Hello, everyone. You're here. You made it. You made it to our closing session. Can you believe that it's now Friday and it's now the last day? Yeah, are you all tired? Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure you are, but I hope you're all energized by the things that you experienced during this conference. And really, right? This week might be short or long for you, depending on your perspective, but it certainly has been a wonderful week for all of us.  So we are closing this conference the way we opened it with the members of the steering committee talking about, you know, reflections about this conference. But most importantly, we want to thank a lot of people and there's hundreds of you who made this conference as awesome as it is. So each of the members of the steering committee will talk about some of their reflections, short reflections about their experience with this conference, and we will thank everyone who was involved in making this conference a successful one. So I'll pass it on to Spencer. Thanks for Gina. Thank you all so much. Thanks for the honor, the opportunity to be involved. And thanks to Regina, I agree I saw something about Regina's energy, but there have been so many people with like great energy and I need to tap into that. Jeff Gallant from Georgia, you, I don't know. No. I've heard, where are you? How are you missing? Are you okay? I think we just have very similar interests Spencer. Maybe that's it. So, so many people so many people doing amazing things and bringing amazing content to this conference and I guess my reflections are kind of summarized by one of the sessions I was able to attend. And I shared with a, some Hawaiian wisdom that I learned into the chat. And that was from a presentation from Lindley and Mejia, and they shared kind of this, this philosophy and a lot of the amazing work that they're doing with their students, but they shared this amazing philosophy and approach from the Hawaiian tradition of education, and now, you know, we can learn from many different places and I think that this conference really embraces that spirit of learning everywhere you go and all the different interactions, and all the different venues and channels that were provided so that's my take away, and I'm going to pass along to our next person for their reflection from the committee, and that would be Akeksha. Hi everyone. So I could talk for hours and hours about how incredible this entire conference was it was, it feels weird that it's coming to a close, but it's been super exciting to get to meet people from across the country I literally today was in a session with somebody from India and then another one from Saudi Arabia, and then somewhere from the Middle East and that just is a way to travel even though we're doing it digitally and I think that's such an incredible thing that we get to do because we've gotten to do this online and I remember having to make the call to move online and we were all a little disappointed we wouldn't be able to go to Denver, and I mean it ended up snowing there so it all worked out, I guess on the very end. But I really appreciated learning from people, and especially seeing the amount of first time attendees here, who finally got to embrace and see the world of open and my first time at OpenEd really opened my eyes up to so much that the organizations had to offer and all of the support that the community is able to give you and so I'm really grateful that I was able to be here and I'm super grateful that I get to continue to do this work. I hear that it's sunny and 60 degrees I don't even okay well weather changes quickly but it's been amazing to just see the amount of engagement and the people here are. I don't know I think years to go by and I'll never stop learning about how incredible this community is and with that I'm going to pass it on to MJ to continue to talk about how great you folks were. Hi. Excuse me hi everyone. Thank you for inviting me to reflect. I honestly can't take a whole lot of credit for all the amazing work that has happened in the last year to prepare for this conference we're poised and ready in Maryland to take over as I've said a couple of times now already to fill the big shoes that Colorado has has has filled over the last year in hosting the conference. I will say one thing that I don't know that any of us could have possibly imagined. What this year was going to bring for all of us and for higher and for education both higher education and K 12 and you know when I think back on when Nicole first approached me about Maryland hosting in 2021.  You know what should this look like. I don't think anybody's could imagine how important the OER conversation is going to be this year and I am just so thrilled that we persevered that this group persevered through a lot of hardship in trying to pull this together this year and I'm really excited about the future that this conference has created and where this is going in the future so come to Maryland or come to Maryland virtually next year. I've already said we'll try to figure out a way to get crab cakes and cans of all day to everybody. Regina would you like to go next. Thank you MJ and thank you everyone. I have a lot of takeaways I have a lot of things that you know I have gained in this conference but I'll keep it to a minute. But the most important thing really is the level of engagement and participation that I've seen, you know with all of you and especially it's our first time to do a virtual conference. I was really surprised that you know you all stayed with with with us throughout this this journey and I met a lot of new folks you know folks who were. You know this is the first time attending this conference and certainly I met a lot of students I met a lot of people from outside of the US and and it's so just it's so fascinating it's so rewarding to just hear their stories their perspective and everyone I really will take even after this conference because I know we will always be connected right so in whatever space social media. I hope we serve I hope we continue that so thank you to everyone and one day I will bottle my energy and CC license it for all of you. So, sending you my virtual house. And now I'll pass it over to Nicole and Daniel. I'm going to put up. I have the honor of kicking off sort of the thanks. So I'm going to bring back up the slide show. I can do that here without causing any trouble. Is this the right one. Yeah, so I do want to acknowledge that that we don't quite have the full steering committee here. I'm not sure who we're missing but I wanted you to see everybody's faces.  During less busy times, and just just working to shape this entire conference. So I want to recognize each of the planning teams. The program team these are the members of the program team who worked over the course of the, the past four or five months to put together the program that you experienced here today. Literally started with a pile of data that came out from one of the community meetings and turn that into a call for proposals led the process to review the proposals and made some really difficult decisions about which presentations to invite. The DEI team, of course, DEI is infused throughout the conference but there was a dedicated DEI team to help put together the specific components they developed the code of conduct, the statement that you heard at the beginning of every presentation. And a lot of the different aspects of the conference that were really intentional about making sure that that you know this is an inclusive welcoming space and that we're taking actions in in and considering how to be more inclusive and support diversity at every level a decision is made. So thank you to these people. The communications team has done an incredible job putting together this beautiful brand that you see here I should also have recognized here, Kim Hensie is the graphic designer behind the brand. You know again this team started with a pile of data, a word cloud that came out of one of the community meetings and actually turn this that into this logo. This team has been working with with Kim on the graphic design and has put together a lot of the tweets and blog posts you've been reading. A member of this team put together a blog post once per day during the conference I encourage you to check that out on our blog and we'll continue communicating out as we wrap up the conference. As a member of open ed team, you know again all of these teams have been meeting weekly since July. This, this group has been working to develop a plan for a strategic planning process that's going to lead us into 2021. And helped craft the, if you attended the plenary earlier helped craft those questions. And think through a lot of the challenging questions that that we need to be asking right now about what is the future of the open education conference and how can we go about making the decision and building a structure in a way that is absolutely centered on diversity equity inclusion and helps turn this conference into a real driver of diversity equity and inclusion in the open education space. The online engagement team has been working to help figure out how to put on an entirely virtual conference. Originally this this team was formed thinking about how do we include a broader audience in an in person conference, virtually, and then ended up sort of getting tasked with the much bigger question of what exactly do we do. So a lot of the fun activities that were peppered throughout the program are thanks to these folks and just just really appreciate all of the time and expertise that that that everybody put in. Hi, my colleagues on the spark team. Hailey Moe and Winnie have been working tirelessly since the beginning so you know I guess I so I but I'm the decision maker I'm the one that sort of made the decision to put spark into this but Hailey Moe and Winnie have come along for the ride and just done an amazing job. Hailey and Winnie have been behind the scenes, helping to run zoom. Along with Tiffany I think we really need to recognize Tiffany for running all of the captions and making sure that this conference is accessible and I know we're all kind of exhausted. You know just a lot of a lot of hard work went went into running this conference and want to think everybody involved. Also on the spark ease front want to thank my colleagues Val and we see who stepped in to help out this week you may have received a response from we see if you emailed the help email, which it was a daunting task so thanks to we see. All right over to Daniel. Oh no. Over to Daniel yet. I want to thank all of the session hosts. So these are the people who were who took time to actually sit in in each of the sessions so help prep the speakers 20 minutes before the session. So thank you to all of these people and, you know, of course a lot of Colorado folks in here. So really grateful for all of you. We want to thank all of you. We want to thank all of you. We're going to be able to read these names. So thank you to all of these people and, you know, of course a lot of Colorado folks in here. So really grateful for all of you. We want to thank all of the proposal reviewers so there are 92 people and I know you're probably not going to be able to read these names. We are in a normal size font on our website and want to recognize all of the proposal reviewers who took time to look through the proposals and provide grades on them and help reduce the large number of proposals we received down to the 250 some presentations that ended up being shown at the conference. We have about 500 speakers at the conference, which is really incredible when you think about it, that that many voices involved. So, you know, and there were 1500 participants, about 200 speakers actually didn't register for the conference so if you add that all together, 1700 people participated in the conference which is really really exciting. And really want to thank just, you know, everybody who who's here and this conference wouldn't be what it is without the individuals who took the time to participate and contribute your thoughts and ideas to these conversations. So now it is actually over to Daniel. Wow. It's amazing to see just the sheer number of people have been involved and contributed in some way. And I'm, I'm very lucky to be able to stand here and thank our organizing partners. Thank you to the Colorado Department of Higher Education for all of their assistance running and organizing this year's conference, and for all the amazing volunteers from Colorado to help make sure this conference ran super smoothly. To the University of Maryland who has been a partner on this this year and will also be the local lead for next year to all my amazing colleagues at open stacks who have helped on the legal and finance front, as well as additional colleagues who have been helping out wherever has been needed. And of course, I think we all need to give a big round of applause to spark and all of their team for their amazing organizing prowess especially Nicole, none of this would have been possible without her leadership. And then finally, I want to give a shout out to a couple of organizations that we owe a huge credit data debt of gratitude. I'm very tired so I'm now mixing up words and saying great of data to new words, it's okay. A huge debt of gratitude. I said at the beginning of this conference that running a conference takes a lot of time energy, but it also takes a lot of money. And, you know, we, the open field probably wouldn't be here without the Hewlett Foundation. And I'm so happy that they are continuing to support open education so we have to give a huge shout out to the Hewlett Foundation, and also the 20 million minds foundation who has made it possible for us to gather this week to keep things affordable so that everybody can attend, we can't do it without the sponsors so thank you very much to Hewlett Foundation, the Michelson 20 men foundation. I'll turn it back over to spin. Yes, so much gratitude and I think we are going to kind of let the rest of the half of the committee share their reflections and then we'll have our call to action so Tiffany why don't you go first. Oh and first. Sorry, it took me a minute to turn off my mic. Okay. Yeah, so hoping plan and run the conference was super super busy, but really rewarding. And I'm really glad that I got to do it but it. So I was really excited about how many proposals we got how many sessions we had how amazing they all were. I didn't get to watch very many this week, but I definitely have enough stuff to watch for the next year. And yeah I did get to watch a few good lightning talks, I definitely recommend going to watch those. The, there's some really great tools and things in there. I had fun in the social spaces made taco or well made enchiladas. And yeah, I'm just really glad to be part of this team. I had, I got to meet a lot of like new friends new colleagues and definitely really rewarding. Tiffany how about you. Thanks. I, I, there's so much pressure right now with everyone speaking and I know I'm just going to be repetitive but I want to add that I have the highest expectations of and for this community. The commitment to always asking who isn't here and how do we invite everyone. I'm just going to treasure this moment. I am treasuring this moment. It was truly an honor meeting and working with all of these people. And I, I hope that the event was as meaningful and engaging for you as it was for me and that it exceeded your imagination. I just want to give a word to the future, and none of this would have been possible without the work commitment and dedication of a lot of humble and generous people. And I'm just grateful to be part of this story of us. So thank you. Emily. Just mind blown by this conference I think we just keep opening up the field in this last session where we were talking about who is the open education community and it's everyone. The question that was raised is what, what will it be like when we have all the we are we want, and I would reframe that as the creation is an inherent part of this community we are co creating and refining. And we're on this educational journey together as human beings we're trying to make these tools available to all of us, as we continue to bring more people into the conversation figure out how to be more equitable figure out how to be more inclusive figure out how to keep moving forward and expanding what it means to be able to learn so this is really I just feel like my mind is blown wide open and I'm so thankful for this community. Thank you. One takeaway I had was, there have been several references to have a seat at the table throughout this conference both in the sense of inclusion, as well as the idea of having a seat is indicative of someone else owning the table. In my mind I'd like to reframe this concept a little for the open ed community, when looking back at the conference this week. Yesterday's key notes, reference that it makes a difference when you own and that ownership is important. Throughout this week, the beginning of this region conference and everyone's willingness to participate and share with open hearts and minds that this community has begun building a new table together. The hope for all of us is that everyone will continue to welcome people to this community table, where we will continue to build to make space and hold space for each other, as we reflect and prepare for the upcoming year, and the future of open it. Thanks Lee, Ethan. Yeah, thank you. First I want to say that the sarcasm game in this community is quite strong, evidenced by the chat. So I just want to appreciate that my two, two quick reflections. You know, Nicole said a few times, just in this session, you know this committee started with a pile of data and, you know, worked forward from there. But if you were in this the plenary earlier today, you know, you also heard like that's where this whole conference started, it was a pile of people and potential. And so just immense hats off to the spark team. And then just also the number of people who voluntarily put in hours and hours to, to, you know, turn what could have been like a rebuilding year into the biggest year for open ed ever, which is pretty awesome. So my second quick reflection is just similar to that, you know how many more people there are to bring in, you know open ed is somewhat of a niche effort. But so you know like at prior conferences with 800 people there you'd kind of figure, you know, that's most of the people doing oh we are work around the world in one place. That's just so not true. You know, this year we had 1500 registrations. There are people from around the world from with us who, who aren't under the tent of this community yet. And I just, I'm so grateful for for everybody on the steering committee and elsewhere who, you know, who are centering this idea of expanding the pool or, or, you know, increasing the side of the tent size of the tent or whatever you want to call it so it can be accessible to, to everybody that's doing this work. Nicely put, Ethan and everybody. And for the rest of our steering committee members Daniel Jasmine and Christine who couldn't join us today. I don't think they're on the call. I would share some of the sentiments we were we were sharing today as well. I think our last item is to turn it over to Haley for our call to action for you all. Sure. Well, oh man I need a little bit of a moment to regroup because, oh my gosh. It's just been such a pleasure to work with all of you all and. Oh, I'm not even prepared to put it into words but thank you so much for everything. Ethan left us on a fantastic note which actually took the words right out of my mouth, which is, you know, there has been some amazing work done this week but there's also so much more left to do, and there's so many more voices who need to be heard. And so if you're, you know, still here I hope that that means that you really enjoyed this week and it's and it's had a big impact on you and if that's the case I would say, you know, please capitalize on this energy and reach out to someone in your community who you think would be interested in this work, or or whose voice you think is valuable and needs to be brought to the table. Our call to action specifically. I'm going to share sort of on our in the chat here, but just on the homepage of our website, which is open education conference.org. If you scroll all the way to the bottom you'll see that there's a little tab for updates which basically just says sign up to receive announcements about the conference. This is the email list that we're going to be using to, you know, keep in touch with all of you. You can also keep an eye out after the conference will be following up with attendees via an email with a survey. If you were at our plenary session where we went over talking a little bit about the future of the conference and your brain is just buzzing with thoughts about where we can take this in the future. Please please do your best to bottle those up. Take notes, keep them somewhere and please do share them with us. We, it's really, really important that we engage as many voices as we possibly can, going forward to make sure that this is, you know, truly equitable, truly as open as we can make it. So, if you're not already signed up I expect that many of you are double check you can also go to open education open education conference.org slash participate. And on that page you'll see sort of an archive of our community meetings and and you know I think this will be fun for us to go back and look at maybe once we've cleansed our palate a little bit and just kind of relive the planning process of what it's been like to get here but if you hadn't attended any of our community meetings that's where you can see them and sort of get a transparent look at how this all came to be and what was sort of informing our planning process. And that mailing list will be you know where we'll be putting out, not only a call to continue to attend those meetings in the future. But we're also going to be looking to bring on as many new voices as possible, both in terms of steering committee members planning team members volunteers voices to help us to decide what's going to happen after 2021. So please please if you're here today, stay engaged with us stay in the conversation. That mailing list is the way to do so, and I challenge everyone to invite three colleagues to also sign up for that as well that's my call to action that I'm just going to add in. And share the the participate link in there as well again it's just open education conference.org slash participate. It's also on the homepage as well but just at the very bottom is a little opportunity for you to sign up to the mailing list and stay in the loop. And that's all from me.


Hello and welcome to the Jackie Boswell show. I'm Joe Wamba, joined with Jackie Boswell, head coach of the women's basketball team. And coach, you guys had an outstanding season. Came to an end, we're running into Carnegie Mellon, but a really strong performance all season long from a multitude of players. Great, thank you. I mean, you never want to end that season on a loss, but a couple hundred teams have to do that. And we were just grateful that we were able to keep playing this week and try to extend our seniors' longevity of their season. And once we look back on it after a couple of days, I'm sure I'll feel pretty good about it. But I agree with you. I think our three seniors had a great season and a lot to look forward to in the future. And that future holds. Johnny A. Curry had a great season this year. Hannah Chris breaking it out for her freshman year. A lot of optimism to share moving forward. Yes, I agree. I think those two got a lot of experience this year. So that should just be positive for us next year to come back with some of that experience. And looking forward to even Christine Tennyson, who had a little bit of an up and down year. But in her defense, this is her first year being able to finish through a whole season without injury. So we're happy about that. And it's definitely something to be optimistic about, because she's so competitive and she works really hard. So with her being a senior next year, she's going to have to set the tone for us as well. And had to go on the road this weekend without Caitlin Vantash. She was suffering from some sickness right now. So hopefully she's feeling better. Yeah, we definitely wish her the best and the team the best moving forward. And let's talk about moving forward with those players that you mentioned, but also like a pretty good class that's coming in for you as well. Yeah, we're pretty excited about the freshmen they have committed so far. And they're all very competitive. And they all want to win. And so you can't teach that part of it. The one thing that we always say is we don't want to coach effort. And I don't see us having to do that next year. One person you didn't ever have to coach effort to. And we can't stop talking about her is Sarah Tarbert. She finishes player of the year in the Mac Commonwealth. And also a Jocelyn's trophy nominee. What has she done just in efforts of getting these other players ready for the years to come and getting her life together too? She's a wonderful nursing student and a leader on the court. Yeah, I mean, she's kind of one of those low key players. She doesn't play with a lot of emotion. Just comes out there and does her job and kind of leads by example in that way and sets the tone. She does that in the classroom as well. She's one of the top nursing students. And her and Christine and Caitlyn, all three nursing students, Hannah, Chris coming up right behind them as a nursing student. So I think she's been able to teach some of those younger kids how to balance and how hard it is. Because it's not easy, but they're finding a way to get it done. She will be around next year. So we'll see how we can get her involved a little bit. It'll be nice to have her around still. Well, coach, we wish you the best of luck moving forward. And thank you again for your time in post game interviews and coming up here weekly. I appreciate all your help, too. Thank you. She's Jackie Boswell. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Jackie Boswell Show.


Thank you so much, Peter. Can I just check before I go any further that you can hear me? Okay. Hi, can can you hear me? All right. Yeah, great. Thanks, Harneet I'm gonna start off by just by doing a land acknowledgement of where I am speaking to you from I live in the Hamlet of Bonchon, which is right in the middle of the province in which I live Abaguit, which is the Magmagi name for the Colonial place we now call Prince Edward Island, but the original name of This piece of land this very special beautiful piece of land is Abaguit and it's one of seven regions of Magmagi which make up the eastern region of Turtle Island and it's a very beautiful place to live and work and I feel very blessed to be here I'm going to pick up on a couple of things that Peter said while while we were waiting for people to gather for this meeting I wasn't aware actually that Peter lived in Barry and my first ever exposure to Canada was as a 16 year old young high school Hormone driven musician Who had come from Scotland, which is where I was born and brought up with a band that I used to play with a jazz band and We did a reciprocal agreement with Barry North music and actually when I came over I thought that Barry North was the name of a gentleman who who happened to live in Ontario But I realized obviously when I got there that Barry North is the name of I don't even know if it's still there or not But was or perhaps is the name of the high school in Barry and I had the most wonderful time I was introduced to all kinds of Things exotic things that I had never experienced in Scotland Hot summers was one of them. We were here in August and it was delightful exotic Canadian women Food I had never come across before Burger King I remember the smell of going into Burger King quite Distinctly anyway, I had a wonderful experience in Barry and it's just funny that I no idea that was back in 1978 that I would end up spending the majority of my life here in Canada It was a it was a trip that I I took to again to make some music and meet some friends and Ended up coming back to Canada eight years later As a dentist moving to Newfoundland and here I am in in Prince Edward Island all these all these years later funny how life takes you where it does Peter also talked About climate change and our difference or climate catastrophe Climate emergency climate unraveling call it what you like And I remember in my first ever Green Party meeting which was in 1990 in Ottawa Back when the Green Party was very much a fledgling organization I was asked what my top three concerns were and and I said Climate change climate change and and climate change even back then it was clear that that was going to be an existential threat to humanity and It was from there that my first Green Party exposure led me 30 years later to actually finally be elected as a Green Party member never imagined in my life that I Would do that. I always felt that I was laying the groundwork for the next generation of Green politicians But again life takes you where it does So a little bit by the way, I should tell you that our legislature opens tomorrow I get sworn in at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning is the MLA for New Haven Rocky Point District 17 on Prince Edward Island and So life has been a little hectic as you might imagine for the last few weeks and tomorrow afternoon We have the speech from the throne. We will elect a speaker and we get down to business. So as Peter alluded to in his introduction When the last session of Parliament opened here on Prince Edward Island, it was a very different situation for the Greens typically if you have two Greens elected particularly in a Small diminutive legislature like the one we have here on PEI. We only have 27 seats in our legislature Two Green members would be cause for celebration and indeed it is But it's a far cry from what we had four years ago when we had a caucus of eight fully a third of the seats of the house and We formed the official opposition So It's a little bit shocking and it's been a period of adjustment to realize that we're going in as the third party We lost official opposition by one seat the Liberals have three we have two But it's you know, our voice is still there We got 23% of the popular vote 24% of the popular vote. Excuse me and We are still very much alive and very much a force to be reckoned with here on in island politics I realized I talked a lot about the Green Party here this evening And I know that this is not a Green Party event my apologies Peter for for doing that But you I think you did when we corresponded a few weeks ago You wanted to know about some of the work that our caucus has done Since becoming official opposition here on Prince Edward Island So I'm gonna go through a couple of the the achievements that we did as they relate to the journey to Diversity and the goals and the principles and values that the organization that I've just heard the it was part of the AGM for Is promoting in society? When we were official opposition we entered the Parliament and it was a minority situation So we had an enormous amount of influence and our fingerprints the green fingerprints can be seen all over Policy and budgetary decisions that were made over the last four years one of the areas where we by the way, we passed 18 pieces of Private member legislation, which is unprecedented in our in our legislature, and I'm not sure How that stacks up against other legislatures in Canada, but never before had an opposition party Brought forward anywhere close to that number of pieces of legislation never mind passing that number So we have 18 pieces of legislation which we passed on a wide range of topics We we have the strongest climate change goals in Canada And those are accompanied by a piece of legislation that mandates that government actually live up to that as you will well know in Canada we are We have no problem setting goals for ourselves when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions But we've never hit a target once never ever ever ever going right back to Rio in 1992. So The legislation we passed here, not only does it have the strongest most ambitious targets for GHG Emissions, there's also an obligation for government to meet those targets So we are in many respects far ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to insulating properties here to Installing heat pumps to having To having rebates for electric vehicles to having despite the diminutive size of our province and the So very spread out population a pretty decent public transit system Which as we know in Canada particularly in rural areas is a rare thing So there's lots of things that we are doing here well and again That's one of the fingerprints of the Green Party. We've done a lot of work on anti-poverty here We have a poverty Elimination Act, which again sets some very specific Targets that government must reach and government is obligated to do that Eliminating child poverty for example by the end of 2025 a very ambitious goal But I think it's something that is entirely achievable and we will and we will make sure that government is held to account In order to do that One very interesting piece of legislation and this one really does relate to journey directly to journey to diversity is A novel piece of legislation on non-disclosure agreements that was brought forward by my colleague Lynn Lund now sadly Lynn is one of those Green Party members who was a part of our official opposition caucus She is an extraordinary human. She was the deputy leader of the party for many many years Lynn is Incredibly smart Incredibly hard-working as a beautiful kind huge heart and Became an extraordinarily skilled legislator one of the things that as a leader It was lovely to watch was the people that I gathered around me and who ran as Green Party Candidates and eventually became MLAs in our legislature many of them ended up being far more Effective legislators than I am and that was a beautiful thing to watch and Lynn was one of those people she introduced Non-disclosure agreement legislation which limited the use of non-disclosure clauses when it came to settlement agreements in in certain cases cases Involving harassment and and that would include sexual misconduct The way things are in most of Canada including Prince Edward Island up until this bill was passed was that anybody Who signed such an agreement a non-disclosure agreement in cases of harassment sexual misconduct? The victim was not allowed to talk about it at all and And end of story they could not speak to their family. They could not speak to a counselor. They could not speak to the police It was a blanket Prohibition on any sort of disclosure any sort of discussion regarding case Which of course was an awful thing for the victim in terms of their their journey and Hopefully their healing following whatever trauma happened to them but it also protected the perpetrator because there was never an opportunity to scrutinize what had happened nobody was allowed to talk about it and consequently we ended up with serial sexual harassers and And and people who would move from one place to another with literally no history of the problems that they had caused in their Previous place of employment because nobody was allowed to talk about it. So Lin's bill removed certain aspects of that that a Non-disclosure agreement if it was to have that sort of gag order in it It had to be something that the victim was willing to sign and had had a choice of what the parameters of that were and That if they did not want that in there then It was it was absolutely all right for them to talk with you know with within certain Limits is about the case and and to to other people Very groundbreaking piece of legislation which is now being copied in I think Manitoba and British Columbia are currently Have sister bills in their provincial legislatures, which will mimic mimic the work that Lynn did like extraordinary work Another green MLA Lynn Trish Altisly in London and Trish had Were in seats next to each other in summer side Trish did tremendous work on behalf of workers. She did a paid transparency act again I'm I'm trying to tie this into the work of of journey to diversity and in workplaces and The paid transparency act mandated that employers put salary ranges when they Advertise positions and as we well know women do not receive the same amount of work for the same quality and Type of work The same I'm sorry the same rate of pay for the same amount of work and same quality of work that men do That's that's well documented. The data is absolutely clear I'm one of the ways that we can eliminate that and close the gap is to have to transparency on what on what Salaries are offered regarding particular jobs and Trish's bill did that She also brought forward a piece of legislation mandating ten paid sick days for all workers So that so when they are sick They can do the right things right thing for themselves for their families actually for their business for their company And for society in general by staying home Unfortunately that did not pass in our legislator our legislature, but it was a it was a again a groundbreaking piece of Legislation the federal government has done ten days ten paid sick days for people and we were the first province to try and Institute that at a provincial level. Unfortunately. We we were not successful One of the things I I'd like to talk about regarding a journey to diversity Is a bit about my own work life experience for 30 years prior to becoming elected? I was a dentist and Whether you like it or not if you're a dentist you are not only caring for your patients and Helping people get out of pain and do all of the things that dentists do you are also running a business and you get Absolutely no training in that at least I didn't in dental school. Maybe that's changed a little bit now But the idea of creating a culture of inclusivity of acceptance of embracing diversity was something that was an entirely foreign concept to me when I opened my first dental office again many decades ago and It was only through trial and error and through Understanding the importance of fostering respectful loving mutually Caring relationships within my dental office That I learned how important it is for the success of the business that you have Really truly deeply caring relationships with all of your employees and And it was an absolute eye-opener for me to understand that leadership involves Giving responsibility to people allowing them to be the their best selves Allowing them to have freedom to do the job in the way that they want to do it Of course within you know within the values and the philosophy of the business that you are that you are running And when that freedom was offered to my employees without exception they flourished They loved their work and I one of the hardest things after I got elected was leaving my office where I had spent so many years gathering a wonderful group of people around me a dedicated list of of patients and clients in my office My wife and I had bought an old church in our community Which was quite literally falling down and we renovated it turned it into my dental office in the community hall And it was it was a very special place And it was a lot to give up, but I can tell you that the lessons I learned about leadership In my dental office stood me in really good stead when I became a politician I understood the importance of good human relations and what they look like and how critical they are to the success and the well-being of both the individuals within an organization and the organization itself And I know that journey to diversity and workplaces is talking about the collective It's talking about creating these spaces these workplaces Where people do feel safe where people feel respected where they feel valued Where they are truly loved and cared for And in politics, that's a very difficult thing to achieve It's difficult to to achieve in a little tiny rural dental office. I I didn't have a fancy office It was beautiful, but we didn't do much fancy work We had we had most people without you know, didn't have dental insurance So it was it was a lot of sort of bread and butter dentistry But my goodness we had a we had a wonderful workplace In politics, it's much more difficult because you're living and working in what is Very often a hostile environment You have your colleagues so-called in in the house representing other parties Who for some of them their their Main purpose is to trip you up and make your life miserable and Do awful things and say awful things about you So creating That sort of supportive environment and culture that I talked about in my dental office is is You cannot translate that into the political sphere. However You can and we did Create a little safe haven and oasis if I can put it that way within our legislative office Where you knew that you were going to be supported and upheld and hugged and cried with and supported and listened to And I can't tell you how important that was in terms of our effectiveness as a legislative office Um and also on the well-being of the individuals within our caucus That they knew no matter what happened on the floor of the house or what the media were saying or any of the Any of the trials and tribulations related to the day-to-day life in politics They knew that when we came back to our caucus office, it was a place where you could feel Um absolutely accepted um and that was something that we we all Really dedicated and committed ourselves to and what a difference that made um that that Idea that you you absolutely need to have a refuge Where you know, you are loved and you are accepted for you for who you are And I think when it comes to diversity and and our journey to diversity, we have a collective um thing that we're trying to achieve together in my case it was a political party and a caucus office Where we respected each other and where we we did the work we had to do But I think we're also individually on a journey Towards understanding diversity. I spoke a little bit about how I came into this absolutely blind but through Through largely trial and error and probably more errors than anything else Understood the importance of of acceptance of embracing other people and particularly people people who were not like you and That I think we're here on this earth to learn I think that's the purpose of life and There is no Better place to exercise your option To expand your knowledge and your understanding both of yourself and of the world around you and of human relations Than in the world of politics And again, I I I learned a lot in my life as a dentist.  I create space for people I actually speak very little in our caucus meetings. I'm much more interested in listening to those around me and all of those things I think And and gathering the right people around me knowing That I wanted people who were similarly Gentle and quiet and thoughtful Um, because politics is not any of those things most of the time Um, it's loud and it is provocative And it is often thoughtless so Finding a sort of antidote to that within my workplace Our caucus office was absolutely essential for me And I and we had a great diversity In our caucus and we were just blessed. That's I mean you can you can choose the staff in your office But you really can't choose the people who are going to be elected the citizens of your province Of course do that in their various districts We had a lovely diversity of people with lived history And we worked very well together took a little bit of time to understand each other and to and to Come together as a cohesive unit But we did and I know that I will look back and my political career is not over yet I'm still an elected member in our our parliament But I know I will look back at those four years particularly When we were official opposition and I I will look back with enormous pride Not just the political work that we did At the legislation we passed But also in the way that we absolutely changed The culture and the environment of our parliament Our first motion in the house was to end heckling Now for those who watch politics one of the most maddening things at least for me was People shouting at each other people shouting when somebody else was talking People not allowing voices to be heard Now I have to say there was a bit of backsliding on that laterally towards the end of the four years But it was a place where we had real debate And that's again That's something which had never happened on Prince Edward Island before it was a two-party system here Absolutely rock solid iron clad two-party system and we really disrupted that in the most beautiful way I would argue So I will look back at the work that we did here on Prince Edward Island that the leadership that our party showed in Demonstrating that politics doesn't have to be this Never-ending downward spiral into misery and mischief It doesn't have to be that way politics can be uplifting politics Politics can be noble politics can be beautiful Um, not always, but it can be if that's how you set out if that's what you want to do Politics can be a place where you can you can lift people up Where diversity can be embraced where it can be where it's something that can be cherished and I'm and I'm so proud of the fact that we managed to do that here on on Prince Edward Island. I realize I'm getting Um towards the end of the time you allocated to me Peter And I know you had you wanted to send set aside a little bit of time for q&a as well So maybe I'll just close by saying how How incredibly fortunate I feel I am and I'm an extraordinarily lucky man Um, I recognize my privilege I grew up in a family where I was loved Parents who were decent thoughtful caring people And I was launched into this world With far far more Benefits than many people are and of course the fact that I'm a cisgendered white male In politics is is an is something which I I do not lose sight of the fact one incredible privilege that is and what what um And how difficult it is for some people the caucus that we had by the way Um, there were five women and three men And I can tell you that the presence of the women in our caucus absolutely changed The dynamic the conversation Then the nature of the conversation the the the way that we listen to each other the less combative nature Of all of the debates that we had And also that the subject matter that we had midwifery endometriosis pelvic floor health um ovarian cancer women's health issues all all things which really had never been debated fully on the floor of our legislature before And suddenly with all these women there We were talking about these issues and making huge strides in terms of policy And budgetary allocations to make sure that these issues were properly properly taken care of an island and women Had a voice in legislature. It was a an extraordinarily exciting time and um, there are two of us remaining myself and carla Carla Bernard is a A teacher A counselor a therapist And I get just a wonderful human being. Um, so we have gender balance in our caucus and um, I'm Looking forward to this next session and it will be time of adjustment, but I'm I'm so looking forward to it I think I'll stop now peter and I'd be very very happy to take any questions that people have Well, I can start uh and And peter, you know, I I apologize if somebody Uh Feels that you know, this may not be the right question, but I I am very curious that you know Uh, our leader over here They have been a dentist and they have evolved from that Being, uh, you know in the, uh, politics. These are two different things. How do you manage, you know going from one to another? Yeah Thank you, harnie. Uh, firstly for your kind words, but also for your question. Yeah, they may not seem like related um Jobs, but in many respects they are um I think That what I well, let me tell you what gives me The deepest contentment in my life. It's helping other people And as a dentist I had opportunities every day to help people Whether it was to get rid of a toothache or to fix a broken tooth or to improve their smile or you know They were all kind of clean their teeth so that they Felt good about themselves again Um, there were opportunities there to help people and it was never the fancy work that thrilled me or or Particularly boosted me was when somebody came in in pain And they left my office and they were smiling and happy and out of pain um Politics when practiced well Is also really at its core about helping people the constituency work that we do and I just it's funny About 10 minutes before we came on this call and this is politics and pei for you Somebody knocked on my door And it was a constituent. I know her a little bit but not terribly well She lives fairly close by and she wanted to come in and talk about a post-secondary program that her son was doing At one of the colleges here on prince Edward island She came in she she was here for a political visit and that was out of the blue at 10 to seven She she knocked on my door And it was a great joy to she came into the house. I told her that I had this meeting Well, it was eight o'clock my time seven o'clock your time and I said to her I'm sorry pat Um, I don't have a lot of time to speak because I have to go online and speak to these people in ontario Um, but we sat down. I listened to what her concern was I'm going to follow up tomorrow and hopefully her son who's doing this program will be able to carry on doing what he's doing Um, that's just one very topical example of how politics gives you opportunities to serve other people So they're absolutely very different professions But I found I found a sort of a similar pathway into them and through them and uh using the skills that I have To offer the same thing which is to try and help people and that's again It's what gives me the most the deepest satisfaction in my life Thanks a lot for the answer No, thank you, honey. That's right. Yeah. Oh my goodness. That's uh That's a very interesting question and one I've thought about a lot peter um You know politics is baffling bewildering Um, I mean I I said lots of lovely things about the potential of what politics can be but I'll tell you um Lynn lund who whose nda Legislation I've talked about and her friend trecheltas and they're not the only two, of course We have I had a caucus filled with extraordinary people and I'll tell you If you were to do um a sort of a job assessment at the end of of of their term You know if it was a regular job and they were called into the office and they were They were having a review of how they had done All of them would have got gold stars and 10 out of 10, you know in terms of their constituency work their dedication to their constituents to the the work they've done in the legislature They're all of the public things that that you do as a uh an mla and yet almost all of them were unelected um, it politics is a it's a brutal place to be and I mean I I know that I I I knew that logically um, but when you experience it and it hits you in the face just as hard and as Suddenly and as shockingly as it did a month ago. It still takes you aback so we've we It was one of those situations It was a wave of support for a popular premier and a nice guy who had guided us through covid very well and that seemed to be enough for um his party To get the super majority they now have The next four years are not going to be easy years to govern whether you're in ontario or whether you're Pei or whether you're in france or whether you are in new zealand It's going to be a very difficult time The global economy is teetering Uh climate change is a climate catastrophe peter as you refer to it in your opening remarks um is very present and only going to get worse We have a housing crisis here on prince Edward island that I think is replicated throughout the country and around the world We have a concentration of wealth which is making Making it very very difficult for more and more people To simply meet their most basic needs. So it's going to be a very difficult time to govern I'm getting to to your question peter, which is where do you see us in the next election? I think that we have a really good chance because again, we we have had solid 20 Support that's been our baseline of support for the last four years. There's actually more than four years And uh, I don't see that going away So with this government being faced with a lot of very difficult things To to guide us through I think there's a real opportunity because For us if we continue To demonstrate to islanders that we are a mature political party capable Of governing that we have a chance to form government in the next election And I'm not that's not a fanciful thing to say and I'm saying this now a month after we were decimated um But I think we we are we're still held in high regard by the public here in prince edward island And so I would love that my my answer to your question peter is that I think we have a real chance to form government After the next election and I don't think I'm being Pollyanna when I say that That remains to be seen peter um Like most other places, uh health care is Is collapsing here on pei and I use that word advisedly um Wait times here are Are way beyond the national average We have twice the number of job vacancies for frontline health care workers on pei than we do across the country um, there are Fully 20 of the population here that does not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner So our system is stretched to the limit and um in many respects is unraveling So the idea of having medical school in one respect Um science very attractive, you know, if we can graduate our own doctors here on prince edward island and and for the first two years It's a it's a small school because everything we do here on pei is small scale compared to the rest of the country But 10 students each year Um and building up to 20 ultimately um The that and and the first two years would be entirely The intake would be Islanders people who went to high school here and obviously they have to have sufficient marks and all of the rest of it and pre-med degrees That that is going to make a huge difference But the problem is we haven't started to build the school yet Well, we just have we just put the foundation in and then of course it takes five years Of training and then two years of internship before Any of these new docs will actually be seeing patients here on pei and in the interim for the next Probably close to a decade depending on how long it takes to build the school It's actually going to be drawing human resources away from an already Diminished health system because the people who will be teaching in the institution will be doctors here on prince edward island And we already are way short of doctors. We know that So i'm not sure that we actually have the capacity here To build the school or we can build the school But whether we can actually populate it with the Instructors the teachers that we need to do it Um without further Diminishing and compromising the health system which is already in bad shape. I don't know peter. It's it remains to be seen I'm I'm at heart an optimist and i'm really hoping That we can figure this out But my goodness we need we need an influx of frontline healthcare workers including Family doctors here and specialists in order for the school to be up and running and to actually produce the students who will then fit into the system and and give us the the workers that we need but It's it's bridging getting from where we are now to that first graduating class 10 or so years from now that's going to be the real challenge And it remains to be seen whether we actually have the capacity here on pei to do that successfully I hope we do peter, but I don't know that was a long answer to what was probably you thought was a simple question It's been my pleasure. Thank you peter. Thank you. Hard neat. Thank you. Leland. Um, I've really enjoyed chatting with you


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Hey everybody, what's up? I'm Brittany from AJ and Smart. In this video today, I'm going to take you through a whole bunch of online resources that are going to help you learn UX and UI for free. No money required. That's right. No money, no problems. This is all for free. So this video is going to be really great if you're just starting out in the UX UI product industry. I'm going to actually take you into my laptop and show you around 10 to 15 amazing resources that you can use literally right now. You can start today to learn UX, UI, product design, to get a little bit of inspiration. These are going to be some really nice resources that'll just kick you off in the right direction. They're all free. You can start them all right now. And I'm not talking about, you know, articles and videos. I'm talking about like full-blown courses and really needy, needy resources that will help you learn. I have so many resources to share with you guys today. I'm going to stop talking and start showing. So let's dive into the first one. We have a free online course from Udacity. Now, Udacity is a platform that has tons and tons of online courses. And actually a lot of them are for free to start. The thing is you can then move into the paid program if you're really enjoying it or you find you're getting a lot from it. So this one is called product design. It's actually instructed by people who work in product design at Google.  Basically, the whole idea is it's about validation and UX through design sprints. Funny enough. Here at AJ and Smart, we do a lot of those. So it is free. It'll take you about two months. So it's a pretty robust course, which is nice. And the skill level is intermediate. So I think that this would be nice for someone who is actually, you know, knows what UX is, knows what product design is, but needs to get a little bit more of those hands-on basics. All you have to do is you sign up, you sign in to get started. It's super easy. And actually, it's the, you know, the free courses, of course, leading into the nano degree program. Your course leads here are Chris Sadden and Amir Shavett. Great names, both of you guys. And here's the cool thing. You have these four kind of key lessons. So you're learning ideation and validation. You're learning UX and UI here. So you're actually learning how things should look, what's kind of the standard in the industry. You're learning about the design sprint, which, you know, we happen to know a lot about. So you could learn that on our channel as well. But they'll go into kind of the basics behind that as well as key metrics. So how to actually identify metrics for websites and apps relating to, you know, traffic, customer satisfaction and engagement. So this is a really nice course that you can just get started in and see how you like it. And then you can move on further from there. Okay, let's jump into the next tab I have here. This one is from Envision. I really like this because it's a, it's called design talks. And it's actually webinars and kind of online talks about product design, UX, design thinking, all these kinds of things, and they're all coming from experts, right? So you actually have people from, you know, this guy is from Airbnb, Dan Howard, Dane, Dane Howard from Airbnb. And he's actually running one of these talks about the future of UX design. These are the kind of thing that you can really like get really meaty, meaty. I really love that word today. You can get really great advice from these people. They're actually working within the industry. And what's really cool is there's tons of them that you can watch. Look at all of these. They're all open, free, and really just like, you're going to get some really in depth insights through these. And then you can sign up if you want to watch them live as well. So that would be our second resource from Envision. Very, very great. Okay, moving along. This is one of my favorites that I found actually. This is Design Better. And it's called the Principles of Product Design. So this is a little bit more of the basics, but it's super in depth and really like nice to look at, easy to read. You're actually talking about, you know, the core best practices that are going to help you be able to design better, faster, and more collaboratively. So it's, you can download the whole thing, but then they also have it outlined in all, in all these chapters. So like, I really liked this one, this chapter two is all about, let me just go to chapter two here. It's all about story, storytelling. Oh, I might not be on this actually happened one time before. Maybe it's a problem with the site. Sorry, I might have to cut that out for a second. Okay, so this is chapter number two, that is all about like storytelling and how to actually do that. And it's not just like this very kind of, you know, ambiguous talk about how storytelling is important. It's actually going into super detailed of like how to actually use a narrative framework for your products. Super great. And then we also have this guy here who's Kevin Chang from Incredible Labs. And he kind of walks you through how he uses storytelling in his daily work. So it's really high, like really high production value, which I kind of appreciate. I like that. When I'm learning, I like to be entertained as well. But what's really cool is they talk about creating user journey maps with through storytelling. Also down here, there's some really nice visuals, tons of nice videos. So the whole thing is really nicely laid out for you. It makes a lot of sense, you know what I mean? Like you can go through this whole sort of chapter and you really feel like you're getting some really great insights. So it's going to be really, really helpful for you.   If you've never done it before, it might be something that is a little bit new to you, creating an actual user persona for this product that you're making. So really highly recommend this one. It's from Design Better, which is actually from Envision as well. So those Envision guys, they're on it in terms of education. Very, very good. So the next one that I want to bring up is actually Coursera. So Coursera is obviously an online, if you might already know about it, but it's an online platform that has tons of courses on it. And a lot of them have sort of a free start, like a free chunk at the beginning, and then you can upgrade if you want to. A lot of times with these online platforms, they'll give you the kind of mini course for free. They just won't provide you with the certificate. So if you're just at that point where you're curious about how UX works and you want to see if you're really interested in it, or you want to get that nice boost at the start of your career, these are some really great ways to do that. So Coursera has introduction to user experience design. That would be a really great one to start with. It's going to give you the basics, this focus of this course is to introduce the learner to user experience design. Pretty straightforward. Just describing what actually UX is. They go into some nice details as well. You can see here there's also tons of other very similar courses. So once you finish the intro, you can then move into talking about information design, maybe user experience, research and prototyping. That's a really big one for us especially, the design principles. So you can even get into the nitty-gritty of like visual design as well. So Coursera, I would highly recommend checking that out as well. Not as visually nice to look at, I have to say. Which is a bit of a downer in terms of, you know, design courses. But oh well. Okay, this is another one. So this one is called FutureLearn, futurelearn.com. They have tons of courses as well. This one is a user experience course. So you're going to learn about why user experience in UX is important, the research and design basics, and the tools and testing techniques used in UX. You're getting a little bit more detail in this one. And what's nice about this is they kind of have laid out, you know, your studies and how you should actually do it. So the course will last about three weeks. And the idea is that you would do about two hours per week. So this is great if you have another job that you're doing full-time because really committing two hours per week for a course is doable with a full-time job as well. So this one is really nice. You have these nice videos as well. So they go through what topics you're going to actually cover by the week. So week one is why is user experience important. So you're learning the foundation and actually looking at what good usability really is. Week two, you're going through user experience basics. So the importance of user research, super important, user journeys, visual design, structuring your site, wireframes and interactive prototypes. So in a lot of ways they're, they are going to be focusing on web design for this, but also super, I mean, when it comes to user research, journeys and visual design, it will be very similar. And then week three is tools and testing. So you're going to talk about user testing, interaction design, and the importance of analyzing data. So actually a pretty robust course for just three weeks and it's full free. So right, how can you not love it? They also have other courses as well that you can check out tons and tons. You can look at them all up here. Short courses, they've got in depth programs and they have online degrees. So you can definitely start here and then take it from there. Okay, the next one that I really like actually there are a couple of these kind of similar ones coming up. This one is called hack design. And it is a design course, but actually really great for people who are maybe a little bit lazier, like myself. So this is actually you sign up with your email address and you get on a weekly basis, you get delivered the course. So it actually kind of eases you in to the actual content. And basically, you have all of these instructors as well. So these are people who are actually working in the industry, which is so important. I absolutely hate it when you're learning from someone who used to work in design, you know, years ago and they aren't actually they have no idea what's going on in the current landscape. So super important and a variety of opinions and instructors, which is also important to get out of your UX design education. So you sign up with your email address, you get curated lessons every week, and you're learning at your own pace.  So hack design, highly recommend checking that one out. Okay, the next one is from Envision. It's called principles of UX design. And this is another one where actually you'll sign up with your email address, and you will get one email chapter per week on the guiding principles of good UX design. Doesn't that sound lovely? So you'll receive the following chapters. There's nine chapters here. What is your user experience? UX as a practice and the roles that make it up, project planning and process. So this is really good actually, if you are planning on going into a company to work. So you'll actually get a good idea of what it's like working on a product team, which, you know, before you actually go into your first job, there's really not a lot of ways of finding all that out. What's user research? What are the personas and why they're important? Information architecture, visual design, presenting and participating in UX reviews, and then beyond UX, which who knows what that is, right? I have no idea. I like that they keep it ambiguous. It's really good. Okay, let's move on to kind of one that you might actually already know about. It's called linda.com. So this is from LinkedIn. You might already know it now. Actually, the Linda courses are not for free. However, you can get a free month. So it's like, you know, you can have a free month trial. So why not make the most of it, right? Sign up for a free month trial and then just like enroll yourself in tons of courses. Maybe just do one or two just to make you actually make sure you actually do it. But there's really like, look at this practical UX weekly. You have UX design for developers. That's great. Sketch for UX design. This is really cool actually. So you can actually learn these hands-on tools. Let's see what this is like. For an experienced designer or someone who's just getting into UX or product design, Sketch is an amazing tool. It has all the features you need to design for digital devices and screens. And it's easy to use no matter your level of experience. Doesn't she sound excited to teach you? I actually think this is really great though, because not often do you get these like free courses that are about a tool and you don't have to flood through like all of the YouTube channels to try to find someone who's actually explaining it well. So that's really nice. And there's tons of them.  My computer is failing me today. So become a UX, sorry, become an easier experienced designer. UX research, Photoshop for UX design, Figma for like, it's endless on Linda actually. This is really, really great. So if you can just try it for a month, see how you like it. And then maybe you can even sign up for for a little while longer just to kind of improve your skills. They have so many nice courses and tools here. So the next one is very, very cool. This is all about material design. And now material design is of course Google's design guidelines. And they've released this to give you a really nice overview and deep dive on material design, how it should look, how it should feel. You're going to talk colors, typography, shapes, interaction. It's really a nice, nice resource. So it also looks really nice. Thank you Google. So the next one I'm going to show you is Envato. Now, Envato is a marketplace for a lot of different things. You can find graphics, you can find themes, you can find like, basically anything for kind of media and design. So they also have a lot of really nice bite size courses. So you can actually look up in this category, you can click I want UX courses. I've had already clicked on that. But here is all of the UX kind of based courses. And what's really nice is they're like 43 minutes long, you know, 37 minutes long. And they're about all kinds of things. So like this. So why the secret of good UX design is saving users time. Everything you need to learn about customer journey mapping. There's even one from our friend Dansky about Adobe XD. Daniel White has a really nice YouTube channel. You should check it out. We'll put the link below. If you want to learn anything about like Photoshop, he is just a really nice visual designer. So Envato is definitely one to check out.  So now I'm actually going to show you something that is quite cool. This is just on medium, the UX collective is basically a publication on medium. But this guy, I love this. So he calls it his ultimate start guide for beginner UX UI designers in 2019. He's been collecting all of these things that have helped him in his career over the past five years and has put them all here for you. So this resource is going to be really great for someone who's a true newbie, right to the industry. He talks about how to, you know, get in touch with your community, how to like the actual basics behind design and some nice tools that he's used throughout his career. So really it's a nice easy to and it's just full of links. I love it when people just pump their articles full of links. And that's the reason why I actually showed this because I didn't want to show just articles, but he shows so many nice, nice articles. He even talks about like design companies that he's following and, you know, their blogs and you can find all those here. So bravo, sir. Let's see. Johnny Vino. Well done, sir. I really enjoyed this. And I think that you guys will find it really helpful as well. Okay, the last two are actually just magazines that I think are really, really great to stay in touch with design principles and to learn a little bit more about the industry in general, the business behind design. Smashing magazine is really great. So I mean, every day basically there's new articles about UX, about product, about strategy. And these are things that even if you're a beginner in this world, you need to know about the business behind the product and like what the strategy is behind the business in order to really contribute in a real way. So I think that it's really important to watch. I mean, yeah, these are really great. Some are a little bit more intricate than others like design a lead gen landing page for mobile that converts. That's a little bit like, you know, pretty, that's pretty detailed. We also have things about like UX privacy. You even have like sketch versus Figma Adobe XD and other UI applications. So you can really get a good idea of what people are kind of thinking, what they're saying, what they're talking about right now in the industry. And that's the same, same goes with this Musely magazine, which is also on medium. Musely is really, really great. It publishes all kinds of articles from all kinds of different people, but all around UX design and you know, product design. So you're going to have things from like things about typeface, Helvetica, you know, you could also have things about more kind of like strategy deep diving. Yeah, like what I learned from trying to redesign the online craft market experience. This is really detailed stuff, but learning these kinds of things are going to be able to help you to talk about UX more fluently and be able to actually like pull from different things that you've read and learned. So I think it's really important to always stay updated. So things from, you know, just simple design stuff to more like talking about, let's see here, like a like really nice case studies. Musely is actually really great about it. Oh, look, this is Johnny Vino again. He's popping up again. But yeah, he has some really nice case studies and everybody loves a case study that gives you a really nice look through the process of design from initial concept to actually delivering to the app store, for instance. So that is a whole bunch of free resources that you can use everything from actual like thought out specific courses to little bite sized pieces of content if you just have a few minutes and you want to learn something really fast. All of these things that I've shown you are going to help you get a really nice overview of what UX is what design actually means. It's going to show you some of the tools that are sort of standard in the industry. And then it's also going to be able to show you, you know, some best practices behind how, you know, the industry is currently working. And that is a really, really great start if you're interested in learning a little bit more about UX design. Thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did like it, I would love if you hit the little like button. And if you haven't subscribed already, you definitely should. We have tons and tons of videos on our channel, as well as new videos coming out weekly about UX design, product design, product strategy, the business behind design. It's a really, we're working really hard to make some nice content for you guys. Please subscribe. Also, if there are some resources that you found that I didn't mention, I would love if you mentioned them in the comments. That'll be really, really helpful for all of the viewers as well. So thank you very much for watching.  What you can do is follow us on Instagram. 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