask them to download the app. And then Polina says, as far as I know, when you create a Quizlet, you have the option of making it only editable by me, correct? In which case other people would be able to use it, would not be able to use it. If you make it visible to everyone, they will be able to edit it. Yes, that's that is the answer. And Michael asked about, so quizzes is better for formative assessment, correct? I think so. I think Quizlet is better for reviewing vocabulary. And Susan, just one more question about the Quizlet was, what's the difference between a set and a folder? Okay, so in Quizlet, a set is just a set of cards that you make, just like you. Oh, and one of the things that's really cool about Quizlet is you can print the cards out if you want your students to print them out and actually have physical flashcards, they can do that with Quizlet. But a set is just a set of flashcards.  And the downside to that is, if you do that, you won't get statistics from them unless they're logged into the class. So that would require students to actually log into an account. If you do, if you don't put them in classes, then students can actually just take the link and play the match game and you'll get their data.


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