episode of Talk Story with John Wahe'e. Today we have a special guest for you. He is in fact the president and CEO of the Hawaii Tourism Authority. It's my pleasure to welcome to our podcast, John T. Freed. Hi John, how are you? Governor Wahe'e, I'm fine. Today we have Red and Blue States and on today's podcast we have Red and Blue Hawaiians here. Thank you John. John's a friend of ours for a number of years and it's always a pleasure to see him. John, you know for our audience's sake, before you were CEO of the HTA, tell us a little bit about yourself. I know that you're participating with us from Kona, which is I guess your residence whenever you don't have to be in Honolulu. Yes, my wife and I have been residing in Kona for 32 years and it as much as our staff at HTA is still teleworking. I get into Honolulu about four or five days a week and then return to Kona if for no other reason but to reboot and get ready for the following week. That seems like a good thing to do. Now, the topic of our show today is regenerative tourism. You are in charge of the industry in Hawai'i and one of the questions obviously is what is regenerative tourism? But before we get there, describe a little bit about the tourist industry in Hawai'i. I mean how large it is and how well how it is. Yeah, sure. Let's go back to pre-pandemic calendar year 2019 when Hawai'i set a record number of visitor arrivals, 10,400,000. First time visitor arrivals had surpassed 10 million. That translated into about 17.8 billion in visitor spending of which 2.2 billion came in the form of state tax revenue. And inside that 2.2 billion number is roughly just over 600 million in transient accommodation tax. So when you look at the scale of it, 2 billion is roughly the budget, annual budget for the Department of Education. But it'll give our viewers some frame of reference as to the scale that the industry has grown to. And I heard you had about what how many thousand workers work in the industry. Well actually you got closer to like 220,000 employed. Wow. Where the industry is. So when the collapse happened, my concern, many of us in the industry were concerned about the financial, emotional, social impacts on people who derive their livelihood from the industry. Where are we now? I mean how much of a recovery has occurred? You know the recovery is still somewhat sporadic. We have not benefited yet from the return of multiple international markets. But there's been a pent up demand in America that is made up for that. I'll give you a snapshot is in the month of August 2022. There was a reduction of 10% in visitor arrivals and an increase of 13.8% in spending. So in the month of August alone, 1.7 billion in visitor expenditures was achieved again with 10% less the number of visitors. So those are good indicators but it's still not a stabilized total market return. It'll take us a while to get there. So obviously this is a really important industry for Hawaii and for well you know for all of us. And and yet I sense that doing the pandemic for instance, there was a lot of conversations about whether we really want this level of tourism coming to the state of Hawaii. You know when I was in office back in the 1980s and early 90s we thought that 6 million tourists would be about getting close to the maximum number that we we should have. And yet you know before the pandemic we went all the way up to 10 million plus. And so you know so there's been all this discussion and what do you think of yeah you know you know the the increase going from 8 million to 10 million plus was achieved without the net number of hotel rooms increasing. So where did that extra 2.4 million go? Well they ended up in places they didn't belong in illegal short-term vacation rentals. Which is one of the reasons why you see every mayor, every county, every county council finally playing hardball with new policies and more importantly an enforcement of those policies where those kinds of accommodations don't belong and are in violation of the county code. And so I think taking that what I refer to as that shadow inventory off the market will help to stabilize the numbers not affect adversely the hotel and condominium occupancies. Because those are authorized those are paying the transient accommodation tax. And so we're going to be able to find our balance and I would say John that if we're going to do tourism at this scale we need better systems in place so that visitors and local residents can make real-time decisions because they've got the information. If I know there are 2,000 people at Hanama Bay I don't want to be 2,001 whether I'm local or visiting right. I'll go to Bishop Museum or I'll go someplace else but somebody's got a in my mobile device give me that information and those are the kinds of systems that will allow us to work at this scale without having this adverse impact or over congestion or over tourism that we're now experiencing because people lack the the real-time information to make real-time decisions. What as a result of all of this though is that we're hearing this this term regenerative tourism a different kind of tourism pivoting from you know what we used to think as normal which is just bringing tourists into Hawaii what is that all about? Well you know the existing system or the system that is doing we go back to 2019 that system was doing exactly what it was designed to do more more right we've expanded our airports the total number of gates not because we wanted less visitors but because we wanted more right and so when you when you look at this I think if you take tourism off that term and just look at what regenerative means to those of us that are native Hawaiian to those of us who are multi-generational comma aina we actually descend from a regenerative uh lifestyle and life philosophy okay and and what's encouraging to me the more we learn about these regenerative industries regenerative tourism models is that the value system aligns with the ancestral traditional ways of um that come from Hawaii and so that's why I'm encouraged by the natural fit and when when you align with that value system um the impact that our industry is having on the natural environment becomes extremely important the impact it's having on Hawaiian culture and traditional practices we have to be accountable to that and the impact we're having on the spirit of our community is something that we also have to account for right and so in January 2020 the HDA uh board of directors adopted a five-year strategic plan that prioritized um the natural environment natural resources Hawaiian culture community and global branding and so we now have a strategy and a uh a business approach that takes into consideration that comprehensive um world that we impact both favorably or unfavorably if we're not responsible now this plan has been I presume been worked on for a period of years I mean some somebody had to come up with all of this I'll tell you who came up with it the people of the community because in calendar year 2019 as the HDA staff and team of consultants went island to island um hearing the concerns um from both those that are directly involved in tourism and those who have nothing to do with tourism um after that full calendar year they they ended up producing a strategic plan which frankly caught my eye because if those four pillars natural resources Hawaiian culture community and branding that when I started an industry the four pillars would have been hotels airlines um retail and attractions right it would have been very insular uh we would have we would have said local people be thankful for the jobs we create be thankful for the tax revenue we generate and and just be happy well those days are gone and and they should be gone uh communities are not going to be spectators to their own future they're going to be engaged um and we're having to work face to face with them and that there was another word that was the opposite of regenerative who was extracted and it seemed like the model you just described where everybody's focusing on you know the hotels the people coming seemed like it was it was doing that it was mining Hawaii yeah and and you know the the extent to which revenues were leaving the islands right profits were leaving the islands I think the regenerative model um frankly tourism again at this scale we're going to end up seeing in my opinion what is a 21st century version evolving of a new kapu system okay you cannot just burn out the natural environment 24 7 365 days a year and we're going to have to impose a discipline on ourselves that the community is frankly going to see it and they're going to say guess what during this period we know from our ancestral knowledge that we are to leave this area alone whether it's a coastal zone whether it's a forest whether it's a trail and I know that the whole industry is not quite ready to understand this but if if you want the industry and you want our community to be around three generations from now we cannot just keep doing it the same you know I want to come back we're going to take a short break now and we want to come back and follow up on that thought because I think it's it's important for people to understand that what you're talking about is a long-range view of actually um strengthening the industry in a way that uh it'll be much more acceptable so with that I predict the market is going to help drive this change frankly okay well that we're gonna let you tell us how that's gonna happen if you enjoy watching think tech please consider making a tax deductible gift to keep us going just click on the donate button on think tech hawaii.com yes click on the donate button on think tech hawaii.com think tech streaming great content every day on think tech hawaii.com youtube and vimeo available on demand on facebook twitter instagram linkedin and other social media and regularly broadcast on olalo think tech video with vision always learning thanks so much for your interest in support aloha and thanks so much for being such a good friend of think tech and a member of our think tech family welcome back to talk story with john wahe and our guest this afternoon john b freese who is the president and ceo of the hawaii tourism authority and we were just talking about what it means to have an industry that is regenerative that as i assume means that it strengthens hawaii's beauty and resources as opposed to just take something from it so john you were explaining this when we went on the break and the idea of keeping hawaii viable for generations in the business world we're accountable daily weekly monthly quarterly earnings quarterly expenditures all that and that continues to be a priority but we cannot do just that at the expense of not looking three generations ahead right so if you go back to this strategic plan that hda adopted january 2020 if i said to our viewers do you want the natural resource base of hawaii to be in better condition three generations from now i have no doubt there'll be unanimous agreement do you want Hawaiian language and traditional practices of Hawaiian culture to be flourishing to a greater degree three generations from now again there'd be unanimous support and if i said do you want to see the fabric of our multi-ethnic community held together by the spirit of aloha more resilient as a fabric three generations from now again unanimous okay if we all agree on that then what do we need to do today to put hawaii on that trajectory right exactly what do we need to do today okay and what we need to do today is and and we're beginning to see this sprout in our communities we're communities who are sensitive to those three culture environment and community well-being are saying wait a minute hyena hawaii right ahead of at a major storm that shut all the roads down the people of there were were suffering on one hand but they also felt like they got their community back right because the thousands of visitors were not able to access them and in that downtime together with the private and public sector state and county government hda was involved in it as well the community leaders actually have put together a plan that now manages the flow of traffic in and out of hyena uh derives revenue so it's revenue producing that can now be reinvested in the health of the community in the well-being of the natural environment here in kona at calpulejo 3.6 mile shoreline okay in 2016 a 10 year moratorium no fishing no harvesting of marine life right that type of discipline and that type of community leadership is now moving to the forefront and the reason this calpulejo is important is when koalai resort was developed the developer needed to provide uh vehicle access to the ocean and that happened you increased the number of uh fisher people that came down and harvested and it resulted in overfishing and over harvesting so it's not only the tourist that sometimes is right that's right so this this discipline of understanding that certain species of life flora fauna fish you know wildlife they need time to reproduce they need time to regenerate and if if hawaii is going to be as as much of an attraction to a global visitor market those areas have to be in great shape uh three generations from now and those of us that live here want that because that's where the great grandchildren live right you know it's really interesting though because what you're suggesting is that the market is actually in a way going to demand some of this changes some of this idea of preservation conservation there are increased indications that the traveler is becoming more mindful in search of more meaningful experience experiences and more authenticity and the only place you can get authenticity is from the community right you cannot import it right right you attempt to fabricate it right but uh the market is going to smell it all over time and this generation or two behind us they're going to be increasingly more sensitive and attracted to places that are are mindful of how to care for their own home you know it's really interesting but in the past you and I have had some discussions about the kinds of things that I guess this model of tourism might be able to support and one of the things we talked about was the idea about using local resources like food produced in Hawaii and the rest and you and I for example talked about the idea about you know cattle I mean about beef buying beef locally uh which is you know where the world's going grass fed beef and where where does that all how does that all fit to this well it it every time tourism is in trouble we we like to talk about the need to diversify the economy and then when tourism recovers we stop talking about it right so tourism has always been positioned as the antithesis what I'm suggesting is tourism can actually drive diversification right so if there's a market demand within our hotels and restaurants for locally grown produce locally caught fish locally grown beef right and the quality standards can be met and we have just diversified we're on a way to diversifying those industries and that example I use was actually initiated about 30 years ago around a concept called Hawaii regional cuisine right yet Peter Merriman Roy Amaguchi Alan Wong Sam Choi you go right down the list when they decided the brand Hawaii regional cuisine they altered the way the local fishermen saw the opportunity the local ranchers saw the opportunity and farmers so where else um the reason we have some of the top top architectural firms in the world is because they had a client base over the last four decades made up of hotels and resorts right and so that diversified the economy by growing architecture right and you go right down the list so tourism if you open the shell of tourism what you're going to find is a collection of industries small businesses arts and crafts you go right down on we have a better it industry today because of tourism you know and I know you and I spent some time talking about talking with some terrible colo farmers this this past weekend and tell us a little bit about that how that industry might fit in all of this. Sure well I think colo besides the health value and cultural significance of colo itself the the mindset the value system the awareness of colo that colo society throughout our state is one that is very in tune with community very in tune with nature and and very much a traditional practice of the Hawaiians right and so that when we talk about colo we're talking about a a whole different mindset right so you and I were at the Hawai'i executive collaborative where colo was the focus on day one and we heard from the rapoon brothers and uh Dean Wilhelm and Payeo Bort but and then in the course of it we kind of stumbled on to the fact that this was a gathering of colonizers and that we're on our way to colonization of Hawai'i right and and it's a obviously a play on words and and and uh we all sang poy to the world um well you you let it out you know yeah it's really interesting though because what you're really talking about is uh is a tourist industry that uh is friendly it's it's it's I guess local friendly I mean it's people in Hawai'i could get excited about because it reinforces the lifestyles that they want and hope to have for their children you know John it's the reason I wanted to become the president of HTA and you and I talked about it when I first applied had less to do with tourism because I understood the importance of it I've grown up in it tourism for me is like the college I didn't go to so I'm very protective of it in the sense that it's my alma mater okay but that wasn't what caused me to come to HTA what caused me to come to HTA was really built around a mantra of malama caring for our beloved home caring for my beloved home right and in tourism then becomes an instrument of caring for my beloved home if it's redesigned correctly reimagined correctly um it can actually help grow uh Hawaiian cultural practices it can help preserve our natural environment and it can nurture the multi-ethnic makeup of our communities and so but it wasn't about tourism first it really had more to do with my own ohana and my own orientation toward the community meeting help and how does tourism support that you know that's a really important point and a really important point and it deserves attention not just from the tourist industry but for industry in general business in general in Hawaii how how does doing business in Hawaii reinforces the best things about Hawaii you know and and that's all I'm beginning to see what you mean by regenerative tourism well and because we've got to regenerate together right so you look at certain organizations Hawaii Executive Collaborative Hawaii Community Foundation Hawaii Green Grow you look at what's happening up at East West Center right you look at what's happening at the public school system under our new superintendent Hayashi um everybody is resonating and looking for ways to implement these types of regenerative practices in it um and and they get translated into some real fundamental things like affordable housing um more affordable healthcare right um more equity in access to public education right these are all non-tourism in one sense but everything related to tourism because the only way to get there is you need a major economic driver and when we're talking about 1.7 billion being spent in one month um you'd be hard-pressed to do not understand the value of tourism well you know unfortunately we're right out of time and I'm really enjoying this you know discuss it but you know we're we're talking about regenerative tourism but really what you're suggesting is this may be an important beginning of a pivot for the state of Hawaii when we start to look at regenerative uh regenerative future communities really um community yeah yeah because the people are calling for it more and more they deserve it um caring for our home in our neighborhood first and get then getting tourism and other businesses in alignment with that um is where I believe this is headed and I'm quite frankly I'm invigorated by oh you sound excited and you're getting me excited and I want to thank you so much for agreeing to uh be on our show this afternoon and you know sometime in the future I'd love to have you back to tell us some more about all the good things you have done yeah happy to do it and and um just grateful for the opportunity today thank you John oh yeah aloha aloha aloha thank you so much for watching think tech hawaii if you like what we do please like us and click the subscribe button on youtube and the follow button on vimeo you can also follow us on facebook instagram twitter and linked in and donate to us at think tech hawaii.com mahalo


Whereas if you'd just come over and plonked yourself down and said hello to me Hey, man. How are you? Then you would have been out actually chilling to the set and to figure out what the dynamic was where I was adding the Conversation with it then I could have introduced you and I could have moved it around and could it would have rolled fine yeah, so Being able to go up to a girl Throw something out there and expect that when two strangers meet often it's it's strange Yeah, it's a little bit awkward and particularly in somewhere like London where people have their guard up You know, I've noticed that in going and chatting to girls that they're certainly not as receptive as say they are in Sweden Or in Australia But that's not that's that's just a minor cultural difference That's just them responding to the stimulus of a massive impersonal city at the heart of it They're still women they still like men They still want to meet new and interesting and sexy men And you just need to allow for the slight variations in the way that they're going to respond so What I'll do is I'll just throw out a couple of words And then I shut the fuck up and see how she responds because sometimes when you go up and I say something like that Oh, they left you to clean up They may have just opened immediately. Oh, yeah, no blah blah blah, you know We're always the ones left behind In which case I would have been able to adjust to the energy of the situation and bring it up to where it was But instead if I'd gone in with some long convoluted Opener about horses and puking on girls and stuff like that Firstly they don't hear half of it because they're just still reeling from the fact that strangers come up to them and Secondly, I'm not actually taking an opportunity to gauge where they're at what energy they're at Where what their mindset is at that time how open they are and receptive they are to be being talked to So instead I wait and I see the girl go like this Okay Now get used to this Actually, I actually much prefer dealing with a girl who's who throws attitude at me straight away Then I do dealing with a really pleasant nice girl because if someone who's really really friendly to everybody There's not much to lean against there's not not so much you can create tension off Whereas a girl who gives a little bit of attitude. I enjoy that So in that situation she went like this and I said, oh, this doesn't happen often does it?  Hey, this is my friend and then he leaves you with some other dude And you like standing like hey, so man, how do you know the host? Yep? Cool, and um And what do you do? Yeah, all right, you're in a field that I know nothing about and cannot not at all about yeah, awesome and both of you are dying inside and You know trying to be print friendly and polite and feeling this negative tension because there are different types of tension The easiest way to get over that in any social situations is to call it out Yeah, things getting a little bit awkward just say is it getting awkward in here? Is it just me? Because immediately what that does is it releases the tension Because then we don't have to play the game anymore There's no more expectation of us pretending to be something we're not or pretending to enjoy a situation that we don't like or whatever else It is Yeah, so that's one thing you can you can do if you go up to a girl and it is awkward That's totally fine because when strangers meet there is this there is often a period of cloudy kind of awkwardness Which if you sit in it and allow it to be what it is or you just call it out It'll dissipate and then you can move on to being relaxed and normal What I want to talk to you guys primarily today about is is three aspects that I that I coach guys on Three huge that they're massive areas and I run a 12 week 80 hour course on this I can't go through all of it obviously, but I want to touch on each of these areas Because if you only learn and they are okay, so the nuts and bolts of seduction and in my case what I'm teaching is natural style seduction internal change Which includes confidence charisma state control mindset beliefs whole range of things and then lifestyle design Which is your ability to and this includes your career your health the way that you dress The interests that you have the people you have around you and your mission in life is the primary thing Because if you don't focus on all of these three things you'll be very lopsided human being if you only focus on seduction And I know this because I did this I reached point where I had an incredibly interesting life You know I was a musician. I was a martial artist.  You can't really dump me. Can you and she said well, whatever it is we're not having sex anymore and I always like to interview people like if I get blown out from a set I'll go back to the girl and say Before I before I leave your life forever I was wondering if you just might be able to give me a little bit of honest feedback and please make sure it's honest I don't I won't be offended. Just tell me what what made you what what repulsed you and This is this can be a really cool thing to do is if you guys go into a set and doesn't work just go back and Ask her to give you some feedback Often they won't they'll just say I don't know. I'm weird But if you reach but if you meet a switched on on a skull she'll just tell you Yeah, when you came up to me You stood way too close and you smell a bit funny and you asked me a weird question about a horse I didn't like any of that and I'm like all right. Take note So same thing when you're in this situation. I was being I was being dumped and I was like, all right. Well that that stings Do you want to tell me why she's like? Yeah, of course when I met you you're incredibly interesting person You were focusing on spiritual development as well as being you know into music and travel and all this interesting stuff and You know I she was she was working with us in the company. She she had no issue with it She said, you know, I support what you guys do.  I don't mean mind being called a fucking cunt If it's appropriate, but I do mind being called boring And so I took that on board because it was really important because I had focused all my energy For a long period of time on seduction and I got very very good at it And I could get very consistent results But I'd done it to the detriment of my lifestyle and to my health and of keeping my friendships with people and my My family life and all that stuff as well There was another point in my life where I was very deeply into spirituality into self-development Building myself up from the core and I remember I used to have a job as a bouncer at a bar And I love that job because I got to stand there and meditate all day I would sometimes accidentally let 12-year-olds into the bar because I wasn't focusing on the other part of the job Which is stopping young people going into the bar During that time I didn't really have a social life so much. I was quite austere and stoic person and I was very at ease with myself. I was very comfortable. I was very confident, but I wasn't putting myself out there Yeah, so just working on that is not gonna Is not gonna fix everything yet either there was also another time in my life where I was primarily a musician and Being a musician, even if you're playing like jazz flute Is a good way to meet girls for sure. There's a reason why skinny guys start bands. There's nothing to do with music and So there was a time where the only way that I met girls was like getting up playing a gig and then when a girl went like this to Me I'd walk over and go. Hi. Did you like my gig and then she might kiss me and that was kind of my game And I reached a point where I realized that I was scared shitless of ever losing that like if I didn't have a band What would I be? Yeah, if I didn't have an unknown Australian band that was never gonna get famous. Who would I be and So just engineering engineering a lifestyle just to get girls was also not the thing that was gonna make me feel at ease overall When you combine these three aspects and you're working on them at Even levels then your results go through the roof and There is something to be said for a different period you need to become Reasonably obsessed about something. Okay, there's gonna be points in life when you guys are if you're studying You have to buckle down and study and your social life may suffer for a while There will be times where as you guys are now focusing over these last four four days You put everything else aside and come here and gone All right. I really want to get this area of my life sorted I've come to source the the experts in the field. We'll just you know, drop everything else and we'll wear the same underpants for four days and Deal with the washing on Monday That's what I'm doing Dear pity the girl I'm going on a date with tonight. Oh, I laughed at my own joke. See not funny anymore Bad. Hey She'll love it.  And what is the outcome that you are really after and is it your outcome or is it an outcome that somebody has sold to you? Is really important to do and it's important to check in on that at various points along the way because what you actually want It's going to change over time When you first get in this I know when I first got in it. It was kind of to get revenge against the cool chicks at school Yeah, if I'm honest with myself, that was really why I was doing it Because they made my life miserable the cool guys got the chicks.   I want to understand myself as a man. I want to engage with more interesting beautiful challenging women and Then that kept on shifting so I encourage you guys to to step back fairly regularly and look at what is the big picture of This are you still on track heading towards your actual goals at the same time as we have the same time We need to look down at the micro level to the actual practicalities of how to do this


Greenpeace says a surprise climate deal between China and the United States, the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters, must be the flow of ambition, not the ceiling. US climate envoy John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping unveiled a joint declaration late on Wednesday in which China, the biggest producer and user of coal, promised to accelerate its transition from the dirtiest fossil fuel. Greenpeace executive director Jennifer Morgan welcomed the deal, saying it was really important but said that two countries needed to go further. The deal has bolstered their COP26 UN climate summit as it enters two final days of tough bargaining to try to stop global warming becoming catastrophic. Observers have been worried before the announcement that Chinese President Xi Jinping was not attending the talks in Glasgow and Beijing had made no substantial new pledges. In the US and China work together on climate change at a time when the two countries and the broader scheme of things are at great odds is essential and so that is a good reset I would say of that relationship but it has to be the floor of ambition not the ceiling. So I think it's really important now they've said that they will both commit to improving NDCs in the 2020s they've both said they recognize the gap in between what national commitments are there now and where we need to get for 1.5 so we need each of them to work here to an outcome that comes back next year to strengthen national commitments and policies and comes back every year after that. I think one of the most important parts of the deal between the United States and China is the timing. It was really important that this come out in his last few days of COP because at a moment when it has been a long haul in these negotiations and everyone needed this positive signal that these two big emitters are going to step up they have agreed to work together we have a lot of details to hash out it is not a simple declaration but that step is there and it's a good first step. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


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Sorry in our In our prism baseball pick your team breaks all cards will ship, but no vet commons in this There's Joe Adele nice 10 out of 35 snakeskin autograph for the halos Nick F With the Los Angeles, California angels of Anaheim 10 out of 35 So stuff like this the silver is a parallel that will ship inserts will ship But Larry Walker won't ship Zach McKinsey obviously ships because that's a rookie card So it's just the commons like the glaver the Ricky Ozzy Smith blue obviously will ship So on and so forth show hill tiny nice 56 out of 75 And a mookie bets red stained glass I think the stained glass are a little more common than we've seen some other sets But they still look pretty sharp There's the Otani for Nick F. And there's a Noah Cinder guard 98 out of 100 neon orange and a Brandon Woodruff Babe Ruth blue will ship There's Dean Kramer 130 out of 149 Orioles that'll be for Daniel and a Ryan Jeffers autograph blue auto rookie auto for The twins Daniel with the Minnesota twins 119 out of 149 Alright box two So I've got them not off the top of my head but I believe I Believe on the blowout cards forum They usually have a running list of all the new releases and when it's gonna drop But soon I want to say Next box. There's Nate Pearson Rookie autographs for the blue birds. That's gonna be for Brandon and the Blue Jays Andrew Vaughan blue And we've got Raphael Devers 27 out of 60 fearless Insert for Matthew P and the Bo socks There's a Lewin Diaz Barry with the Marlins last-bought mojo 70% of the time It's a hundred percent of the time Got fearless mojo refractor Francisco Lindore 40 out of 149 Ozzie Smith red Cory Seager blue Mojo 145 to 199 for Nick S and the Dodgers We're leading 9-2 leading the Mets 9-2 right now Michael Brantley 48 out of 100 Jacob DeGronge Bradley Behind Kirby Puckett is Tucker Davidson rookie autograph red Howard with the British 18 out of 99 Wait the Was that the same draft class Yeah But Darren Dreyford is not It's not Alex Rodriguez Oh cuz right cuz a rod went one overall that makes sense. I was just like hot that There's no way that the Dodgers had a shot at Alex Rodriguez in the draft Ricky Henderson Mariners took him first overall And then Darren Dreyford went second in that draft Dodgers Mets on Sunday Night Baseball Joe Adele nice 175 Nick with the halos All right third box and we'll get into the breaking stuff or actually there's a sealed box in that breaking as well We'll do that sealed box first then we'll do those three three others that that 1993 MLB draft Pretty good Alex Rodriguez went went one overall Then Darren Dreyford who carved out a decent career Um Trot Nixon went seventh overall What are some other guys that you may remember remember Billy Wagner derrick Lee first round Chris Carpenter? The Tory hunter draft Jason Veritek was in that draft to 2021 prison baseball box We got kenta Maeda to 199 blue mojo and And this could be a Carolina blue hot box. There's kenta Maeda blue mojo to 199 if we see some more Daniel with the twins it might be it Think it is there's Nick Madrigal navy blue Carolina blue autograph white socks. That's gonna be for Alan three out of 25 It's Carlos Correa Albert a brave Sammy Sosa Line green Trevor Rogers to 125 for the Marlins. It's gonna be for Barry More of these Carolina blues nice Mike trout red good color match there for the halos It's gonna go to Nick 45 out of 125 We've got a brewstar gradder all Pro penmanship autograph the hard-throwing Brewstar going to Nick s next over and the Dodgers Johnny bench Tris McKenzie apparently took a perfect game through eight innings today Cleveland Chris of the tribe Devers contraris Tim Anderson a Donna's Medina 11 out of 50 snake skin Chris with the Phillies Jared Oliva 61 out of 99 red wave for the Pirates I'm with the buckles or a guzman Santander Ryan Mount Castle Not having a pretty solid season Daniel with the Orioles these blues are not numbered by the way Jim Tomei blue wave One out of 60.  All right Now, let's see what we have here So there's great King baseball you can see right there national edition. So first there's the There's the sealed box. Oh, it looks like we got Nice 2020 Bowman Chrome baseball is our box and here is the the other three boxes here All right, this one first. Good luck McKenzie apparently losses perfect game with two outs in the eighth Tons of run sport to any Indians ended up winning beating the Tigers 11 nothing All right, there's our first auto right away gun our mayor Bowman Chrome first autograph for Chris Adams in the Phillies Fifth round pick Michael Craig with any more hit Kings rakes in the near future. Yes There's a Luis Robert rookie card And a Cole rotor wrote Rowan Gardner purple shimmer Nice Luis Robert rookie card for Alan Murdoch and the White Sox Well, what's up any reveal cards for the mystery crate? No, but I assure you you will not be disappointed At a 25 Joey Vado for the Reds that will be Ben Tyler Ivy Houston Astros Bradley Tony Gonson Francisco Alvarez refractor to 499 and that's Devon Floriel All right, the next three Are gonna be The break King and baseball national edition three cards per box on this. We're doing all three boxes here. Oh nice 2019 tops PSA 9 rookie Pete Alonzo Nice one for the Mets Bennett. Next up is 1992 Bowman Baseball Mike Piazza PSA 9 very nice imagine Draft in one like the the later rounds ends up being a Hall of Famer. That's Dodgers edition that goes to Nick Stover and the Dodgers And we've got a a wander Franco nine five ten Centering edges corners are a nine five surfaces a nine. There you go. One of the top up-and-coming prospects in baseball Raise Chris Miller Next box. All right, not bad at all, huh? There is Austin Meadows PSA 10 from 2018 tops Chrome Rookie Austin Meadows for the raise that's gonna be for Chris Miller. We've got a PSA 9 2018 tops update baseball Ronald Acuna, Jr We need to we need him to come back strong come back healthy Howard and the Braves and we have the Vlad Guerrero, Jr. PSA 10 nice from 2018 Bowman baseball mega box Edition PSA 10 nice Vladdie from 2018 Brandon with the bluebirds and the third and final box. Good luck everybody The final three card 2018 tops update baseball Glaber day Glaber Torres PSA 10 Next one is Shane Bieber 2018 tops chrome baseball PSA 10 Rookie Shane Bieber, I think he's got like a neck injury or shoulder thing that he's trying to work his way back from Cleveland, this is for you Christopher with the Cleveland Indians and the last one boys and girls is gonna be Oh nice 2019 tops chrome baseball PSA 9 Right fielder now Fernando that these junior is trying to protect that shoulder of his Padres Christopher F nice congrats to you. Thanks everybody for getting in. What a fun break Breaking baseball national edition plus the three boxes of prism baseball Overall a really solid mixer. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next one Bye-bye


we have acids and carbonates. When I say carbonates, I mean any ionic substance that has carbonate as its anion. So sodium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, calcium carbonate, and also hydrogen carbonate, such as sodium hydrogen carbonate, any of these will work in this kind of generic reaction. So let's try sulfuric acid and sodium carbonate. Two of the products we know, they are carbon dioxide gas and water. The salt is again going to be formed from the anion of the acid and the metal cation from the carbonate salt. Notice that the carbon dioxide and the water have been formed by the carbonate ion, combining with the protons from the acid. The acid has donated its protons to the carbonate, which is then split into carbon dioxide and water.


When Islam was trying to reform the chastity and modesty of the community wasn't just saying we're here to reform woman Everyone male and female both of them had to have an Observance of that complete package known as hijab. Yes if you look in the Quran The Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him in his family First begins with social hijab before physical in Sura 24 verse 27 of the holy Quran Sura 24 I would say in Sura 33 probably have the most verses in the Quran on that whole concept known as hijab Sura 24 verse 27 if all the viewers at home go and read it It was referring to social hijab After that Islam then said let's talk about the men's hijab first Many times we say woman should be wearing their head covering and have a good hijab It takes two to tangle The men are also staring at the woman the men if they lower the gaze The men if they show respect then it's a different context all together Sometimes we say the woman's hijab is not right. Okay, the men are also To be warned about the way that they're looking at the woman the way that they're moving with the woman Quran says Sura 24 verse 30 Wa Qollil Mu'mineena yaghutbu min apsarehim wa yahfadu for wujjah Quran says what this is very important Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and to protect their private parts Protect your private parts of course from committing an act of adultery for example But lowering the gaze. Yes. Are you good at lowering your gaze all of us? We try our hardest, but we're not angels. Let's admit this and be frank I'm not sitting here in front of everybody to be someone who is an angel sitting or holier than now You come to the summer months living in Europe in America. Yeah lowering the gaze I've seen people who may have lived in Iraq and Iran who say to you know all of you youth in the West should lower your gaze Come to us in America or come to us in London in the summer 3035 degrees Celsius. I tell you even that person who's mastered the whole religion will have a peak God told us with the first look is halal saying first look is halal But it doesn't mean you just turn around and start looking all the way like this I remember one person said he said say in the first looks halal. So I looked at high looked at high looked at high looked at high looked Out cross the road. No You try your hardest first look and then try and put that eyes down really quickly and this is easy It's not easy at all Even in the Middle East there are certain Middle East countries.  What happened? Oh, there's that and then he admitted Quran said This brings about tesquia. Yes, it brings about A purification of the soul and we know in the Quran Allah says It's Successful is the one who's able to purify his soul because the soul Wants that desire the soul doesn't care your soul your your your nefs is telling you listen Just go and do what you have to do. Don't think twice about it After that and this is where we bring the word khimar in Quran after telling the men because it knew men is most of the trouble So Quran after that said Tell the believing woman to also lower their gaze as in don't think that us men are, you know, the craziest animals out there. They're awesome


We're all familiar with these crooked fly by night companies that freeze people's heads with the idea that maybe someday there'll be technology that will bring them back to life. What's going to become all these heads when these companies go out of business? Are they going to end up in some government auction somewhere? Somebody is going to end up owning these collections of heads. And what are they going to do with them? Will they be able to do anything with them? And what other projects will they be working on? Whose heads are they? Will there be somebody who doesn't want these heads messed with? Will Greg Bear covered it?


Good morning everyone. We're going to go ahead and get started. We are in the Archives and Digital Humanities project briefing and this session started as two separate sessions and we are put together. So we've got a lot of presenters today. So we're going to get started right away. First speaker up is going to be Charlotte Munoz, and then I'll speak following Charlotte. And then we have the team from the University of Iowa who will follow us and then we'll leave time for questions. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Once again, my name is Charlotte Munoz, and I'm a Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Scholarship. I'm here to talk to you today about the Latina History Project, or LHP. It's an exciting initiative in Archives and Digital Humanities currently in motion at Southwestern. Co-directed by Southwestern faculty members Dr. Brenda Sendejo of Anthropology and Dr. Allison Kaefer of Feminist Studies, the LHP aims to enhance undergraduate education in Latina history in Central Texas. As part of my contribution to the project, I'm working with two fantastic interns pictured here. They're juniors at Southwestern, and we are exploring and processing primary source materials pertaining to Southwestern's own Latina histories. The students have graciously given me their permission to make their images public. So you'll see a number of pictures of them in action, since part of my goal today is to make the logistics and components of the project visible to you. The Latina History Project brings together stakeholders from across campus, including faculty members in Fine Arts, Anthropology, and Feminist Studies, Archivists in Special Collections, and Liberal Arts undergraduates. Over the course of my first semester working on the project, the LHP has emerged as a useful test case of what a balanced small-scale collaboration between the library and academic departments can look like. In my affiliation with the Department of Research and Digital Scholarship in the Smith Library Center, I play an intermediary role, gauging, mediating, and balancing the interests of these various stakeholders. Focusing on this intermediary role, I'll describe the project, then offer a few considerations for targeted digital humanities projects that hinge on the participation of academic libraries. At the outset of the project in September, Dr. Mary Visser and the Fine Arts Department provided the LHP with a trove of primary source materials relating to an important aspect of Southwestern's own institutional history as it connects with Latina history. During the early 1990s, Dr. Visser collaborated with Lupita Barrera Bryant to curate a photography exhibition at Southwestern. According to the bilingual invitation pictured here, the exhibition includes images of, quote, contemporary women of Mexican descent who have contributed to the emerging culture of Texas and the nation. The box of materials Dr. Visser provided includes separate information folders for each woman, photograph for the exhibit, negatives of all the portraits taken, and materials that Visser and Barrera Bryant researched to prepare the exhibition. In conversation with the student interns and with the faculty project directors, we determined that the students and I would inventory the materials and organize them into protective mylar sleeves and acid-free boxes. We would identify potential items for digitization and plan an online OMECA exhibit of selected materials as a digital project for the spring semester. So they're all manner of fascinating items in the collection of materials provided by Dr. Visser. And I'd like to give you a granular example of an artifact that the students continually return to, which is the 1991 Austin Hispanic Directory, Community Resources and Features Annual, subtitled, Bilingual Yellow Pages for Consumers and Tourists. Using an archival artifact analysis worksheet, which I worked up based on similar worksheets available through the National Archives website. The interns have made several compelling observations about the artifact. They discussed that the cover of the directory, which is an attractive bright blue, appeals to a wide Austin audience. In addition to being free, all capitals exclamation point, the directory is bilingual and targets, quote, consumers and tourists. One intern pointed out that the various crests on the cover refer to Mexico, Spain and the U.S. To her, the fact that the crests are arranged prominently around the Texas Lone Star suggests the cohesion of these nationalities within Texas. The students agree that the sense of cohesion and integration carries throughout the whole of the directory. They discussed that as it features prominent professionals in education, politics, law, banking, culture and hospitality. The directory portrays the Austin Hispanic Community of 1990-91, not as a marginalized population, but as a fully incorporated, professionally accomplished, very central part of the Austin population at large. So at the same time that we're exploring and processing the materials from Dr. Visser, we're also exploring Southwestern's own special collections for holdings, pertaining to Latino-Latino history. Catherine Stallard, director of special collections and Doreen Priebotz, archives assistant, have provided crucial support for the project, identifying pertinent holdings, and providing a helpful orientation to special collections in the reading room. They're also providing invaluable opportunities for the interns to help enhance access to these holdings. So the interns are bringing their impressive Spanish language skills to bear transcribing a 1984 oral history interview with Concepción López, who moved from Mexico to Georgetown in 1920, at which time he was one of only four Mexicans living in Georgetown. The interview was take place in both Spanish and English, was conducted by Lori Rothhammer, who was an undergraduate history student at Southwestern at the time of the interview. The students are working with an MP3 version of the interview in order to minimize wear on the cassette tapes pictured here, but transcribing and translating the Spanish portions of the interview into English, they're improving the accessibility of the oral history for researchers, hearing impaired users, and non-Spanish speaking users. As part of the Latina history project then, the students have opportunities to not only analyze primary source materials, but to preserve and enhance access to these materials as well. In the process of working so closely with the archives, the students are raising generative questions that resonate far beyond Southwestern special collections, taking on broader meaning both in terms of Central Texas Latina history and in terms of archival practice. For example, the interns have observed that special collections holdings pertaining to Latina Latino history are relatively scant, and they wondered whether Southwestern special collections could accept, catalog, and steward Dr. Visser's box of materials relating to the 1992 photography exhibition, given the clear relevance of the materials not only for Central Texas Latina history, but also for Southwestern's own institutional history. Questions like these allow us to approach the big issues, archival provenance, Latina representation, and then put them in conversation with each other. What does it mean that an important Central Texas archival collection has only limited holdings pertaining to Latina Latino and Mexican American communities? So reflecting on the Latina history project so far, one takeaway is that having a designated intermediary can ensure a productive library and archives reliant digital humanities project that is mutually beneficial for library, faculty, and student stakeholders. Certainly this kind of intermediary work costs time and staff resources in terms of management expertise. So as collaborations between archives and academic departments continue to develop a pace, it's important to establish protocols and deliberately earmark faculty, staff, and archivist time to plan projects that will adequately meet the programming objectives of all collaborators on a given project. Mediating interactions within the project, within the Latina history project between students, archivists, and faculty, my primary responsibilities include identifying the needs and interests of each stakeholder and finding ways to structure the project in such a way that the tasks and objectives simultaneously meet the needs of multiple stakeholders. In this case, the student interns need a meaningful learning experience. The archives have bilingual and Spanish language holdings that require transcription and translation in order to be more accessible to users, and our faculty collaborator has valuable primary source materials that need preserving and part through digitization. In the process of doing skilled work to enhance access and special collections, the student interns on the project are building trust and a relationship with the archivist there. Given their contributions to special collections, it is my hope that down the line in the spring, the students might be more likely to get permission to use special collections digitization equipment under my supervision to build out other aspects of the Latina history project. So it's a delicate dance choreographing, all premised on various exchanges of skills and services between archivists, undergrads, and faculty members. If you'd like to learn more about the ins and outs and nuts and bolts of the Latina history project, I blog about it and other archives oriented digital humanities projects I'm working on at Southwestern at archiveseducate.com. It's a screenshot of the blog up here. Much of this presentation is based on blog posts that I've posted there. I also tweet about archives and education at my personal account, handle at archiveseducate, and in my capacity as a social media manager for the Department of Research and Digital Scholarship at Southwestern, and that's handle at su underscore rads, r-a-d-s. I'd love to connect with any and all of you interested in archives and education. So please do reach out if you're so inclined and thank you for your time. A little switching, changing. So I'm Mary Ailings. I'm from the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, and I'm going to be talking about Hack FSM. We lost our slides. Okay, I can see that. So this was a DH hackathon that we did in April to engage students in working with archives. And I want to start by talking a little bit about DH. You hear a lot about it these days, what it means, what it doesn't mean, attitudes ranging from skepticism to full buy-in. But in the simplest terms, it is humanities-based research done using digital methods and tools and using digital research materials. So to support DH, you need scholars to ask the questions. You need digital collections to help them answer them, and technical tools and expertise to enable that work to happen. So we need all three of these to keep our digital stool from falling over. So at Berkeley, we have great partners in this work. Digital Humanities at Berkeley Initiative is one that is focusing now on tools and support for DH practitioners on campus. And the library has been partnering with them to support DH fairs, events, trainings and workshops over the past year and a half. And DH at Berkeley was just awarded $2 million by the Mellon Foundation, thank you very much, to carry on and expand this work. So we expect really great things to happen in the DH space. So DH at Berkeley, the work we've done with them to date has been really exciting and positive in terms of engaging faculty and graduate students and even staff. But it hasn't always filtered down to the undergrad level. So last spring, the DH at Berkeley group in the Digital Humanities Working Group on campus came up with the idea of doing a hackathon. And as the discussions evolved, we decided that the Bancroft Free Speech Movement Archive would be a great area to focus on. And so the hack FSM was born. The original site was built in the early 1990s, very outdated, and the 50th anniversary was coming up this fall. So it was a great time for us to give it a fresh look. We started planning in February 2014 and it launched on April 1st, which was just an eight-week planning phase, which was quite a steep timeline. And one of the first hurdles we had to get over was explaining to people what a hackathon is and is not. And we think of a hackathon as a positive creative process where developers and technical staff get together and come up with build web apps in a very short time period, 24 to 72 hours. And usually involves one or more developers as part of a team and they're competing for a prize. So the outcomes can be a useful application or just sort of an R&D for ideas that can be expanded on later. So we had to do some explaining about the hackathons that were less about this and more about this. And we learned a lot from hackathons in local government, from other libraries and other universities that helped us inform our own. So the goals were many. At first we wanted students to have, to build something that had a humanities focus that wasn't just a technical solution. The teams had to be between one and four people and had to include at least one humanist. And the sites they built had to be able to address a humanist research question. We hope this would encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and get students to not only engage with content but to engage with each other to build a bridge between or across that technical humanist divide. The hackathon ran from April 1st to April 12th and so we wanted to give teams a longer coding periods to more fully develop their ideas and spend more time communicating across the divide. We also hope the longer coding period would encourage women to participate. So they sometimes are put off by the 24 to 72 hour hackathons where people eat pizza, drink Red Bull and sometimes forget to bathe. So we hope the extended timeframe in addition to healthier foods like fresh fruit would be encouraging to get them to participate. For the library it was an opportunity to explore using APIs to expose our data which is something we hadn't done yet. And then of course the main outcome was to develop a new interface to the free speech movement digital archives. We didn't expect to get a fully functioning site in 12 days which in fact we actually did. But we really wanted to see how students would interpret and provide access to the information. And then finally the free speech movement anniversary this fall was a great opportunity to engage the students, undergrads and grads alike around the topic to highlight the collection and raise awareness of the event and it's deep ties to the student community, their history and the power of their voices. And in fact today is the anniversary, the 50th anniversary today of the academic senate agreeing to back the student demands in the free speech movement protest. So a big victory in 1964. Alright so what we provided to the students first of all was a site that we had all of the basic information registration, schedules, rules, judging, information about the API, mentors and so on. We provided an API, sorry an Apache solar API that was managed through an API central service so that we could assign and manage API keys to provide access to the content. We had mentors from industry, faculty and archives who helped support the hackers. We provided a course communication platform called Piazza so students could contact mentors and organizers and we could post all the answers to every registrant. We held kickoff events in the library with speakers which had time to mingle, to eat pizza and fruit, form teams and start coding. And at the end of 12 days we had a final event on Cal Day which was a public day on campus that was held in our iSchool where the sites were judged on presentation and technical criteria. We also offered workspaces in our new social sciences D lab and in the library for students to work. And of course we offered cool prizes. We had first place winners got MacBook Airs and second place winners got iPad Minis so that was definitely good. Alright so how did it go? Well we had 13 teams who registered, 10 checked in their code and 8 ultimately presented. The winner was pretty clear from the presentations and you can see them standing there with their little certificates. A team of four including one humanist. We had a good crowd for the presentations because it was Cal Day we had a lot of people come in and check it out. And also two of the original FSM activists came and helped to give out the prizes. And it was really exciting because they are also donors of a lot of the material that we have and hope to have in the future. So we went from a site that looked like this very Dino Web 1990s look very static to this in 12 days. Pretty exciting, nice interface, aesthetically pleasing, easy to use, nice little timeline. It's up online you can go check it out. So the outcomes post-hack. Following the event we asked students to take a survey and invited them to lunch to tell us about their experience. They said they took part mostly because the content was interesting. They liked the challenge we gave them and of course there were good prizes. But what surprised us is they said they would have done it without the prizes because good content and a good challenge is worth working for. So that was really a good lesson for us. They also said they learned a lot about the free speech movement and archival materials both of which they knew nothing about at the beginning. So that was a plus. We got a lot of great publicity on campus. We actually made the front of the Berkeley website and that doesn't usually happen for a special collection. So that was exciting. And we met all of our initial goals and then some to pull off a campus wide hackathon in eight weeks was exciting. But it was more gratifying to see the students what they were able to produce. Some of the products included a simultaneous text editing environment. One was a research dashboard. There are lots of creative solutions that came out of 12 days of a development. And on top of it we had 25 percent women participants which is great. So whatever we did there worked. And if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery our anthropology museum held their hackathon in September and was largely based on our own. So we excited about that. One of the negatives was that the price giving there were apparently rules about how much you can give to each student annually which the air books or MacBook Airs exceeded. And we didn't discover this until too late. And so I had to cut through a lot of red tape to get the prices to students about two months after the event. And then while our plans had been to put up the first and second place winning sites we were only able to put up the first place site. While the code was well documented there were some fixes that needed to happen with the second place site. We never heard back from the developer so the site still remains undeployed. So overall the successful outcomes of the project the most successful was the student engagement as well as engaging faculty and staff. The best aspect of this was that students from across disciplines came together to build something. And yes that is a humanist hugging a developer in the upper right corner. So while the main work product of the Hackathon was a website the greater product was that developers and humanists learned to communicate. And isn't that partly what digital humanities is about. Humanists and technologists working together learning from and collaborating with each other in the process of building new scholarly products. So by engaging students in digital humanities through this project we could be informing the graduate students faculty and researchers of tomorrow. Hopefully events like Hack FSM can prepare them for future collaborations in a research environment where such interdisciplinary projects are more common. And speaking of collaborations here's a shout out to all the people and all the units or actually all of the folks who participated and supported this project across the campus. So it was a great collaboration across just our institutional organization as well.  So all the gory details are outlined here in incredible detail. So please take a look and read more about what we just whizzed through in this presentation. Thank you. Turn it over to Jen or Tom. OK. My name is Tom Keegan. I am the head of digital research and publishing at the University of Iowa Libraries. We have a three part presentation this morning. I'm going to talk a little bit about some background to the DIY history project. And then my colleague Jen Wolf will talk about the building of that and the implementation of that project. And then I will come back and do kind of the faculty piece. I'm just a bit of background in addition to being the head of DRP. I am transitioning out of being a faculty member in the Department of Rhetoric. So you'll hear a little bit from me both on the mass digitization side and then the pedagogical implementation using that archive in the classroom. So I want to start with demographics and just to set the stage. Iowa as you probably know is a large research university in the upper Midwest. 31,000 students 55 percent of them come from in state 33 percent from the United States in general and 12 percent excuse me international. And in the library we have four million volumes top 20 in materials expenditures among US public US research institutions. So that's just where we're coming from which I'm sure many of you can identify with. However with respect to this particular archive it was as my boss Paul Soderdahl likes to say when we started the digitization process it was a leap of faith. So it took about six years to start digitizing mass digitizing the archives without clearly knowing. And I think this is what some of what we hear today and you've already heard this without knowing exactly where it's going to go or who's going to use it. And it's an ongoing question. So we have I want to talk to show you a graph that Paul put together for in terms of digital library growth. And here you see over the course of 10 years a million items is the growth you see there. So part of the digitization project or the guiding principles for our digitization project came from a combination of the Google books initiative. The Hathi Trust and the kind of guiding principle there being a mass digitization. So don't be picky at the outset about what we're putting into the process and don't be afraid to scale. In particular though when you start curating the collections our attention and this is where you know Jen will come in. We're on or in particular some of the stuff that we were most interested in doing with the manuscript archives. And of those manuscript archives the things and Gem will tell you about this too the things people like our wars in terms of narrative content that they're willing to transcribe. So the Civil War letters and the end iris and on the heels of that DIY history kind of got the ball rolling in terms of a project that would get some traction with our users. And the idea here was that we take this content pair it with the Iowa digital library. Add engagements and what you get is DIY history and out of that partnering with Iowa digital engagement and learning of which I'm a co-director. You get these archives flowing into the classroom. So turn it over to Jen who's going to talk to you more specifically about DIY history. Hi I'm just going to give you some really quick background on transcription crowdsourcing in Iowa. We began our first project in 2011 as an experiment. We were looking for a cheap and easy way to make digitized letters and diaries full text searchable while also attracting some publicity. We weren't really sure anyone would be interested but it's turned out to be one of our most successful projects ever. Currently as of this morning we're closing in on 52,000 pages transcribed. We've received national and international press over the years most recently in the form of a listicle that appeared on Buzzfeed two months ago. We were five of the 13 things for board history lovers. And thanks in large part to that we had one of our bus busiest months ever. And these statistics would actually be bigger except that buzz after Buzzfeed the crowd transcribed everything on the site. We had had a brand new collection with 3,000 pages and they completed it in like 48 hours. It's a little catastrophic success. So we've gotten the transcriptions and the publicity we had originally been looking for. But what we hadn't been expecting was the deep level of engagement from our users, the connection they feel with the documents and the investment they make in the project. With the letters and diaries in particular a big part of the draw is the narrative nature of the text. People keep transcribing because they want to find out what happens next. And there's just something about performing the activity of transcription and making a real contribution to scholarship. It gets people returning to the site again and again in a way that we've never seen by just putting digital collections up for browsing. So among all the success we've had a major failure in that we were reaching a worldwide audience online but we weren't getting much use on campus. The site seemed a natural fit for the classroom but we couldn't seem to find a way in. And that all changed thanks to a collaboration with two of our rhetoric faculty members, Matt Gilchrist and Tom. And they had noticed that kids today are on their digital devices all the time but once they walk into a college classroom it can be a little like a time capsule from the 20th century. So now Tom will speak on his work to innovate teaching using digital resources like DIY history. So this I can speak I think more candidly or frankly about. So when I, I've been at Iowa for 13 years, I was there as a graduate student working on my PhD in English. When I finished that degree I moved over to the rhetoric department where the curriculum is fairly set in terms of projects that we expect students to complete. It's two papers, two essays and two speeches which I had already done that as a grad student so it wasn't new and it certainly wasn't interesting. And with my colleague Matt Gilchrist we were sitting around and we were talking about what we could do as far as unburdening ourselves of the, you know, grading dull stuff. And we also as faculty members had a mission that, you know, as rhetoricians, as rhetoric faculty members, something we were trying, you know, learning objectives that we were trying to convey. And so among those, and unfortunately, you know, rhetoric and I'm sure other departments feel this way are expected by their colleagues in the institution to do everything for students in terms of critical writing and reading and research and public speaking. And so you take, rhetoric is a required course at the University of Iowa so all undergraduates have to take it. So the idea is that you get bathed or baptized in the waters of rhetoric in your first or second semester and then you're done, you're good, which is not true but that's what the belief is. Along the way we started asking ourselves how do we actually achieve these objectives without using some 19th or 20th century pedagogical models. And so one of the required speeches, we said, oh, how do we fix this? This is really dull, we don't want to do this. And how do we actually get students to do research, not Google stuff, not ask students to find a set number of sources, but to engage with the research process in a way that maybe is not obvious. If we request research of them, when we do that, they don't want to do it. They don't want to, rhetoric is required so they don't want to be there to begin with initially, right? It seems like an adversarial setup. So we started talking with Jen and a colleague of ours who is now in another position, another institution, Kelly McElroy. So Jen and Kelly said we have this awesome project but how do we find our way into the classroom? And so Matt and I said well let's see what we've got here. And the letters turned out to be fantastic. Once we started seeing opportunities to apply high impact practices, which I'm sure is a term people are familiar with. The first we thought was a participatory culture. What we saw in DIY history is that they were crowdsourcing the transcription. So here is a project that invited the public to come in and participate. That scales down to the classroom really easily. It's not hard to ask students to find a letter in an archive. And we curate it. Jen did a wonderful job identifying, you know, to have a librarian identify something that students would think was interesting. And we started initially in our first semester with something called the Pioneer Lives Collection, which is a bunch of collections from Scandinavian immigrants in Iowa writing home in English. That worked out really well. And we hit true pay dirt the next semester when we started using World War II letters. Evelyn Birkby, who is an Iowan homemaker and still writes a newspaper column, had donated her papers among them a World War II scrapbook that included letters from half a dozen service men to whom she wrote letters during the war, and they wrote back. So we had their letters. She'd saved them. And my colleague Matt and I started asking students to look through these letters, which were held from public view, because this is the problem, right? With a crowdsource project, students identified letters they want to transcribe. They procrastinate the next day when they go back to transcribe it. Some history buff has beaten them to it. So we kept these from public view. They identified letters and they started transcribing. So here they were working on a project that, you know, we sold to them as a public humanities project. At the same time, they are enacting a reversing of the flow, where we think pedagogically about there's this, at its worst, a custodial nature to the humanities, where we have it, we're tending to the flame, and you're teaching students about the flame. Don't touch it. Just look at it and admire it. And then it's like six or seven years from now, you might apply the things we're telling you about. We didn't like that model. It puts the onus on us. We didn't want to be delivering constantly to them, and it bores the students. So here were students transcribing these letters, and they were becoming experts on it over time. And they became experts about the transcription because the research piece started to come in. So as they transcribed, we asked them to think rhetorically about what the writer was doing. So we asked them to write 400 words of rhetorical analysis. In addition, we asked them to write 400 words of historical contextualization. So if in these World War II letters, for instance, you have servicemen writing about, they're at these bases and they're going to plays or movies, the students don't know what these things are. So we'd say, okay, we'll go start researching this. And we made resources available and kind of curated a set of resources. And so students would go out and start to research things they didn't recognize. If there was no touchstone in the letter, so Pearl Harbor, that's a touchstone. If there wasn't something identifiable that the student could go and research, there was at the very least a date. And if you're lucky, a date and a place. But a date was suffice because with a date, you can start researching what was going on globally at the time. You could juxtapose the local and the global. And so here the student is able, which is something we like students to think about because the global doesn't really exist for students. It's very hyper-local when you're 18 years old. So we got them involved in that process. So here they were doing 400 words of rhetorical analysis, 400 words of historical contextualization and slowly becoming the generators of content for conversations we'd have in the classroom. And this all started, remember, with a manuscript archive. And that imbued them with a sense of a positional authority that they could speak, frankly, and knowledge about the thing we had asked them to research and discuss, which is what you want to instill in your students when they're rhetoric students. I'm not interested in talking about controversies. I'm not interested in some pretend curriculum or to imagine yourself in a position. I want you to take ownership of the thing and speak confidently and persuasively about it. That's all rhetoric is. And they do it every day. It's just you have to help them see the fact that they are already in that rhetorical position. So to help facilitate that authority, we asked them also to create screencasts. So this would be like a Ken Burns effect, and so we'd have them do a screencast, two minutes, super short, a sentence, right? Or just pan across the letter and talk about either the difficulty of the transcription process, something interesting they found in their research for an audience. And this is the problem with students is that you need to get them thinking about audience. When they write, take one is always successful because they're their own audience. They're not skilled readers necessarily, and so anything that's written looks excellent. When you ask them to record themselves, take one is never sufficient. If you want a student to edit, ask them to film themselves or record their voices. They will always, always edit that. So they started kind of curating these materials.  So we had multiple, we remediated this experience over and over again. And what we found and what you'll see I think in the comments is that students really enjoyed this experience. They may have been intimidated at first, but the process gave them a sense of ownership that made them excited to do research and excited to do work and confident in what they had to say. On our side, and the longer I'm at Iowa and the kind of different positions I've had, it isn't just a pedagogical teacherly role. I also see these students becoming future donors, which may sound manipulative, but they've got to pay it forward or pay it back. So this adds the student retention because students feel empowered in the classroom. It doesn't slow down time to degree, which is what innovation often gets castigated for doing. So it's like, I have this great new idea. It's like, how long will that slow down the time to degree? We can't implement it. And they come out feeling good about their initial college experience. Keep in mind, these are freshmen who are doing this. So I would rather have a student who's entering college have this relatively awesome experience where they have ownership of their education, which is something I'm constantly reminding them they need to do for themselves because I don't want to have conversations about their grade because at some point, for better or worse, I tell them you don't have your teachers, so you need to take responsibility for what you're doing. And this is what we end up with. So I won't talk over much. We can talk in the Q&A if you want about the design of the project, but it's totally scalable. So for those who are interested in doing something like this, you can have one student do it. You could have, and we have had about 300 or so across a number of sections do it. It is open source. You can find our assignments, documents at the Ideal website, which is at ideal.uiowa.edu. We list, and we have a variety of projects that were, and we just open source them. There's no reason in teaching to keep it to yourself. I have this great project. You can't see it. It's not a model that we adhere to. And then we tend to use a four-way curriculum. Obviously, that could be adapted. And you see it deals with transcription research, multimodal composition, as I've pointed out. And then we tend to push these things to the web. Our students upload to a YouTube account, and they do sign releases. So we get around FERPA for those who care about that stuff. Students want to show their work, which I don't know. Students want to share their essays or something. So these are just some comments from students, and you'll see that for those who are thinking, well, how do we get them to screencast the technological stuff? We do have support from librarians who walk them through the research process, looking at how to use an archive, what is an archive. But also we have something called Student Instructional Technology Assistance, when we first started this, helped us get situated in the classroom teaching students how to use things like iMovie and whatever software fit the role. And more so than me, and we put this in here because more so than me telling you that this matters to students. What we do at the end of the project is always have them reflect on it in a course blog. So they are constantly posting to the course blog. I don't trade in paper outside of, well, the archive is digitized too, so I don't trade in paper at all. So this is what students are reflecting on after the process is over. And this is what we wanted. We wanted rhetorically deaf students who understand research to be something that is not strictly removed from the archives and only in Google. It's something much more powerful than that. And introducing them to the libraries at a very early stage in their academic careers. And that is the last slide. With that, I want to turn it over to the panel and thank you guys.