Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave as no other end But they never learn Freakly spearman chewing gum the refreshing delicious treat that gives you chewing enjoyment Presents for your listening enjoyment Raymond Chandler's most famous character in the adventures of Philip Marlowe To make every day more enjoyable treat yourself often to refreshing delicious Wrigley spearman chewing gum Here's a taste treat you can enjoy indoors outdoors at work or at play The cool long-lasting mint flavor refreshes you the smooth steady chewing helps keep you fresh and alert Adds enjoyment to whatever you're doing Wrigley spearman chewing gum healthful refreshing delicious Now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe the makers of Wrigley's spearman chewing gum are glad to bring you tonight's transcribed story the glass donkey Hello Philip Marlowe, this is Matthews Phil. Hi Listen Phil. Yeah, didn't you once go around with a brunette named Helen Lofton? Helen Lofton sure still do now and then Why lieutenant Monday your night off? Maybe a month ago. Hey, what is this you sound real official? Yeah, I know sometimes I just me Hey, wait a minute Matthews is Helen in trouble Not now, but she was a five o'clock this afternoon somebody put a bullet in the neck. You think of anything? Let me know will you might as well have hit me in the stomach with a hammer Helen Lofton are good to look at girl with soft black hair and clear hazel eyes Gets a big charge out of life Helen is I mean was a great girl And she'd always had enough sense not to waste time on the kind of people who put bullets and other people For a long few minutes. I just sat in my apartment and felt sorry Then I began to want to get my hands on a lever and pull the trigger By the time I got downtown and walked into the Morgan tenants office that urged you to become a big hot lump in my chest Hello, Chester. Yes, change around here lately. You got a Helen Lofton. I'd like to pay my respects. I can't stop you boy Oh, yeah, she's still on a table. You'll have a little company back there lieutenant Matthews.  Hey, can you find your way? All right? Yeah. Thanks, Chester Didn't expect you in person Marlowe. You could have called Got something to offer on the Lofton girl him. Yeah My services Matthews How much did she mean to you Phil? Enough to make this real personal What have you got on it Matthews? Nothing Neighbor reported the shot found Helen's body spilled down some stairs at the side of her house Mm-hmm was a 32 at close range no reason no motive no leads Unless you can call this a clue, which I don't let's see that It could be the hind leg of one of Helen's glass donkeys, you know, she collected them. Oh No, I was on the stairs near the body Hey, look Matthews, you don't mind me sticking my two cents in this. Do you it'll do me a lot of good No, I don't mind Just keep me posted, huh? I drove out Sunset Boulevard then north on Camino Avenue to the neat little house where Helen had lived Sat very quietly back under some big Magnolia trees Someone had drawn the blinds on the two front windows and it made them look like like a pair of closed eyes I walked around to the side door on the stairs where they found her body and that's when I noticed the light on inside the house The door was unlocked. So I went in Light was coming from the bedroom and when I got to that door, I saw a girl Blonde with hollican horn rims moving stiffly Like a lost some nambulist.  I thought I was alone in here and After all that's happened. Yeah Did you? Do you know Helen pretty well? Yes, I Was just about our only girlfriend You see we work together in the same office and had the same boss Like I guess they're gonna want me to do something about all of her things now. Yeah, it's real tough Everything in the house is just another reminder Even this little Sherry the candy It's all right sit down drink it at least it'll do you good Look Lila I gotta know why this happened to Helen. It doesn't make sense. Can you help me any idea at all? No, no, the police have already talked to me about it Please mr.. No, I know this is unpleasant for you, but I need some answers But over a month since I saw last who's she been going with lately. I Don't know Helen never said much about a date Who's your boss mr. Matthew? Oh, she dated him a few times, but so have I Surely you don't think mr.. No, I just want to talk to him. That's all it's Norman Matthew Matthew real estate company on Wilshire. He lives on Ogden Drive 3848. Thanks Lila Well, I'll be on my way now Hey look, maybe you better come too, huh? Let all this go until tomorrow when you're feeling better Yeah, I guess you're right. I turned out the light and snapped the lock as we left Then walked the sad little blonde as far as her coop got a red dress on Beachwood Drive and saw her off After that I went to my own car before I got in I I looked back at Helen's house once more and tried to shake the empty loose ends Feeling it had given me. I was snapped out of that mood in a hurry The man with a half an acre of Ford had just twisted out of sight behind a tree truck in the backyard I started for him and he broke and ran toward the wall in the alley. It was a six-footer He rolled across the top and fell over When I got there he was up and gone. He had that time to get out of the alley, but it was empty Which could only mean he was laying for me. Come here. You don't mr. This time Oh Neighborhoods is no soft and trash any place else when I finally got clear of it. The for it was God Figured all I had to show was one of his patch pockets, which I still had crunched in my hand, but there was something else Glittering on the ground is what had been in that pocket a little glass donkey with a hind leg missing On the way back I stopped once and tried to call Matthews, but he was out So I drove on down to Ogden Drive as far as number 3848 a gray at the temple's type in blue flannel opened up. Yes Mr. Matthew Are you a reporter? No, I'm a friend of Helen Lofton's Also, I'm a private detective named Marlowe.  Marlowe? Who are you working for myself? Like I said Helen was a friend of mine Well, I I'm quite busy Marlowe, but come in back this way to the den I've already been interviewed by the police. You may be again. It's not quite like being vaccinated mr. Matthew No Just why have you come here to see me because I intend to find out who shot Helen What makes you think I'd have the remotest idea nothing special She worked for you didn't she so do several other people you dated her Yes, I did She was a very attractive girl, but that was no reason for me to kill her.   Now look here Marl, you don't have to be sly with me I'm not hiding anything ask me what you want to know and get out of here I'll come this is Matthew doesn't object when you dine and dance the office help because we've been separated for several years Separated but not divorced. That's right. Mmm. She lives in San Diego and we have as little as possible to do with each other My bank takes care of our only mutual interest She refuses to give me a divorce to tell the police all this they didn't ask They happen to ask where you were this afternoon about five as a matter of fact, they didn't I wasn't being treated as a Suspect then and I don't intend to be now Okay, mr. Matthew. Where were you? Now look, I'm a private detective remember. I'm not even taking notes. All right motto. All right Been having business troubles lately a lot on my mind. I Was out driving in my car trying to relax can't prove it. Can you? No probably not I Don't expect to have to try all right. Tell me something else You happen to know anything about a man with a very high for it a young guy maybe 30 about Six feet tall. Yes. Yes, I do Helen went out the fellow like that recently. What's his name Victor? Samurai I think bye Well, I ran across him tonight and I didn't like his His attitude Sure, that's it. I'll bet on it. What? What are you staring at? This ashtray. No At a little ducky in front of a bedding window Thanks for everything Matthew. I'll see you The ashtray on the table behind Matthew's desk have been made of baked clay in the shape of a sombrero a Keepsake from old Mexico that kicked hard at my memory At least it was a thought well worth the price of a phone call a tier one So I drove as far as the first payphone which was at an all-night mobile gas station Got a handful of change while my car was being gasped put the call through to my old friend Senor Mike Donahue would given up reporting in Chicago for editing south of the border We are ready on your call now, sir Hello Mike Later on listen Mike, I'm trying to find out about a glass donkey a witch a donkey made of glass a souvenir mule It's got silver shoes and a silver halter Out by the bedding windows, that's right can't buy him any place else Mike That I know why you want some oh, I've already got one well, thanks a lot Mike. You've been a big help What's the matter? How I got a big front-page mystery spread if I can get a little more dope Every year of a babe around LA named Mrs. Norman Matthew. Mrs. No Mrs. Norman Matthew. Yeah Holy smoke, I'll say so what Mike? What's the story? Run over Mike you said it was a mystery story. Yeah Yeah, Mike somebody sure did To make every day more enjoyable treat yourself often to refreshing delicious wriggly spearmint chewing gum The lively full-bodied real mint flavor cools your mouth Moistens your throat Frashens your taste and the chewing itself gives you a little lift helps you keep going at your best So for real chewing enjoyment, that's refreshing and long-lasting always keep wriggly spearmint chewing gum handy Healthful delicious wriggly spearmint gum will make every day more enjoyable Now with our star Gerald Moore the second act of Philip Marlowe and tonight's exciting story the glass donkey When I hung up on Mike Donahue in the news of Mrs. Matthews violent death on a lonely road outside of Tijuana I postponed trying to figure it all out until I had called Lieutenant Matthews at homicide I've asked him to meet me at the bar.  I just told you about it came from Tijuana So so I figured that whoever sent it there Helen was one a friend who knew should get a kick out of a trinket like that Yeah, and to send it before he or she decided to kill Mrs. Matthew Oh, and therefore said friend had to get the glass donkey back because if traced it would place the killer until you wanna Where sooner or later Mrs. Matthews body had to be found that right? That's so very right and all that brings us back Only one thing Mrs. Matthews killer also got Helen Lofton was forced. Yeah. Yeah, it could be but look now feel the tough You look lonely full on maybe two beers two beers, huh? And he's special vintage. Yeah the kind with such non-stop. Goodbye comic. Okay. Okay. No offense What was I oh, yeah, we're saying for the tough one now who killed Mrs. Matthews mr. Matthews the motive Yeah, the best motive he hated his wife Also Matthews when I talked to him He was real vague about his whereabouts lately and for a clincher.   Skip it here and goodbye again. We're busy. Yeah Too bad. We ain't got tablecloth. You could have impressed me writing down big numbers You tipper. I'll break your arm. Now look at Phil. Could you be a little bit prejudiced about this guy? I feel Yeah Sure, I'm prejudice. I Just don't like Norman Matthews stuff. He kissed her and something else I might as well admit I keep skipping that guy with a mile-high for it Yeah boyfriend named big Sam row because I don't exactly know how he figures in I'm too impatient to wait around for the answer. Oh What is it though a game lieutenant call speaking of the devil adult look now, maybe it's forehead Matthews He was in the next booth catching it all. He's at the front door now. See but he isn't running yet He's just paying his check Lieutenant, how about trying that cigarette machine over there while you talk to me like I was still here I'll take the back entrance out to the sidewalk. You'll know if I need help Matthews underplate his part neatly and I got out the back door to the street where I spotted Sam Rao some 50 yards ahead Walking slowly toward an empty car new green Nash that was parked close to mine But then suddenly he started running like he just backed into a blowtorch before I knew what he had piled into his car When I was in mind and after him the street became that much narrow as a truck the size of a battle wagon lurched out of a Side alley without so much thinking about a full stop.  Whatever you say officer only this check was in a row That still is just a big blank to fill in yeah, but while we're trying lieutenant the mind if I drop in on mr. Matthew again alone. I mean I'd like to try pinning the leg of that ducky on him. All right, so but be careful I it's fragile. You know made of glass Yeah, do you mind if I come in again mr. Matthew? Frankly, I do mono. I don't feel very well your wife was murdered mr. Matthew wife Murdered still mind if I come in where did it happen mono? In San Diego Mono, I asked you where it happened in Tijuana ever been there. Yes, of course What are you looking for just looking Only your last day of Matthew. I don't know maybe a month six weeks ago. Not Saturday night, huh? No, I'm not Saturday night Matthew's ever sent Helen Lofton a present See here, who do you think you are and exactly? What are you looking for a waste basket that isn't empty? You keep a very tidy place mr. Matthew, which has what to do with my wife being dead model.  Maybe? But also maybe not maybe I'm real smart Maybe I've come to the right place to look for an empty package and a piece of wrapping paper That would be addressed to miss Helen Lofton in your handwriting and postmark Tijuana, Mexico Tijuana a large piece of wrapping paper and a large package stuffed with excelsior Was once home to a glass dunk in which you had to get back from Helen Lofton before she got it Or if you were too late for that killer and then get it back for anyone else knew about it That's still leave me out of my mind Matthew Absolutely, we'll see After we try the backyard and you're incinerator wait a minute You know the law says you can't light it at the 10 of the a.m. Matthew If you're the one stamp guilty you wouldn't want to harass suspicion stop on this has gone far enough You're not the police which means I don't need any more of a search warrant than this I Caught him right He plopped to the floor face down like it was made of wet wash I rolled him over and was sure that a return engagement was still a long way off I cut the lights then went through the house and out into the kind of backyard that you had to call a garden Beyond all the moon-bathed beauty and half hidden by a fountain that was backed up by an Ivy Tressa was what I wanted Short squat scarred ugly incinerator The door was metal cold and inside I found more encouragement None of the paper that was jammed three feet deep in the burn I started tossing the stuff out counting more in the field and sound of wrapping paper than anything else Once I stopped short It was only a grocery sack The second time I stopped short. I had a better reason Malo. You're wasting your time there Wow Mr. Victor Sam Rao. Yeah, or as you put it the guy with a mile high forehead I wouldn't get touchy Sam Rao. You were swinging the dock I had remember. I'm sorry about that I didn't know we were both in the same side Take it easy Victor. You wouldn't try to set me up again. Would you why the sudden change of heart? Because now I know that you're in the up-and-up Malo. I overheard you talking that police lieutenant and also the Mexican newspaper man Well bully for you eavesdropper, but also you ran why I was afraid you turned me over to that lieutenant Malo listen from the start. I've been trying to find Helen's killer. That's why I've been following you I found that glass donkey in her porch and both he get right to the point Malo I can tell you that the one who killed Helen and Mr. Matthew The shock that had come from the shadow driveway close into the house one Sam Rao and a half circling by the time He coughed screw to the ground. I had my 38 in the hand and it covered the distance across the garden I was too late to do anything Except I identify the figure I saw take off in a sedan is Mr. Norman Matthew. This was some help Not to Victor Sam Rao back in the garden. He had managed to crawl as far as the small pond that surrounded the fountain There he had died One hand have submerged in the dark cold water. The other clutching his chest blood soaked him and discolored another way I must have stared at it for a full 30 seconds before it suddenly began to add for me Add fast to the only backyard left in the spot where I could get to Matthew and maybe stop a third murder Lila Hughes place on Beachwood Drive It was all the push I needed When I pulled up away from the place and got out of my car and ran for the back only 10 minutes gone by and I was glad ever Because standing next to an open still smoking incinerator He's a charred paper in his hand, but I knew was the remains of the rapper.  I killed him. I killed Helen. I killed your wife About her. I'm not sorry. I'd do it again How could you plan an ugly Anything darling. I ran into her by accident To you one is a small place. We we started sociably We had a few drinks to drive to the outskirts in my car and then talk Talk of you darling. I Knew I could have you with her out of the way Helen was no threat you gave her up. So so there was no one else to stand between us and Honey, you hated your wife, but nothing.    You see You don't know what you're saying honey.   We belong together Norman and I and we're gonna beat Molo she She did think she could shoot Even if you did didn't you? Yeah That's what she thought. All right Matthew Call the police They know where they can find me. Yeah, Matthews. I'm sorry I've been out walking. What do you want to know? Victor Samarrow his hand was burned blistered red that and what he had to say to me about us being on the same track Lila Hughes was the only other one who was both close enough to Helen the center that glass donkey in at the same time Even remotely connected with Matthew. I guess His tack all night was to follow me When he tried to pick my trail up again after running from the bar he thought Lila Hughes place might be the answer And out he was right Real right. Yes, I might then With of course her taking off after him. Look anything else Matthews Hmm. No No, no Matthews. I wasn't in love with it. 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that has been. I am exhilarated, I'm ecstatic. I think OER by Domains 21, I haven't felt this way since I was in the grips of something like Faculty Academy at UNW or DS106, that venerable online digital storytelling class. And so it makes it so amazing to end this day, day one of OER by Domains 21, the Lollapalooza of online events with none other than Laura Gibbs. Let me say a little bit about Laura Gibbs before I hand over the stage to her. Although she has invited me to interrupt and she will not be giving a conventional talk. I don't think we should be surprised at this point. So we encourage many people to engage. But before we do, I do wanna say that Laura Gibbs, I think has been for me a kind of online course lady. Let's just start there. That's the at-time, that's the identity I've come to know since working with the University of Oklahoma and following her work through that, which has done unbelievable work in kind of building a syndication hub, giving her students their own space to define their identity. But then also this year in particular, and I think that's why we were so lucky to have Laura keynote this event, she's kind of taken a mantle on, not only has she challenged Canvas in the way in which they deal with student data, but she's also thought heavily about what grades can and can't do and about what a real student-centered infrastructure can and should look like. And so when everybody a year ago shifted to Zoom, shifted to video, shifted to the sense of presence or die, Laura was a voice that said, hold mom, what are we doing? We've been doing this for a long time. We have a lot of experience. Let's stop and think. So lest I give Laura's presentation for her, I am now gonna hand over the floor to Laura Gibbs who I am honored to introduce as the final keynote for day one of OER by the mains 21. Laura, take it over. Well, thank you so much, Jim. Honestly, if I were abducted by aliens in the midst of this presentation, you would be able to give the presentation for me because so much of what I'm doing is really just inspired by DS106 over the years. And I'll confess I'm really intimidated by doing this because I sometimes call myself the queen of asynchronous and I'm kind of synchronously challenged. I wasn't really sure at all what to do with this presentation and how to make it student centered since you're looking at me right now. I'm the teacher at the front of the room, which I never really want to be. But I came up with some ideas that I hope can make this presentation more sort of open-ended and spontaneous, something that will provoke your curiosity, something that's kind of unpredictable, including unpredictable for me as well as being unpredictable for you. And so I was trying to think, how am I gonna do that? And I remembered back a million years ago, 40 years ago when I was a college student, we used to play bingo sometimes in class with our professors. And so I'm gonna urge everybody who is interested in doing this. I've got a bingo.lordgibbs.net randomizer here. So if you go to that address, you'll see that you can get a bingo card. And if you don't feel lucky at that moment, you can just refresh the screen and get a different bingo card and keep sort of banging away at that until you feel lucky or get a card that you like and go ahead and print that card out or just save the image file and mark on it as a PDF or an image file. And the idea here is, there are all kinds of things we might talk about today. I really don't know what we're gonna talk about and you'll see why in just a minute. But you know how bingo works, the idea is to get five across or five down or crisscross, you got your OER domains there in the free space. And so I hope that the bingo cards will help focus your attention through this presentation, provoke some curiosity and also provoke some questions, right? So think about some bingo strategy, right? If you've got four across and you're just waiting for me to say science fiction, we'll ask a question about science fiction and say, Laura, why haven't you said anything about science fiction so far? And so be strategic, right? Use the bingo cards that way. They were generated with a randomizing spreadsheet thing and I've got some documentation here, which has like how I made the bingo card generator and I made it shareable. So if you want to make your own bingo cards, you can do that using the information there in the documentation. And this is all, like I said, random. And we have random prizes too. We have random victory slogans in Latin because I used to teach Latin, I still miss it so I could not resist the temptation to make Latin prizes for everybody. And that's all randomized too. And don't worry, there's translations down at the bottom. My friend Hector, I think is in the audience. He speaks Latin, I don't know who else does, but there's translations. Okay, so the reason this is going to be unpredictable for me too is we're about to randomize my presentation here. I've got a slideshow and let's peek and see what's first right now. Okay, it could be rather than a story's first but I guarantee you it's not going to be pretty much because we're gonna go here and randomize this presentation. So we're in Google Slides now and there are slides here that have screenshots of my students' websites and links to their websites you can go visit and there's 250 of them in there. And there could be more, right? We're obviously not gonna talk about 250 projects today but what we're gonna do is randomize them. So I'm gonna start this little add-on and this is in the documentation too. So if you could use a slide randomizer, let's save the first slide, you can do that. Now the reason there are 250 slides there and the presentation is because I was worried I was gonna break the randomizer. So it's not that I ran out of projects. I just didn't want the slideshow to get so big that the randomizer broke and it's grinding away there but it's gonna work, don't worry. We're gonna give it just another second. Normally I have about 100 students each semester and that's how I learned about this randomizer. I make a slideshow of each semester's projects and when there's just 100 in there, it randomizes pretty fast but when there's 250 you saw it had to work hard. And lo and behold, look, it's not robbing the stories first anymore. So I'm gonna go back to the slideshow and I'm gonna hit refresh. Oh no, it looks like it's refreshing to make sure I've got the new version. So if you're watching at home and you wanna use the slideshow so that you can access the links and I would really urge you to do that. You might need to press refresh to make sure your first slide is this one about Baba Yaga. This is like a card dealer splitting the deck and doing the shuffle. This is awesome. And you saw, it's all legit, right? I'm a huge fan of Better Call Saul and you probably all have seen Saul play Bingo. I'm not playing Bingo like Saul. This is like totally legit, right?  This is truly random. And I study tricksters, you know? So those of you who are still suspicious, you don't need to be suspicious. Just trust me on that. So anyway, the way I made the cards was that I went through the 250 slides and I just jotted down a thought or idea for each slide and randomized those to make the cards. And so now here we are and I'm so happy because I was hoping that one of the first slides to come up would be one that I absolutely love. And the way this is gonna happen is I'm gonna do something like emergent learning here. I'm not gonna talk to you about what we do in the class in the form of a lecture. I'm just gonna let it emerge from the students' projects here. And as you can see, their projects are websites and there's a link there on the screen. And luckily for you, I'm not gonna click on that link because then I would be off down the rabbit hole and we wouldn't be able to do hardly any slides because I wanna show you every page of her website. But this is a project from the mythology and folklore class that I teach. And this was the first time a student had ever done a project about Baba Yaga who is the witch character from Russian folklore and mythology. And you'll see the Baba Yaga's Gifts, there's the title, see that as apostrophe? That is not a typo. There are three Baba Yaga's, not just one. And so if you wanna learn all about Baba Yaga, this is a really excellent project. It's really well researched. It's beautifully written. It's by a professional writing major. I sometimes get professional writing majors in my classes rarely, but it's so exciting when I do. And this I hope is gonna turn into a novella because she did such a beautiful job with it. And this is from last fall that this summer I'm gonna do some editorial work if she wants me to and hopefully we might turn it into a press book adventure or something. So anyway, that's the first project, full of joy and delight, I guarantee you. Oh, the fairytale world. Okay, this is an older style of Google site. That first one was the new style of Google site. This is what they call the classic Google sites. And I could actually say a lot about that and a lot about why my students, most of them do use Google sites for their projects. But first let me say what the premise of this project is because it's absolutely adorable. It's a TV reality show with the fairytale princesses and they've been in a house. It's that kind of like house based big brother type TV reality show and they're trying to escape. And so the princesses are all having to work together as a team in order to escape from the fairytale world. And so there you see, I guess that Cinderella on the loose. The projects that the students do for these classes are often mashups like this, right? So the Baba Yaga project was very much inside the world of Russian folklore and mythology. This project is more of a mashup where it's familiar fairytales. I think all the princesses in this one are pretty familiar, but with a modern framework for it to let the student tell the old stories in a new way, familiar, not familiar at the same time. And I guess I wanna make a pitch for that for mashups as a kind of mode that you can use really in all kinds of academic disciplines. It's obvious that it works well in the world of folk tales and mythology because those are actually all mashups to start with. But when I was developing these courses with these projects, I was working with a history of science professor at my school and he had his students doing the same thing, creating websites. Back then we were just using Nutscape Composer this a long time ago. But there's a very sort of modular approach. As you can see, there are little chapters, pages in these projects and the students build them one page at a time. And he had his students in history of science doing very similar kind of projects to this. So I'm gonna go on to the next one. Jim can interrupt me anytime if people have questions but we have limitless projects to explore here. And so I'll just let things come out as we look at them. This one- One quick question. So Laura, you have an amazing following here and I think Ma just asked, what are the ground rules that people, they're trying to make links on their bingo cards with all the different types like fan fiction, anthology, confidence. So who's gonna yell bingo first? Is that the idea here? So let's lay that out. Any bingos are good, so I'm not a bingo purist. So if people wanna get bingo first, that's great. If you wanna improvise and do a different kind of bingo, like maybe you wanna make a bingo ring instead of a cross or whatever, the bingo is just there to have fun with. I'm the kind of person who when they gave us those standardized tests in schools, I would make designs with the scantrons, just fill in in the bubbles to make a pretty design. So really the bingo part is just to play with, no rules. Exactly, we're just trying to match John was here and show just how creative students are. And also it is to provoke you to ask questions because they're topics that might be of real interest to people in the audience that I would so happily talk about that aren't maybe gonna come up here with that particular slides I'm showing and that I also just might neglect to say, because for any one of these projects, they're so rich and they're so full of my experience as a teacher and the students experience that there's lots that I could say. And there's practical things I'm glad to talk about too. Like if you look at this, you'll see that the author's name is not on this page. Some of the students gladly put their names on the projects and gigantic fonts. Sometimes they put pictures of themselves on the front page. That's my family, that's my family members. Exactly, and the other students though, do it anonymously, which is just great. It's all fine as you'll see, I don't put student names on anything. I just keep a link archive that links by the title to the site, but I don't need the names. And so it's really up to the students to put the names on there. And so you're gonna see most of them, I guess in terms of numbers, most of them don't have the name on it, but it varies and it's really up to the student. This is all of the student choice. You know, the students choose the topic, they choose the style, they choose the web publishing platform. There's room for everything, right? And this is kind of a sermon about how there's room for everything beyond the LMS, right? Beyond LMS is one of my hashtags. I've never used the LMS for my content and my goal is for the students to make wonderful content. That's the really important content of the class and that's all happening outside the LMS. Oh, well, I should have said more about that. Oh, and I can't get back to it. Maybe I can, yes I can. I should have said more about this before we moved on because I really didn't talk about this beautiful project. I get a lot of Vietnamese students in my classes and so I have actually learned a lot about Vietnamese folklore from what these students have brought to the class. And I'm always excited when they wanna use the project as a kind of heritage learning project. And so maybe you don't realize there are a lot of Vietnamese students in Oklahoma. There's a large Vietnamese community up in Oklahoma City and they're fantastic students to have in class because they bring this interest in their heritage. Sometimes they don't know a lot about their Vietnamese safe folklore heritage and so they learn about it in class or else they're really into it and it's like they wanna share stories from their grandparents or whatever and that's all good, right? That's one of my mantra is there's room for everything. This is like an improv theater. It's all yes and if a student comes to me with an idea my answer is always yes and then we just have to figure out how to make it work. I kinda wanna make the bingo pure suffer a bit so I'm gonna kinda hold on here for a second. One of the things when we were talking which led up to this keynote. You said so beautifully is, unlike being at the front of the class and delivering the lecture and then moving on, you see yourself as an ongoing kind of commentator and kind of reinforcing the relationship between the student's story and how they bring it to light and how they connect it to broader stories and I just found that so beautiful and elegant the way in which you framed that shift of the instructor and that relationship to a class and to an individual and how they're telling their story. How does that relate when you start kinda telling these slides? So feel free to go to another one and I'd love to hear about that. Well, I mean, and here's a great one where I remember I worked a lot with this student. This is a classic Google site, this thin line between tragedy and comedy. The student wanted to do hyper fiction with links where you were choosing what was gonna happen to Romeo and Juliet in the story. And this is an old project. This must be getting on like, I don't know, 10 years old or something. And so we didn't have Twine then, right? If we had had Twine, she could have gone wild but this was a great example where the student had an idea, all the student's idea and it was just my job to try to help with the technology. And so the students aren't losing out when I back off and don't lecture, right? I mean, I could lecture, sure. And I could tell them all kinds of things and it might or might not be useful to them. But this way, when I'm just the coach, I'm helping them with what they're interested in learning about. So that might be the research side of the project. It might be the technology side of the project. It might be the writing side of the project, whatever I can help with, I'll help. And then it's so cool when there's student expertise in the class so that for things about which I know nothing like video production or graphic design or whatever, there's often another student in class who can help or can help with languages or whatever. It's just, it's so exciting.  Who knows? But something good is gonna happen. And that's what I can tell the students with great assurance is something good is gonna happen. We've got this model that works and how do I know it works? Look at these websites. So one of the first things that the students do in the class is to do kind of what we're doing here. They start exploring the websites, they click on the links, they find their favorites and they start to get ideas about what they wanna do. Oh, let's see what's next. Oh, this one was so cool. Students often come to a mythology and folklore class thinking it's gonna be all Greek mythology. And we actually, in terms of the week to week readings in class and there are readings, there's a giant un-text book thing that I built for the students, which is just full of public domain, content, folklore, mythology from around the world. And so there's actually very little Greek mythology that's part of the class reading. You can actually do the class reading for the whole semester and not read any Greek mythology. That's fine with me. I'm not interested in any kind of canon here. But for the students who are interested in Greek mythology, well, great, do your class project on that. And this one was so much fun because she ran with the way that the three brothers of Greek mythology are also the names of planets. And so the storytelling in here is so cool because it's about the brothers in the mythology, but it's also about the planets. So just take my word for it. That was a really cool Greek mythology project. And there are a lot of Greek mythology projects as if you were to go through like the whole corpus of all the thousands of projects that students have done over these 20 years I've been doing this, there's a lot of Greek mythology in there, which is great. I used to be a classicist, so it's great. But things are also great when they're really out there and unexpected like this one was so cool. I remember this very vividly. This is an old Google classic site. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the mystery of the missing river. This is from the Indian epic's class. And as you can imagine teaching a course on the epics of India, it's haunted by the British empire and what that means in the British and India. So I was so excited when the student wanted to do this project about Sherlock Holmes going to India and getting all involved in this mystery of the missing river, which is all tied up with the Ramayana. And I guess I should go ahead and say something important or two about these Google classic sites because this is a kind of downside of life online and anybody who has a Google site's classic site may have gotten an email this week. Google sites, classic sites have been deprecated for I think four or five years now since they rolled out a mobile first totally different approach to Google sites design. And so these classic Google sites are going away and they're going away actually pretty soon. I think it's sometime in the fall. And on the one hand it's very frustrating and sad and there's gonna be all these gaping holes on the internet, broken links and everything because a bunch of these sites are disappearing. But the way Google is doing that that they explained in the email that I got like I said just this week is that they're zipping up those old sites and they're putting them in the Google Drive account associated with each person's Google account that they used to create the original classic site. So that you can then deploy the site in the new Google sites if you want or not. And I think they also load up the site as an unpublished default in the new Google site. So if you want to use their converter tool which to be honest doesn't work all that well but it exists to republish your site you can. And the reason I was thinking that was so interesting is that for example the student who did this site years ago if she still looks at her Gmail address that was associated with this account she got an email from Google reminding her it's like when you created this awesome site it doesn't say on the email but it is awesome. The site years ago do you wanna do something with it now? So I'm actually really curious if any former students are gonna contact me and say anything about it because this email went out basically to all my former students who did these classic Google sites. I have a lot to say about platforms and platform choice. We can talk about that later if people want. I ended up using Google sites when the previous web publishing platform that my school had supported disappeared overnight and I had nothing. Now we have reclaim and we have domain of one zone and I do always have some students who choose to use a self-hosted WordPress site or some tool like that. I've even had some Jekyll sites from some of my techie students but most of the students are still using Google sites in my class. I have to say Laura, I'm gonna interrupt you. There is some marveling because that people are loving it so I probably shouldn't interrupt you but there's been some commentary about not only how you can do this narration of your student work with so much love and joy but how you can do it with just looking at an image and then randomly as both Colin and Maha mentioned it's just really magic. So let me stop interrupting so the magic can continue. It's super cool. Well, and see, this is the thing to me about what student-centered really means is that I've spent my life for the past 20 years, 40 hours a week connecting with my students through their writing, right? I don't meet them in person. Some of them I might recognize because they use a picture or something somewhere that I've seen but I haven't met them in person and you mentioned earlier about during the pandemic and how everything switched and changed. In my classes didn't change at all during the pandemic except that I reduced the workload because everybody was just freaking out understandably but I've always felt so connected to my students, they feel connected to me and I should also say they feel so connected to each other because they're visiting each other's websites and watching them evolve and sharing in that experience together which is great and they also have blogs and so I could be doing the same thing here we're showing you all their blogs but the blogs are kind of messier and weirder and hard to just perceive and understand at a glance but the projects that the students do every semester are just fantastic and so I'll invoke the trust students hashtag, just let the students run and see where they go they will go in good places. There's a project that my school did called the Meaningful Writing Project which I always like to recommend there's a book that resulted from that study where they interviewed students at three different universities very different kinds of universities and so my school was the big public university that participated where they just asked open-ended question graduating seniors, what was the most meaningful writing experience who had in college? And the students just wrote about what their most meaningful experience was and a few students had to say said they had no meaningful writing experience but there were actually very few like that most students had had some kind of meaningful writing experience and it's a great book to read to see all the different kinds of meaningful writing that go on and I was really excited because some of my students said that this project they did for this class which is just a gen ed class it's not part of a major or a degree or anything that it was their most meaningful writing experience and it's because they brought the meaning to it I didn't bring the meaning to it I brought the cheerleading and the support and the coaching and the just the opportunity for it to happen but this student for example, this was so great this is on urban legends from Mexico and that means the gossip, right? I learned nifty Spanish things from my Spanish speaking students and it's a revelation I think for students to realize that there are urban legends all over the world and Google will help you find them so if you wanna find urban legends from Japan or Mexico or Hawaii or whatever part of the world you're interested in you can find really cool freaky urban legends and urban legends want to be retold, right? So that's what's happening here and then that's a personal family photo there that she used there on the cover Oh, oh, that's mine, okay I also make a project every semester I enroll myself as a student in one of the classes each semester and I do all the work with the students so I have a blog and I write stories every week and I add things to our padlet and I make a storybook and this is the one I'm doing for this semester so I'm so glad that it came up because it's a chance for me to tell people what I'm gonna do now that I'm retiring from teaching which is that I'm going to write books of tiny tales and especially tiny tales from African folklore and mythology so watch out books are gonna be coming and this storybook that I did this semester I just finished it last week has trickster stories about rabbit or hare, spider, tortoise and also mantis I guess I decided to add mantis after I had taken that screenshot back earlier in the semester So anyway, if you wanna see the kind of writing I'm doing now all the stories in that storybook are stories that are told in 100 words exactly, not more, not less, 100 words So anyway, I use the hashtag at Twitter TotalCodeLearner to share my experiences and what I think are the benefits of them if being a student in your own class somebody in Jim's talk had talked about eating your own dog food or whatever is like, no, this is enjoying the banquet with the students, it's not eating the dog food I have so much fun doing my project every semester and it does kind of freak the students out at first when they get assigned to read my blog along with other student blogs or read one of my stories sometimes they don't realize it's me because we all just go by first names in the class and so, you know, it's Laura and they'll leave a comment on my project thinking I'm just a fellow student and sometimes I'll come back and say, oh, okay now I know why you write so well, you're the teacher you're supposed to know how to write or whatever so it's fun You have a bingo winner at least one moment so someone has claimed bingo and I think it's a kind of really nice moment to think also about what you said about the shift you're making and this idea that you're kind of really crystallizing your open educational resources into yet another project of creativity because this smacks of so much amazing creativity, engagement your excitement just looking at these projects is absolutely effective so maybe that's the wrong thing to say during a virus is, you know but you get the idea like it's really, it's powerful so like say a little bit about that project and how your teaching maybe inspired this kind of move to OER in these creative projects Oh, and yeah, I have to say, you know it was a personal conviction before I started all of this that everybody is creative and now I can declare it as a kind of proven fact in my scientific study with N equals 2000 or whatever you know, the creativity that students do not get to explore in school is just sitting there is this huge untapped resource and it does require some real work on your part to make that happen, to unleash that creativity because the students will start off the class saying I'm not creative like that's one of the most common things I'll see in blog posts during the first week of class when they're say looking at these past projects by other students or when they find out that the writing they're gonna be doing for this class is storytelling it's not gonna be a traditional essay or research paper it's not that they love the essays and research papers but at least they're familiar they've known how they know how to go through those motions but a lot of them will say I haven't done creative writing since kindergarten or third grade or middle school or whenever it happens to be that that stop but that doesn't need to stop, right? Creativity can absolutely be a huge part of what you do in any discipline in math, science, everything and helping students get in touch with that has been a great experience and then it's been transformative for me too because I didn't used to think I was a writer like I knew I was creative, I like to make things but I didn't think of myself as a writer but after 20 years of helping people with their writing I've decided, yeah, I'm actually a writer after all so that was a great revelation to me and it was definitely part of a process of just writing and writing and writing and sharing and sharing and sharing and so if that process of writing and sharing is something that I can now take outside of the constraints the terrible constraints of a semester long class of grades and grading of students having to pay enormous amounts of money to go to college if I can take the good creative free experiences free in every sense of that word and share them online in new ways with new audiences I'm gonna be so happy I'm really excited about what I'm gonna try to do and I'm also looking for partners especially people in K through 12 so that I can try to adapt the materials that I've developed really with a college age student audience in mind for broader audiences too there was something I was going to say oh about grading of course, no grading, right? I have not put a grade on any piece of student work since my first semester of upteaching college and I have a lot to say about that that's not the topic here but suffice to say all this good work that the students do is happening without me giving them grades ever grades would stifle all that creativity and all that good work and I don't need grades, don't want grades I stay as far away from grades as possible and there are links in that documentation document for on grading and thoughts about that here's another gorgeous old classics site and looking at these classic sites now I am starting to feel really sad that they're gonna go away because some of them are just beautiful and amazing this one has a story arc that goes over the individual pages there and it's dramatic and beautiful and I remember the student really struggled with the ending of the project and some of the projects are unfinished and that's fine too but the ones that have a real sense of completion about them are so satisfying to look at again and let's see what's next oh this one is also really exciting with a story arc that covers the whole project this is inspired by the island of Dr. Moreau it's a supernatural creature laboratory and the supernatural creatures have gotten out of their confinement spaces and it's dangerous and scary and very exciting and this was a project that really lent itself to a multicultural approach where the student pulled in different creatures from different traditions and that's something that has been really exciting about that idea of the mash-up there can be mash-ups in terms of style and then where you have like say classic European fairy tales and the reality TV show like in that earlier project but also styles that themselves encourage a kind of mixing or a mash-up of different cultures in a way that's really fun and fits the storyline like here where there are these different creatures from around the world that are all scary oh I should say something about this you know I teach the University of Oklahoma students love their football and I've had some really great football inspired projects this one is actually absolutely hilarious it's one of the cheerleaders for the school official like metaphorical cheerleader a real cheerleader wrote this project she took the abduction of Helen of Troy in the Trojan War and retold it as a OU Texas football story and she was friends with all the players on the team because she's a cheerleader and there were actual cheerleaders who were in the project and she changed their names you know changing the names to protect the innocent but she knew who everybody was so it's a kind of Romana Clef of the OU football team and I guess the Texas team too I don't follow these things so I don't know but anyway it was really fun to read and that's another example of students doing something that moves a lot to them football doesn't mean a lot to me but I enjoy their enjoyment of it this is kind of like a Balzacian universe now you got the University of Texas first University of Oklahoma you have these masks but even just the different sides you're sharing of your students' work it's like there's a universe there to be explored it's so, I don't know what to say it's so powerful well and please explore because there's 250 slides here people obviously I don't know how many we've gotten through 12 right and so this is my message about you know there's no 100% the goal is not completion the goal is just the process just the curiosity so if I provoke people's curiosity to come and explore there's tons of slides in here and these are just the slides I put in the slideshow and like I said I was afraid I was gonna break the randomizer there's hundreds more of these projects at the link archive and there's a randomizer too at the archive so explore and just if exploring convinces you that the students are super creative I'm glad if you find a topic you're interested in I'm glad each of the stories I should say has an author's note and so let's click and see what's next oh and this is a great example one that has excellent author's notes where the stories are in there and this student is really just retelling the story of the Valkyrie because most students don't know Fogner and so she didn't really wanna change things up she just wanted to you know get into the psychology and tell the story in a more condensed way too because obviously Fogner is huge and she wrote really good author's notes too and the idea is that on each of these pages if you go into the site I try anyway to encourage them to be good about you know crediting their sources you know you start with in this case the Fogner there's a link on each page to the source that the student was using I try to get them to do good image credits that's kind of a long slog you know what that's like because at least at my school the emphasis is all on like traditional whatever APA bibliography or something or MLA not really the kind of digital citation skills that are useful for projects like these but there are author's notes on each page that will give you a sense of the student's process and their sources and what they did and sometimes they struggle with that because they'll get really into the creative juices and it's hard for them to pull themselves back out and even realize what they did that's incredibly cool because it felt sort of spontaneous to them or obvious or natural and the author's note is where I try to get them to like stand back out and think about what you did and so the author's notes you know they vary in quality all of these projects varying quality but some of them have excellent author's notes which I love because then I get all this insight into what the student did lots of horror type projects students like horror as a genre that's been a revelation for me too because horror is not a genre that I ever really explored but now I love a good scary story and a really good ghost story so I'm gonna be writing supernatural tiny tales for sure this is a once again an old one but it's pretty scary about this Halloween cat oh and this is good this is a Tumblr site I'm pretty sure it's Tumblr somebody who clicks on it you'll see if it's Tumblr or not students who come into the class who've used Tumblr or Wix or Weebly often choose to use those platforms to the class which is great and sometimes they do these gorgeous design experiments so not only is this a completely fun storybook with these crime war versions and the brothers Grimm is these two detectives and their personalities are so different and the plots of the stories are inspired by the old fairy tales grew some sort of bloody ones but it's set in Chicago I think it's Chicago in the 20s and the design is absolutely gorgeous and so the students spend a lot of time on that design not so that they could get a better grade in the class but just because they were obsessing about the perfect design for their project and it is perfect, it's fantastic. Kuhul then you know since we're starting to get to the end of time I'm gonna go a little faster through the slides just so you can see like this variety in the sense of the whole world I was so excited that the student wanted to do Kuhulan we don't have him as part of the reading for class and so that's also what happens with these projects when you open it up and the students are creating the content it becomes as richness of content for everybody in the class because by the end of the semester the students have mostly seen all the other projects in class I'm not systematic about that but they get a sense of what most of the other students are working on and they get to learn about Kuhulan from this project, for example this one, oh my gosh, okay this was written as a Netflix crown King Arthur mashup and I'm not even gonna try to describe how it worked and how really was the crown and really was King Arthur all at the same time but just to say it's absolutely brilliant and you can see once again student went to a lot of trouble with the graphics and everything to make this look like her own Netflix series and there's all kinds of graphic details and stuff it's like what Jim and everybody has done with the TV themes and the TV guide for this conference the student really went to a lot of trouble with all of that and it's really well written too this very exciting to see the student was from South Africa and this project is from before I developed my own obsession like total obsession now with African folklore but I learned a lot from this project and it was really exciting to me too because she got in touch with her mother to confirm which story she was gonna use it has an overarching story arc I'm so proud of this project especially because there aren't that many African projects in this whole group and so if like what Jim said about this being a kind of world Africa is not as well represented as it should be in this world and that's partly my fault too that I just didn't know that much about African storytelling traditions until I became obsessed a couple of years ago and so I didn't do as good a job of talking that up and encouraging it and also being able to help students think about connections between their interests in Africa like say if a student in the past would tell me they were interested in hero stories I wouldn't have a whole list of African hero stories for them to read but now I do, right? It's never too late more scary stuff this one is really scary the ending actually has this kind of horrifying twist that is shudder worthy but in a good way it was fantastic we haven't seen as many of the Indian epics things and that's kind of just a freak of the randomization but this is from the Indian epics class this was really cool the student told the stories from the point of view of the bow of Shiva and so tales of the divine bow there it's not of in the sense of about this is the divine bow hanging out with Shiva having a conversation talking about all the things that go on in the Ramayana and ending with this incredibly dramatic confrontation between Rama and Shiva which is just cool so the Indian epics class students like this start out really not knowing anything about the epics they're taking the class because it's a gen ed non-Western civilization that's what they call it non-Western requirement and so they start usually from scratch in that class and the student learns so much and talk about showing what you learn I would be so glad for anybody to look at that instead of looking at a grade on a report card the bingos are starting to roll in now I mean that's we've got to have a question that will help them win their bingo I don't want to like have failed well it's actually got a little bit bad people are they're stealing each other's car it's actually it's gone wrong there's blood in the streets now because of that we need to have a post back though and really think about what you have what have you wrought here well and there is that bingo card generator so you know sometimes at the beginning of every school year you'll see those like faculty meeting bingo cards at Twitter and they're pretty funny but they're static right I mean there's just one bingo card if you want to make your own like faculty meeting bingo cards that documentation link in the here if we scroll up here that documentation link has the spreadsheet that will let you make your own randomized so everyone can have their own faculty meeting bingo card you heard it here yeah you're starting out this is the new kind of genitry not only micro OER stories but also bingo cards custom it's beautiful well Laura I mean we are coming we have about a minute or two left before we start doing closing remarks so I just wanted to say you know given all the work you've done and the work you've done with these students and you know the connection and the story there and people are commenting on it already like how do we save these stories can we put them in the internet archive is the archive team around I think someone brought up B.A. Barakis and bringing in the A team or something like that but the bigger question I think a lot of people is so like how do you understand this legacy of you work you've done with your students and you know what does that mean for you what does that mean for other instructors and what does that mean for you moving forward yeah it's you know I would do things so differently if I were starting over now right I mean that that's just true and and I hadn't thought about myself as a curator of stories when I got started I saw myself more just as a phone mentor of stories and I wanted to do something that was better than paper that just went into the garbage at the end of the semester I wanted the projects to have some kind of ongoing use from semester to semester but I didn't think about long term curation now though I have discovered the joy of press books and I should say something about how press books was incredibly important to me this past year and all kinds of ways for personal reasons but also just as a as a writer and a teacher and my students made a press book together last semester of Tiny Tales so not these bigger stories in their projects but short micro fiction and that book obviously will last and have a long lasting presence as long as I can have anything to do with it and I would have done something like that from the start I would have added on a layer of curation on top of all the other things that we're doing so that I could create something that would have a real lasting value but you know when I started this 20 years ago all these ideas the OER the curation the tool like press books they weren't there and you know I just got going in the flow of what I was doing and I'm so glad that at least at that very end I did start to think about curation and about press books and I have to say it was thanks to the last domains conference because that's where I really learned about press books got the inspiration to use it myself and press books is going to be a big part of my work going forward so I don't know if there are any of the press books people in the audience here today but a big shout out to press books and the opportunity they give everybody to take your students best work and turn it into something that is beautiful and lasting and easy to create press books is so easy to use I really love it I think you're hitting all the right notes you mentioned DS 106 you mentioned reclaim hosting and now you mentioned the domains conference so we will cut you a check that's fine it's established so that's good we're good there so I do want to say though Laura I mean and I think I speak for everybody and they could speak to themselves in the chat and they can applaud but I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the work you've done for these last 20 years and as part of this conference I want to wish you the best of luck for your future path and your next journey it's an inspiration to see you kind of make that step this year and I think you've been a beacon for us for many reasons but the idea of you kind of taking a new path and you know trailblazing it is super super exciting and it's a it's a good way to end day one of OER by the remains 21 so thank you Laura well and thank you for the opportunity this has been such a pleasure I hope it worked and and thank you everybody now it's been great thank you and I just want to say to everybody who has joined us today over the course of day one of OER by domains 21 thank you for your engagement for making this you know you come into any event like this with a certain amount of trepidation but you've made it so awesome for me at least and I think I'm speaking for the other groups at all and reclaim and beyond so the co-chairs everybody thank you all very much we look forward to seeing you tomorrow the conference starts at I'm going to do a time zone here 9 30 a.m. BST which I'm learning BST is not GMT which blew my mind just a few short days ago thanks to the Germans who questioned me GMT is not BST Jim and then I said Germans why are you questioning me but they were right so anyway thank you all for joining us this officially wraps up day one of OER by domains 21 and we will see you all tomorrow big fan


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Russian investigators, on April 4, formally charged Daria Trapova, a 26-year-old woman, with terrorism offenses over the killing of pro-war military blogger Vladlan Tatarovsky in a bomb blast in St. Petersburg. Trapova arrived at Moscow's Bamani court on Tuesday afternoon, after being transferred from St. Petersburg to the Russian capital. Prosecutors were expected to ask the district court to remand her in pretrial detention. Tatarovsky, a cheerleader for Russia's military campaign in Ukraine whose real name was Maxim Fomin, was killed on Sunday when an explosion ripped through a cafe where he was due to talk.  It said she had acted under instructions from people working on behalf of Ukraine.


The Laguerre Primary School is being rebuilt, while both the Vidbutai Primary and the Gordon and Wolcott Memorial Methodist are each receiving a new wing. Construction at the three sites commenced in June of 2021 under the Education Quality Improvement Project, equipped at a total cost of $24 million, through funding from the Government of St. Lucia and the Caribbean Development Bank, the CDB. Kurt Charles, who is the resident engineer representing Danian Sea Limited, project consultants for the three projects, says everything is going as planned and the contractors are expected to deliver on time. Our tour of the facilities under construction began at the Laguerre Primary School construction site, which is said to be 40 percent complete. I believe that we could make the completion date of July of this year. As you can see, most of the frame of the building is up. So by the end of the next period, we should at least have a well underway with the roof construction of the building. Methodist is a more advanced of the three, but it's the smaller of the three. This one is about 6,000 square foot right now on the contractor. The entire structure is up. He's working on the car park and the play area right now, external works, and he's waiting on his finishes to start his style work and his painting. All three schools are expected to benefit from modern amenities and the smart classrooms. Cyrus Cipal, who is the Education Officer for District 1, the Laguerre Primary School is located, says this will ensure the sustainability of modern education at these institutions for generations to come. I am excitedly looking forward for the completion of the school, not just the physical structure, but all the other gadgets that will be added to it to make learning what we want it to be, which is something that the children will love, a place where they will feel safe. This is very important because as we, you know, we have always been saying even though we have COVID, but in the safest place for the children would be at the school because that's where learning is taking place. So when it comes to our school, we were affected a lot with termites and more recently we had a lot of leakage. So with the construction of the school, we realized that our school, our students, our teachers will be in a very conducive environment and we are looking forward to making sure that we use this school for the betterment of our students and not just the students, but also the other members of the community. The Vidbutai Primary School and the Gordon and Walcott Methodists are also very happy with the ongoing construction at their institutions. The two schools will also benefit from parameter fencing, improve the vehicular parking conditions, improve the side drainage and improve the septic facilities. The experience has not been a bad one at all. Actually coming into it, I thought it would have been worse, but it has not affected a school-wise because with COVID, we have the three-day system. So that has helped us out in that sense. We only have kindergartners and grade sixes here every day for the week. The only grade that would be really affected be the kindergartners who are downstairs because they're the closest to the construction site and they're also the lowest to the ground. But so far, they're bearing through it because we know what we want and we have been longing for this building for so long. So far, we've been able to operate alongside the construction works with the very good cooperation between the contractors, the workers and also the staff, students and parents of our school. We've been able to keep constant communication to ensure that everything goes smoothly and, most importantly, that we are safe on the compound. The new Lag Air Primary School building will comprise a basement with open breezeway, a ground floor and a top floor which will house classrooms, a library, IT laboratory, music room and principal's office. The three-story Vidbutai Block will house classrooms with a company male and a female washroom facilities while the ground floor will serve as an open breezeway with male and a female bathroom facilities. At the Gordon and Walcott, the works there consists of a two-level reinforced concrete structure which will house classrooms, staff room and washroom facilities while the ground floor will consist of one classroom, music room, theater arts and French rooms and a sick bay. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, I am Chris Satney reporting.