As you came from the holy land, by Walter Raleigh, read for LibriVox.org by Justin Brett, as you came from the holy land of Walsingham, met you not with my true love, by the way as you came. How shall I know your true love, that have met many one as I went to the holy land, that have come, that have gone? She is neither white nor brown, but as the heavens fair. There is none hath a form so divine in the earth or the air.  She hath left me here all alone, all alone as unknown. Who sometimes did me lead with herself, and me loved as her own? What's the cause that she leaves you alone, and a new way doth take? Who loved you once as her own, and her joy did you make? I have loved her all my youth, but now old as you see, Love likes not the falling fruit from the wizard tree. Know that love is a careless child, and forgets promise past. He is blind, he is deaf when he list, and in faith never fast. His desire is a durless content, and a trustless joy. He is one with a world of despair, and is lost with a toy. Of womankind such indeed is the love, or the word love abused, under which many childish desires and conceits are excused. But true love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead, from itself never turning. The Outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville Nine that day. The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play. And then when Cooney died at first and Burroughs did the same, a sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game. A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast. They thought if only Casey could but get a whack at that. They put up even money now with Casey at the bat. But Flynn preceded Casey as did also Jimmy Blake, and the former was a puddin, and the latter was a fake. So upon the stricken multitude grim melon-colly sat, for there seemed but little hope of Casey's getting to the bat. But Flynn let drive a single to the wonderment of all, and Blake, the much despised, tore the cover off the ball. And when the dust had lifted and they saw what had occurred, there was Jimmy safe on second, and Flynn a hugging third. Then from five thousand throats and more there arose a mighty yell. It rumbled in the valley and it rattled on the dell. It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled on the flat, for Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat. There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped up to his place. There was pride in Casey's bearing, and a smile on Casey's face. And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, no stranger in the crowd could doubt twas Casey at the bat. Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt. Five thousand tongues applauded as he wiped them on his shirt. And when the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip, defiance gleamed in Casey's eye a sneer curled Casey's lip. And now the leather-covered sphere comes hurtling through the air, and Casey stands a-watching it in haughty grandeur there. Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheated sped. That ain't my style, said Casey. Strike one, the umpire said. From the benches black with people there arose a muffled roar like the beating of the storm waves on some stern and distant shore.  And it's likely they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand. With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visit shone, he stilled the rising tumult, he bade the game go on. He signaled to the pitcher and once more the spheroid flew, but Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, strike two. Fraud, cried the maddened thousands, and Echo answered, fraud, but one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed. They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, and they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again. The sneer is gone, from Casey's lip his teeth are clenched in hate. He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate. And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, and now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow. Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, the band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, and somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout, but there is no joy in Mudville. Mighty Casey has struck out. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, by William Wordsworth. Read for LibriVox.org by Peter Bobby. Earth has not anything to show more fair. How old would he be of soul, who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty? This city now doth like a garment where, the beauty of the morning, silent, bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky. All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep in his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill. There saw I never felt a calm so deep. The river glideth at his own sweet will. Dear God, the very houses seem asleep, and all that mighty heart is lying still. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Holy Sonnet 10. Death Be Not Proud by John Dunne. Read for LibriVox.org by David Grimes. Death Be Not Proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For those whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep which but thy pictures be much pleasure. Then from thee much more must flow. And soonest are best men with thee do go. Rest of their bones and souls deliver. Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, and dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell. And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well, and better than thy stroke. Why swells thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more.  End of poem This recording is in the public domain. In August by Babette Deutsch. Read for LibriVox.org by Alan Davis Drake. Heat urges secret odours from the grass. Blunting the edge of silence crickets shrill. Wings veer, innate needles of light and pass. Laced pools, the warm wood shadows ebb and fill. The wind is casual, loitering to crush the sun upon his pallet, and to draw pungents from pine, frank fragrances from brush, sucked up through thin gray boughs as through a straw. Moss green, fern green, and leaf and meadow green, are broken by the bare, bone-colored roads, less moved by stirring air than by unseen, soft-footed ants and meditative toads. Summer is passing, taking what she brings. Green scents and sounds and quick ephemeral wings. End of poem This recording is in the public domain. The Little Nipper and His Maw by George Fofill-Guro Recorded for LibriVox.org by Peter Yersley. You know me little nipper, says energy orkins, MP, while he's a little champion, and takes on after me. Last Sunday me and the missus went out for a little walk. I should say the nipper took us, you should have heard him talk. We went along through Tyburn, and then by Endon Way, where I used to do me courting in those sweet nights of May. We'd been walking out an hour. When Sal, she says to me, Here, Harry, is your game, dear, for shrimps and a cup of tea? Gone, says I, the Sally. I'm in for half-and-half.  Of course, she says, I like to be nip a gin and a glass of beer, but I did not like to say it out before the nipper ear. The nipper ear weren't looking as we neared the broker's arms, and in me opts to get a wet, not dreaming any arm. But the nipper, he were cagey, and followed in the rear, and ears me give me order. Here, miss, two pots of beer. And when I give me order, I turns to speak to Sal to ask if she remembered the day she was me gal. I felt someone tugging and pulling at me back. I looks around, surprised like, and sees that rascal, Jack. Says I, See you, me nipper, I won't have your hang in here. Says he, Do you think I'm going? Not me, no ballet fear. Now then, what have you ordered? Says I, Two half-and-half. Says he, Ain't mother in it? And ye shoulda heard him laugh. This recording is in the public domain. Minerva Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson Read for LibriVox.org by Peter Bobby Minerva Cheevy, child of scorn, grew lean while he assailed the seasons. He wept that he was ever born, and he had reasons. Minerva loved the days of old, when swords were bright and steeds were prancing. The vision of a warrior bold would set him dancing. Minerva sighed for what was not, and dreamed, and rested from his labours. He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot, and Priam's neighbours. Minerva mourned the ripe renown that made so many a name so fragrant. He mourned romance, now on the town, and art of vagrant. Minerva loved the Medici, albeit he had never seen one. He would have sinned incessantly, could he have been one. Minerva cursed the commonplace, and eyed a khaki suit with loathing. He missed the medieval grace of iron-clothing. Minerva scorned the gold he sought, but sore annoyed was he without it. Minerva thought, and thought, and thought, and thought about it. Minerva Cheevy, born too late, scratched his head and kept on thinking. Minerva coughed, and called it fate, and kept on drinking. This recording is in the public domain. Monotone by Carl Sandberg, read for LibriVox.org by Laurie Ann Walden, February 2007. The monotone of the rain is beautiful, and the sudden rise and slow relapse of the long, multitudinous rain. The sun on the hills is beautiful, or a captured sunset sea-flung bannered with fire and gold.  End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman, read for LibriVox.org by Peter Bobby. A Noiseless Patient Spider, I marked whereon a little promontory it stood isolated, marked how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, it launched forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And you, O my soul, where you stand, surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, till the bridge you will need be formed, till the ductile anchor hold, till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere. O my soul. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. O Lord, Thy wing outspread by William John Blue, read for LibriVox.org by Katherine Monakia. O Lord, Thy wing outspread, and us Thy flock enfold, Thy broad wing spread that covered, Thy mercy seat of old, and o'er our nightly roof, and round our daily path, keep watch and ward and hold aloof, the devil and his wrath. For Thou dost fence our head, and shield ye Thou alone, the peasant on his pallet bed, the prince upon his throne. Make then our heart Thine arc, whereon Thy mystic dove, may brood enlighten it when dark with beams of peace and love. That dearer far to Thee than gold of Cedar Shrine, the bodies of Thy saints may be, the souls by Thee made Thine. So nevermore be stirred, that voice within our hearts, the fearful word that once was heard, up let us hence depart. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. O Mistress Mine by William Shakespeare, read for LibriVox.org by Robert Hespie. O Mistress Mine, where are you roaming? O stay in here. Your true love's coming that can sing both high and low. Trip no further, pretty sweet'ing, journeys end in lover's meeting. Every wise man's son doth know. What is love, just not hereafter. Present mirth, hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty.  Youth's stuff will not endure. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Strings and the Earth and Air by James Joyce for LibriVox.org Narrated by Sean McKinley. Strings and the Earth and Air make music sweet. Strings by the river where the willows meet. There's music along the river for love wanders there. Pale flowers on his mantle, dark leaves on his hair. All softly playing with head to the music bent, and fingers straying upon an instrument. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Sun Has Long Been Set by William Wordsworth. Read for LibriVox.org by Beth Peat in Reading, UK. The Sun Has Long Been Set. The stars are out by twos and threes. The little birds are piping yet among the bushes and the trees. There's a cuckoo and one or two thrushes, and a far-off wind that rushes, and a sound of water that gushes, and the cuckoo's sovereign cry fills all the hollow of the sky. Who would go parading in London and masquerading on such a night of June with that beautiful soft half-moon and all these innocent blisses on such a night as this is? End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To A Child in Death by Charlotte Mew. Read for LibriVox.org by Alan Davis Drake. You would have scoffed if we had told you yesterday love made us feel, or so it was with me, like some great bird trying to hold and shelter you in its strong wing.  What shall we do with this strange summer meant for you, dear, if we see the winter through, what shall be done with spring? This, this, the victory of the grave, here is death's sting, that is not strong enough, our strongest wing. But what of his, who, like a father pitieth, his son was also once a little thing, the wistfulest child that ever drew breath, chased by a sword from Bethlehem, and in the busy house of Nazareth playing with little rows of nails, watching the carpenter's hammer swing, long before his hands and feet were tied, and by a hammer and three great nails he died. Of youth, of spring, of sorrow, of loneliness, of victory, the king, under the shadow of that wing. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Travelling Bear by Amy Lowell. Read for LibriVox.org by Alan Davis Drake. Grass blades push up between the cobblestones and catch the sun on their flat sides, shooting it back, gold and emerald, into the eyes of passers-by. And over the cobblestones, square-footed and heavy, dances the trained bear. The cobbles cut his feet, and he has a ring in his nose, but still he dances, for the keeper pricks him with a sharp stick under his fur. Now the crowd gapes and chuckles, and the boys and young women shuffle their feet in time to the dancing bear. They see him wobbling against the dust of emerald and gold, and they are greatly delighted. The legs of the bear shake with fatigue, and his back aches, and the shining grass blades dazzle and confuse him, but still he dances, because of the little pointed stick. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. The Twilight Turns from Amethyst by James Joyce. For LibriVox.org. Narrated by Sean McKinley. The Twilight Turns from Amethyst to Deep and Deeper Blue. The lamp fills with the pale green glow the trees of the avenue.  She bends upon the yellow keys, her head inclines this way. Shy thought and grave-wide eyes and hands that wander as they list, the Twilight turns to darker blue with lights of amethyst. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 18, 1666. By Ann Bradstreet. Read for LibriVox.org by Alan Davis Drake. Here follows some verses upon the burning of our house, July 18, 1666, copied out of a loose paper. In silent night, when rest I took, for sorrow near I did not look, I wakened was with thundering noise and piteous shrieks of dreadful voice. That fearful sound of fire and fire, let no man know is my desire. I started up, the light did spy, and to my God my heart did cry to straighten me in my distress and not to leave me succourless. The flame consumed my dwelling place, and when I could no longer look, I blessed his grace that gave and took, that laid my goods now in the dust. Yea, so it was, and so it was just. It was his own, it was not mine. Far be it that I should repine. He might of all justly bereft, but yet sufficient for us left. When, by the ruins, oft I passed, my sorrowing eyes aside did cast, and here and there the places spy were oft I sat and long did lie. Here stood that trunk, and there that chest, there lay the store I counted best. My pleasant things and ashes lie, and them behold no more shall I. Under the roof no guest shall sit, nor at thy table eat a bit. No pleasant talk shall air be told, nor things recounted done of old. No candle air shall shine in thee. No bridegroom's voice air heard shall be. In silence ever shall thou lie. A-do, a-do, all's vanity. Then straight I gain my heart to chide, and did thy wealth on earth abide. Didst fix thy hope on mouldering dust, the arm of flesh didst make thy trust? Raise up thy thoughts above the sky, that dung-hill mist away may fly. Thou hast a house on high erect, framed by that mighty architect, with glory richly furnished stands permanent, though this be fled. It's purchased and paid for too, by him who hath enough to do. A price so vast as is unknown, yet by his gift is made thine own. There's wealth enough, I need no more. Farewell, my pelf, farewell, my store, the world no longer let me love. My hope and treasures lie above. When I Heard the Learned Astronomer by Walt Whitman Read for LibriVox.org by Peter Bobby When I Heard the Learned Astronomer, when the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, when I was shown the charts and diagrams to add, divide, and measure them, When I, sitting, Heard the Astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room, how soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself in the mystical, moist night air, and from time to time looked up in perfect silence at the star's end of poem. This recording is in the public domain. Written on the top of Ben Neves by John Keats Read for LibriVox.org by Julian Jameson Read me a lesson, muse, and speak it loud upon the top of Neves, blind in mist. I look into the chasms, and a shroud vaporous doth hide them. Just so much I wist mankind do know of hell. I look o'erhead, and there is sullen mist. Even so much mankind can tell of heaven. Mist is spread before the earth, beneath me. Even such, even so vague is man's sight of himself. Here are the craggy stones beneath my feet. Thus much I know that a poor, witless elf I tread on them. That all my eye doth meet is mist and crag. Not only on this height, but in the world of thought and mental might. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. When I was young, I willful when, I for the change, twix now and then. This breathing-house not built with hands, this body that does me grievous wrong, or airy cliffs and glittering sands, how lightly then it flashed along. Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore, unwinding lakes and rivers wide, that ask no aid of sail or oar, that fear no spite of wind or tide. Not care of this body for wind or weather, when youth and I lived in it together. Flowers are lovely, love is flower-like, friendship is a sheltering tree. O the joys that came down shower-like, of friendship, love and liberty ere I was old. ere I was old, I willful air, which tells me youth's no longer here. O youth, for years so many and sweet, to snow that thou and I were one, I'll think it but a fond conceit, it cannot be that thou art gone. By Vesperbell hath not yet told, and thou were'd I a masquer bold. What strange disguise hath now put on to make believe that thou art gone. I see these locks and silvery slips, this drooping gate, this altered size, but spring-tide blossoms on thy lips and tears take sunshine from thine eyes. Life is but thought, so think I will that youth and I are housemates still. Dewdrops are the gems of mourning, but the tears of mournful eve, where no hope is life's a warning that only serves to make us grieve when we are old. That only serves to make us grieve with often tedious taking leave, like some poor nigh-related guest that may not rudely be dismissed, yet hath outstayed his welcome-wile, and tells the jest without the smile.


and well this is my team, we are from San Peter Engineering College doing IT and our project is a basic CGPA calculation based on the credit send and great system send. We use a Java code for the simply great calculator and we use a clip side it is something like that tools. And we created a basic calculator, we are completed off of the stage and still remaining we have to do calculation part is there and we will definitely complete it. And this is the off stage we have completed.


So you're watching The Daily Roundup by Peoples Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at the headlines. Iran and Cuba seek to enhance cooperation. Sweden and Finland take forward plans to join NATO. Protests continue against President Kais Said in Tunisia. Residents of Okinawa call for demilitarization and peace. Iran and Cuba are holding a joint economic summit to increase cooperation between the two countries in the sphere of political, economic and trade relations. The 18th session of the Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Relations began on Sunday, May 15 and will last till Tuesday, May 17. The joint summit being held in the Iranian capital Tehran is being attended by the Iranian Minister of Health, Bahram Ainullahi, Cuba's Deputy Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisa, Cuban Minister of Energy and Minds, Levan Aront and other officials. Among the top agenda points of summit are to significantly enhance cooperation between the two countries in the fields of trade, investment, transit and transportation, electricity and energy and more. They are also expected to sign numerous joint agreements. The two countries hailed the joint vaccine production with Cuban Deputy PM Cabrisa calling the Pasto Kovac vaccine a mascot for Iran-Cuba ties. They also expressed hope to increase this cooperation in the medical field in the future as well as extend to other sectors. Both countries also pledged mutual political and diplomatic support to each other on the international stage. Just before the summit began, Iranian Foreign Minister Hussain Amir Abdul-Lihyan called Cuba a reliable strategic partner of Iran, while Deputy PM Cabrisa thanked Iran for its support in the face of unilateral US sanctions on Cuba. Denouncing the US sanctions on both Iran and Cuba, both countries vowed to keep improving their bilateral ties and to learn from each other's experiences to ultimately neutralize the sanctions effect. The Nordic countries of Sweden and Finland have confirmed their intentions to join NATO in a major policy shift from decades of neutrality and military non-alignment. Both countries have cited the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine as the primary reason for a change in their stance towards joining NATO. Finland's government was the first to express its intentions to join NATO with Finnish President Sauli Niinesto, terming it a historic day and the opening of a new era. Finnish Prime Minister Sana Mariin later in a statement expressed hope that the country's parliament would vote in favour of the government's decision. The Swedish government followed soon after with Prime Minister Mac Dalana and Dresden on Sunday, May 15, saying in a news conference, the best thing for the security of Sweden and the Swedish people is to join NATO. The two countries are expected to submit a joint membership application after receiving approvals from their respective parliaments. The proposals for joining NATO are expected to be presented to the respective parliaments on Monday, May 16. The moves by the two countries to join NATO are expected to antagonize Russia even further. Russia already opposes NATO's expansion towards its borders and has said that it would be obliged to restore military balance in the Baltic Sea region. Russian President Vladimir Putin on a call with the Finnish President described the Finnish move as a mistake since there is no threat to Finland's security. Furthermore, NATO member Turkey has also expressed its reservations over the two countries joining NATO with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Shavusholo saying that they must stop supporting the PKK Kurdish militant group, provide security guarantees and lift export bans, especially in the defence sector on Turkey. He added that both his Swedish and Finnish counterparts have offered reassurances to Turkey regarding its concerns. We move on to Tunisia where more than 2,000 Tunisians took part in protests in the capital Tunis against President Kai Said on Sunday, May 15, demanding his exit and the country's return to democracy. The protests were held in the central Habiburgiba Avenue and were the first to be organised by the newly formed Alliance, the National Salvation Front to oppose the President's ongoing power grab in the country which started in July last year. Among the protesters were members and supporters of the NAHDA party, the largest in the now dissolved parliament, members of the citizens against the coup movement as well as many other members and supporters of other political parties. The protesters also denounced the President's move to replace the independent Electoral Commission in the country with one of his own choosing. This move has been preceded by several other similar moves such as replacing the Supreme Judicial Council, giving himself extraordinary legal and legislative powers, announcing and drafting of a new constitution among others. The protesters were seen chanting slogans and rallied in front of the municipal theatre on the avenue even as the government had put in place stringent security measures for the protests. The protesters noted that the deployment and security formations of a large number of security forces who were also deployed at the entry and exit points of the avenue. Tunisia which went through a revolution in 2011 returned to democracy has been witnessing regular protests since July last year after the President dismissed the Prime Minister and the Cabinet and suspended the parliament and assumed power in the country. Critics have termed these terms unconstitutional and amounting to a presidential coup. The President has continued to secure and expand his hold on power in the following months, announcing numerous other controversial decisions, leading to widespread domestic and international concern and condemnation. And finally protests marked the 50th anniversary of Okinawa reverting back to Japanese sovereignty which fell on Sunday, May 15. In the capital city of Naha, more than a thousand Okinawans congregated, re-iterating the long-standing calls to demilitarize the island and for peace in the region. A massive march was held in the city of Ginoban that passed a major US military installation. For decades, Okinawans have been at the forefront of the struggle against US military bases and calling for peace and demilitarization in Japan. Solidarity protests were also held in Tokyo. The anniversary comes at a time when plans are afoot by both Japan and the US to build a new military base in Hinoko in Okinawa as part of expanding US presence in the island prefecture. The plans for a new base in Hinoko continues despite recent promises from the national parliament to decrease and redistribute US military installation to other parts of the country. Despite accounting for less than 1% of the country's landmass, it houses a bulk of US military bases in Japan. The island hosts 70% of the foreign military infrastructure and lands used exclusively by the US. The massive US military presence in the island has been met with a strong opposition from the residents. The island was previously under US military rule between 1945 and 1972 after it occupied the islands in a bloody battle during the Second World War that killed a quarter of the island's population at the time. Despite much protests from the Okinawans, the US relinquished its military control of the island in 1972, but struck a deal with the Japanese government to maintain its military infrastructure in the island. And that's all for today's episode. For more such stories, visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.


Welcome everyone to this session of PD in your PJs. Today we are talking all about ways that you can create a Valentine message with CISA. So as you know, we've got a holiday coming up soon if you celebrate, so we thought it would be fun to showcase how some of the creative tools in CISA can enhance what you are already doing in your classroom to make an even more special surprise for loved ones surrounding your students. So I'm Angela, I lead the community team here at CISA. I'd love for you to connect with me on Twitter. I'm at Mrs. Gagki. And as you may know, I was also a classroom teacher for 15 years in the kindergarten setting. So some of these ideas are things that I actually did in my classroom and I'm excited to share them with you here today as well. So a couple of things we're gonna do first is I'm going to share some behind the scenes tips and setup to make things a little bit easier if you are embarking on a big project and you wanna take advantage of our QR code feature available in CISA. So if you're not yet aware, every time something is added to CISA, a student posts, you can always tap the three dots under that student post and generate a QR code that leads to that item in CISA. So CISA does all the work for you. We're actually gonna demo that a little bit. But as part of the process getting set up to use that feature and some of the projects we're going to be talking about today, I wanna show you kind of a pro tip about using folders. So here are the steps outlined for creating a valentine folder and I'm actually going to demo this. So this slide will be a great reference for you when you actually get to, if you're thinking, oh my gosh, how did you do this exactly? So this will be a great reference for you when you kind of peek back at the slides that will get emailed to you. But basically by creating a folder, what this does is all of your student work that is associated with a valentine project can go in that folder and then you can print an entire folder of work with just a few clicks, which is totally awesome and you'll have your QR codes ready to go. So let me demonstrate this first and then we're gonna hop into our ideas. So what I have right now is I'm gonna switch into one of my many classes that I use for doing demonstrations through our professional development here. So I'm in this third grade class and what I'm going to do is in the upper right, I'm gonna tap on my wrench to get into my class settings because I don't think this classroom has any folders yet actually. So I'm gonna scroll all the way down to folders right here. Now I can go into managed folders in your, oh, I did have a recording spot folder, interesting. Well, there we go. I'm gonna create a new folder though. So let's create a folder and we are gonna call this folder valentines and I'm going to start it with a period and that is going to allow me to have that folder be the very first one that shows up on the list. The other tip I'm gonna give you and I'm on a MacBook right now and if you're using any device, you can also use emojis but on a MacBook, this is kind of a tip. I go to this getemoji.com, copy this. I'm gonna come back here and I'm actually going to paste this emoji with, oh my goodness, with my folder name because if you're working with littles like I was, it's always nice to kind of have a picture queue as well if they're going to be choosing the folder. So again, you can insert emojis anytime you're typing in CSOT just as I did or it works on Chromebooks as well and of course on iPads, you have the emoji keyboard available too. So I've got my folder named, I have a dot in front of it, I'm gonna tap the green check right here. So you'll notice it is now at the top of my list of folders. So that's important if you have lots of folders in your class, let's just make a math one so you can kind of see what I'm talking about here that your students will be easily able to have that at the top if they're gonna be choosing where it goes. Okay, so we have some folders set up. Now what I wanna show you is the awesome, the awesome part here that has been created. So now what I can do as a teacher when I go to my class journal, this first on the right here, this thing that's highlighted in gray, if I tap on folder, I can then choose the folder that I wanna look into. Now, because I have this recording spots folder and it already has three items in it, for the sake of showing you stuff that's already in the folder, I'm gonna click on that folder. Now, because I am on the CESAW website, I'm at app.csaw.me, I'm gonna have this option right here to print a PDF of everything that is in this folder. So this is what you would do with your Valentine project. So I'm gonna go to print PDF because I wanna show you what happens. So CESAW does all this work for you. It will actually print up to 80 posts in a folder. So this is just an easy way. Let's go to view and print PDF. And you're gonna kind of see what happens because this is going to give you the QR code that leads to that post in CESAW. So it has a nice little cover page and then you'll see the post with the QR code here. Now, in the first example that I'm gonna go into, you're going to see where this QR code comes into place or into play and you might be thinking, Angela, why would I be doing this? Because families are going to see this in CESAW. Well, you might choose to have your students create a Valentine for someone that is not connected to their CESAW class. So keep that in mind. So again, just a little bit of logistics there before we hop in to our ideas. Okay, so first idea, handmade Valentine's with voice. So many of you, I'm sure, might be thinking of ways to create Valentine's in your classroom, but I'm going to add a layer to that and enhance it a little bit with CESAW. So this is really, really simple. You see here a picture of a real Valentine that was created with construction paper and colored pencils. And then the students take a picture of this and record their voice. Now I'm gonna play this example so you can see what I'm talking about here. Dear Grandma, I love doing all of you happy, happy Valentine's Day. Right? So the idea in this, in this idea, the idea in this idea, oh my goodness, the idea behind this activity is that your students will still be sending and delivering physical Valentine's, but you're actually going to glue that QR code to the back of the Valentine. So that when it arrives, maybe it's going to Grandma, maybe it's going to an uncle, maybe it's going to a friend that lives far away, they will be able to not only physically hold that Valentine, but they could scan that QR code on the back of it with any QR reader and then hear that lovely, adorable, amazing little voice as well, which will make that Valentine extra special. So I've made this really easy for you. If you want to give this a go, I've actually created this as an activity. So it is in the CESA activity library right now. If you look up Handmade Valentine with Voice, it'll be there waiting for you. You'll also get the link in the slides and you can just save this activity to your CESA class and then share it with your students. Now what I want to show you is a really important step in this process that will save you a lot of time. If you're again, as we said, trying to gather these all in one folder so that it's easier for you just to hit those, tap three buttons and print all of the QR codes in one swoop. So I'm going to go back into my class right now. I'm going to go to the green add button and go to share activity. Now here's my activity, right? That I had saved and what you will probably save as well. So I'm just going to click here and I'm going to tap this share button. Now we are in third grade rock star, so I'm going to choose that class. But notice right here, I have the option to edit students, folders and skills. So, oh my goodness, we're totally going to edit folders right now because if I tap on edit folders right here, I can choose the Valentine folder so my students don't have to, right? Especially if we're working with younger students or even older students, if we save them a step in the process, that's amazing. So now I'm going to tap the green check. I'm going to share it with my class. So now if I go back into my CSOT class and I want to, let's say I'm going to respond to this as a student. So you can see the instructions for this activity. Again, activities are a great way to, you know, prompt your students, remind your students what maybe you've already shared and modeled in your classroom. But here we go, it says use paper markers and crayons to make a Valentine card. We've already got that done, right? Now they're ready to record their voice. So I, as a student, am going to tap that green add button. We're going to be a sample student here today. And I would take a photo of my Valentine that I created and that I would record my voice. Now once that is shared in CSOT, then of course it's going to show up in that folder. Because as you can see right here, it's already tagged to that Valentine's folder. So when you sign in on the web at app.csot.me, you can filter to that folder in your class and easily print all of that, which is huge time saver and just quite exciting. So again, if you forget for some reason to add it to the Valentine folder, your students could also add it to the folder as well. So again, you're going to cut out that QR code. You can glue that to the back of the physical Valentine that you're going to mail. So that's idea number one, okay? Idea number two, this is a fun one. And I did this with my kindergarteners and it was just a classroom of joy, I must say. So this is talking Valentine's. So again, what we're going to talk about is still potentially approaching a Valentine like maybe you do in your classroom right now, but we are going to use another app called Chatterpits, which is only available on iOS devices to make it talk. So here's an example of that. Let's listen up. Do you love snuggling with you and telling story and playing games happy Valentine's Day? Again, so this is, my students have created Valentine's. They use construction paper. They had their Valentine. They put it on a table and took a picture of it. So once they took that photo, they went into the Chatterpits app. And again, here's kind of how to steps. And Marnie, my friend Marnie had created this awesome step-by-step directions. If you've never used Chatterpits that I have borrowed her visuals here, which is great. So again, within the Chatterpits app, students would just take a picture of their Valentine and then they just draw a little mouth on it and they push a button and they start to talk.  When you choose on this third photo here, you'll see this little button that kind of looks like a, I don't know, it's a down arrow with a device that saves it to export it to your camera roll. And then the students will actually, when they are in CESA and completing this activity, they'll just choose to add that from their camera roll, okay? So I'm gonna go back to this slide for a moment because when you get the slides, or if you just can't wait, you can also look in CESA right now because this is waiting. If you go into the activity library and search talking Valentine's, this will also be in there for you as well. Now, keep in mind, you could do the same thing with this one. If you wanna tag it with a Valentine folder before you share the activity and if you wanted to add the physical QR code to the back of this and share it with someone that's not connected to your student's CESA portfolio, like maybe it's a grandparent or like I said, someone that is not connected that could be fun as well. Okay, idea number three, photo Valentine. So this is for any age group. I actually have an example with a fourth grader right here. So I'm gonna play this. So basically what they're doing is they're taking a picture of themselves. They're creating that photo and then they're using labels in CESA to draw and then record and talk. So let's listen to this example. So you kind of get an idea of what's happening here. Happy Valentine's Day, Dad. And I wanna say that I really like when you read books with me and play soccer and tell me funny jokes and just want to wish you happy Valentine's Day. All right, so again, all of those tools are right in CESA so your students can play and get really creative with what their Valentine looks like. And I have right here activity links for specific grade levels. So again, if you search message of love in the CESA activity library right now you're gonna find this one. If you're second through fifth grade and you're looking for a little bit older version that has a few more steps you'll search for photo Valentine that is ready for you to explore and use with your students as well. So let's go to my next idea. My fourth one, and I never, I didn't do this with Valentine's but I thought, oh, so brilliant, it would be so fun is to use this as really a great opportunity to get started with CESA blogs and maybe find a class to connect with. So I had seen teachers that had been thinking, oh, I've gotta start blogs, I don't know. I need kind of a specific way to get started. And I thought, boy, this would be a great way to exchange Valentine's or something like that or share and connect that way. So when you get the slides, if you click on this link you're actually going to go to a huge document that shows all of the different classrooms from around the world that have signed up on this connected blogs document. That means that they are eager for their class to connect with other classrooms from around the globe. So definitely check this document out. If you go to our help center, help.csat.me and search connected blogs, you're also going to find this document as well. So if you can't wait for the slides you can just hop on right now and search that as well. Now this is something that I came across that I thought looked amazing as well.  And of course, CSOP blogs would be a great platform to use to get connected with other classrooms. So this might be another way that you find classrooms to connect with. So, boy, I just went through all sorts of ideas but I want to show you one more that is really a great spot to peek. So inside CSOP in the activity library, again, when you're signing in as a teacher if you go to that green add button and then just choose browse activity library, one of the collections you're going to see right away on the top is our newest collection, friendship, kindness and community. So really there are already over 50 activities waiting for you to browse and peruse and use with your students in your classroom or get inspired and you can edit them and modify them and make them work for the students that you work with each and every day. So we kind of want to make it easy for you to try something new. So we hope that that is really valuable for you as well. So definitely check that out. And we're really eager to see what your students create. So make sure you let us know if you're on Twitter or you can tag at CSOP. We love to see all of their creations and collaborations and sharing. And of course, if you're not yet connected with our community of teachers on Facebook or Instagram make sure you check out those platforms as well. Now I've gone pretty quickly here but I want to take some time to answer some questions for those of you that are here live. I also want to just take a moment to let you know that we really love feedback. So if you would be so kind to fill out the survey that pops up at the end of this webinar, we would love that. It makes us better. It lets us know what you want to see or hear in upcoming sessions. So make sure you do that as well. So I'm looking for questions coming in. So let's take a peek.


Hey everyone, before I get into today's video, I want to remind you to enter our giveaway for Paper Mario the Origami King. To enter, all you need to do is comment on this video, like this video, subscribe to the channel and hit that bell icon. You can do this on every single video released from now through the end of July and we'll announce the winner at the end of the month. All right, it is July 1st and unfortunately we get to start this month with some bad industry news that makes Sony and even Square Enix, who knows who else, not look that great when it handles reviews. Now, you guys know I don't really do a lot of game reviews at the channel. I am in the midst of contemplating doing impression videos where I'm not going to really call it a straight up review. I'm just going to play some games whether they're older or newer and just give my thoughts on it. But I feel it's different than a review because there's a lot of pressure on reviews and review scores and something happened with The Last of Us Part 2 at Polygon and who knows however many other outlets in regards to Sony that really irks me. So let's get into this story. This is posted on Polygon. As you see here, they put up a recent article talking about The Last of Us 2 has become a minefield. This is mostly about all the negative user scores and all that jazz. But if you scroll down a little bit, there's this interesting part. So it says, well, the vast majority of reviews have lavished The Last of Us Part 2, again, as a 94 overall on Metacritic, with all sorts of praise. A handful of outlets, Polygon included, have slightly more critical of that Blockbuster game or have been. According to Xan, I don't know if that's pronounced right, Vice's review prompted a Sony representative to reach out on behalf of Naughty Dog. They felt some of the conclusions I reached in my review were unfair and dismissed some meaningful changes or improvements. Xan said clarified the exchange wasn't confrontational, but it was nonetheless unusual as the site doesn't typically have big publishers asking in an official capacity why a review reads the way it does. Such things can happen, of course, though often from smaller developers or from publishers who have spotted a factual error in a piece that they want corrected. I was happy to unpack a bit of my reasoning, but received a much more personal or received a perfectly cordial message in response. Naughty Dog's PR team declined to comment on Polygon's inquiry in this exchange with Vice. So what you have here is Sony reaching out because they didn't like a review. They didn't like how a review was written. They didn't like how a review portrayed their game. They disagreed with the review. And what's becoming clear is that while this is unusual, Sony and Naughty Dog clearly were trying to skirt negative viewpoints of their game in the review process. And when you see such a strong reaction from all of the fans of the game giving all these negative reviews primarily because of the story, it leads you to wonder if the fans could have such a negative viewpoint of this. How can the people reviewing it just give all this stuff a pass and just still give out 9 out of 10s and 10 out of 10s to a game that clearly the fan base doesn't agree with. And a lot of the people who reviewed this game also played the last of us. So how can there be so many positive reviews? And this is why because there's a lot of pressure put on people for this. Now a while back when I used to run ZeldaInformer.com for some reason, I can't remember what the reasoning was, but we called out IGN. We called out IGN because it appeared anyways that a review or an article of a particular game had some wording and stuff changed due to links between the advertising and pressure put on by the publisher. So basically, they didn't like the way something was written. They came in and suggested changes and the changes were forced into the piece to keep the publisher happy. And this gets into a really sticky situation where people are worried, outlets in particular are worried about being blackballed or blacklisted by major companies because early access to games is one of the few things that keep things like IGN and GameSpot and other places really afloat. Yes, they have a lot of other popular podcasts and all that jazz, but the brux of it is what makes those places matter is this exclusive access to the games that even us YouTubers generally don't get. If we even do get review copies of the game, we might get it a few days early or we get it the day of launch. But a lot of the major publications, Polygon, IGN, get weeks often to spend with these games to create hype and coverage and pre-release content and all that. And it's really a backbone of the video game industry, but they can hold things against companies if they don't give reviews that necessarily favor what they feel should be an overall perfect video game. And The Last of Us Part 2 by Naughty Dog is successful and it's huge as the sales are. And also, by the way, it's also the number one returned video game. People don't talk about that much, but the number of returns or requested refunds on The Last of Us Part 2 is higher than any other first-party Sony game. I'm not sure what the final sales figures is when you consider returns into it, but the point is that it's a critical darling, but is it a critical darling not just because of some of the gameplay mechanics and stuff are great, but because there's pressure put on these outlets to keep the reviews favorable? Now, this is some evidence that Sony has been tampering a little bit. They didn't go so far as to tell them you need to change this or else. They let this person in particular explain themselves, but that is not the typical way this goes with some other companies. Let me explain, because as crappy as this is of Sony to do and Naughty Dog to do and just paints a horrible light because they weren't correcting any factual inaccuracies, they were basically saying we don't agree with your opinion, change it, and then they say, well, here's why I gave it, and then they stayed cordial and left it alone, probably because they wanted to avoid this whole controversy becoming public. Square Enix has been messing with stuff. We now have evidence of it happening back in 2012, kind of crazy. I found this on Reset Era, but it actually comes off Twitter. Let's get into this a little bit too. Gita Jackson here who put up the quote from Polygon or whatever on this stuff happening. Bella Chun-Li blah blah blah blah blah is a video game journalist, says now that we're calling this out because it was called out, you know, Sony was being called out for trying to tamper with a review. Square Enix did this in 2017 to me over a review of Final Fantasy 12. They tried to intimidate me into changing my score, accused me of lying and offered correct paragraphs to put in. I quit games writing for two years after that. It goes on to say a hilarious addendum is that I was given a dev unit console to play near Automata on about three months before release and I had to sign a super crazy NDA. For those who don't know, any time you have review units, whether it's hardware or software, you do have to agree to an NDA. Sometimes it's weird, you'll get the product before you've even agreed to the NDA. Nintendo used to do that where they set it up to media and the NDA would be included with the product, but you didn't even agree to it before you got the product. So it's kind of weird. Anyways, they gave that game a 10 and then they sent them a black box edition and assigned Yoko Terro print. Now the original name this person went by for writing has been revealed to some people who have verified this person's story is true and I can verify from basically my own experience dealing with review copies of games and other people I've talked to in the industry that work at particular outlets and video game developers.  I don't want anyone getting in trouble that this practice actually happens quite often. There's been many times when someone has given a game a perfect score at a major outlet and when that happens they've been sent like perks I guess or little gifts from the company say thank you for giving us a perfect score which again that's an incentive laid in reason to give a game a perfect score. Though this writer is not saying they gave that perfect score expecting to get stuff but they thought it was weird that when they gave on your automata or whatever a perfect score they ended up getting the stuff it doesn't make any sense. So I think that we are just stuck in a world in the video game media that's coming out and there's a lot of other other controversies coming out from the industry but in regards to the actual coverage of games I feel like this has been the reason there's been such a rise over the last decade of youtubers like me and others becoming more trusted by video game fans over these traditional outlets because even though there's shady things that happen on YouTube there's very shady things that happen on YouTube and I'll touch on that in a moment it comes down to this practice of you know holding you know trying to force review scores to be better because guess what PR companies HR companies they get bonuses sometimes based on the metacritic score of games which is complete and utter nonsense that video game companies do this but they do and this is one reason why some people really hate metacritic because it's put all this unnecessary pressure on game reviewers and the game developers and HR companies or PR companies in general to to try to push for higher reviews from all these outlets that they privilege games to and sometimes you don't end up with the true opinion of the writer you end up with a censored version of what that writer had to say and potentially altered review scores to satiate these publishers and developers so it sucks and here we have evidence of sony doing it being called out attempting to do it anyways and it doesn't sound like it was successful and they backed off but sony attempted to get involved with reviews of last of us part two at least at two outlets vice and polygon we don't know about other outlets they might have tried to do this at and obviously now we have square enix that did this in 2017 with final fantasy 12 which was stupid because i think it was just the hd remaster at that point i don't really know what they were thinking but they got a new square enix tried to force more positive reviews there and review changes and this has happened we know this has happened we've we've heard stories like this several times over the years and i don't want to say that this is what happens a majority of the time but it does happen now personally in my history of getting review copies of games mostly dealing with nintendo um and a copy of epic mickey the original epic mickey i got that review copy i personally never had to deal with any of it i've never had nintendo contact me to try to change review scores i do send the reviews oftentimes uh to my representative at goal and harris and stuff like that when i used to write them and uh you know they would they would sometimes um give some feedback uh but they would never say you need to change your review or we don't you know whatever nintendo wants you to it was usually just that person's personal opinion and if they disagreed with me but they would never ask me to make changes or anything i don't know it's it's a very interesting conundrum we find ourselves in as a video game industry and um you know youtubers are not innocent either uh youtubers fight for perks like game like like getting games early uh so they can do day one live streams and all that jazz uh we get sponsored often by some of these companies that feels like they're often is not a disconnect in uh ad revenue versus youtube revenue as an example if i nintendo contacts me and they want to sponsor some videos to advertise paper mario uh the origami king which is being advertised anyways with my giveaway but if they they want to use hey we want you to throw a commercial in your video or talk about the game or whatever we'll give you the game early so you can do your own footage okay well there's not a disconnect between that and what i do at the channel because i'm a nintendo youtuber i'm a video game youtuber i cover video game stuff as awesome as that sponsorship is it's going to taint anything i say about paper mario which in my opinion means i can't review that game so you can look at it as if ign has ads on it for the last of this part two should they be really making a review for last of this part two when they're being paid by the people um for the ad space i know there's a bigger disconnect of those websites between the ad sales company and the writing you know i've had some some conversations with upper management at ign to see how things are separated so i'm not going to accuse them of this but with youtubers there's rarely any separation between who advertises on our channel and us as content creators it's all the same thing we often run these channels alone most of us don't have pr teams uh so yeah it's it's really sticky with youtubers as well so as much as you guys might trust us if you start to see a lot of sponsored videos or you see ads uh you have to start to wonder and no by the way my giveaways are not generally sponsored i don't think i've had a sponsor to give away in a long time maybe one ever um i pay for everything on a pocket so i don't know it's just a crazy situation to me that we're dealing with in this industry and obviously uh sony stop it please all right the game was going to sell well anyways and be a critical darling regardless because people love last of us just stop it stop it you had no reason to contact any reviewers that you disagreed with you uh you know square enix if it's really true you're trying to change review scores now stop it the games you release are generally really good anyways autopad traveler it was fantastic final fantasy 15 was fantastic all the Tomb Raider games that were fantastic like seriously stop it you don't need to do this that's the stupid thing you don't need to do this i know you're doing it because bonuses and everything are based on metacritic stop giving a crap about metacritic bonuses should be based on game sales game sales okay game crosses four million five million six million ten million in sales everyone gets a bonus that's how it should work sales actual money coming into the company should determine bonuses not review scores or metacritic ratings or user scores like it's so stupid it's so stupid so that's my my two cents on this i'm sorry this is still a thing happening in the industry it's always going to happen because money's involved um but yeah that's kind of my two cents shame on you sony shame on you naughty dog shame on you square enix and any other company that's practicing this but hasn't been called out yet because i'm sure more and more stories are going to come out um about this practice becoming common so thank you guys so much for tuning in i am the tenor opal jams from nintendo prime be sure to go get a copy of paper mario origami king if you're interested or try to win our giveaway again comment like subscribe and uh hit the bell icon all right it's all i got for you guys for now um i have a couple of the stories we might get to today uh but for now that's what i got catch you guys in the next video