Welcome to Toffing TV. There's three things from Newcastle United, one, Everton, two at St James' Park today. Brilliant win for Everton. Difficult place to go St James's Park. Brilliant win for Everton today. Up to 10th now at 25 points. People can breathe at little bit easier back-to-back victories for the first time since March. Fantastic day really, for the Blues. Call of Ancioloti obviously come in and things have gone from strength to strength dysgu yn ddweud i ddweud hefyd, nowr y Ffyrdd Dunstan yn yn iawn yn ddoedd. Rwy ffrif yn ymgyrchol, gan yna'n mynd i gael fy ngyfyrdd, efallai y'rbyn sy'n gwech. Mae'n bwysig bod yn cyfion eich dweud, ac yn dweud ymyn yn sicrhau dysgu. Mae'n gweithio, rhaid i'r bwysig. Er, mae'n wahanol yw'r gweithio, a fydd y bwysig ymddangos sydd fan bod i'r byw. Mae'n ddweud ymddangos, ond efallai eich fath o'r gweithio, Over the last couple of years, you'll know what I mean by it. He's such a good, he likes a competition with the striker. He likes to get himself involved with people. Anything kicks off, he's the first one there. But he's such a good defender, good in the air, good on the ball. And I'm made up, absolutely made up for him at the moment that he took this chance. This is his longest run in the first team. I think he's playing consecutive games. I think it's 12 on the run now that he's played, he's done us a job. He was centre-back midfield, he was centre-back today excellent, went to left-back. I just thought he was excellent and instrumental in the victory. Even one near the end, when he was at left-back, he drove forward and won a corner, had a nothing. He's been fantastic and I'm absolutely made up for him. People doubted him, but I think he's superb and a really important part of this squad going forward. You need players who have got that little bit of devilment in them, but players who will stand up and be counted and he does that. So, if you've got a player that can play multiple positions, it's fantastic, it saves you so much money as well having to try and fill in, because you've got someone there who can do that job. Every job he's asked to do, he does it with full commitment. So, I just thought he was way to single now for me today. I thought he was brilliant. Second thing I want to talk about is our attacking threat. We've got some really good attacking players. We know that, you know, Retialysen, we've got Dominic Halvitt-Lewin, we've got Walcott, we've got Awobi Wenish Fitt, we've got Bernard Moise Keen, to a lesser extent, Jeng Towson. But I just, what I've noticed in the last couple of games, and certainly what Duncan Ferguson did, putting the two strikers up front has given us a different dimension. OK, at times, we're a bit lighter in the field. But when we can get the ball to our front, then we are a threat. We've seen it since anti-lotty coming. He's made a couple of little tweaks here and there, and we now carry a real threat when we go forward. Today, we played almost 4-2-4 at times with Sigarton and Davis sitting, and then obviously one of your fullbacks, and it was Lightning Banes then pushed right on, so we went to 3, almost like a 3-2-5, because Banes was so high up. But what it does is it causes the opposition problems, because you've got a lot of men in and around the penalty area. And we have Moise Keen, and Dom today is the front two. Moise Keen is what I think was his best game for Everton. He was a real threat, three or four shots, you know, unlucky not to score, the Braf can make the crack and save from, and that'll have done in the world a good. Dom is developing, you know, the way Duncan's done with him, and then obviously Carlo anti-lotty said it the other day after the game. Yeah, he's great, but he's got to get in the right areas. Well, winner the other day, the winner today, that'll do confidence sky high. He's took that number nine this season, some people don't like him, haven't, didn't like him having it all, whatever. But, you know, the only thing that I questioned from him was did he get himself in the right areas enough today he did in the right place at the right time he did on Thursday against Burnley with that diving head. He's been fantastic for us certainly since Duncan coming, he's stepped it up another level and carried that on now with anti-lotty. So, you know, that a threat to David Charles is a monster, someone else described as a monster, the right way, the weak rate, strength, okay at times, final ball isn't perfect, but you're going to get that.  Theo, you know, since he got it in the end with that in that Man City game at the ball, he looked like a different player, he looks like he's got the hunger back, a bit of desire back. And I still think the likes of a wobby will benefit massively from working with anti-lotty. So, the real attack on threat is there now. Could we do with another one probably? You know, probably because I don't see Jeng Towson being anywhere near our future. We asked obviously neither, so it would be good to have a third centre forward to go with Calverloo and to go with Moise Keen. But we have got that attack on threat there and we've got some really good players. If we can get the blend right, they'll shine even more. Finally, I can't let it go without speaking about anti-lotty, can I? I can't. You know, we've come in, we've presented to the media on Monday and here we are, two games later with six points. You know, the calmness that he has there, that air of authority, you know, tinkering with the system three or four times in a game. The last man that I saw do that with any, you know, with any conviction like that really was Howard Kendall, who could change a game by watching it and moving people around during the game. Yeah, people might do it wanting a game and go, well, she don't couldn't do it if we go from a 4-4-2 to a 4-4-3, 4-3-3, 4-4-3 of the bingo. Book anti-lotty does it, you know, real tinkering, player adjustments there and then the full back dropping as a centre back, you know, all of that. And his, you know, already his input and his influence on the team seems to be evident. It seems to be evident on the club. There's a real feel go factor back about everything. And with someone like him in charge, no one can really question. It's difficult for a fan to stand there and go, he doesn't know what he's doing. Cos he kind of does, he's won 20 trophies, he knows exactly what he's doing. We might not always agree with it, I'm sure we won't. I'm sure there'll be times when we're saying, why is he doing that? But nobody can really level that he doesn't deserve the job, he doesn't deserve to, you know, he doesn't know what he's doing, that kind of thing. And I think the players are including that as well. So what that does then is takes away that air of uncertainty. So you've got someone who very much is driving the club forward and that's what we've got with him. And then obviously put, you know, double that. Do you lap with Duncan Ferguson there with the passing? You can see Duncan up and talking to Antelotti. Davide Antelotti's there as well. So, you know, it's great. It's impact has been massive for us, you know, six points in a week.  And the big thing is when a manager takes over, you want to get those things ticked off out of the way. First home win, first away win, both done, you know. And done with, done while having to, you know, mesh around with the squad. And done without having a full complement of players. And done without, you know, with needing extra bodies in there. So fantastic long may continue and it should be very, very interesting. But fantastic start for Carlo Antelotti. And a lot of happy Evertonians making their way home from St James's part tonight. And reward really for going up there over Christmas. The travel a length and breadth of the country. Absolutely fantastic. And I hope every single one of them enjoys your coming home. We will. And that's it. Check out all the reaction videos. Subscribe to the video. Like and join us on Patreon if you want more videos.  Have a fantastic rest of the Christmas holiday period. See you later.


What's up everybody, Jason here for Jasper's Caseworks.com. Happy to release it guys. We just sold out 2023, Totsam Museum Collection Baseball. Six bucks, half case break, PYT, Numero Uno. So here we go guys. So big thanks to everybody that bought in. We only had to sell four teams in the R&B. Everybody else bought in straight up so I appreciate it guys. And then here are the names with the four R&B teams. If there's any hits, they'll be distributed the serial number, minus the non-numbered base which will be randomized to everybody. Don't have a knife right here, but one, two, three for the left side, four, five, six for the right side. One, two, three. Ah, you too. See ya. Sandberg 250 for the Covey is going to Rex. And then we have a gym rice for the Boston Red Sox. That's 30 out of 199. Now Red Sox is going to Sam straight up. There you go man. Having your release day to you Sam.   Carlos is Sam as well. We have a Chris Hill for the Red Sox, another one Sam. Hitting already man. Just straight up in the first box. The Ziko Tolbar for the Rocky is going to Emma. To 1.99. Then we have a Brett Beatty. Little reproduction. And then a Boba Shat, Matt Chapman, Alandro Kirk and Vladimir Gerard Jr. to 25. Claude Relic. Blue Jay is going to Richard. The last one should have an autograph. Actually extra hit. Another Chris Hill, this time a 10, two color patch. And a Andreas Jimenez. Signature Swatches, Dual Relics for the Guardians number to 3.99. Guardians going to Kevves. Thank you, try the YouTube brother. YouTube, for you and the fam, everybody. No problem, Rick. Keep it going man. This is box one. Let's go.  You know, it worked till like 11.30 last night, got home after midnight. Couldn't sleep. I'm going to sleep at three in the morning, talking and turning, literally. Woke up at like freaking nine, which is early for me because I had to go to Costco, get in line to get some stuff because they're closed tomorrow, obviously. And then I got here at 11, streamed for like four hours on Fnatic. So, just trying to warn you guys now, if I start looking like I'm dying, running out of energy is because of that. And then tomorrow, because my family wants a fruits heart from portals, I probably have to wake up at the crack of dawn and go to portals to get a fruits heart. At like five a.m. when they open. That's going to be fun. Should be, right? I think everything here is game music. It says that everywhere, right? So, game use memorabilia, game use memorabilia, game use memorabilia. So yeah, I think all the relics in this are game use for sure. Some of them will have a hologram though, which is good. It's basically like a pie crust with like a, like a custard and just a ton of different fruits topped on it. Strawberries, mango, kiwi, dragon fruit, like all these different fruits on it. And it's very, very delicious. Yeah, that's why I'm going at five in the morning trends when it opens. So it looks something like this. It's pretty darn delicious. Pretty darn delicious. Everybody, can I say anything? Aaron Judge is here tonight tonight. And Anthony Rendon for the Angels, that's the first hit for the R&B teams. 11 out of 35. Spot one going to Dennis. So as you can see, 11 out of 35, that's going to go to spot one, which is Dennis. Volby and a George Kirby for the Seattle Mariners. That is 82. Out of two, 99. 82, spot two is Dennis, or sorry, Harry, I should say. Harry's spot two. Mike Piazza for the Dodgers, that's another one there. 146 out of 150. Six is Jimmy. Ronald Acunha, and then we have a Zander Bogart's Quadrale, it's a 99. For the Positas, going to Jeremy. And D.Y. with the Braves. Our last auto should be right here. And I'm about a little jazz chiseled to 20, 12 out of 20. Nice little 25, $29 team, right? Brooks with the Marlins. All right, this one feels a little heavy. I think the frame might be in that one. So there is like two case hits in museum collection. I think the frame is the one of them. Yeah, it says find two guaranteed case hits where it says museum collection, framed autographs, jumbo autograph relic cards, museum collection authenticated relic autograph. I did hit a book in my case on Fanatics Live earlier, so maybe a booklet. There's a possibility to see as well. Make sure this goes with this one. Gibson at 2.99, and a little big poppy for the Red Sox to 50. Net over the Angels, that's 23 out of 99. It's about three is Dennis. And then a quad relic, John and India for the Reds, when adjusted to 15. Well, that looks like a real sketch, maybe not though. But we do have a Corbin Burns for the Brewers, when a Peter, 23.99, Jim Carle, Wolpe. It's Chipper Jones for the Braves, and a DUI with that one, 10 out of 15 out of 75 for the Reds, going to Justin. 25 out of 25, little MVP autograph right there. DUI with the Braves, and JT Real Muto to 1.99. So he's going to Sean. We have Oswald Parazzo, the 3.99. So 50, the Cubs. Two more watches to go guys, here we go. And a Josiah Gray for the Nationals, relic to 50, from Richard. We have an out of 50, Red Phillies, Sean Bryce Harper. We have a quad relic, Glaver Torts, it's supposed to look a couple pinstripes in there for the Yankees, by Matt Smith. And we got JJ Blede for the Open A's, Jeremy, to 50. And then, Masatagi Yoshida, with a Jordaan Alvarez to 25. Astro's going to Sean. Some feels really heavy as well, but there's no way there's a fricking other frame. There's being two and two. I think tributes are the one that like, could be three autos on one relic. Every box is a little different. But basically it's one on-card autograph and one patch autograph, which most likely is a sticker is what they're telling you. That's what you're getting on average. And then two relics, Orochi's ammo with that one. Mike Piazza, another one there for the Dodgers, R&B, 245, spot five with Dennis. Judge and a Libertor. Sam with the Cardinals to 25. Roger Clemens to 150. Quadrallet, Kyle Schwerber to 35 for the Phillies. Going to Sean. Blimey Jr., let's go to 99 and end it off. Rich, there you go man. Awesome, so again, quick little recap here. Here's some relics, right. And then here like the autograph relics and autographs. Lattie Jr., Nolan Jones, Yordan, Romuto, Acunia, Tripp Jones frame, Corbin Burns, India, Ortiz, Chisholm. And then there's Jim Rice. Plus a lot of all of these numbered cards and cannabis collections will be top-loading. So again guys, we did go one of the case sets here. The second one should be hiding in the second half guys. Got one running back, jaspyscasebricks.com. And again, these are the hits that went to the R&Bs that were numbered. Now I'm going to quickly randomize the list of 10 customer names so we can give away the base cards for those four R&B teams. Three, three, six. One, two, three, four, five, six. Dennis, there you go man. You're going to get the non-numbered base stuff. So yeah, I guess the number two's in the store guys. That's the second half. Grab your teams, if not we're going to R&B it up pretty soon guys, thank you.


So my company is Tally Payments, it's a mobile point of sales company where we allow our customers to order for food and beverage items conveniently from their smartphone. We recently just signed up UWM and they're our first major university piloting our system. It's exciting to be here, you know, they're pushing all these new entrepreneurial initiatives on campus and for them to kind of give us the green light to say, you know, let's take a chance and let's work with a student startup and kind of pilot their system and showcase them, it kind of means that they're taking a real initiative, you know, trying to push companies, foster innovation, foster, you know, commercialization of ideas and, you know, tell students that you can go out and create your own companies. I'm Carlton Reeves and I'm a Milwaukee engineer.


underrepresented communities. So what we want to do is open it up for questions and just, and also just get a time check on where we are. Thank you so much. I'm Bill Adair, I run the journalism program at Duke, I'm the night chair there. Charlie, the point you just made about the decline in editing is something that we've seen with a lot of our students who are doing internships and it's something that I'm very concerned about and have tried a variety of solutions to help with. The biggest is, I've done editing and I have stepped in and helped my students who are working at local news organizations who will send me their story because they're just not getting edited. And so they'll send me their stories ahead of time and say, what do you think of this? And I wonder if there's a more organization way to kind of institutionalize that that could take advantage of us, both in academia, but also a variety of journalists who are available to help with things like that because that's so important. We've had some students who will come back to me after an internship and say, it was awful. I didn't get any editing, they didn't take advantage of me, you know, whatever. And so that's so important because these students are fired up about journalism and they get into these places and they're like, eh, I sat around. Yeah, it's a real problem and thanks for highlighting it. This is an area for innovation and partnership. This is a place where we wanna work with people who might help us figure out that piece of the puzzle. How can we take people like Phil Bennett, my old boss who teaches at Duke and who is working with Frontline and also on their local news initiative. And so one of the great editors of the Boston Globe and the Washington Post who is now at Duke, there's a network of super talented editors out there who are under-employed or who are moving on. We're really desperate to try to corral them and get their support, bring their energy into our operation. There's investigative editors network which is, we're doing an experimental partnership with them. We've done some editing ourselves. We do this with great trepidation. We assign the report for America Corps member to the newsroom and they then work for that newsroom. They're an employee of the newsroom with benefits. They're employee. So every time we approach and I'm really feeling like, I know I was a city editor at the New York Daily News, I would have bristled if anyone from outside tried to tell one of our reporters what to do. So I go at it with great respect but what I'm hearing is the sort of senior editors are saying, absolutely if you have some time to work with Michelle Liu on the prison project and you can show her maybe a FOIA strategy, how to get at that or how can you get like death certificates for the inmates, they have to be filed. We're finding that there's great openness to doing that but I still think it's a real sensitive thing. We have to be super careful with it, right? So any good ideas we'd be welcome to or any partnerships we should know about. Including funding partnerships. Yeah, that too, yes. I was curious, are you guys talking about primarily print journalism or television journalism? The collaboratives have representatives from every platform, from digital startups to tiny Hispanic radio stations to traditional black radio stations to public radio stations, to the legacy newsroom and that is one of the most interesting aspects of these collaboratives where the growth, professional growth happens when they are all sitting together and they are used to competing but they also have built-in ideas about each other and now they need to revisit them and they need to think about how to tackle a project as a team. So there are some uncomfortable moments, some moments that I call being in a crowded subway car in New York in the summer without air conditioning. Everybody's kind of looking at each other and not saying anything and well, but these things need to be aired and they are part of why some communities feel that they are not adequately covered because these things have not been talked about among journalists. How are we doing our job? Where are the gaps in coverage? What are we not doing that you are doing? Sure, you may be a small scrappy startup but you have inroads into this ethnic community that I don't. Everybody brings something to the table. And ours are very similar. We again, we're right in alignment with Solutions Network on that. We have a combination of large newspapers like the Dallas Morning News or we have El Nuevo Herald here and we have small newspapers like the Charleston Gazette Mail I mentioned or we have the Bay State Banner in Boston, African American newspaper with a long tradition in Boston. Also really struggling like almost every newspaper. We have digital startups like Mississippi Today as a digital startup. We have a lot of public radio stations. We have 39 public radio stations that we're providing a reporter to. So we also believe deeply in the digital future those that have shown a sustainable model we want to invest in them. Public radio is amazing at bringing community support in so they're a wonderful partner. Traditional newspapers are starting to wake up that like their old business models are gonna have to be more innovative. They're gonna have to think about a nonprofit arm and we're seeing this and I've met great resistance from dear friends of ours these newspapers who think that there's some cultural thing they're resistant to around the nonprofit sector and I really deeply believe the future is nonprofit newsrooms. We're about half of our newsrooms now are nonprofit. Half aren't. I think we're gonna start trending toward the majority being nonprofit. I would just add family and independent owners. We have been really getting to know the next generation of family and independent owners and yes with that there's and also local television. There's a huge opportunity with local television with public television in many communities. The largest digital footprint is the local television commercial station and the largest audience. And we are now working with an increasing number of local television leaders who understand their opportunity to move away from the old broadcast formats and to produce journalism in the public interest. Because not only does journalism in the public interest serve their communities, it's good for business and ratings as is really deep quality investigative reporting. WCNC in Charlotte has been one of the most active partners in that collaborative and in our collaborative in New Hampshire, Public PBS has been one of the leaders really in that collaborative, so definitely. We've had a couple of investments in spectrum news and we're looking for more. The hard part with an emerging journalist, someone in their early years is how do you fit in? Are you on air? Are you a producer? It's harder to know how they'd serve the community in a television and I think that we're open. We'd love it if people said we're gonna open a bureau in this more remote region of our viewership and we're gonna put someone young there but then you have to have the support services to really train them and produce them and honestly we've struggled with it. So if you have ideas, we'd be all yours. You know, I was a journalist for five years and then I went to PR. So I was one of those people when you talked about that mentor to kind of bring their teeter tottering on I gotta get out of here. I can't make it another day or can I make it another day? But what I always thought was really essential and what was missing was management training for people who were running the newsrooms. So it'd be really curious if you could maybe start putting, I know you can't do the people that are emerging, but maybe training some managers on how to have that different perspective because when you've got a journalist coming, when I'm as a PR person, they are wanting to do stories all the time and they come to the event and they know nothing. They're having to crank out stories for 430, the 5, the 530, the 6, the 730. With no editorial supervision. Right, and you know, and then the midnight or not midnight, 11 o'clock show, that's a lot of writing in a very short period of time. And they're one man banding too. When I started in this profession a very long time ago, it was one to one journalist to PR person. Now it is like five and a half to one PR to reporter. So we are vastly outnumbered as journalists these days. Something I've always wondered is how could you unleash the journalistic talent in public relations, not just to serve their company or their mission, but to come across and try to create some of these editing cores or find funding networks for us or say that PR societies are gonna serve communities by helping support editors and training managers. And look, the need is so great, right? We are in a full blown house on fire crisis in local news. So ideas that you have that might be about how could we do this are so welcome. And the key is it doesn't take millions of dollars to affect change in a local community. For relatively small dollars, $10,000, $20,000, you can be part of putting a reporter in there to make a difference. So anyone who has ideas really wanna encourage you to talk with us and share with us what they are. More questions. Thank you very much. Hi, my name is Matt Hagman. Had the great pleasure of working with Liza. It's great to see you back in Miami. And of course with Jennifer, I'm formerly at the Miami Herald and Knight Foundation with Jennifer. But I have a question for Charlie. What is the hope for outcome when someone finishes their time for Report for America? As a result of all these reporters being out there with newspapers and radio stations and the rest, what is hope to be achieved? And I'm also just curious just about the transition from reporter to entrepreneur and what prompted that. Sure. To answer the first question, I think there are sort of two broad directions of outcomes that we're interested in. There's the outcome for the community, which we think is the most important outcome of all, right? So if we put reporters in to serve that community, we're seeing quantifiably that we are having impact and the increase in the number of stories in the areas where we're investing to fill a news desert. For example, in Appalachia where we put Will Wright, really talented reporter, two years ago, our favorite front page from the Report for America program launching in a city was when the Lexington Herald said, Report for America reopens Pikeville Bureau. So Pikeville, Kentucky is the heart of coal country. Lexington had shut down its bureau in Pikeville 10 years earlier. Will was there to reopen it. Like, that is so exciting because as someone from Boston, we confessed to this Red Sox nation thing already, I knew I didn't know about coal country, but what I didn't realize is Lexington, Kentucky, doesn't know about coal country. That's like a whole other, that's that complex web we saw at the presentation today when they were looking at the map of America. Like, so Lexington might show up as one of those blue prosperous cities and then you have this distressed Americana out in coal country. I would say Will Wright overnight has increased the number of stories coming from that region by 300% for the paper. He's deepened understanding and just by showing up, he affected change because there was a lack of access to clean drinking water. And he just went to a county commissioners meeting where that issue came up, he reported on it. Next thing you know, it is a statewide story and then it is a national story about lack of access to clean drinking water for tens of thousands of people in poor rural areas of Appalachia. As if it was all the way back to the great society, nothing had changed. It was really eye-opening and it affected immediate change. The person in charge of water was pushed into early retirement, wasn't quite as good as getting fired, but he got pushed out. And about four or five million dollars was immediately put toward fixing the water. So those are the real outcomes. That's the one we wanna focus on are like the Mississippi prisons I mentioned, DOJ investigation. Those are real outcomes. Some of the other things we hope for are that the newsroom might be revitalized by having emerging talent in it. If you bring digital natives into a newsroom, you can transform the newsroom. They're already thinking on different levels about how to share the story and really use what's available digitally. The other one, which I think you might be asking also, is like, what happens to the reporters at the end of their two years? So we have three reporters in Appalachia who are our first reporters. And I'll just, there are only three to graduate and they graduated in January, right? Cause we're in our third year. So we only have these three graduates. By June, we'll have 10 more. But I can tell you the three I hope reflect the future for the whole core, which is one, Will Wright has just been hired by the New York Times, the guy who broke the water story. He's now part of their fellowship program, which is a really interesting model. He's gonna pursue that. Katie Coyne has stayed at the Gazette Mail where she has dreamed of getting a job since she started getting into journalism as a freshman in college at West Virginia University. She loves that paper. She loves that motto, sustained outrage. She's a fierce local reporter who wants to stay there. The third one is Molly Bourne who is so badass. I don't know if you saw, the New York Times did a story on us and Molly was pictured standing on the streets in a small town in West Virginia. And she's just there and there's like the classic water tower and it says, God bless America and she's there and she has the tattoo of West Virginia motto, the state motto tattooed to her back. She's awesome. She actually got a job with a documentary unit, the ones that did heroin with a knee, very famous documentary team. So she's staying local but pursuing a dream to come up and out of print and into documentary producing. So I think those three give you a sense. One stayed, one got a big job in a big city and another one stayed but shifted into a deeper narrative storytelling through documentary. We'll see as we go through the years but our great hope is that people will stay. That's the first hope, serve the community deep in the knowledge. Second one is maybe propel some careers, really try to bring a whole new generation of journalists along who can say, I started at a small newspaper and I worked my way, a dream that we got to live out, that pipeline's broken. If we can restore the pipeline, I think it'll be great. I'll answer later the entrepreneurial thing because I'm talking too much. Okay, all right, so we have a lot of questions. So we had a hand up here, here, and then we'll go over here in the back, Taya in the back and this lady here, here and then there. So you know your order, got it, right? Okay, because I just forgot. That was good. But. Patrick Butler with the International Center for Journalists. Just briefly introduce yourself. Yes, and my question actually follows on that one. You talked a little bit about it with the reporter who's staying at her newspaper. And your funding model is really interesting, the 50%, I didn't realize that. But if you could just talk a little bit, and actually for Liza too, about how you make sure that the effect continues after the funding from your organization's ends. Well, first of all, we hope it won't end, right? Like so, when we have a reporter take the West Virginia newspaper, the Gazette Mail, just as an example. When Katie Coyne graduates out this June, or she graduated in January and stayed on, when we have a paper like the Dallas Morning News, where Obid Manuel is doing amazing reporting, he is himself a dreamer, and he's covering dreamers. It's an, he's an amazing reporter. Really looking at second generation community in South Dallas where he grew up. We're not leaving the Dallas Morning News. Even though Obid might graduate up and get hired, that's the dream. Or maybe he'll go on to work with another paper in Dallas, or shift, whatever. But we would like to think we gave him a start. I think he'll stay in Dallas, he'll stay in Texas. But the next thing is, we then bring in a new person, and we continue to serve the community. We wanna find the news organizations we can grow with. So remember, the Gazette Mail was our first. We went from one reporter in the first class to four who will be putting, you know, under that team of Greg Moore and of Ken Ward. Now, if they've left, the question is, where are they going? And do the four reporters, how do we work that out? We don't know. We're thinking, what we care about is that we're serving the community. So we're gonna see what constellation they form, how they develop, where they wanna take their energy, and we're gonna figure it out. But one thing we know is the news organizations that work well with us are the ones we wanna continue to support and fund and deepen. So it's not as if we go for two years and then we leave. Ideally, we stay. And we just did a big partnership with AP, a non-profit, to put 16 state house reporters in places where they were undercovered in state houses to serve all the local newspapers by having an extra state house reporter. So we're not only working with the smaller sort of local public radio, news papers or digital, we're also thinking on a big scale, how can we have impact in the regions? Thank you. And then we had, you know what, I think that, why don't we just get some of these questions in and incorporate answers as the questions come in? And who is next? Hi, Peter Klein from the Global Reporting Center. Charlie, you referenced how the First World Trade Center attack sort of brought the local into the global. Most of us here kind of grew up in newsrooms where there was local, national, and the foreign desk and it really siloed. But of course, the world does not silo that way and increasingly less siloed. You look at something like American Factory, the documentary that won the Oscar, that Julia Rykert, the director, is a local from Dayton, Ohio. She was following the story of a former GM factory and the transformation. It was at least 50%, I would say more than 50%, a foreign story because it was about China coming in and this glass factory and the culture clashes and all of that. I mean, this is really a question to all of you. How do you see the global aspects, particularly when it comes to supply chains and investments and jobs factoring into the local stories? I'll answer with a great shout out to Solutions Journalism and because we just worked on a project that I think really gets at that question, which is we did a project on AIDS. We looked at AIDS in Southern Africa in Namibia and we looked at how they are really doing a good job in some of their programs and not only addressing the crisis with AIDS but also in sort of addressing some of the community needs for helping those who are HIV positive. And then we compared it to Atlanta and we really looked at Atlanta where there was a deep crisis with AIDS right in the shadows of the CDC. And I think Americans can learn a lot from this global local approach where, hey Atlanta, CDC, you could learn a lot from Namibia about their programs and what they're doing on the ground. We have, since ground truth started eight years ago, we have always been global and local. We've looked at income and equality around the world through that prism of global and local. My dream is that we continue to work with Solutions Journalism Network on these global stories where we could take stories like, say a post cold distressed society. What does it look like in the rest of the world, in Poland or Brazil, China, where these other communities are gonna have to extract themselves from the reliance on a coal economy? What strains and stresses and economic themes could we bring forward so we can think of these forces in a global way but stick to local reporting? That's the big dream down the road for ground truth is that Report for America creates this inspired network of really talented local reporters who, maybe we can help fund them to think globally in the next phase of their career. So it's gonna take us a few years to get there, but that's the dream. I would like to push back a little bit also on the fact that we are not siloed anymore. At the local level, where we firmly believe the energy is at, you have communities within the same city that have no idea what's happening 10 blocks away. And that is part of what we strive to break, you know, to bridge with these collaboratives. You're all part of the same community, you're all living in the same city and you have no idea how your neighbors live, what they have or they don't have access to and what should be addressed and what should not be addressed. You can go your whole life without meeting other members of your community. So I think technology has given us sometimes the illusion of connectedness and it does wonderful things but also has sort of created this mirage that we're automatically connected and then so we look at Namibia but we don't look at 10 blocks down. This is, for example, specifically Miami, is a very siloed city where you have patchworks. It's a patchwork where you have patches that have no idea what the other patch is doing. Just a caution. So great opportunity for local journalism. So I wanted to go back to Teya Ryan from Georgia Public Broadcasting. And one thing I'd like to do before we close is for you to tell Charlie and Liza how people in communities can get in touch with you and bring this funded resource that Knight Foundation funded to your community and the opportunities for local matching funds. So, hi. Hi. This is a fascinating conversation. I'm very, we do a lot of partnering and I believe that is certainly our future for leveraging our resources at Public Radio and Public Television in Georgia. But I'm really interested in this idea and I know Jennifer, you've been experimenting a bit with this with public, private organizations coming together, journalistic organizations coming together and we have good relations with everyone. So, is a good approach of what you're talking about, a good place to start taking one idea like you did with the re-entry. Yes, exactly. Is a good place to start not to say, oh hey, let's just in general partner. But pick one topic and bring in say five commercial stations and five newspapers. And then I have the only worry I have is that the way we sound in public media is not the way they sound in commercial media. And we each have to sound our own way. We've all learned that. And so that kind of partnership seems to me a delicate one but one that only works if you recognize what each other's medium is and expectation is. But I'd really like to hear about is that the right place to start? Pick a topic together because I believe I can get a group of people around my state together to do that. But I wanna know what the trip ups are. I would say that one place to start there have been multiple different models around the country. And Liza, I think one of the things that I learned and deeply appreciated about the approach that the Solutions Journalism Network took in Philadelphia is they didn't just say, hey, let's go to the barn and put on a show and you do this and you do this and you do that. It was a lot of work. There had to be a lot of trust built among and respect. Different organizations had to put aside their way of doing business and really learn in some cases to respect that different organizations did business differently. So if you could talk a little bit about that, I think that's so important. Yes. I don't want to disappoint you too much when I tell you that Philadelphia's Collaborative started in a bar, which is where most journalistic endeavors start. Not a barn, a bar. That's exactly right, B-A-R. But yeah, I wrote a piece for Medium on this and it's called You Have to Want to Be There. That is the essential, it sounds like a pedestrian comment, but it is really true. All of these factors that Jennifer just outlined are real and so when you come together, you have to believe that reporting together on an issue of importance to the community and making your community informed and engaged around this issue is the paramount goal. And for that, you have to make some adjustments to your thinking, your competitive spirit, your idea that yes, perhaps you have more resources or you have a style that is not the same style as that ethnic publication. Most of our collaboratives create a common website and that's where they put all of their content that they have produced and then they have the right to take from that common website and reproduce that content in their own respective outlets. But the interesting thing also, and we talk about editing, as the collaboratives get together, and again, we always say this collaborative is not a one night stand, it's not light dating, it's a marriage. And so as you keep on talking and as you keep on finding things about coverage, where are your gaps, what did you miss, how could this be made better, the issues that you're telling me organically start to resolve themselves and they are not a cause for conflict, they are a cause for discussion and to make each reporting or each outlets reporting richer and then better as a group. I was very touched about a month ago when I went to the periodic meeting of the Charlotte Collaborative when the Spanish language newspaper asked for money from the common pot that they have to spend so that they could do some translations from English into Spanish to publish in her paper. Everyone approved it, they thought it was great, but then the Charlotte Observer said, you know, we are exploring now the possibility to do some stories in Spanish. We have not done that before and we want to explore that and we see if we can better serve our constituency by doing that and for me that was success, success. This is something that they would not have thought about before came out of this periodic collaboration but it's a lot of quantity time until you find your quality time and then your quality time gets more and more and more frequent and that's how you do things. Yes and we know that forced marriages don't work or all the time. That's exactly right. Anyway, so we have 10 minutes left and I know that we have a lot of questions so we're gonna do 140 character, the old fashioned character Twitter limit to get your question and we promise that we'll do short answers. I'll be quick. I'm Kristen Jones from the Colorado Trust, a foundation in Denver. I'm curious if you can talk specifically about what you've done to recruit journalists of color and whether there is, whether you pay special attention to retaining those journalists and making sure they're supported and stay in the field. Thanks. We have, we've hired a director of recruitment who's very active in NABJ and he's based in Chicago. We've really tried to make an effort for him to go out into historically black colleges to go into all the different conferences for Asian, Hispanic and black journalists and say we are really open for business. We want to encourage you if you're having a hard time as a journalist finding the pipeline to get started, think about applying for a report for America and then we can help assign you to newsrooms because the truth is nationally newsrooms want reporters of color. They want reporters who can reflect and understand and report on the communities where they live. So we think we become a national talent agency. We bring in really talented emerging reporters then we have news organizations that want those reporters and we can actually make some change and so we're aggressively trying to do this and we're using all tools, social media, every speaking engagement we can get. Any of you who want to offer a speaking engagement in your local communities, for example, our reporters are fantastic ambassadors of our idea and our mission. We'd encourage you to think about doing that. Trying hard would be the short answer. Next question. Okay. Steve Cox with the Wichita Community Foundation and a question about the collaborative. Just real quick, in Philadelphia, does a collaborative ever produce an article that is specifically referenced as a collaborative? Do they ever produce something online from the collaborative or do they always go back to their own outlet and when they publish, do they ever reference a collaborative or do they always do it under their own byline? This is an excellent question. And yes, they use the tagline collaborative, CJC, a Charlotte Journalism Collaborative, Resolve Philly and once a collaborative gets more comfortable, they do a lot more joint reporting. So you have two or three outlets that will get together to focus on this particular story for today and produce it in a multimedia format. So the TV station will bring the video, print will do its thing, the digital startup will do some data crunching. So as a collaborative gets comfortable, there is more common reporting but then all the individual reporting, they always reference that they are part of the collaborative in their community. And just for a quick on Twitter, if you look at the hashtag broke in Philly, you'll see all of the work that has been produced in Philadelphia around covering the economy and the impact of the economy on people. Another question. Michael Shapiro from tap into. I heard that you had said that you have about like 2000 reporters or potential reporters that have applied but you're gonna take a very small number. Have you thought about creating some kind of public database of those individuals that, you know, who don't make it? Yes, is the short answer. We realized that first we had to ask them if it was okay if we did that. So we didn't in the time before but now we have. We've said we would like to share your great talents with other news organizations that might be looking to hire someone, but even if you don't get accepted into report for America, is that okay with you? And we're getting resounding yeses. So now we can start to build it out as a real database and a real talent pool from which we can draw.  And Steve Waldman, the co-founder who really was mentioned by Alberto today, who really I think is one of the most important voices in recognizing this crisis in local news. He talks about we are going to get to 1000 reporters. We are determined to get to this goal. It's in the grant agreement. It is, thanks for reminding me. I have to be sitting down. So is diversity, equity, and inclusion. Exactly, we're trying our hardest, but we're on track with 250, we will get to 1000 cause we have to, but even when we get there, it will come nowhere near replenishing the 35,000 journalists who have lost their jobs in the last 15 years. Even if we could bring in a billion dollars to local reporting, it will nowhere near replenish the tens of billions that have been taken out of journalism in this crisis. So we have a huge, huge mountain to climb. And if we could become a hub for talent, for young people to anyone who wants to grab them at any point, even if it's outside our selection cycle, we're working on that. And if you're interested in that, we could talk about it. Also, I have a colleague, Lauren here, who's really one of our team leaders. She has one pagers. And if anyone's interested in the model or how to reach us or anything, we'll have one pagers for you. And just so that, you know, after lunch, we have a longer break than usual because lunch, Kara Swisher, is going to be producing a podcast with Jorge Ramos. So both Charlie and Lauren and Liza, we've set up tables outside the ballroom so that you can also come and speak and speak to them directly. So, you know, we're gonna just take this one last question. And I'd really love Liza and Charlie for you to share with people in the room and our broadcast audience, livestream audience, to on how people can find out how to bring these great projects. to their communities and not just to their newsrooms, to their communities, and that includes funders. Great. Yes, sir. I'm Ken Henson from Columbus, Georgia. And I'm curious as to how you select the cities or the news organizations where you send these reporters. So for us, the selection process is really straightforward. We open it up. All newsrooms are free to apply of any size, stripe, whatever your medium, it could be radio, it could be television, it could be newspaper, it could be digital startup. As I said, we really love public radio stations. Just come forward with an application. Three things you gotta share. One, that you have a news desert and you have a strategy to fill the gap. So however you define it, if you need better health coverage, if you need better coverage of the agricultural community, whatever it is, whatever is going on that you need better coverage of, prove that to us and that you have a plan. The second is that you are a news organization with a real track record for public service. That you have a sustainable business model. You're gonna be around for a while and you've got a mission that really serves your community. And the third one is mentoring and editing. And we're getting to be candid. We're getting gamed on this one. The news organizations are saying, oh, we have a great editor. We will assign to this reporter.  So we insist that you have a good editor, a mentor, someone to watch out for this emerging journalist. But we understand that is a stress point for small newsrooms. And we were, as I said, we wanna find out good ideas. How could we solve that equation? Thank you. Liza. Jen. What? What? How can one of the things that I think it's important for folks here to learn is, yes, you can seek to bring a Solutions Journalism Collaborative to your community. But Solutions Journalism Network offers so many different resources and services. So tell us a little bit about that. Absolutely. The Local Media Project is one of the many initiatives that Solutions Journalism Network is working on. We have initiatives to partner with newsrooms individually if you want to. And any newsroom can approach us and say, I would like to embrace Solutions Journalism, please come and teach me how to do it. We work with individual news professionals, whether you're affiliated with an organization or not. We conduct seminars, we conduct webinars, we have a huge, what we call our teaching lab, in our website with resources such as case studies, webinars, research, talking about Solutions Journalism. We can connect you with people who are doing Solutions Journalism. We can connect you with organizations that are doing Solutions Journalism. We aim to serve in the altar of Solutions Journalism. Whichever way you want to approach Solutions Journalism, we reach all constituencies. We think that we can really transform journalism, not only in the United States, but in the galaxy. It's a good weapon that allows us to regain trust with our audiences. As journalists, we have talked a lot about losing trust and losing that special connection that journalism has with audiences. We have heard a lot about how relentlessly negative narratives simply make people walk away from journalism. As a journalist, I've been to 100 activities, parties where I am asked, what do I do for a living? And I say, I'm a journalist. And someone says, I don't watch news anymore. It's all negative and it's all terrible. Well, that's a terrible answer. You should watch news. A part of being an informed and a productive citizen of your community is to be engaged with the news. It's to be part of the discourse. And we feel that Solutions Journalism is a very powerful weapon to do that. And so it changes the minds of journalists, but it also changes the minds of the news consumers. And there's also lots of foundations, such as the Lorre Foundation, which has been a great partner of the Solutions Journalism Network and has produced success in small communities, rural communities, and city neighborhoods. So if I may give a shout out to the Wichita Community Foundation that has been incredibly supportive and trying to get together, collaborative in Wichita, Shelly Pritchard and Courtney Benson have been absolutely outstanding, understanding how transformative this can be. So how do people get in touch? Lysa at SolutionsJournalism.org. Solutions Journalism, all one word. And of course we wrote it out. It's in here as well. But please make sure, www.SolutionsJournalism.org, you can go to our website, explore, we have the largest database of solution stories, so about 8,000 solution stories now, many produced by reporters from Report for America on any subject. You want to look at gun violence, key in gun violence, see what has been written. You want to do achievement gap in public school systems. You can key in that by author, by state, by city. So it's a very versatile and very searchable database among our other resources. Excellent, and also a great way for foundations to listen and to learn about the concerns of peoples in their communities. Charlie, how do they get in touch with you? So reportforamerica.org is our website. And I'm at C-Senate at reportforamerica.org. And really please get in touch and be ambitious. I was thinking about the question from Georgia, public media, and the other question from Georgia. Be ambitious in a region where there's need. Think about working together. I am from print, but I began in public radio, and our headquarters at Ground Truth were now based at WGBH. We're independent, but they give us a really great newsroom. And I would say there's tremendous partnership between newspapers and public media especially. And there's so much to be done there. I'm trying, I feel like the child of divorced parents, newspapers and public radio. If you could get those two together, the power to serve the community is extraordinary. They haven't always been easy to stitch together, right? But it really could be powerful. So I'd say be ambitious. Think about applying for a cluster of reportforamerica organizations. Think about solutions in partnership with that. Like how can you build something from scratch, create a lab? I don't know, maybe it's health.  Maybe there's a real need for better local reporting on a crisis in AIDS in the shadow of CDC. Or maybe there's completely different issues around rural health or whatever. But think about how you'd be really ambitious and reach out to us and we're all yours. Well, we do have a, Macon, Georgia. We have a wonderful partnership with public radio and Macon. And with Mercer University. And Macon Telegraph, we had a report for America. And with Macon Telegraph, which is owned by McClatchy, which just went bankrupt. And that has caused a lot of concerns about the future of that collaborative. But we're confident with commitment to delivering and producing journalism there. I forgot to mention this, Jennifer. I'm sorry. Just at our desk today, I want to, this is a report Steve Waldman and our really great colleague who's here, Todd Franco, who's our director of sustainability, who's the direct contact for regional foundations to try to raise the local piece of the funding. They've put together the impact we've had just in the last year of raising $1 million from local foundations. These are in increments of about $10,000 to $20,000 from local foundations to pull forward as part of our national match. So there's real information in here that might help you. I have a couple of copies of it. We'll have more at the table. But if you're interested, we can share that with you. Data is good. Data is good. Yeah. Thank you, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. And look forward to more conversation. Thank you.


Okay. Thanks, Brad. And welcome, everyone. It is great to see so many people here for the first in-person or at least semi-in-person systems all hands meeting since 2019. I'm going to keep this short. I want to just share a couple of updates from the integration facility, touch on a couple of logistical points and say just a few more words about the theme for this year's meeting. This is actually not the set of slides that I think that I think we need. But that's okay. We'll go with it. Okay, well, then my bad. I guess I did. Okay, that's fine. No problem. So let me, let me comment first of all on the theme of environmental extreme so about eight weeks ago I was on an airplane that was just touching down at Denver Airport. It's only the second airplane trip I had taken in since the pandemic started and looking out to the West there's a plume of smoke rising over what looks like my neighborhood. So when my wife and I turned our phones on, there's a string of text messages saying things like, we have your cat, and you have to evacuate now. So we were lucky our neighborhood was fine nobody was hurt, no structures were burned but it was a visceral reminder that each year, a lot of humans on this planet are not so unscathed in their encounters with various kinds of geophysical events and of course that's one of the motivations to study these things right that's one of the motivations to understand the processes behind floods and landslides and coastal storms and whatnot. But there's more to it than that as Brad alluded to right that we know that these events are part of a tapestry processes that shapes earth scapes sedimentary basins landscape seascapes over time and that's one of the things that that our community is interested in as well. So let's zoom out for a moment and think about the broader geological tapestry. In fact, you can view longer term processes as being a kind of environmental extreme as well so think about ice ages. Think about times of especially high or low sea level. Think about the paleocene is seen thermal maximum, even some tectonic events think about a mantle drip is in sent in some sense an environmental extreme right. So metaphor think about plate boundaries these are zones in space of extremely concentrated geophysical activity. And one thing that that different tapestry of processes has in common is the fact that almost none of them, maybe none of them at all fit comfortably in the confines of the laboratory right it's not easy to do experiments on these geophysical and environmental systems that we study. So what do we do we turn to computational models to be able to conduct controlled experiments, and also as containers of our theory right these are our ideas written in the form of equations and algorithms that we're iteratively comparing with nature, and hopefully improving. Okay, so the theme of computational modeling that's one of the key things that brings us together here as the CSDMS community. For those of you new to CSDMS the acronym stands for the community surface dynamics modeling system. It is a community and an NSF sponsored facility so I want to make sure that we express our gratitude to the National Science Foundation supported CSDMS and his community for a long time. The mission of the facility is to support the research that you all do in computational research on the earth and its surface processes and near surface processes. We do this through three main areas of activity there's community support various kinds of computational support hardware access software tools and protocols, and various kinds of educational resource and programs. So I'm going to just flip through a few quick updates from the integration facility so starting with. Let's see we'll start with the model repository so many of you are familiar with the model repository. This is a catalog of community shared model codes ranging from single sub routines to big integrated numerical models. There's now over 400 of them and that's a lot to sift through if you're a model shopper so we've added some new capabilities for dynamic search. We've begun tagging models if their code has been explicitly peer reviewed. There's also an extensive bibliography. There's also references to papers by about or describing applications of particular models, and that helps give you information that you can use to evaluate for example, is this particular code being published about frequently, how well used is it in a community. Another feature of the model repository that you that's not visible on the website but is no less important is hot off the presses they're now embedded micro tags that make the model database much more easily searchable by, for example, Google being in your favorite search engines. Let's see. In terms of support to individual researchers we continue to provide access to research software engineers who can help you with your work. There is a help desk where you can post technical questions and get answers from the engineering team. There is a, the possibility of consulting one on one with the research software engineers if you have questions that or or ideas that you want to talk through we can help you for example talk through ideas for broader impacts on a proposal. So you can contact us about that at CSDMS at colorado.edu. Let's see another resource that I'm delighted to announce today is the debut of open Earthscape. So this is a project that is also supported by NSF, and it is about developing the next generation of the CSDMS workbench tools. And one of the key tools in that tool kit that has rolled out in the past few months is the open Earthscape Jupiter hubs. So this is a pair of cloud hosted server resources where you can log in and get access to Jupiter notebooks and associated tools right so many of you are familiar with Jupiter notebooks is these wonderful documents that provide code and text and graphics and animations and so on. So there are two of these. One is called Jupiter dot open Earthscape dot org that's designed for research. And there's a second one called lab dot open Earthscape dot org that is for classrooms clinics workshops and things like that and some of you will have the chance to experience that firsthand later today or later this week. Another of the products that system supports is land lab. So land lab is, as many of you know a Python language programming package and library that is designed to make it easier more efficient to create integrated numerical models of various kinds of processes. So this slide shows snapshots of some examples. Actually, this one doesn't show that this is several examples of papers that have been published using land lab. So applications from dry land hydrology to tectonic geomorphology to frog ecology was one that I thought was kind of interesting. So it's a variety of different things. Land lab version 2.5 has just been released. It has some new components there's a like a marine carbonate producer component. There's a couple new flow routing components and some other things so I encourage you to check that out. Okay, next up another tool in the toolkit are is or our data components. So data component is a piece of Python software that allows you to access a particular data set and subset it if needed, from a remote location. Currently so the idea is that you have your, your data access and processing as a scripted part of your workflow. So data components they do things like they that's atmospheric data soils data USGS stream flow data national water model output topography from our friends at open topography, and even a generic geotip file reader. So, check those out there are tutorials online both accessible both through the systems web portal and through hydro share. Let's see what's next the basic model interface. So, some of you are users of the basic model interface. This is an interface standard for grid based numerical models. And essentially in English what that means is, it's a list of functions, which if you attach it to your model your model gains a degree of interoperability and standardization that make it easier to work with and easier to connect with other models and kind of coupled modeling. So it's now in use by a variety of groups, not just in the US but overseas as well. And in many ways it started to outgrow just our small integration facility team here in Boulder so we'll be later today, kicking off the inaugural meeting of the BMI Council. This is a group of BMI users who have generously volunteered their time to help steer and guide the future of this evolving standards so thank you to all of you. Okay, turning now to some educational resources. Our collection of online labs about models and modeling is growing and thank you to those of you who have contributed new labs. They are mostly in the form not entirely but many of them are in the form of Jupiter notebooks and they can now be launched either on binder of free service or on this new open Earthscape hub. And then webinars. And many of you know that we've been hosting a webinar series and thank you very much to the webinar presenters from the last year. If you missed a webinar. Don't despair because the webinars are recorded and posted online so if you go to the CSMS webinars portal, you'll find now over 40 recorded webinars on a whole variety of different topics so please check that out. I have to say that all of this would not be possible without both support from the National Science Foundation and a heck of a lot of work from a dedicated team in the integration facility so I want to give it a shout out to these folks. I also want to thank our graduate student volunteers who are helping out with this meeting. So all the folks pictured here are working hard behind the scenes to make this happen. So a couple of logistical notes. This is kind of a sketch of our program today. We have keynotes in the mornings, we'll have a breakout session after that today. Clinics in the afternoon so these are two hour blocks of time when you get to learn about some particular tool or technique or package or whatever. So posters in the afternoon, if you haven't already put up a poster. Go ahead and and find a spot there spots. I guess there's still at least one spot in this room and there's more around in the room over on the side here. Let's see clinics. If you've forgotten which clinics you signed up for just turn around your name badge and they should be listed here along with the room number in this building so this is big building as a guide in north that way. Yes, south that way. Floor one floor to floor three. Let's see we're going to have an award ceremony followed by a banquet banquet in quotes is going to be a relatively relaxed informal affair will be here in this building, the bank will be over in the cafeteria. So that should be good fun tomorrow. One other piece of it. And if anybody Lynn or anybody needs to remind me to say anything else going, going. Okay. Last thing I have to say about logistics is, unfortunately, in Boulder County, Colorado, the CDC has recently raised the level of community spread from green to yellow. So it means we need to be vigilant. If you need a test kit, we have some test kits on hand. We also have a supply of masks should you desire a mask. I plan to wear a mask when I'm not presenting or outside. We ask that if you do get a positive test while you're here, or experience serious symptoms, or informed of an exposure. If you would please let one of the meeting organizers know we won't share your name publicly but it helps us to keep a keep an eye on things and we can potentially help with the logistical consequences of getting a positive test. We're monitoring the CO2 level in this room so you know CO2 we're we're organisms we breathe out CO2 right so CO2 concentration in the air around us is a good indicator of ventilation quality. Right, everybody and everybody knows what it is outside around us right somebody want to tell me. This is good geopop quiz. We hit 420 parts per million. We're not in the place to see anymore. But anyway there's a meter out by the coffee coffee if you want to check that out. I last I looked at my portable meter it was in the 500 which is actually pretty good. So finally less since I don't want to end on kind of a bum note. Let me just share this one thought it's, you know, is this has been a rough time for a lot of humans on the planet right not just the pandemic. There's a lot of geopolitical upheaval. There's long anticipated climate upheaval that's unfolding before us. It's easy to get discouraged, but I think it's important to remember that people with training and experience and interest in earth and environmental science is broadly read. I think your skills and perspective are needed now more than ever. Actually, I mean there's the obvious reason that you all have the skill sets to help deal with a rapidly changing and evolving and dynamic environment. But also the perspective that you bring to the table of a perspective of deep time, a perspective of dynamically interacting physics chemistry and biology. And of course the habit as scientists of asking, as Bertrand Russell put it, what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. That's a message the world needs today. Okay, so anyway, I'm looking forward to learning some really cool facts with you the next couple days. Any particular burning questions. I am now going to hand it over to Irina Overeem.


Hello my friends, welcome back to Apple's NTRS. So today I wanted to do sort of a different kind of style video. As you can see, I'm here at home. I'm filming in my gaming space, my office, my Twitch setup, kind of different for me. But today I wanted to do a very highly requested video and that is my All About Class Dojo video. So if you want to know what I do with Class Dojo, how I use it, how I incorporate rewards, how I involve parents, then keep on watching. Today I wanted to sit down and just chat with you guys about Class Dojo, show you how I do Class Dojo in my classroom, and then show you my Class Dojo store and how I run it. So I'm just going to really quickly pull up my screen and I might actually move myself a little out of the way and get myself a little bit smaller here. So just hang tight with me. I'm still learning all the tricks of the trade. Here we go. Okay, so you can still see me here in the corner, but basically what I've done is I've created a model class.  So we're going to just add a couple of students here. We're going to do Charlotte, that's me, another student, Jack. So we're going to add Jack into my class. And so Class Dojo has this really cool new feature where the students have little eggs on their accounts and they don't actually hatch the eggs until they log in as a student, which is really cool. So throughout the week, let's see, I'm going to actually edit my skills. You can import from any class and then same for needs work. Okay, so I've imported my skills from another class, which is really nice because you don't have to go in and re-add all of the skills. So these are some of the skills that my team and I use to give the points to students and take them. Things like Masked Hero, we don't really use anymore, but it's still there. That's just from when we were, or last year when everyone had to be masked. If they were doing a good job keeping their mask on, we would give them a point, just kind of stuff like that, staying distant. So we have tech whiz, super silent. The magic five is really cool to give them when they win a game. We also have winner for individual wins, being on task, being ready for class, being responsible, having a super line. I give students points for being ready for it if I call on them and they are able to answer or respond. And then you can also take them away for various things, being too close to getting their mask off, yelling out, not using tech appropriately, not keeping hands to self. You guys get it. So hopefully by now, you guys have used Class Dojo and you're just really wanting to see how we use it for reward systems. So what I do with my students is they start at zero and then I start giving them points. Now my teammates also use this, so they're earning points and getting taken points, not very often, from three different teachers. So all three of us have access to this dojo account, to these dojo classrooms. We all have our own set of messages that we can send parents. We can't see each other's messages. When we send them, parents only see from their one teacher.  They get the notification and then you can actually share the students, which is a really amazing feature, especially if you're like me and you're departmentalized teaching.  And for doing absolutely nothing. Now I don't ever reset my students points and that is because every Wednesday we do a dojo store. And the dojo store is located in my virtual classroom. And so this is what my virtual classroom looks like. This is the place where I send all my students to go to when they're done with their assignments and they have nothing else to do. They can go on Epic, they can go on Pina code. Now these codes are kind of, this one especially is inactive, but they can go Google Earth, Storyboard. Just all of the websites that are pre-approved, I can send them there. Anyway, my dojo store is located here in the top right corner. So this website's kind of like a everything in one spot. I actually need to edit this because I need to add a dojo points prize. But essentially what I've done is I have created different point scales. So for five point students can buy a piece of candy or a positive note home. So if you guys watched my haul a few weeks ago, I did buy those really cool postcards. And those are what I will write positive notes home on. And you'll notice that there's a couple of little labels. So V and P just means Valdez and Perry, which means myself and my teammate. We both offer that prize. If it says V or P, that just means that it's only Valdez or only Perry. And then if there's no label on it, that means that all three of us will accept that reward. So let's just say a student really wants a positive note home from their math teacher because they've been struggling in math and mom's kind of mad at them because they're not doing well. Well, they can get a positive note home from their math teacher. Maybe they did something really great that day in math and they really want to show it off. For eight points, they can choose them in class. They have to bring their own, bring a reading buddy. There's pillows that we have that they can use under their seats or on their seat, take their shoes off. Ten points, they can change their dojo monster, which is something that you, the teacher would need to do using a pen in class instead of a pencil. Now I'm going to be adding a prize box to this. I think I'm going to do 12 points. Actually, maybe we'll do 15 just to make it a little bit more pricey. But for 12 points, they can be the DJ for the day. So as you can see, this is just my prize. Free drawing time and free tech time. This is when they're done with their assignment early. They've done a really nice job. We've checked them already and they don't want to go in virtual classroom, but they want to pull their phone or their tablet out. They can do that for 10 minutes if they use this reward. They can also draw for 10 minutes if they use that reward. So these are kind of like the I'm done. I want to do something else, rewards. DJ for the day, obviously, if we're doing like a whole group lesson, they can't use that, but if it's like an independent time or during like projects or stations, they can choose music for the day. A free assignment. This one is one of the favorites they like to save up for this. Now this one is just a free assignment. So let's say we're doing this activity. They don't want to fill out the lab sheet. Sure, okay. You don't have to fill out the lab sheet. Tell me exactly what I want to know. You don't have to fill out the sheet and you get the credit for it. Obviously, if it's like an assessment or something like that, it's off the table, but if it's just a quick little assignment or task, they can totally cash in and not have to do it. Show and tell, speaks for itself. Flexible seats. There are a ton of different spots in the room. They can choose from a lunch bunch. Those are on Fridays and they get to pick a friend. Oh, see, prize box. I put it in for 30. Okay, so it is in there. Stealing a job, assistance. I don't do classroom jobs. I have two assistants per quarter. They do everything and you can steal the assistant's job for the day. Rat time. This is a high seller. I did have to make it 30 points because kids were buying it off the charts and I wanted to make it more of a desirable prize, something they had to work really hard for. So it is 30 points this year. And then for 50 points, coffee with Miss Veldas on Wednesday mornings or a soda with Mr. Cummings at lunch. I bring them Starbucks. Basically, it's just like a tall Frappuccino or like pink drink or something from Starbucks that they can enjoy with me in the morning. So obviously, if you create your own dojo store, you can add whatever prizes that fit your students' wants and needs. So for my dojo store, I send out a weekly form on Wednesday morning. This is the first thing that they do when they come to my class on Wednesday morning. Wednesdays are half days, so it's kind of like an asynchronous day already. Basically, they fill in their names, so I would be Charlotte. And then they tell me what home room they're in. This just helps to organize the responses. And then how many points are they spending? Separate the point amounts with commas if you're buying more than one thing. So let's say I want candy and to take off my shoes. I would put five comma eight.  So then they click submit and then the dojo requests come in. My student assistants will then come back, go through the dojo store requests, write out tickets, and then they give them to the students. So this has gone super smoothly forever. Now I do have a few rules with my dojo store. First of all, students may only shop on Wednesday. If you're absent, too bad. Don't be absent. Now I know that that's kind of a controversial thing, but for me, if I don't make it just Wednesdays, I'll have kids who are absent trying to buy things right in the middle of my lesson on Thursday, right in the middle of my lesson Friday. They're trying to buy things here and there all around the square. And so Wednesday is the only day you can shop. They understand if they're absent Wednesday that they do have to wait till the next week to purchase anything, okay?  It's just a little thing that I made on PowerPoint. Like I just threw in a couple of little dojo monsters on a square and print them out. I put their name on the card and then I write the prizes on there. So as they use them, I scratch them off with a pen. The prizes are written in pen so they can't erase and like rewrite anything. And in the mornings during class, during my warmup time, because I do give them a 10 minute warmup, the beginning of every class period so that I can situate students who are doing something who are warming up, who are finishing up absent work and who want to use a dojo ticket. So all they do is hold their ticket in the air. I come around and acknowledge them. If it's piece of candy, I send them back to the candy jar. If it's flexible seating, I can acknowledge that. So I do all of the acknowledging of the dojo tickets during my first 10 minutes of class, during my warmup period. That's when students are allowed to ask to use the bathroom. That's when they're allowed to go get their drinks filled and they have silent signals that they show me so that while everybody else is warming up, they are getting their things situated and under control before I start my lesson because I do have a 90 minute block. And so I take 10 minutes out of the beginning to fix and get everything situated so that during my 80 minutes of class, I can just focus on learning. So that is my dojo store. And I hope that I answered all of your questions as many questions as I could. Dojo is an amazing tool. You can send messages to families. You can get students involved. They can post pictures. There's little lessons that they can turn things in. I mean, dojo has really evolved in the last few years. So if you're not using dojo, I highly recommend that you try. I personally like it better than remind even for especially younger students because I can see when parents have seen my messages, they can respond quickly. Everything is translated if there's any sort of language barrier between a parent and I. And so I really do love class dojo. It is an amazing, amazing tool. So yeah, hopefully I helped you guys with that and gave you some ideas for your dojo store. By the way, this is just a Google website. So when you sign in for Google account, all you do is scroll down and go to sites, which is not here. Oh, right there. So it's this little symbol right here, Google sites. And then you can just create whatever type of website you want. These are all just pictures I found online. Obviously these are bitmojis and then more online pictures. So, and then yeah, my virtual classroom, same thing. Just pulled in the label from each website and it's a one stop shop. So anyway, hopefully this video was informative and helpful and thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you in the next one. Bye guys.


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