On my first trade, I shorted 2,000 shares of a stock called VGGL. It dropped 50 cents instantly, and I made $1,000, and I was like, holy shit, I got it. This is the holy grail. I found it, boom. So over the years, I was kind of trying to refine that strategy and kind of see why the stock went down. Was it technicals? Was it fundamentals? What was the reason for it? And I started getting a little bit better, but then I started to realize I had no risk management. I was not stopping outright. I was just doing whatever I thought I was doing again. I was just kind of wing it again. I wasn't making a plan again. But I started to find profits going short. That's where the whole thing of kind of making a plan came into place, where before I entered a trade, before I did anything, I would have to make a plan for it. If my plan was there was a daily resistance at $5 on the chart, I would short near that number. And if the next resistance or whatever it was, I would make sure to have a stop out point. So I guess over the years, I've, again, refined that strategy and kind of got better at reading tape, technicals, fundamentals, and all that stuff. And I started to realize that the tape tells the story.


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All right, so that's it for our demo. Now let's proceed with the live Q&A portion of this session. I did not see any questions yet. So feel free again to submit any questions you have so Ty can answer them live. Meanwhile, since we don't see any questions yet, perhaps let's start with some questions that we often see come up. So in the demo video, we briefly saw Dan demonstrate how to use GitLab for project planning. But Ty, can you go a layer deeper and talk through how we can use GitLab for agile or scrum planning? Yeah, so let's see if I can... Oh, sorry, actually... Yeah, I see there's a question there. Let's give that for now. Let me take a look here. From Prabath. Thank you Prabath for submitting your question. So Prabath asks, I have deployed GitLab in GKE cluster using GitLab help chart in my company, but the issue is the email does not work. The application does not send any emails. Can you explain or show how to configure the MTP emails in GKE for GitLab? Yeah, so something this specific what I can do is I can follow up afterwards with documentation and explaining how to set up SMTP emails. The time that we have here, and there's not a lot of time to go through this process, so do we... Actually, I don't know, do we get their emails or do we have Prabath's email that I can follow up with and send him some information around setting up email? Yes, for sure, yeah. So we do have everyone's email, so we will send the recording as well as follow up your question Prabath. Okay, I will. Yep, awesome, thank you Prabath. I'll go back to the agile question that was mentioned earlier, or just a second ago, with GitLab, we have a lot of organizations again that are looking at this application as an answer for their DevOps end-to-end agile, often being a part of DevOps and how they can do project management or use kind of the manage plan, create portion as we define in the now 10 categories of the DevOps lifecycle. You could do that, maybe I'll just share here, and I won't go too deep into this, but I will just show, in this case, we have like a mock organization here, but if I were to go into, I see the structure that I have set up in this organization, they have several different subgroups, maybe value streams or areas that they think make up that organization, down here being agile group that has several scrum groups underneath it, billing. But the way that they've done is they've gone in, they've used board views to do their backlog management. So I think in this particular case, this demo, they are looking to do safe as well as scale the agile framework, but you have your backlog, you can prioritize on your backlog, you can assign those issues to sprints, and then you can have a dev board that you can do the assigning of those issues to certain individuals on a team or if you're a self-organizing team, you can have those assigned to yourself and then mark in progress, review, and closed. Create tags, I think we have some technical risks built into this as well with high, medium, and low, so we've used tags to do that. That is a very, very quick version of a scrum board agile world, just because that's a general question that we have and may not be of interest to the attendees we have now, but that's the beginning part of a lot of groups that are using GitLab and they set up their agile processes that way. And then from there is when you get into creating these issues, you create the merge request, you set up your Kubernetes clusters, and then you're creating your whole DevOps pipeline, as you saw in the video, with different checkpoints along that pipeline. Awesome, thank you so much, Ty. Is there any other questions that would be of interest? Otherwise, I guess we can wrap up the session. Where is, and Prabha, I will hopefully get you within the hour, hour and a half here that I'm sending email. Once I get the email, or your email from Agnes, then I'll send you some information over. All right, so, all right, thank you, Ty. This demo and live Q&A session is something new that we're trying to do, so we'd love to hear your thoughts on that. We'd love to hear your thoughts on today's session, and we'd really appreciate your responses to our survey, which I'll drop in the chat. All right, thank you, appreciate you guys.


I got a request for a tour of my bookshelf, so for those who are interested, here is my home library. I always wanted floor to ceiling books, so I put together these four bookshelves, inherited or collected one way or another, and I was lucky in that these two bookshelves on top happened to just perfectly line up with the bookshelves on the bottom. So somehow these four mismatched bookshelves come together to make this home library. So the organization is a mix of genres and just the sizes of the books. So as much as I would like to have whole sections where it's nothing but one genre together, based on the book sizes, they are somewhat distributed around. So here I will use this bamboo pole to point to my books. Starting over here we have ancient history, classical history, the client involved the Roman Empire going into medieval history. Then we have the war section, general war going into modern wars. Then we have politics, general political works. And over here we have a Bible dictionary, many thousands of pages. Going down here we have horror and fantasy going into my children's books and then into travel. Lots of travel books and then over here adventure, pirates and exploration. Over on the next level I have linguistics, history of linguistics, writing systems, then the English language in particular, then literary books, libraries, book design, journalism, books about writing, aphorisms. And here we have my fiction section, so roughly chronological going through ancient classical writings, through medieval and into modern books. And over here we have theatrical, everything to do with plays. Then we have ancient plays and a whole bunch of Shakespeare and then some modern plays. Down here at the bottom of my upper deck I have my selection of books that I would like to read soon. Here I have sacred geography, time in the art of living. Now going into mythology and here I have some religious books. Going into collection of Chinese eastern religious books, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism. Over here I have some practical books like trails, sand castles, backpacking, the art of travel, some more travel books. And oh look at this, unsorted, various sort of philosophical stuff. There we go, philosophy we'll call it. Down here I have the oversized musical scores for piano. We'll have my Bach and Beethoven especially.  Then into some of the world's religions, occultism and here Judaism and Christianity. And into some Chinese scriptures. And down here at the lower levels we have some music, scores and general music books, art. Here we have some crime thrillers, going into law, business, medicine, geography and astronomy. Down to my Toronto collection books about my hometown Toronto, genealogy and math and puzzles. Then over into collection of sports, going into humor and a pile of papers. Down here we have a collection of oversized books here, some classics, oversized, some more religious books, role-playing games, children's books. Kind of a catch all there. And here we have history, oversized with some Canadian history, going into anthropology and then my anthropological linguistics and throwing some pyramids and some adventure. And then not even fitting on the shelf the overflow we have the really big books that just will not fit historical atlases and some board games. Most of these books I haven't read yet and many of them I probably never will. But I love having them here as an opportunity that I might read them. And even just looking at the side of each book is, each book is like a possible world in itself just sitting there. It's like it's become part of the wall but it's like a living wall that at any point you can pull one brick out of that wall and it becomes a whole world to itself. So in principle I like to not have too many possessions and there is a great lightness and a great advantage to be had by not having too many things. But I have to say I am quite fond of this little corner of my room.


This is stock number 9934. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Remember, we are the guys with the trucks on 41 and trucks on 151. Today, we are checking out this super clean 2011 Ford F-250 crew cab short box. This truck has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel from this HD video. You will be able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out. Sterling Gray is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or a smartphone device, turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me. Those lower rockers are in excellent shape. Factory chrome stepbars, factory alloy rims, Michelin LTX LT 275 85R 18 tires with about 60% of the tread left, maybe a little bit more. Frame and underbody, very very clean. You can tell that this came from a light corrosion area. Frames in really nice shape, no dense or dings on that front fender. The hood is in excellent condition, no dense or dings on that. I didn't see any chrome bubbling or peeling on the grille. Once again those headlight lenses are nice and clear. Passenger side fender, no dense or dings on that and the passenger side rim is in nice shape as well. As you go down this side of the truck you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, you can still see the truck, hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle you're looking at before you even get here. Cabs in nice condition and on this side is very very clean. Lower rockers are in excellent shape, back rim nice shape as well. Looks like it has pretty new brakes in the back there we might have put those on during our inspection. Back tires have right around half the tread left and you can see the frame and underbody on this truck is in really nice condition. It's like that all the way underneath. As we come around to the back of the vehicle rear bumpers in pretty nice shape does come with a full towing package which includes receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. Tailgate is in nice condition as well. It does have a locking tailgate. They also have this kind of like a homemade step assist with it. Has a drop-in bed liner. That's in nice condition. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly and as you come around to this side of the vehicle just as clean as a passenger side. No denser dings in the box here and for full disclosure this back rim is in nice condition as well. Continuing down this side of the truck the doors all look really good didn't see any dents on them. Has the power scope mirrors, heated mirrors, built-in directional signals. They fold in telescope out. Inside the XLT package gives you the light gray cloth interior. There are no rips, there are no tears on these seats. They're in really nice condition. Power driver seat, power windows, power locks, power mirrors. Like I said these mirrors power fold in and when they're not frozen they telescope out. Inside you can see this truck has 53,738 miles. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Steering wheel is in excellent shape. You got cruise controls on the left there. Comes with AM FM CD player. You do get an aux jack right there. Factory brake controller turned out four-wheel drive. Those outside mirrors are heated. You got stability control right there as well. And the passenger seat is in nice shape as well. No rips or tears or stains on that seat. These trucks come with side curtain airbags. The headliner is in excellent shape and it does have map lights up there. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. There are no rips, there are no tears back here. Comes with the fixed glass rear window. These seats do fold up for extra storage and that is a lockable storage underneath there. Not really sure what's in the paperwork but it locks with the ignition key. So you can't get that up if you got valuables and stuff. And the back carpeting and floor mats are very clean as well. We'll take a quick look under the hood. I'd personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. Hopefully from this video you'll be able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine base. Very clean runs, very smooth. Has motorcraft batteries in it. Usually a good sign that it was serviced at a Ford facility most of the time. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. 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Hey everybody, welcome to The Wallach Way. I'm Jessica. Today's video is a homeschool show and tell. The homeschool show and tell series is an open collaboration hosted by Abby from Rooted and Rest and myself. Our goal with this series was really just to show that there's not one right way to homeschool. So we bring homeschoolers together from around the world every month and we all post about the same topic. That way you can see you can homeschool successfully in many different ways. This month's topic, in case you haven't guessed it, is our holiday homeschool plans. And I am super excited because this is my favorite time of the year, like I live all year long for this. In fact, my entire house is already decorated and it is early November. Like I said, I live for it. It is my favorite time of the year. So I go all out on holiday homeschool plans. However, even by going all out, we still try to keep it kind of low-key because our whole kind of attitude around homeschooling shifts. It's a little bit cozier, a little bit more laid back. We just kind of want to be home together. It just, that's really what we're trying to foster this time of year is togetherness and coziness and just, you know, connection, which we're trying to do all year long. We just do it a little bit differently this time of year. And I cannot wait to see what everybody else does this time of year too. So if you want to check out a ton of people's holiday homeschool plans, make sure you click the link in the description box so that you can watch the playlist of all of the videos where all of the homeschool holiday plans are being made. Okay, I'm not going to make you guys wait any longer. We are going to jump right in because I am busting at the seams. The plans that we have for this holiday season are not super different than what they are every year. We kind of have found our rhythm and we just kind of stick with it. We change things up a little bit. We do pretty much the same things every year. So we will obviously do a Christmas-themed morning basket. You can see last year's morning basket here. I will be sharing this year's morning basket soon. So if you're interested in seeing that, make sure you are subscribed and click that bell so that your notifications are turned on. And then we will be doing centers again, like we have done in the past. So for math and literacy, what I do is I get like a Christmas box. This is the box that I'm using this year. It's super cute because it says open every December. So I thought that was very fitting. And I prep math and literacy centers. This year I am using Farrah-Hinley's literacy centers. I'm using specifically December's because they're Christmas-themed, which makes them really fun. And they cover a ton of different literacy and math topics. So if you were to only prep her December fourth grade ones, like I did, you would have 20 centers. So that's about one a day for the entire month of December. Now what I did is I went back into third grade and I also went forward into fifth grade. And I prepped about 30 centers. So 15 literacy and 15 math. That way we were reviewing a few things. I felt like she still needed review on all of fourth grade and then a few things that I thought she was ready for in fifth grade. And I can do that because I actually own all of the literacy centers from Farrah-Hinley because we love them so much. So what I do is, like I said, I put them all in this box. And this year, because I wanted them to be even more of a surprise for Emily, I put each of the centers in a manila envelope. Now I haven't finished yet. My plan is to decorate these with washi tape and stickers and stamps. I make them really, really Christmassy and cute.  So I used to prep them in either Ziploc bags or clear bags so she could pick and choose. And she can still pick and choose. But I just really wanted her to have that feel of it being like a present she got to open. So this way when she goes through here, there will be all of these different manila envelopes and she will just randomly pick one and open it and that's what she'll do that day for math and or literacy, which is language arts. That is probably one of our absolute favorite things.  Now we will continue to do our mail time Mondays. The only difference will be that they will obviously turn into more of a Christmas card session. We'll be making, creating, addressing and sending Christmas cards to people. So a few of the things that I got to go along with that are these coloring Christmas cards. These are super cute because you can color them any way you wish and they are gorgeous. And they come with red and green envelopes and there's all kinds of different illustrations for you to color. I also have blank, completely blank cards that she can draw something of her own. And then not here yet, but I've already ordered them are the magic painting cards from Usborne so that you can just paint with water and she could paint a picture for a Christmas card. So those are the different types of cards that we'll be making during our mail time Monday. And then I also picked up because I couldn't resist three books that are kind of like about letters at Christmas time that just seem like they would be the perfect addition to our mail time Mondays during this holiday season. So I have the Jolly Christmas Postman and this book has actual letters in it which is one of the things I really liked. Letters and Christmas cards, the crayons Christmas which again has those adorable little Christmas letters and Christmas cards in them. And then Santa Post, which also has little with the flap type letters within it. Now, if you know of any other books that are like that that have Christmas letters or cards within the book, please let me know because I would love to add them to our mail time Mondays, but those are the three that I have. I just thought it would be really fun to have these surprises while we were doing mail time Mondays. So we'll kind of start with a book and then we'll make our own Christmas cards and then something we'll do every single Monday. Something else Emily is doing for Literacy or Language Arts through the holiday months is a Christmas Carol book club. Now, this is the selection that I have made for her to read from, mainly because one of the things I love about the Usborne Complete Works is that it kind of has like a character guide at the front of the story. So it makes it easy for her to visualize the characters. Now, I read the Christmas Carol last year to her. This year she will read this herself and do her book club with Mary Hannah Wilson, which I will link in the description box because she has a couple different book clubs. One that's even the graphic novel of a Christmas Carol which I think would be really fun as well, especially this holiday season if you wanna get a little bit of extra language arts in there and her book clubs are just so much fun. She always does a game and some sort of activity and the kids love them. It's Emily's favorite thing. She looks forward to them every month. So she's really excited that she gets to do one in December because the regular one ended in November and then the next season or semester didn't start till January. So when she released the Christmas Carol one, Emily was like, we're doing it right. Of course we are. Okay, so that is kind of like our morning basket and then our math and language arts pretty much for the entire holiday season. In addition to that, we will be doing an around the world unit study. We've always done some kind of around the world or Christmas around the world holiday fun around the world is what we did last year, which we had a blast doing. We celebrated all kinds of different holidays. We did Diwali, we did Hanukkah, we did St. Lucia's Day, we did Lunar New Year with so many. We had so much fun. It was a blast. And we talked about doing that again this year. However, we decided to do something different. So our favorite Christmas picture book, hands down favorite Christmas picture book is A World of Cookies for Santa. This is the book that is picked the most off of ourselves every single holiday season. Because of that, I decided to turn this or maybe not turn this into, but we're at a unit study inspired by this book for us to use this holiday season. And that unit study will be released to the public if you're interested in joining us on our tasty trip, Black Friday, because it will be part of our Black Friday blowout. It will be our biggest sale of the year and this will be released and included in that sale. So you can get it at a rock bottom price. So make sure that you're subscribed to my email list for the first news about it. I will leave that in the description box as well. But the plan is to do what we are calling Santa's tasty trip around the world. Like I said, based off of or inspired by A World of Cookies for Santa, where we will learn about the 30 plus places that he visits and bake all 30 recipes that he eats in this book. So we will map it, we will bake, we will have a fun time learning and just being in the kitchen and just enjoying each other.  So anytime there is overlap, which there are quite a few that will overlap in Santa's tasty treats, we will extend it even further by doing the unit or the section that coordinates with traveling the world. So that is the basis for our Christmas around the world study this particular season. You can see the things we've done in the years past. On my blog, which I will link in the description box if you wanna see some of the things we've done for Christmas going in years past. The last thing that we will add to that kind of study is our Universal Yums. We absolutely love this subscription. Now this obviously is not the holiday box. The holiday box is normally red, but we do upgrade every December to the large. So we typically get the small or medium box for our subscription, but for December and December only, we change our subscription to the large box because it is from multiple places, not just one. And we like having the snacks and learning more about the holiday season around the world. So we will do that again this year. We'll upgrade to the large box and we'll enjoy that for the month of December along with tasting all of the treats that Santa is gonna eat from Christmas around the world. And now that is like our homeschool. That's kind of the basis for our homeschool. But during the holiday season, we always do fun Fridays. It's just kind of unintentionally been something we did in the past and then we've started making it very intentional now. And during fun Fridays, we spend the day playing games together. And then in that evening, we do a movie night. And in the past few years, our movie night has kind of transformed into a book and movie night because we found that we have some favorite Christmas movies that happen to have beautiful picture books that go with them. And so that's what we do. We play games all day, we eat dinner and then we come back together and we read a Christmas story and then we watch the coordinating movie. I'm gonna show you the books that I have chosen to do this year. There are five of them because we start the Friday after Thanksgiving. So Black Friday, we have the Grinch who stole Christmas. So again, we'll read this and then watch the movie. The picture book of a Christmas Carol. Now, even though Emily is still reading that on her own, we will still do this as a family because it's a tradition. We don't wanna break. Elf, which is amazing. And of course we will eat all of the sugary chocolatey, sweetie candy when we watch that. These two we do simultaneously. So we do Home Alone 1 and Home Alone 2 and then watch both movies that night. So we always save this for a Friday when the weather is nasty or we're definitely not going anywhere. We're just kind of feeling blah because it's like a double feature. And then the last one, we always save it as our very last one. And if it doesn't fall on a Friday, which this year it does, we do it Christmas Eve and that is Polar Express. So those are the five books that we will be reading Fridays and then watching the movies.  I'm gonna show you what Christmas games we have that we love that we play pretty much all season long. The first one is Holiday Spot It. Now we actually got this from Target. So if you cannot find it online, which I don't think you can currently, make sure you're checking Target because that's where I found that originally. Lumps, which is adorable. We have the original lumps and this is the Christmas lumps. It's really not that much different than the original. It's just black dice that look like coal and they're stored in a stocking and we just thought it was cute and we love the original game. So that's fantastic. Absolute Dice Christmas. Holiday Flux. 12 days of Christmas. The Christmas Light Card Game. Dash Away All. Santa Cookie, let's see what is it? Santa Cookie Elf Candy Snowman, which is essentially Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza Christmas Edition. You guys, if you watched my Halloween or Holiday Hall lately, you know I bought the Halloween Edition. We love this game. It gets played a ton at our house. So of course that one is probably one of our top-played Christmas games. Christmas Rush. Llama Drama, the Holiday Edition, which Christmas llamas are adorable. Yahtzee Holiday, again, is not that different. It's still dice that have number on them. The dice just kind of have a holiday look to them. The score pad is red instead of black. And it comes in a cute holiday box. But Yahtzee is one of those games, much like Spot It, and Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza that was gonna get played constantly in our house no matter what. So when I found the Holiday Edition, I knew I had to have it. But obviously they're not necessities or necessary, the originals work just fine. They're just games we play a ton. And if we can get a holiday spin to it, we're going to. Elf, the Journey from the North Pole. I don't know if this is available everywhere. Last year, you could only get it at Target. But if I can find it on Amazon, I will link it for you guys. Santa's Slay Ride, which is spreading joy around the world. And last, we have the Present Pile Up Board Game. So that is all of our holiday games currently. We are adding one more holiday game, which I will show you in our tradition video because it's one that Emily is getting in a specific tradition that we do. But it is another version of Spot It. So we will have another Holiday Spot It, which again is one of our top-played games, so you can't have enough of those. And what I will probably do is put it, or put one of these in my purse for the holiday season, since we'll have two. So that's it. That is really kind of all we're gonna be doing for the holiday season. Obviously, we still have some family traditions that we will do together, but our goal is to just enjoy each other and have fun. Now, if you're kind of wondering like, oh my gosh, Jessica, what is this actually going to look like in practice? Our day will flow similar to what it flows now. We will start with our morning basket. We'll sit down together as a family and do that. Then we will move to the table or to wherever Emily wants to move, and she will get to open the box and pick one center out. So she'll do one a day. And then from there, if it's a Monday, we will obviously do a Mail Time Monday. If it's not a Monday, then we'll go ahead and get started on our unit study. Somewhere in there she'll have lunch. I have a feeling our unit study will be after lunch in the afternoon, which means that we would probably learn about a new place and bake the cookie that afternoon. And then on Fridays, instead of doing our unit study or even our center, we'll do morning basket. Then we'll play games all day and then do the book and movie that evening. So that's kind of what it looks like if you want to actually see it in action. Again, make sure you're subscribed and turn on the bell notification icon because I will be doing a holiday day in the life for you guys so that you can see what it looks like in action. I hope you enjoyed hearing what we have planned for the holidays in our homeschool. Don't forget to check out that playlist where you can see even more homeschool holiday plans. And I would love to hear your homeschool holiday plans. So let me know in the comments, what are you planning for the holiday season in your school? Do you just take it off and do nothing? Do you have family traditions? Do you do? Do you have homeschool traditions? Let me know because I am always looking for new ideas to add to our homeschool.


Yna. informed to be arde, and we've got two really nice presentations coming up the next hour first is going to be Matthew and Charlotte and then we've got Stephen and then we 30 minutes each. If any of you have questions, please just put your hand up on our triangle to use that we've got the audio for the online people. Okay. So, ond, I'm Charlotte, and I'm starting off, and then I'll pass over to Max, and there'll be a bit of interchange of mics and stuff as we go through. But, yeah, we're looking at kind of the jackson video production to enhance user engagement. So with what we're looking at is our users are staff rather than students, but it can be implemented across to students, obviously as well. Not if you just want to move on to the first one. So, we create a mandatory staff course every year. So, for the past three years we've been doing a staff course that they have to complete every year before teaching starts. So it happens to kind of join the summer, we're just coming to the end of this year's mandatory session. And within that we put videos, we have content, how they're supposed to be using the VLE, how they could be using the different tools for teaching and all the different elements that they could be using for that year and any updates. The current 2023 course has been live for two months. It runs for about that length to two and a half months for them to complete it for that summer period. And then last year, obviously we're coming just towards the end. So last year it was 650 plus students, which are academics within that course. They're mainly using desktops and laptops rather than a mobile device. So just thinking about the differences of maybe students might be more mobile device kind of element. And what we did was last year, as we were creating this course, we looked at last year's course content, the video content that we were using, and analysed that content basically. So had a look at their user engagement, where the kind of dropouts were, and different kind of elements of where it was placed within the course and what people were looking at. And now for this year's content, when we were creating at the beginning of the year, we created that kind of data driven content plan. So what works or what seemed to work, what people were looking at, and maybe how we could change it to experiment a bit with that content. So Matt's going to have a look at some of that data from last year's, as well as from this year's and how we kind of compared between the two and what we've kind of done. That's what this is for you. So hopefully that's given you a bit of context anyway. So just to give you a bit of an idea on how we approach this. The main thing I want you to get from this presentation is just the process. I don't really hold all the answers either. It's just the idea of analysing the data, looking at the parts in the video where the dropout happened and just trying to come up with a conclusion. So just to give you, you've got two points on the graph obviously we can see a little bit of a dropout there. Those are the bits I'm interested in. There is a general dropout you're always going to get between the start and the end, but that's not really good for me at all. There could be internet dropout. There could be someone's knocking out the door for a parcel. There could be children next door setting the house on fire. I don't know. It's one of those things. It's just during the summer. There's loads of different reasons where that dropout could occur, but those ones are the most interesting points just there. So I would calculate percentages based on that as well. So look at the starting point point A. It was actually got to that point and then on point B look at the differential between those two numbers and I think on this example it was about a 20% dropout. So it's just looking at those and seeing anything significant and looking at and trying to figure out why. Which inevitably meant that I had to look at video, like a 10 second part of the video over and over and over again and try to figure out what was going on. And the average completion rate is actually it doesn't help me at all. Because if you actually total up the average completion rate and you think it like finishes around here, there's no dropout I can't do anything with that data. It's a misleading stat. So trends and phenomenons. Again, this is like one of the hardest ones to it. I'm doing it and when I've written up the reports on this again, I've done like a 4000 word report on this if anyone was really into data and stuff by all means let me know and I'll send it to you. But I kind of felt like I was like tin hat theory at the end of it like am I going insane am I seeing this thing it's repeating over and over again and one of the things that I keep finding was every 25 to 30 seconds there was almost like an attention hurdle. I've been across all the videos within the two years, it was like, and I try to look at stats and statistics around. Okay, well, do people's attention have a certain point and then they drop out and there's some people saying 47 seconds some people saying 30 something but essentially what I've come to a conclusion of is that's repeating number so you might get them past the first X amount of time but then you have to get them past the next hurdle and then the next hurdle. That's going to happen over a video so you can kind of see that in this example here, very, very slight obviously I've got a bigger version that you can do. In this version, I think it was that was about 6%, 5% and somewhere around that like relatively quite low that was like a relatively good video. This one you can see something a bit more substantial. And I kind of went into this as well with preconceived ideas that okay shorter content is going to be better that longer form content, because of the attention span X, Y, Z, everything that told me about the attention and economy and everything like that but ultimately some of the shorter videos actually have stronger dropouts than the longer ones. It's literally down to delivery, it's down to content, there's a load of nuances there that's going on that I have to kind of uncover and try to figure out. So that's kind of the pre context but the why this is the bit where I'm going to go into this and basically say this is my preconceived ideas on what I think might have happened now. In these examples that I'm going to show you, I made all of the videos and edited them all kind of packaged them all together I've got reasons why that I think they've caused a dropout but again I'm happy to share this content after the fact and then you can watch them and then you can figure out what you think happened here so one of the videos that we do every year is essentially Keith McLean here he basically introduces the course and basically says look welcome to the course. We're going to get a lot out of this it's normally just like a prerequisite to a bit of context right so we do those every year the first video was just a single camera. Just on him second year I did two cameras cut between just two angles and this year and just it up and put some cutaways in so as you can see what they look like here. This is the cutaways now. This is the viewing statistics of it we've got a semi repeating pattern it doesn't happen too much here and the reason why on this 20 to 32nd point here is not like a very visible dropout. I tend to find the first video and of course tends to have the most amount of views, because people are all enthusiastic about the course at this point and then normally here. They hate the content from this point onwards it's a bit more of a task. So it happened a little drop out there but that one is more substantial. At that point. It's these clips here now generally how I tackle film production especially with creating a cutaway package video just a context a lot I do a lot of video work that's my background creating a lot of content shooting and filming. I would normally film like a wide shot, a mid shot and the reverse that and then get like a bit more of a scene a bit more action in the scene and you put that together within 10 to 15 seconds. And it just keeps the viewer just a bit more engaged and giving a bit more context. Now, during that point there is a repeat of shots. I think I've actually shown the scene earlier on but essentially I was scraping the barrel of cutaways at this point I was, I should have really filmed a new scene. It was just, you know, we had like 12 videos to edit by a certain amount of time I didn't necessarily have time to go and reshoot a new scene but to stop that drop out. I mean I've come to the conclusion where I should have just, I should have gone out and filmed a new scene. Essentially, it was just as basic as that the cutaway package was terrible it was boring all the shots kind of looked similar and the same. And yeah, it was boring. It was visually not great. So that's kind of some of the reasons. I think that we kind of do year on year out and I'm going to learn from that. And next year I'm going to make sure at those intervals at those 20 to 30 second intervals that something there's not an excuse for people to drop out. I'm always going to get drop out rates as well. I think you're always going to get some people at those interval hurdles that will have a reason to drop out but if I can minimise that drop out as best I can. That's what I do. One of the things that we did this year that we didn't do last year is we did. This is a one minute video. Hopefully we'll play it for you in a second if it works. And it's a concept video with one core message. Now this sits within the course just on about organising your blackboard folder. It's a simple message. That's all it is. Just make it, just organise your blackboard folder and it will be better for everyone. That's just the core message. And we did it in a metaphor of labelist tins. And student here he takes out a tin of mushy peas instead of beans and that's kind of the core concept. It's very simple idea. Let me see if I can play the video. I want you to try and guess where the dropout is. Hopefully. Does this work? Okay. Let's just pretend that we know what it's playing. I was hoping to try and click on this but it doesn't seem to be doing it. Is it right if you can try just while I waffle on for a few moments. Yeah so obviously the way we tackle this and where this sits in the course the content is completely different. The other stuff is more like documentary where this feels a bit more commercially fictional. It's playful. It's playful. We've got a bit of music underneath. You can see the shots that we're messing around with there. Obviously we're cutting logic out of the process and it was just something relatively quite easy to play around with. If you scroll down hopefully, oh now everyone can see my terribly written notes. Nobody read it. Let's just blur it as much as we can. Take the play out. Now I did make this unlisted just before. Okay great. I just hope there's audio. In our kitchens, we organise things to make them easier to find. You might organise your cans of other similar items and benefit from the clear labels which help you find that can of spaghetti you need. However, imagine if you were just staring at sea of unable cans. How would you find the one that you were looking for? Well for many students, searching for the right resource within a module can feel just like that. It can be confusing, time consuming and just downright frustrating. But there are things that make the search so much easier. For example, when resources are organised into clear categories such as by week and subject or assignments. When resources are organised clearly, your students will be able to find what they need quickly and easily. No more hunting for that can of spaghetti in a sea of unable cans. Just kind of noting now, I was trying to avoid the cliche of students with tin of beans on whatever on toast, but yeah, anyway. We did this and I'm going to, well, where would you just think where would you drop out at that point, right? And then I'm going to. Okay, first can. Yes. Okay, now. You're close, you're close. So basically at that point in there that's within the 2025 to 30 second mark is the steep drop here. We've come to the conclusion that essentially by this point, the video has done its job. It's like people know, okay, great, I've got the concept. I don't need to watch it anymore. And essentially this part of the video is just hammering that fact tone, you know, just just a little bit further. Now, if I was to do this video again. I wouldn't change a thing. I wouldn't, because if I made a change here and made a 30 second version. I wouldn't say that people watching towards the end, but there's still a considerable amount of people watching till the end. So those people there still might just a little bit extra that visualisation to remember those key points. So it was an interesting one. We analyzed it over and over again and yet it was about that tin. It was a tin pouring in the first tin pouring in that kind of was there. And basically that's what the conclusion we came to. We just analyzed that point over and over again. So, congratulations to Rachel online. She actually said after the peas. So, oh, great. Again, it's just like you start thinking about it in that way and start analysing content in the audience perspective and information up to that point and where, you know, because again, it's very important to think about that all attention economy and like the way I think about it is to say, you've got a student going on a course or online course and they've only got 10 tokens worth of information to absorb that period of time and what tokens are they going to do. What tokens are they going to dish out or what are you going to. Why are they going to spend them on essentially so. Yeah, this video did work surprisingly very well even though we had near 21% drop out but again, I'm happy with that. That's fine. Okay, so this one was really interesting said this one. Last year we had we saw this phenomenon where we looked at all the content and anytime this is going to sound like a negative point and then I'm going to bring it back to the fact that's not negative. It was a really hard one to articulate this, because the phenomenon we saw was every time any of our academics in the video content last year mentioned our students there was a drop out. I immediately think, is that a bad thing like they're watching as soon as our students have mentioned I'm not going to watch anymore. Right that was the initial preconceived idea that I potentially had at that time. And I was like, hang on is this like a really bad thing that I've just found here like that that's the, that's the thing that's coming coming around but what we actually found was. We kind of merged that theory to what if it's, what if it's presumed knowledge what if every time we mentioned our students that they already know what those academics in those in that content is going to be talking about what if what if that's it. But then it finally evolved the theory to and again, I can only stress this enough, this is going to be an ongoing process I might never have the exact answer might change every year but these videos we decided to get the student voice in the content. So rather than academics around the university talking about different things that they're doing with their students what if we get the students in it get their voice in it. And they work surprisingly well. They actually had some of the best views and with very, very minimal dropouts again round the 25 to 30 second mark. And they have a range of different, well, range of different reasons why I think might have had the dropouts towards this one towards the end is where the person feels like they're wrapping up they're saying like. It feels like they're wrapping up a point and that's what I tend to find a lot of the dropouts happen towards the end if the presenter in the video is kind of saying like. Thank you for watching whatever if it feels like it's going down those longer lines you're going to get dropouts another reason is more of a technical one as soon as you have an end frame. That's longer than five seconds people is going to drop out as soon as they see that logo come up it's like nope don't need to watch it. It's just that's it. So we analyze a lot of points around there really. Yeah, it was just an interesting one we the point started out. Maybe it's a very negative thing against our academics but actually turned out to be they just wanted to hear, or our ideas that they actually wanted to hear from. I don't really necessarily think this is appropriate saying but from the horse's mouth in this in this case but hopefully that kind of summarizes that a bit more putting the students voice in it, rather than academics talking about the students. Basically, I think in terms of where we're going forward. We're going to look at all this content and analyze it further. And it's just going to be an ongoing process where we try come up to a conclusion we try figure out tweak a few things here and there. But these are the things that I'm basically going to talk about now so. I know we saw the keynote said don't put full of points on the slimes and I'm really sorry I've done that. Yeah, this is kind of the process that we kind of went with. And we designed the content to start out with, and this was the year one we just kind of went into it filmed a lot of stuff chucked it out there and hope for the best. So we created it deployed it. We actually do a review until the second year, like I didn't even think to look at the analytics and look at how people were engaging with this content it was like a task given to me to make the content and chuck it and open sticks. And it was only after the second, the second year where we actually started seeing these trends. I, if you are in a position where you look at video content analytics or anything like that and you can start seeing these very visible dropouts, I would try analyze and must you can to try figure out why those dropouts are occurring, at least as a keep yourself just a bit informed in terms of the execution of the video production I suppose. So yeah, we did a review second year, and then we made some changes. But again this is an ongoing thing. The exact same thing. Next year approach it completely different. One of the things that I tried to do last year was to try and keep consistency with content, right to try and make them all feel part of the same package like it's all part of the same brand or part of the, all the commercial side of me that would probably a brand would want. But that's a bad thing, like viewers start anticipating what that content is going to feel like it's like you want to surprise them. Do one that feels like a documentary do one that feels like more like a metaphor. Do one that just feels like, I don't know. The ones that we do with boxpops with students and stuff where it's just candid grabbing some stuff if you keep the viewer constantly, not anticipating what that content is going to feel like that will also increase engagement. It's just, if they anticipate what's happening it will drop off. I also found his pace so how they present. We've got some excellent academics within this one video. And it was them talking about this new developer Derby site that was just going to be a resource that they can use with their students. Now, in all honesty, I didn't think this content was going to go down that well, it was the way I filmed it was interviews to cameras. The second camera angle was handheld so they had a bit of pace to it as well but they general passion for what they were talking about and how they applied those pedagogical practices into their learning and teaching was the thing that was contagious while watching it. It was like it just kept you going it just didn't feel like it was necessarily a bad thing to watch that's all I did just to camera angles and cut it through I thought I thought I was going to have major dropouts in that video. It was one of the longest pieces of content we did it was like two minutes 20, and then the other one was like almost three minutes, and it had the biggest engagement, and it was just a really simple thing I thought I'd have to chuck in loads of cutaways. I don't know animation halfway through dragonfly and I don't know something something exciting visually but this was the. This was, it was just a thing I couldn't really I didn't really plan for. I think you just repeat the question. So how was I the approach to that one what surprised me. Okay, so I think the previous year I shot a load of interviews. And that was it the most exciting thing about it was maybe a couple of times to put audio underneath cut between the two camera angles. And that's it it was relatively visually quite dry. And that's the thing that surprised me. It was the thing that kept them going was their passion for it and they're just and they were so animated. You know, they were just genuinely passionate about whether we're talking about so. Yeah. How they present is a big factor. And I think that's with all content as well just imagine. It could be the most interesting subject in the world but if you have somebody very dry stiff. It's going to. Yeah, it's with anything. I mean it's kind of similar to what the keynote was saying this morning about how they present in front of people as well. There's a way that you can get people to switch off. Yes. Okay, this one's an interesting one. I might not get through all of these apologies, but I'll try to try to rattle them off as quickly as I can time for a single call to action messages. So it's very similar to that metaphor video that I made that was. I know it was one minute of that same 30 seconds tops, but I will make rules and break them all the time just to let you know. It's one of those ones where within those 30 seconds that one point is probably enough cognitively to process. If you overload it too much. That can be a point where people drop out as well. We did videos where it would be somebody talking about something that's coming to the new blackboard or whatever and their applications of it. And then I'll cut to a screen sharing thing of showing them doing it through blackboard and the video up until that point the pace felt more documentary feel there was cutaways whatever and then eventually you just get to this. Kind of stagnant. I didn't really do anything else than just a screen recording. And then that was at a crosspoint of the attention hurdle 25 to 30 second it was a killer. It was just plummeted the video. So I think the main thing is with our students and in this case our phenomenon is between 25 to 30 seconds that might be a completely different environment for you. You might see something completely different. But again, I'm not trying to get across the the rule of 25 to 30 seconds is gospel. It's just the approach that we take. Just checking on time. Five minutes five minutes. Great. So context is a very good point in this if I think if we just randomly surprised them with the video on the organizing your blackboard content. I think we would have got a less of a drop out rate but because the context of where we put that video was on organizing your blackboard and they've already read some of this content anyway. So it's just geared up to the fact that this video is kind of going to be around that point as well. So, but then it goes down to a design point of view don't really want to chuck around a video about different content and somewhere else. It's kind of weighing up that balance. And I think the main kind of point I want to go across. And then I've got a little bit of time for questions is. If you can make changes, you can think about some of the decision making that you can make with cutaways and at those points that you're going to put them in the video but ultimately you don't want to make a change that and then alienates the previous people that watch to the end. Because ultimately then you're just making a change and there's just a new group of people that are going to drop out and then that makes sense. Hopefully I've articulated that in the best way possible. So some of the changes we can, we can make and some of them, I would keep the same, even if we are just going to you're going to get dropouts, no one's, no one's going to make a perfect video I don't think. Unless you do please let me know and then I'll steal the secrets. But yes that's that kind of hopefully I've kind of answered all the questions Charlotte have you got anything else that you want to add just before and then we'll leave a couple of minutes for questions. Charlotte's just responding to a couple of questions we got online, which is great. Anybody else got any questions from Matthew and Charlotte. Yes. Sorry, can we just do. Well firstly thank you thanks for being so honest that was really, really useful. And can I get your report please. Yeah of course. I mean it will go through all of the content specifically and I'll break down in the report where the dropouts happen, the percentage of the dropouts and what I think and believe each dropout is the reason for so. Yeah it's a bit more in depth and yeah there's a summary at the top actually just need to read that bit that's fine. Thank you very much. Dropouts then. Yeah. Yeah, again thank you very much. Very interesting. I want to rewind all the way to the top because one of the things that I find very frustrating ease. You know you create something and then you can't send people that all these nice content in your case people so it in my case I think people wouldn't really necessarily see it at all. Is that how did you in essence get the buy in to be able to design something that is to three months long and you know stuff actually go there. Yeah, so I mean this is where we're incredibly fortunate right so let's just take. I'll get to your question but let's just take a normal lecture experience and maybe you've got at best 100 students or plus depending on what institution you have, and you drop some content in a module. So if you really look and you watch this by the end of next week, you're not going to get a consistent approach on viewership. It's just one of those things where at best you might the data won't be accurate I don't think, and people will watch that in a very different way whereas we were in a very fortunate approach of this is semi policy driven that they have to kind of watch this content and basically up skill themselves. And because of that we have a lot of students academics going through this process and watching that content so it made the trends very clear, and it was just a really nice.  Like that's a hard, it's hard thing to kind of get so very, very fortunate position to kind of use this data in a way to create a decision made. So yeah, policy, sorry, I think I've answered the question. Okay, we're sort of out of time I think unless there's a burning final question from anybody. Okay, well, thank you very much indeed Matthew and Charlotte.