OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. So thank you so much for joining me. I'm really excited to be here with you and I feel very honored to be a part of OTAN's Technology and Distance Learning Symposium 2021 conference that's happening March 3rd through the 5th, as you know. And today we're going to be talking about USA Learns Citizenship, which is a free online course. And that course is located at usalerns.org and let me introduce myself briefly. I'm Andrea Willis. I'm the Director of Internet and Media Services and USA Learns at the Sacramento County Office of Education. So just a little tiny bit about me. I've been in this job for about 20 years, just over 20 years, and I love what I do. I have the wonderful opportunity of managing a small technical development team and about 10 people. We're multimedia developers and videographers and artists and voiceover artists and instructional designers and teachers. And we get to build really wonderful projects for various clients, including the California Department of Education, lots of clients within my organization. And don't tell my other clients, but USA Learns is I think the most amazing thing I've ever had the chance to work on. So anyway, that's a little bit about me and Jennifer, I'm gonna let you introduce yourself. Hi, my name is Jennifer Galotti. I'm with, excuse me, I'm with Milpitas Adult School and I teach ESL and citizenship there. And also I work with OTAN as a subject matter expert and I usually present on topics of the intersection between citizenship, ESL and computers. So looking at that kind of intersection and matrix. Wonderful. And I'm always excited when Jennifer can present with me because I can speak about the website and how it was built and, but she really brings that real-life teacher perspective of how she has used it and can share some really great tips with us. And I think my yard guys have joined us for the presentation too, so you might hear them outside. They thought they would come too. Okay, so today we're going to be talking about various topics. I'll share with you a brief overview of USA Learns and Jennifer will share with us a bit about some recent happenings related to US citizenship and she has some really great info for teachers. I'll give you a little tour of our USA Learns citizenship course. We'll talk a little bit about how the course can help with some of the challenges faced by teachers and learners. I'll show you how your learners register and I'll also show you how to create a teacher account in your very own free USA Learns courses. Okay, so just a little bit of history and overview about USA Learns. So the project was originally funded by a grant from the Federal Office of Vocational and Adult Education and the feds wanted to know if adults can learn English online. And after having had so many people come to our website, we think the answer is yes. So the site launched originally in 2008 and at the end of that grant, my organization, the Sacramento County Office of Education was given ownership after a competitive process and we are so happy that we were able to take it over because it's truly been a labor of love for us and we have thoroughly enjoyed being able to maintain it and grow it. The site has been upgraded several times. So when you say, ooh, 2008, that's a really old website. We've actually updated it under the hood quite a lot and we have some other really exciting upgrades happening right now as we speak. And one thing I always like to share is that we are totally committed to keeping this site always 100% free. And so the way we do that is we do have some ads on the site and you'll notice those as I give you the tour. And I mention it because a lot of times people say, ooh, ads, that's bad. But actually when you see the ads, I want you to think, oh, ads, that's good because that's how we were able to pay a programmer to keep this thing alive and do tech support and creating classes and things like that. And we're very, we hesitated for a long time to put the ads. We keep them out of the learning area. We try to keep them, we don't want them to be confusing. So anyway, there's my little pitch about why ads. And I have created a view only version of this presentation and at this URL here, which is HTTPS colon slash slash tinyurl.com slash Y77B as in boy, Z, T, M, A. So anyway, I invite you to check that out later if you want to. Okay, so let me share just a little bit of usage statistics with you. We've had 1.8 billion web pages viewed and 15 million visitors come to our site, which to me, that's just huge. I love those numbers. And when people come, they stay for quite a while. They stay for on the average 23 minutes, which is a really long time for websites. And our site has been accessed by every single country in the world. Oh my goodness, the yard guys are right outside my window. Okay, so here we're looking at a map of the United States and the top states that use our site are Florida, California, Texas, New York, and Massachusetts. Okay, a little bit about the top cities using USA learns. I'm just gonna read these in order. Of course, Los Angeles is number one. They're always the big, no matter what, right? Followed by Lake Elsinore, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Fresno, Stockton, Sacramento, Ontario, Fremont, Santa Clara, Santa Ana, Oakland, Hawthorne. I don't even know where Hawthorne is, do you? Carmichael, Wildemar, Hacienda Heights, Irvine, Garden Grove, and Chula Vista. So anyway, those are the top cities you just might see your city there. And if it's not there now, maybe it'll be there next week after you use it a lot. Okay, so, hey Jennifer, maybe you could tell us about some of the recent happenings related to citizenship that would affect teachers. I'm gonna give you up to five minutes. I'm gonna share my screen, okay? So I'm gonna share my screen. Hopefully this is it, okay, very good. So yesterday I presented in citizenship. I'm sorry if this is a repetitive. Okay, so one of the big things last summer is that USCIS updated their website to make it much more mobile friendly. They added some new tools so people can check their case status online. And more importantly, submit a case inquiry. And what a case inquiry is, is that if their case is out of, if it's gone on too long. So for instance, they applied in March and they still haven't gotten any response from USCIS. They can submit a case inquiry and say, please take a look and see what's going on with my case. Also, they made some more updates to USCIS Citizenship Resource Center. So all the lovely lesson plans that we're so dependent on have been updated, but more importantly, the links have been updated. So the old links that you've embedded in your Google Classroom or Canvas course or whatever the case might be, those are now all obsolete and you have to go back and update them. But it's really worth it because the quality of the stuff that USCIS has. I wanna talk a little bit about the 2008 test versus the 2020 test. Last November, they announced that they were gonna implement the 2020 tests on December the 1st. And in February 22nd, they basically rescinded the test. There was a lot of pushback from the community because they did not like the test. And truly, the test was not through the vetting process that they would normally have where they would roll it out into the communities and do a lot of pilot testing. They were able to pilot test it, but with a very, very small number of people, not representative, I think, of the American immigrant population. So USCIS did listen and did respond and did rescind that test. And I wanna share four screenshots from the March 3rd webinar. I wanna just blow through this stuff that I have about the, no, I'm gonna do one. One of the biggest problems with the test was the people were really upset about these questions. Who does a US Senator represent? And they're saying the citizens of their state. These questions here, these four questions were very much in paralleled the attempt by the previous administration to include questions related to citizenship on the census. And then also related to the push that they wanted to basically not count undocumented people within the state. And you know, documented or undocumented people, those people are accessing our public services. So anyway, USCIS was able to respond to the cases that came down from the Supreme Court and respond to the community and basically rescind this. If you wanna see some further information about that, you could take a look at it. This is one of the slides from the March 3rd webinar when they're talking about the recent, taking back the test. They're talking about some people, if they've studied those 128 questions they still can be tested on that. Here's a comparison of who can take what test. So if you've studied or if you applied between December the 20th and March the 1st, you can choose to take the 2020 test or the 2008 test. Continue on from there. Again, they were doing a comparison of how people did on the 2008 test versus the 2020 test. They're saying that a lot of people were still passing. However, I think there was a really small sample size and really not reflective of the American immigrant population at large. And I'm gonna do two more updates. American, or sorry, preparing the oath from Smithsonian has updated the website. They're no longer using a flash, which is really great. So if you need students to study civics, there's one video for every single one of the civics questions. And I wanna talk about COSIS. COSIS, I would say that the COABS, EL Civics COABS 54 about the 2020 census is still valid because it's related to apportionment. The census still needs to publish their findings from the 2020 census. We need to prepare for the American Community Survey where there's 30 questions on that survey and it does ask things about citizenship or legal status. And this is very important because they're taking a look at how best to apportion money for hospitals and schools, et cetera, et cetera. Second thing from COSIS is that the CIT can be administered remotely. So the way I administer it is I have a fillable PDF of the CIT test. I have a Zoom call open with my students or a FaceTime call and I basically ask the questions and mark their questions on the fillable PDF and then send that into my office and they're very happy with it. And right now COSIS is field testing, citizenship listening tests and that's really great. So that's it for my updates and I'm gonna turn it back over to Andrea. There you go. Does anybody think? Thank you so much. Yeah, does anyone have questions for Jennifer? Feel free. Okay, real good. Thank you. Okay, can you all see my screen and hear me? Yeah, okay, great. All right, so Jennifer, thank you so much for those thoughts. Those were great. Okay, so let me share with you a few key things that I think are important to know about USA Learns. First of all, there's a learner website and you find that at usalerns.org. So that's where you would send your students to study. And there's also a teacher site and it is located at usalerns.org slash teacher. So that's kind of important to know. So just a quick overview about our citizenship course. It uses intermediate level language and what makes it so special in my opinion is that it helps prepare our learners for all aspects of the naturalization interview. And that's really very special, I think, because there are lots and lots of websites where you can go and study the 100 questions and that's pretty easy. And from what I hear from people, the 100 questions is not the hardest part of the interview. Most people pass that part. It's more the N400 section. And in my opinion, that is what, you know, the way that we help people prepare to answer those questions about their N400 application, that's what makes this really special. So the topics we cover include getting legal help, steps becoming a citizen, avoiding fraud, preparing for the N400 application questions, US history and government, speaking, reading, writing, small talk and lots more. And so far about 300,000 learners have completed about 3 million activities in that course. And I just love that our website makes that possible, especially during the pandemic. I think it was great because we were already up and running and we're a fairly well-known website in the adult ed world. So teachers and learners were able to just come right to our site and not have a big gap in service, I guess. Okay, so just a little bit of bonus info for you. We also have various English courses. We have the first English course, which is low beginning to high beginning ESL and includes 20 video-based units about survival English language. We have English One Plus, which is beginning high, intermediate, low, and based on Voice of America's Let's Learn English videos. And here we have- Okay, my students are using this right now. Are they? Do they like it? I'm using ESL One. Yes, can I talk really quickly about this? Please, yes, please do. I love things about it. So this was a weekly series originally for VOA news. Their ESL component is VOA Learning English. And so there's 52 weeks of lessons. And so you can go to the website and look at the short like five minute lessons about this person is learning to work, this person is learning how to interrupt, this person is learning how to apologize in a business setting in Washington DC. However, VOA took the best of that series and added a whole bunch of more of interactive activities. So you could really dig it to the vocabulary. So I think it's made the course so much better because when you were originally doing the VOA learning English video series, you would just sit there and passively be received the information or maybe you would do one of the grammar worksheets from VOA. VOA, sorry, USA Learns has enabled students to actually interact with the vocabulary and practice a lot of the listening. They really like it. So I'm using this now on my ESL One class in Zoom and it's really, really helped out my students. I love that. Thank you. That's lovely. And yeah, as you mentioned, Jennifer, you mentioned something that we at USA Learns absolutely love to do, which is we love to find a high quality video series that we can get the rights to use. And what we do is we take those videos and we chop them up into little tiny pieces. And then we build instruction around all those videos because, and the students really get into it. They get kind of attached to the characters. They wanna tune back in, watch more videos, see what Anna's gonna do. She gets herself in trouble at work and they wanna see how she's gonna get out of trouble and that kind of thing. So yeah, great. Thank you for sharing that was good. All right, another one is second English course. I also love this one. We've got our Genie and some really wonderful characters that are just really fun to watch. This is intermediate level and it's 20 video based units about job and life skills. And then the last one just quickly here, practice English and reading, also intermediate level. It's based on real life news stories that we got from a news station here in Sacramento a while back, teaches reading, vocabulary speaking and comprehension. And for those of you who have been around forever like I have, you might remember the California Distance Learning Project website. Well, my team built that forever ago and this course's content is actually the content that we pulled from CDLP site and put in here because we love that interactive piece. As Jennifer mentioned, we love being able to let the students interact with the content, not just passively sit there and watch it. And I think they really like the speaking activities where they're basically repeating back and listening to themselves. They really enjoy that part. Cool, that's good. I love to hear that. And then this is our newest course. It's called Skills for the Nursing Assistant which launched on October 5th. It's intermediate advanced ESL and it teaches specifically communications skills for the healthcare field. It covers the language and academic skills to help entry-level medical workers be successful on the job, so I invite you to check that one out too. Okay, so back to USA Learned Citizenship. One thing I'm really proud about is the high quality content. We worked with a team of about 30 people to create this course. We worked with expert ESL and citizenship teachers and immigration attorneys at Immigrant Legal Resource Center, program specialists at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, also known as USCIS. And it has high quality resources that align with USCIS adult ed citizenship education content standards and foundation skills. And it uses USA Learned's best practices. And when I say it uses our best practices, I mean that when you've had so many people come to your website, you kind of know where they get stuck, what's easy, what's hard, what they like, what they don't like. And so we try to only use those best approaches as we develop our new courses. Okay, so for those of you who have been teaching this stuff forever, you probably know this. For those of you who are newer to it, let's just do a quick little rundown. I don't know, Jennifer, do you wanna cover this slide or I can? Well, one thing that I've been asking myself is how many people have used USA Learned's first before? Oh, yeah. Hey, Holly, maybe you could watch the chat. If you guys could tell us in the chat, have you used USA Learned's before? Yes or no? Okay, yes. Yes. Oh, yay, yay? No. No, okay. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So it looks like most have no. All right, some yeses and some noes. Yeah. Okay, so let's just go through this slide. So what all happens? Let's imagine you have applied to be a US citizen. So what happens during that interview? So let's just go down this list. Jennifer, jump in whenever you want. I'll just start. Okay. I'll start. Or you can, whatever. So usually, of course the small talk is super important because this is when the examiner is trying to assess how much English you understand. Then they go through, they ask you the 10 questions from USCIS lists of questions and we're so happy that it's only 10 questions as opposed to the 12 and the 128 questions. There's the reading and writing of one sentence and then they're going to ask you the questions for the N400 application for naturalization. So what's really important is that a lot of people think that the citizenship interview is only the 100 questions and they're not prepared for the N400 questions. That's where they usually fail. So USA Learns basically addresses this problem by putting this matter at the forefront. Also, one of the big problems with citizenship is a lot of times people get really bad legal advice. So USA Learns puts that at the forefront. So thank you so much. Thank you. That's great. Thank you. Okay, Andrea. Yeah. We do have a question. Okay. What's your name? Okay, Christina. Is a student allowed a translator at the interview? I'm gonna let Jennifer answer that. It depends on the person if they've notified. Okay, there's two things. Number one, it depends on what's happening with COVID. In there, in their county. Okay, that's number one. Number two, it really depends if they've told the, if they said before or they contacted USCIS before and said that this person used a translator to do their USCIS application. They're going to be using a translator during the interview. So they just can't show up with the interviewer. Also, the interviewer has to be a legitimate interviewer. So some people understand Spanish really well. You mean translator, right? Translator, so thank you so much, the translator. But they can't say exactly what the officer is saying in English in what they don't exactly translate what the officer is saying because they don't understand the technical vocabulary. So it really depends what you mean as a translator. And remember, the people really need to be mindful of the fact that the interview is done in English unless people have been in the United States for unless the person goes over, I believe it's 50, 55 years old and has been in the United States for 20 years. And it's not only that they've been in the United States for 20 years, they have to have a green card for 20 years. And so that kind of stuff can be really problematic. The thing is that a student does not need to speak English a lot during the interview, but they have to be able to understand English and they have to be able to give short answers. So when the person was asking about the translator, were they thinking of a specific scenario? Who was asking the question? Oh, Kristina. It's me, hi. Yeah, hi, what's going on? What are you thinking of? Yeah, good to see you. Tell us, tell us. So all my students, you know, speak English, but I had a new student, one student and I had a family member and I know the student from years ago. And she said, my mom just does not speak English very well and she's like a level two. She understands, but she doesn't speak it. So she said, is she allowed to translate it? And other students who've just taken the test and come back and described what had happened said, well, you probably have to notify USCIS somehow and get some kind of approval. So I didn't know if you knew anything about that. Yeah, it depends also what office, I'm sorry, Kristina, I didn't ask what office are you going to, Los Angeles or San Francisco? Where are you going? This is San Jose. Oh, in San Jose? Yeah. Gee, I don't know if anybody going in with a translator a long time. Kristina, let me, I'm gonna, you know what, can I connect up with you later on? Of course, yes. You have my email or I can send you an email. Okay. Yeah. And the other thing, one other thing about, because we just moved zones at our COVID-19 restrictions, a lot of people were saying no to translators because of COVID-19. So that's one of the considerations. But seriously, if you're at ESL2, I've had ESL2 students pass the citizenship test because honestly, they do not need to know how to speak that much English. They need to know how to yes, no, and they need to know how to give personal information. But that's about it. Because remember, the test, the USCIS interview, it's not a vocabulary test. So they're not gonna be, so even though they need to understand what a prison is or a persecution is and everything like that, they need to be able to understand it. And if they don't understand what the officer says, they say they need to be able to say, I don't understand, please explain, before they say yes or no to the question. And so those are the kind of skills that they need to go into the test. How many times are they allowed to repeat the question? Is it twice? What do you mean by, oh, like if I'm asking you, have you ever persecuted anyone? Yes. Okay, they don't have a set, they don't have a set number of times they have to repeat, but there is a difference between saying, please repeat and please explain. Can you say that in another way or can you? Yeah, can you say that in another way? Or please explain. To be a citizen for a test of a crisis, they somehow came up with, you can only ask to repeat the question twice. Yeah, that's for the CIT, that's not for the US citizenship interview. Okay, okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. We'll connect up on the translator, that's a really good question. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, so in talking with various teachers over the years, I love to ask people, hey, so what are some of the biggest challenges that your students have experienced during the test or what are some of the most difficult parts of teaching this to your learners? So if you want, you could feel free to enter any of those ideas into the chat. In the meantime, I'll share with you my list that I have kind of collected here. So many teachers tell me that it's very difficult vocabulary, right? Especially as related to those N400 questions and there's lots and lots of that vocabulary. The English speaking part is tricky, right? A lot of people don't realize that the minute the interviewer or the officer meets the applicant, that officer is already listening to the small talk in the hallway and determining, hmm, does this person speak English? Part 12 of the N400 is also very tricky. All those words, like, have you ever committed genocide, homicide, or any other kind of side? Questions about, excuse me, illegal activities are difficult because you're speaking about some very personal. Oops, you muted.  It said, the host muted you, Polly. I'm not even touching my mouse. Everybody got tired of hearing me, so they're like, stop talking, you and her. I'm sorry, I muted you. Oh, you muted. I wanted to mute myself. I was like, I swear, I didn't do anything. That's okay, no problem. Anytime you get tired, just mute me. So anyway, you might not have heard me say, you know, those questions about illegal activities are difficult, right? They're personal questions. It's difficult words to explain, oh gosh, what did I do that was not legal? Those questions about the time spent outside of the US, those are tricky too. I mean, I personally, if someone asked me, tell me all the dates in which you left and entered the United States over the past five years, I couldn't tell you that off the top of my head. I would need to prepare for those questions. And then just the general stress of the interview, right? Those unknowns. So anyway, hey, Holly, did we get any comments in the chat about other things that are tricky? No, we did not, not yet. All right, all right. Well, we can always talk about those in a bit. Okay, so I would like to now give you a little tour of the course. Okay, so here we are at usalearns.org on our homepage. And if this was my very first time here, I would click start now, but it's not my first time here. I've been here about a million times. So I'm going to sign in with my student account information. I will enter my email address that I used on the student site and I will enter my password. And I will sign in. Okay, so here I am on the USA Learns my homepage. And these are all of the courses that we offer. I shared a little info with you about these before, so we won't get into that here. But I'm going to scroll down till I get to USA Learns citizenship. And here we are on the unit menu page. And we have four units. They are steps to becoming a US citizen, the N-400 interview practice, civics reading and writing practice. And it's all based on the 2008 questions. Your interview and new citizenship. So let's just, I'm going to give you a little tour of some of my favorite parts. And hey, Jennifer, feel free to jump in anytime if there's something you want me to show. Okay, so here on the lesson menu for the steps to becoming a US citizen unit, we have three lessons they are become a US citizen, the first steps and be prepared. So let's just take a little peek. Okay, so here we are on the activity menu and these blue bars here represent the various topics that are covered. So we've got the introduction, why become a US citizen and am I eligible? So let's just check out a little sequence here. So the welcome video. And we have this here. It says play the video to learn about this course. So let's play this YouTube video. And I'm going to click the read text button so that it, oops, there we go. Welcome to USA Learns Citizenship. My name is Jean and I'll be your guide through this course. So we won't listen to the whole thing, but we have a nice little intro video that folks can watch. And then let me point out a button that I especially like on the course. It's the next button and it might seem weird to get all excited about a button, but I love this button because I can click that button literally and make it through the entire course. I don't need to be a computer genius. I don't have to have amazing computer skills to go through the course. So I'm going to hit next. Okay, so here we have our learning goals and here we are supposed to read the learning goals for this lesson and then select listen to hear the goals. So let's just do that. It's a nice little short one. In this lesson, you will learn about the reasons to become a US citizen. You will also learn about the requirements for becoming a US citizen. Okay. And Andrea, we do have a question. Great, what is the question? Do we create a student or teacher account to access the videos? Yeah, that's a really great question. So USA Learns, as I shared, there's a learner side and there's a teacher side. So if you want to kind of preview the course like a learner would see it, you're going to want to create your own learner account. So I know that's always kind of a point of confusion because it's confusing. And someday we'd like to change that, but for now that's kind of how it is. So if you want to watch the videos and see the content, you're going to create yourself a student account. You know what? And one of the reasons why you want to create a student account initially is for instance, if you just send a student to USA Learns course, it's really a large course and students can get lost in it because there's so much. So what I have been doing is using USA Learns as a quick warm-up for my citizenship classes. And so I log in as a student. I do a demo of one of the videos or the lessons or the vocabulary, whatever the case may be. And that has actually inspired students to sign up themselves rather than me putting everybody into using a teacher account and putting everybody into the course. So I really would say initially sign up as a teacher and you may want to use one of your supplementary accounts as opposed to your teacher's email address, OK? So when I sign up as a teacher, I mean, sorry, as if I'm demonstrating as a student, I'm going to use USCcitizenpod at gmail.com or gmail.org.com. And then when I'm doing a teacher and I'm gathering my students together to organize them in a class cohort, that's when I would use sign up on a teacher account. You can't use both. You can't use the same email for both. Yeah, that's a great point. Yeah, that's a great point. So you're saying, Jennifer, use kind of your more standard, the email address you use the most and that you check the most. Use that one for your teacher account. And if you have some other email address that you don't care that much about, use that for your student account, right? Yes, yes. Great, thank you. Thank you. That was a great point. Love it. OK. Hongmei, Hongmei. OK, Friday, 10 o'clock. She muted me, too. OK, all right, I'm back. OK, so here we are in why become a US citizen, watch and learn. So we have some information about why one should become a citizen.  You'll notice lots and lots and lots of videos in multimedia. There's probably thousands of audio files and video files and images and things like that that we've created. So let's just take a little peek at this video. 10 reasons to become a US citizen. I'm going to fast forward. OK, here we go. First, as a US citizen, you have the right to remain in the United States. You cannot be deported. Before I became a US citizen, I worried about changing immigration laws.  US citizens can help more family members get legal status in the US and in a shorter time. After I became a citizen, my mom came to live with us from Taiwan. So anyway, there's a little sample of some of our video work that we've done for this course. OK, and then here we have a check your understanding activity and the instructions say to select all of the correct answers. And the question is, what are some benefits to becoming a US citizen? The answer options are you can vote. You can travel with US passport. You can help family members come to the US. Your young children can more easily become US citizens. Check, yay. So you see, I got two stars. That means I got it right on my first try. If I would have answered incorrectly, I would have had another try at it, and I would have only received one star. And that grade would reflect on my menu page. OK, so let's see here. Am I eligible? OK, so this is a learn key words activity. And let me show you how we teach the vocabulary. So we have an image and an audio file. US CIS. And then we have it. There's typically a definition and a sample sentence. So here the definition is United States citizenship and immigration services. And the sample sentence is the US CIS office will process your application for citizenship. And I will select the next button. And we have naturalization and at least requirement. OK, so you get the idea. That's how we teach vocabulary. Let me see here. I'm going to now select this lesson menu button. And let me point this button out while we're here. Whenever you see one of these buttons, these menu buttons and you want to go back a level, go ahead and select that button. And it'll just take you back a level. And like now it says unit menu. I could click that and go to the unit menu. So here we are. Let's see, what are the first steps? OK, so we have some learning goals. We give a little overview here about the first steps of becoming a citizen. You need to complete the N 400 form. And you need to know what it costs. And there's a big push here about getting legal help if you need it. And we had partnered with the New Americans campaign who provides lots of amazing services for our applicants. Citizenship works. OK, so let's see here. So after you submit your N 400, what happens? You know, you might be called to go for your biometrics appointment, which I think just is basically you're getting a photo.  And what do you do if you move and some things to prepare before the interview? A little overview of what happens during the naturalization interview, some info about exceptions and accommodations, what happens after the interview. And then we have a little check your understanding activity. OK, lots and lots of info about being prepared. We have some really great resources for how to study. So of course, we always suggest that people study this course because we think it's a very helpful resource for people at USA Learns. USCIS website also has some great some great learning resources there. And of course, citizenship and English classes at an adult school near you. We can't leave those important people out. And there's always your local library. OK, and then as I shared lots and lots of info in here about do I need legal help?  And, you know, that's basically if you had to answer yes to any of these questions, you may need to get you should get some qualified legal help. And Jennifer, if you want to say anything about red flags, I saw you unyielded. Yeah, I did want to say red flags. One of the things is, for instance, if you've had a lot of our students have had a rest because of maybe for what is that called drunk driving or have done some jail time way in the past, even if they've had their files expunged, they need to come back and take and they need to have get some legal assistance to help practice those questions and also to access the court records. So it's easy enough to access court records for traffic. They simply go to the police station and petition for those court records. And down in San Jose, you you pay $10 and you get that. But for some people, it can be very, very intimidating. So even using this opportunity to walk your students or giving them a quick website tour of this is how you petition to get your court records is going to be really, really helpful. And it will give them the confidence to go to do it themselves. So this is good. And some of the questions are a little bit more difficult. For instance, I had a student who was really stuck in citizenship. Was it moving forward and backward? It turned out that she had a prior situation where it was domestic violence, or excuse me, child abuse, that her child accused her of being abused where and the thing was is that there was a new baby in the house and the mother was working with the baby and couldn't pay enough attention to the daughter. But the thing is the child services did come away and take away the kids. And it was one of the most traumatic experiences of my student's life. And she said, I mean, when she was telling me about it, she was crying, crying, crying. So there was a lot of emotions that were involved with it. We worked with her so she could explain it simply and have the documentation. And she was able to pass that. But sometimes you need to address those kind of emotions in private with your student. And you have to be sensitive as a teacher. And you have to not only address the English aspect of it, but I'm not a lawyer. So you're going to say, I can hook you up with the legal services in San Jose and how they would access your court records, et cetera. So there's a lot of really rich stuff connected with the red flags. But it's going to be difficult to get to that. And you do not want to exploit your students. You don't want to scare them off. You don't want to re-traumatize them. So. Right. That's great info. Thank you for sharing that, Jennifer. I always love to hear your personal experience of how your students have dealt with these kinds of things. OK, so let's talk a little bit about the, here we are on the unit menu. Let's talk a little bit about N400 interview practice. So let's see here. So we have a unit introduction. Oh, wait a second. Can you go back to the activity? Is anybody, I want to just stop. So they've taken the N400. They've broken it down into 10 different sections. Does anybody want to, is anybody working with a really problematic section that they would like to see? Great question. Yeah, great question. All right, well, I think I'll start. And then if you, anyone has any ideas, just let me know. Well, I have, I have, I have something to say about that. Oh, OK. OK, so. Have you ever. I like number six because the family relations, the person in, in these later stories, like Chen's story and Rosa's story, some of them do not have the most, some people do not have the most perfect relationship here series. They don't, they may have been living with a boyfriend or girlfriend. They might have a child with one person. They might have a relationship or a marriage with another, or there might be divorce and everything like that. This is when the students really start digging into the course because it's, there's a little bit of drama that's much more interesting for them. So this is when the, the USA learns, starts picking up interest for my students. If you could go back to the previous, previous ones, if you're talking about 2.7 all the way down to 2.10, these are the part, the sections about part 12. And this is going to be really helpful for your students to go in. And even you yourself can use these as demonstrations because there's some really clear vocabulary, some very interesting scenarios, things about arrests, et cetera, et cetera, that will really help you learn the vocabulary. Because if you're talking about arrests, some people have never experienced the rest, but they're interested in reading experiences or listening to experience about people who have been through that. So now this is going to start getting more real. Yeah, great. That's a great point. And Edith had suggested, maybe we check out something that includes the have you ever stuff. And so maybe illegal activities would be a good one. Yeah. So anywhere from 2.7 to 2.10, that's where you're digging into the part 12, have you ever questions? So take a look at Paul's story. So you've gone through the keywords, et cetera, et cetera. Here you're going to read his scenario and you can listen to it and then you're going to be answering questions. Paul was stopped by the police after he had been drinking at a party. So we hear a little bit about his story. He got stopped by the police. They took him to the station. He stayed the night in jail. He had to pay $9,000. The judge did not give him more jail time, et cetera, et cetera. And then we answer. My students say that he got off cheap, too. He got off cheap. Oh, so much more in Santa Clara County. And somebody says, how do you know? And then the truth doesn't say anything more. I'm not saying. No comment. It happened to a friend. Yeah, yeah. So we have some really great listening activities here. So let's see what. So I think this is just basically going to read this. Have you ever committed, assisted in committing, or attempted to commit a crime or offense for which you were not arrested? Ooh, so what will Paul say? I think he'll say, no, I have not. Okay, I got it right. And what's really important is you're teaching your students how to listen for key vocabulary because they're going to hear all this vocabulary coming at them.  And it's like, no, you have to actually, if you just sit there and look blankly and do a reactionary no to the have you question, the students, that's when the USCIS officer will actually stop you and ask you to start defining things. So students really have to listen for those keywords. Yes.  That's a lot of wise. Happening stuff, Christina. In our chat. He wanted to know what to say. I'm a generous man with a lot of love. Something. Wow, that's interesting. OK, so then we'll have, you know, so we have the key words.  And these are really good. Those those are really good. The front part, excuse me, can you step back? What? Absolutely. Quickly. Yeah. When you're learning the key words.  Here you can almost use this as a slideshow to present the vocabulary and it's just so helpful. Oh, thank you. Yeah. And I'll share with you. I'm I call myself the queen photo searcher. So most of these pictures, I found them and some of them were not easy. Not easy. Not easy because you want someone to look at that picture and just know what it is, you know. So, yeah, so arrested. And it's always interesting when you're looking for pictures, it's like, OK, you've got to have the handcuffs. Very obvious, you know, anyway. Sighted, detain. I like that look of embarrassment. I know she's like, ah, yeah, oh, I did it. And I'm busted, detained, charged with a crime, convicted of a crime. Rehab sentence, suspended sentence, probation. And a lot of these things are not actually part of our students experience, lived experiences. So showing the pictures, not as a cartoon, but as real life photos is really, really important. Right. And see this one paroled, you know, it's like, how do you show that visually? Well, we went with the ball and Shane that is now off of the guy's foot and now he is walking away. So yeah, lots of, we put a lot of attention into the imagery. OK, so here's a little listening activity. Select the four keywords you hear. So let's listen. Have you ever committed, assisted in committing or attempted to commit a crime or offense for which you were not arrested? And they're not in order. So it's not that easy, right? Yeah, of those activities. OK. So that, oh, let's show. I would like to show you how we practice speaking. Oh, shoot. Of course, I picked the one with me in it when I looked younger. OK. And with this one, we want them to practice. We want the learner to practice asking the, you know, the officer to slow down or say it again. So I say it really fast on purpose. Have you ever lied to any U.S. government officials to gain immigration benefits while in the U.S.? OK, so now I'm supposed to say what it says on screen here. I'm sorry. Could you say that more slowly? And then I hit OK. So I clicked listen at first. I got to hear the native English speaker. So now I'm going to select the Speak button and say what the text says there. I'm sorry. Could you say that more slowly? Then I hit Stop. Then I hit Playback. And I will hear the native English speakers first, voice first, and then my voice. I'm sorry. Could you say that more slowly? I'm sorry. Could you say that more slowly? And I can do this activity as many times as I want with no embarrassment of feeling like, you know, I'm saying it too much. OK, so anyway, that's how we do speaking. All right, Jennifer, anything else on this side we would like to look at? I just feel a feel that this is 7.2.7. This is 2.9 or is it 2.2 2.9. If you access one module, make sure you hit 2.9, 2.8 and 2.9 are really the best modules, I think. And then of course, the other things within Civics and when you're doing the, if you could step back one more menu. So of course, when you do the Civics, there's you could go to Smithsonian, but here is self-contained in this in USA Learns and your interview and your new citizenship. So this is really interesting because a lot of students get so bogged down in learning this stuff, they don't realize, you know, there's going to be, there's going to be the interview itself, which is going to happen outside the classroom. And then also, what are you going to do as a new citizen? So this is a really good section too. This section really gives people hope. That's awesome. So let's check out Civics reading and writing practice. Okay, so you all are probably familiar with that box of the 100 questions, right? Those lovely flashcards. So when we started planning this lesson or this unit, we basically took that box of cards and we went to a big long conference table back in the day when you could actually go to the office. And we went through the cards, we said, oh, look, here's one about geography. And we started a pile of cards about geography. Oh, look, here's one about our system of government. You know, so we kind of categorized them. And we said, okay, well, we ended up with this list of basically 16 or 15 topics. And so then we created content around it. So let's check out some things. So US geography is one of them. Do you realize this is basically a class list or a syllabus of a normal USCIS citizenship class? We usually start geography, proceed through the history and then go into the politics, except probably we would put symbols up by geography. But this is like almost like every class, okay, we're gonna do the geography section. We're gonna do the early American section in the next class, the next class, the next class. Nice, that's great, that's great.  Yeah, nice. So can we go to legislative branch? That's where we are right now. Yeah, let's go to legislative branch. Okay. So what would you do with this, Jennifer, if you're teaching about legislative branch, how would you use this? Of course, I would basically usually present the keywords first. My students really do like the listening and the meaning match, but then they have the civics lesson under, let's watch. I really, sometimes I skip that, I actually go to the comprehension check. Really depends what's going on. I always like that there's a grammar point there is and there are, and I cannot tell you how many thousand times I have, somebody said, teacher, who's my congressman? It's like, oh my God, I've made videos of this, I have a TPR for this, all sorts of things, and I still need to answer this question, so. So here it is again. Yeah, there it is. So you talk about that, and of course the civics questions, but if you wanna step through those, that would be good to see. Would that be nice? Okay, great. So let's see here. So learning goals, we're going to learn words and information about the legislative branch, identify keywords when listening, practice your answers to 13 civics questions about legislative branch, and practice speaking and spelling for the reading and writing tests. Okay, we can do that. So here's our vocabulary. Congress. Congress, we have definition, we have a sample sentence. So the definition, the Senate and the House of Representatives and the sample sentence is, the two parts of Congress work together to make laws. Represent. Doesn't she look like she's representing everybody? Yes. Thank you. Elect, Senator, population. I love our pictures.  To serve in a political office. Speaker of the House. Voting member. Okay, we're always sure for Nancy. And people really like this because it's very simple, very clear. Listening for it. So hit the listen for it. Members of Congress represent the people of their states. And it's just not the vocabulary, but it's the vocabulary and context. So of course you would choose number one. Yes. Our choices are, this lady who looks like she's representing people, or a guy who looks like he's kind of weighing pros and cons there and the statue holding the weights. Okay, so let's see if we get it right. Yay, we're so good. Correct, two stars. Now select next. Okay, let's do one more. I'm gonna select listen. California is the state with the largest population. Population, is it this one that looks like a bunch of people all over the map of the US? Okay, these folks, these folks, let's go with this one. Yay. We worked first on that one. We're like, that's not California. I know, it's population. Cause what we do is we basically have each vocabulary where it has one picture. And that was our population one. Okay, so let's look at another thing here. Let's see, what is this one? Let's watch. Okay, so this is a little video that my team created. The legislative branch. Fast forward, here we go. We'll just look at a little bit of it. The US federal government has three main branches. The legislative branch, also called Congress, makes laws. Members of Congress. You can also turn on the CCT. Oh, that's true. You can turn on the closed co-option. And what I really liked especially about that video is you were using the graphic from USA.gov. Which is basically, it's a infographic used by the government a lot in, sorry, I'm taking back what I said. That's okay. Yeah, okay. So one thing you'll notice as you watch these videos that we created, what we tried to do was to take all of the questions related to that topic. So let's say they were, I don't know, five or 10 or whatever related to the legislative branch. And then we tried to basically glue each of those questions together with a little tiny bit of glue. So we didn't want a big long video that had a bunch of unnecessary stuff in it. We just wanted to teach those questions with some visuals and audio. So anyway, I think those turned out pretty nice. All right, so here we have the video showing again. If someone wants to watch it again and then we have a multiple choice question. A U.S. Senator represents, let's see, all the people of the state, all the citizens of Washington, D.C., or all the people of the city. Yay, I got it right. Okay, all right, so let's see here. Yes, we have some nice grammar. There is, there are. I don't know, Jennifer, you want to say anything about this lovely grammar chart? I make mistakes myself, so. Okay, then let's pass on having you do it. Yeah. So we have a little grammar chart about there is and there are, and then we keep that chart on screen while we display the multiple choice questions. Okay, and then here we have, oh, so you're probably familiar with the lovely set of videos that USCIS made. We just love them where the officer is looking straight at the camera and asking each of the 100 questions. And these are real officers, they're not actors. Yeah, and we really love these because we wanted to give applicants a true feeling of what is it like when I go into that office and I sit down and the person is looking at me and asking me questions. So anyway, so we were excited about these. So we took these and we have the question. Who makes federal laws? Congress, Senate and House of Representatives, US or national legislature? So we took those little videos and we actually do various things with them throughout the course. You'll notice at different points, we use only the question and then we have the applicant practice saying the answer. So anyway, those are pretty fun. Let me see, here's, oh, here. Okay, so here's an example of that. So here I'm on a pronunciation practice activity. I'm supposed to play the video to hear the question, select, listen to hear the answer. So how many US senators are there? How many US senators are there? And so here we're kind of, we're helping the learners, we're showing the answer. So I'm gonna hit listen. 100. Now I'm gonna click speak 100. Now I'm gonna click playback. 100. 100. And I hear my voice followed by the voice of the native English speaker. Okay, so that's how we have kind of creatively maximized those videos from USCIS. Let me see, what is this one? Practice quiz. Okay, so here's a multiple choice thing. We let the learners interact with this information in as many ways as we possibly can. Okay, so let me show you how we help learners prepare for the reading test part of this. So it's called read aloud. Okay, reading test practice. Okay, so I'm gonna listen. I'm supposed, the instructions say to select listen to hear the text. And so let me do that and click and listen. Where does Congress meet? Where does Congress meet? Where does Congress meet? Where does Congress meet? So I'm just practicing reading. Okay.  I also use that as a, so they hear the, they hear that, but then I give them a dictation after that. Oh, very nice. Yeah, that's very nice. All right, let me show you how we help learners practice for the writing aspect of the naturalization test. Okay, so write it. Okay, writing test practice. Here we go. Okay, so the instructions say that I'm supposed to select listen and then enter the word or sentence that I hear. Remember to use capital letters and punctuation, then select check. So let's do that. I'm hitting listen. Congress meets in Washington, DC. All right, let's see how I do here. If I get anything wrong, it will turn red. Okay. What was it? Oh, teacher. Oh my God, you need two essence. Oh no. Okay, so let me go over here. I'm in a backspace. Uh-huh. Notice how I turned red. That was my clue that it was wrong. Uh-oh, that's wrong too. And I'm supposed to capitalize Washington, right? Because we are tough graders and we require correct punctuation. What was it? What the sentence even say? I forgot what it said. DC. Okay, there we go. Let's check again. Woof, I did better that time. That was a tough one. I have one student who was really upset about this. I mean, she went over and over again. It was like, no, no, no. Congress melts in Washington, DC. So I go, yes, actually it does. That is true. But that's not what the guy said. Yes. Cute. So that's how we teach writing. And I know during the actual real test, I don't think they grade that hard, but we're a computer, it's right or it's wrong.  Okay, so I'm watching the clock. It's 942. Okay, so one thing I would like to show you is our learning log. Yes. And that's at the very end of each section. And that's where we basically have a list of all the various things that we hope, or not all of this, some of the things we hope that folks learned during that, you know, in that lesson. And so basically you end up with a list where you check off, did you learn this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and for some reason it's not loading. And depending on how many you checked off, if you answered 80% or more, then you get a nice note that says, good job, you're ready to go to the next lesson. And if you clicked 79% or fewer of those boxes, you get a message that says something like, you learned a lot, but you might feel more comfortable during your naturalization interview if you do this one again, something like that. Andrea, we did receive your question from Edith. Yes. It says, for the writing practice in the interview, does the officer ask the student to write the sentence or make them copy it? Oh, that's a good question. Jennifer, I'll let you. They're using an iPad right now. And they act, so you're using a stylus. And if it's really problematic, they can use their finger on the iPad, but they are, so they actually read the question, and then they actually write. They, the officer, it dictates a sentence, a declarative sentence to them. So it's kind of like, it's kind of like what I showed a moment ago where the student hears something and then they have to write it, right? So like the students are gonna read who beats in Washington, DC. And then the officer will say, confirm whether or not the student got that correct. And then they'll ask the student, okay, here's the iPad. I want you to write, Congress meets in Washington, DC. Congress meets in Washington, DC. They repeat it two times. And so they wanna make sure that the civics vocabulary is correct. So all the vocabulary on that writing and spelling sheet, that has to be correct. So the key words are Congress and Washington, DC. If somebody screws up and writes a Z instead of an I in is, they're not gonna be worried about that, but they wanna make sure that they get Congress and Washington DC correct. So Jennifer, I've just popped up the USCIS list of the writing vocabulary. Do you wanna say anything about this? Yeah, I wanna do it. So let me see, I'm gonna start my video. And so the writing, they're not equal. The writing and the reading are complementary. So for instance, you may have to be able to read Abraham Lincoln, but you're only gonna write the word Lincoln. Okay, you may be able to add, they're gonna ask you to read George Washington, but you're gonna only have to write Washington. So there's a little bit of a difference and it's very interesting actually to show that on a Venn diagram in your classroom when they are, when you do a compare it. And here you don't have to be able to read the word Adams. Or yeah, you don't have to. So this is the reading vocabulary list. So it seems like it definitely be worth having those two lists kind of printed out and. Yeah, and there's no official set of the dictation questions, or dictation sentences, but we do have this reading and writing vocabulary. And remember when in November and December, people were asking, hey, is there gonna be updates to the reading and writing vocabulary? Because we were really concerned about the 128 questions. The 128 questions didn't have any geography vocabulary, but there is geography vocabulary on the reading and writing questions. So we're like, hey, what's going on here? And this started to be one of the first indications that, hey, maybe USCIS is not gonna move forward with the 128 questions, because they weren't updating things like the reading and writing vocabulary lists. They weren't updating the lesson plan list, those kind of things. So they were really waiting and trying to respond the best they could and stiffen those responses. Right, right. Thank you. We do have a question. Well, we have a comment and a question. Gail says, I have a teacher account in my own citizenship class at USA Learns. My students get extra attendance hours in my adult school class after I access USA Learns reports that show how much time they have spent using the class there. That's fabulous. Wow. That's really great. The question is, question about writing vocabulary is capitalization important? For example, with father of our country or president, if not used as a title, Washington was the first president. Washington, no, they're not gonna knock them off for capitalization on that. No, no. They grade it pretty easy, really. Right, okay. You know, do you mind if I share my screen really super quickly? That's fine. And then I'm keeping an eye on the clock, but yes, please do. Okay, so one of the things, yes. One of the things that just occurred to me, yeah, as we were going through this, was here when we're talking about the different sections, oh, sorry, the different sections of the N400 practice. And we're talking about the reading and writing, et cetera, et cetera. How do I extend that into my own classroom? And the way I extend that into my own classroom, so say for instance, we just had a section in there about crime. I would go on to my N400 section on my own website. And here I've divided out the N400 into 30 separate interviews that you can use as, that are PDFs that you can copy, download and copy. So here I would go to the crime section. Again, I have some very simple illustrations, okay? But down here, I have the questions, and then I have a question, have you ever been a prostitute? And then the follow-up question, what did they do, they sell sex. So this is one way that I've been able to get the students back into going out to USA Learns, learning the vocabulary, bringing them back in the classroom so they can do paired practice. That's fabulous. About this vocabulary. That's fabulous. So again, you can download the separate PDFs, or you can simply download, which one is it? You can download this one for all the 30 PDFs. Also, I have other interview practices, but anyway, that's one way to extend out. That's awesome. Thank you. And yeah, please visit her website. Tell us, what is the URL of your website? UScitizenpod.com. Okay, fabulous. Okay, so let's see here. Okay, can you guys see my screen? Yes. Okay, great. Okay, so I'm keeping an eye on the clock. We've got about 10 minutes left. I want to share with you a few key things that I think are important that people often ask. And so one question is how do my students register? And the related question is, how do I as a teacher preview the courses as if I were a student? And what I'm going to show you now answers both of these two questions, okay?  And then you're going to register as a student. And so it's just, you're just putting in an email address, use a real one, please. Entering first name, last name, and entering the password two times. You need to talk about why you need to use a real one, okay? Tell me, tell me. The reason, the reasons why is the USCIS is really trying to encourage people to use email addresses to file online. This is a way that you can start prepping up your students to file their application online. That's a great point. So it's important when you're bringing to your students the computer lab, if they can actually have one tab open to their email address or to their mail. So this is going to help them practice. What is your email address? What is your password? Memorize it, okay? That's great. So anyway, please. Thank you, great point. Okay, and then after you fill out the little form, then you have to go check your email. So you go, you check your email. There's going to be one from USA Learns with this big old long blue link. Click it. And that will help us confirm that you're a really, a real person. And then also you'll be able to win. And if you forget your password, you can use the forgot your password link. Otherwise you're in trouble. Okay, so then you're going to sign in. And I'm in it. Just go a little quickly here. Okay. So now you might be wondering how you as a teacher, create your own teacher account and your own free USA Learns courses. So let's check that out. Okay, so you're going to go to USAlearns.org slash teacher. Make sure you are there. And you're going to click the big register button. And we're going to fill out the little registration form. It's very easy. It's basically just email address, first name, last name, alias. Alias is what name do you want your students to see for you? Like, is it Mrs. Smith? Is it Sally? Okay. And then this is just the second half of that form. If you scroll down, you're picking your country, your agency type, your agency name, and creating a password and entering it two times. Okay. Just like the students do, you're going to check your email. There's one from us and click the big link to confirm it. And now you're ready to get started with the real deal, which is you want to create a class. And so here on the my home page, it's going to look kind of blank at first because you don't have any classes. So you'll click the big start a new class button. And you're going to fill out a little form to enter your class details. And then you're going to fill out a little form. And then you're going to fill out a little form. And then you're going to fill out a little form. Maybe it's English one or whatever. Or citizenship course or whatever you want to call it. And then this is a pull down this based on course as a pull down menu. So if you want to create a citizenship course, click that button and then select USA, learn citizenship, right? A little description. It doesn't have to be anything great. It doesn't really matter. Enter a start date. I suggest today is a great day to start. And because on that date no one will be able to get into your course. So just don't put anything there. Okay. Now let me tell you about the very cool and magical thing, which will let you connect your students to your teacher account. So you can see their progress and their scores and how much time they're spending and all that kind of stuff. Okay. So this is a screenshot of my fake account. I'm not really a teacher. So I only have fake accounts and fake students, but let's say I want to add a new student to my first English course. So here on this page, you'll notice this column here entitled class key. And that's a really important column. So I would copy this eight digit code. And each class has a different key. So copy that code and I'm going to give it to all the learners in my class. Okay. So let's imagine for a moment, I'm a learner. Okay. I'm a learner and you're my teacher. Okay. Let's imagine you gave me that code. I'm in here. I'm already registered. I'm logged into USA learns. I'm going to click on this enroll in my teacher's class link. Right. So I click it. And now I paste or I type. That key that class key into the field and I hit enroll now. And now I am magically in your class. Okay. So next time you log in, you'll see me on your lists. And you'll be able to monitor my progress. So what do you think, Jennifer? Would we pay better off right now? Me showing them just really fast. What it looks like inside the teacher account or talking about learning ideas. Let's do that. Okay. So let me go to the teacher side. USA learns.org. slash teacher. Okay. I'm going to sign in with my teacher account. Cause I have a teacher account and a student account. Oops. That's the wrong one. This one, please. So I'm going to go in there. And it's really great because I can see, let's just show you again, not going to be very impressive because I don't have any students who have been doing anything. But if I want to see what the students in my first English course have been up to, I click it. I click on the name of the course and up pops this little box. So I can manage my course here. I can do the class roster. I can manage messages. Can send my students messages on their homepage of USA learns. I can see some cool activity by class info. I can share the class key and I can edit class details for the moment. Let's view class roster. Okay. So here are my fake students. Got Carlos and test student. And here I can see their name, their email address, when they enrolled, when they accessed it last. This is a good thing to keep an eye on, right? So you can say, wait a minute, Carlos, you haven't been in here since April 2nd of 2020. What's up? And I can also deactivate students by clicking on this little box here. I can see a student grade book. Let's see what Carlos has been up to. I don't think he's been up to very much. Okay. So I clicked on his name. Now I can see his scores and the student grade book. Let's see what his scores are. Okay. So here I can see he's at least done something in this first unit, but not a whole lot. This half filled in box. I mean, he is at least started. Okay. He has not done much at all. I really need to call this kid. Okay. He's done something in this one. Okay. So he's done a little bit of creativity. He watched that welcome video. He did it once and he spent 19 seconds doing it. So okay. That's a little peek at that. Andrea, I'm going to have to step away because I have. I know you have class. Okay. Thank you for joining us. It was fabulous to have you as always. If anybody needs to contact, contact me. This is my email address and thank you so much for this opportunity. Andrea. Thank you for joining us. Talk to you later. Great to have you, Jennifer. Thank you so much. Okay. All right. So that was a little quick little peek at the, the teacher side. And I am going to just share with you now a couple little updates. Oh, does deactivate mean the same thing as deleting them? It's not, there is a question. Does deactivate mean the same as deleting a student? It's, it's not exactly the same. If you delete them, they're really, really gone and deactivating them means maybe they went on vacation for a while and just need to kind of turn them off for a while. Okay. So I've got a, got a three minute, three minutes left. So let me just share with you a few exciting updates. Okay. So one thing that's pretty cool is we are, I'm working with a Lisa Takiuchi. We're going to be doing some, a little experiment, which I'll tell you about in a moment. We are also create in the process of creating a new course called access America. And USA learns is coming soon on phone. So first the experiment. Lisa and I are going to do what we're going to call a teacher talk on our USA learns Facebook live page. And she is going to do a little lesson teaching via Facebook live. So that should be pretty cool. Stay tuned and cross your fingers for us because it's going to be a little wild and crazy. Also, I want you to know us that very, very exciting USA learns in the fall will be upgraded to function on phones. We got a very generous grant from Dollar General Literacy Foundation. So the site's going to have a new look and feel and will be upgraded to function on phones. So the activities will shift and resize and all that stuff for people who are on phones. Access America course is in production. It will help immigrants integrate into the U.S. society. We'll cover civics, linguistic, economic and local integration. And that is what I wanted to share with you. Holly has posted note. Take a minute please to felt the evaluation. I would love you to do that. Because I'm hoping that. Our friends at OTAN are able to. Have this be one of the videos that they can make live. Can remediate for accessibility. And okay, so that is my presentation. And I think I'm just on time.


What's up you guys it's Adana I am back with another video for you guys so as many of you know it is week 14 of PA school oh my gosh it's been flying by so fast I just really need to kind of take a beat and just take everything in because in no time it's going to be the second half of the second semester and then I'm gonna be in my second year which is crazy so I'm really just kind of trying to slow down and really enjoy my time in PA school and that's kind of what this whole week was all about we were doing just kind of planning for PA day and PA week if you don't know PA day is October 6th and so most schools most PA schools do something for PA day and we're doing something for PA day we just don't know exactly what it is yet so that's what we had some meetings this week about and we'll have a meeting again next week about that to try to kind of bog down and narrow down some choices because it's only a few weeks away I also though what I really had a great time doing was learning about compartment syndrome because that was part of our pvl case it's something that you always need it's just keeping the back of your mind for your differential when you're in ortho and that's the module that we're in so if someone's coming with pain redness swelling in their lower extremities or in any of their extremities and they were casted you kind of want to keep part compartment syndrome back in your mind so that was something that we learned this week which was cool but the highlight of my week actually had nothing to do with PA school we were able to go to get downtown here in the city that I'm in and if any of you have ever heard of like first Fridays where the schools in that city have like the first Friday that the school is back in session they will have a big old black party and that's pretty much what it was hey y'all got look at this job right here look at this job right here real human being look like they was fake huh they were real it was just fun I got to spend time with my family not think about PA school at all which is always a blessing to just kind of decompress even though I did see quite a few of my classmates and even some of the faculty there but everybody needs to decompress and it was a really really great opportunity to do so so if you take nothing else away from this video it is to take some time away from you for yourself I want you guys to make sure that you take time for yourself and time for your family because that is gonna keep you grounded and it's gonna be really important in those moments when it's like super stressful and the world and your world is just spinning out of control because of all the different tests and different things that you have going on that week so if you're in higher education make sure you take some time for yourself if you're in life take some time for yourself go out there have some fun decompress and then get back to work and you'll be great thank you guys so much for watching if you haven't already done so go ahead and follow me on Instagram because I do have an Instagram now so go ahead and do that I will leave a link for it in the description box below and if you have something that you would like me to make a video on go ahead and leave that in the comment section below as well I'm pretty good like I try to be really good at responding to you all in a timely fashion you know as school permits so I try to be good with that so if I don't respond within a few days like just give me some time I'll definitely get to it within the week all right so thank you guys again for watching I will talk


I'm going to Adelaide for four days and mixing a business day with a long weekend, often one of the hardest combinations to pack light for and I always pack light. Let's take a look at what I'm packing. G'day. Welcome back to Bootlossophy, my channel reviewing boots and sometimes weirdly boot related but non-boot things. If you're new here, my name is Tech. But first I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of Adelaide. But I'll let Qantas do it for us. What is the line to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the Air Force Band, the Guard of People? I'd also like to pay our respects to elders from our prison and emerging. So I'm recording this in mid-December in both Adelaide and Perth and I'm going to be splicing bits together to make the video. But you're not going to see this until mid-January. So it's that weird Doctor Who TARDIS effect of YouTube videos. But as it is, it is now mid-December and I am going to Adelaide before Christmas, flying across on a Wednesday night. And then on Thursday I'm working with the executive team of an Indigenous NGO on their strategy day. And on that night my wife will fly in as well and then we'll spend Friday and Saturday doing very touristy things in Adelaide before we fly home on Sunday morning. So while I want to be casual for my wife and my off days, I also need to wear something reasonably professional on the strategy day and I really like to travel light with only one bag. So what should I pack and how to get it in one carry bag? Let's go. So I always consider two things when I pack light. Number one, what's the weather going to be like? What's going to determine things like layers and other climate appropriate things? Number two is what is the itinerary? I mean if it's a beach holiday for example, then board shorts and Hawaiian shirts may make an appearance despite my wife's hatred of Hawaiian shirts. But if it's business appropriate, even if you're likely to go out at night, that will probably be with business colleagues. So you won't want to go from smart casual in the office to, dang man your shorts are so short.  You get the picture. In my case, I have checked and the weather is going to be dry and could range from the mid to low teen centigrade at night to low 2021 centigrade during the day, which to me coming from the Mediterranean climate of Western Australia is actually going to be quite cool. It's kind of like our spring. And apart from the business day, I'll be staying at the Treasury Hotel on Queen Victoria Square or Tan Tan Younger in the local indigenous language. So come and look over my shoulder at what I've chosen to pack. I'll put links below to various websites of notable items if you want to look them up. First, the essentials. This is my toiletries bag. As I say, I pack light. This is everything I need. It has a foldable toothbrush, a foldable razor. I have shaving cream in it, which comes in a tube, but I've squirted it into a little round container just enough for the four days. And what I do when I shave is I just scoop it out and sort of lather it on the palm of my hand. It also contains vitamin pills, contact lenses, deodorant. Really all you need to live on. We start with that. Second, of course, because I'm going for work and I'll be doing some filming, is my laptop, which I'll carry in this carry case. I find this really quite useful because I can stuff this into the bag, so I'm not carrying two pieces onto the plane. And also when I go on my business day, when I'm attending the strategic workshop, I can simply carry this in my hand because it can also fit in the adapter and a notebook. And that will be extremely compact. For the rest of the items that I'm taking as essentials, I'm taking my journal. That was a notebook that I used for work, and this is a journal that I write in every morning as a kind of motivational tool. I also find this very useful. It's obviously an adapter with four USB power points and one power point here. I find that when I'm traveling, particularly in hotels, I run out of wall power points. So I plug this in and suddenly I can charge four things plus power something else if I need to. And obviously I'll add to that a charger for my phone. And since I'm taking an iPad, I probably will take a second one as well. When I'm walking around, I will take a power pack with me, which I find really useful to have with me all the time. And because I'll be doing some filming, I'll carry a selfie stick, usual stuff, I mean you guys will know all this. And I won't take my Levellian mic, which is on my waist. What I'll do is I'll take this one, which doesn't give as good sound. I think you might have heard it if you look at some of my videos and I'm wearing one of these, but it is very portable, so I'll take that with me. And then part of the essentials is obviously underwear. It's not great to go commando, but I'm not going to show that to you. I will bring three pairs of socks. And these are merino wool boot socks from a brand called Katmandu in Australia. And I like them. They have a, they're marked left and right, by the way, with a central line so that you know what's the center. And the reason for that is because they have padded panels for the lace edgings, for the back of the boots at different heights, and padding on the ball of your feet. Now I find these really useful. I'm only packing three. I'm actually wearing one and packing two because being merino, merino wool, they are entry microbial. They don't smell. And if they do get a little bit damp, I just hang them up overnight and I can use them for a couple of days at least before I swap them over. Then I'll usually work out my outfit starting with what I will wear on my feet. Now let me predicate this by saying that my outfits are usually monochromatic or at least earth toned or neutral, which makes it easy to start in my feet. Being a boot guy, even for only four days, I'm going to take two pairs of boots, of course. I'm going to wear one pair and pack one. I'm going to choose boots that are light, obviously, broken in and comfortable. The worst mistake is to pack a new pair of boots that might be uncomfortable. And I'm going to make sure that they're convenient for getting through airport security, which usually means fiberglass shanks. So as I said, I'll be taking two pairs of boots with me. I guess if you're not a boot head, you're not going to bother. You just take one. But it is nice, I think, to be able to swap over between boots during the days. When you're traveling, you're probably wearing your boot all day, which means that you might have damp and sweaty insoles and boots, and it'd be great to swap them over the next day. So I'm taking these two pairs of boots. Because I'm going on that business strategy meeting, I'm taking a pair of RM Williams gardener boots. Now in Australia, these are reasonably business casual. You can even wear them into boardrooms and so on, particularly the more polished versions of the comfort craftsmen. But these are very comfortable. They're on a rubber sole.  And also walking around if we're going shopping with my wife, I can just slip these off if I want to try on a new pair of pants or something. And being a 270 degree Goodyear welter, they are actually extremely light. So that's an interesting thing. The second pair that I've chosen are these Parkhurst Vege retans. Now I chose these because of the color. I think it's a nice pop, particularly if I'm wearing dark colors. I'll be wearing monochromatic dark colors. And I think these will give a nice pop when I'm walking around. They're very sturdy walking boots. Parkhurst do this today on an Allen pattern that's without a cap toe. This is the Western New York factory production. It's a Richmond boot with a cap toe. It's on the 602 last, which is, I believe Andrew told me, the new 602M is like two millimeters wider in the ball of the foot and then proportionately. And two millimeters is hardly a half a size up, which I think is about one centimeter. So this is very similar to the Allen boot that you can get now. The uppers in this one is Seidel's Vege retan, whereas the current one, I believe, is a Spanish Vege retan uppers. Beautiful color. I mean, it doesn't show well in this light, but it's nice poppy orange when you get it out in light. This is slightly heavier. I think because there's more thicker leathers under the sole, plus the 360-degree Goodyear welt just creates more weight. It has a fiberglass shank, the same as the RM Williams, so I can use either to walk through security, but obviously the Chelsea boot pull-off is a lot better for security. So because this is heavier, unfortunately, despite that being easier to get off at security, I'm going to rely on it being a fiberglass shank, and I'm going to wear these and pack those because they're lighter. Having chosen my boots, I'm now going to choose the bottom half of my outfits that I'm wearing, and I'm choosing articles in colors that I like. Difficult to see in this light, I know, but that's the navy pair of chinos, which I'm going to wear during the strategy day. Very comfortable pair from a brand called Gasman in Australia, basically just a high street shopping center brand, but I really like their products nicely made. And this is the Proof Rover EDC pant from Huckbury, and I'm going to wear this on the plane, and I'll have it around for casual wear, and both the olive green and the blue, I think, will go with both pairs of boots. And the reason I'm taking this rather than a pair of blue jeans is firstly the weight. It is a little bit lighter, and a heavier denim just might not be comfortable. But the second thing is the EDC pant has a huge number of pockets. There's a hidden pocket here, right next to the front pocket. There's like a tool pocket here. There's a zip pocket down the leg. So really extremely useful for wearing on the plane. It's also slightly stretchy, so quite comfortable on the plane. And as I say, it goes with both pairs of my boots. It also has this sort of fold with the knee, which makes it very comfortable. So based on the boots, which gives me the selection of my pants, I will take with me two long sleeve shirts. The first one is a button up business shirt from a brand called Charles Tirrit, which is an English brand. That will go quite well with the dark navy pants for the strategy day. But also, if I just roll up the sleeves and wear it with a jacket or something to dress it down, I can wear this during nights when I'm going out with my wife for meals or going to the bar or whatever. And you'll see that it's also actually because the green and blue are in the same sort of range of colors, they also go well together. The second shirt I'll bring along with me, and I did say I packed monochromatically, is a faded blue Timberland shirt, long sleeve, two pockets, the dress shirt doesn't have any pockets to make it dressy. This would be useful on some of the cooler days because it's going to be like 18 or 19 degrees centigrade, which is actually quite cool for me. And I can wear these open with a t-shirt underneath, or I can wear it on its own in a jacket on top. So there's a multiple sort of combination of things I can wear them with. And once again, they go with both these colors. And you can imagine they go also with the Vege Retain, like this, goes well with everything, or with a sort of dark chocolate kip leather RM Williams. So everything matches and goes well accordingly. I will also bring with me two t-shirts because I'm not entirely sure how long it's going to stay in the 2021s. And depending on how cool it is and the wind and so on, I'm going to bring with me two Merino t-shirts. I'm probably going to wear this one from an Australian brand called Pear. It's an off-white Merino wool. You can't bleach wool, so the best you can get is an off-white natural color. And I think that goes quite well with both pairs of pants. So if I'm not wearing a shirt, I can just easily wear that. And you can wear this under one of these shirts, or on its own. And the next one is a dark blue. So again, it goes with both pairs of pants. From Huckbury's proof brand, this is another Merino wool and really extremely comfortable. It's slightly thinner than the Australian one. So on slightly warmer days, I'd be happy to wear this and maybe with a jacket in my pack, my day pack. As for the outside, I toyed with the idea of a light jacket. But I've decided to bring the Huckbury Wex Trucker jacket from Flint and Tinder. You'd have seen my review of this. I do like this jacket. It is warm because it's flannel lined, but it's not. I don't think it'll be hot when it's 21 degrees. And for most of the day, building up to that high of 20, 21 degrees, it's probably going to be around 15 or 16. So I can go out with this and a t-shirt, or one of the long sleeve shirts, and still feel reasonably comfortable. Having said that it's going to be cool, though, it is going to be dry and sunny, apparently. So we have a high UV radiation content in Australia. And I'm going to bring a hat, as always. This is a hat that I bought in Melbourne. And the reason I'm bringing this, I'm not going to wear this on the plane because you get knocked off. You stick it under the seat and get squashed. But I'm bringing this because it is a foldable hat. You can actually roll it up, put it in your bag, get to the other end, shake it up, and you're good to go. So that's it. Let's get to packing.  That goes with both the navy pants, as well as the olive. And it goes with both pairs of boots. I'll be wearing the pair of white t-shirt underneath the waxed truck jacket, which will keep me comfortable on the plane. And of course, the Merino socks, one pair of them, to go with the boots, and the Proof Rover EDC pat to wear on the plane. As for the rest, I'm going to pack it into this crevard bag. And again, I've reviewed this bag. So this is a great time to show you how to use this small day bag, they call it, into something that I can stretch out for the weekend. I'm going to put at the bottom my RM Williams boots, on which I've stuffed with socks and underpants, so they don't waste a lot of space. That'll take the bottom layer. And I'm going to pack that with some of my essentials kit. So that's my toiletries bag, and then some of my electronics and so on, including all the cables I need. I mean, I should be a lot neater, but somehow that's not apparently not in my DNA. I'm going to leave this to a side one before. My two shirts go into a packing cube. And yes, they will get slightly crushed, but I will iron them. Most hotels will have an iron. And then my pants and sundries. I'll put my journal in, power pack, and my hat is in one of those. And I'm not worried about it creasing by any means. So what I just showed you that I would pack has gone in here very easily. And then my electronics should fit in the side within this laptop case, which is slightly bigger, but I think should be able to fit. If at worst it doesn't fit, I'm going to carry it as a second item. Because I'll most likely, it does fit, I will most likely take it out anyway in the plane to either do some work or watch movies. That was a snug fit, but everything fits in there really well. So there you go. All packed and ready to go. The first outfit is the Thursday outfit for my strategy day with my clients. So I'm wearing the navy blue chinos, a dressy button down shirt, and I'll carry the wax trucker jacket with my laptop bag and hat. The next day, Friday is a shopping day through Central Markets and Rundle Street Mall. And I wanted some comfortable clothing, so I wore the R.M. Williams Chelsea boots, which are easy to pull on and pull off if I'm doing any shopping for clothing. And I'm pairing that with the olive green Rover EDC pant from Hugbury and the Merino 72-hour T-shirt from Hugbury, as well as the Timberland faded blue shirt, just as an over shirt with the sleeve rolled up. Depending on how sunny it is, I may put my hat on and go out. And in this way, feel really comfortable. And then Saturday was a purely touristy day in North Terrace of Adelaide City, which is full of cultural icons, museums, and art galleries. So I thought for that, some sturdy walking boots. The Parkhurst Richmond work with the EDC pant. I'm back to my blue button down shirt. I've put the wax trucker jacket over it because it's meant to be quite cool. And I'll put my hat on against the sun. OK, so I hope you like the video of my sojourn to Adelaide in South Australia. Now, I know this is a bit not quite my video, but somebody did ask me what I packed and how I packed. So all you need is one person to ask me, and I'll do a video. But at least I did focus on my two pairs of boots, the RM Williams Gardener boot in the Kip Leather and the Parkhurst Richmond boot in Seidel's National Veg Retain. I hope you liked the video. 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