Everybody forced here up being 2023 Bowman baseball jumbo eight box case number five picker team style got Alvin with the Red Sox Anton H Guardians Carl C with the Phillies Chessie has the Rockies and the Twins Chris L. Giants Corey M. Tigers Dean E pirates Dwayne J. Braves Evan R. White Sox Hennie with the Royals Jeff G. Padres Jim M. Mariners Joshua B. Nationals Cardinals Kyle S. D. Bax Nathaniel S. Brewers Nicholas S. Reds Orioles Orin W. Astros Yankees Reyes Blue Jays Rory B. Cubs Rusty C. Dodgers Scott T. With the Rangers Sals S. Has the Mets Wei Ming A's William B. Marlins and Zachary with the Angels. Good luck everybody. Let's get started Case five This isn't good for either of us Make it all Vargas. I'm ready for a super or at least like a red auto. What a slide By that I mean ace plan basically a judge This judge What was that? Yeah, I was gonna say I probably didn't feel good judge Like you landed right here. Like Are you good? All right spotlight of Jackson holiday Lunar glow first bowman host way the Paula Dodgers solid card there Andres Mesa Rangers first bowman base auto Versado goes to the Rangers Andres Mesa Gonna Henderson insert twins are still first and essential or no They might be Aqua Lunar crater William Bergoglia to 125 Phillies White blue paper rookie Nelson Velazquez to 499 Dodgers or sorry Cubs Cubs Cubs Christian Casas Next auto is gonna be a Randy the hazus first bowman atomic auto Angels 49 out of 100 Randy the hazus Solid hit there small auto. He graded. Well, yes, I actually see at least it's a clean auto Definitely a nice car there for the Angels Who was Was a Miranda Nolan Gorman Got light blue paper to 499 Samuel Munoz Dodgers True blue first bowman die on free us 138 of 150 your guardians Yeah spotlights are pretty cool. I'm glad they're kind of common though Then the parallels of the what what you're chasing for a spotlight. I got three the instructions. What do you mean? Redemption dual bowman prospect auto Elijah green Christian vocaro Dual bowman prospect auto to 25 I believe is what it says right here. Wow Crazy pole congrats Nationals Yeah, it says serial number to 25 and then the only other parallel is a super fractor. Hey, there's only four of these on the checklist too. It's Nat screened vocaro has drew Jones Jackson holiday on one of them Henry Davis to mark Johnson and Lawler and drew Jones So that is sick. Congrats. That's big hit Incredibly tough pole. So there's only 104 of those cards total of those dual autos of like all of them combined Four super fractures and then 25 each of the others That's a tough pole right there Incredibly incredibly incredibly tough pole especially for Bowman big names to especially Elijah green spotlight of Anthony Gutierrez Lunar glow first woman Michelle de son I thought I was Michael earlier never seen Michelle Yeah, I Michelle maybe I don't know maybe it's quick New names man every bowman release Echtel Rodriguez reds on the first woman gold shimmer auto 26 and 50 nice Echtel Rodriguez Very nice. We'll get this one back for the reds old shimmers. Good stuff. Good break here. Yellow coming up It looks like Yellow parallel first woman Dylan O'Rae Brewer's color match to 75 Dylan O'Rae. I need all concert a pitch well tonight for my fantasy team Killed me that he skipped a start last week Gary Mitchell review the earth favorites Mariners Robert Perez Jr. On the blue lunar crater first woman auto 57 out of 100 Go Mariners blue lunar crater. All right again guys Kyle's live on drip at 5 p.m. Eastern with personal tonight All group breaks are full though up until tomorrow, which is contenders optic football release day Got your release day breaks listed on the site currently They've been there for a little while now, but a still a decent amount of teams up The some a good a good chunk are gone for sure, but that'll start at 10 a.m. Eastern tomorrow with Kenzie contenders optic football Greengrass first bowman Christian Sarada to 99 you go D-backs greengrass Casas Purple print Logan Wagner to one 99 first bowman paper or whatever. It's called the pattern not print Doing that all earlier today Not yet Alvin right you have what the Red Sox in case five. That's what I saw You get the Red Sox nothing. Yeah, we're only like just about couple boxes in those some ways to go Get your nice Roman Anthony White blue paper Tatis the 499 Padres and the Ben Brown cubs first woman base auto. Come on. Mayetta get it together Let's go. All right, the next one.  That's what we need to see a lunar glow chased a lot of guardians Raelyn Bishop first woman base auto pirates Third case. I can't remember specifically the third case. Oh, there was an atomic Invicta auto of Spencer Jones There are some other decent hits too But I can't remember specifically the third case yesterday I was a blur It's uploaded though Like I felt like I was doing that break for three days yesterday Invicta Xavier Isaac for the rays Xavier Isaac Judge the game slides like O'Neill Cruz do a lot of a man while Beltrate 377 or 399 blue jays See some we'll see some autos now Cubs Moises by by a sterile yellow nice one there 62 is 75 first woman auto Moises by a sterile's We go Cubs Solid hit there video from last night. I got suggested to you this morning. Sorry today with it Yeah, I got all that their stream had like 200 something likes but the the break itself I don't know the the the the recap video had a lot, but that I'd uploaded a lot quicker because the break itself was like Four and a half hour recording something like that. The recap was like 45 Like some of the grading stuff Purple prints purple pattern Jackson choreo to 199 brewers on the paper Yeah, I mean it's just a matter of working it all out, right lime green Matt Olson the 399 of the paper for Atlanta and Juan Alonzo Dodgers first woman speck a lot of numbered 109 of 299 Always all right moving along here. Yeah box prices are not cheap What they reflect pretty much what cards like big cards will sell for Why breaking is popular just chase one thing or You know kind of just go for whatever spotlight of Roger Garry's Lunar glow Jorge Borgos first bowman Guardians Lazaros Montez atomic 100 out of 100 first bowman auto mariners Jim and Woody card That's huge Lazaros Montez atomic first bowman auto. Geez dude 100 out of 100 the bookend as well That's one of the bigger cards he pulls today. It's like a blue shimmer Jackson choreo. That's pretty nice two of 150 for the brewers There's a breaker not using card sandwiches yellow Trying to get into using more Blake there he is Come on Blake super Blake super come on. It's bad that I want to pull that more than the Jackson holiday super corrector It's not bad I'm allowed I'm allowed to like what I like God Justin Crawford Refractor first bowman auto Phillies the 499 What a box Justin Crawford Phillies Grats on that one in Philadelphia So every time you've hit like big cards, there's like another one of them in the same box Which is strange maybe not every time but like half the time there's another big hit Mitchell Purple Brian Acuna to 250 paper for the twins Purple chrome first bowman Leandro Arias to 250 Orioles Yeah, correct. Correct skills. Correct Michael Arroyo now Mariners again Base first bowman auto Michael Arroyo Yeah, and then you would read the description of the break and it'll tell you which cards ship So sometimes like certain cards don't ship like if they're just base that aren't worth the whole lot Gunner Henderson rookie to your favorites Yeah, if you're like new to cards you want to make sure like You're not just buying your favorite team You want to make sure that like there's something you want on the checklist and things like that Uh, sure Gucci I mean if if you can if you can like afford it like hobby is is the way to go Because of like hit rates and certain guarantees lunar glow Simon won Metz Phillies and marion boyd True gold 26 of 50 nice hits Marion boyd true gold first one on to the 50 Vaughn Grissom, I guess if you're gonna be a breaker you just Whatever needs to Keep customers happy and break what they like really break what you like too So you have to care yeah getting into breaking is As a tall task Usually starting out it it won't be like your full-time thing first moment refractor 422 499 Austin charles royals You can hit autos in retail. There's the the rarity and most of the of any retail pack or boxes Is far tougher it's like price reflects that with with Most hobby and retail Diego Hernandez On the true blue royals color match first moment out of five of 150 There you go. Diego Hernandez true blue for the royals Put a few Montez today so far right a few Crawford a few Montez Dodging all the Druze The Druze and the berries Spencer Jones Gary mentioned this is terrible. It's terrible terrible terrible terrible Miguel Vargas Yellow paper the salmon munoz the 75 Dodgers Yeah with with like tops and like bowman They know they usually have pack odds and like the upper deck does for hockey. They just have pack odds Panini is the one that doesn't really include pack odds and things like box odds or like For certain Whatever maybe so There is that Jesus Bayez first bowman lunar Uh crater 36 out of 125 Mets lunar Aqua lunar crater Yohan Jalaponte on the blue jays first bowman base on them all right three more to go in case number five Then we got case six everybody Oswald peraza Blake base And a lunar glow y'all free Solano first bowman for the uh For the marlins and an aqua shimmer first bowman Jorge Borgos to 125 guardians So Jorge Borgos doesn't have autos as I believe but we pulled a lot of his base parallels it seemed like for not For a guy that doesn't have autos A braille in tavera Blue lunar crater first bowman auto to 150 for the Orioles There you go braille in tavera Solid here for the Orioles for sure alley ruchman Fuchsia paper christian yellets number to 299 for the brewers Riley green on the rookie of the year favorites lizzandro rodriguez Speckle first bowman auto for the for the royals here Number 206 of 299 lizzandro rodriguez Another speckle parallel coming up here and it is a davis indones Santos to 299 for the uh d-backs davis indones Santos Say gunner All right a few more packs in box number Uh six here Francisco alvarez inserts lime green paper That's christian buck arrow to 399 gnats Or neon green I should say So we're gonna pull a nice red sox card for for alvin Got a willier abrayu first bowman base auto astros Yeah, mariners been doing pretty well past several cases. It seems like box seven Here in Mitchell rookie to your favorites Started off with that uh that dual gnats though. That's gonna be huge Got an aqua coming. It looks like we're just a lunar glow. Yeah lunar glow first bowman zack galloff aze Juan Alonso dodgers again here first bowman base auto Tristan casas Like lubea and a blue shimmer first bowman ice carlos horre to 150 for the reds Get through these last few gets to the last box So for your redemptions, there's instructions on the back You basically just go online and redeem it fuchsia zander bogart's padre's the 299 of the paper So yeah, I'll have instructions on the back of the card.  You have an account and you redeem it Then I'll send it to you when they get it. Usually redemptions are for if they don't have the card in time for the product release Ali ruchman So someone didn't sign in time. They weren't able to get the cards back in time. Whatever it may be Usually the athlete doesn't sign in time Not ideal, but Myro shendrick martinis purple first bowman base auto one of 250 I said base after purple. This is a purple on base There are some scratches right there on the right side. I'm gonna send a box apple with that one Those scratches are more than just little light scratches. Unfortunately. Congrats on the dodgers though The myro shendrick first bowman purple auto myro shendrick martinis Can't wait to hear Sam with these names later seems so great He's so great That was really the first like Meh surface, you know damage try that we've seen today the quality this year is is kind of crazy. It's very very good very very good So my favorite bowman release and in quite a while actually Just design and everything quality A justin henry maloy first bowman fuchsia to 199 braves It's almost asking about him earlier. So he is a brave Gold sights on september. That's a crazy looking card south frailich not a 49 to 50 brewers Josh young first parallel. We've seen it that we also saw an auto earlier though Light blue first bowman paper sered up for the d-backs to 499 They keep showing this dude. Why do they keep showing this? Oh, it's Aaron judge. That's why they keep showing it This is an L for the twins Wilmer flores first bowman Refractor auto for the tigers number to 499. All right last box everybody best of luck I'm honestly glad we didn't pull like a drew jones jackson holiday dual auto not something i'd like to random do You know what i mean? Not ideal that'd be best pulled in a personal box Or if somebody just had both teams Corbyn carol make it a blaze a blaze Got a lava first bowman kyle harrison. So 399 for the giants Yeah, but it's not necessarily only dual autographs either. Sometimes just players for any for any autograph It's more common with with dual autographs for sure though Redemption's an unfortunate part of card collecting.  I don't know man. I don't get a lot of sleep. I don't remember. I don't remember most of my dreams But who does it say oh dude the twins are just getting shellacked Shea lang layers. Yeah, it's a lot of packs though Fuchsia paper first moment. Hey, she's biased at 299 for the Mets Yeah, carl. I'm I don't know. I don't know what to expect that one Better get that one. Do that one's bigger than my zander from gypsy queen I just want the zander because I pulled it and it's red socks Red socks down for one bottom four. Come on Oh man Light blue paper jonathan a ronda rookie for the uh rays And a wilmar flores here again for the tiger's base first bowman auto on the back All right, let's recap and we got one more case everybody. Now it's getting dusty in here Let's read the gold insert sights on september south rally brewers to 50 base autos here wilmar flores Juan Alonso Willi willi or bray you you wanna hella ponte and michael lorroyo Braylon bishop ben brown andres mesa for factor autos to 499 dominant ken zone or ken zoni Wilmar flores speckles a 299 of lisandro rodriguez. Juan Alonso purple myro shendrick martinis For the dodgers There was like some scratching here on the right.  Nice hit otherwise though good parallel good player True blue to 150 Diego or nanda's blue lunar crater to 150 braille in to vera and robber perez jr Atomic to 100 randy de jesus yellow to 75 of moises by estheros And a gold and martian boyd to 50 a refractor Of justin crawford first bowman auto for the fillies the 499 purple lisandro or sorry lazaro montez the 250 for the mariners Gold shimmer first moment of ecto rodriguez the 50 for the reds and atomic Lazaro montez 100 of 100 for the mariners And dual bowman prospect auto redemption elijah green christian of a caro That will be huge. It'll be a checklist says to 25 Yeah, crazy pull. Thanks again everybody on 2k6


Difficult dialogues are essential dialogues. These are the conversations that people do not want to have. Any conversation that we basically, politically, ethnically, that we just decide that we don't want to talk about are the difficult conversations. And maybe people might talk about them in their house at the dinner table, but they don't want to talk about them in the workplace. They don't want to talk about them at school. They don't want to talk about this in their friend circle. Why not? Why not? That's the big question. People don't want to talk about this. For the simple reason is that they're gonna have to take some time to reflect, to think about the words that they're going to choose, to think about others, which is empathy, right? Trying to put yourself in somebody else's shoes, which folks don't like doing that. It takes work. It takes time. It takes patience to have these difficult dialogues. When we think about difficult conversations, we have to look at ourselves. We have to ask ourselves, why do I feel uncomfortable? Why don't I want to engage in this topic? Why do I put everything else in front of me that's supposedly not as important? And why does this always take the back burner? Why do I silence my colleagues and my students and other people that bring up this conversation? Alice Walker says it so beautifully. She says, we have to own the fears that we have of each other. And then in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.


Hello everybody, do you hear us? Does everything work fine? We will start in one minute. I hope you can hear us and I think we are ready to start. Hello everybody, welcome to this webinar and welcome to this course of Teacher Academy. We're very glad to have you here. The main goal of this webinar is to facilitate entry and engagement in the course for those who are not familiar or less experienced with this Teacher Academy online courses. We hope that after this webinar you will have a clear understanding about how things work on Teacher Academy, how you can make the most out of this course, and how you can complete it successfully. To this end, we have asked you to post any practical questions you may have, and we will try to address them during the webinar. Before starting, let us introduce ourselves first. My name is Efis El Tiddu. I'm the instructional designer and course coordinator of this course and other courses of Teacher Academy of School Education Gateway and I work as pedagogical officer in European School Net supporting the pedagogical and professional development activities in the future classroom lab and other European School Net projects. But in this course, of course, I'm not alone. I'm very happy to have with me Cornelia. Cornelia, would you like to introduce yourself? Yes, thank you. So my name is Cornelia and I'm a teacher in Slovakia and that is Slava. I teach at the Hotel Academy, but I also am an engineering ambassador for 13 years and Microsoft Education expert and I am very happy that I also can cooperate with European School Net and also School Education Gateway and co-moderate courses and also read some workshops for it tuning teachers and also other teachers. So now I'm happy to be with you again. Excellent and of course it's not only you and me Cornelia, right? So we have a great group of teachers. We have many teachers actually that we have gathered here because of this course. We have many participants from different countries, European, but also not European. And that definitely gives us a great opportunity to connect with colleagues, discuss any concerns and share ideas around the topic of project based learning. So a big welcome to all of you. Before we start and considering that the last period was quite challenging for a lot of us, both at the professional level but also at the personal and social level. We have the following question for you. How would you like to feel during this course? I would like to ask you to go to menti.code and menti.com and use the code that you see now. So 7683412 and answer to this question. We will give you two minutes to reply. So we can switch to this slide now. So because of the COVID-19 pandemic, education has changed dramatically with a distinctive rise of distance learning whereby teaching is undertaken as many please move to the previous slide actually show the results of the mentor with a distinctive rise of distance learning whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital platforms. Considering the current situation, the fact that some teachers now are teaching remotely. Some others are in the classrooms and some others follow a blended approach. In this course, we will try to approach the method of project based learning having in mind these three different scenarios. So we hope that whatever your case might be, you will be able to find some inspiration and guidance. So. I hope you have submitted your answers already. Cornelia, would you like to comment a bit on the answers that participants submitted? Yes, I just want to say that I usually give this question to my students at the beginning of the school year every year. And it's very simple question, but it's important because then I see and then next questions usually are and what do you need to experience? What do you need to experience these feelings and then what can you do to experience them? And then we create rules. So now we are not going to create the rules, but these answers are important for us so that we can see what can we do for you so that you can feel really well. You can enjoy learning and have fun because it is proved, you know, that in a such mood we learn better. So now we are curious. How do you want to feel? What would you like to feel? How would you like to feel during this course? And hopefully we will see the results. Yeah, I see some results already in my on my screen, so I see that some parties. Most of the participants want to feel inspired, and I hope you will feel inspired through this learning journey. And some they want to feel relaxed. Some others they want to feel supported. Uhm, I see curiosity. I see enthusiasm. I see I see innovation. Some participants want to exchange experience and be challenged. That's good. That's good because we have challenge ourselves in this period. I think quite a lot, so it's good to see that we want to challenge ourselves more, especially at the professional level. That's that's a permanent situation that we should chase. Empowered they want to feel part of a community of a community. I think definitely you will feel that you're a member of learning community that hopefully it will inspire you to try and test different practices. They want to be heard. They want to feel. Support it great. Yeah, I'm not I'm not sure. Do we have I think maybe we have a problem with with showing the results? But yeah, I see it. Yes, but but you can now there is a question that you need the link, so you can see the link. I mean, yeah, right? Maybe I can share that on the chat. Hopefully you can see it or maybe not. Well, so I have just posted the link and you can see the results here. And now we see now as well. Great. Yes, so it's good to know because now we can see what we can do for you and for sure we will try to give you support. And but to be relaxed, then it's in your hands. So just don't take this course too seriously. I mean. Have fun and enjoy it. That is important because again in such an environment we learn much better and also give support to each other. And we know that teachers are so great that they usually give support to each other. And also you will see that we have many. Like possibilities how to interact and share our experience and also give support. So great. So I think that we can move on now. And the question is why is this course important? So let's go to the. Next slide please. Great, so. Yes, we face a big challenge. We all know that, but also the challenges that we need to equip our students with competencies that are important for the successful life. And the question is what is a competence and what competencies should we focus on? So because we know that to be competent doesn't mean only just to know something but being able to really effectively apply a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes to react to the situation or to solve a problem in the real world. So that is competence and competencies are expressed in different ways. Probably you have seen many different frameworks, but in this course we will use the European Union framework. And they have these, they identify these eight key competencies that enable really every citizen to adapt to changes of society. And the framework also sets out the key themes or transversal skills that you can see in the middle of the circle. And these skills just underpin each competence. And project-based learning has really been identified as really popular and effective methods to teach these key competencies and also these transversal skills. So let's have a look what this course really offers to you. So next slide. Okay, so as you probably know, we have started on Monday and the end will be on the 4th of November. And the course is mostly asynchronous. You can follow the course at your own pace, but there are three synchronous events that you can see now. If you can't take part in these webinars or also in Twitter chats, then don't worry because there will be, of course, the recording of both webinar and also this teach meet. And you will find these recordings at the course platform. So no worries. And Twitter chat is maybe for many of you, especially even though something new, but again, no worries because you will learn more about Twitter and Twitter chat in the third module. And you can get ready for that. Even now you can start maybe and that will be one of the challenges on Facebook for you to tweet also. So we will have from time to time challenges for you so that you keep engaged a bit. So next slide please. And each module will open on Monday. So every Monday there is a new module open around noon. And as you can see, these are the topics of each module. So why PBL? Then we will talk more about implementing about these steps, how to implement PBL. And then of course important part like assessing PBL. And because we know that we are busy, you are busy teachers, we all are busy now. So you can see this very important information that yes, last module opens on the 19th of October, but then you have more days, like 10 days to finish your tasks. So don't worry if you just can't manage. And it doesn't mean I would like to point out to this that it's of course nice if you are able to finish the task for each module by the end of this first, I mean by the end of the week, but no worries if you can't, you just finish them whenever you want. So important is for you, the next slide please. It is important and really mandatory activity for you is that you will have to prepare your final classroom project in the last module and submit it so that three participants of this course can give you review, your feedback, yes, constructive feedback.  So again, no worries, you will enjoy it. And of course you will then have to review the final work of your three peers.  So again, what is needed for a certificate? So please visit all sections of the modules and it's really great if you are an active participant and then engage in discussions because you know how important it is for teachers caring, sharing is caring, yes, that's it. So be active participants, share your inside, your experience and just share resources that you have. We have many platforms for this, and but most important will be, and Effie will tell you this padlet, but to be active, it means that really you care and we can learn from each other. And I'm really curious about your insights on these topics and your experience really. And then what is important is deadline, keep in mind this deadline, 4th of November. So by, this is deadline for even review of the project of three of your peers, yes. If you decide to submit your class on project on the last day, then keep in mind that maybe it could be a bit late because then you need to do the view of your peers and everything by the 4th of November. So of course I would recommend you to do it a bit earlier. And then, next slide please, what we recommend to you is to keep your learning diary and you will really a very nice description of what the learning diary is and why it is needed. And because learning diary is a great way to keep the record of your thoughts, of your reflections, but also you can just keep or save the links of the resources and information and also experience information from your colleagues, not only from the experts and this course or course expert, but also whatever you find interesting because this way we learn actively if you keep a learning diary. I have to say because there are many questions about that. No, it's not mandatory, but we recommend it because it's much better and also it's great if you then will recommend this to your students to keep learning diaries for them in their studies. So now if you want to, I will. Yeah, so I can say something about the discussions as Cornelia very well explained. You're joining a big community of educators. Every professional brings his own ideas and his own inspiring methods. They use to engage their students with the best possible way. So in these podcasts, you will find a great resource of inspiration as you wanted to feel inspired at the beginning. So we highly recommend you to join these discussions, submit your ideas on the Padlet, spend some time to read the contributions of your colleagues and take the most of this course in any possible way. So as you already know, we are active also on social media. We have the Facebook group that you can post your questions there. You can exchange and discuss with your colleagues there as well. Myself and Cornelia are also members of this group. So if we see that some participants have a question or they need some support, we are very happy to support them. And we are also active on Twitter. We have a specific hashtag that we are using to collect all the messages related to this MOOC on a specific space. And of course we can also interact there. As we said at the beginning, we will also have a Twitter chat and you will find more information about this in due course. Twitter chat is an organized discussion at a specific date and time. So we will have the opportunity to discuss based on some specific questions related to the course topic. Last but not least, of course it's also, it's not too late to invite your peers and your friends to join the course. So please feel free to share the course with your colleagues or from your school or the friends that you have. So you can learn together because learning together is always better. There is time to join. We have just started and there is time to catch up since we are still in the first module of the course. So that's all with some technicalities about the course regarding the topic. As we explained from the beginning, we will try to approach the project based learning and see how it can be a practical and useful method for using in any setting. So in an in-school setting or in blended with a blended approach or in a distance learning scenario. So we hope that whatever your case is, really you can find some useful ideas that can benefit your practice. Also we will try to see how project based learning is useful for supporting the needs of the students that face some learning difficulties or some special educational needs. So I hope that you will find most of the answers that you have regarding the content in this course throughout these four modules. And now I think we have some time for questions. So if you have any question that we have not answered yet, please post it on the chat room and we are happy to provide some answers. Yes, so now I can see one question that the learning diary, where should you publish or keep it? So learning diary is recommended, of course, to keep it for yourself, but if you want, it's quite a nice sometimes practice that you can maybe share your learning diary for others to see how you... But it's really, learning diary can be your private, like diary to keep the record of your learning, but it's nice if you want to show it in our Facebook group or on Twitter or in the forum of the course. So we will create, maybe we can create like one forum for this case. So if you want to proudly share what you have done, so then it's great. It's not mandatory, but it can be helpful maybe for others. It happened already many times that I even, I learned from others, learning diaries, took inspiration. And you wanted also Facebook group, links are like posted it here, so you can see. Probably you can see now the link. And another question that, do we choose ourself three projects to review? No, even we don't do it, it's just this system, so it will do automatically. So no, we are not involved in that. It's of course, it's set, so we have this technology for that, which is great, we don't need to do it. And if you don't want of course to use Twitter or Facebook, then it's okay, it's not a problem. So it's not mandatory, it's only if you want. And if I can add also something else about the learning diary, because we shared the link in the presentation, this link was actually to provide you some instructions, some guidance on how to create your own learning diary. So when we will share this presentation because we are going to share the presentation and the recording in the platform tomorrow or the day after, you will find the link, which you can find also in the course introduction as well about how to create your learning diary, what kind of tool you can use and what submissions you should put there. As Cornelia said, it's not mandatory, but it's very helpful for your own professional development and for keeping track of what you are learning throughout this course, which is might be quite useful at the end when you will need to develop your own project plan. And again, I can see this mandatory, whether it's mandatory to participate in the forums, it's the mandatory you have this one task that you will have to do your final work and to do three reviews. That is really without that, you just can't get your certificate. And then also to read and to go through all these modules and yet to participate in the forum. So in these puddlets, of course, if you don't want to have time to share your ideas in each puddle, then yes, it's okay, but we would be really happy to see your suggestions or your reflection and really just your expertise. It would be great to have it from you. So please, yes, we are a big community from the whole world and it must be, it's just exciting to learn from each other. We also received a question, but I'm not sure if I understood correctly what the question is about, how is action research related to this competencies approach. I'm just trying to understand the question, but I would say related to this topic, we see project-based learning as an approach to develop key competencies. I'm sure you have read a lot of articles or a lot of publications coming from the European Commission that say that we should focus on the competency development during our relations. So we see how we can develop these key competencies by engaging the students in project-based learning practices. So that's the main goal of this course. And there is one question, are we going to learn how to deliver a competence like entrepreneurship in a PBL approach? PBL approach, so we are not going to talk about like each competence, each of these key competencies, it will be, because there are even more courses focused on each competence separately, but this PBL approach is important, like steps and if you will see how to really implement this project-based learning generally, then you will also see or learn how to deliver those or develop those certain competencies because entrepreneurship, if we are talking about entrepreneurship, so it's again, entrepreneurship as a competence has maybe you know it, 15 more competencies included. So according to the entry comp, but of course, if you want, we can, if you ask me directly on the Facebook group or Twitter or in the forum, then I can give you the link where how to develop this competence exactly if you are interested in that, but you will have this structure, you will have this PBL approach that is important in this course and to see how all these different kinds of competencies such can be developed. It depends on your approach and depends on the topic that you will, you will of course offer to your students. And indeed, the only strict thing in this course because as you understand, it's quite flexible. I'm not sure if all of you haven't experienced of a MOOC before. You know the flexibility that a MOOC can offer. You can learn wearing your pajamas as I used to say for a MOOC. You can learn when you're sitting at your couch or when you're lying at your bed. You can learn either at night or early in the morning, but there are some specific deadlines that you have to respect if you want to complete this course successfully and qualify for a certificate. So please keep these deadlines in mind if you want to receive a certificate at the end of the course and of course, follow the guidelines for the final activity that you will find in the last module. And maybe I would recommend you if I know that many of you don't want Facebook or Twitter or the social media, but still we will have some like question of the week where we or challenge of the week where you can maybe also share your ideas and resources. So I think that it would be nice also to be there and also I will remind you always of the deadlines or things that are important also in this social media. So you can also follow that could be helpful for you. Essential for PBI Younger Learners, it's age group essential. No, it's not important what is the age group for PBL because how I like to say usually to my colleagues that in anything that you want to start, keep in mind, kiss. Kiss, keep it short and simple. You know, like your first kiss. When you have your first kiss it was short and simple probably. And then it was more and more complicated, let's say. So keep it like that. And even with young or even with older, I mean students, but at the beginning just don't do complicated things. And so just you will learn this structure and that I'm sure that you will be able to implement this tool. Yes, even took in the garden where I guess yes, this is the question. Yes. And something else I would like to highlight is that we want you to submit nice works. So at the end we will try to gather some good submissions, some good lesson plans and we are going to curate that. We are going to engage some active participants to provide to evaluate these submissions in order to share with the whole audience some good examples that have been developed throughout the course. So be active throughout the course in order to join this editorial board at the end. Make a good project plan, make a good submission because at the end you are going to be awarded for this, awarded in a way that your work will be published in the School Education Gateway website and you will receive recognition for that. And of course, PBL can be applied to from kindergarten level to adult education. It's up to you to see how you can adapt all the practices, all the ideas that you will see in this course in your own setting, in your own age group, in your students, in your own subject you teach. So you get the inspiration, you get the concept and the ideas and then it's up to you how you can adapt it in your own environment. So I think that's all the questions we had, right Cornelia? I think we have one to answer all of them. And since we have completed, I think it's now time to adjourn this live event to say goodbye, to wish you good luck, to enjoy the first module, to stay in touch with each other, to feel free to connect with us if you have any questions. We are here to support you, to complete this course successfully and make the most out of it. So enjoy, have fun, share, exchange ideas and keep on learning. Yes, thank you. And now there is a very nice last comment. Maybe finally I'll start to use Facebook. It's important to know our students' word. Yes, so that's it. That is very nice, so thank you. And yes, with this message, let's go for challenges also as teachers and I really wish you good luck. Enjoy this, don't really worry, don't feel stressed about this because now you are just going to learn with other great colleagues who decided to do something for the students. And so keep learning, have fun, yes. And see you soon. See you on social media, see you in the platform and don't worry whatever you need, then we are here for you. So thank you. Excellent, thank you. Thank you, Cornelia, as well. Thank you everybody for joining this live event. See you at the next live event and have a lovely evening. Goodbye.


My name is Rupsha Banerjee. I work in the International Livestock Research Institute and lead the work around drought risk index financing solutions. Yes, livestock accounts for almost 10 to 44% anywhere between 10 to 44% for the continent's agriculture GDP. In addition to that, it also has social and cultural, as well as food significance for the continent. So in Africa, pasture is generated 75% of the continent's milk and more than half of its meat. And this, despite the fact that current climate-related struggles, as a matter of fact, currently, about 20 million pastoralists have been struggling with the ongoing drought as a result of two years of failed rains. But when there is a good year, pastoralists ensure both food and nutritional security. And actually, there has been proof to show that the children in poor pastoralist household actually suffer from low levels of malnutrition as compared to children in poor crop farm households. If it is well-managed and supported, pastoralist is one of the most viable and potentially sustainable systems to help dryland communities cope with climate change, in addition to being one of the most efficient ways to produce food in marginal lands. Pastoralists are actually naturals towards the range land systems. And so if well-managed, pastoralism, in fact, becomes sustainable. So what has been missing are targeted financial investments and market interventions to help them tap their survival skills, which have been built over generations, and also increase their income to deal with this climate stress and to get more outputs from their animals. Until recently, drought emergencies have largely been met with provisions of food aid along with some basic social protection programs. However, to help close this gap, Ilri developed an index insurance program for the never-insured pastoralists of Kenya and Ethiopia. These index livestock insurance policies are purchased by pastoralists or their governments on their behalf. Insurance payouts are made to the herders when drought conditions become severe and there is no forage available. These payouts are supposed to help pastoralists buy food for their families, fodder, and veterinary services for their animals in addition to helping them to meet any other kind of livelihood needs. Interestingly, what most people don't realize is that out of our privately purchased insurance policy holders, 43% of them are women. This is important because in these systems, it is the women who oversee milk production and the nutrition of the children and family. It should be noted that 75% of the milk production of the continent comes from the pastoral areas. We have conducted studies, particularly to understand the decision-making dynamics in the pastoral households, to understand the opportunities to further engage women and help them access markets and financial services. It is time that financial solutions such as IBLI be embedded into the anticipatory and emergency response programs of the governments. Governments should be at the forefront of these efforts with support, of course, from the private sector and with dedicated climate financing. Better quality and near real-time data on indicators such as nutrition, market prices, and grazing conditions will both improve these programs and attract market players. With government and the private sector acting together, we will be able to build upon the traditional coping strategies of the pastoralists and award the worst effects of climate change.


Okay, welcome once again. This is going to be a great time of reconnecting. I know it's been a while since we've had the mentoring hour. This is the first mentoring hour of this semester. So we'd like to begin with a word of prayer. I want to request anyone on the call to please lead us in a time of prayer, and then we will get started. Okay, Avni, would you be able to lead us? Good morning, ma'am. Yes, sure. Good morning. Father God, we are so thankful to you for this beautiful morning. We are so thankful to you for bringing us back again to this time, Lord Father. When we all together, Father, to learn about you more, and Lord, as we surrender ourselves, as we surrender this mentoring hour, Father, we ask you to come and take over our Father and help us to all go deeper into your Word, understand things in the right context and right perspective, and Father, glorify your name through everything that we learn about Father. Help each of us, anoint each of us. Bless each of us, Father, so that we can glorify you through our lives as we apply the word, as we learn the word, as we grow with each other and be equipped for your ministry in the way you want us to be, Father. Let all the distractions go, Father. Let all things be done according to thine will, and let your name be glorified through each of our lives. We bless once again everyone, all our teachers, all the students, Father, let all things be done according to your will. We give you glory, honor and praise because you deserve all the glory, honor and praise, and ask this prayer in the precious and matchless name of Jesus, our Savior and Lord, Amen. Amen. Thank you Avni. Thank you so much for leading us in prayer. So for those of us who may be new on the call for the semester, just to explain to us what this call is all about. It's a time when we have students as well as faculty connecting on the same call and any form of questions, questions pertaining to Christian life, questions pertaining to Christian ministry, or maybe there are questions that we may have, you know, that have been discussed in class or we've, we've picked it up elsewhere, but we want to clarify, we want to find answers to those questions. So this is a great time when we can bring up those questions and our faculties here, each one, you know, deal with different streams here at the Bible College. So they'll be able to answer, if not all, most of the questions we do are best to, you know, give us the answers. So we can get started. If there are any questions that, you know, you would like to bring up, then please do. You could either post it on the chat or you could just unmute your mic and ask, please. So I'll leave this time open to questions that you may have. Apart from questions, we can also share our learning. So what we can do while we wait for questions on this call is we could, you know, all just share our learning. It's been a while, you know, between the two semesters. So if there's anything new you've learned, you could please share it with the rest of the group. Students are welcome to do that, faculty as well. So please feel free to share your learning. Okay. So just for us to get things moving here, you know, I think I'll ask a different ones of us. Whatever learning you've had, please feel free to share that one. So maybe we can begin with John. John, would you like to share with us? I was just typing a question. Oh, okay. You already have a question. Okay. Okay. Okay. So if you have a question, then the question is it okay? Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. Yeah. So at APC, we don't keep it as a requirement to be water baptized to take part of the Lord's table. So if when people ask certain questions, maybe some of them come from different just background. If some of them ask, why do you allow that? Do we have a scripture evidence or can we share from the Bible? Why it is, you know, it is not a requirement, requirement. Although we know the importance of water baptism, how do we put it forward to them? Okay. Thank you, John, for that question. So what John wants to know is, even though we are aware that water baptism is not, sorry, come again, John, communion for communion. Yeah, to take part of the communion, yes, water baptism. Baptism is a requirement. So some people ask, isn't it required? So at APC, we don't keep it as a requirement or a law to be water baptized to take part of the Lord's table. So how do we communicate that to them? Okay. Sure, sure. Thank you. Thank you, John. Here at APC, we don't say that what about baptism is a requirement for communion. How do we clarify this to people who may have questions? So I want to leave this question open for any of our faculty to please pick it up. Yeah. I just like to share a bit. So we can begin by sharing what it represents, the sacraments of the New Testament church. We have two, that is the Lord's table, I mean communion, and what a baptism. So these are the two sacraments that we have. So we can begin by sharing what it represents. That it's a proclamation of the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord and how we identify with it. Every time we do it, we proclaim that. So that is what it is. Now what qualifies us for each of these sacraments is that we receive Him as Lord and Savior. That's the only thing. Like in the Book of Acts, when it comes to water baptism, right from chapter 2, we see Peter talking about it, and then we see Philip talking to the Ethiopian eunuch about water baptism. Well, the only thing that we see is that for each of these, that a person has received Christ, a person has invited Jesus and believed in Jesus and is a follower of the Lord. That's the only requirement. So which is why in church also before communion, before ministering in communion, we say if you're a follower of the Lord Jesus, if you have received the Lord Jesus, you're Lord and Savior, you are welcome to take part. So that is the only, or we can even lead people in prayer. So we don't see anywhere in scripture that one has to be water baptized in order to take part. So first thing, we can share what it represents. And we can also share that the qualifier is that a person receives Jesus as the Lord and Savior. A person is born again in order to do this. And I think that would be helpful for that person. Anyone else can add on to it, please. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor Jay Kumar. There are any more insights that other faculty would like to add to this? Yeah, Pastor Selina, you want to share something? I think that is in scripture, there is no explicit instruction in scripture that one must be water baptized before partaking in the Lord's table. So that is why, you know, at all people's church, we keep the participation in the Lord's table open to all who are born again believers. And also, again, there is no explicit age restriction in scripture on when a person should be baptized in water. Like Pastor Jake said, that the only requirement is that the person has to be born again to their person faith in Jesus Christ.  And the same way when we partake in the Lord's table, we are actually partaking in what the Lord has done for us on the cross. And, you know, that we can receive the full blessings of what he has done on the cross for our lives. So since there is no explicit instruction in scripture, we can't say that one has to be, you know, water baptized to take part in the Lord's table. It's the same as, you know, for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You know, that we can't say that one has to be baptized in water and then receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. We see this in Acts chapter 10 when, you know, Paul goes and ministers in Cornelius house. You know, before even he gave the altar call, the people were cut to their heart and, you know, they started speaking in tongues and then they were water baptized. Same with Saul after his encounter, you know, before he was water baptized, he, you know, when Ananias laid hands on him and prayed, you know, he received the gift of the Holy Spirit and then he was water baptized. So there we can say that, you know, we have specific narratives or incidents in the Bible, but there is nothing that explicitly says that we need to be water baptized. So, and I think in both of these things, the requirement is that, you know, one has to put their personal faith in Jesus Christ. Be born again believers so that they can partake in both. Yeah, that's it. Thank you. Thank you, John, for your question. Good question. Thank you, Pastor Nancy. Yeah. Thank you, Pastor Selena. I want to ask John if this is all right, or if you have any follow up questions. Yes, Pastor. Yes. And follow up, Kristen. I had one regarding the serving of communion. So, go ahead, John. Should the people, yeah, so the people who help us in serving the community, the ushers. So do we look for people who are baptized or at least, you know, who are taking part of the communion already or because we have students and all coming here for the church. And most of them are very willing to serve in any area. So especially at this part should be keep an eye on who we choose to serve the community. Okay. Nice question, John. So who do we choose among volunteers to serve the communion? Our pastors, would you have any inputs? Just to add one more sentence to that, because in acts, we also see that, you know, people with fuller spirit and wisdom it chosen to serve the food ministry, right? So I'm just wondering if that applies even now. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, John. So, first of all, would you be able to share some insights? I'll just share my thoughts. This is my thoughts, right? I feel that for in terms of serving the Lord's table and I mean, it's just a volunteering thing that and it's a practical need. So we need volunteers to serve. So there's nothing wrong to have those who are, you know, not water baptized or not taking part in the Lord's table. If they are willing to serve, definitely we give them an opportunity and let them serve. And it's a good thing in one way because they may ask questions. So they may say, you know, they may come up to you and ask, like, what is all this? What is it about? What is, you know, so it opens up for discussion. It opens up for questions. And so I feel that practically they want to serve God and they feel that ushering is something that they'd like to do. So give them an opportunity. We don't stop them from serving God. So practically, I feel it's all right. So they don't have to be, you know, water baptized or they don't have to be people who are partaking in the Lord's table. And only then they can serve, you know, in the communion. So that's what I personally feel. And so in the book of Acts, when John, you mentioned that, you know, the choosing of the seven and acts, act up is seven, who, you know, sorry, act six. And it says there, yes, they will follow wisdom.  And wisdom is something that comes over time as well. And so I feel that, you know, we give them time, give them, give people the time to grow and wisdom and power is not something that comes overnight. So even as we give them opportunities to volunteer, serve. And in whatever they're doing, I'm sure that the Lord will grant them the wisdom and be as leaders can always be there to help them to grow in their calling. So I hope that, you know, brings a little bit of clarity to thank you. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Pastor Paul for sharing your view. Any of the other pastors, would you also like to share your insights, please? Good question, John. If I'm just looking at what Paul writes in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, there we see that, you know, the Lord's table was celebrated more like a feast where they used to bring, you know, their own food and bread. And then we had two groups, you know, one the rich and one the poor and, you know, and then he's addressing the whole issue of, you know, behavior there, addressing the behavior of people at the Corinthian church.  So he addresses that, and he says, you know, we must prepare our hearts, examining our lives and renouncing sin and taking the elements, understanding and believing what they represent that represents the death and the shed blood of Jesus on the cross. So there we see it was like, you know, they just distributing the elements or whatever they bought, it was more like a feast, but he was talking more to them about their behavior and the significance of doing what they were doing.  And it was, I think, done the same way. I think, you know, I'm not too sure, but I think reading from scripture that this is what they did in the early churches as well. And they were all just, you know, growing believers, but we know the church at Corinth, they were very zealous in their faith and, you know, they were flowing mightily in the gifts. So, yeah, like Pastor Paul said, just, you know, it was a given opportunity for those who are serving to, we can train them, you know, to examine their lives to, you know, to renounce any sin and also would help them to grow in their walk with God and personal holiness. We also don't know, you know, those who are partaking in the Lord's table, they might be seated, they might not be necessarily serving, but, you know, we're all, you know, we all are sinful people, we indulge in, we have our own weaknesses. So none of us are perfect and God knows that. And so it's also a good opportunity for people who are serving to grow in the things of God, to grow in personal holiness and intimacy with God and just seeing from the early church, you know, this is what they did. So, you know, and Paul does not address that, but just helps them to see, help them to take part in a worthy man, all of them together. Thank you, Pastor Nancy. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor Selina. Thank you, Pastor Paul, for sharing your views. I just thought I'd add my two cents. As we look at Acts chapter six, you know, we see that even the men who were chosen as volunteers, where, like, there was a requirement, you know, that they must be full of the Holy Spirit, wisdom, have good testimony. So this is the ideal scenario, John. So the task which was given to the seven volunteers wasn't more of an administrative task, but there was still a spiritual requirement from them. Now, when we look at works in the house of God, which are spiritual in nature, you know, the later on we will read when Paul writes to Timothy about who should be a bishop, who should be or in other words, what qualifies an individual to be a pastor, that is raising the bar to a whole new level. But as it is, I think, even for the administrative task in Acts chapter six, there is a requirement, spiritual requirement, as well as, you know, their skills and all of those things are concerned. This is the ideal. But then when it comes to practicality, let's say there is a church, a small church, a growing church, and you don't have volunteers at all. And as Pastor Paul pointed out, when there are people, I think it's okay to prayerfully decide who can be in various tasks. And a pastor can decide. And of course, it's understandable why you would ask that question, because sometimes certain roles, let's say somebody is leading from the front. So when people observe, there is a test, they think of their testimony, and all that comes to a growing believer's mind. So if you feel that, okay, those who are serving communion or even administrative tasks, but somewhat in the forefront, should be somewhat mature in Christ, that's all right. But in a growing church, when you don't even have people of that caliber, I think it's okay if you have like sincere believers who are seeking God, who love God, and they are growing. I think it's okay if we hand them the responsibility of maybe even serving communion. So my opinion there. And anything else, John, or are you okay with that answer? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everyone for sharing. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, John. All right, we'll proceed. If there are any more questions, other questions, comments, please feel free. You can share. So while we wait for questions, if, okay, Amni, I see you're unmuted your mic. Yes ma'am. So I'm listening to the answers. Yes ma'am, can you hear me? Yes, I was just on the answers given to Brother John Paul regarding the requirements. So coming from a mainline church, we do not see any of these requirements being asserted or being followed up in those churches by the people who are taking sacraments, as well as water baptism is nowhere in the scene there. There's infant baptism and then there's a confirmation ceremony where there is no requirement of being born again. And they do not have any such concept in their minds.  Or, you know, how do we understand that part of following up the process in the church? So what should be understood out of that? Like, is it right thing or they should be alerted or told about it? Okay, so Agni, I just want to understand your question. Are you asking if it is okay to partake of the communion if you're not baptized? Ma'am, is it okay to serve? No, no, not serving. It's like taking the communion because there is a testimony of being born again, not there is a testimony of water baptism, but they come to a certain age and parents make a decision that now they are willing and ready to take the Holy Communion. So the children just go and take a one month class or maybe sometimes once a day class and they start the Holy Communion. So why am I asking this is because if you read 1 Corinthians 11, it is written there like it is important for us to take the partake of the table in a worthy manner. So my question is doing that, is it something that comes under that kind of category where we are partaking it, not exactly believing in knowing it, but because it is a tradition, they start taking it and without making a decision to follow Christ or receive Christ. They just sometimes, I had taken that in my age when I had just given a small exam or a thing and from the Bible they had like 10 questions, I passed the questions after and then I was given my first Holy Communion, but I had no understanding of it, neither I had any experience of being born again. So this is happening till date, it is the same. So does it come into the category of partaking it in an unworthy manner or without discerning the body, they are taking it. So I want to understand is that the right thing to do and if not then what is the implication of it in your spiritual life or that's what my question is. I hope I'm clear man. Yes, yes, thank you. So what you're wanting out is in some churches as a tradition, as a ritual when you are a certain age or if you are able to answer some questions, they qualify you for communion. Now that person may or may not be born again, is it okay to let them have communion? If they're not born again and they have communion, what are the implications of that? Right, okay, so yeah, sure. So the question is open to our pastors, would appreciate it if someone could throw some light on this. Yeah, I just wanted to share that I also went through the same path that Avni was mentioning, you know, infant baptism, confirmation, etc. and after confirmation taking part in communion, but with no knowledge of salvation or experience of salvation. So a lot of things are done in ignorance.  So he's addressing a body of believers who have, you know, experienced Christ, they are carnal, there are divisions, there's strife, everything, but he's definitely addressing a body of believers who've come to the saving knowledge of Christ. And then he's saying, you know, you, since they know the truth, he's talking to them, and this is one of the things that he's addressing, just like, you know, food offered to idols and everything. So we can say that, you know, having come to know the truth, and if you're, you know, not really discerning the Lord's body and you're doing it as a ritual, then it would definitely amount to not discerning the Lord's body and then eating in an unworthy manner and the consequence of it follows, of course. But to do it out of ignorance, well, the Lord would certainly lead them to the light as he's working on, you know, all others that he left. Definitely provide opportunities for them to know the truth, provide orchestrate things for them to come to know the truth about it. He'd definitely do that. So my opinion is this, that it's not the same thing, you know, when you do it out of ignorance, when you do it, when you, with the knowledge and the understanding and then having experienced Christ, you know, you being carnal and doing it. So I think there's a difference. So yeah, I would just share that. Thank you, Pastor. Amni, is that okay? Yes. So now I'm just thinking they have the word with them. They are reading the Bible. They are being, you know, taught the Bible in the church. So they themselves read from the scriptures, like the requirements for this. So will they still be considered ignorant? That's my question. Is it okay if I can add something? Yes, please. Go ahead. So yes, Amni. So I totally agree with what Pastor Jake was saying, that it's done and making events. Now, if you look at, I've just reminded of this in, you know, in the Old Testament when God, you know, instituted all of these laws and sacrifices and all of it. But eventually over the years, after Malachi, there was like 400 years of, you know, silence and 400 years of no prophetic word. And it just became a ritual, right? So people kept doing those offerings and sacrifices just because their forefathers did it. And most of them didn't really know why they were doing it.  So the same thing, like even if we look now, maybe there are many of them who are just doing certain things because their parents have told them to do it. And even like, even for me, coming from a mainline church, it was just like, okay, you have to have be confirmed in the church and all of that. But I didn't really understand it. I didn't try to understand it as well. So, but then we see that in the book of, when the Lord Jesus came, and then in the book of Acts, we see that the same people who were living that kind of religious life and following this ritual is not understanding anything, but just doing things out of, you know, just as a ritual. But we see that their hearts were changed, right? And God was able to change their hearts. So if we look at the bigger picture here, a lot of people may be partaking in the Lord's table or doing things in church out of just, okay, because people have told me to do what I'm doing it. But like what Pastor Jake's ended by saying that God is able to speak into their hearts. So the same way how he did in the book of Acts, where a lot of them were Jews and Gentiles, and I'm sure the Jews were all partaking in all of those rituals and offerings and sacrifice. But when the gospel was preached at that time, the message of the cross, it just penetrated and their lives were changed. So they were willing to give up everything. So basically what I'm trying to get at is that God can break through all of those religious things that we try to follow. They do have the word, but it's important to put context to the word and ask the Holy Spirit for divine revelation. And God can do that. So we continue to trust God and I'm sure there are many of them in the main line church who desire to know more of the word and they need good teachers and good learning, good teaching to understand the word. So I will just leave it at that. I believe that God can penetrate their hearts and if they're doing it out of ignorance, it's not going to affect them much because they don't really know what it is. But if they know it and then do it just so that out of convenience or anything else, then it could have repercussions. But out of ignorance, it will not affect, is what I would say. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor Paul. And I see Avni's comment. She says, yes, amen. Thank you, pastors. So I think you're okay with the answer Avni. We'll move forward. We'll move forward if there are any other questions. Yes, Sister Rupa, I see you raising your hand. Please go ahead, Sister. Good morning to all. I just wanted to add to Avni's question. I felt that knowing the truth when we are enlightened and see the people who are still in darkness and not able to understand even in Christianity, I think it is our responsibility to plead on their behalf. When we pray, that would make a great difference and God will work out in their lives. That's how God works, wants to work and uses us as channels so that His revelation is manifested in their lives and they would come closer to God. I felt that just wanted to share. Ma'am, thank you. Thank you so much for sharing. Definitely, when people are in ignorance, we need to continue to pray for them and we know that God will enlighten them, even those who may know and who are on the wrong track. We need to pray. Let's move further ahead. If there are questions pertaining to any other subject, please feel free. You can ask. At this point, John, do you want to come in and share any of your learnings the last couple of months? Then others can follow John. Hi, everyone. Second year now, second year is a little more, as expected, a little more in depth than first year. We've got a lot of learning. Especially, we have this topic of marriage and family. It's really eye-opener in many areas, even though we have gone through that course. But still, when we go back and learn from those concepts again, it's really insightful and a lot of things to be practically applicable in daily life. There's a good reminder in many areas. Having said that, all subjects are important. I'm just pointing out because it's really ministering to me personally these days. It's quite interesting to... We have this homiletics also, where we talk about biblical preaching. When we have this assignment, it's quite helpful to... Rather than first year, where we had assessment towards the end of a month or so, when we have an ongoing thing, let's say you start with a topic and you finish that topic throughout one or two weeks, it's quite helpful just to be in that area, be in that topic and understand more. You're able to study more, which is really, really helpful. Thank you for that. Yes, thank you. Thank you, John. Yeah, it's really nice to hear what has been touching your heart and making an impact for you and all the new things that you're picking up in the second year. So that's a blessing. I want to continue asking students as well as faculty to please share from your own lives any learnings. We'll ask Sister Rupa now that you're in the third year. Is there anything sister that you feel, you know, it's new, different? Thank you, Ma'am. Third year, I'll tell you that we're really enjoying the learning. Learning so many new things, which we have left out. Going through the same scriptures, but then same time, God is blessing us with me, especially with new insights and learning the heart of God. And it's really a blessing. Thank you Ma'am for asking. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Sister Rupa. Great to hear that new insights, new learnings. Avni, would you also like to share? Sure, Ma'am. So for me this year, I mean, it has been a great journey. Last two years, we've learned so much in every area. Most important thing is that it has broadened my perspective towards people. I've understood that, you know, the end of everything is like being faithful to Christ. You can be from any place, any denomination, any, you know, but ultimately it is about Jesus being built up in us and through us. That is something which has broadened my perspective towards, you know, looking at people who are part of the body of Christ. And secondly, I was very afraid of the administrative part, which, you know, I always thought it's not like something that I can. But learning about church and ministry administration this year.  You know, being equipped with that is something very, very essential as well as very interesting and very needed. Because many churches, they start and they close and, you know, people look at them and they feel like they couldn't manage through. But it is such a beautiful course where we are learning church planting and ministry administration and learning how to, you know, plan it out in such a way. Because Bible says, count the cost before you. So we have to plan it out in such a way.  But yes, now I feel excited about the calling God has given and being equipped to learn how to manage it is a real blessing. And online course having everything like we can go back to the lectures. We can go back to the videos and, you know, get get patient back if you missed out something being at home. Sometimes, you know, we are in the classroom, but we are not exactly sometimes we occupied with things. But then thankfully we have the videos around and we can go back and listen to them and, you know, reaffirm things and revise things. So that is such a blessing. So I thank God for all the things that we have been learning every every subject, you know, has been a blessing. And they're very beautifully designed in such a way that more than everything else we are being blessed and built up for the ministry as well as as a believer in Christ. So thank you so much. I take this opportunity to thank everyone for teaching us with so much love, patience and depth. So I thank you all. Thank you for sharing Omni and so encouraging to see that your perspective is changing with all that you're learning. So we have about five minutes left. If there are if there is another question, you know, we can accommodate that. If not, I think we will pray and wrap up the session for today. But I'm still open in case you wanted to discuss regarding anything. All right, so we will have this mentoring hour on Google, Google Classroom once a month every Wednesday. So every Wednesday, 8am to 8.50am Indian time. And just want to encourage those of us who have joined to please continue to join every month. And also if you could let your classmates know it'll be nice to have more students connecting on the mentoring hour and for us to explore, you know, different different aspects of what we have been studying here at Bible College and even outside. So let's close off for now. I want to request be one of the faculty to please pray.  First of all, could you please lead us in a word of prayer. Let's pray. Father, we want to thank you for this beautiful day ago. We thank you for your word. So powerful. We thank you for the wisdom. I pray God that you will continue to anoint each one of us fill us with your wisdom, the understanding of God, even as we continue to learn from your word. And Lord, I pray that you will bring in clarity will bring in deeper revelations of your word of God. And I pray God that your word will be sown in our hearts about to bear fruit in our lives. Father, we thank you. As we know, your word says that it is light unto our part of God. And I just pray for each one of us, the students, faculty, all of us ago that we will continue to look to your word and walk in your ways ago. We ask God that you will stand on your word. Thank you for this beautiful time. And I pray God that you will continue to teach us, help us to learn and grow and fulfill every purpose that you have for us. Lord, we submit this time into your hands and Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. And thank you, Pastor Paul. Thank you everyone for connecting on the call today. God bless you. Have a blessed day.


So welcome to my talk I'm Marcello, and I'll be talking about performance tips related to fast API and Before we start Who I know here just like who talked to me the last days just for me to you. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you That's it. Okay, so it's just for me to focus on like look to specific people. It helps me It's not like I don't know how to do it. Thank you. I see Now it's much better Okay, so anyway Yeah, this is me Okay, so this is me again. I am I've been helping on fast API for three years by now I've started just helping on GitHub issues and stuff wrote some requests, but I mainly help on Managing kind of the project with Sebastian kind of thing help him a lot But that's I think what I do there and I've also a maintainer of you've corn and starlet you've corn is Well, if you were here in the room before You know, but anyway, so you've corn is a web server implementation that runs applications like fast API Like fast API and also starlet starlet is a web framework that provides it's one of the dependencies of fast API So it provides the web capabilities for fast API I'm also recently joined by dentiq Who here knows about by dentiq. Okay. Thank you. I mean, yeah, okay Good and yeah, so we just released the version v2 some days ago People were really excited about it. We are really excited about it underneath it uses rust to do all the validation and creating of the Schema so Try it. It's it's I don't know if my boss is watching me, but hi boss Anyway, and we just created a company. So And we are kind of looking for People to understand kind of what's wanted So we have this blog post by dentiq.dev slash roadmap Where we explain things that we want to build and we would want your feedback Well, since it's a data validation Coursing and parsing tool I put there specifically like data people data engineers and data science which really appreciate your help and We also are interested on talking to you so reach me after the talk if you're also interested Besides that Yeah, so we'll be talking about performance tips So here is gonna be something like small things that you can do to improve the performance The way this talks gonna be is like I'm gonna have this base application which might not represent what you'd have on production But it's the one that I That I thought at the moment that I saw on the data was creating this talk So that's the one that I'm gonna use which is this one So as I said might not represent a user's case like real case, but so you see that I have from Online three and four I generate Schemas and I use some data which I'm not going to show here But I've created that with something that I'm going to show on the next slide and online from 9 to 11 I just have an endpoint which I am purposely Creating some by dented models online 11 and then returning that for for the fast API like for the For the client Yep, so this is the base application that we're gonna use so I'm gonna show the improvements and I'm gonna compare always to this one Yep, so let's go I'm gonna be using the version 0.98 because The last the last version of fast API already is using by dented v2 So at the end I'm gonna show the like how it improves the performance using v2 Yeah, but if you install like like fast API without the the version impending today, you would already have the V2 by dented installed Okay, so I generated the the data from those two tools json generator and json to pipe to by dented really nice tools and Yeah, so the first thing that I want to say is about The event loop that we're gonna use when we are using Well when they're building an application and usually people tend to like they believe that just installing you've corn you'll have already the benefits of the most performatic setup which is not true and So you've corn it supports way it supports by default Async I also you need to set up UV loop if you want to use it which is another event loop implementation and I you can see also the how it performs compared to the other implementations, that's nice and What else? Yeah, so if you just install it then you're gonna have an increase of 10% of Performance, I yeah, this is important. I run the benchmarks on my local machine and They are going to be available Like I'm gonna make these lights and the with the test I used I Don't know on the discord server But this is just I want you to see the numbers just as a comparative measure not exactly to look at the The number itself, so you just consider that there is an improvement here, please Yeah, so if you just install it you've corn is already going to use it So if it's in the virtual environment, you already have this Disbenefit Another thing that can be improved Is using HTTP tools so by default? You've corn uses H11 H11, I don't know Which is a sans IO? HTTP parser which was also here in the previous talk. I don't show that And it's the default, I don't know what's the default. I don't why is the reason this is the default I think it was because it was the first one implemented and then HTTP tools is an HTTP parser that works with callbacks and It is faster than H11 because H11 is pure Python and Yes, we run an HP tall tools It's building in C and then there is you have the binding what says there is that it's abiding that no JS also uses So this there is abiding for no JS as well for transcript Yeah, so that's the same thing you kind of have 10% of improvement same idea you should look at this as there is an improvement and You also benefit from it if you just install it So if it's available in the virtual environment you've your corn is going to use it and you already have the benefit Yep So this is is Alex here No, no, no the any IO are you here? Okay, not you anyway, so Yeah, so this is another application, this is not part or do I have I have Yeah, so this is an application that at startup is going to increase the number of tokens And those tokens are the number of threads that you can use So if you notice online Like basic like the threads that they do is a curiculum use So if you notice online 17 we have a death instead of an async that so which means that fast API Starlet is going to run this in a Executor and You can define the number of threads that you have available for that so for example if By default you have a number of total tokens being 40 So which means that if you like right now you send a hundred requests for this application it's gonna run 40 then when one thread is available then it's gonna start running the others because You have a limit and this is something that a lot of people don't know and we're trying to improve how to How to customize this but right now it is like this so you get the default the current default thread limiter And then you change the number of tokens That is so by mistake of my mistake, I think the The low-cost Script that I used I didn't do a good job on the on the Like how I set up because otherwise you'd have far more improvement because it depends on how many requests You are like feeling the the the number of threads So I think I didn't get that right, but anyway, it's If the number of requests is more than the number of threads that you have at some time like then you're gonna need a Bigger thread pool and you're gonna see more improvement in this But that is an improvement again, you should look at this as that is an improvement Another thing is on this example And this is pretty much the same example as the the first one that we started I'm just adding the async keyword on line 10 So which means that I'm not using the executor to To execute I'm just using async tasks and Here just because of that I have I don't have the overhead of those threads And then I have the 50% improvement again. It's just that is an improvement focus on that and Yep So my example was kind of as I said, not kind of real kind of But actually it was took for more than one Code source, so I've seen that in some places which people usually create the model before you send him back to To first API and what happens is that first API make sure that? the response model is the It's actually validated because you can actually modify the attributes of the Of the models that you have on the end point So the idea here is that you always like you're gonna be sure first API is gonna make sure that you have the data All right before sending back to the client Well, there are some people that are a bit unsatisfied with this behavior because They say that if I already have the output model, why should I why first API should revalidate again? And that's something that is going to be a fresh kind of it's gonna be optional at some point But it is not right now And on this case well since it's heavily Like the application that we have is mainly Like we're validating the models like Very CPU bound I'd say Then when we remove one of the layers of the validation, then we're gonna have a 25% improvement And then which means that only first API is doing the validation internally This is Okay, first API went on the other line. Okay. Anyway, this is also Well, this is just changes one line right on the line 8 which should be like 7 I'm adding the default response class Which we use or JSON as To serialize the response Yeah, so this is not something that we're gonna have a huge improvement because right now What's happening is that online 12 we're gonna we're gonna validate the models online and then online 10 internally We're gonna revalidate those models. So we're creating them again So that's the huge stuff that's happening here And then you will you're gonna use the RJs and just to serialize and send to the to the client And then we just well with this application that I have I have a 5% of improvement But again, you should look at this as there is an improvement Yeah Without validation Since everything that I did like making sure that my data is the one like it's the one that I want to be I Don't have that then I would have 150% of improvement So if you don't want to make sure if you don't want to leverage the capabilities that would likely make you use fast API then you have a lot of improvement but I don't recommend But anyway at the end I'm gonna show you something interesting Okay, so you can also do it without logging This is also something that improves the performance. So but I guess you also don't want that. I don't know so you can not have any access logs and You are going to have 15% of improvement on the application that you just saw with the basic setup this setup and then Yeah, and then Without any of the improvements that I told you and just using pedantic V2, which means using the latest version of fast API You're gonna have so you saw that before you have this without any validation, right? And then right now you're gonna have an improvement of far bigger than Then you saw but again Is the Application is heavily doing validation twice and stuff. But anyway, there is a huge improvement using only by installing the last the latest fast API and Yeah, there are some bonuses thing Yeah, so for example, there is there was this command Usually when you create middlewares with fast API or or Starlet, there is a structure called base HTTP middleware. That's where you when you use like App dot and then you put middleware and then HTTP You are under on underneath of that you have this base HCP middleware class which is which kind of Makes it easier for you to create middlewares, but it comes with a cost and Historically has been had a lot of bugs So if you use fast API for some time, you probably face some of the bugs the most common one lately was the that if you have a background task and if you have a middle a base HTTP middleware then you could only have One request in a single house it So if you had two requests on the single connection the background task will block the next one So I had one request which will create a background task And then if I like sleeping 10 second seconds, then the next request is gonna wait those 10 seconds And then it's gonna it's gonna run but that's a soft in the latest Starlet And it's important so fast API doesn't have the latest starlet so that bug is already it's currently happening So that's a good reason for not to use right now, but it's gonna be solved on the on the on the next first API release Yeah, so you can use this thing called ASCII Pure ASCII middleware. I didn't put the pure So this is the way you do in fast API. It's kind of Straightforward so you have online 9 you call the next which would be the endpoint With the request and then online 10 you are adding this new header X potato and then I didn't have a value banana But if you want to do it So as I said, this is pretty simple straightforward, but it comes with a cost and you could remove that cost with Using a base HTTP. Sorry a pure ASCII middleware So just to explain here Like to be big I guess but the important thing is that online 10 and so this is following the ASCII interface And then we also have a good tutorial on how to implement this kind of Middleware, but yeah online 10 and 11 I am Just making sure that I have an HTTP request There are other types of scopes that I can use to create middlewares, but I'm interested in HTTP on this example Also to make it compatible to what I saw where we saw on the last slide and then on the sand Croutine we are just making sure that we are adding this new Header we are using mutable headers, which is a data structure from starlet makes it easy I let it helps a bit in creating those kind of middlewares So we are leveraging that and then online 16. We are just adding the that header Yeah, so those two this one and this one they are analogous this one performs much better because that is it doesn't make it easy for you to implement it, but It's faster So yeah, you can read about it on starlet.io slash middleware have a section called Asgip your middleware it was written partially by me and the other part by Fluorimont, I Forgot his name if he's watching sorry But he's really nice and he writes stuff very very well So I recommend like if you just like if you are using fast API I recommend this anyway because you learn about What as good stuff and And you can also use some middlewares for compressing the responses one of those is already in fast API and solid which is the Gzip zip zip middleware But this is like a bonus because On the application that we had it doesn't make it perform better So it depends on the on the On the response on the body of the response that we'd have So in the case of the application that I had it didn't went better You also have another one the broadly broadly something that middleware But it's an external package that can also be used Analogous analogously as this one And what else just that thank you We do have time for a few questions if anyone would like to come up to the mic or ask a question in the discord Hey, hello You had one side where you just declared a function as async and you said there was a 15% improvement Yeah, that's with the same exact code in that function purely it being async Yeah, so that 15% is just from the threading overhead of Python or yeah Cool. I mean I don't have more than that It's really truly just that I Thank you Sorry, thank you for our talk.  So I don't get what can be higher than a hundred percent, but yeah, I Use a little cross script I'm gonna share it after as I said I Intentionally said many times that to not focus on the percentage because I Just wanted to see an improvement and Well, not like that. Like there is an improvement. I'm gonna share it after it's kind of better What's the formula basically if not right in the right what do you put on? Nater that's This one Can you see it? I mean it's literally this so Did you get it? I Will follow up this is this is not something that I come up with like my I saw it in a blog post and I use it Okay, thank you very much. You are Hi, thank you for a talk. Sometimes it's not very clear What to try to optimize so profiling can help and do you have any recommendations for how to profile? When developing and face the API Application or should we just use our regular profilers for that? Thank you I think regular like I usually use the the cute one the new one memory ray memory ray something like that. Yeah Yeah, yeah that one I Don't do anything different than that There is the flag thing Forgot the flag to make sure that you are not blocking the event loop Forgot the name of the flag, but that's the only thing that I do Thanks for the job. Yeah, it is insane improvement 265% using the latest version. Is that related to identity going rust or Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you need like I specifically mentioned that That the application that I used was mainly doing validation and it was doing it twice so it kind of if If that was the main goal of the application that you obviously have a huge performance on on the change of the pedantic version. Yes Thank you Hey, thank you for a talk When you were using the Jason serializer, is there any drawback there's just literally free free launch like I Didn't get the question. So do I need to do anything else anywhere in my application to to to to use Jason serializers just plug it in and You mean they are Jason thing. Yeah Yeah, but also you probably don't want to use it anymore Because by then take is faster anyway right now like almost with by then take v2 It's gonna be faster to use it to serialize them to use or Jason. I don't I'm not even sure if it's I Need to check that but I'm not even sure if it Well, it allows you because you can change the response class so you can use our Jason if you want but I think internally is using the Identical Jason serializer so and It's performs better than our Jason. So that's a tip that was from before the the latest version of STPI Thanks. Okay. Thank you You