Welcome to Actionable Feedback with CESA in grades three through five. We're so excited to have you all with us today. Today we have two amazing classroom teachers and a CESA certified educators joining us to share strategies and steps that they use to give actionable feedback within CESA that supports students' learning and growth. My name is Ali McIntyre and I am a training and professional development specialist here at CESA focusing specifically in that third through fifth grade band. I'm super excited to be here. I was formerly a fourth and fifth grade teacher as well as a reading interventionist for third through fifth grade and an instructional coach. And I live in Denver, Colorado where we got close to, I think, half a foot of snow today. So exciting winter. I'm now gonna have Eric and Emily introduce themselves. Hey everybody, my name is Eric Robinson. I'm a fifth grade teacher from Chelsea, Michigan. This is my 19th year of teaching. For a long time I taught littles. I taught kindergarten in first grade and then this is my first year in fifth grade. So the kids seem really old to me. And I've been using CESA since the beginning and have loved sharing CESA with so many different teachers over the years just because I love sharing something that I believe in and really love using. So really excited to be here with you all. And I will second, oh, sorry. You're good. I will second what Eric said and that I love to share CESA with other people because it's an amazing platform that all students can benefit from. I was a third grade teacher. This is year 20 for me in education but this is my first year being an instructional technology coach. So now I don't get to just have the love of CESA in my own classroom but I get to share it with other people. So yeah, and I'm from Quincy. So, all right. Awesome. Thank you both. Okay, so we're gonna begin by taking a look at two different types of feedback. And as you review these two different types of feedback I want you to think about the differences between the two. So this is feedback type A and you can see down below the teacher has said in their comment on CESA, great job. Keep working hard. And here's feedback type B. The teacher wrote in CESA, great job. You showed each step of your long division and all place values are lined up correctly. Now, compare your long division and equal group strategy. What do you notice? Use the mic to tell me what you notice and how you will fix your math. So I want everyone to think about what did you notice about feedback type A and type B? Similarities, differences and then really which type of feedback that supports student growth and learning? And we'd love for you to hop into the chat and share your ideas around this. Which type of feedback that you just saw between A and B is gonna best support student growth and learning? You see Stephanie shares that B was more specific with small groups ideally type B. B has those next steps, awesome. The second one is specific, give students the next steps. Oh my goodness, there's so many coming in. Feedback B allows students to reflect on their learning. It challenges students to dive deeper. I'm having a hard time reading all these. Love how kids are encouraged to record themselves absolutely you all hit the nail on the head. And so we all know as you and you all know this, students benefit most from feedback when it is given during the learning process and supports them to grow towards their goals. And so CSAS supports ongoing timely feedback that deepens learning. So here's our agenda today. We're gonna learn or you all are gonna learn three ways that teachers give actual feedback within CSAS. You're gonna learn how students can give effective peer feedback, excuse me, which is so important especially as we think of those third through fifth grade students. And then also how to support families and providing feedback on student work in CSAS. So I'm now gonna hand it over to Emily. All right, thanks Allie. Well, as we saw in those two examples, feedback can be a really powerful way to enhance that student learning. And so we're gonna jump right into it and find ways to help our students. Feedback is most effective when we utilize it during that learning process as Allie just said and when we're connecting it to their goals. Then students can use the feedback, they can grow in their skills, change thinking processes that happen along the way and even we can help students to extend beyond the concept or the skills that are being taught. Amazing feedback really has that power to improve student achievement. And as an added benefit of sharing that feedback, you'll really see that you're gonna be able to build more connections between you and your students and build that classroom bond. It's important to remember that effective feedback given during the learning process is gonna help them a lot. And it will help them to better understand the concepts. And students will then even have the opportunities to revise their work and make plans as they keep going. So the first way we're gonna look at is to share feedback by using comments inside of CSOT. And I think you're gonna see as we explore a couple of these ways that they are fast, they're easy and they're effective ways right there in CSOT. You don't have to go anywhere else. It's built to help your students right there through the comments. All right, so the first piece is you could see when a student makes a post to their journal or completes an assignment in CSOT, really in either place. Before the teacher clicks approve, that's a great time and a place for you to be able to leave a comment for your student. As the student turns in the work, it's very natural. You're going to be assessing their work. It's a nice place for you to leave that feedback. You can just easily type it right there in the feedback, in the comment box right below the student's work. And add on to that. If we go into that idea of actionable feedback, we're looking at a way to share with students some things that they might want to change, some tools or things they might want to change, tools they need to work on a little bit more. And looking at the feedback, your students are going to grow in some areas that they maybe haven't mastered yet. Another great way for you to use that feedback is to notice progress towards a student's goal. A lot of times our students are making progress towards goals and towards that new learning and even just making a comment and providing them feedback that you're noticing the growth towards their goal will help them to aim and reach a little bit higher for that goal next time. I always like to say with my students, success breeds success. So as we're noticing the things that they're doing well, they're going to keep wanting to do more of that. The thing I like to also remember is that you're not limited to just typed comments. And I know we saw in the chat, we have teachers across multiple grade ranges. And sometimes we might think that the audio comments are just for our younger learners, but that's not really true. The audio comments really can help our older students too. I think they share in the benefit of getting to hear the teacher's voice, the teacher's tone. And that feedback then also feels more personal to their students. And as a teacher, honestly, being able to click that microphone and give audio feedback is super quick and easy. But either when you choose, they're both gonna be great ways to support your students in growing their learning. Sometimes in the last example we were looking at if they need to change or fix things, but sometimes we have students that are doing really well with the work that was assigned or the tasks or skills we're working on in class. They might master it quickly or they've even teacher golden hour is that they have even shown interest in learning beyond the classroom.  And this is when instead of looking back on the work and making corrections or fixing and revising, I stop and think for that student, what's next? Where can I go to support that student to learn even more? The comments feature allows for me to be able to share links to additional learning or any kind of further opportunities that might help them to keep learning. In this example that you can see up on your screen right here, this is a real life example of an interaction between a student and myself. And we had an activity, you can see it was 2020, we were locked down. We had an activity and he was so interested and through our conversation, I was able to push him to do a little bit more and extend his learning even farther. And the other great benefit for me as a teacher was getting to connect with my student and watch him take on this challenge. It was quick, it was easy, and the best part was it was authentic learning and growth for my student. In this example, you can see that we were stretching as students learning, but in a minute, I'm gonna show you how to use links to reteach as an option as well. Now, if you are a Seesaw for schools or a Seesaw Plus customer, your feedback easily becomes something that students are going to be able to have the opportunity to improve on. So as a teacher, I can include those comments or areas to work on or improve. And I have that option then in the bottom below the item to be able to click the three dots and send it back as a draft. And it becomes returned to the students. They can follow the comments and they can improve their work. This gives them the opportunity, not just to learn and find out what they got wrong, but instead to go in and adjust and improve the work. That really high quality piece of being able to learn from the mistakes that we made. And I love this part. When a student opens up the draft, the feedback that you've given them is right there on their creative canvas. They can edit their work while your feedback and the things that you wanted them to focus on is right there in front of them. I think that's really important to give the kiddos that feedback that they can see. It's visible, it's in front of them to help them become more successful. Even though you might not be sitting right next to that student, you're still able to support them as they're learning with these new skills or what they needed help with. And how often, all the teachers are probably raising their hand. Do we hear them say, I forgot, where's the directions? What did you say? Using the comment feature, you have a nice little recorded spot of where you've left your comments and you can help your students to see that as a regular place to look and improve their work. And once we've supported our students with the comments, then the students are learning some steps also in being able to help themselves grow because they've found ways to fix that. This is another example and this was a poetry project that we were working on. And in this example, the student was missing a really big part of the goal of what we were trying to work on. So to support the student, the feedback comment was given to help them meet their learning goals. And now your students can jump in, use that comment and make revisions to their work. And this can actually happen in the learning canvas as they're working on things. It's a great way to support them as they're doing the action. So you're catching it as they're, as they're working towards those new goals. The feedback will prove to matter more to the student when they're working on the assignment and they're in there as opposed to later when the assignment's turned in and it's gone when you're catching it in the moment, you're really gonna be able to help them learn and grow and revise as learners. All right, this next piece, I'm really excited to get to share with you. The second way that we're going to talk about sharing some feedback with your students is to use a fun addition like your Bitmoji and even audio to take that feedback that you're giving to your students and make it a little bit more fun and a little bit more personalized. So I hope you guys like this part because I think it's really fun. So here's a fun fact for you. It only takes the brain about a quarter of a second to process visual information.  The other thing to note is that 93% of communication is non-verbal and across something like a digital platform using something that's gonna help personalize and connect with your students can help to send emotions. It can help to send a tone, encouragement, a picture's worth a thousand words, right? So sending your students these personalized images helps to connect with them. And if you don't have Bitmojis, fun stickers can be another way to help your students really connect with the message that you're sending to them. Oh, and did I mention, they're also a lot of fun. So let's take a look at some examples. So when you're approving your students work, you can add a Bitmoji sort of like a digital sticker right on top of that students work. So when you're in the approval screen, and you can see here on this math example, the teacher, in this case it was me, was looking through the assignment and instead of just clicking approve, I clicked edit the post and I pasted my Bitmoji right there on the students work. And my colleague, Eric, who's gonna be presenting here in just a little bit, has created a great little video to show exactly all the steps. So if I'm going too fast, don't worry, you're gonna be able to follow up with that video afterwards and we'll share this. We're also gonna have some time to explore. But if you're already a pro at knowing how to copy and paste images into CSaw, then you're already halfway there. Let's see what else we can add to that. I sometimes feel like an infomercial. But wait, there's more. Not only can you add your personalized Bitmoji, now that you can add audio to the images in CSaw, you can click it and you can attach your audio to the Bitmoji. So after you copy and paste your Bitmoji, you click on the three dots of the image. From here, you're going to choose voice and you can record an audio comment that attaches right onto the emoji. And when students get to see this audio and hear the icon, they can listen to their comment and they're gonna feel that it's personalized just for them. So we're gonna take a few minutes now and we're gonna jump in and we're going to explore and I'm gonna show you how we can add a Bitmoji with adding the audio effects to it. So here we go. Let's jump into our CSaw journal that we have set up. And so you can see we have a couple of different posts on here and I'm just gonna pick this one that's right on top here. And I'm going to click to edit the image. So click and edit post. All right. And I'm actually gonna use this one a little bit so I'll jump down to this one right here. And I noticed that the student hasn't completed it yet. And that's okay. I wanna give them some encouragement to keep on going and get this part done.  You get lots of these fun ones. And I'm gonna say keep going because I can see that they are still going on this. And I like this one. She's happy. She's sassy excited for that. I then right click to copy the image, copy and I can jump in and paste it right here on my, whoops, right here on my student's work. Now, to add the piece of adding the audio, I go right below that image. And of course I can resize it and put it wherever I want. I can click those three dots and I go to voice and I'll go ahead and test that out for you. See if it works at the same time. All right. We tested the other one but it doesn't seem like that one wants to show right now. But after you did that, it would record your voice on there. Oh, there it goes. Click record voice. You're doing good. You've got your other pages ready to go. Just keep on going with what you need to do. I hit check and now that comment is ready for my students to go back and look at. All right. Yes, and I see some things happening in the chat. Eric is going to showcase that in the video that we have attached. So you will get that video and we will look at it again. Now, here's an example of how I could actually use this in my classroom that helps a student to be able to learn a little bit more. So take a look and let me make sure that share audio is on. There we go. All right, here we go. Hey, kiddo. I just noticed that you've highlighted all of the words on this page. We were looking only for the long O sound. Go back, look at your words and highlight only the letter or letters that make the long O pattern. All right, so it's personalized and it goes right in to support your student. Oh, there we go. So just a couple of quick steps. Here's a little cheat sheet for you of the steps that we went through is on your computer, download the Chrome extension, search for the one that you want, personalize it. You can even add a student's name and copy and paste it on the post, go back in and select voice to add your comment. Don't worry about memorizing this. We will share this with you later. All right, a third way to share feedback is a cool feature that's built into Seesaw and that's the ability to be able to draw and record or even to include a video. So let's take a look at draw and record first. In this example, it seems that subtracting with regrouping is always something that one of my students needs a little bit more practice with. And so by setting up a teaching example just like this and throwing a friendly bitmoji on there, I can then go in and use the draw and record tool to teach the concept. Then my students have, after I finished my little mini teach, my students can watch this video. I click the green check at the top and I can send it to one student who I know will need it. I could send it directly to their page or I could also send it to sample student and then there's a lot of different ways that I could share it to the students that might need this little mini reteaching. I'm gonna show you how to do that. So I would have posted it to sample student and the next step that I would have taken was to take this animation that's gonna help my students to learn and give them the support that they need and I would click the three dots and click share item. Once I've clicked that and the pop up shows up, I now have this web address or the URL and you can use this URL anywhere that you would share a normal website or URL to your students. You might share it in a comment. You might share it on a student's page. You might even find that sharing it to a parent through their messaging might even support them. Once you have that website, that URL address, you have so many choices of the ways that you can share that little customized reteaching and they can have that feedback on hard concepts and it's delivered to them so easily. It's almost as a teacher. You can multiply yourself in lots of different places and I would share more on those but I know that you guys will find great ways to utilize that in your classroom. All right, another example is that you can make a video right there inside of Seesaw. Maybe they need more than a recorded animation. You can jump right into a student's work. You can hit the edit post and then using the camera tool, go ahead and give your student a short little burst or a video of a reteaching that you want them to have and all you have to do is edit and add that video and send it right back to your students and they will have that personalized learning right there for them. So here's a little summary on how you can add the video for your students for reteaching and all of this is going to be shared with you in the follow-up email. So again, if this is speeding by, don't worry, we will get it to you. All right, the other important thing is that we encourage you is to establish a routine or designate time for your students to go back and check to see if they have any posts to revise. If we use this feedback to help them grow or to change their thinking, but we forget to give them time to check it, then it won't become that regular routine. All right, we're gonna take just a couple of minutes and I'm gonna show you now how we can jump into CSOT and add that video piece. So I'll go back over here and in my journal, and this is the one I have pulled up, you can actually see that the student has the inside and outside character traits flip-flopped and I wanna give them a little bit of support on that. I can look right here and the three dots, click, edit post. And earlier I added my Bitmoji to this one, but we'll go ahead and go to slide one. So here's where I wanna support my student with feedback to help them learn and grow. I hit the camera, I go to video, we checked this out, so we'll see if it works. Hey, there you go, now you can see I have two monitors looking back and forth, but I would hit record and I would tell the student the message that I would want to share with them, which might be remember, inside traits are the traits of how the character feels and the actions they might take. Outside traits are the things that we would see on the outside, take a look back at your work. When I'm done, I click done and I can move that feedback around and maybe even add some arrows to it or color around it so that my student knows to look for that feedback right there. Again, if you have CSOT for schools or CSOT Plus, you can send it back in draft form or you can send it back and they can watch your feedback later. So, all right, and remember, we're gonna share this with you later as well. So, Allie. Awesome, Emily, if you'll head back to that slide deck. So Emily just shared three ways to give actionable feedback to students within CSOT. So now I want everyone to think about this question. How are you going to give actionable feedback in your classroom this week? So if you can head to the chat, we would love to hear some responses about how you will provide that actionable feedback in your classroom this week. What's the first way that gets you really excited when you think about the three ways that Emily just shared about how to provide feedback in CSOT? I know someone already shared that they love the Bitmoji, so that might be theirs. Bitmoji, can't wait to use Bitmoji's yes, and don't worry, you will get that video from Eric that he created in the email. The video feedback feature, absolutely. They're more likely to check the video than read the comment. It's your face. You can make it super individualized. Re-teaching videos, Bitmoji, here in C to help their learning, absolutely. The share link, like Emily said, creating one share link and sharing it out and multiplies you as a teacher, which we know is such an amazing thing to do because you cannot be everywhere at once, even though we would love that. I love this. A lot of Bitmoji's and videos, drawn record, the voice recording, awesome. Thank you all so much for sharing. So now we're going to transition and learn from Eric. Hey everybody. So we're going to change gears just a little bit here and we're going to talk about getting students involved in the feedback process. And this is another great way to incorporate feedback into your CSI lessons. We all know that students learn a lot from their peers and they care a lot about how their peers feel about their work. So students can also comment on each other's posts. Now this can give them an authentic audience for their work and valuable feedback from their peers. Enabling comments is a valuable opportunity for students to practice digital citizenship. And remember, you as the teacher have all the control as the gatekeeper of which comments get through and which ones don't. So along with providing hands-on scaffolding for digital citizenship, student feedback helps drive that buy-in and that investment for quality work from your students. So using TAG is a concrete way to teach students about meaningful feedback. And you can model and practice this with your students so that they have practice in low-risk settings before giving them the opportunity with real-world situations where they're really giving feedback to their peers. So this is an example of an activity available in the community library when CSI that you can use to get started with your class. Oh, and by the way, myself and CSI, we want to thank Sophia Garcia-Smith for teaching the CSI community the TAG framework. I know a lot of people have used this over the years for her wonderful work. And I'll put the link for this in the chat. So you can assign and practice this in your classroom. But this is a great way to have your students practice it in a low-risk situation. Now as the teacher, it's also important for you to model the TAG technique. When you're commenting on their work, they're gonna notice what you say and they're gonna model after you. So now I'm not gonna lie and say that I always do the TAG technique. Sometimes I'm short on time, but if I have time, I always strive to try to leave better feedback any time I can. And pro tip, if you're short on time and use the voice commenting feature, you can use comments that mean more and it's a lot quicker. So that's one of the little things that I use with my students all the time. Another great way to ensure that students are getting that meaningful feedback is to enable your class blog. So especially if you're in a situation where you have your settings so that your class is private and students cannot see what another's work, enabling your class blog gives you a place in your Seasaw class where items can be shared with the explicit purpose of being seen and commented on by many stakeholders within your class. So when you enable your class blog, you also need to make sure that your settings are set up so that students can comment on posts in the blog. You can then decide whether you want to give students the ability to choose what goes onto the blog or you can keep that responsibility as a teacher and you get to choose which items go onto the blog. Another pro tip for you when you first start out with this, I usually don't give my students that control to add to the blog. I usually take care of it. Otherwise they start adding every single thing they've ever done to the blog and it gets a little overwhelming. Over time, we kind of talk about what types of things belong in the blog, what are we really trying to do there? And then I release that control to my students. So here are some best practices when you're thinking about maybe incorporating a class blog into the Seasaw workflow. So the first one is to think of your class blog as like a bulletin board in your classroom. It loses its effectiveness if there are too many items posted there. You need to be aware of the comments are mirrored between the blog and the journal. So if you make a comment on students post in the journal, it will reflect that in the blog and vice versa. So even if it's in the blog, if a student makes a comment or you make a comment, it'll be in their journal as well and any connected family members will be able to see those comments. So they're not private, but that's kind of the idea of the blog is to have those public comments for that student. Now, by default, the classroom teacher needs to approve all comments in the blog, which is important, especially if you are getting into situations where there might be an inappropriate post or something like that. I usually will just delete that post and then we'll either have a classroom meeting about appropriate posts or it might be something where I need to have that student come and talk to me one-on-one to figure out what might be going on. And then finally, ensuring classroom privacy is really important. The blog, you wanna create a simple password and I'll take you through those steps in just a few minutes. So as a class, we discuss that the blog is not for all of our posts. That's the first place to start. So some posts are just for the teacher to see and comment on, while others, like writings, projects, book reviews, examples of our best work, those are all things that are perfect for the class blog. So once you get students this great opportunity, be sure to allow them time to comment and read comments made on their work, right? So you're letting them postings to the blog, make sure you're building in some time during snack or maybe your morning routine where they can go back and read those comments and see that feedback. And that's gonna really help to build a culture of collaborative learning and feedback within your class. Now, when a journal post is added to the blog, it allows for everyone in your class and other connected classrooms, which we'll talk about in a minute, to view that post. It's important to note that even items in the class blog require teacher approval. So when I see that I have a question of comment, again, I still have control to bring it up with that student or work toward digital citizenship goals. So I just look at it as a great opportunity for my students and I to learn from something real world. I know that when my students are older, it's gonna be much more high stakes when they're commenting on social media and things like that. So it's a time for me maybe not to get too correct but just to meet with the class and say, for example, somebody had put a post or a comment that said that somebody's work was weird. So I just deleted it. Let's talk about why that might be important to really think about the meaning of our words. So just a little quick idea of some ways that you can build digital citizenship goals right there in the blog. Now your class blog is also an awesome opportunity to connect with classrooms and see their blogs too. So one way that we use this in my school is we'll have a buddy classroom and we can actually connect our blogs. So when my students click on the blog icon, they can go to our class blog or our buddy classes blog. Now we're in fifth grade, the old kids. So we visit our third grade buddy class and my students are able to leave helpful comments for those third graders. And if you want to see students are excited about getting feedback, when they see that they have a peer, especially an older peer who is making comments on their work, that gets kids really fired up. Now I saw at the beginning, all these folks that are around the world, you can connect your blog to anybody in Seesaw around the world. So I've seen a lot of examples of teachers that connect through Facebook or other ways and then they will connect their blogs and they can see what's going on in the class all around the world. So that's another great opportunity right within the blog. So I'm gonna take a second just to show you how to activate your blog and let's see here. Hopefully you all can see that, okay? So right here I'm in Seesaw in my class.  When I go down under families and students, you'll see class blog. Once it's enabled, the first time you do this, it'll walk you through the steps. You'll need to name your blog and some things like that. You'll also notice over here, I know it's a little bit grayed out, but you'll see now I have a new icon as the teacher, your students will too, that shows the blog is one of my navigation options, okay? You can set it up so that students can post the blog or maybe only you want to have that power. You can go through your blog settings. This has like your password. You can make a simple password for anybody visiting your blog. You can change the appearance, things like that. And this is also where you can connect other blogs. You click here, you can always jump right to the blog and see what it looks like. So let's jump over there and take a look. So here are items that were posted to my class blog. You can still see, it still says who posted that item and there's a place to comment on it, okay? Now, when I jump back to the journal, you'll notice that under every post, there's now this little globe icon. So you can all see that. That is how you or students would request or try to publish things to the blog. So really what it's doing is it's taking something I've already put into the journal and it's copying it into the blog. So I actually have two copies of now. You have it in your journal and you have it in that blog, okay? So there are tons of videos that you can check out that'll take you through more about the blog. If that looks like it's a good fit for you, there's a lot of different ways that you can get mini trainings right here in Seesaw. You can see there's a mini training available and this will be shared. Once you get this video tomorrow, then you'll be able to check this out, okay? All right. So take a second and just share in the chat how you get your students involved in giving this peer feedback. So what are some ideas that come to your mind when you see these ideas? Let's see. I see definitely using the blog that some people are gonna publish writing. That is a great idea. The buddy class, yes, Eric. There are a lot of people who loved that idea. Thank you for sharing book reviews, peer conferencing, posting work of the week. That is an awesome idea. Keep those ideas coming. We are gonna keep chugging along because I just looked at the time and oh my goodness, it's flying by, but keep your ideas coming in the chat so that everyone can see them. Thanks. Yeah, for sure, for sure. And I'll keep going. So the next part of this is getting families involved in the feedback. So part of the idea of Seesaw is this idea of a learning loop where you have teachers, students and families all sharing what you're doing in the classroom, taking down those walls and really inviting everyone to give feedback and see that student work. So with students, I know that my students, they want my feedback, but they really value that peer feedback and they value feedback from their parents. So when you are getting started with Seesaw, which hopefully a lot of you are inviting parents to view your students, Seesaw journals, one little tip that I always give is along with inviting families, thinking about caregivers, I also will share this invite link. And the nice thing about that is I can send that link out to all my families and say, hey, would you forward this along to other family members, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, because each student can have up to 10 connected family members to their journals. And I will tell you, pro tip here, usually parents by about two thirds to this school year, they start to slow down on their feedback a little bit and they don't check Seesaw quite as often as I'd like, but grandma and grandpa's, they are just the whole year you can count on them leaving feedback and students absolutely love it when those family members outside of their household make comments. So that's a great way to involve them is by using that share link. Now, families can only comment on their own child's work in the journal. So in your class settings, you can decide whether or not use the teacher need to approve those family comments or you wanna let them just go through, that's really up to you. But when you start including the blog in the family feedback plan, it allows family members to post comments on all students posts. So here's where I love this. Let's say you did something with writing and you wanted more than just that child's parents to read it, you wanted more than just students in your class to read it, you wanted to share it with everybody that wanted to read it. Well, if you put that in the blog and you invite families to visit your blog page, then they can make comments on that as well. This works well too for the few students that I have in my class who don't have any connected family members. They may not be getting any kind of comments outside of myself and their peers. But once I have families look in the blog, that's an opportunity for families that might not even know that child to comment on their work. So that's really nice for my students that don't have those connected families. And to invite parents to your blog, you need to share your blog URL. Just having the family's app is not enough. When parents go using the family's app to view student work, it will only take them to the journal. When you share the blog URL, anyone with that URL and your password will have access to give students comments. And then of course, you have the ability to monitor those comments and make sure that they are what you were looking for. So this is just quickly, I'm not even gonna live demo this, but where I showed you earlier to get into your class settings, just go in and you'll wanna go and make sure that your blog is password protected. And if you feel like there might be folks that need to not be in there anymore, if you're noticing that maybe somebody shared it too wide, you could always go ahead and change the password and send out the new passwords to your families. So it is secure. Now, another thing I do for family members is I have my students teach them the tag method just to save myself time. I make an activity and give it to my kids. Then I have them explain to their parents, hey, here's how we comment in the classroom. Here's how we choose what to write as comments so that parents have an idea of what our expectations are in the class. And news flash, your parents are probably gonna watch a video that their kids made rather than something you made as the teacher. So not only am I saving a lot of time by not having to make this video myself, but the parents are more likely to watch their own child saying, hey parents, here's how we do our commenting in our classroom. So I absolutely love this and parents feel more empowered and they feel like, all right, when I comment, I know what to do now. So it helps with that as well, okay? All right, so I think we got through all that pretty quickly. I was watching the clock, but if you wanna share something in here, go ahead, Allie, you jump right in. Thanks, Eric, you did fly through that. And again, appreciate it. We have so much, we could keep going for another half an hour I think. As we're wrapping up, first of all, don't forget you will receive the recording of this in 24 to 48 hours. But I would love last sort of stop and think about what impact after hearing all of this tonight, what impact is actionable feedback have on student learning? And you can plop those in the chat just to leave everyone with some last ideas as we wrap up. And so we'll go to the next and just sort of review what we mastered. We mastered a lot tonight. And so the first thing we learned about from Emily is three effective ways to give actionable feedback within CISA. We talked about comments, we learned how to add our bitmojis. Eric, if you'll go to the next slide. And then thanks. And then we also learned about how to use that drawn recording video. You also learned from Eric how to teach students to give peer feedback, which is so important in a huge skill, especially with our older learners that needs to be taught and can be taught really easily within CISA. And then Eric wrapped up showing everyone ways to support families. Again, that learning loop is so important in providing feedback on student work. Now we know this was a lot. There's so much more within CISA. And so we're gonna plop our training website into the chat. You can find a lot more free trainings, excuse me, and webinars that are coming up. We have on-demand trainings as well. And we just wanna wrap up by saying thank you so much. We really appreciate you spending your time with us today. Thank you to Eric and Emily for being awesome CISA certified educators and willing to spend their evenings, they're on the central and east coast. So it's a little later for them. Any questions that were not answered in the Q&A will get back to you. And again, as a reminder, you will receive a follow-up email in 24 to 48 hours that will have the slide deck or recording your certificate of completion, a one-pager with some feedback ideas. And don't worry that Bitmoji video that Eric created is in there as well. So thank you all so much again for being here. Thank you, Emily and Eric. We hope everyone has a wonderful rest of your day wherever you are. And we'll see you again soon here at CISA.


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of IBM Think 2021. Brought to you by IBM. Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of IBM Think 2021 virtual. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. We've got a great story here navigating COVID-19 with Watson advertising and weather channel conversations. Sherry Backstein, who's the GM of Watson advertising and the weather company. Sherry, thanks for coming on theCUBE. My favorite part of IBM Think is to talk about the tech and also the weather company innovations. Thanks for coming on. Hi, happy to be here, John. So COVID-19, obviously some impact for people that are working at home. Normally you guys have been doing a lot of innovation around weather, weather data. Certainly huge part of it, right? And so lots been changing with AI and the weather company and IBM. So let's first start before we jump in. Give us a little background about what your team has created because there's a lot of fascinating things here. Go ahead. Yeah, so when the pandemic started, we looked at the data that we were seeing. And of course in weather accuracy and accurate data is really important, trusted data. And so we created a COVID-19 hub on our weather channel app and on weather.com. And essentially what it was is an aggregated area where consumers could get the most up-to-date information on COVID cases, deaths in their area, trends, see heat maps, information from the CDC. And what was unique about it, it was to a local level, right? So state level information is helpful, but we know that consumers, me included, I need information around what's happening around me. And so we were able to bring this down to a county level, which we thought was really helpful for consumers. Share has watching sports on TV and recently, a few months ago, the masters was on and you saw people getting back into real life. It's almost like a weather forecast now. You want to know what's going on in the pandemic. People are sharing that they're getting the vaccine. Really interesting. And so I want to understand how this all came together with you guys. Is was it something that as a weather data, bunch of geeks saying, hey, we should do this for companies? But take us to thought process with your team. Was it like you saw this as value? How did you get to this? Because this is an interesting user benefit. I want to know the weather. I want to know if it's safe. These are kind of a psychology of a user expectation. How did you guys connect the dots here for this project? Well, we certainly do have a very passionate team of people, some weather geeks included. And you're absolutely right. Watching the masters a few months ago was amazing to see some sense of normality happening here. But we looked at IBM and the weather company, like how do we help during this pandemic? And when we thought about it, we looked at there's an amazing gap of information. And as the weather channel, what we do is bring together data, give people insights and help them make decisions with that. And so it was really part of our mission. It's always been that way to give information to keep people safe. And so all we did is took a different data set and provided the same thing. And so in this case, the COVID data set, which we actually had to aggregate from different sources, whether it was the CDC, the World Health Organization, state governments or county governments to provide this to consumers. But it was really, really natural for us because we know what consumers want. We all want information around where we live. And then we want to see where our friends live, where our relatives live to make sure that they're okay. And then that enables people to make the decisions that are right for their family. And so it was really, really natural for us to do that. And then of course we have the technology to be able to scale to hundreds of millions of people, which is really important. Yeah, it's not obvious until you actually think about it. Then it's so obvious, congratulations. What a great innovation. What were the biggest challenges you guys had to face? And how did you overcome it? Because I'm curious, obviously you got a lot of large scale data dealing with diversity of data with weather. What was the challenges with COVID and how did you overcome it? So again, without a doubt, it was the data because you're looking at one, we wanted that county level data. So you're looking at multiple sources. So how do we aggregate this data? So first finding that trusted source that we could use, but then how do you pull it in an automated way? And the challenge was it with the state departments, the county departments, that data came in all kinds of formats. Some counties use maps, some use charts, some use PDFs to get that information. So we had to pull all this unstructured data and then that data was updated at different times. So some counties did it twice a day, some did it once a day, different time zones. So that really made it challenging. And so then, so what we did is this is where the power of AI really helps because AI can take all of that data, bring it in, organize it and then we could put it back out to the consumer in a very digestible way. And so we were able to do that. We built an automated pipeline around that so we could make sure that it was updated, it was fresh and timely, which was really important. But without a doubt, looking at that structured data and unstructured data and really helping it to make sense to the consumer was the biggest challenge. And what's interesting about it, normally it would take us months to do something like that. I challenged the team to say, we don't have months, we have days. They turned that around in eight days, which was just an amazing, herculean feat. But that's really just the power of, as you said, passionate people coming together to do something so meaningful. I love the COVID-19 success stories when people rally around their passion and also their expertise. What was the technology that the team used? Because the theme here at IBM Think is transformation, innovation, scale. How did you move so fast to make that happen? So we moved fast by our AI capabilities and then using IBM Cloud. And so really there's four key components or like four teams that worked on it. So first there was the weather company team.  So we understand the user experience and the design. But we also know how to build an API that can scale because you're talking about being able to scale not only in a weather platform. So in the midst of COVID, weather still happens. So we still had severe weather, record-breaking hurricane season. And so those APIs have to scale to that volume. Then the second team was the AI team. So that used the Watson AI team mixed with the weather AI team to again bring in that data, to organize that data. And we use Watson NLP, so natural language processing in order to create that automated pipeline. Then we had the Corral-Ald infrastructure. So that platform team that built that architecture and that data repository on IBM Cloud. And then the last team was our data privacy office. So making sure that that data was trusted, that we had permission to use it and just know really that data governance. So as all of that technology and all of those teams coming together to build this hub for consumers, and it worked. I mean, we would have about four million consumers looking at that hub every single day. And even like a year later, we still have a couple of million people that access that information. So it's really kind of become more like the weather, checking the weather's come, that daily habit. That's awesome. And I got to imagine that these discoveries and innovations that was part of this transformation and that scale have helped other ways outside of the pandemic. Can you share how this is connected to other benefits outside the pandemic? Yeah, so absolutely, AI for business is part of IBM strategy. And so really helping organizations to help predict, to help take workloads and automate them so their high valued employees can work on other work. And also to bring that personalization to customers is really AI. When I look at it for my own part of IBM with the weather company, three things where I'm using this technology. So the first one is around advertising. So the advertising industry is at a really pivotal part right now. A lot of turmoil and challenges because of privacy legislation, because big tech companies are getting rid of tracking pixels that we normally use to drive the business. So we've created a suite of AI solutions for publishers, for different players within the ad tech space, which is really important because it protects the open web. So like getting COVID information or weather information, all of that is free information to the public. We just ask that you underwrite it by seeing advertising so we can keep it free. So those products protect the open red. So really, really important. Then on the consumer side of my business, within the weather channel, we actually use Watson AI to connect health with weather. So we know that there's that connection, some health issues that people have can be impacted by weather like allergies and flu. So we've actually used Watson AI to build a risk of flu that goes 15 days out. So we can tell people in your local area, this one actually goes down to the zip code level, the risk of flu in your area or the risk of allergies. So help to manage your symptoms, take your prescription. So that's a really interesting way we're using AI. And of course, weather.com and our apps are on IBM Cloud. So we have this strong infrastructure to support that. And then lastly, our weather forecasting has always been rooted in AI. You take 100 different weather models, you apply AI to that to get the best and most accurate forecast that you deliver. And so we are using these technologies every day to move our business forward and to provide weather services for people. I just love the automation and as users have smartphones and more instrumentation on their bodies, whether it's wearables, people will plan their day around the weather and retail shops will have a benefit knowing what the stock are not have on hand and how to adjust that this is the classic edge, computing paradigm, fascinating impact. You wouldn't think about that, but that's a pretty big deal. People are planning around the weather data and making that available as critical. Oh, absolutely. Every business needs a weather strategy because whether it impacts your supply chain, agriculture, should I be watering today or not? Even around, if you think about energy and power lines, the vegetation growth of our power lines can bring power lines down and it's a disruption to customers and power. So there's just, when you start thinking about it, you're like, wow, whether it really impacts every business, not to say just consumers in general in their daily lives. Yeah, and there's a lot of cloud scale too that can help companies, whether it's be part of better planet or smarter planet as it's been called and help with global warming. I mean, you think about this has all kind of been contextually relevant now more than ever, super exciting. Great stuff. What did your take on outside of the IBM response to the pandemic more broadly outside of the weather? What are you guys doing to help? Are you guys doing anything else with industry? How could you talk a little bit more about IBM's response more broadly to the pandemic? Yeah, so IBM has been working with government, academia, industries really from the beginning in several different ways. One of the first things we did is it opened up our intellectual property. So our IP and our technology are super computing to help researchers really try to understand COVID-19, some of the treatments and possible cures. So that's been really beneficial as it relates to that. Some other things though that we're doing as well is we created a chat bot that companies and clients could use. And this chat bot could either be used to help train teachers because they have to work remotely or help other workers as well. And also the chat bot was helping as companies started to reenter back to the workforce and getting back to the office. So the chat bot's been really helpful there. And then one of the things that we've been doing on the advertising side is we actually have helped the ad council with their vaccine campaign. It's up to you as the name of the campaign. And we delivered a ad unit that could dynamically assemble a creative in real time to make sure that the right message was getting out at the right time to the right person. So it's really helped to maximize that campaign to reach people and encourage them if it's the right thing for them, where the vaccines are available and that they could take those. So a lot of great work that's going on within IBM and actually the most recent thing just actually in the past month is we released the digital health pass in cooperation with the state of New York. And this is a fantastic tool because it is a way for individuals to keep their private information around their vaccines or some of the COVID tests they've been having on a mobile device that's secure. And we think that this is gonna be really important as cities start to reopen to have that information easily accessible. I'm sure a great insight, great innovation navigating COVID-19, a lot of innovation transformation at IBM and obviously Watson and the weather company using AI. And also, when we come out of COVID, post COVID as real life comes back, we're still gonna be impacted. We're gonna have new innovations, new expectations, tracking, understanding what's going on, not just the weather. So thanks for doing that great work. Awesome, thank you. Great, thanks John, good to see you. Okay, this is theCUBE's coverage of IBM Think. I'm John Furrier, the host of theCUBE. Thanks for watching.


Stevenson falls to Weidner tonight 81-74 Glen Clark with head coach Gary Stewart coach I know foul trouble was certainly an issue there in the second half But you know a game that you were right in you had some leads. What else went wrong there in this final 10 minutes? Well, it was interesting in the first half You know there was one free throw separation between the two teams and the second half We got back on our heels. We're in Well Weidner got into the bonus and then they got into the double bonus really early into the the half and and conversely we We forced you know three fouls on their end so The disparity there really changed the complexion of the game because if I have three fouls I'm thinking aggression aggression aggression, which Chris is excellent coach. That's what Weidner did were on the other end We're like Like this and credit Weidner.   There's nobody in our league that you say, okay Well, I know I'm good on Wednesday or Saturday. I mean you can play well in lose on Wednesdays and Saturdays in our league and so You know, our kids have had to lead at Albarnie in the second half Our kids had to lead Saturday against Lebanon Valley in second half and we had a lead tonight in second half So we're doing some good things. We're just not sustaining those things in the second half Does it feel like to your point? I mean there's five teams that are all battling to get into the tournament I mean I've the heck there's it's not even guaranteed the teams the top are all gonna get into the tournament right now Does it feel like maybe this was the best time to have a weekend off to try to come out of this next week With a big four-game push down the straight.  So From a physical standpoint, we got a couple guys beaten up So that'll be good to get off their feet But from a basketball perspective, we like the continuity of Wednesdays and Saturdays and I'm not a real buy guy I mean, I got a little bit of sand left in the hourglass. I want to keep playing as long as I can so We'll do what we need to do this weekend to get our team ready for Wednesday coach best of luck We will see you back here next Wednesday night. All right. Thank you. Glenn is coach Gary Stewart. I'm Glenn Clark Go Mustang sports TV


Welcome to Sheboygan County government working for you. I'm Dan Lemieux, chairman of the Sheboygan County Board and I co-host this program with Adam Payne, our administrative coordinator. And today our focus is going to be on our land and water conservation department. We have with us Pat Miles, the director of that department today. And we are going to focus on that department and some of the services you provide Pat through your department. But just to start off, we are the 12th largest county in population I believe, we have somewhat over 300,000 acres of land in the county, approximately two-thirds of that in agricultural use, 200,000 acres. And some of the relationship you have with that portion of our county is what we're going to be talking about today. So maybe we could start Pat by just telling us a little bit about yourself and your background and especially in regards to this department. Sure, thanks Dan. I grew up on a dairy farm in Southwest Wisconsin. After I graduated from high school, I spent some time out in Montana. After that I attended Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton. Graduated in 77, spent part of the summer as an intern in Fond du Lac County in a similar type job and began employment with Sheboygan County in October of 77. So maybe you could tell us a little bit about the department now on what the mission and responsibilities are of the department? The mission of the Land and Water Conservation Department, Dan, is to provide technical and educational assistance in the management of soil and water resources, the use of two Sheboygan County land users. Some of the responsibilities and the big one is to administer policies and programs that are set forth by the Sheboygan County Board. And the staff in your department to take care of these functions at you? We have a, currently we have a staff of eight. We have a combined total of just a little over 108 years of combined service, presently in the department. Some of the staff, the focus is on some of the program areas which include the Farm and the Preservation Program which is conservation, compliance and dealing with erosion control. The state provides tax credits to those land users that meet those standards. We have the Wildlife Damage Program where we provide assistance in abatement and claims. As you know, we have a large deer herd and geese in the county. We have our priority watershed projects. We have three we currently administer through those projects. We provide technical and financial assistance provided to the state, to land users in those watersheds. And those land users generally install water quality improvement practices in the watersheds on their respective farms. We have a buffer strip program, car share program which we are in our third year. We have a variety of other programs tree and shrub program that we provide. And there's other miscellaneous type activities and services we provide, surveying, design, a lot of technical assistance type request. You mentioned the deer herd. This isn't one of the questions that we talked about earlier, but this isn't the deer herd that we are raising deer for. I mean, this is the deer population in Sheboyin County. Yes, yes. I don't want any of our viewers to think that we are raising a bunch of deer somewhere in Sheboyin County. You mentioned water quality as one of your focuses. Maybe you could just tell us a little bit about the importance of water quality to the residents of the county, not just in these rural areas, but throughout all of Sheboyin County. Sure. I think the first and foremost reason people should probably be concerned with water quality is that we all drink the water. Whether you get your water source from Lake Michigan or from a private well, we all have an impact somewhat on what that water quality becomes through our, just our existence. So, important fact was the drinking part of it. The second part is the recreation use of our waters, whether it be fishing, swimming, boating, as you know, in Sheboyin County, we were blessed with water resources with Lake Michigan right in our doorstep, and of course we have in the lakes and a river system. So I would say those are the important reasons that we should be concerned. We're probably all concerned about our water and what we're drinking and not just that it smells good and looks good, but that it's not harmful to our bodies, but what programs do you have or what can we do as a population in Sheboyin County to improve that quality of water? We talk about it and we're concerned about it, but what can we do? We have basically a two-sided problem. One is the urban part of the problem, one is the rural, and I'll just go into the urban a little bit. If you're an urban resident, there are simple things you can do to improve the water quality of your surroundings or the water that runs off your property. One is the proper use of fertilizers on your lawn. If you over-apply fertilizers or herbicides, you get a heavy rainfall. Of course, that's going to end up in the storm sewer, which ultimately ends up in Lake Michigan. A second part and it's more extensive is stormwater management, which as you know, City of Sheboyin is quite involved with right now where the excess rainfall is contained in some of those sediments and such settle out before the water's released. In the rural sector, there are a number of things that can be done and that are being done. Farming practices, whether it be rotational farming where you grow a series of crops in different years, there's conservation tillage, there's proper application of animal waste so that we're not over-applying and then again the runoff gets into our streams and lakes. There's buffer strips that can be put along the streams and rivers and such to filter out some of those, some of that runoff that will occur, especially this time of year when you have the heavy rainfall and we don't have the crop cover established yet. So you will get some, those types of activities. You didn't mention industrial contamination in the water systems. Does your department get involved with that at all or I mean, we've heard over the last 20, 30 years and especially in the Sheboyin River, some of the problems, does your department get involved with that at all? No, not to a big degree. Those types of problems are more handled by the Department of Natural Resources and the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, the national level. Okay, so you're more involved with residential and the local, the agricultural uses and things like that. In the area of agriculture, I think we've seen a lot of the farms in not just in Sheboyin County, but in Wisconsin in general, where a lot of the smaller farms have been consolidated into larger operations in Wisconsin. Being the dairy state, we see that in the dairy industry quite a bit where the larger operations and larger operations bring larger problems. What is your involvement in that area where these farms are being consolidated and what help can you give to these individuals? As you know, that trend is occurring in Sheboyin County as we speak. As an example, we have a situation where we have three landowners that recently formed a partnership and we've been working with individuals since day one as far as just citing the operation and making sure that the animal waste system, storage system is placed properly so that we're not too close to a drilled well or we're too close to surface runoff. We'll provide design assistance for the waste management system itself. We issue a waste storage permit once they get to that point if they wanna build the system and operate it. We'll work with the landowners on a nutrient management plan where we will provide information and areas where those landowners can safely apply that animal waste so that it does not end up on our streams and lakes. And a trick there is to balance the crop needs with the amount of waste that's applied. So those are the areas that we work with pretty much. And it's one-on-one and with the operations getting to three, four, or 500 animals it sometimes becomes a challenge, but it can be done. And you have staff people that are, that is their prime responsibility to work in with that group of farmers and individuals. Yeah, we provide some of the engineering services as far as the animal waste system. We'll provide some of the surveying, the actual surveying, some of the design work and some of it's pretty intensive. We use AutoCAD in our office for some of the designs. You're looking at some of these systems that might be two and three million gallons in capacity. So it does take a bit of engineering behind them. And your feeling is that in the last, since you've had some of these programs in place that we've been able to improve the quality of our rivers and streams in Sheboyne County? I think we've had an impact. There's, of course, there's much more to be done, but I think we're having an impact, yes. Going in the right direction. We're going in the right direction. Earlier, Pat, you mentioned some of the main programs that the department administers and I think you said the non-point pollution program and farmland preservation. And there are a number of state and federal programs that our county staff are administering here. And we all know that locally led conservation is key to success and it's what the landowners are doing that make a real difference on water quality and nutrient management and many of the items you described. Two years ago, I understand you led efforts to develop a local land and water resource management plan. What did that entail? What did that involve? What that basically entailed was assembling a group of individuals from around the county that wanted to serve on an advisory committee to somewhat drive the formulation of the land water plan. We had 37 members that became involved and through a series of meetings, we established some important resource priorities or concerns in the county. We ranked those and then we established some goals and objectives to carry out some of the main priority ones. So you had 37 people from across the community sit down around a table. I imagine a number of meetings discuss priorities, key concerns to the people living here. What were some of those priorities established? Some of those priorities that were established was water quality improvement was the number one priority. Everybody had a concern of water quality and where we were at with that. The second one was nutrient management. I think the fact that Dan just mentioned with the bigger farms coming into play in the county that nutrient management play a bigger role in that we can address the animal waste problem. And the third priority that we ranked was the subdivision and construction site erosion. Whereas we have quite a bit of development going on and people were concerned that we were losing a lot of sediment off these construction sites, subdivision sites. And to date, we've been talking a lot about the work in the agricultural community and how that's two thirds of the land represented in Sheboygan County. But isn't your breakout about 60, 40, 60% in the rural areas and 40% in more of the urban areas? I would say that's fairly accurate. So with the water quality as being the number one objective, I know you were real pleased when Sheboygan County established its first local cost year program, the buffer program. Tell us a little bit more about that. And I want to thank the county board for establishing that. And I think we're providing some leadership in the state in that area. We're in our second year of the buffer strip program. We have the county board appropriated $50,000 as you know for this year. What that actually entails is we will go out and we'll contact various landowners where there's a need for a buffer. If it is cropland, we'll work with a landowner, sometime just negotiation, where we will negotiate a certain width along that stream or river and have the landowner establish that in either grasses or maybe even tree planting. And the width will vary, of course, anywhere from 30 to 100 feet. And what happens is when you establish that buffer, that will tend to filter the runoff from the surrounding fields before it reaches the body of water. And in turn, the landowner then has provided some incentive or some financial assistance to establish that buffer because we are taking some of that land out of production, but the landowner still must pay taxes. So by providing a incentive or a cost sharing incentive to the landowner that land not only stays on the tax rolls, but the landowner also benefits by having the land in buffer in the public as well. Now just before the program started, we were talking a little bit with the rains that we're receiving, how chocolate brown that river or rivers or streams can become. If buffers are more prevalent throughout the county, will that make a difference in our water quality? That will make a big difference. At this time of year, as I mentioned before, there isn't a whole lot of crop cover out there. The fields are quite exposed. So when you do get a rainfall event and it doesn't take much amount of rainfall, a buffer will have a big effect on the runoff that does get to that stream. Now with $50,000 that the county board has allocated, which again, it's our first local cost share program. So it's a step in the right direction. I imagine you have to do some prioritizing in terms of what you're gonna target in the county. Yes, this year we have three townships that we've prioritized, town of Herman, town of Suborgan Falls and the town of Linden. And we have, through our GIS mapping, have identified areas that would benefit from buffers. Of course, there are a lot of areas that are naturally buffered, we don't work with those. But those areas of those three townships where a buffer is, we think is needed, we'll contact a landowner and work with them and give them some proposals as far as what we could offer them as far as a buffer strip program. That's standing. What streams or rivers would that include in those townships? The streams and rivers, any of the large named rivers, the Lake of Sheboygan River, the Onion River, the Pigeon River and some of the smaller streams. Fisher Creek comes to mind around Howard's Grove and there are some unnamed as well. But it's been quite successful. The landowners have taken to it, they like it. Like I said, it's a win-win for the landowners and the county and the public.  You said that you contacted the landowner if you felt that it was beneficial and in a targeted area. But landowners can also contact you. Oh, sure. And we have that too and usually a first come, first serve basis. And a landowner when they do approach, they probably have a problem or they perceive a problem on their property and that's why they're contacting us. And it probably would benefit from the program. Now you said that generally it's grasses, but you said it can be trees. And I know that you have a very successful tree shrub program. Tell us a little bit about that. Every fall we announce our tree program. This is our third year that we've provided that program. We've sold over 70,000 trees and shrubs this year. Matter of fact, as we're speaking, the trees are being loaded on a truck. They'll be delivered tonight or tomorrow. And we'll have to sort those trees, those and shrubs. We had a little over 400 landowners in Sheboygan County and outside the county order these trees. Very minimal cost, the minimum order size is 25. And the cost is very reasonable, starting at $12, $14 per 25. They are on the small side. They're one to two years old, however, for the price. We think it's a good bargain. And we have some landowners that are participating in the buffer program have ordered trees from us. So we can provide that service to these individuals as well.  Very good. So how do people learn more about the tree program, the buffer program, some of the other services you provide? They can subscribe to our newsletter or they can go to our website, which will probably be up and running around May 1st, I believe, and we'll have a lot of that information on there next fall when we announce our program. We'll actually have the tree order form on there. And they'll be able to order right off of there. Okay. Now you've talked about the non-point pollution program, the farmland preservation program, a local costier buffer program, a tree shrub program. I know you work with subdivisions and providing services there on natural resource protection. I assume there's gotta be a lot of coordination with the Department of Natural Resource, the Department of Agriculture, the Natural Resource Conservation Service extension. Are you working with those agencies? Is there coordination? We work with those agencies, Adam, basically on a day-to-day basis. As far as water quality, which I've talked at length about, as you know, DNR is the state agency basically in charge of water quality for the state. So when we deal with our watershed projects or any project dealing with water quality, we tend to work with DNR hand-in-hand. We do have to coordinate programs and such. The Department of Ag, we also work with, just by its name, it deals with agriculture. We deal with agriculture. The UW extension, of course, is our educational arm. Many times we have questions from landowners or just from the public dealing with certain agricultural activities. And we can't be a specialist in every field, but we do have access to the UW extension and their wealth of knowledge. We work with Wisconsin Conservation Corps. We have a crew housed in our location in 650 Forest Avenue in Sheboygan Falls. And this program gives young adults an opportunity to pursue some education and to do some meaningful work around the county, whether it be for Sheboygan County or it might be for a park or a state forest or something of that nature. So we house them as well, and they provide a lot of benefit and services to the county residents also. Very good. Well, the final question I have before turning it back to Dan is, we have discussed a lot of programs, but I know an up and coming program that you're gonna be administering and that the county board is soon gonna be acting on is non-metallic mining reclamation. What's happening with that? The state recently mandated that all counties participate or become involved in the non-metallic mining reclamation program. Sheboygan County has developed a draft ordinance that has been sent to Department of Natural Resources for review and as you know, it was introduced to the county board last Tuesday. I believe it was referred to the Highway Committee for further review. That will be coming back to the county board in May, the May county board meeting that ordinance will become effective as of June one. And what it basically does is mine operators will need to submit for an automatic permit to continue mining. They have a two month window. What that permit basically does is establish a timeframe so that these operations can submit a reclamation plan for that operation so that when the activity ceases, the mining ceases that there was a plan in place to reclaim that site. As the chairman and I both know, we had the opportunity to fly over the county about a year or so ago with our airport director. And there are a lot of non-metallic mines in Sheboygan County. So in short, what does this mean? These are new ones are gonna be reclaimed, old ones will be reclaimed. What does this ordinance mean in short? The ordinance basically deals with the new operations and the existing. Those operations where there is no activity but the scar is still there, those will not be addressed. But any current mine and any new mine that would come into existence will be addressed to the ordinance where a reclamation plan will be required and there will be requirements to be met to carry out that plan. Thank you. Pat, land use and those issues continue to be a topic in Sheboygan County, protection of our natural resources, those that whole area. And last fall in November, Sheboygan County passed a referendum concerning stewardship. And since then, the county board has appointed a ad hoc planning committee to deal with the stewardship and to try to develop a structure for dealing with stewardship down the road year to year in annual basis. And you were one of the people appointed to that committee. I'm on that committee. And it's a large committee, 14 people in that committee. One of our larger committees to deal with but we've been meeting for a month or two and trying to develop a structure for this. Maybe you could just fill our viewers in a little bit about some of the goals of that committee and where we are in that process. Sure. As you recall, the stewardship question itself is kind of the umbrella that we're operating under. Some of these specific goals that the committee is dealing with is identifying some of the existing programs that are operating in the county that could be related to stewardship, identifying some funding sources, some potential funding sources. Other items would be suggesting a governance structure so that when the program comes to fruit, there's a body there to deal with it and identifying potential categories for funding, different type projects for funding, identifying any state or national type of funding sources. And once these meetings are finished and we're looking at probably May or June, these suggestions or recommendations will be compiled and then put in a preliminary report. After that point, there'll be a public hearing held for the public to comment and have input on the process. And after that, the final report is due to the Resource Committee, I believe, of the County Board by July 1st. And we're on track pretty much? Yes, I would say we've been meeting, I believe, since the end of January. We talked a little bit about funding issues at our last meeting. We have another meeting coming up next Wednesday and I believe we're gonna finish the funding issues and be getting into the next part of the structure. We have identified topics for each meeting that we do have so that they're listed so that if there's anybody in the public that would want to attend these meetings, they're welcome to do so. Can you imagine a public hearing down the road but all these meetings that we're having, I believe, every other week on Wednesday evening, these are all public hearings and they're all open to the public and we give a few minutes at the end of the meeting for some public input at all those meetings also. So it's not like they're limited to see what our final result is at the public hearing but they're welcome to give their input as we go. Right now, Lil Mirstein from the Conservation Association is chairing the committee and it is a diverse committee and one of the things that I've enjoyed observing is they're discussing how a stewardship program could be developed or governed and again, they're simply gonna be making recommendations to the resources committee and then on to the full county board. But I think one of the real eye-openers where you've got a 40 plus million dollar state stewardship program, you have all these other opportunities out there but the key thing is you have to have a local match. So some people who are observing this as well as sitting on the committee may and after our discussion, well, we're doing a lot of good things in Sheboygan County. What do we need this for? And that's what the policy makers are ultimately gonna be determining but one of the key issues is if you're going to tap into these state dollars or these federal dollars or be able to leverage local dollars, you have to have a local match and that's gonna be one of the key areas that the committee's discussing. And as you said, the final decision will come some time between now and budget time in October when the county board has to decide what level we're going to fund this and what we'll put in the budget as far as funding for this. And the county board just heard earlier this week that it's gonna be another tight budget. It's gonna be a tight budget. So the challenge is there again. The challenge is there. So we get paid a big box for making those decisions. Thanks, Pat. This was good. Thank you. It's nice to see what is being done for the different areas of the county, the rural areas, the urban areas as far as water quality and some of the programs you have. And I think our viewers maybe have a better understanding of what the county provides in this area. Next month, we're going to have our Veterans Service Officer Jim Riesenberg with us. It'll be the month of May where we approach Memorial Day and we thought it'd be appropriate to get Jim in and hear with some of the services that the Veterans Service Office provides to our veterans. And I'd just like to suggest to the viewers that one of the things I like to do with our program is we're not live. This is Taibt and it's gonna be shown throughout the month. But if you have any questions that you'd like us to ask to answer and you can call in because we're not live, give a call to our office 459-3103 or write to our office and ask us questions. And if we do get some questions every month, we'll try to answer one or two questions at the beginning of our show. And if it's something we're not sharing with you, we'll be happy to answer your questions. So next month, Jim Riesenberg, Veterans Service Officer, thank you, Pat. Thank you. And thank you for watching.


Oh, no. That's out for me, bro. No, sorry, bye. What did you think of all that? He made me and Kyle eat, you know, bowls, penis, or private parts. I can't really taste it. It wasn't tender. It wasn't tender, right? I don't know.  Of course. What are you expecting? I'm guessing that Kauai was having a lot more fun around this time last year, celebrating his successes with the Toronto Raptors. Although the NBA was put on pause because of the global pandemic, at least he's afforded himself a luxury crib to quarantine in. I got some requests for this house tour, so it seemed like it was time to deliver. In this video, we're going to look at where Kauai Leonard calls home, like the multi-million dollar mansion he treated himself to, and more. Kauai Anthony Leonard, also known as The Claw, is a professional basketball player and four-time all-star in the NBA, as we all know. Currently, he signed the Los Angeles Clippers as a free agent, and of course, over here in Toronto, we were also sad to see him go. Just to recap, he won an NBA championship back in 2014 with the San Antonio Spurs, and stayed with them for seven seasons. Then, of course, he was treated to none other than the Toronto Raptors in 2018, eventually leading the team to victory with their first NBA championship ever last year. Believe me, everyone was so grateful. We even had that massive city-wide parade to celebrate. In terms of his personal life, Kauai is notoriously private, but we know that he does have a wife or girlfriend. She just prefers to stay out of the spotlight. And they have at least one child together.  And if I'm wrong about that, you guys can let me know in the comments. Kauai's NBA career has earned him quite the success, and his current estimated net worth is about $35 million, not to mention that $103 million contract he signed with the Clippers. Hey guys, it's Karen C. We're doing another house tour here on Famous Entertainment. We'll be looking at where Kauai Leonard calls Holman since he's now signed with the Los Angeles Clippers. He moved there as a result. So get ready to see his epic multimillion dollar mansion in L.A. and more. If you like these videos, make sure you subscribe and ring that bell to be notified when we post. You can always be up to date. We've also done house tours in the likes of Michael Jordan and Travis Scott's and we'll link to some at the end. Follow me on Instagram because I love connecting with you guys. I've also been reading all your comments and I'm gonna be responding to some at the end. I need you to let me know who to do next in those comments down below and whose home you'd like to see. Now let's get into this video. Prior to the gorgeous California home Kauai is now living in, let's see where he called home while playing for the San Antonio Spurs all those years. Of course this house is located in the rolling hills of San Antonio, Texas in the Timberwood Park area and is valued at around 650K according to Realtor.com which is a lot humbler than his current luxury abode. However, because of sports superstar lived in this house it's still listed at 72% more expensive than similar houses in the area. Kauai's previous home spans 4,770 square feet and has six beds and 4.5 baths so it's still quite spacious. Looking at the common areas there are double height ceilings and tall arched doorways inside which I'm sure were perfectly suited to the six, seven basketball players comforts. The home lies on a green belt and has a fireplace upstairs, a wet bar and two living rooms. From the photos we can see that the main living room has a balcony from the second floor overlooking the space. There's a large open concept kitchen, formal dining room and office. Each of the bedrooms looks spacious and seem to follow a similar design. Flooring throughout the house is a mix of tiling and carpet depending on the room. Kauai's previous home looks like a classic Texas house that was comfortable and didn't stand out too much from the homes around it. At the surrounding property not being huge it was still surrounded by beautiful green scenery and a stone wall for privacy. It was located in a hillside gated community among other upper middle class houses. His San Antonio home didn't have a giant pool or tent car garage full of luxury vehicles but just wait until you see what he upgraded to. It appears that aside from his main mansion Kauai's most recent real estate purchase was a lavish penthouse at the Ritz Carlton Residences right in the heart of Los Angeles. It makes sense he would buy a place here considering this new apartment is directly across the street from the Staples Center where the clippers normally play. He can basically walk to ball practice. The penthouse cost Kauai around 6.7 million but that's peanuts when you consider what he's making with the clippers. Situated in LA's downtown core the 4,280 square foot crib features smart home system controlled by wall mounted iPads, two custom fireplaces, wood floors, glass walls, a steam shower and more. In Kauai's Ritz residence he has three bedrooms and 3.5 fasts and of course the master suite is nothing short of impressive. The floor to ceiling windows that grace the entire apartment are also in his room so he can see the whole LA city skyline. Not to mention he's a separate seating area and the master bathroom is super spacious and decked out in marble. Kauai's living room is open concept with an area for some music entertainment, TV time, mini storage compartment and more. Another section of the common space offers billiards and foosball table. There's also a chef's kitchen with breakfast area, dining room and additional private office. The penthouse was purchased through an LLC managed by his uncle Dennis Robertson as reported by The Times but we know it's all for Kauai. The Ritz building itself provides him access to features like a fancy rooftop swimming pool, full fitness center, valet parking and of course concierge services. Kauai also scored a pair of underground parking spaces with his condo purchase. If he needs to borrow some eggs or something he can turn to some neighboring NBA alumni like ex-executive Jim Bus down the street and former point guard Lonzo Ball living in the same building. Now for the home where Kauai is most likely spending his quarantine, his main mansion in Rancho Santa Fe. He scored this place early 2019 or so and dropped a whopping 13.3 million on it but the home is massive so I'm not surprised. Kauai's mansion was described as a Tuscan style estate located in upscale neighborhood called Rancho Santa Fe. This affluent community is located in San Diego which can be considered a homecoming of sorts for Kauai who played two seasons of college basketball San Diego State. His estate sits on over five acres of land and the home itself has been extensively renovated and upgraded for modern living. Spending 13,000 square feet inside his house is absolutely massive and offers seven bedroom suites and 10.5 bathrooms. Kauai's custom master suite has not one but two dressing rooms and a spa style attached bath fit for a king. I love the design inside of this home because it's super classy. There are a lot of wood accents like some of the ceilings and doors and even the floor and the kitchen. Those dark features are complimented with many bright white walls, floor to ceiling windows in most of the common rooms and high vaulted ceilings. There are multiple rooms in the mansion to hang out and relax like the living and family areas and the spacious gourmet kitchen. Not to mention a dining room with full views out to the pool and yard and a more formal seating room that looks as if Kauai could hold meetings in it. He also has two offices where he can get some quiet time. If all that isn't enough, the home offers a full home theater with plush oversized loungers seats perfect to relax for date night. Other amenities Kauai has in his mansion include a full workout facility and dry bar and a temperature controlled wine vault and the tasting and bar room surrounded by a steel frame glass wall. Finally, the grounds outside may just be the most impressive part of Kauai's mansion. The yard centers around a multi-section pool complete with a raised spa, waterfall features and vaha decks. It looks like something out of a five star resort, I love it. Also outdoors, he has various patios to lounge, covered cabana, a tennis and sports court and areas to dine outside and entertain. Not to mention fruit orchards and grassy lawns fill out the rest of the property. So now we've looked at Kauai's homes including his mega mansion Rancho Santa Fe where he spends his downtime, his downtown LA penthouse for when he's working and more. What did you guys think of the NBA Superstars real estate? Okay guys, now read out a few comments from previous videos. On our updated Kylie Jenner house tour we just did Shezgirl Rose set. I love it. It looks so, so spacious and airy. Well done, Kara. Thank you so much. And I really like her new mansion as well. Perfect way to describe it. She's a lucky girl. And on our Jennifer Aniston house tour, Crystal Vickers wrote, Aw, she is a white German shepherd. I have two dogs too, but they're a little on the smaller side. Gotta love the pups though. I also got some comments requesting a house tour for Selena Gomez's new mansion. And I think I might just do an updated one for her soon. The new home looks beautiful. All right guys, that's all I got in the legendary Kauai Leonard's properties like his gorgeous San Diego mansion and more. I love his main home the most, something about that resort style pool and all the interior decoration is still my style. Anyways, I wanna hear from you guys. What did you guys think about the mansion penthouse? Did you like them or no? Let me know in the comments as well as what other celebrity houses you'd like to see. Follow me on Instagram if you wanna chat more and I'll see you all in the next video. Bye.


Namaskara Today, I and Dr. Sudarshan Ballal will discuss about kidney problems. Every year, on March 2nd, our World Kidney Day will be celebrated. This year too it will be celebrated. Kidneys are two very important areas. If blood pressure is maintained, if bones are strong, if hemoglobin is maintained, we should not be afraid of kidney wifes. We should take simple measures to prevent kidney wifes. Prevention is definitely better than cure. We should save 2 kidneys.