Hello everybody. Good evening. I hope you're well. My name is Ross, teacher toolkit. I'm sure you're familiar with me on my Twitter channel. If you're watching on LinkedIn business or live on YouTube. I'm going to be talking to Chanel and Ramsey from an organization I've teamed up with recently called pick a tail. Find me a teacher that doesn't love literacy find me a teacher that doesn't love promoting books and reading culture in schools. And find me somebody that doesn't love access to free reading resources. I think we'd struggle. So, um, tonight I'm just going to do a little bit of a show and tell with the team from pick a tail just showing you how you can access all these free reading resources and use them over the kind of festive period and perhaps into the new academic year and we'll also talk about some of the things we're doing in the new term in terms of how you can take some of the resources further. So just some technical kind of comments here I suppose if you're watching on Twitter LinkedIn business or YouTube if you've logged in you can leave a comment and we'll put that on the screen and then we'll post some questions to Ramsey and Chanel who I'll introduce shortly and then you can learn more about their software. And so without further ado, I'm going to ask them to come in in a moment but Chanel is a former general manager at TS global so she's got fabulous insights into how teachers use resources some of the issues that all teachers face a global level which is fascinating. And we'll ask Chanel just to give a little introduction in a moment and then Ramsey a former primary teacher who worked in Devon where I'm a little chat just before we came on about the context in which we work and how all teachers face different challenges Ramsey is the the customer manager of pick a tail. Now pick a tail for schools particularly what we're looking at today is a reading tool which offers pupils. A new and exciting way to engage with literature using audio and carries karaoke style tech so it'd be interesting to define what that means and unpick that little bit further. Our discussion is going to unpick some of these challenges that we all face in our schools how we can promote a level reading and literacy etc. And just maybe from a pick a tail perspective, ask Chanel and Ramsey to talk about some of the insights that they've learned throughout the pandemic of working with schools all across the world, not just in the UK. So I'm going to bring them both in here they are Chanel and Ramsey welcome. Hello. Hi there Ross. Good evening thanks for joining me so Chanel can I just start with you can I get you to just introduce yourself to everybody. Tell them what you do but your backgrounds. Yeah. So I'm channel for school I leave the UK sales division for pigtail I've been with pigtail six months now and what really compelled me to come to pigtails that we could actually solve a global problem. Children's language learning is problematic children are reading a lot less and there's about 250 million children globally that can't read and I was super compelled to join on board and to make a difference in an impact. Previously I've worked at TES like what Ross said, super amazing organization learn so much about timetabling software recruitment advertising, really selling into the education sector predominantly for second schools and primary schools. I do fully understand a lot of challenges that schools are facing at school level. Should I put you on the spot can you give us one insight into the pressures that schools face that you would typically hear on your travels. With pigtail right now I think it would be that disadvantaged children aren't being given the opportunity to access books, whether that's at home or at school. It's a really big problem and to access books on devices that they absolutely love and connect with right now. It's kind of really engaged children in that reading journey. Okay, thank you Chanel Ramsey over to you. Hello introduce yourself to everybody. Tell them about your background maybe an obscure interest in fact also. Thanks Ross, bring me on the spot so my name is Ramsey and the education and success manager for pigtail. I'm a qualified key stage two and three teacher. And I spent a long time in the classroom before delving into the ed tech world and working alongside many of the ed tech manufacturers and training teachers, primarily. So, yeah, as I say, in terms of an obscure fact, I'm a musician as well as a surfer. I live down in North Devon and I love the balance of life that I've managed to get at the moment. Fantastic any particular instrument or a bit of everything. Bit of electronica. So yeah, it's involving around sequences and onboard it. Yeah, virtual virtual instruments. So, so Ramsey, let's get down to business and could you tell everyone watching what is pick a tail please. Of course. So pick a tail isn't is a digital reading library aimed for primary school children effectively is reading ages between about four and 12. And it involves a teacher dashboard. So what the teachers then use to assign books, the pupils then go to the dedicated app and then they read the book, either with narration, or they can read silently. And then the books often have a quiz at the end. And then this information is then fed back to the teacher. Nice and simple. Nice and simple. Chanel, can I get you to maybe give us a definition or add a little bit more how teachers can use pick a tail. There's a great piece around this and it's the parental engagement piece. So it's enabling all three players in the children's reading journey to come as one and to promote children's reading for pleasure, whether that's in the school setting or at home. Parents are able to get insight into what types of books their children are reading, and they're able to really foster and promote that from the home setting as well. And I think from a senior leader perspective, evidence is something that's quite critical. Senior leaders are able to benefit from analytics. And Chanel, could you bring you back in there? Could you remind people watching more about the mission, how Piccadale was founded? How long it's been established? Yeah, so Piccadale was originally born out of Norway, so that's where we started. We've been around for approximately seven years. Our founder, Sig, actually lived in China, and he's been super passionate to ensure that children are able to actually learn when they're on their devices as opposed to just living this tip top generation and consuming content that actually doesn't help support any type of educational need for the child. So he's created this platform. We're now in, obviously, the UK. We moved here, we entered here in October last year, and we're gaining some really, really strong traction, especially at math level and at individual school level as well. Our mission really, as I've alluded, is to really try and get kids loving reading. It's for us to create a world-class reading platform that's loved by kids, but also trusted by adults. We want to inspire children to discover the joy of reading, whether that's independently or through the support of an educator. We also want to make kids better readers whilst they're using Piccadale and equally become a trusted partner in the reading journey, whether that's at school or at home as well. Great. Could you give us a kind of overview of kind of general stats, number of pupils, number of books, number of users, skills, that type of stuff? Yeah, so currently on the platform, there's over 900 titles, non-fiction fiction and curriculum led titles, across the global piece, Piccadale services around 80,000 pupils. In the UK, we're around 30,000 pupils that are actively using the platform, and around about 6,000 educators, teachers globally that have signed up and have registered, and they're assigning homework. So there you go, folks, a really brief introduction. We're on a formal chat tonight. We're going to do a little bit of a show and tell. So I'm going to ask Ramsey to just show us how it all works in a moment. So just a reminder to everybody watching live, you can leave a comment as long as you're logged into LinkedIn, YouTube or Twitter. And then we can pose your questions to Ramsey and Chanel throughout, put them on the screen for everyone else to see. Or if you're watching this afterwards, then we'll put some links on so you can follow up the resources and access all these free reading books. So Ramsey, how does it work? Could you give us a little show and tell perhaps? I certainly will, but just to expand beforehand, so one of the things we want to try and do is save teachers time in their day to day management of their class. And one of the things I used to find was particularly onerous task was managing the homeschool reading records that used to go to and from the school and the parents. And the parents didn't really know what they were writing in terms of listening to the children read. It was also quite hard managing what books were being read at that time. And so through Picketer, we're allowing the teachers to keep a handle on what books the individual pupils have read. And then as I say, keep that ongoing. And so as a result, hopefully saving them time in the day. I will share my screen now because I'm going to show the two sides to it. So I'm going to show first of all the teacher side and then we're going to divvy into the pupil experience. Okay, I'm going to share my screen. And hopefully Ross, you're seeing the Picketer website. Yeah, we can see it. So I'll just disappear for now and I'll leave you do a little demo. Lovely. So as Chanel's alluded to already, we've got the two sides of the product. We've got the blue parrot, which is the school's product. And we've got the red parrot, which is the family side. A teacher would just click on the school side. If they haven't already registered with us, or indeed, if they have, they just click on register now or log in. And this, if you imagine as a teacher, they may be on PPA time. They may be at home even, and they just wanting to assign a book for a child to then read either at home or in school. So in this case, I'm logging in with just a little demo account I've created. I've come now into the teacher dashboard. And as you can see, I've got classes laid out at the top. I've then got perhaps groups that might have set up. So it might be for guided reading or an intervention strategy. I've then got the overview of my assignments and then I've got the library below. So what I'm going to do first is just show you what a teacher would do with guarding a class. So I'm going to go to a year five class. I used to teach to five lots. And I've got an overview of the reading over the last few months and the average time that the pupils have spent. But more importantly, I've got this export class lists. So if I export the list, this is what I'm going to be providing the pupils with to go back home. So it's going to be either in Google Classroom in this digital age or even for schools going to be using reading records or homeschool diaries with them printer out and place it in. The people would then scan this when they're at home with their parents and then download the dedicated app to their device. So coming back on to the teacher dashboard, I'm now going to come into the library. Now we've got currently over 800 books. And so one of the things to try and save the teacher's time is I'm just going to go into our levelling system. So this is the Lexar levelling system going from one through to eight and approximately we've got from reception at level one up to year six at level seven. So in this case, perhaps I'm just going to highlight the level six books. I'm going to think about my slightly less able readers. So I might highlight level five. And again, I could open it up for my more able and include level seven. Now we also organize books in terms of topics. So I've got key topics here. We don't align ourselves directly to a curriculum because they do change and it's a bit like building on sand. But again, I could dive down into a particular topic. We find it's really supporting topics within school. So as I scroll down, I'm going to perhaps choose a book and think of an interesting one just to show you all of you who are watching. So I'm going to come into the top 10 weirdest foods in the world. So a teacher can read the blurb quickly, but just importantly, they can see a PDF preview of the book, which is just a quick way of checking is this going to be suitable for my class or cohort. So in this case, I'm perhaps happy with it. For teachers who are unsure about the Lexar levelling system, I'm going to click on the question mark above the level. And we're just going to open it up. And I can see now that a year five, six class is approximately a level six. It's around an eight to 10 expected age range. And if I was going to translate it across the Oxford reading levels, it's about 16 or 17. So we're looking at dark reds in the book band colors. And again, nine, 10 year olds. So I'm happy with this book. And I want to now assign it. So the first thing I can do is just choose class group or students. I can choose whether add a short summative quiz, or indeed I could assign it as a silent reading task. As I mentioned before, all our books have narration built in, as well as the ability to click on individual words and hear them pronounced out, which is especially important for pupils who have EAL. So English is an additional language. Now I'm just going to highlight my Hazel year five class, and we give them a week to read this book and click done. And that's the teacher side finished. That's the lovely thing about it. So if I now come over to the reading app, I've downloaded it from the Microsoft store in this case. And what I'm going to do is just come in as one of these children. So perhaps Rodney T in this case. So I'm just copying his username, opening up the app. And then I'm pasting it in. Let's return to see this account exists. Then placing in the password. And imagine Rodney is at home, or indeed maybe using Piccadile reading time at school. And he's now accessing the different books. So as you can see, he's been assigned a few books. So I'm just going to scroll to the very end of it. And if we come to over here, we should have in this case, we haven't. So I am just going to go on to disruptive volcano eruptions. We're going to come on to here and we're going to then just play this book. Now read out the title. Disruptive volcano eruptions. And because I've got the narration. I'm just going to pause it now. As I say, we've got narration speeds faster and slower. We've got the ability just in terms of accessibility of just having text only on a page, increasing the indent of the text as well as dark mode. In this case, I'm just going to flick through the book. I'm going to be a bit suspicious perhaps of the reading time of this book. And this again is reported on the teacher dashboard. So I'm just going to scroll through the different pages. The great thing is, if I'm unsure about a pronunciation of a word, I can just click on it. And it should sound it out. It's not in this case. And then click on further. We're trying not to leak. So I'm just having some technical issues. I'm on quite a slow internet broadband at the moment. So I imagine it might be that as I come through. I'm going to scroll through. Get to the very end. And then we're going to have a short quiz. Now these are recall based quizzes and multiple choice. So the first one I'm confident that magma is hot melted stone. So I'm going to press that correct there. If I get an answer wrong. In this case, I'm going to place in water and iron. It's going to give me another go. If I get it wrong twice, it's going to then highlight the right answers. So in the interest of this particular webinar, I'm just going to stop that now. We then going to just decide that perhaps as a pupil, I've finished my assignment. And my teachers now giving me a choice just to go in and free read any book from the library. So I'm going to click on the library symbol at the top, the book symbol. Click the search function. Come to category. Go into sports and entertainment, for example. And perhaps I'm really keen on finding out more about Killian and Bapay. So I can just click on Killian and Bapay. I can then choose to read it by myself with the little red symbol. And then this will open up this book and then I can free read any book from the library. Now the lovely thing about this is this data also gets fed through to the teacher dashboard. So the teacher begins to get an insight perhaps into the likes and interests of that pupil. So just briefly coming back into the teacher dashboard, where I've set an assignment. And in this case, perhaps I'm just going to go on use this one here, the history of Halloween. I then get insight into how the pupils have done. So I can see that the average time perhaps for these pupils was one minute 46. As I mentioned earlier is a demo account. So I haven't been able to get a full picture of the whole class, but it will pick up how long they've been reading for. If they had any questions wrong, it will have students have trouble with. And then the questions from the comprehension quiz will pick up there. And then any words they've clicked on will then be highlighted at the bottom. And I might go off and do then some linguistic work perhaps around vocabulary, looking at the content from the books. And as I looked at the very beginning, if I just came into the class, I then get a picture of the overall reading time, as well as drilling down into individual pupils. And in this case, I can see Chloe and Steph are by far the most voracious readers in my class. And that's it in a nutshell. So we have the teacher dashboard in a browser and then the dedicated app for the pupils to read both in school and at home. So stop sharing. Yeah, that's fabulous. In fact, Ramsey, can I ask you to put the screen back on if that's OK? There was such a wealth of information there. And I know that people probably want to have a little spy on it again as we talk about it. But I guess I've got a tricky question for you because there's lots of a huge abundance of books. There's loads of levels. Yes. Where would I start if I had a pupil, an EAL pupil who was new to English? Is there something that you could recommend? I think I would start down perhaps in L2 or perhaps L3. And as I say, the lovely thing about this, because it narrates the book, it's actually an audio book. So perhaps if I'm just going to scroll down, again, we're really conscious about things like PSHE. So we've got a huge amount of well-being books and so on. So I might want them to talk about that. Or perhaps I'm just going to get them just go in and just read a little novel effectively. So in this case, I've got my dad is a superhero. This is from the teacher side. So I could assign it. But if I come into the pupil side, I'm just going to come out of my Kilianambape book.  Oh, that's because I'm searching. Do you see? And if I now come back onto this, we now will have my dad as a superhero further down the screen. So in this case, I'm just going to come down. We can see here is superhero. For an EA or kid, I'd recommend initially perhaps they read it with the audio. So I'm just going to click on that now. My daddy is a superhero. Would you like to meet my daddy? My daddy is a superhero. And obviously you said earlier you could slow that down. That can be slowed down, exactly. It's a bit of creepy crawlies. Whether it's a spider or a fly, I cry out. Daddy saved me and he takes a creature. And then if I'm unsure about the word, I want it repeated. Creepy crawlies. I can then just click on that particular word. Creature. OK. Fantastic. Chanel, can you give us any insights as to how schools, families might be using Piccadale? So from the school setting, we found that these schools are using it as a whole class reading tool. So they're setting the book, accessing it on the interactive whiteboard and using the carry-on caneration feature. Also, there's a buddy system going on throughout the day as well for approximately 15 minutes a day at some schools. So older children are actually supporting younger children with their reading for pleasure, as well as TAs supporting that reading journey. From the home setting, what we're finding is that parents are having to support their children, especially younger learners, with that. And actually, heads are seeing that there is this parental engagement piece that's actually coming through from the analysis. Now, Chanel, the trial, the 800 books, are they all free access? Yeah. All of our books in these schools platform is completely free for educators, for teachers, for parents, for people. So anybody watching this now could literally go to this link I've got on the screen. Yeah. Piccadale.co.uk forward slash for schools and sign up and access these within the next couple of minutes. Yeah. It's really simple. It's really easy to use and access it pretty much straight away. And tell me a little bit more about, do you have a kind of premium service where you might have to pay a little bit more and you get access to different features, more content? Is there anything like that? Yeah. So we were born out of the family life, which is the Pink Parrot. And that actually has around about 1,700 books on there. We've got audio books in there. We've got partner exclusive content in Disney, Marvel, Star Wars. There's bedtime stories in there. There's just book zines as well. There's just so much for parents to access from the home setting.  He loves... I was just going to say how many books have you got through as a parent? Of course there's loads. But I also get to see my own parent dashboard. So I'm able to really steer that love of reading from the home setting there.  So that's where we actually monetize the business. But because we actually create our own content and apps like Netflix with the original piece, we're able to bring all of that original content into the school setting and essentially give that for free. So there you go. So just a technical question for people watching. If you want to pose a question, please do so in your kind of platform that you're logged into. And I can pose that on your behalf. I guess a final question from me, Ramsey. As a teacher, what do you think other teachers would get out of the system and also maybe some of the insights that you've learned from schools and teachers using the kind of Pickettells product? Where do teachers enjoy using it the most? I think they've certainly, you know, we've had a wealth of really lovely communication with teachers. We're really inviting teachers on this journey with us. We're really hoping that through these interviews, through these chats, we're going to help shape the platform and it's going to really evolve into something that's just really going to add extra gravitas perhaps to how they're delivering different literary content in class. Now, the feedback primarily is that they've found that certain individuals within their classes who perhaps are unengaged readers have suddenly become quite enthused through reading on digital devices. And it's just a light bulb moment for us. I'm an avid bookworm. I love my physical books. I do have a Kindle now, but then suddenly actually over perhaps the next couple of decades and going forward, we are going to be accessing more and more content on our devices. While we don't recommend that pupils read on phones, we are aware that there are certain families that will only have a phone in the house. They won't have any physical books, but they will then be able to access this library and read with their children and really gain out of it. And I suppose it's the support often for parents whose English isn't their primary language. And so they're able to go into that experience. It's interesting how the technology is changing and how the challenges of helping the literate families, children, accessing books to the general population of pupils is a challenge in how it's emerging over time. It's an interesting one. Fascinating landscape. Any final comments, Chanel? I just think, from my perspective, we've launched something that has the gravity task to create such positive impact globally. From our perspective, we don't want to leave any child behind. And we feel that this resource gives teachers, educators, parents, pupils the opportunity to access just so much more, to engage with so much more. And again, at the start, I mentioned this karaoke style and I think Ramsay's clarified that for me. It's almost like you're singing along with the words that are highlighted, aren't they? But in this case, reading them. Tell us what we've got planned in the new year, Chanel. What loads. We're going to be on the road a lot. We're making some product developments as well. We've been listening to teachers, listening to senior leaders as well, and maps. So we're going to be really accelerating the growth of Pixel in the UK while making some additional changes to the future. We've also got for people watching or watching this live or watching this later, we have got a webinar planned with Teacher Talk and Picketel in the new year where we're going to go into deeper and look at all the dashboard features and books available so you can see how you can best use this, at least a free service and then consider the paid for service if you think that's something that your school can use. So thank you both for your time. I guess my final question to Ramsay first, what book are you reading at the moment? What book am I reading? The Invention of Nature. Yeah, fantastic book and I'd recommend it to absolutely anyone. Can you give us a brief synopsis? It's a delve into the wonderful world of Alexander von Humboldt, who started to understand the world as a more holistic world rather than an individual pieces. And he was a fantastic explorer as well as a scientist. There you go. Yeah, carry on. And Chanel, how about you? I've actually just started to pick up The Seven Habits by Stephen Covey. Yeah, brilliant one. I really liked the urgent matrix. That went straight in my office when I was a deputy head trying to reduce my workload burden. I guess for me, I've actually got my book here actually without trying to knock everything off my table. Let me just get it here. Social media for academics as I'm trying to navigate my kind of doctoral research and get into groups with Twitter and everything else and attempting this research world that's unknown to me and it's quite a big beast. So there you go, folks. Pick a Tale for Schools. A great service. 800 free books. A reading tool which offers pupils a new and exciting way and for families too. You can engage with literature, use an audible. You've seen all some of the features that Ramsey has demonstrated for us and we'll see you in the new year. So I hope you find that of interest. And Ramsey and Chanel, thank you very much for your time. I know you're on the other road at the moment and you're both logged in from somewhere unfamiliar to your normal surroundings. So thank you for doing that and I shall look forward to seeing working with you again in the future. Thank you for joining us. So there you go, folks. Thanks for watching any questions, support at teachertalk.co.uk. If I just put that little link here on the comment box, there it is there. So pick a tale.co.uk forward slash for F-O-R hyphen skills forward slash. That will get you access to a great resource with 800 free books. I hope you find it a benefit. I hope you can use it in your school tomorrow. And thanks for watching. I hope you're safe and you're well and I shall see you very soon. Bye for now.


I don't ever get nervous to make a video, but there's a lot on the line here. Two years ago now, I made ranking 100 Nintendo Switch games from best to worst. I always wanted to do another one, but for the most part, it would have been the same games. It's been a couple years and a ton of games have come out. And my opinion on a lot of the games I even ranked back then has changed. There still wasn't a good one online with what I considered to be the best games on Switch. So I made it myself. There's actually 126 games in here and a couple that I put in for memes. You can go and do this yourself with my list. Share it with me on Twitter with what your top 100 is. I will leave the link to this below. All right, Stardew Valley.  We're gonna spend most of this video trying to beat this one. That is S. That is hands down S tier. Like what do you even want me to say? That is the quintessential Switch game. And then right off the back of that, we have our first F2 from one extreme to the next, one to Switch. What are the worst games to launch on the console? Releasing day one with the system at $460 retail. That should have been a pack-in game with the Switch for free. The world ends with you. I couldn't find the icon. I'm using the D. It's the same thing. Funny enough, I do think this is like middle ground. It's a great game. The controls were kind of wonk, we'll just put it in B. Pokemon Quest. Oh man. You know, it's funny looking at these because as soon as I see one of these games, I get thrown back to when it released, the video I made about it, where I was in my life at the time. Like I have a connection to all of these. I remember this launching. I played the heck out of it for like two days and never went back. I mean, it's fine. It's probably like a C. Dragon Quest Builders. Oh my God. I have a very special place in my heart for this one and I spent so many hours in it, but I'm gonna put it in A purely because the sequel was better and that's an S. Overcooked. Kim and I had a lot of fun with this and it's the perfect switch game. That's an A. This is not gonna go well with a lot of you. I didn't review that. I'll even talk about Warrior Wear, get it together. I didn't love it. I think for its price, it was way too expensive. It's fine. It's another Warrior Wear game. I'm probably gonna put it in C. But now, Hades, my guy. Hades is my all-time favorite indie game. I still play it now. My video for that game is one of my most proudest of on my channel. I spent days with my friend Billy shooting that, but that's an S. Today's sponsor is Displate. Displate reached out to me about their one-of-a-kind metal posters and at first I fell in love with all the designs as well as how many licenses and brands they feature from Star Wars to Marvel, DC, video games, anime, movies and even beautiful original art designed by premium artists. So these things are actually really sick. Forget about plastic posters that can rip and tear or framed pictures or canvases that need hooks and drills into the wall. These really slick metal posters are super durable. They have really amazing print quality and they have these easily mountable magnet things that don't damage the wall and they're really easy to just slap up. But the best part is you can just take one down when you're sick of it and put another one up. So that means you can collect as many displates, designs and art as you want and just rotate them out whenever. When I was ordering these, I had Kim pick one and Kim picked. This is why you don't let me pick things. All right, so first you get this protective leaf that protects your wall from being damaged. You get the magnets and you put it up. It's that easy. That took maybe 30 seconds. I mean that's good, right? You like it Kim? I mean you picked it. Everything is printed in EU, but the delivery time is only four to five days and it's packaged super well. So nothing will get damaged and you can get a discount by using my affiliate link in the description below. So go on over and check out Display and I appreciate Display for sponsoring the video. Ori is an A. I don't really have to go into that too much. It's an incredible game and you should play it. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best selling game on Switch and that does influence my decision a little bit. I can't believe that a Wii U port is still the best selling game on the console. We gotta give it an S. Snipperclips always frustrated me. I remember when the Switch came out, everyone was like, have you played Snipperclips? Like it was like one of the games because it was one of the only games. It got a lot of praise because of that. It's not great, sorry. Bayonetta, Bayonetta 1 and 2 both run really well on the Switch. They are great games that's 80. I included Little Cats and Dogs because it's technically a Nintendo Switch exclusive game. So I put it in here just so we had them all. Kim actually was excited for that and I think she played it for like 10 minutes. Essentially, she said it sucked. We're gonna put it in F. Actually, we'll put it in D because it has good voice. Hollow Knight is another S. Everyone seems to love Hollow Knight and I do love it. It's not one of my all-time favorites. I would not put it above any of these other S tier games for me personally. You know, it's still Hollow Knight and I can't deny Hollow Knight. Animal Crossing, oh my God. I think it has to go top spot.  I'd never played an Animal Crossing before. I didn't expect to love it. Apex has to be one of the ugliest ports the console has ever seen. It's deep. The actual game is great but on Switch, honestly, they should have just given up. Arms is, I'm sorry. This is where I get into some hot water because I know there is a dedicated arms community. There's literally dozens of them and every time I talk bad about arms they come after me with a vengeance and I'm sorry but it wasn't good. The coolest thing that happened for arms was Min Min in Smash. I would put it in F but I think it's slightly more worth it. Astral Chain is sick. I actually really liked that game. Oh, you know, as we go down this list of games we're gonna hit some that I never talked about and never reviewed and there's a reason for it. If I have nothing nice to say, just don't say anything. Metroid Dread excluded. I loved that game. I just didn't have time to make a video and now it's been too late and I'm sorry about that. If I don't make a video it's because the game was perfectly fine but I didn't like it and with Bravely Default I just didn't like it. I'm gonna give it a C because it's not like bad by any means. I'm so sorry if you liked it. All right, who are you fending next?  Cadence the Hyrule is incredible. The way that Nintendo trusted an indie team that made a really sick game, Crypto Necro Dancer which was really good. They were like, hey, you can have Zelda and make something with that and they nailed it. I gotta put that in A, like high A. I threw a calculator in here for the memes and I'm now realizing I have no idea where to put it. They released a calculator app on Switch and they're charging $10 for it. I guess I'm gonna put it in F. You can use your phone for free. 51 Clubhouse games. It's mid, I'll give it a B. I mean, it does exactly what it says it does. CTR, Crash Team Racing, personally for me, DRF, that's how much I disliked it but I don't think it's a bad game by any means. I'll give it a C. Ys VIII was an early Switch game that was really fun. For me it's around the same as The Wardens with you. Fun JRPG type game. Donkey Kong, Damon X Markiner, man. It, I think most of us can agree it wasn't good. Donkey Kong, another Wii U port. I mean, this game is stellar. Brain training. It's actually pretty solid. I actually liked it. We'll probably give it a B. Yes, I have put brain training above Damon X Markiner and Crash Team Racing. Let me know in the comment section. Fast RMX, I'll give it a B. Like, when I go back and think about games that came out in the first couple of weeks, you know, I think about one, two Switch. I think about Zelda. But I also think about Fast RMX. Ah, we have a new, a new Eastwood. I just reviewed this in my 10 eShop games. It's fantastic. I'm going to put it at A. Ooh, the Good Xenoblade. We can actually put a Xenoblade game up really high. I'll probably put it like here, actually. Fire Emblem is probably the closest you can get to a persona experience on the Switch right now. Yeah, it's in A for sure. Fortnite. Yeah, gosh. In the last video, I did put Fortnite relatively high. And I think it's because at the time I was into the BR, I thought it was fun, but I'm so over it now.  I think it is like an A game honestly, but I'm just going to put it at C. Like I'm just done. So complete the circle here of this story of me putting Minecraft below Fortnite. Where is Minecraft on here? Did I not, I put, I remember, I suppose, I forgot Minecraft. Zach, can you just put Minecraft up in like A, please? The last time I made one of these, I hadn't really played Minecraft that much, like at all. I didn't get it. But since then I had like a little addiction spell with it and I understand it now. So I would put that in A, definitely above Fortnite. Game Builder Garage, we'll put that in B. It's fine. It's a game where you build games. You can build whatever you want it. But let's be honest, it released and no one either bought it. And if they did, no one talked about it. Golf story was incredible. I mean, I'm going to put it in like really high A. Good job. Kinda came and went really quickly. It's really cute and really fun. And I don't think enough people gave it a chance. I'll put it in B. Hyrule Warriors was really good. That surprised me.  You know, for the memories, I've got to put it in S. For the last horse game I reviewed, we literally went to a farm and filmed me in the field with horses singing a song about being a farmer. Good times. Immortals Phoenix Rising is also A. That was pretty underrated. Ubisoft went pretty ham with me in that game, which I really appreciate. I also loved that game in general. I thought the art style was really neat. It was a lot of fun. And I'm not sponsored to say that right now. If you never gave it a shot, I do honestly really recommend it. Curse of the Moon 2, I'd probably put it in like a high B. It's really good for what it is. I can see it being S tier in its genre. But this is my personal list and I don't know if I even finished it. So. No more Heroes 3. I really love Pseudo in his games, but it did feel really rushed. It really did seem like it had at most like a year development cycle. It really showed. The world was super ugly. There was no way to interact with it. The combat was fantastic though. So I think it just kind of nets itself somewhere around the middle. I can't put it lower than Game Builder Garage. Game Builder Garage needs to go and see. All right. Now we get to the point where I start readjusting. Jump rope challenge. In a video recently, I bought a real Joy-Con skipping rope that didn't really work, but it was made for the game. I mean, what do you want me to say? It's here because it's first party, but it's bad. Kirby Fighters 2, I honestly didn't play this. B. Kirby Star Allies. I did play this. And C. It's fine, but it's two hours long and stupidly easy. Little Town Hero. I'd probably put it down in D with Daemon X Mark and it's a similar reason. But the week is mentioned though. I think I almost gave that a perfect score. Gorgeous looking. Fantastic animation. It's a high S for me. We're at M, so we have like five Mario games in a row. Mario Golf was good, but lacking a lot of features. A lot of times I get people screaming at me, why didn't you talk about Mario Golf? Like I wanna know your opinion. Well, I played it on Twitch like twice for hours. Often if you don't see me talk about a game, I probably played it on Twitch instead. So follow me on Twitch. We have a blast over there. Mario Party Superstars I just reviewed. And I love it. I'm gonna put it in A. Mario and Rabbids is also in A. That game is fantastic. I am not a fan of 2D Mario's anymore. The game is fine, but I'm all about the 3D now. Tennis was about as good as Golf, you know, for the same reasons. It was fun at its core, but lacking a lot of content. Marvel Automate Alliance 3 was also fine. Probably like a high C. I reviewed Monster Hunter Stories 2 and No More Heroes 3 back to back and put a lot of work into both. And the Monster Hunter 1 specifically, I spent like a week making that video. It was very elaborate and it bomb. But then I realized that my review is actually like the most viewed review of the game. Second only to IGN, who was a whole month earlier to me. And also it's IGN. I ended up becoming proud of it again later. And it's a similar thing with No More Heroes. IGN with 200,000. Although to be fair, completionist four days ago, he will probably beat me because his videos are great. My point is it's doing well for the game on the platform. That's it. Meet Topia. They added a horse. They added a couple of things, not much. It's the game is fine C. Monster Hunter Rise is S. That is one of the best games on the console. Pokemon Snap was A. I would have liked if they maybe moved in the direction of not being on rails. This counts for all the labor. The issue is it's not like a puzzle where you make it then you can put it away and make it again again later. It's like you make a piano and then it's made. You're like, okay, I have a piano. Now where do you store that? Try not to get it wet. Try not to get it damaged. The OLED wouldn't even work with it. It's a mess, honestly. I'm gonna put it in D. Overwatch, when it finally launched, it was a perfect port. Too little, too late. I think it could have had a huge audience on Switch if they had capitalized early on, but they did release a very nice port. Paper Mario Origami King. I got it. I feel like this one's a dicey one. Visually, it's fantastic. Writing gets better and better every time. I don't like the direction the series has gone. I hated the wheel concept. For me, knowing how good Paper Mario used to be, I am unapologetically putting it down here with Kirby All Stars. Sorry. Moving on, Pikmin 3 Deluxe. It's Pikmin, but they added co-opsy. It's a great game, but a boring port. Let's go Pikachu and Eevee had a gorgeous art style that I wish they had recreated with these shining diamond and shining pearls. A lot of people seem to like the new art style of the shining pearl and diamond, whatever. I like Chibi, but it doesn't look Chibi to me, but I liked Eevee and Pikachu. So I'm gonna give these A, honestly. I really like them. Pokemon Shield and Pokemon Sword. I'm gonna give them an S. They had issues, so maybe they're not perfect. I feel like it teeters more towards S than A. It was ugly, but ultimately it was fun. I did not like Mystery Dungeon Remake, C. Octopath Traveler, that, hmm, story-wise, B, because it really trailed off near the end and became repetitive, but gameplay and visually it was gorgeous. Good job, Octopath. I Am Set Sooner was a really early release on the console that people love. Dark Souls was a great port. It was just a straight port, but it was solid. Shuffle Knight, Shuffle Knight, what do you want me to say? I really liked the creativity of Ring Fit and I played it a lot and it works. It is a workout that will pick your butt. Rocket League, it's Rocket League, it's good. Mario Kart Home Circuit is an A and it's sick. It works so well that I got a real Go Kart and took it to a real course and I raced an actual mile-long lap of the game on the Go Kart course and made a video of that if you didn't see it. Zelda Skyward Sword, they fixed it a lot and it's a really fun game. I mean, it's Zelda, so it's an A. Sonic Mania, that's a Splatoon 2, that's an S. Lot of fun was had in Splatoon 2. Bayonetta 2 is up there with Bayonetta 1. I had in time, I put this on the list because it was requested and I don't know why I did because I don't really like it. See, Dead Cells, that actually might have been the first game I was addicted to, was it? It was either Dead Cells or Dragon Quest Builders. Whatever one was first, the other one was second. Wargroove, a strategy game, it was really good. Sorry, I'm rushing. This drum game, I had a lot of fun with that on stream, we'll give it a B. I feel so bad for Starlink because that game was so good. It flopped big time. It was a real, real shame because that game was good and you should go back and give it a chance if you haven't already. Super Mario 3D All-Stars, I mean, it's Sunshine Galaxy and 64, what do you want me to say? Super Mario 35th is also deleted now, but it was fun. I'll give it a B because I never won. Super Mario Maker 2, that's probably S. Honestly, if I legitimately felt this way and I put it in F, my friend Bob would burst through the door right now and slap me. So out of fear of that and respect to Bob, I will put it in S. Alongside Mario Odyssey, I don't need to explain myself there at all. In fact, let's just cut to the chase and put Breath of- What did I, how did I, what did I, what else did I miss? Super Mario Party sucked, that's a D. Mario 3D Worldport was fine, but the Bowser's Fury was really good. That puts it in A. Tetris 99 was and is amazing, that's an A. This Zelda remake was gorgeous and fantastic, that's an A. Thimbleweed Park is also an A. Tokyo Mirage was just a straight port that's kind of lackluster, the game is fine. We'll give it a C. Deadly Premonition, I didn't play it. It's one of the only exclusives I haven't played. We'll give it a B. We'll be nice. Wonderful 101, we'll give it a C because it's wonderful 101. Wood, why would you leave these for last? The most controversial game on your entire channel. Yoshi was kind of boring too, actually. We'll put that in C next to Kirby. I mean, it was the same, short, boring, easy. And did I play it? It's not really down there. It's just, I don't know what you want me to tell you. I've tried playing that game so many freaking times. I don't want to hear it, okay? I'm sorry I'm ending on that.  Now it's gonna be the last thing you're thinking about as you go down to the comment section. I think I can edit my list. I know I would have got Zelda. Wait, Goose Game? There was no Goose Game? Wait, there was no Persona Strikers either. What happened to my list? Oh, there's a ton missing. All right, Zack, it's time to go to work, my guy. Let me try and fix this really quick. I didn't miss a bunch. I downloaded all of it, they just didn't. So I had to do it again. We almost missed Smash Ultimate. That is S, obviously. Dragon Quest is another S tier. Lucky's Tale had a complete revamp. It was not even the same game that it was on Xbox. Made brand new for Switch and it's, Shimagami Tensei 5. This is the newest game on the list. I'm playing it right now. I got an early review code. It's really fun. It's hard for me to say where. I'm sat around a B or an A, but I'm only a few hours in. So what I have played is an A. Doom Eternal, that goes for both Doom games. They're games that just shouldn't work on Switch as well as they do. Celeste is an S, Zelda is the number one. And I almost missed it. Skyrim, A, Enter the Gungeon, A, Minecraft, A. So yeah, I finally got actual Minecraft in here.  Yeah, now it's officially above Fortnite. Ninjala, B, Pokken Tournament, C. This isn't the persona I wanted, but it was actually pretty good, but I'm still only really gonna give it a very high B. Dread is a S. It is a new S behind Rise, but above Luigi's Mansion. I really love Dread. Witcher is a high A. Tourist is an A. Goose Game is an A.  That was probably one of my first videos to blow up, and I became known as the guy that hated 2K18. All right, my list is done. There it is. So from now on, this is the reference point. Do you ever wanna know how I feel about X-Game? Refer to this list. All right, let's go to my list over here. Oh, I did triple S? Oh, I was way more specific back then. If I was to add row above, honestly, and do triple S? Okay, all right. All right, two years ago, Wood, what else do you have to offer? Ooh, Celeste has gone down one for me. In fact, all of these Indies have come down one. Pokken Tournament I put in A? That's weird. Xenoblade II I put in B. All right, let's move him up then. I think I was way more scared two years ago to upset you guys. So many good games have come out since then. So much of this was filler. There's probably only like 50 good games here. I put horse down an F. Horse is clearly an F. We know that. But I think it's funny to imagine that someone that doesn't know me or the meme will look at this list and legitimately comment, what? Is that game good? That's my official list. I agree with it. I think it balances with my list two years ago. And then a lot has changed, a lot has added. I will leave a link to it down below. You can fill out yours and share it with me. If you don't agree, that's fine. Some people might really like me Topey.  See you in the next one. Thank you for watching. Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah. Bye.


If you have not subscribed, please consider subscribing, press the notification icon below if you want to be the first to know when I upload a new video. Thank you for coming back to my channel. For the comments, I appreciate. Thank you so much. Now, I'll just get through the comments, actually the kind of comments but again, questions. And one of the subscribers that is coming from Cameroon. Cameroon, I like that. Thank you very much. I'll just get back to you. He was asking what is the difference between the tourist visa and the work visa here in Katal? What I can say is that the tourist visa, the tourist visa here in Katal is a short period of time. The tourist visa is normally for three or two months depending and you can extend it. You can apply for an extension in case it is overseas. In case it is overstayed, you can try to apply for the extension depending on. Then the work visa, what you call the work visa is normally coming for a particular kind of work and someone applies for you, that is an employer, the person who is willing to give you the job is the one that will apply for you, the work visa. And normally the work visa, sometimes what we call the employment visa in the short term and the work visa itself normally runs from a period of one to five years depending on what contractual agreement you have between you and the person who is giving you the job. But remember, even the tourist visa, you can try to convert to the work visa. If you come in the country on a tourist visa and you get a job, you get someone who is sponsoring you or someone is going to give you a job, he will convert your tourist visa into what you call a work visa, which will still run in the same period between one to five years depending on the agreement that you have between the two parties, that is the employees and the employer. What does it mean? Here in Qatar, the two types of employment visa, we have that contract that runs for two years, then we have that unlimited contract that runs for five years. But remember, the residence permit in Qatar runs one year, it is renewed every year, that is we say it is renewed yearly, starting from the period that you entered the country. And before your residence permit or before your employment permit is given out, you must go through what you call a probation period of six months.  But remember that the six months of probation are part of your one year when the residence permit is being given out or when it is given out to you. So that is the difference that if someone coming from Yawunde, Cameroon, that is what I can tell you. But remember, the technology now is moving very fast, it is moving at a very terrific speed. We are seeing new things coming in every day. You can still check your visa online. Let's say for example, for the work visa, you have a job offer that is coming from the company. You will get the interview, you will get the job offer, they will print for you if the visa. They will send you an email for the visa. It depends on who. If you have another recruiting agency from your country that did the recruitment on your behalf, they will send them the copy of the visa. And the recruitment agent in your country will give you that copy of the visa. Then you can also go online yourself using your mobile, using your laptop, at whatever place you may be, you can still access and find out if your visa that is being given to you is really genuine. If it is really genuine and is that visa for that kind of particular job that you are going to do or the job that you are interviewed for. So this time, there is no need to get worried. There is no need to get worried. You can still access and you can check your visa. For here in Katal, here in Katal, what you can do is that you can check on the government website. And that government website is called MOI, that is the Ministry of Interior. That is at www.moi.gov.qa. Gov stands for government and Q stands for Katal.   I will show you how you can check your visa online. How you can check your visa status online. For those that have not subscribed, please consider subscribing. Consider subscribing. Then you will be the first to know when I upload the new videos. Thank you so much. Let us go just straight to the tutorial. Then I will show you how you can try to check the status of your visa. I will now turn on my desktop. I am using the desktop to show you how you can check the status of your visa. But you can still use your mobile phone to check the status of your visa. Thank you so much. Let us go and check out how you can try to find the status of your visa here. I can try to find the status of your visa here in Katal. My subscriber, I had one comment that was coming from someone in Philippines. Thank you so much. I appreciate. Thank you so much for the support. Thank you so much. People from Uganda, I love that. Thank you so much. Kenya, thank you so much. All people on the world that subscribe and those that send me comments, I appreciate. Thank you so much. Now we shall go back straight to the tutorial. Then we shall see how you can try to check your visa status in case you want to write. Okay. Now we shall just go to the tutorial and we shall try to check how you can really check your status of the visa online on MOI. That is the Ministry of Interior. Okay. Nowadays the technology is moving very fast that you can even have your mobile phone and check. It does not mean that every time you need to have a laptop, you can have the mobile phone. So long as you have access to internet, you can still check and find out some of these services for yourself. So we shall just go straight, we shall click. We shall just go to the Ministry of Interior portal that is MOI.gov.qa. Gov means the government and qa means Qatar. That is the simple initials of Qatar. So we shall go to visa inquiry and printing through the Qatar MOI portal. Then we shall just scroll directly just here. Then we shall go to MOI.gov.ca.ypsi. That is the online internet services and inquire. So we shall just click. Something like this will come out. Hope you are with me guys. It will come out. Then we have the traffic inquiry, the visa services, exit and entry permits, which will no longer have the entry and exit permits. You can go so long as you have your ticket with you. We have the residence permit inquiry that is the Qatar ID. Then we have other inquiries. We have the mattress. Then we have the QPOS services. Then we have PCC inquiry. PCC inquiry that is the police clearing certificate. In this you will have the clearance from Qatar. You can still have this. You can still trace or you can still find out the status of your clearance in case you went to apply. But right now our main concern was how to check the visa. So we shall go to the visa services. When you click the visa services this is what will come. We have the visa approval tracking. We have the visa inquiry and printing. The visa extension, the truck application status and Qatar visa center. So what happens is a visa approval tracking in case you applied for the visa and you need to check the status. You need to check whether it is approved or not. You just go to this column. Then we have the visa inquiry and printing. If you want to know about your visa or you want to find out whether it is a real visa. Let's say for example someone applied for either visa and send it to you.   You can still find out from the same. And what status? Let's say for example you are given a contract. You can find out that either my visa is yali or it is for two years or it is an open visa which is five years or a contract of two years visa. But remember, here in Qatar the visa is only normally yali. It is only after one year which is renewable according to your Qatar ID. When they renew your Qatar ID because the Qatar ID doesn't permit to normally raise rents for one year it gives you the status of the visa. So we have visa extension. For example you overstayed on your visa you can extend it or when you applied you can see trace it from here. Then track application status that is you can track it. You can see that is it moving, is it sign it is moving for one apartment you can sell out the access. That is the good thing. So now we shall go to the visa inquiry so here we just go straight we shall just click here the passport I will use my passport or shall use the passport number then we say the passport number is B one one six four two one then we can click here we can click here we can say nationality we can punch in the nationality but you need to be very very careful and a little bit slow don't rush such that you can have the item or you can get or you can fix in or pinch in the right information so you can click and say this is Uganda ok then we click here this is the patcher code that we need to verify here and we shall say it is seven nine we shall say submit so this is what will come this is the visa number it will give you the visa number let's say for example this person the visa number is 38201<PHONE_NUMBER> ok nationality is Uganda and this one shows this one shows the visa is already expired so you have your information all you can see the information this is now what happened ok so you can have your status you can track it and you can see your visa online if you have internet you can still use your mobile phone and you can track it and you can know your visa status it's not quite very easy but some people take it as something very simple but surely you need to have such kind of information at your hand you need to have it you applied for a job you went for interview you are given an offer later and someone sent you a visa you can still verify the visa online and find out it if it is the real visa that was given to me ok so you get to verify that visa and that's how it is done it's quite easy quite very simple very few steps you can take it's like ok so guys that is what I can say that was a comment that was coming from one of my subscribers actually he needed hope and actually it is done hope next time he will get what you know so guys thank you very much for those that have not subscribed please subscribe to my channel please you can put comments in the sub section I'll be happy to get back to you within the shortest period of time thank you very much love you guys subscribe to my channel my name is Miks Samuel


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