Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host Krista Burns here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event, yes, a webinar where we cover anything that may be of interest to librarians, both in Nebraska and anywhere. The show is open and free to anyone to attend. You can watch our live broadcasts here every Wednesday morning. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that it's okay. All of our sessions are recorded and you can go to the archived Encompass Live sessions link on our website to see all those previous recordings. Once a month, usually the last Wednesday of the month as it is this time, we do our tech talk with Michael Sowers. Michael is the Technology Innovation Librarian here at the Library Commission. And once a month he has his tech-based episode. This month we're doing something a little special. Michael is down in Kansas attending the Northeast Kansas Library Systems Technology and Innovation Day. And so what we are doing today is we are live broadcasting their opening keynote speech. Cynthia Dudenhofer from Central Methodist University is going to share with us a bunch of web tools to make you look cool. So let's go ahead and join them for their tech day, which is just getting started. I'm Jim Mingus, a necklace director for anybody who don't know me. Welcome to the first tech day on which we've had to turn people away because we had more people in the room at home. So congratulations. And we're looking forward to the coming year, which I think is going to have a lot of excitement and changes and new things we're working on. And one of the new things is a number of new staff at Knuckles. And so what I thought I would do first of all is have all of the Knuckles staff come up so we could say who we are and what we do. And I particularly will mention the new kids on the block. And I'll just introduce everybody and they can say anything you want to about who they are. I'm afraid you would just come up to the microphone. Robin Hastings, who's our new director of technology. As long as y'all don't hold it against me, I'm from Missouri. I've been here for five months now. I figured I was going to get that reaction. Sorry. But yeah, I'm enjoying Kansas and Kansans and I'm looking forward to working with y'all. Now, Ryan Sipes, who's our director, is our systems administrator. You changed the title. I'm Ryan Sipes and I'm also from Missouri. I'm a systems administrator and lately I've been working a lot with Kansas libraries on the web. And I'm very interested to meet as many people as I can in here today. I think it's a good sign that people are leaving Missouri. There's obviously something going on. And I'm going to have Patty come up who is of course not really new, but she's new again to us. Yeah. Patty Poe, back from New Mexico. Very happy to be back in Kansas. I'm Heather Braum. I know almost all of you in the room, but if I don't know, you try to find me today so I can meet you because I do see a lot of new faces. And I'm really excited to see that. I'm the Technical Services Digital Librarian. I'm Dan Alexander, Technology Coordinator and I'm from Kansas. I'm Terri Nelson and if there's a problem with your registration or something's misspelled on the agenda, that's probably my fault. I'm not here if you have any problems with temperature or anything like that. I'm the person to talk to. Health Keeping Group. And I'm Carolyn Little. I'll disappear here shortly to take calls from other folks that are concerned about the courier system today. Maybe not as many problems today as yesterday when there was eight inches of snow in Goodland. I'm glad you're all here. This agenda looks great. I think it'll be a wonderful day. I was the gatekeeper. I'm Laura Devon. I'm the Director of Administrative Services. It means I'm the financial person at Nichols. I do their payroll once a month so they like me really well once a month. If you have any questions on finance or budget or you need a refund or you need to pay your bill, give me a call. I don't think there's anything going on. I'm full house. Glad you're all here. Okay. I'm going to turn this back over to Patty in her capacity as Continuing Education Consultant to take it from here. Okay. I don't think we've ever had this many people for Tech Day. And so you will have to sit on the front row because every seat is spoken for today. If there's an empty one, trust me, it will probably get filled in a little bit. How many of you is this your first Tech Day? All right. That is great. How many of you is there anybody who's been to all of them? Paula. All right. From Atchison. Okay. That's pretty awesome. We have a great, actually just a really great schedule. Just so you know, this first session is also being broadcast to Nebraska. So that's all the little tools down the side of the slide here. That's Michael Sowers who's with the Nebraska Library Commission. And he's also recording some of the sessions for us today so we can share them with other folks who weren't able to be here. And I also want to point out Merida from Johnson County. Stand up. She brought the 3D printer from Johnson County, which is, yay. Thank you. She's, it's working away in the edge. The edge is just down the hall at the end. It's the teen zone. It's a secure area. So we've left the 3D printer in there. Topeka has graciously shared one of their new Mondo pads, so it's in there on display. When we have a break, when we have lunch, we have a longer break this afternoon. Anytime you want to catch somebody from Topeka Public and get into that room. We will have it open during those break times, but if you need to get in some other time and just check it out, let us know. We'll get you in there. Try to think what else. Bathrooms, if you don't know where all the restrooms are, there's restrooms right outside here in the hallway. There's also some as you go into the library, across from the children's area. You probably won't miss them as you go towards all the, that side of the library reference. Try to think what else. Lunch, we will actually have two lunch lines, so when we get to that point, I'll kind of give you some heads up about where you can go to get your lunch. As Terry said, if there's any problems, let us know. We'll try and take care of it. And I do want to thank Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library because they are wonderful to work with. They bend over backwards. They make sure that we have what we need. Even with the technology that we're dealing with today, they've made sure that everything is working to its best. So I really, really appreciate that they are willing to do that for us. So we will probably continue to meet here for Tech and Innovation Day just because it's a great space. Next year, they have great plans for this room. So it will be totally wired. We'll have displays down the wall. So if you're sitting in the back, you'll be able to see what's up here. It'll be awesome next year, but it'll be awesome today, too. I'm going to introduce our first speaker, who is Cynthia Dudenhofer. She is the Director of Library and Information Resources for Central Methodist University in Missouri. What town is it? Fayette, Missouri. She's an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Education. She teaches courses in Instructional Technology, Social Media, and Instructional Design. She's published articles on Pinterest and Social Media Best Practices for Libraries, published last month by Roman and Littlefield. She's a regional speaker. Let's see what else. She will serve as President of the Mobius Consortium beginning in June, and she's on the Missouri Library Association Board of Directors. She's an avid crocheter, playwright, and mom, and she secretly hates cats but loves cardigans. Cynthia Dudenhofer. Good morning. Thank you guys for inviting me. I'm really excited in spite of the fact that I live in Columbia and have a spend the night in Lawrence, Kansas. I'm excited to be here. Have any of you guys heard me speak before? I talk really, really fast.  I'm not here to teach you guys an in-depth way to use some of these tools. I want to make sure that you all can build a toolbox of free, non-downloadable things that everybody can access. So you have tools at the ready to help any kind of question that might come up at a reference desk, something at the children's desk, if you do instruction, all those sorts of things. So that's what we're going to focus on today and make sure everything. I'm a little bit thrown off by all these microphones, so you'll have to excuse me. First, you guys, if you are sitting at a page with like a weird colored sheet, you have a handout of the things I'm going to go over today. I did not bring enough for everybody. I'm sorry, but I will put everything on slide share and I was told there will be a link to the materials afterwards. So if you didn't get a handout, there will be one accessible after the fact. But everything I'm going to talk about today, you can just Google it. I don't even worry about putting .com or .net or .us or whatever they are anymore because we can all just Google everything, right? We're all good at Googling. Everything we're going to look at is free. They're all web-based. They require no downloads. That's a big thing I know at my institution in a lot of the schools and libraries I go to. People can't download, right? You can't go to a sign-in download software. So we try to find things that are totally web-based. Many of these do have an app version. Sometimes the app version is cooler. Sometimes it's less cool. It just depends. When I come to an app version, I'll let you guys know. But yeah, some of them do, some of them don't. I try to stick to more web-based stuff because then everybody has a smart phone.  So we don't assume that everybody has a smart phone. Many of them are cooler if you use our assess readers, if you blog, if you tweet. If you do have a smart phone, but everything can be used without it, all you need is an internet connection. And many of them are cooler if you buy the pro version, right? Everybody, when they want to give you that little taste, and they say, okay, for free, for whatever, you can do this. But if you'll give us four bucks a month, you can have the exciting version. But everything here is free, at least to begin with. Okay. I've tried to group tools by similar functions. Web applications don't easily group themselves. So if the grouping seemed a little nebulous, that's because, yeah, I was trying to group them. I do talk really, really fast. So if I'm going too fast, please let me slow down. And then at the end, if you guys have any recommendations, we're going to bleed right into your next session, and we're going to be writing around your all's favorite web kind of stuff. So hopefully we'll sort of just have a nice little segue into the next session. I do love little cats. I do hate cats in real life, which is why that's on there.  I have dogs. I don't have cats. But I do like little cats. So there are some in my presentation. Okay. So Web 2.0 is getting to be kind of an outdated term, but it's still kind of the best one I can find to group this sort of stuff together. I don't know if anybody else has a better term that they like to use, but I'm still using that term. For these tools and for Web 2.0 in general, we try to find things that are multi-platform. I don't want anything that can't work on a Mac and only works on a PC or can only work in Firefox and not Internet Explorer. So we try to find things that can work across all platforms. You never know what people are going to come in with, right? You might have somebody that comes in with a really ancient laptop like Internet Explorer 5 and they're trying to work things. So we try to make sure we can be as multi-platform as possible. Free, obviously, is a big deal. None of us have enough money. So free is always a good thing. Our patrons don't have enough money. So if we can find things that are free, that's always useful. And actually useful. How many of you are like, oh, I downloaded an app for my phone. It's going to be great.  And then you have to wedge it into the way you work or wedge it into the way you live because you want to use it, and it's probably that useful. I have a tendency to do that. I get excited by flashy toys. But then I don't actually use it. So I try to find things that you guys can integrate into your workflows and to your reference questions in a usable way. Everything here, too, some of them are apps, but most of them are cloud-based. There's a little bit of crossover, and we're sort of blurring those lines now. Most often it seems like developers try to produce for both the cloud platform and both for apps, but there's still a few that are one versus one. Phones. Everything I've tried to find is also like in the app store for Apple's and on Android Market and on Google Play. I don't think there's anything that I pulled out. I'm trying to remember. Apple's a little bit more exclusive than the other two. Sometimes they don't like to share, but most of these are prominent enough now where they're on all platforms. And then again, we don't have any downloads here downloading the app for your phone. Everything is cloud-based, so we don't have to worry about that download security restriction kind of stuff. Okay, so here we go. Okay, Facebook. I'm just joking. Like we all know about Facebook, right? So I like to scare people with blocks of unbroken text. That's what you want to look at at 9 in the morning? Okay, anyway. Okay, Katie. The first things we're going to look at are... Oh, I have to stay in the microphone. Our classic presentation software. We all use PowerPoint, right? I'm using it this morning to do my shame, but I can't find a better way to do these kinds of links than PowerPoint, so it still gets its due. But I wanted to show you guys a couple of non-traditional presentation softwares. Has anybody used Slide Rocket? Yes, I'm going to ask that a lot. Just wave at me if you used it. Slide Rocket is basically like PowerPoint, right? But it's integrated into the web. I'm not going to click into it, because you don't necessarily see it. But the cool thing about it is that it's integrated into YouTube and to Creative Commons licensing.  So it's a really good tool to teach people how to use media and things and not violate copyright. It also has some cool animation and stuff like that, but it's really just a fancy web-based PowerPoint. I just like the Creative Commons aspect to it. We have an issue with that. I know what students are stealing images all the time and not thinking about it. So this is a nice tool. Prezi, everybody's probably seen a Prezi, the zooming ones. Have you seen a Prezi? Yes? Okay. Prezi, like, I don't even, I didn't even link it, because I'm so mad at it right now. Prezi is a really great idea. It's a zooming editor so you can animate all of your slides and everything kind of zooms together. But the problem with Prezi nowadays is that they're getting huge and they're not buying the capacity to keep up with their hugeness. So they freeze all the time. They block up. They'll say they're overcapacity, which is not something I wanted a web tool. And they've made a whole lot of templates that basically take away the coolness of Prezi. And so when you shoot it out there to teach students or to teach somebody that's trying to do a presentation, they get these kind of nasty templates. So Prezi's kind of my example of a web tool gone bad a couple of years ago. It was awesome. Now it's like, oh, we're going to just have templates and they're just not as cool as they used to be. So take a look at it if you've not seen a Prezi. But if you're going to use it, like, use it creatively and then just stick your stuff into a template. So I'm just not a template person. Okay. Impressor. I'm going to click into Impressor is, we'll see where I'm testing the Wi-Fi here. We'll see how it works. There it goes. So I hope I don't mess up the go-to-meeting stuff. No? Okay. He's giving me a wave. Impressor is another online media presentation application. But it has the capability to incorporate a lot of financial stuff and a lot of analytics. I didn't mention that earlier, but SlideRocket does have some built-in analytics but you have to pay for them. Impressor is free. And it does have a lot of built-in stuff. And let's do Benefits of Financing a New Car. And it's all open source. I actually like to find this for reference questions too for things like this, Benefits of Financing a New Car.  What does it mean to finance a new car? Well, chances are Impressor will have a nice little financial guideline for you that you can click through if it will load, maybe. I feel like I need, like, the Jeopardy music on cue so we can... Oh, well, and this one, I clicked on a bad one because this one's, like, terribly boring. Meh. Oh, well. There, you saw a cool little animation. But basically, I'm giving up on that one. Basically what it does is it has a storehouse of pre-built presentations. When you make anything on Impressor, you can choose to make it public or private, but most of them are public. And it does have a lot of very cool Excel-like things that are built into it. So if you're doing something a little more businessy, Impressor is a good choice. CREASA is a set of tools. And CREASA, it's actually CREASA Education. CREASA is awesome for school librarians, for real-worldly anybody out there. Like, that's my new favorite thing. I have a five-year-old, and he thinks this is absolutely fabulous. CREASA has built-in webcomic building. It has a presentation software. It's all free, four unique tools. There we go. Okay, so it has Cartoonist, which is to make webcomics.  And you can mix and match themes and content, and it's all freely available. The artists have all given creative comments for it, so you can make your own webcomics. It has a basic movie editor, totally web-based. So if you don't want to download a Windows Movie Maker or do anything like that, you can use Movie Editor. It's very, very simple, very kid-friendly. It also has an audio editor. It's like a four-channel audio editor, so if you record yourself and you want to add some background music, things like that, totally web-based uploads. MindDomo is a mind-mapping software. If we're like, I'm a mind-mapper. I don't know if any of you guys are. You can start terms, and you can actually do a visual brainstorm. It also has an iPad version. So it is cross-platform, but it's just a group of tools, again, totally free, built for teachers, but everybody can use it. There is educational pricing, so if you want to buy a license for a classroom, you could do that. But it's free to sign up. It's free to play with any of these tools. I especially like Cartoonist. Again, my five-year-old thinks it's awesome. It's a little web-covics. Really, really neat set of tools. Okay. And then the last one is LovelyCharts. And LovelyCharts is a tool to help you make your own infographics. I'm a big infographics person, and I know there's kind of an infographic revolution going on right now. We can visually present our information. Then people glean more from it, and they can understand it in a more accessible way. And LovelyCharts just gives you... Let me click on it. I have time, right? You might have to go really fast at the end, but let me click on it. I see you're suddenly going to break the Wi-Fi in here. That's my goal. There it goes. You think we draw. It's just a lovely website, too. But if you need to build, again, there's a free online edition. But then now, if you want to buy it, you can pay your 30 pounds a year. But you do get it for free. It's really, really neat for making flowcharts. Let's look at the gallery really fast. It has a lot of 3D modeling capabilities. You can see there's little people. For the free version, the stuff in here where there's boxes, that's more like what you can do. But if you want to pony it up here, $30, and you can do really, really fancy stuff, like move little people around. But the idea behind this is that it's really, really simple to use. It's drag-and-drop software. There's cool little lines for you. You can see it looks like there's a LAN network device cloud that someone has made. Those are just a few examples. But again, free version, iPad app, totally cross-platform. Very nice little tool. I clicked the wrong thing. Sorry, guys. Next, our category is New Media Presentation. I didn't know how to categorize these things. So that's why they're under New Media Presentation. These are all sort of audio or second-layer presentations. The first one is called Voice Thread. And Voice Thread is one of my favorite things ever. I logged in so you guys could see. What Voice Thread lets you do is actually record over a presentation or a picture or a movie or anything. And so you can upload your media. I just have a couple of examples. I made my education technology class do before we left, so you guys can see. But we uploaded an optical illusion, right? And we'll see if it'll load the media. And then... Can you hear? Please take a look at this optical. Okay. So how this works is you upload your media and then you don't have to have a microphone. You can actually have it call you. It's a free call. You can talk into your phone and it will record your voice and comment. So it's a great way if you're working on a national project or something and you need feedback from a variety of people. They can call in on their own time. They can leave you a comment, right? And then you can come and look at it at your leisure. It's free for up to 60 minutes of recording time, which I have never run out of. And I've been using this in class for about four semesters now because most people leave a comment that's a minute or less. But what I like about this is people will say things that they would never type out, right? So you can actually get some really more honest feedback and you can tell a lot by people's tone of voice. And so it's just a really cool tool and it's so easy to use because you just put your phone number in. It calls you and it says record now and then suddenly your comment is on the Internet, right? I just think it's a really, really neat tool and has a lot of uses. Again, free for an hour of talking time and then after that, not so much. Okay. Voki is to make animated vocal avatars. Has anybody ever made a Voki? Yeah, a couple people. Vokies are very fun. You can record your own voice or you can use a standard voice. My students love this because you can pick what accent you want so you can make yourself like a frog in a Rastafarian wig that has an Australian accent, right? You can choose anything you want. There are paid options so if you want to add a lot of bleeding to your character or something, then you can pay for a little bit more. It has lesson plans, right, integrated in so how you can use your Voki. There's an educational version so if you don't want everybody to make a login, you can make a bunch of set logins and send them out to class or to students or to whoever you want, really, you know, kids at a story time. And you can click on really quick. You choose your options. I thought I had an option on the homepage here. And also, yeah, the lesson plan database is awesome. But basically, we use it for introductions because you always have those awkward situations where you have to introduce yourself. And for kids, especially teenagers, giving this animated version is a really good icebreaker because that way they don't have to stand up themselves and like say, I'm from Salisbury and I have two dogs and I do this. They can make a little animated person that does it for them and they have a lot more fun and they feel a lot more comfortable sharing themselves in that way. It just gives them a little bit of distance, right? And you can see there's a whole lesson plan window here. Very fun, totally free, really easy to use. Okay. Blogster is like blogster except visual information. You can basically make online poster presentations. There's an educational version of this too so you can sign up and get a bunch of logins so people don't have to sign up themselves. But it's totally a visual representation information. You can embed video clips. You can pull in your own pictures. You can pick a bunch of different themes. This is another popular one with teenagers because basically it's like decorating the inside of your locker only online. So you can pull in and do whatever you want. Pinterest. Everybody loves Pinterest, right? Who loves Pinterest? Raise your hands. All the women? All the women love Pinterest? Yes. I don't know why guys don't like Pinterest. Like are there any guys in here? Did they admit it? Did they like Pinterest? Okay. There's a couple. My ed tech students told me that Pinterest was tumblr for old ladies. And I was like, that makes me sad. But you know, I can see where they're coming from. Pinterest, I've been doing a lot of research in the hell. I raise use Pinterest. Most of us, and I'll also show you mine, use it for new books, new videos. That sort of stuff is a visual way to share our collections. We started using it in my instructional design class where you can see here we have a research portal for satire. So the students were supposed to explain satire. How do you explain satire? Well, if you can pull images up of the Daily Show and the Boombox, it's easier to explain what satire is. Gulliver's Travel is right. There's our class on satire. So this became a good way to have them be able to express themselves, not necessarily have to stand at the front of the classroom and explain what satire is. So we're using those again for research portals. I also, this is my favorite one. One of my students made a food passport. He got all these different pictures of different ethnic foods, and then he made a little passport. And so once you tried all of these different recipes, you got a little stamp in your passport, and you just had different versions. Of course, Pinterest is all about food. Food and crafts and wedding photos, that's what Pinterest is. Yes, but there are many, many uses for it past that. So I think it's just the easiest way on the web right now to group visual information. Regardless of the stigma that it has, I can't find a competing tool that lets you so easily group images. And yes, they're fighting with their copyright issues. They're doing much better about that. They're giving nice little links. Sometimes it goes away. Okay. Co-sketch lets you and someone else draw on a web page at the same time. It's so cool.  I don't really know why you would use it, but it's so cool. Can somebody give me an example of how you would use it? It's just really, really neat. It's like basically giving yourself an online smart board. You can send out the link, and I guess I didn't really need to click on that. You can see an example down here of a map. You can draw on top of a map, so if you really don't like your Google map, you can just draw on top of it. Quick. How many of you guys have Android phones? Lots. How many of you guys have Android phones and have a person you want to call but they have an iPhone? Quick lets you FaceTime across platforms. It's an app, basically. FaceTime is a visual phone. It's like the Jetsons where you call and you see people talking. It's basically that's what it is. It's an app that lets you FaceTime across platforms. I see people looking for it right now. Yay, my job is done. It's just very cool. Quick used to be a photo editing software, and they quickly fell out of the market. They're never going to compete with Instagram and all those folks. So they reinvented themselves as this basically FaceTime for Android phones. But it works really well. You can record video at any time and stream it or you can use it like FaceTime. So if you've got an Android phone and you want to Jetsons call people down one quick. Visually, I'm just going to mention really fast because someone's going to talk about it in the next session. Here it goes. Again, I love infographics so you'll have to excuse my constantly talking about them. Have I over? Okay, there we go. Okay, so it has a bunch of different here's some pretty ones down here. Receive a complimentary infographic. You can see down here at the bottom there are 32,000 of these. Most of them are stealable or you can get with credit, of course. But there's a pretty cruiser one. There's some information about Nightmare on Elm Street. Endangered Species. My favorite one was there was like analysis of the way that the soccer ball was passed during the last World Cup. And it was all these weird little squirrely arrows that somebody had actually sat down and tracked all the times that the soccer ball was passed. There's the cost of being Iron Man. All kinds of cool little bits of information. But everything on here, again, are infographics. There's a builder, so you can use basic templates to make your own infographics.  Mm-hmm. Okay. Work stuff. So we all have to work, right? We love our jobs, we're librarians, but we all have to work. So I've categorized this stuff as work stuff. The first two are markup and awesome highlighter. Has anybody used these? This highlighter has been around for a long time. It is one of the first web tools. I saw it at Computers and Libraries in 2018. I think it's so old. But it lets you draw on any page. You put your HTTP in there. I'll use my school's website. Okay. So you can go here. It's very cool. It's like if you are one of those people that really keeps up with your profession and your articles and you want to share them with your staff or you want to share them with your coworkers, you can highlight all over them and then send them a special link so they can see the parts that you think are most important. That's basically what it is. Okay. So, yeah, it opens up your page with an awesome highlighter. You can click which color you want and then you can like, I want yellow. And then you can like draw. Well, I've broken it again. I think I'm really taxing the Wi-Fi here. I can say, okay, I want to highlight this stuff. Okay, so whatever. Well, those are links. I picked a bad page because it doesn't have a lot of text. Okay, we can highlight the address. Okay. And then you can add a note if you want to and then you save that link and then you can eat, there it goes. Now it's highlighting. Okay, so you can highlight whatever you want. You can add a little posty note. Then you click the done button. And you can send it out to people. It's just a really neat tool because sometimes you have an article or something you want to send to people and they only need one little bit of it. So you can highlight it and then send it out. And it's also one of those tools for me when people complain about print versus electronic information and you hear that they like to write on it. Like, marginalia is disappearing. I hear that sometimes from my faculty. You can still marginalia. You just have to save the link. Markup is another tool that's like that. It's pretty much the same as Awesome Highlighter except for that it starts off right at the back. You don't have to copy your link over. But I find it less reliable. So you just have to play with it to you and see which one you like best. Toodaloo and Workflowy are kind of what they sound like. Workflowy is my favorite. Toodaloo is a little bit more hardcore and I'm not terribly hardcore. Okay, my other one. There we go. Workflowy allows you to build a task list across platforms. You can make it on the web. You can download the app and carry it over to your whatever device you have. But basically, it lets you outline my key areas and relay. I'm working on elections. I can go back to work. I can click on personal. I can say, okay, Archie Brad Christmas. Archie is my son. He has to go to swim lessons. And those sorts of things. You can make little task things. And then when you're done or you want to add more, you can see that you can break it out and look at what you're working on. But it's all, it just lives in your browser. It's wherever you want to log into it. Again, you can put it on your device. And this is the way I organize myself. So I just find it really helpful. So that if you don't organize yourself like this, you might be wedging it in. So don't wedge it in. Just try it and see if it helps you out. You don't like people wedging themselves in. Toodaloo, I have a really, really, really organized friend named Brandy Sanchez. He works at New England Regional Library. I don't know if anybody knows her. But she's one of those people that wants to be on task all the time. And she loves Toodaloo and actually brought it to my attention. And you can organize yourself to the point where if you have 10 minutes between two meetings, Toodaloo will send you an alert and say, here's a task you can finish in those 10 minutes. So like if you are, if you are hardcore, right, this is the tool. I hear, I hear, I see lots of head shaking, right? Like we're not, we're not there. I'm not there, right? I'm gonna screw around for those 10 minutes and look at my clock. Don't tell my team. But like if you are like that, right, it will actually organize you giving yourself like an estimated time it would take to complete a task. You put all your tasks in there. It looks at your schedule and integrates into your calendar. And then it will say, hey, you have two hours free. You should work on these statistics or whatever. So if you need that kind of control or you want that kind of control, this is the tool for you. Again, it's free. It's a really great to-do list. I'm just not that crazy. Yes, now I hear lots of cool laughs. We all know people like that, right though? Yeah. So you can take this one and you can give it to your boss or something and be like, hey, look what I found. Okay, I'm gonna be so productive because this thing's gonna remind me every 10 minutes. Pocket is the new version of a tool called Read It Later. I don't know if anybody has used this. But Pocket integrates across platforms. It's on the web. It's on an app store for every device. But it basically lets you stick an icon into your browser bar.  It sticks it in your pocket and you can come back to it at another time. It's basically a bookmarking tool. The cool thing about it, though, is it integrates as an app into your phone or your iPad or tablet. And it automatically integrates into Twitter. It automatically integrates into Facebook. So if you have tweets or something that you want to come back to later, you can send those tweets to Pocket. Everything goes to Pocket. And it automatically syncs across devices. So if you're on your phone later and you said, oh, there are like three articles I saw when I was browsing, you can open those up on your phone and read them. So no matter where you pick it and no matter where you put it in your pocket, it'll be there for you later. It's the only tool, bookmarking tool that I found that works that well across platforms. I'm one of those people that always has the best intentions of reading things later. So my Pocket is always full. And it's just cute to say I put it in my pocket. Remember, the milk also suffers from that cuteness factor here. Remember, the milk is an online to-do list task manager. What I like about this one is that you can send lists to people. So I can say, hey, husband, I have to work late. Can you pick up this stuff at the store? And it's into the little list. And he can't ignore it because it'll beep at him on his phone.  You can send them alerts. And they will constantly blink at you. Awesome. Everybody needs a tool like that, right? OK. ZAMSAR is a file converter. This might be another one for the reference desk. Has anybody used ZAMSAR? Oh, yes. ZAMSAR is awesome because it converts just about anything. And we get this all the time. I got a Word document and I need it to be a works document or I have a works document and I want it to be open office or whatever they do. People want crazy stuff. I don't know anybody would back convert to works. Now I use that as an example. How fast does it usually work? It depends. It's totally web-based. So it sort of depends on your internet connection and the traffic that ZAMSAR is getting. But I've had pretty good luck with it taking like a minute. If you do big, like we've converted some, oh, the Microsoft, it's like WAV files or WMV files to MPEG files and that took a little while because we were converting video. But if you're doing like PDF to Word and back and forth like that, it's super fast. So it just sort of depends on the media kind of that you're transferring back and forth. But it will do things like convert video, right? So if you're using like a Mac or a PC and using a proprietary format for video, you can use this to convert back and forth. It's really helpful. It's one of those that everybody should look for because everybody has to do that at some point in their life. And Scribd or Scribdv. Jasmine was talking about this last night. Are you guys familiar with Scribd? Yes? Okay, Scribd is awesome when you're like, oh my God, I have to write an implementation report. I don't know what that is. You can go out to Scribd and see if somebody else has uploaded an implementation report and you can take it and change it for yourself. Okay, and then give them credit because it's creative comment. But it's just a really nice storehouse of information. And there are lots of things like we did a Hunger Games event thing at my library. And we wanted to do Hunger Games trivia. Rather than write our own Hunger Games trivia, we would Scribd and there were like 20 different people that had put up Hunger Games trivia. So that saved me time. Then I just used someone else's to another library. It was actually Trails Regional Library. Had put Hunger Games trivia up there. So before you start those kinds of time consuming tasks, take a look because we like to share, and probably somebody's already done it. Okay, customer service feedbackify lets you build little instant feedback menus into your website. So if you want your patrons to give you three questions worth of feedback about your library website, you can subscribe to the like $7 a month feedbackify. They have a little pop up that says will you take a survey? If you guys have ProQuest tools, ProQuest tools do this terribly. So don't do this much. But if you want to put it on your website, you can get that little bit of information very, very easily.  And it just opens up when people have visited your site for X number of minutes. Very nice way to get some quick feedback. Very cost-effective way to get some quick feedback. Text the mob and poll everywhere are those polly things. I didn't set one up because I figured most of you guys might have seen one, right, where you text in your answer and the little bar slide. They look really impressive. But they're very, very easy to do. Poll everywhere and text the mob. Basically do the same thing. They're free for like 40 respondents and then after that you have to pay. But it lets you embed a real-time poll into your presentation or to a page or to whatever you're doing. So you have to answer some questions. And if you're a school or an academic library and you don't have clickers or you don't want to mess with clickers, this is a web-based version of clickers, basically. And then I truly care. It's one of my favorites. So I'm going to click into it. I get attached to these things and then sometimes they go away and I'm like, oh, what did he make it? So we've all used PayPal, right? Everybody used PayPal. I truly care is a non-profit-y, nice version of PayPal. And what I truly care what you do is you can set up zero-feed donations.  And you can see 0% fee donations and it's totally true. They do not take any off the top if you can prove that it's a charity event and that it's a non-profit organization. You can do ticket sales. You can do registration. You can take money for all different kinds of things. They just have really, really low overhead compared to PayPal. But they also take credit cards and do all that kind of stuff.  They have a lot of tools built in so you can sort of promote this out through social media. And that's one of the stories because I get really tired of paying for PayPal fees. Our state association is dealing with this right now. Ooh, I picked something naughty at trying to filter me out. And so this way you can kind of get around some of those fees with I truly care. Okay. I'm not a children's librarian. I do have five-year-old. But I pull out some stuff that we use in my educational classes that I think would be really great for kids. Does anybody get my reference for kids? Like, I will love you. What's it from? Yes! You guys made my day. It's from Head Circuit Posse, which is one of my favorite movies. If you haven't seen it, go ahead and see it. Head Circuit Posse. So the first one is called Handy Points. Anybody use this? If you have a small child, this is an essential place for you to go. It's printable worksheets and activities. Yeah, everybody's like, yes. So you can print out chores. There's paper dolls. It's not going to display them. Look at all those Xs. There's math. The chore charts are what I really like. You can get little star sheets. There's lots of arts and crafts. There's lots of basic learning things. And if you do, you can see there's 10,000 printables. There's a parenting blog on how to use some of this stuff. And if your kids are into that, the more they do, if they do the online versions, they can use their little star points to buy stuff in the virtual store, which is like stickers for my virtual cat. But if you're five, that's pretty cool. But I think this is just so useful. So if you have a very stressed out parent at the children's desk that says, I don't know what to do. My five-year-old would do this and say, haha, let's print out a chore chart for them.  But they might learn something. Okay. Storybird. Storybird is super cool. It's a storytelling tool. And you can see it says Storybird for Schools. And what this does is it gives you images.  And it lets you build stories. And you can, you can see it has little reinforcement tools. And you can do fundraiser. But mostly, it's basically a story-building tool. But the cool thing about it is it has a link, so you can play like story-ground with it. Has anybody played story-ground? So I can say, oh, the castle, or the knight ran up to the castle, and he saw the dragon, and he pulled it his sword. And then you get a link, and you can send it off to somebody else. Or you can save it on the web, and then the next person can add their bit to the story. And then you can go to the creative commons art, and you can pull out images or whoever is using the tool can pull images to illustrate their story. It's totally free. And if you are an artist, and you want to get some exposure for your art, you can also share art on this site.  Little bird tails is illustrating your own audio storybook. It's cute. Okay. You make an account. You do have to have a microphone. They're working on an app version of this, which will not require it. But if you want to record your voice with a microphone, but they are like $4 from one right now, they're really expensive. But what it lets you do, you can draw or upload your artwork to each page.  I thought they hadn't made my point down here at the bottom. We did this with the people I was teaching to be teachers, and we had an early literacy class where we had kids come in, and kids really enjoyed hearing themselves and being able to draw their own pictures for their stories. There are sometimes naughty ones on here, though, because there's no blocker. If you are opening it up, I made this mistake. If you're opening up in front of a classroom, you might pick one in advance. You don't open up a naughty one. Here we can say, I'm not going to even tell you what it was. You can see we have twinning. One has drawn this picture of a chick. You guys can't really hear it. Basically, it has a little audio book and they've recorded their voices. Very fun, totally free. Really cool. Smornings is also an audio storybook sharing thing. Am I going to show you this one? It actually started in the UK. When you look at these stories, a lot of them have the awesomest accents. Tiny kids with cool British accents. This is the place to go. Again, you're not going to be able to hear it, so there's really no point clicking. It has an iPhone app, too, and it's going to the Android store. You can record yourself reading a story and then you can share it out in the Smornings web space. She's reading. She's feeling grumpy and she needed cheering up. Again, it's just another place where you can share out those stories. It's very easy to upload. It gives some kids some confidence that they can read out loud and they'll be a little video of themselves. There are tons of these stories out there. Red Kid is a storehouse of creative tools for kids. I'm not going to click into it now, but it has tons of sign creators. It has a web mail for kids. It's like a safely monitored web mail. If you have a little one that wants their own email address and you're not cool about giving them a Gmail address right now because they might get an email address. It also has a lot of cool sign printing tools and art activities and things like that. Audio and music. How I got Vokey on here again. Vocaroo and AudioPal lets you record audio and embed it in a website. If you want to do your message from your director as an audio file this month instead of just typing a paragraph, they can record it and you can embed it onto your website. We talked about Vokey and VoiceGrid. It lets you upload and share audio easily, but this one lets you edit it a little bit better. Again, it's all hosted on the web. It lets you share out through a variety of social media. The other two I talked about, Vocaroo and AudioPal are links. You can embed them. If you can't share them out, it lets you share out. It depends on what you're looking for. Hark is a storehouse of sound bites. They provide a presentation for a website. They have sports. They have movies. They have political gaffes and clips and things like that. It is an absolutely huge storehouse. They are clips that are created so you can use them without violating copyright. That's a big thing too. You can go in there and steal 11 seconds of Harry Potter. That's all you get to use. You get those 11 seconds. You don't have to worry about copyright. It lets you create mixtapes of any kind of media on the web.  We actually use this in our athletic training department to string clips of actually analyzing injuries and things like that.  There's one video or one link and distribute that. It's a very useful tool because YouTube doesn't let you manipulate their videos very much. Library-ish things. Who has novelist? Who would like to have novelist and can't afford it? Booklamp is like an open source version of novelist. It's building itself up so it'll get better and better. If you are one of those altruistic people who want to help it, you can go out there and put some book DNA in it. Basically, it lets you search by things that you have read and what you might like. Here it's using DaVinci Code and Game of Thrones. If you like medieval weapons and armor, you might like Game of Thrones. Surprise! If you like criminal investigation, you might like the girl who kicked the woman's nest. There are lots of different aspects to this. You can make an account. It's kind of like a crossover of novelist and digital humanities. It looks through the text, it tries to find themes, but then it tries to give you read-alikes. For those of us who don't have novelist, it's a very nice little novelist-esque tool. Book track. I mentioned because I think it's like the stupidest thing ever. Has anybody heard of this? I just have to share because it's so silly. It's like what it's supposed to do is give you a soundtrack that goes along with your e-book. It supposedly knows the best music to go along with your e-book, and then it'll download it onto your device and then you can listen to the music with your e-book. Isn't that a weird concept? I don't even understand like here's a Bible one. Here's a soundtrack for the New Testament. What's up with that? Okay. Look, it's in Forbes and it's like it's getting all this press, but I don't understand the point. So if any of you guys think this is great or have a use, let me know. I have to share it because I just think it's the weirdest thing ever. But it's a company that's successful. I don't know. Movellas and Fickley are places to share your own fiction.  GD is a genealogy tool. It helps you build family trees. It basically looks like a mind mapping software. You can build a diagram, but then it has boxes so you can add your personal information. So you can actually build a spiritual family tree and add your little genealogy bits in there and then have a link to send out to people.  Totally three. Really, really neat for those genealogy people. Storify. Storify is integrating social media. I'm an academic librarian. I have faculty that think social media is like the devil.  It's just the, yeah. Okay, I'll stop there with that part of my speech. But what Storify lets you do is it lets you pull information from all over the web. Both news articles, tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram, all of that stuff and it lets you integrate it into a story. So you can pick a topic. You can search the web and you can pull all this stuff in and then what you get with is basically a multimedia research paper. So it's not just focusing on our traditional sources, but it can. You can pull in those articles too. But if you want some commentary and things on social media sites, you can integrate those in. I think it's an absolutely fabulous place, especially if you have some social media doubters out there. Small demons is not apopedia. My link is broken. Small demons is a storehouse of information about fictional characters. So if you want to know what Elizabeth Sallander reads in her books, you can go in and small demons will tell you all of the pop culture references that she makes or what she read. And it does that with everybody. Jack Torrance from The Shining. If you want to know everything pop culture that Jack Torrance did, what kind of whiskey he drank, what kind of medicine he took, that's all in small demons. But it's all cross-referenced. So high fidelity is a good example. If you have high fidelity and you want to know all the songs they talk about in high fidelity, there's thousands of them. It links all of those visually. I wish it would open. Because it's one of my favorite things I found in the last five years. It is the best trivia thing ever. Right? For trivia people. It's not going to find it. Go and take a look at it. It's really, really cool. It also does geographic location. It does products. So like McDonald's or Kleenex, it'll find those references. It's just an amazing storehouse. It's another one of those sites though too that is depending on us to help them get better. So if you have a favorite book and you know it in and out and you want to go add some of your knowledge to that base, please do it because it makes it better for everybody. It's another one of those super librarian things. And then share some sugar. Share some sugar. I have a list. Share some sugar. I can't say it. Share some sugar. It's like a library online. This popped up in 2008 and you can basically ask to borrow anything in your neighborhood. You can search by zip code and you can say I need a drill press but I only need it for like two hours. I don't want to spend $1,000 on one. Does anybody have one I could borrow?  Awesome. Can you get more awesome than that? I don't want to put this out of business but it's really cool. There's like a modern day warm and fuzzy grandma who always happens to have just the right item. You need it just the right time. And that's really what it is. It's really well developed in urban areas. It's not quite so much in smaller rural areas but it's getting there. And you can see you can look by I want a hammer or you can look by your zip code and you can find what's available. Very cool. There's also like a baby stuff trading swap and shop on there. Lots of different stuff. Searching and instruction. Quizlet lets you make online quizzes that are totally interactive and then it has built in games. So if you want to make a quiz but then you also want to make them like shoot the right answer. We all played that when we were little. You can make a vocabulary quiz but then they have to shoot the right answer. So it's like game-based learning, totally free, totally web-based. You get a URL, you send it out to wherever you want to take the quiz. Visual Thesaurus and iPlr are both visual search engines. iPlr is my favorite one. I'm running out of time so I need to hope this will open really quickly. Again, we talked about mind mapping earlier and I'm a mind mapper so visual search engines are really a boon for me. You can see here it gives you some examples. So like I'll do French Revolution you can type anything in but we'll use one of the canned ones. And it will pop up a relational mind mapped search for you. Maybe. Visual Thesaurus is basically the same thing but it's a little more linear.  This one does, it does some animation so it's a little bit more intensive. It works off Bing, not Google. You can see here it breaks it out by time, health, place, science, society, people. All of these are links.  It's really, really neat. It's great for a person that comes in and says I have to write a paper about the French Revolution and I don't know what to focus on. This will give you a nice breakdown of that. Boolify is a tool that was made by the Simubol main creasier that actually let you build searches using Boolean language. So if you're all about the Boolean language it actually has little drag and drop things for ands and ors and nots and parentheses. Boolean language or if you just want to make yourself happy by using Boolean language as it dies out you can use Boolify. And then Wolfram Alpha are you guys familiar with Wolfram Alpha? Yes. Computational search engine, you can type in anything and it'll give you an answer practically. You can type your name in and it'll tell you how many people in the United States have your name. You can type your birthday in and it'll tell you how many people have your same birthday. And it'll do math and some other stuff. Very cool. Oldies but goodies. These have been around for a little while longer. Lucidchart is kind of like a lovely chart. It lets you build diagrams of things web-based. What do you suggest is another search engine that will try to help you find a result. So if you're in Google and you've got 3,000 results back and you can't quite figure out what you need what do you suggest will actually try to narrow down for you. It'll give you some examples. It's a very nice tool for confused folks. YouTube time machine. Anybody use this one? That's one I got to click into. YouTube time machine takes all of the videos on YouTube and organizes them chronologically. Fabulous. I know I see smiles. Fabulous. Just think of the things we can do with this. It goes all the way back to like 1878 because there's some still images and things that have been uploaded. It is really video intensive. But you can look for things like video games, you can link out. You can slide your year. I want to go to 1964 and click on it. It'll give me commercials. It'll give me movie trailers. It'll give me music. It'll give me anything that's on YouTube by the year. The possibilities are endless with YouTube time machine. Such a cool idea. Cranberry are flashcards. Web-based flashcards. If you have kids that come in and they want to make flashcards they can do that. They're pre-made as well. Spanish language is the one I was looking at this morning. You can open those up. It also integrates into smart phones. If you want to make cards online but then you want to practice in the back of the car while you're driving or while you're not driving but while your mother is driving you can do your flashcards on a phone or a tablet. Very cool. GovTrack and Open Congress are two sides that allow you to track basically just what they say. Government voting, money. How to vote, how bills are doing. So if you have a senator or if you have a bill that you want to watch you can set up an RSS feed and it will send you updates to that. If you have somebody that you're watching really closely like the Secretary of State in the State of Missouri who is cutting our libraries right now we can watch everything he does using Open Congress and GovTrack. Down for everyone. Does anybody use this? Yay! I got a couple of claps. This is like my favorite thing. Down for everyone or just me. So if you go to a website and it doesn't work you can type your website in there and it will tell you if it's down for everyone or just you.  It's really nice when they just bookmark because sometimes you run into that. And then Dropbox. Everybody knows about Dropbox. Online storage, free for so many megs integrates across platforms. Awesome. Twitter and social media privately lets you email private messages to your Twitter friends in an untrackable way. So if you want to make a conversation and you don't want Twitter to know about it and put it in the Twitter search feed you can use privately and you can add up to eight people at a time. Post post is an overlay for Twitter search so it actually lets you use Boolean search terms and digs a little deeper into the coding of the site to let you get better results back than just using the regular Twitter search. Visified gives you an infographic of yourself. I can't show you. Basically it takes all of the stuff you do out there on the internet and it makes an infographic of you. So it shows you how many friends you have. It shows you what things you talk about the most. It gives you a really, really nice breakdown of what you've mentioned. I went in and looked at it and I had talked about ice cream way more than I had expected. Seriously, it breaks it down. It's really neat. So go and plug your name in there and look at your Visified. TrendsMap is a GIS overlay for Twitter so if you want to know what the kids are talking about in your geographic location you can go to... I'm not going to open it because it takes a long time but it overlays whatever location you are and it shows you what's trending in that particular area. If you want to look at just your area rather than the entire world, TrendsMap will tell you what's there. It's really fun and totally weird. I've got like two minutes left so I have to go really fast. iVoodoo lets you make voodoo dolls and you can share them.  BagCheck is one of my favorite things about social media which is the fact that we overshare to the point where we're a little bit crazy. BagCheck lets you make your own list or share pictures of all the stuff that you have. It started off as like a packing thing but now you can see like here's baby stuff or dads must have or things I don't miss about babies or kids things to say or baby beer, blah blah blah. This is all babies. There's a golf one. But that's how it is. People take pictures of their stuff and put them on the internet for new or anything. But I mean if you need a list and you say what do I need for my baby for the first three months you can go here and take a look. Did I just lose my thing? Okay. Run & P is actually just an app. Run & P, yes. Run & P tells you the best time to get up and pee during a movie. Seriously. Like someone has to so if you go into like Iron Man 3 which is two hours and 40 minutes long and you want a guy to want to pee there when Pepper Pot gets killed so I need to know not that she gets killed, I don't know. But it'll actually give you a little buzz in your pocket to tell you okay now's the best time to go. How useful is that? Right? I love it. Okay. And in places I pooped, this is another one we're now on the scatological humor part of my presentation but places I pooped actually let you log all of the GIS locations that you have gone to the bathroom. So like it also is a map that lets you, a map that lets you tag where you've been but it just does it in sort of a tongue-in-cheek way. And then know your meme and meme generator. We all know memes are all over the place but if you want to know why something was created or when, know your meme is actually like an encyclopedia for memes. So it's very nice. And then meme generator is a meme generator.  Mind Bloom is a mindfulness app that will remind you to be nice to people. So if you have a oh, I just lost my internet. So if you have a problem being nice to people or if you want to be reminded it will send you a little alerts on your phone or on your computer to say remember to breathe today. Right? And sometimes we do that so it's a little bit fun. And then Bakelicious is my favorite thing ever and this is how we're going to end Bakelicious allows you to put bacon on any webpage. So basically you put your link in there and it just puts a big old piece of bacon on top of the content of the webpage. The end. Right? So do I have any time for questions? Like a minute? Two minutes. Anybody have a question? Yes. Yes, places I pooped. There is another one that lets you do that that's called Ms. P. M-I-Z-P-E-E like I don't just do this I don't look up bathroom apps for a living. And it's not going to open up right now. But that actually does. It's like helping you find a clean public toilet. Right? So that's another Ms. P. M-I-Z-P-E-E helps you find a clean public toilet near where you are. Anything else? Okay. Yes, way in the back. Right? Use Google goggles. No, it doesn't. It's a traditional web search. It just does it in a visual way. So it doesn't really look for images. Sorry. Does anybody know anything really good that works for images? Anybody want to share? No, getting lots of head shakes. Like there's an iPhone and Android app that actually lets you take pictures and does a Google search that works fairly well. But if you're out of weird color rather than the content of the picture. And this is like I pride myself on being that person that somebody says, I need something that tells me where there's a clean bathroom. And I will say, oh, I read about that. So if you guys have weird ones, you can come up and try to stump me. I do this for a living. It's weird. All right? Thank you guys so much for your attention. I hope you've got something that you can use to take back to your library. I still have a lot of things to do. I love the bacon. That was awesome. We have a 15-minute break and then at 10.30 is our 30 tips in 30 minutes. A couple things that you could do. You could go to the art gallery, which has an art exhibit called Consumed. And the other thing is Meredith is down on the edge. The 3D printer is running. It's making something as we speak. So if you want to see it working, now's a good time to go. And all of the handouts links will be on the website. So I think if you took lots of notes, that's great, but you didn't really have to because we'll post everything. Okay. This is Christa Burns again here back at the Nebraska Library Commission. Hold on just a second. I am pulling back. There we go. So I don't know about any bills. That was awesome. I had great time listening to Cynthia speak there. For those of you that came in and I didn't really get to do a full intro to this session. Today's EncouplesLive was a live broadcast of the opening keynote at the Northeast Kansas Library Systems Technology and Innovation Day being held at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. That was Cynthia Dudenhofer who was doing her web tools to make you look cool session. It was recorded, so we have all of that recorded. I have been working, as you can see from my tabs up here on adding all of the different things she mentioned into the delicious account that we use here at the Library Commission for all of our presentations for all of our sessions for EncouplesLive. So when the recording for this session is up, I'll add that link as well so you'll be able to get to all those things that she mentioned. As you can see, I'm still working on some of them. She was rattling them off very quickly. So I tried to keep up and I think I've got them all in there. So that will wrap it up for this morning's EncouplesLive. I do have one question on the line so I'm going to ask about any other parts of their conference will be recorded. We're not doing them through our show here, of course. We just do EncouplesLive in the mornings here and we just do this one session. But Michael Sowers, who is our Technology Innovation Librarian, this is his monthly Tech Talk session of Episode of EncouplesLive. He is actually there at this conference in Kansas so he is down there right now. He does have our camera on hand, our video camera, and he is planning on videotaping for them as much of the other sessions as he can. So at some point there will be recordings of the rest of the sessions that they have on their Technology Innovation Day. So we'll see how those come out and you may be able to see some of the other ones that they are doing later on today at some point when he gets those done. And I know that they are working on doing some recordings of their own as well too. So that will be coming up. 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There's a breakfast in plus TV Africa We'll take you through the pages of our dailies as always and this time and open up on Kataria It's on standby. He joins the conversation via zoom. It's good to have you join us this morning open up on Kataria All right, let's take a look at the leadership newspaper this morning on the front page of the leadership newspaper It's boldly written 2023 postponement of APC presidential screening on settles aspirant That's what you find underneath no new date for exercise yet as president meets with aspirant on Wednesday Jonathan's name pops According to this ride I say it pops up again in APC presidential Permutations may get parties weaver to run Southeast presidential aspirant meet in a booger and forge alliance Any breach during party primaries will invalidate entry process Inaq ones. I mean I'm very very excited about how Inaq is very thin You know with their position on the situation Again, you have four killed in a quay bomb bias as PDP holds reps and state house assembly Permaries, that's another caption you find on the leadership Electoral a electoral acts APC's token crisis to stall 2023 elections. That's what the PDP is saying Can host peaceful protests in state FCT the death of Deborah Yakubu That's what you find here and farmers worry over insecurity climate change orders as planting season begins You know climate change are we in control and over in security are we in control? These are some of the questions. We probably need to answer. Nigeria did not endorse the OECD minimum corporate tax agreement federal governments appoint Chukun my area as acting accountant general Forensic ordered presidency stops unexpected NNDC project The headlines this morning on the leadership Let's switch over to the nation is super this morning with the big one there drama clashes upset Ass so at PDP reps assembly primaries drama clashes Upsets at PDP reps assembly primaries with a rider Opposition party to pick senatorial candidates today More from the nation newspaper APC insists on screening Jonathan a may feel a In-gigay, it's a case of will you scream me by force? So is this a by force screening or what anyway? APC insists on screening Jonathan a may feel a in-gigay details on page five Gunman kill four kids mom two others police station raised This should be somewhere in the southeast if I'm not mistaken details on pages two and four Four bodies recovered in collapse building in Lagos Lagos are a while community. Okay is okada Restriction interesting one there firms businesses await CBN's decision on rates talking about the Monetary policy rate or the interest rates set by the monetary policy committee the NPC and At the bottom of that front page x convict return II held for importing cocaine X convict return II held for importing cocaine and can't protest killing of Deborah Finally, someone seems to be speaking up about that. Those are headlines on the front page of the nation so you have a lot of Interesting headlines on the Nigerian Tribune, but we take them as we can the boat caption says APC again The boat screening of presidential aspirant. I probably might just be dominating all of the headlines Front pages of a national dailies this morning Now underneath Omae or culture or the sick party to concede presidential ticket to southeast Nass governor aspiror governorship aspirant angry with the APC national working committee the major bank Kalei can vassus modified consensus to decide APC's candidate and Naira slides to 610 per dollar at parallel markets. Some people say 611 that was the difference one hour exchange rate gap widens to 191 Naira as to strike security thightened at international airport and Soludo places 10 million our bounty on killers of a number of lawmaker Nigerian dealers tend to Accident at car for profits You also have the our community direct members to obey Okada ban You also have another caption saying Cairo's suspension cancellation characterized the PDP parameters and Can Our CCG overseer demand justice for Deborah say no to killing of Christians Electoral act five reasons. Buhari has not signed amendment President pressure to delay signing for tenure elongation PDP alleges Amendment to Electoral Act on delegate illegal Falunas courted. He can be done says Omani We just move away. We have more interesting headlines. We just stick to swan primaries lower T 2019 experience pushing Muhammad Bala ahead of orders The PDP members courted to say but that's the much we can take this morning on the Nigerian Tribune and We'll round it off with a look at the headlines and front pages on the front page of the punch this Monday morning the big one there Governorship primaries crisis rocks rivers or your Benware APC factions APC rather factions rejects delegates list crisis rocks rivers or your Benware APC factions reject delegates list and the writers to that headline process Skewed in rivers no delegates election in Benware Factional leaders and a delabo for Larry factions produce two delegates lists, you know your await NWC's verdict Nigeria loses 2.2 trillion Nara revenue to all production delays according to report details on page 27 subscribers kick as FG slams 90 billion Nara new tax on phone calls How about that details on page 27? Nigerians spend 22 million dollars on foreign education in three months According to report by the Central Bank of Nigeria With frozen accounts of 50 firms operating loan apps FCC PC boss and At the bottom of that front page the following headlines Debra protesting Abuja Kaduna Benware plateau or show churches defy government ban Condemn jungle justice and welcome it have such a ban rep summon minister as agency auctions 2 billion Nara assets for 13.6 million Nara talk about Shikini money. That's a classic example of their details on page 35 children at risk of severe monkey pox cases NCDC Ondo a moteco naps 4,000 suspects says crime reducing and we have a final few headlines at the bottom of that front page Wikejitri that gogo is contesting Governorship rivers PDP may not have candidate for election according to lawyer and Mechanic Union X chairman assaults two legus panel beaters victims go dumb And one killed his violence Parallel polls ma PDP Promise a paper said for I think was a tribune or the leadership that said for and the punch is saying one Let's now turn our attention to our guest analysts for this morning open up or in court area missing cot area Thanks for a time. I think I can predict like most try the most which story will most interest you on the front page of The punch is supposed to start from that A lawyer claimed me that yes, I'm wiki whom you know. Well, it's jittery over for that Gogo's contesting the governorship election incest rivers PDP may not have a candidate for that election. Is this can't this is possible? Well, let me make an observation. I don't wish my beard are going to be a black as they are on the screen Loud and clear I will say that you your question is this The PDP is going to have or participate in the general election in 2020. Yes, if the lawyers prediction is Possible Because if they go to court challenging the Arrest and detention wish to make it illegal because the federal high court in Abu Dhabi Restrain the security agencies the governor From arresting for a dago before a puny cost that's a an inferior cost, which is a magistrate court on that is arrest I mean that was so ridiculous and especially coming from a governor who himself is a great week It's very senior member at the back So This will tell you that the whole thing has been orchestrated because they are scared of Faradah Google's Political clouds Which they have even added to by the West It wasn't competing necessary for that Google has been arrested and detained in front of charges It was not there that day if you have gone through the checklist They did not also accusing of coming into that venue with dogs Those who are arrested and detention also said they were not they are the behest of Faradah Google and so on so you could see some level of conspiracy and You have denied him his right rocked in his right of screening and contested and this is in In contravention of the Constitution and so if the lawyers who go to cost They can come back to this issue and the copies please Satisfy that what is what it did to Faradah We're going to start from the high court the part of appeal and the Supreme Court Now what they did to Faradah Google was illegal and they denied him his right Of course the court will say no will insist on his right and what does that mean if you say the screening is fast Then is the Faradah Google one of his proud to be then there should be no primary for the PDP Because he has been robbed of his right, you know so many issues could arise Therefore, so if there is possibility although it is subject to The cost for now, but there is a strong possibility that if they take this matter to cost I want to believe that there might not be primaries or elections rather in The PDP might not participate in the forthcoming general elections Unless the court will also say that Anybody could be robbed to be denied his right. It doesn't matter let the election go Well, yeah, this thing can reach our jurisprudence. So we are going to hear it's another option unless we To hear what the guy actually believes that the issue of his participation Which is quite distinct from his arrest will be subjected to the clinical prognosis of illegal land And the judicial pronouncement will be made on that and we'll take it from there Not just at the high court, not just at the court of appeal, but it should get up to the Supreme Court Most of us don't have confidence in most of these high court judges because most of this does not influence their appointment Influence their judgment and to a very large extent Judges have been procured. So we look at the court of appeal and the Supreme Court Let's take a quick look at the Nigerian Tribune this morning It talks about the president's and not signing the electoral act I mean a lot of thoughts have been put out Some people have also said that the reason for all of this is so that you know It might just be for the personal interest of the president a elongation of his tenure and you also have all the court is saying that it's actually Desperate APC leaders behind the delay by the president and signing the amendment to the electoral act into it too To frustrate the conduct of the primaries by political parties so a lot's going on But what do you make of all of this? I mean thoughts that have been put out this morning Please correct me if I'm wrong. I think the new electron and principally the amended electron Basically has to do with the inclusion of such intelligence. I think that's specifically what it does to you I don't know if there are others or something issues in the amended electoral act within the president's signature At least that is the case. I don't I don't see how that is going to elongate the turn of the suppressiveness I don't think so. I don't think there's really anything in that electron I don't get the turn of the suppressiveness. In any case the president cannot it cannot even elongate the tenure That is the truth about it because the tenure of the president is Constitutional and unless you amend the Constitution, you cannot extend the tenure of anybody in office If that tenure is within the confidence of the Constitution, you can't extend it So I don't I don't supply to such arguments of course people will come up with all some kind of ridiculous arguments It's like Facebook most times you go to Facebook or you go to the social media Apart from the grammar, the semantics and so on if you if you go through the logic of the arguments You begin to wonder if most of these people came from space or whatever, you know So I don't think that has to do with that. Now, there is so much pressure so that you can have certain persons as delegates it's like the National Assembly members Even the governor the president that deputies are too old right now. They are not automatic So that because they are going to be robbed of that right a lot of them are angry. They're insent Because there are also advantages of being an automatic super delegate There are so many I mean the advantage is that numbers and so they are not happy That's why they are mounting all kinds of pressure on Mr. President to sign the electoral act That does not in any way what I science or not will affect the tenure of the president administration It doesn't have that willy-nilly if you leave up otherwise there are big serious crisis That will lead to the extinction of the country come and especially Right now that the ten years me gives us have been so Tracking so treachery that any slight mistake of the part of the government will lead to the extinction of this country Because it will need to amnesty All right Let's go back to the front page of the punches of her a misting Kutaira to look at the Yeah, they can't protest that held across the country on Sunday Churches in Abuja in Kaduna in better a plateau ocean states are among the states that Defied state governments back on rallies in their domain to protest the killing the recent killing of Deborah Yeah, Kubu that one on the front page you can see on the front page pictures of protesting Members of the public, you know with placard sparing inscriptions like stop the killing God is watching Let's be a brother's keeper. I don't defend the indefendable or indefensible. Let's leave together in peace I'm your thoughts on this Well, somewhat of expected that there would have been an outpouring of protests around the country It's even a at least in the in the majority Christians out But we're not seeing that in the Christian Association of Nigerians have to call on Christians to protest yesterday When I when I bent my Of what should I say? When I upload my mind of this issue most times to do so But it's true about it is that yes, we welcome the quota. I agree. We're protesting the Mother the death of Deborah Christians all over but it's not just about Christians It has to do with humanity Even if they have done that in Muslim Because of the consequences you're scared. I don't want to say Christians to a very large extent and how I'm a Christian and my name is even in Christian. I'm also in mind But to a very large extent Christians are cowards and they hide all that the issue of forgiveness Vengeance is my says the Lord and all those kinds of words But even in heaven the Bible says The kingdom of God suffered violence and the violent ticketed by force until Look at what is happening with the consign They must have touched in the job the magistrates One didn't ever to see The Because the so-called accused they were nowhere to be found This is what is they are going to employ you to the end of this One year two years and eventually not to work it over this very program the last time I said I've learned is that the message was a why would you have to bring you have to go from you have this Is something that has taken international dimension Even in civilized crimes Where people are you like joint law? They did not they did not just allow the governor of that state to handle the matter The president of the united states got involved What I selected mr. President to do yes, I do the process but that is not enough that will not surprise What I selected mr.  These so-called characters are sitting outside.  The day after they commit you protest The only is to protest. The other is to commit a crime Who loses? Who suffers? Nothing How many states in the country we went down? How many states? How many Christians in the states went down?  Are you saying that that Nigeria should take the loan to their hands? Okay, let me ask you a simple question Let me ask you a simple question Okay, let me ask you a simple question When an armed robber invades your home Do you wait for the police to come? That's why you don't need to take the lot Are you saying Mr. Gutierrez Are you condemning killing And assassination Murder of innocent people In its entirety Or are you saying that when one wrong is committed By whoever Maybe Muslims kill a Christian That Christians should go carry stones And go and stone a Muslim You see anywhere Okay, let me make this clear Let me make this clear You know very soon who has time So let me make this clear I got the gist of the question Let me make this clear The point I'm making is simple I'm not saying go and kill Muslims Or if a Christian is killed By a Muslim is killed by a Christian Go and kill Christians No That person that committed that crime should be killed That's the point I'm making But who Not that you should go and kill the whole Muslim You got to kill the whole people You know I'm saying this Are you saying They should be done extra judicially We're in this country We are the rulers of the state And the administration of justice You cannot look at this matter You cannot get justice I would like to believe you're not saying Just for clarity sake Mr. Gutierrez Look at You can hear that So I want to be sure That you're not asking For more extrajudicial killings I want to be sure That you're not asking for more extrajudicial killings You're saying that yes You want whoever is guilty of this killing Committed the crime To be given the death penalty Within a legal process Not extrajudicial killing Am I correct sir Can I listen to him now please I am the one talking I just want to understand you The clarity of what I'm saying To penetrate your matter Excuse me You have this magistrate not sitting He must have been checked These other persons not taking the call This matter will be adjourned And adjourned and adjourned And justice will not be served You have a professor of law Leading 34 other lawyers To defend this group from murder To run on a map A good time to justify Blasphemy is a sin against go off So Are you advocating I just want to be sure Just to be sure Are you advocating for I just want to be sure sir Just to be sure Are you advocating for extrajudicial action Is that what you're getting for In a situation like this Are you somebody to cost Open up on Qatari Let us also Open up on Qatari So now we understand That you are asking for Jungle justice We would like to inform you Mr. Qatari that we would usually Use a platform To promote actions That are carried out within the Ambit of a law And we would want to encourage the public To embark on any action Outside the law Any extrajudicial action You would agree with me Mr. Qatari That we are trying to reduce The increasing spate Of extrajudicial I won't even call it extrajudicial Jungle justice because there is no justice there Of mob attacks and lynching And I believe that you as a Christian Do not believe in an eye for an eye In a tooth for a tooth I also believe that you don't believe In two wrongs We are making it right So we are trying to reduce the incidences Of lynchings in the country And we will always preach That people should allow the law To take its course I think you agree with me Mr. Qatari We are still there Yes, yes So we wouldn't want people to listen To our conversation This morning and be incited To go attack anybody Because I can't go to Sokoto Mustafa who lives on Ligari or in Oniru Let me go and kill him We don't want to have that I believe that that's not what you are saying sir And that you would like to see people act Within the ambits of the law Not lynch Yes, I believe in feedback You know why most times a lot of people You know why most times a lot of people Get to the extreme Even as much as I completely agree With what you have just said One essence of this Is to bring some level of awareness And also educate the masses And including the government You know why a lot of people Get to the extreme Because they have lost confidence In our judicial system That's the truth about it They have lost confidence In our judicial system At the end of the day These characters will get six months in prison Is that enough? But there is some level of Sentence to be That will be well as they pacify this person So are you calling Are you calling on government Are you calling on government We need to move away from this Are you calling on government To give the maximum To give the maximum penalty To create a serious crisis In this country If it is not addressed All right We have to move on to I call on Mr. President If Mr. President works into this matter We are going to step up all this crisis We are talking about I believe that I believe I believe that Sorry to interrupt you But I believe that You understand Please Please I believe you understand The importance of Of the media And the role that we have And the impact that we can have On our society And I believe that you don't want to see The situation get worse Because if we have reprisal attacks And if we have reprisal killings Then it is going to descend into a civil war And I know that you wouldn't want to see that Because you always preach against that So what we are calling on Is for people to stay back Of course But I believe that you are saying That those who have committed the crime Must pay for it With the maximum and the full force of the law And no one must be let off Lose I believe that's what we are saying So we move on to the next Let's move on So just before we call it a wrap This morning on the breakfast On the paper review Let's take a look at the Nigerian Tribune The signing of presidential aspirant What are your thoughts on this? The APC is a confused political party Every day There may be one crisis or the other Always land in the morass Of procedural policies, issues And what have you It is so sad Because what I cannot understand is Why we look for the extension Of the primary deadline What is the problem What is the problem What have you done For the past three years You should be prepared Even if the aspirants are 100 You should be prepared After all your parties have been altura Because they pay 100 million So do the calculation You might not be mistaken about me because my father was a boy. They suit it. Sorry?  No, like I said that on a lighter look. But have I said this, you know, the fact is I don't think the APC is actually ready.  I don't think the APC is ready. If they have the vision, this kid is so much, so wide, so wide. And after the primary, I tell you a lot more will happen. The vision will be worse than it is right now. Because some will leave the party, some will play anti-party and so on. So it's a body of confused politicians. That is the problem the APC is having right now. That's totally true. Why are you telling me this? What is the reason? And what if you have the reason? What if you have the reason? How do you justify it? What is the reason for that? Well, that's not the reason. That is not the reason. I'm just going to... That is not the reason. As we call it a wrap this morning, I mean, as we move away from the paper review, you have a writer saying that Umahi or Karcher and others are asking that the party concedes the presidential ticket to the South is. How can these things be? Or how can this thing be? That is a flipping illusion. For now, that is a flipping illusion. If you take on that advisement, what is going on right now in the country? I mean, yes, Umahi would have been the proper thing because the Souths have not produced. In the real life, it's just to placate them. It's just to pacify the Souths. No doubt about that. But those in authorities, are they going to agree? They are also going to be scared that if they give it to the Souths, then one thing they could be... Other countries could be... I don't want to say, face certain consequences because you have told me not to divide the nation. So I want to do my work. Well, I won't say that. I don't think it's going to be giving it to the Souths. I have my doubts that it's going to be giving it to the Souths. They will just tell you Souths. I mean, the Souths can get the time. But there will also be a controversy against the Souths. Yes, this I can tell you. Because of the accusations from the Souths, I don't want to go further. So that hopefully they will not accuse me of trying to divide the nation. Hopefully I hope you are satisfied with this one now. You are doing very well. You are doing very well. But they will not want to give it to the Souths. They will not want to give it to the Souths. That's the truth about it. Because of the accusations from the Souths, they don't know what to give it to the Souths. But if you tell them to the Souths, but not the Souths, I can tell you that. Ms. Senkotaro, we have to go. Thank you for understanding with us and for doing your best to unite the nation. Probably it's a Nobel Peace Prize. But we will be looking forward to having you again on the breakfast. Thank you so much for your time. Good morning. Well, that's the size of it. We will definitely return tomorrow with the press, off the press. I mean, taking you through the pages for National Dailies, front pages of the precise, and also having a guest share his thoughts on the issue. Great analysis coming your way. But we will step on the brakes when we return. It will be time for us to look at our major conversation. But before then, let's tell you what happened today in history. Stay with us.