I am so delighted to share with you a session that I think has a stellar line up and will really inspire us here on the last day of the conference today. The session is called Revisiting and then it's an exciting hashtag so I think it's bring your own device for learning in light of COVID-19 and I am going to in a moment ask all of our presenters to introduce themselves but first I'm just going to go through a couple of the checks to set up the webinar so there should be an access panel at the bottom right of your screen where you can access the chat the participant list and also the settings and we'd love to encourage you to add a profile picture to your profile here at the bottom where you can click on a little person icon just so it's a little bit more personal as the workshop gets underway. This is a really interactive session so we're looking forward to getting to know each other a little bit and finding out who is in the room and if you're just joining us and you're looking at the chat please do post in the chat who you are where you're joining us from and how the conference was for you last week. Also if you're getting a lot of audio notifications or other notifications you can check those in the bottom right hand corner and audio setup as well. Now in a moment I'm going to ask you all to find your emojis and with my esteemed colleague that bath in the room you won't be surprised if we will be making use of emojis to start the session but the particular one that you're looking forward to is here the clap emoji and I'd love to see as many of you join in with a warm emoji welcome to welcome this group of presenters running a fantastic workshop with us today here at OER by Domains21. So find your emojis now and say hello to all of our presenters here in the room. Fantastic and if I can maybe hand over to Debbie to do the first welcome that would be great. Hi Debbie how are you doing? Oh thanks Marin hi everybody absolutely delighted to be here and I'm really great to see people joining us I'm very very pleased that you haven't forgotten about us even though we're a post conference workshop but I'm Debbie Baff and I am the membership and professional development manager for ALT and I work with with part of the the sort of backend team to help deliver the OER conference so and this is a this is a chance for me to be on the other side as well so I'm really looking forward to our session today and they're great to be working with these guys so that's me I don't know who's next. I'm going to jump in then because there's an opportunity so it's good to see the room gradually filling up and we're almost level pegging now from presenters and participants which is great because actually the news is that we are all participants here so my name is Teresa McKinnon I'm at Warwick Language on Twitter and I'm delighted to have this opportunity to share today's session and just to look at what has been a fantastic example of open practice and extend and expand using all that energy that we've just taken from OER Domains 21 and to hi Jim and to continue this conversation because open practice really makes a difference to people's lives I know from my participation in BYOD in fact they continue to teach me stuff that you know participation in a community like this can be what it takes to actually be innovative and successful so really looking forward to today's session. I think I might steal the baton and jump in and introduce myself rather than have too much silence so I am amazed to be here this is like a fantastic reunion so I'm Andrew Middleton I'm now at Anglia Ruskin University and back in the day I was at Sheffield Hallam University working very closely with Sue Beckingham and indeed others in the network that formed around some idea of bring your own devices for learning so I'm really looking forward to re-exploring some of the territory which turned out to be all about people when we were looking when we thought we were looking at technology it turned out we're actually looking at people and connectivity so really please be picking up on that agenda again today and can I pass the baton to Sheila. Yeah you can hi I'm just going to share my video hi everyone well like everyone else I'm delighted to be here still kind of I suppose basking from hand you know still trying to make sense of all the fantastic sharing that happened last week at the main conference so yes like everybody else I have been involved in many roles of bring your own device for learning from a participant to an institutional member to then being a facilitator with Alex and Neil and I guess at the beginning of this year I was getting a lot of messages about bring your own device for learning on my timeline and it just reminded me of what fun as well as a stimulating experience of what's so I think I'm slightly responsible for this session and starting the whole thing off with the blog post but I'm going to pass over to I think it might be Neil now can I just double check that everybody can hear Neil. No I can't hear Neil. No sorry Neil. Okay again is that better? Yes it is yes. Apologies I'll start again apologies I'm Neil Whithmore from the University of Salford it gives me great pleasure to be here this afternoon I've been involved in bringing on device for learning since it first started which is actually 2014 so over seven years ago which doesn't seem like seven years but fantastic to be here I'll pass on to Alex. Thanks Neil. Everyone seen hear me? Yes I think you can. Hi everyone my name is Alex Beers I'm a senior learning technologist at the London School of Economics and a bit like Andrew I started this journey back in 2014 at different institutions and what's been great about being part of this community has been the people not the devices that we've collected over the time as Andrew pointed out it's actually been people it's been a little bit like Pokemon so every kind of like conference or institution or work at or any open online space of just collecting all these people and adding them to my network and it's been a lovely journey and so hopefully we've got some kind of like useful and fun and exciting and maybe thoughtful stories to share with you so I'm going to pass the baton on to I'm not sure if there's anyone left who's left but we have we have recordings from Sue and Chrissy so I'm just going to pop Chrissy's recording in the chat and ask everybody just to have a listen to that so on your own machines that'd be easier than try us trying to get it through I'm a collaborator think so there's a link there so Chrissy was at the origins really of BYOD4L and other things besides so let's give you just two minutes off air to listen to that recording okay I think possibly you will have been able to listen to that so just a really nice short sort of contextual background to why we're here today and I'm just going to share another link in the chat and this is to our padlet the padlet is going to be quite crucial for today's session because it's where we're going to capture your suggestions and ideas as well as the discussions that we're having here today we didn't know how many people would come today so the plan was to then go off into breakout rooms but as we're quite a small group I think it's going to be best if we perhaps take turns and focus on a theme at a time and work our way through can I just check with Deb did we get everybody's introductions in there? The only one we missed Sue's out and we missed Sue's fault but just to let you know I was just typing it in but I might as well say it now so on the padlet you can see a lovely five minute introduction from Sue because obviously she wasn't able to be here today because she's doing another event but obviously Sue's instrumental to the the bring your own device for learning and she's given a really good introduction an explanation about how it sort of came about with Chrissy and if you're not familiar with bring your own devices for learning that's a really good intro and Susie Faulkner also can't be here today because I think she's examining students or something today so she was gutted she couldn't join us but you can see Susie's intro on there as well and we also have a flip grid mix tape which has intos from everybody so you can have a look but I really love to have some intros from the participants Theresa do you think we could go around the room and find out who we've got with us yeah absolutely I think I'm just going to share the flip grid mix tape link in the chat as well but you're right about Sue's intro which is a little bit longer so I thought we'd just leave that on the padlet so that people can visit it as and when and you can dip in and out of the resources that we're going to put in front of you today and maintain the conversation beyond the session today we only have an hour together today um so yeah let's uh let's just have a quick pass the mic around so if you're happy to speak to us we'll start with Jim because I don't think he's that shy so Jim can you pop your mic on and tell us why you're here what brought you here today hi everybody I'm Jim and you're right Theresa I'm not that shy unfortunately for you all but I wanted to learn more about BYOD I didn't know if it was like bring your own drugs or bring your own device like I was intrigued hi everybody I can I can confirm that these people are not enhanced in any way by any medication or any any other external devices as far as I'm away thank you that's great to have you here with us Claire would you like to introduce yourself I can see you in here if you just unmute your mic say hi or pop something into the text chat if you'd prefer I know it well yes no worries Claire thanks Leo good to see you here would you like to say hello hello um hi everyone yeah I um I actually I I've known of um bring your own device for learning and often seen the hashtag kind of flying past on Twitter but I didn't know much about the story behind it and the the ongoing it's ongoing life so I was just curious to come and check it out really and I think it's um you know a really great example though of of kind of open open practices that are not necessarily resources but more kind of about community great thank you and thank you for your curiosity which is another sea we'll add to our list um Paul would you like to say hi feel free to just put something in the chat if you'd rather oh I can hear Paul in the distance yeah so I'm Paul bad I'm from Binghamton New York um I'm here because the conference last week was so much fun that I just had to come back for more excellent one of the best reasons for coming thank you we really need that energy that you drew from the conference uh to continue with our conversation thank you um I can see now you'll have to forgive me if I'm not pronouncing this correctly ti rumani or ti rumani pop something in the chat if you'd prefer not to be on mic that's fine yes hi if you'd like to you can unmute your mic at the bottom of the screen uh and tell us a bit about what brought you here today oh no mic okay that's fine just pop something in the chat for us so that we know um what motivated you to come and we can hopefully connect with you as best we can yes we have plenty of OER buzz here an OER stroke OER OEP buzz that we're drawing on thank you right so my last call anybody else in the room who'd like to say hi switch on your mic and introduce yourself and tell us why you're here hello I've already said hi but I'll say hi again I'm Sonja McCresty from University of Sunderland and I'm just here because I enjoyed the conference last week got a lot out of it and I was curious about the variation on the bring your own device terminology ah great okay so that's somebody who's done some done some background reading as well Sonja thank you for that excellent you get brownie points for that and everybody who comes today as you've perhaps seen we will be able to issue you with an open badge for participating because what we're doing is breaking open the BYOD for L Circle to let more in we want more of you in to know more about what this community does and how perhaps it could be of use to you in the future great so if everybody's happy they've introduced themselves and you know where the text chat is so please continue that conversation and you're not an energy vampire at all you can we're all drawing energy from each other what we're going to do now is just to introduce you a little bit to the five C's um what's the word I'm looking for framework framework framework that word just disappeared sorry the five C's framework that BYOD is built around and tell you a little bit about each of those five C's so we're going to spend a little bit of time in each of those C's so let me just share another link with I don't know if anybody else's sound is dipping yeah um I just heard Theresa just stop but I think we're back I think that's because I muted there we go these people once they retire you know they just lose all professionalism sorry guys so I just put a link in the chat to the BYOD for learning that wordpress blog BYOD for learning took place the interactions the event itself took place in a space called google plus remember that which has since gone and been and gone but we did capture um what was going on over the years through that wordpress blog and of course through social media that um hashtag as Leah mentioned earlier was really crucial so the five C's originally that we were looking at these themes were um connecting communicating curating collaborating creating and then we've kind of expanded on those I say we and I'm saying we with absolutely no responsibility whatsoever because it was very much the other guys who you're looking at who were involved in this I only became a facilitator very much later in the day I was I joined into a few BYOD4L events um at the beginning so they became expanded so connecting added confidence communicating added capability and this was digital communication curating and added copyright collaborating added community and creating added celebrating so if you're looking at that link you'll find that full link of topics towards the bottom of the website there on the left and what we've done is put them into the padlet board that I've already shared with you and I'll share the link again just in case we missed anybody and don't worry Debs we're we're all used to our everyday life taking place in the background that's all good um and actually I only learned today when I listened to Sue's post that the conference that we have SOC med social media conference that we have that's run for a few years now was actually born of BYOD4L as well so there's a lot of cross fertilisation and tweet chats as well that was born out of this bringing together of a community so Sheila yes I'm going to hand straight over to Sheila Sheila please give us a sort of an overview maybe of those um chapters if you uh those themes if you would thanks Teresa and apologies everyone I am going to have to leave in about five minutes because I yeah I had a bit of a diary fail this morning but yeah the 5c model the connect communicate curate collaborate and curate um they actually gave us a really nice framework so the way that bring your own device for learning ran was it was over a week and it was usually in January so it was one of those times in the UK that it was quite useful for staff development because it was just usually after exams had finished and there was a bit of a break and so it's quite good for a lot of us who are at that point involved in staff development and it was a really good way to get some institutional interest in technology and devices and social media so when Alex and Neil and I took over the facilitation we decided we would extend the models a bit because there were other Cs that were coming into play as well so in terms of connecting one of the great things that we've talked about there was the power of connection for this week that extended way beyond that week and getting people to use social media particularly twitter maybe things like google plus when it was around it took a bit of confidence to do that and it actually allowed people to do things and connect in a relatively space way so we found that it really helped build people's confidence in terms of communication there were lots of different ways of people were communicating both internally in their own institutions and externally with other places as well and actually that was I suppose going back to that community and networking thing that was a power of bring your own device for learning and I suppose any open educational practice it was just nice to connect with other people outside your own institution but to do that you had to have quite a few digital capabilities so it was a really nice way to again build up people's digital capability and confidence in terms of curation I mean curating resources and open educational resources really important so we had spent a day talking about that but also we were able to extend that to talk about copyright and open licenses as well and then collaborate which I think you can you can see from what and hear from what we've all been saying collaboration was at the heart of it and the community is part of that as well and then we always wanted people to create something at the end of the week whatever that was and share that with the community and also we also felt that bring your own advice for learning it was a bit of a celebration and we did tweet chats every night for five nights so I certainly know and that's maybe wasn't drugs and Jim but there's certainly well a few wee whiskies had at the end of the Friday night after the end of the last tweet chat as well and yes I think we did break quite a few times there was so much activity going on but we've extended the model a bit and there's been a bit of a hiatus and bring your own device for learning so one of the things we wanted to use this session for was to get your ideas about these areas what are the challenges you've faced in these five years over the past year when everything has changed and we've all had to take our devices to learning what we've been going to learning in different places in different spaces so we really wanted to open up the conversation and see if anyone else maybe wanted to run it again or run it in your own country I mean it's all openly licensed and the resources are there so it's really just a chance to get people to think about some of the challenges around the five seas and maybe add some more seas to it as well so I think we open up the Padlet Board we can maybe start and if you're on the Padlet Board do add things but if anyone wants to add some ask some questions or find out because I know quite a few of you out here that maybe don't really know anything about how it ran we'll be more than happy to answer questions but really anything about the model or anything you want to share or even your experiences over the past year in the pandemic in terms of how you've connected and collaborated with your students and your colleagues would be really useful to hear from just now so I'll just switch off my mate Disney and let people have a chance to speak. Thanks Sheila that's lovely and we do want to encourage you to interact through the Padlet Board and get your ideas and thoughts down there maybe we could come to the first of our seas the first theme we'll have a few minutes thinking in a more focused way around the first which is all around connecting so speak up Mac Nicta oh just before I go actually one of the um one of the ways that we used um connecting was indifferent so what I used to do when I worked in an institution still we used to have lunchtime kind of drop-in sessions for finger and device for learning so we were connecting internally and actually that was a really nice informal way when we were all remember when back in the day when we're all on campus it was a really nice way to get people to meet quite informally and then encourage people to communicate and connect with the wider bring-your-own-device for learning community later that evening or during the day so we used kind of different I suppose maybe scaffolded scaffolded the connecting a little bit as well. Yeah can I just come in on that just pick up on that that was something definitely that I did at Sheffield Hallam probably not until the second iteration of it I think I was involved for about three iterations um actually one of the great things about bring-your-own-devices for learning was its online space and everything that Twitter and connectivity means in that space and we discovered a lot in that mode but it became obvious to me that we could bring groups of people together if you like in the material world and so for me uh from that um we found ourselves having a local huddle in Sheffield and responding to the challenges in the BYOD for our um program or series of challenges and and responding there and making things together so that notion of collaboration was almost creating responses to some of the online challenges and then posting those creations back online to see the evening discussion and through the tweet chat and so there was for me and in what we were trying to do in Sheffield there was a real interaction between the the digital space and the physical space and and really messing around with identities messing around with context messing around with time as well because I think one of the things that we got out of it there was um I think uh I'm trying to think probably um Catherine Cronin uh no Claudio Miguel has talked about um multicronicity or multiple contexts and so I think we played with time we played with space we challenged the uh binary of uh of synchronous and asynchronous because in tweet chats things happen at a pace and they feel synchronous that you're revisiting discussions or lingering in the tweet chat chat stream and so a lot of this was really about disrupting uh simple ideas about learning space and I personally I took an awful lot out of that and I've written a lot about it subsequently so the impact um on a number of people but I would say me was considerable in terms of rethinking what space and place can be in terms of a learning environment so just picking up on that idea that Sheila shared and I'm just adding to the Padlet Board now the word context which I'll develop in Padlet but I think that's become a very important see and the idea of poly contextuality that I'll explain that in Padlet so I'll hand that back to someone else now That's brilliant Andrew thank you and this re-contextualization because actually the whole of the BYOD4L um work which is all out there openly up on the blog is creative commons licensed so this process of inviting people to connect and to create and collaborate together and repost to their own blogs um and have Twitter chats or engage um in other ways is is something that can easily be recontextualized maybe use different tools that fit your own setup so thank you that's that's great to have that uh focus as well on the process Andrew which is so important so at the second on our list I'm working through these fairly quickly to give us time because the Padlet posts are coming in thinking fast which is great um is around communication and I've added a post from when I was participating in BYOD back in 2017 um on communication because I'm very much involved in virtual exchange which is all about online open um interaction and actually arose out of um language teaching and training um and it made me look back at that post and see how much things have changed and in fact Education Burrito published a podcast all about virtual exchange just today which was very timely and I'll share a link to that up on the chat so communication anybody like to wade in and tell us a little bit Alex go ahead hi there yeah communication um is one of the one of the other seas um and it's one of those things I'm kind of really passionate about um and it's absolutely crucial in your role as an academic developer as a learner technologist within an organization and for me it's a little bit similar to what Andrew and Sheila were saying was it was using the the framing of bringing your own devices and the expertise that was out there in the open kind of world and bringing that in to kind of like stand side by side with you in an organization to help you get through the sometimes siloed areas uh that you kind of need to get into um so one of the things that kind of like came out of this for me was um building up communities of people that were interested in social media um and this was something I was instrumental in doing at the University of Liverpool and it was all a springboard form bring your own devices and basically what it allowed you to do is to say well here is something that's happening um it's happening online we've got well respected educators from all across the country uh contributing to it you can dip in and out and and you can double it up by having events and get-togethers throughout kind of like in your in your own space and face to face in in your environments and what that basically did was it brought lots of people to you um from across a very large organization that you wouldn't necessarily necessarily normally see um and so for me that that was kind of like an incredible kind of like way to leverage the power of this open community uh and make sure that they are part of my team if you like you know like a virtual team um so I'm just going to pass the baton on I'm not sure who's I think we should have got a baton somewhere we should each have had a baton yeah we could actually grab because we've got an apple in to do that too I've got a mug the mug so when you chip it over this way it turns into a mug we could have had an open digital baton or something I'm I'm just going to say I was um I was kind of struck by um the the kind of development of digital skills by stealth really so when I first um started with um bringing on device for learning that was in 2015 and I'd seen it happen in 2014 but I hadn't and I well I say I didn't have the time to do it I don't think that was really true I think I didn't have the confidence to get involved with it um and um in 2015 I did and I remember my first kind of you know my first tweet that I sent you know and and I remember I said something like um oh fluttering around like a social butterfly and you know I I kind of I was really dipping in and out of all the spaces to kind of find out what was going on and and it really really helped with um with just being in that environment and it's a very welcoming environment and people were very very generous with their advice and suggestions and offers of help and what have you and then as time's gone on I've kind of um you know I've been involved in it every year but I've got more and more involved with it you know so I've been a participant I've been a moderator a facilitator and then I've helped to run the community edition of it and all of these kind of things you're learning all of this stuff but doesn't actually feel like you're learning it because you're just kind of getting on and and finding out you know and it's a it's a really really fun way to to it feels like a safe space it feels like you're not being judged you know and I think the more that we can extend that to other people um you know and you know whether that's other learners or other other faculty you know I think it's a really good thing so um and it was only the the act of pulling this together um that I've kind of gone back and and realized the things that I was doing you know it's a really good idea to go back and have a look at stuff and it's a shame that the um the google spaces has kind of dropped off but I think that you know if people were taking part a lot of people kind of blogged about it you know and I did a search on my blog and I it popped up with all of these posts that I'd kind of forgotten that I'd actually done so which will be very very good when I'm compiling evidence for certain things so but yeah I think it's um you know it's really really um yeah it's amazing a bit moji Alex exactly you know all these kind of things just kind of sort of crawl along and you don't realize but you're really you're kind of immersing yourself in that kind of environment well thanks Alex yeah thanks thanks Deb that's it's so important yeah there were lots of different apps used and lots of different devices and spaces used and it's kind of an experimentation but what we have to bear in mind obviously is who's missing from the conversations who does and doesn't have access so going back to Andrew's point about contextualization it's really important that we put that in mind and we offer choices for ways of people to connect and communicate so we look to connect we look to communicate we must look at curation and then we've also got people in the room so do you know who have lots of experience in each of these themes so do feel free to pick up the mic and tell us your thoughts on curation um curation was the area I think that I said I would talk about and I have put on the padlet the link to a blog post I did some time ago that the the wonder for me was that curation when it moved from being a personal thing to being a social thing just blew the lid off curation it helped to build my network it helped me connect and find people with similar ideas so curation is often I think under um realized as a contributor to network just using things personally I use um pearl trees but using any of the many different ways you can to curate and sometimes just using your own blog on it with a post on a theme with lots of links um can help make your understanding of the online world clearer to other people and can we can all build on that so curation I think sometimes is underrated and it's a lovely easy way of getting involved that isn't quite as scary as jumping into a live room um so curating or getting your students to curate perhaps using wikipedia to curate knowledge lots and lots of ways so if you have ways and tips on curation please add them to the padlet board and grab the mic if you want to tell us there's loads of loads of um padlet comments I'm just trying to kind of kind of look at them all oh great Marin's got a got a question yeah the question for Teresa I wonder um what is your thought on kind of making curation really accessible for people at different skill levels um because I think you know I often find that that people can be quite intimidated even if you just share a tool even if you make it sound really helpful and I wonder if you've come across that and um what your experience of the difference of skill levels in this community have been sort of digital literacy and critical digital literacy I think one of the things that comes into it is is sort of how comfortable you feel in a space isn't it so many of us were perhaps using dgo or you know bookmarking we certainly sort of started off with bookmarking things and keeping those on our own computers but the moment you then jump into something that's more social you find ways through networks but as Alex has put in the chat their hashtags and aggregation are really powerful ways of drawing things together and if you curate something and then blog about that collection um one of the things you find very quickly is that people grasp that idea if that's an idea they're interested in and build on um so one of the things I do because obviously I'm a linguist is is curate things that aren't just in English as well because often we we do tend to go to our sort of first language community so yeah curation for me has been really helpful Sonya do tell us tell us a bit more here you said I've missed those collaborative bookmarking tools yeah I must admit there are some that that have faded out of my practice now and others that I favor more and I think that's perhaps just a human thing that we feel more comfortable in certain spaces so we sort of migrate to those um yes net vibes I've still got a net vibes account I haven't been there a while I'm just going to check the padlet and see what else is popping up I think that that's the other thing just to say on this Teresa is that um what's what's interesting is how curation has shifted I think a little um certainly in my practice you know because but you're saying that you've got click it and net vibes and you're kind of like collecting and curating information for yourself um and one of the things I really liked about net vibes is you could share it with other people and allow them to kind of like contribute to it and what I've noticed is that the curation that I'm doing these days is less is less open actually which is which is not right necessarily for a session like this I think the curation that I do that is open is the the content that I share openly on Twitter and occasionally when I'm blogging but um I'm using Twitter to um curate information that interests me and then you know I'll evaluate it and then kind of like consider kind of the share net so it's done in a slightly different way you know but that that practice is still there yeah I think what we're getting Alex is that bugbear of monetization where a lot of platforms and things are closing or they're limiting access because they need to monetize for whatever reason and personally as a practitioner there are some things I will pay for yeah Diego is still there but I've not been in Diego for a long long time most of these platforms are still there but as they start to monetize people will make decisions as to whether they're suitable for them or not I think and yeah there are others out there so please do share you know which curation spaces are you still finding useful and yeah I'm I'm afraid I do um bang the gong every now and again for open and for not monetizing or finding better models for monetization that don't penalize practitioners all the time I've been in teaching for 35 years and a good proportion of my teaching income has always gone on providing or paying for access to things for students and that's not sustainable so we have to find better ways of providing services that don't always come at a cost yeah hypothesis for curating comments I know that's not popular for everybody and certainly yeah Wikimedia Wikipedia and Wikimedia have education spaces so I'm aware we've got a couple more um Cs to get through and so many more Cs that we're going to add I'm sure although yeah there's some dodgy Cs going on in the chat um so let's have a look at collaboration and um how we collaborate in these distant spaces Happy to chip in here Theresa colleagues um yeah I think um as Sheila mentioned at beginning collaboration turned into collaborating and community I think a strength of of the open course is very much that community and going back to Andrew's blog and um Andrew's video um although bringing on device for learning implies devices it's very much about people and I think when we first started um on BYOD people getting used to things like google hangouts so so device is really really important but actually the community the people are how it makes it and what you learn from so absolutely you froze that can I just pick up that in there as well absolutely it feels like and I don't know if anyone would agree with this I'd be quite interested to hear that the past year has been the year of collaboration I've seen an amazing amount of resources being shared just as we all went online and the the name of the person escapes me but uh George I think it was George Siemens that pulled a google doc together um about some of the key open resources to help educators across the world shift their resources online and respond to this kind of COVID emergency at that point and and I think even tools like this um and zoom and teams I would argue actually have collaboration um in the heart of it um it's always sometimes a bit clunky not always kind of like you know the best way to do it but certainly what I've experienced has been a greater use of online tools to work together to share ideas to build up presentations write documents and and that is kind of like tipped over to become more normal practice and that's one of the things that I really hope when when this all ends that we continue to do more of that because it seems like a much more effective way of working together and using technology as a positive tool thanks Leo for agreeing me thanks Alex and Neil for that I'm sorry I lost my intimate in the middle but I've caught most of it and I see the padlets continue to build and thanks everybody for adding their C's there's a great collection there of C's and it's good to see the care is there too communication is never straightforward collaboration and certainly anything that leads to co-creation is never that straightforward so lots and lots of learning has gone on I think through the entire COVID disaster to learn about how we can best collaborate and presence is so important in that so knowing how to be present online is an important sort of subskill before you can actually collaborate and connect so anybody like to add anything more to collaboration theme I suppose really for me it's it's events like this that that help to widen the collaboration as well you know and it's great to have people sort of coming in who maybe haven't been involved in in ringroom devices for learning before and and who are kind of curious to learn so I suppose one of the questions that's going through my mind now is how we're going to keep the momentum going with all of this and maybe you know how we kind of whether we want to consider doing another community event or something and how we can build in some of these extra C's into the framework and I guess Theresa you're going to circulate your Google doc aren't you to to get people's details in relation to the open digital badge that that we will be giving for open educational practice and I suppose we can kind of use that as a catch so that to see if you're interested yeah does that make sense just conscious that we might run out of time looks like the everybody got muted again but I think Leo's got his hand up shall I shall I test if I can speak can you hear me yes we can hi Leo oh good um at least at least somebody can um I just picking up on Deb saying that there's not much time and thinking towards the the future of whether it's worth trying to reinvigorate this kind of activity I absolutely think it it is worth it I think it's a it's a great idea I've written I've written some comments actually on the on the padlet I realized that maybe what I was really writing after after I put it in connect I put it into any more C's but it was sort of the challenge as I see it is this question of like how how do I convince people that it's worth engaging with this and um and I guess that's that's the thing that I um that I wonder about because I see the value and I know lots of people like us all think that this is great but I think there's a lot of people that we we you know how do we reach them that's a great point and and Leo I think it ties in really nicely I think we'd plan this with the idea that we had where we really want to make sure that people gain recognition for participating in things such as this which aren't institutionally based aren't disciplinary based so they don't fit into that current sort of structure for recognizing and rewarding participation Andrew go ahead I've just put the link in the chat to the badge claim because all of you've been working so hard while we've been talking and going offline and all sorts adding to the padlet please pop your email details into that form so that you can claim your badge from the open ed special interest group at all to would like to give you recognition for your contribution yeah can I just come in and so you've pointed to the the badges there Theresa um so yeah absolutely and and they were very important back in 2014 too um and in a way maybe those extrinsic drivers sort of actors signposts almost but I actually would argue and I think we found this and Deb told us about this earlier that we created a really friendly supportive experience and that was so extreme um that I think that we really inspired confidence in how we communicated the opportunity that BYOD for L offered over a week I know I was able to have all sorts of conversations with people at my university at the time and really talk about an opportunity to try things together um and to ask really interesting questions that idea of co-creation really came out in so many of the conversations I was having with staff at my own institution about you won't fail it's a space in which you can discover some of these new weird technologies that you're vaguely aware of and come out the other end having an opinion an informed opinion about them so I think the important message Leo in terms of trying to engage people is around the idea of a co-constructive space a welcoming space and I think for people in our sort of facilitation roles um that's our challenge to make sure that it is a welcoming space that you know inspires confidence and uh and everything you know I have to say Chrissy and Sue really got us on off to a very good start in terms of setting the tone of the whole environment so make it welcoming is my thought Alex you've got your hand up oh yeah I do yeah I just I echo exactly what you've just said but I'm also kind of like uh thinking that yeah we as a community behind bringing your own devices for learning have benefited greatly from uh being part of that community and the work that we've brought into our institutions and the research that we've done on the back of it as well and it feels like to me that that we should be kind of like at a stage where we should be passing this pattern on and allowing others within the community to take on and experience some of those opportunities that we've had time to kind of like get the benefit of and and maybe that is uh a mentoring approach um by bringing kind of like a new team maybe a young team uh in to kind of take over and and run with it for the next run out and not that I'm being ageist in any way uh I just like saying young team because it reminds me of Glasgow um but but and kind of basically taking that over and allowing them to kind of like build up and use it and and using that platform to take it into your organization so so yeah uh Leo um you're just down the road for me now um physically or maybe just virtually um we can certainly get together if that's something uh that you're interested in doing and and let's kind of like push things forward like get get it going absolutely is this thanks to Chrissie and um Sue there's no shortage of literature behind all of this as well so there's plenty that you can read and also there are abstracts in our own um session notes please that we would encourage you to look at I was listening to all the videos recordings that we all made as a group prior to today's session and there were clear themes coming out um very strongly um that actually the strength of BYOD4L wasn't in fact the technologies and learning to use the technologies it was that our focus was on people and humanity um a community that was supportive and helped experimentation that encouraged collaboration it's all about the people and it's I think a great testament to Chrissie and Sue's sort of work here that actually sort of where are we six seven years on we are still every bit as engaged in connecting and many of us have collaborated in different ways in different in different situations as a result of the relationships that have been built I also think it's worth saying it's one thing that hasn't been said yet is that actually the the event style if you like of BYOD4L had spaced learning built in so you although there were five um seas and five days you didn't have to do day two's sea on day two if you didn't feel ready for it you could jump into a different one or you could move around and and the community stayed around beyond the five days as well um so there's lots there to dip in and out of exactly there and to learn at your own time and at your own pace so things you can still point colleagues to today that they can try out so it is we do just have one minute left Marin so I'm just trying to sum up so I'm going to switch my mic off in case anybody has something else to add and I want to say thank you to this fabulous team of BYOD4Lers who are very very much the best people you could ever hope to meet who will support you in your open practice and in your explore explorations oh thank you very much Teresa and thank you everybody I hope that we can all find our clap emojis one more time to give a warm round of applause for a fantastic session to everybody here in the room oh I can see that all coming in as well fantastic thank you so much everybody that's been a really exciting session and really inspiring as well


What's good YouTube, it's your boy RealisticGamingHereMan, and we are back on Pressing the Beast Productions channel and we're back to react to episodes 4 and 5. As I said, we are going to be reacting to all his storyline, the story, and the whole story. Look at that. What? The whole story, look at that. Mother- Mother Trucker, dude!  Watch out for famiety. Can't speak.  You w- you want- you- you can do so- you- Bro, what are you talking about, man? He does have his other Sotr dark realm, that's his own creation, a part of Sotrfala. So if you guys want me to check that out, also let me know in the comments, and big shout out to Pressing the Beast Productions. Thank you for the awesome content, man, and yeah, just get it. And also guys, quick shout out to Vanessa for the $10 thank you. On my previous video, good shout out, major love, thank you for the support, man. I really appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. And if you guys want to do the same thing, you can go up ahead and find it here on the heart that says thanks. So let's go ahead and begin with our first video, episode number four, which is- The Heart Breaking Name. Oh, let me just skip this little intro, you know. We see it every time. I mean, it's cool, don't get me wrong. Grab some snacks, get back in your legs. Alrighty, it's beginning. Where are you going, Edward? Oh, my boy, Edward, bro. Oh, well worth it. Sidney and I decided to check in Wellesworth for something to eat, but we didn't even want to take a step off Edward's footplate when we saw shattered glass. You guys see the bodies in the back? But we knew we had to investigate. We saw a few bodies too, but they were beyond recognition. Dude, they were torn apart like the limbs were out and everything. Oh my gosh. Who must that have been? Didn't even know who you guys think it is. After failing to find survivors at Wellesworth Station, I decided to go into the village and attempt to find any more scared souls who had survived this nightmare. Sidney, on the other hand, stayed with Edward and kept him company. Alright, so they out there looking for more lonely survivors. Hopefully they find them. Maybe they're gonna find them in two. I searched a few buildings thoroughly, but with no prevail before I decided to head back to Edward since it was getting dark. But as I was walking up to the old engine, my two-way radio started to make static. Yo, what the heck? The bodies are just there. That had to be the beast, right? Oliver the beast? I don't know, man. I hear about Craig, Craig, man. Oh my God. I'm gonna go bomb. We got a call from Jim Cole on my two-way radio. He took shelter in a bunker underneath his house that he had built a few years ago. His wife and daughter working two poor troubles. Oh my gosh. The bad Jim had his rifle on him and put the traction engine out of his misery. Edward broke down in tears when I told him the news. The tractor zombie? This is nuts, man. Oh, headshot. Good aim, bro. Remember, they're zombies. You got aim for the head, guys. Alright, Pete, to the wagon, though. I'm gonna call him wagon. The tractor. Aw, is that them? Like, having memories? It is. Aw, this is so sad, bro. You know, like, they were good friends. Him and Edward. Where did I get this footage from? From, like, the actual cartoon? We talked about our adventures with Trevor until we felt drowsy, and we've decided to sleep inside Edward's cab tonight. It might be risky, but it's less hazardous than sleeping in a building with tongues of shattered glass inside it, luckily. We still had a safe fire blanket in the cab, so we used that. I hope this nightmare ensues. Dude, poor Edward is going through it right now, my boy. You're strong, Edward. Episode number four. Dude, that was epic. I really like that episode. It might be one of my favorite ones because of all the bloody stuff in the background and all that's going on. Alright, so now we're moving on to episode five, which is the 1411 experiment. Okay, let me fast forward. Okay, there you go.  Footage owned by our solder railways, not to be released to the public. I think I might have actually seen this one, guys, but we got to re-watch it just to keep in order, you know, so I won't skip any episodes. Look, it all makes sense. Make it make sense, my boy. Hey, what's up, my boy? Wait, this is, um... This is, uh... This is Percy, right? Are you a Percy? I like when their face says that. Oh! You just cracked right into it! Oh my God! Do you not know how your brakes work? One day before the Brandon Beyblast? Oh, I remember these dudes. How are you on Hobbit? Alright, I got to rhyme with Oliver. My bad, guys. Don't get triggered, please. Be all, man. Oh, that looks creepy. What the heck? Okay, we haven't seen this before. Alright, I got to rhyme with Oliver. My bad, guys. Don't get triggered, please. Be all, man. Oh, that looks creepy.   New host seems to have taken over. He's mutating slowly but surely. Yep, that's definitely Oliver the Beast. Oh my Oliver! Tendrils can come out of the mouth now. It's getting hungry. I want to pet Oliver, dude. If you mess with me, I'll binge it to him. One of them tried running into it and the other reversed. One trying to escape derailed and was torn in half. Oil was dripping everywhere. And there was a fire. Engine went after the second one and compressed the front half, killing it instantly. I feel like the Beast is unstoppable, man. Test was successful. Scrap will be sold later. 1411-7 Diesel 10 was prepped for combat test. Oh, diesel 10? This will be our final combat test before mission is operational. Oh! Diesel was brought in and combat commenced. D10 held a decent fight, calling it multiple names. Creature, Beast, Monster. There's no way he's gonna stand a chance against the Beast though. Engine ripped off the hydraulic claw on the roof and tore off a buffer. That's gotta be painful, bro. D10 was powerless and begged for mercy. Apologizing to steam engines in general. Engine took the fin out of the claw and jammed it into the middle of D10's face. We have decided to call it the Beast. Right. Oh, he sticked his claw right through it. 1411-8 Toad Break Van This will help us be able to figure out Alright, well, it seems like they created a Beast that they can no longer tame. The Beast is out of the cage and he's beasting out there, man. He's not messing around. Alright, you guys, well, that was some solder fallout. If you guys want me to cut to continue on the episode, you guys know what to do, man. Let's try to get this video to a thousand likes. If we do, that would be awesome, man. I would literally go bow.  Probably won't, but that would be awesome. Alright, you guys, well, thank you guys for watching. Thank you all for the amazing support. As always, I truly appreciate it. And I will see you guys on tomorrow's livestream at 1 p.m. I'm gonna be reacting to live... I'm gonna be reacting to a... Me and Mikey are gonna be doing a livestream on the livestream. It should be fun because we're gonna be watching TikToks with you guys there and interact with you guys. That should be a fun time. So make sure to tune in tomorrow at 1 p.m. Pacific time. See you there. Be square, man.


You are going for a job interview. What do you do? How do you act? How do you pay attention to your body language? You'll get the most out of that interview you possibly can. What is that person thinking? What do you want them to feel about you when you leave? That's what we're going to talk about. Greg? Yeah, I don't think there's anything more to say about it than that because we've had lots and lots of people ask us What do you do when you go into a job interview that makes you believable and so for my angle the very first thing is Forget all those myths forget all those myths raise your chin look at the person pay close attention Keep eye contact. Don't overdo eye contact. Look away when you have to look back when you don't Take your elbows away from your sides because even though this is a myth Everybody doesn't know it's a myth and you will look like you're closing someone out So I contact and eliminating that other myth about crossing arms in my first year chase. What do you get? Yeah, so I would just write down two things Excitement and outcomes so always treat any kind of nervousness in your body as being excited If you're excited about something it's the exact same physiological process as being nervous The same thing happens your heart rate increases and all that so we need a reframe never use the word nervous again Say I'm excited because it's exactly the same and if you're excited during a job interview You come across so much more comfortable and then we get to outcomes Always talk about the outcomes that that person is looking for in that candidate because you want them to be thinking about the perfect outcome While they're looking at you Scott All right one thing I would suggest if someone's coming into the room You're already waiting on and the person's just coming in if you're going to get up and introduce yourself Try this because they did big study. I believe was it at IBM where the person sitting down When the interviewer came in they stood up and they fixed their jacket or they adjusted themselves very quickly And then they began the interview also But when they come in not just adjustment to kind of get some stuff off of your jacket or your dress or your shirt Whatever it is that'll let that person know that you care about how you look to that person when you talk to them Don't talk as fast as I talk think about what you're gonna talk about before you get in there So you'll be able to talk at a slow pace and get your point across as you look at him don't stare at him So it gets weird don't like burn a hole in them But look at him and be at ease and had that that little resting face.  So you look normal fairly normal anyway. Can I add to that? Yeah really quick So if you have rehearsed a bunch of stuff What I would highly recommend if you're thinking about going through a lot of this stuff Like Scott said you do it in bullet points and not an exact script because if you have a script Your brain is gonna try to default to it every time so try bullet points instead So guys and the other thing is let's keep this going as long as you have ideas Just because we go we just keep rotating around because there's still a lot to cover. Okay. Let me throw this in The interview starts before you've entered the room. It's when you show up in the car park It's when you enter the foyer there Everybody is potentially watching you so you want to be calm assertive polite Presentable, you know a delight to be around all the way through let me give you one other hint about this as well In most Western cultures or certainly Western business cultures There's gonna be a handshake involved somewhere along the way and people often worry about that handshake piece Let me give you my ideas on how to do a great handshake, especially at an interview I would give the other person the upper hand Which means they get to put their hand on top of mine What I don't want to do is make sure I take the upper hand on them because chase I can see in his eyes there is already going I hate this guy. I hate this guy. It's already there, isn't it? But when I give him the upper hand it feels good. He's got advantage over my hand He's got gravity on his side. The other thing I'm gonna do is step into it slightly So he has easy access into the vulnerable part of my body What I'm trying to do is make chase feel confident make my interviewer feel confident Because their feeling of confidence will be projected onto me. They'll be confident in me You know mark one thing I would say is something you just did there is important Yeah, did not step in straight to it. No way because that's confrontation Yeah, and that confrontation will make the person uncomfortable on a level and they won't understand why but it's not good for you Yeah, and one thing you said it begins in the in the parking lot One thing that I would advise it if you're going to a job interview or anything is think about the difference between Performing and connecting and those two mindsets instead of this job interview is something like a costume that I'm putting on for this How can I become the type of person and just live that life off camera? Nobody's looking up to the weeks before this job interview. I'm still that person so that when I'm in that room I'm connecting instead of performing. All right. Let me add let me add to that There's a thing called the instantaneous impression study go look that up though in the goo because that talks about in other words How you need to have a good resting face a pleasant resting face what marks talked about when you're in the parking lot when you show up You don't think anybody's watching it. They could be watching it from the window They could be getting out of their car at the same time you are and you don't know the person This could be the person you're meeting with so you need to have a pleasant look on your face because that first Six to nine seconds that they meet you or see you before they meet you That's when their brain makes up a decision about whether they're gonna like you or not or how much they're gonna like you or not So it's important practice in the mirror look in there and you get a Pleasant little look on your face not again not so you look like you're crazy But so you look pleasant like somebody you want to hang around with and keep that I when you get the water fountain do that when you're sitting there in the waiting room do that have a pleasant look on your face Yeah, the thing I would like to bring up and for us to discuss like I've done hundreds of job interviews quite literally I was a corporate guy forever and one of the systems they use is something called targeted selection It's used all around America outside of America and there are other versions of it too where they say Tell me about one time when you did X That is a trap that is a very deadly trap for most people because they if they're not prepared for that They suddenly go into fight or flight and they go. I don't know how to do this. Let me give you a couple of things Nobody is so insidious is to try to trap you they're trying to find out whether you have the capability to do what they need You to do so the first thing is get control chase You called it turning nervous into energy or into excitement take control of that fight or flight curl your toes in your shoes Do something under the table so that you're controlling the thinking brain and bringing it back online and then think about What is it? Possibly they're trying to reach for with this question and if you don't have an example Just take a few questions a few sentences a few words and Side-step and make it about the topic not about the exact activity and say the closest I have to that is Just practicing the closest I have to that is It's a stalling technique that we tell you we see and people are lying all the time But it's also a stalling technique in people who publicly speak They'll give you a chance to think and to reframe the question Let me add to that because you with that you know the closest I get to that is you're gonna have like a Who or a what or a when you're gonna have one of those w? Answers which are gonna be fact-based we would hope and they're gonna be things that happened What you want to do is then turn those things that happened into values into what was most valuable about that What was the outcome of that and then if you want to go to an even higher level? You take that value into what that says about you as a person So I may have worked in this division at this time What was most valuable about that is that I finished all those projects on time on budget and what that says about me is I'm somebody who is really dedicated to getting the work done in a way that's most helpful for the Organization so really I'm doing the work for the interviewer Turning the things that I've done into values and turning them into an understanding of who I am as a human In that situation I learned x which changed the way that I write forever. Yeah Another thing is when you before you answer these questions you've prepared you've prepared for like the one Greg was talking about the same thing. We're all talking about when they ask you something Don't just go blah and let it come out real quick act like you're thinking about for a second Just pause for a second and then because who wants an ant? I mean if they ask you what time it is tell what time it is don't go. Well, you know It's almost for 30 tell my town is but if it's not if it's something that's important Just pause for a second like you're thinking about it because it lets them think you're that you weren't Prepared for that question. You've thought about it and dang here it comes So well the last thing to remember in terms of that for me is if chase is gonna take the time to interview me I have value already based on something. He's seen.  That's my point. Let me add one more thing a brown nonverbal communication In fact, what I'm gonna do is go and grab a chair hold the stage for me for a moment Well, I go grab this chair here, which is probably a little bit little bit high But it'll it'll make the point I think is that what we tend to do when we sit down in an interview is get really close to the furniture You know and and we'll probably want to touch the furniture Some of us might hang on to the furniture like it's a fairground ride from of death What I want you to do is think about being your your stomach area or navel being a hand span away from the edge of the table That means the interviewer can see more of you When insufficient data we default to negative. So if I hide myself behind the table, they're going to default to negative ideas about me I want positive ideas around me So I'm just trying to show them more so I can give these truth-playing gestures open palm gestures at navel height Away from the table and they can see me. They're gonna trust me more. I'll stay sitting I got one last thing one last thing to remember is a job interview is a two-way street when you're interviewing for a job You're not just interviewing for you trying to persuade them to give you the job You're also listening to see if you really want to work there That's the key to remember and so you need to ask good questions when they're at the end Don't try to come up with that.  All right. That's it


Okay guys, we are back again with part two lake pigments now when you're making paint pigments lake pigments from my Understanding our pigments that are made for soaking something in water To extract the color from it then you drain off the chunky bits and you take the water and there's a Chemical process for pulling the color out of the water in layman's terms. I don't completely understand it I'm still working on Why you can get the color how you can get the color which things added to what the water give you what color? All of that stuff, but that's the basics So we are going to go back with the garbage weird flowers I found in my collection from part one and I put the rest of the flowers in my Blender because I do want to chop them up a little bit Before I put them in the jar So let's do that I do find that you can pull more color color out of the item Whether it's a fresh item or in this case a dried item if you chop it up a little bit first and you just keep it easy I either use this grinder if it's dry or I have another bigger blender thing I have used in the past for making paper that I got really cheap at the grocery outlet a discount grocery store and I'll for fresh things. I'll use that But whatever it is. I just find it's easier If I grind it up, I'm gonna whack this on the table to get the dry bits off the bottom Okay, again wear a mask when you're doing this because you will find smoke will come up and hit you in the face You don't want to breathe that in So I'm gonna put all of the Dry material in here at least as much of it as I can get in there without spilling it on the table Which I'm not Being very successful at doing Okay So I use these small five ounce jars because I don't want to make Necessarily a ton of pigment especially with the new things. I'm not sure what color. I'm gonna get if any So I always do a small batch and then if I find I get a really great color out of it And I really like it then I will go back and make more So now that I have the ground flowers in there I'm just gonna fill it up. This is distilled water You do want to be careful about using distilled water because it will help eliminate some bacteria and See, there's already some color in the water It's only been like two seconds and the water is already turning color. So that means we'll get something or we should get something So now I let this sit for at least a few hours, but usually overnight Before I go on to the next step That being said, I will say that you don't When you're doing this process, don't get your hopes up just because this is a pretty color of brown already Doesn't mean that that's the color you're gonna end up with or that it's gonna work Well, some of them for whatever reason work better than others some of them I Don't know if I'm just doing chemically something wrong, but I just end up pulling no color from for instance I have right next to me a failed one So we have these porch flowers verbinia I think that's what they are and they're purple and when I slate when I soaked them in some water The water was very very purple When I used them fresh I got this pretty green right here When I licked them and went through the whole process of soaking it and then in the next part I'll show you how what we do with this after I got this Which is in purple or green and Do you even see any color on there because I don't yeah, so I'm not sure That might just be a garbage So they don't all come out But in the meantime, we're gonna let this sit at least overnight and we'll come back to it And then I'll show you what else we do with that Okay, guys, I'm just coming on here because it's only been not even an hour and can you see the color of that water? so when you're laking your pigments if you get that a Color that's nice and dark like that. You're gonna get something out of the Laking process as far as pigment is concerned right now looking at this you would think it's gonna be brown But there's no guarantees I've done red roses like this the waters very red But when all is said and done because of the chemical reactions the pigment actually comes out actually a very pretty green So we'll just have to wait and see I am gonna go ahead and leave it set overnight even though I kind of want to see what it does now. We're not gonna do that. I'm gonna give it a shake Which is what I do now. You can of course Simmer these in hot water. I don't do that. I'm sure you'd get a different Color maybe maybe more pigment out of it if it was warm I never do that sometimes I warm up the distilled water and put it in there, but I Find I get Pigments just fine doing it this way. So that's just up to me. You guys should try it a couple of different ways and see what happens All right Enough of that. I'll be back for you guys in just a minute for me. I'll be tomorrow. I'll be back Hey guys, all right, so it's a few days later for me just a minute or second for you So this has been sitting for a couple of days To my surprise the water has turned nice dark brown. I didn't really expect that but cool. So once you've soaked your Usually botanical thing from that you want to make your paint pigment from If you're doing it my way for at least 24 hours Sometimes I just let it go until I kind of have forgotten about it and then I come back and drain it If you're simmering it on the stove Then you just simmer it for like an hour or so now I will say in my experience Simmering the item versus just leaving it in the jar and soak you get different colors with some Things some things you'll get the same color. It's just quicker to simmer it I have not found any issue so far with just putting it in a jar with like room temperature or warm water And just leaving it sit for a couple of days that being said if you're gonna try this you might want to try a Couple of different ways and see what way it works for you So, okay, so we are going to strain this in a fine mesh strainer over this large pot As soon as I get it open Someday. Oh, hold on. I got it. I had to use my handy-dandy tool to our opening tool Okay, so the first thing you want to do Once you're ready to make your like pigment out of it is we're gonna strain Off the chunky bits because you just want the colored water So we're gonna just pour it in here now sometimes I'll take the pulp and I'll put it in a cookie sheet on wax paper and set it aside for a few days and Let it dry out and use it as sort of an earth pigment that being said when you've had the pulp soaking in the water you usually get sort of a lighter color Of whatever this was gonna be originally, but sometimes it's interesting sometimes It just is an interesting texture to add to like acrylic paint for like a texture thing. So but in this case I'm just gonna let it go. Okay I need We'll use this. I'm just gonna kind of do this and make sure I've gotten all the water out Okay, this is trash So we're gonna dump that Okay, now we have this there are some like chunk like little bits of material floating in there But I'm okay with that I could probably run it through another strain with a coffee filter But and you might want to do that. I'm not going to Okay, so the next I'm going to add some Alam and again, this is five ounces of water So I add one teaspoon of alum now if I've taken the alum and dissolved it in water It's a one-to-one mix and then I will dissolve it in water and then I'll add two tables a teaspoons of that alum water to The pigment powder or pigment water There is some kind of chemical reaction that I don't really understand when I add the alum to the water that changes the color nine times out of ten Give it a good stir Make sure all the chunks are dissolved. That's why it's sometimes good to Dissolve the alum and water ahead because it's easier to Add it and get it dissolved once you're pretty sure it's dissolved Then you need a tablespoon and some baking soda or washing soda And a tablespoon of baking soda now if you again want to dissolve your baking soda in water before you do this it's one part baking soda to eight parts water and then do two tablespoons of that water mixture in This case we're going to just use the dry now You want a big container for this because this is going to bubble and foam up if you've added enough alum If it doesn't bubble and foam up add more alum because you haven't added enough See It should do that. That's exactly what it should do Give it a good stir. Make sure everything's dissolved There's something about the chemical process between the alum and the baking soda That allows the color in the water to grab on to the alum The baking soda makes it sink to the bottom And that becomes your pigment powder later. Now what you want to do is just let that sit now I let it sit for Minimum a couple hours sometimes overnight And then I will Do the next step.  You've let it dry for a couple of days. It will get hard and Then this is your pigment. So then You just carefully Using a palette knife That jingling is just hold on one second Turn off the sound on my phone and see if that helps. Okay So you use a flat edge of the palette knife carefully and just scrape the pigment from the coffee filter Now I don't usually bother grinding it Until I'm gonna use it But in this case, this is kind of a lot and so I'm going to Grind it because it'll fit in my container better. So hang on when you're grinding it like when you're doing earth pigments You want to remember to take precautions Wear our gloves wear a mask wear some eye protection I'm going to pour all of this into my grinder, which is the corner of your screen and again, this is just a mr. Coffee Coffee and spice grinder It doesn't say which one but this is one that does coarse medium or fine I always have it turned to fine because most of it on Put my mask up and grind oops after I turn the power on There we go. There's two things. I want to point out See how the texture of this is very flower like That's what you want on your pigment ideally to get a nice smooth paint out of it, but See the color of this that came out This is my failed one the verbinia, which obviously I didn't bother to grind too well Yeah, and this one has no color So I'm not super confident this one's gonna have any color either But I guess at some point before I decide to add it to the shelf I'll find out In the meantime, we're gonna set that one aside and I've got two more to do these are The Butterfly pea flowers that in their raw natural form give you a very nice pretty blue paint That blue right there. I Don't know what happens if you lake them So I did lake them and I guess we'll find out so let me let me do what I just did with the other one to these And I'll be right back. Hey, there's a small possibility. It was wrong about the pansy flowers but let's Test it out. No with some colors They do change It's a very pale yellow, but it is definitely yellow So I might have been wrong about that With some colors they change as they dry and You will find if you're gonna experiment with this as I think I've said before some like the Butterfly pea flower which if you use that ground flower again in the paint medium It's very blue if you extract the color from the flower in the laking process and then make paint from it It's a very pretty green. I mean I'm not mad about those colors. So yes, I'll be keeping the pansy pigment This is the one that I still think is a failure. I put some water in here It's been dry for a couple of days But I mean Can you see anything because I can't really I don't there's really not much there So I do think this particular one is a failure If I'm gonna keep one of these I'm gonna keep this one because that's actually a very pretty pale yellow Pastel yellow, but anyway, so I'll have to wash that one out and that's a failure But that's how it goes with some of these I'm having a lot of fun making pigments and Painting with them. This is a little Besides my notes that I've been keeping. This is a little small journal that I've been using with the paint if you Are somebody who knows more about making pigments than I do and you have some suggestions to improve what I'm doing or You know kind criticism about something I'm doing wrong Please let me know down in the comments below or send me a private message If you're in my Facebook group, you can tag me in a post over there If you try making your own pigments whether you just grind up things to put in a paint medium Or you try the laking process. I would love to see how your experiments turned out and what you're doing with them There are going to be some things that you want to make earth or lake pigments from but you have to grind them or dry them and Or dry them first like red onion now red onion in its natural form Gives I know it's a red onion, but I get this pretty green now anybody who's made dye at red onions knows if you simmer I'm you get a red color. I got this green color from just ground red onions powdered And added to the paint medium when I laked the red onions. I got brown. They're on here somewhere They're on here somewhere. Oh here red onion Now I haven't boiled the red onions and then laked the boiling water. That's red. I have this feeling I'd still get the brown because of the chemical reactions now What I do with things like red onion, especially food things is I will grind them and basically Puree them in a blender with no water or very little water Then I will spread them out thin in a cookie sheet on a piece of parchment paper And I'll put it in the oven at the lowest temperature for like three or four hours and really dried out Until it's crumbly and then come upstairs blend it with my grinder and then use that as either An earth pigment or use it to soak in water as a lake pigment. That works actually very well There's a video here on YouTube about salting Vegetables, I think that's what it's called. I'll find it and I'll put the link down below and I use his process for making pigments out of more food type things or even like the wild blackberries Things that are very like thick and juicy That aren't flowers with the flowers I also grind them up, but then I spread them out on a cookie sheet And I just leave them up here in the art room for a couple of days and they just dry out real easy But with more thick pulpy things I think you have to dehydrate them in the oven, but it does work very well. I have a Cumin this is the earth side. This is the lake side. You see the lake side It's got a lot of browns in it. Well, now it's gonna have this real pretty green and a yellow I have yet to have a blue or a red But I can use some of these with some of these and that works So and the turmeric this is another one so turmeric straight added to paint medium You get this dark yellow if you lake the turmeric and do the process. We just did you get this orange So anyway See what you can Come up with with this process where it leads you where you go and what kind of new art things you can come up with I'd love to see please share like share and subscribe Again tag me in a post on social media somewhere if you try this and or you have information to share with me I'd love to hear it and Above all have fun stay safe stay healthy stay creative go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later. Bye guys


Hello, this is Hans van der Kwas senior lecturer at IHH Delft Institute for Water Education. Somebody recently asked me on my YouTube channel if I could make a video on how to make a hypsometric curve in QGIS. This video will demonstrate how to do that. A hypsometric curve can be used to estimate the percentage of a study area that is above a certain elevation. For this task we need a catchment boundary polygon, we need a digital elevation model and I added here a hill shade just to get a nice visualization of the starting point of this demonstration. There are other videos that show how to delineate a catchment. The first step is to calculate the total catchment area. I go to the attribute table of the catchment polygon, toggle the editing and I go to the field calculator. I create a new output field name catch area which is a decimal and I keep it as 10 digits and 3 decimals and I use the dollar area function and there I have the catchment area in square meters and I save it. The next step is to divide our digital elevation model into classes and then for each class we will determine the area. The easy way to do that is to go to the styling panel, make sure that you have the actual numbers of minimum and maximum values in the DEM and you have chosen min max and there we switch it to discrete. Then you see that the classes are discrete boundaries and we change to equal interval and we choose the number of classes that we want. I just choose here 9, so we have 9 points later. I export this color file as a text file because I can use the numbers later to do the classification of the raster using a table. We can close the layer styling panel and open the processing toolbox. There is search for classification and I choose the reclassify by table tool. Now I open the classes.text file because I need those class boundaries to be used in the reclassification table. I click on the three dots to open the reclassification table and I add 9 rows for 9 classes. And now I'm going to copy the class boundary values. I use the lower boundaries as the reclassification value and I change the settings here as shown in the video and I save the output, let's call it the reclass and we run it and there we have our reclassified DEM. The next step is to polygonize these raster classes. So I can use vector geometry polygonize. The problem is if I use that one that it will only use the integer values and I don't have control on having the DEM numbers as float or as integer. So that's not what I need so I'm going to use the other one, raster pixels to polygons which preserves the data type. I change the field name to elevation and I save the output. Let's call it DEM classes and I run. This will take a long time. If you would have used the other method it's much quicker but then you will only have integer elevation values. Once it's done we can open the attribute table. They will take a lot of time because it generated a lot of polygons. So the next step is that we are going to dissolve. Go to vector, geo processing tools, dissolve. So it will make all the classes a unique polygon for which we can later calculate the area. Let's call it DEM classes dissolved, save it, run it, it will take a while. When it's done, if we check the attribute table then we see that for each elevation class we have one polygon. So the next step is to add the area. So create a new output field name, call it class area. We choose that it's a decimal number, real and we keep the defaults and then we add this function dollar area again to calculate the area for each polygon and it will use the map unit. So here we have the class areas for each elevation class in square meters. I'm going to copy the whole catchment area value because I need that to calculate the percentage. Go back to the field calculator and I call it percentage area, again a decimal number. Keep the field length and position as it was and then class area divided by the area of the polygon. I change here the comma to a dot, that's because of my language settings because it needs a dot here, times 100.0 to calculate the percentage and there is the percentage of each polygon. Let's save the attribute table. Next step is to export the attribute table to a CSV file. So go to export, save features as, make sure you choose CSV file and give it a file name, call it hypsometry dot CSV and I choose that it has no geometry because there are no coordinates in it and make sure to uncheck add saved file to map because we first going to edit this in a spreadsheet program. So open it with LibreOffice and those settings seem okay. So here it is, I'm going to sort the first column, there it is and then from high to low elevation and I add a column called cumulative where I'm going to calculate the cumulative percentages. So 2.126% is higher than 620 meters and then I'm going to add those percentages to get the cumulative values so it adds up to 100%. Save the file, use the CSV format and close LibreOffice and now I'm going to add the CSV file using the delimited text importer just to make sure that all the settings are okay. Use no geometry and there it's added as a table. Can open the table and there you see that all the values are there that we need to create our curve. Now to create a graph we can use the data plotly plugin, I install it. We open the data plotly plugin using the button. Make sure you choose scatter plot and the hypsometry table. For the X field we choose cumulative and the Y field is the elevation. Can change this to points and lines and then let's give it a title, hypsometric curve. You don't need a legend or the X label, cumulative area, percentage, elevation, meters above sea level and let's create the plot and there is the final result. Basically the plot shows the percentage of area above a certain elevation, so above zero is 100%, well above the others it's less. Hope you've enjoyed the video, if you like these videos please subscribe to my YouTube channel and if you want more free materials on GIS please have a look at IHC Delft Open Corsair at GISOpenCorsair.org.


We continue on today with chapter 13, release from guilt. You are accustomed to the notion that the mind can see the source of pain where it is not. The doubtful service of such displacement is to hide the real source of guilt and keep it from your awareness, the full perception that it is insane. Displacement always is maintained by the illusion that the source of guilt from which attention is diverted must be true and must be fearful or you would not have displaced the guilt onto what you believe to be less fearful. You are therefore willing to look upon all kinds of sources provided they are not the deeper source to which they bear no real relationship at all.  No real relationship can rest on guilt or even hold one spot of it to mar its purity. For all relationships that guilt has touched are used but to avoid the person and the guilt. What strange relationships you have made for this strange purpose and you forgot that real relationships are holy and cannot be used by you at all. They are used only by the Holy Spirit and it is that which makes them pure. If you displace your guilt upon them the Holy Spirit cannot use them. For by preempting for your own ends what you should have given him he cannot use it for your release. No one who would unite in any way with anyone for his individual salvation will find it in that strange relationship. It is not shared and so it is not real. In any union with a brother in which you seek to lay your guilt upon him or share it with him or perceive his own you will feel guilty. Nor will you find satisfaction and peace with him because your union with him is not real. You will see guilt in that relationship because you put it there. It is inevitable that those who suffer guilt will attempt to displace it because they do believe in it. Yet though they suffer they will not look within and let it go. They cannot know they love and cannot understand what loving is. Their main concern is to perceive the source of guilt outside themselves beyond their own control. When you maintain that you are guilty but the source of your guilt lies in the past you are not looking inward. The past is not in you. Your weird associations to it have no meaning in the present that you let them stand between you and your brothers with whom you find no real relationships at all. Can you expect to use your brothers as a means to quote solve the past and still to see them as they really are? Salvation is not found by those who use their brothers to resolve problems that are not there. You wanted not salvation in the past. Would you impose your idle wishes on the present and hope to find salvation now? Determine then to be not as you were. Use no relationship to hold you to the past but with each one each day be born again. A minute even less will be enough to free you from the past and give your mind in peace over to the atonement. When everyone is welcome to you as you would have yourself be welcome to your father you will see no guilt in you for you will have accepted the atonement which shown within you all the while you dreamed of guilt and would not look within and see it. As long as you believe that guilt is justified in any way in anyone whatever he may do you will not look within where you would always find atonement. The end of guilt will never come as long as you believe there is a reason for it for you must learn that guilt is always totally insane and has no reason. The Holy Spirit seeks not to dispel reality. If guilt were real atonement would not be the purpose of atonement is to dispel illusions not to establish them as real and then forgive them. The Holy Spirit does not keep illusions in your mind to frighten you and show them to you fearfully to demonstrate what he has saved you from. What he has saved you from is gone give no reality to guilt and see no reason for it. The Holy Spirit does what God would have him do and has always done so. He has seen separation but knows of union. He teaches healing but he also knows of creation. He would have you see and teach as he does and through him yet what he knows you do not know though it is yours. Now it has given you to heal and teach to make what will be now as yet it is not now. The Son of God believes that he has lost in guilt alone in the dark world where pain is pressing everywhere upon him from without. When he has looked within and seen the radiance there he will remember how much his father loves him. And it will seem incredible that he ever thought his father loved him not and looked upon him as condemned. The moment that you realize guilt is insane wholly unjustified and wholly without reason you will not fear to look upon the Atonement and accept it wholly. You who have been unmerciful to yourself do not remember your father's love and looking without mercy upon your brothers you do not remember how much you love him. Yet it is forever true. In shining peace within you is the perfect purity in which you were created. Fear not to look upon the lovely truth in you. Look through the cloud of guilt that dims your vision and look past darkness to the holy place where you will see the light. The altar to your father is as pure as he who raised it to himself. Nothing can keep from you what Christ would have you see. His will is like his father's and he offers mercy to every child of God as he would have you do. Release from guilt as you would be released. There is another way to look within and see the light of love. Shining as steadily and as surely as God himself has always loved his son and as his son loves him. There is no fear in love for love is guiltless. You who have always loved your father can have no fear for any reason to look within and see your holiness. You cannot be as you believed you were. Your guilt is without reason because it is not in the mind of God where you are. And this is reason which the Holy Spirit would restore to you. He would remove only illusions. All else he would have you see. And in Christ's vision he would show you the perfect purity that is forever within God's son. You cannot enter into real relationships with any of God's sons unless you love them all unequally. Love is not special. If you single out part of the sonship for your love you are imposing guilt on all your relationships and making them unreal. You can love only as God loves. Seek not to love unlike him for there is no love apart from his. Until you recognize that this is true you will have no idea what love is like. No one who condemns a brother can see himself as guiltless and in the peace of God. If he is guiltless and in the peace he sees it not. He is delusional and has not looked upon himself. To him I say, Behold the Son of God and look upon his purity and be still. In quiet look upon his holiness and offer thanks unto his Father that no guilt has ever touched him. No illusion that you have ever held against him has touched his innocence in any way. His shining purity wholly untouched by guilt and holy loving is bright within you. Let us look upon him together and love him for in love of him is your guiltlessness. But look upon yourself and gladness and appreciation for what you see will banish guilt forever. I thank you Father for the purity of your most holy Son whom you have created guiltless forever. Like you my faith and my belief are centered on what I treasure. The difference is that I love only what God loves with me. And because of this I treasure you beyond the value that you set on yourself even unto the worth that God has placed upon you. I love all that he created and all my faith and belief I offer unto it. My faith in you is strong, as strong as all the love I give my Father. My trust in you is without limit and without the fear that you will hear me not. I thank the Father for your loveliness and for the many gifts that you will let me offer to the Kingdom in honor of its wholeness that is of God. Praise be to you who make the Father one with his own Son. Alone we are all lowly but together we shine with brightness so intense that none of us alone can even think of it. Before the glorious radiance of the Kingdom guilt melts away and transformed into kindness will never more be what it was. Every reaction you experience will be so purified that it is fitting as a hymn of praise unto your Father. It is the only praise of him in what he has created for he will never cease his praise of you. United in this praise we stand before the gates of heaven where we will surely enter in our sinlessness. God loves you. Could I then lack faith in you and love him perfectly from the workbook? Lesson 103, God being love is also happiness. Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits being everywhere and therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet in the mind deny that this is so believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite. Fear is associated then with love and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. These images with no reality and truth bear witness to the fear of God forgetting being love. He must be joy. This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today and teach ourselves. God being love is also happiness. To fear him is to be afraid of joy. Begin your periods of practicing today with this association which corrects the false belief that God is fear. It also emphasizes happiness belongs to you because of what he is. Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. God being love it will be given you. Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day and quiet all your fears with this assurance kind and holy true. God being love is also happiness and it is happiness I seek today. I cannot fail because I seek the truth. God being love is also happiness. Today we would release from guilt forever. Today we will no longer project the source of guilt to be in people places things and circumstances. We will end this displacement by looking upon the source of guilt within and looking past it to the light. Guilt cannot be real for ourselves or for anyone.  And no real relationship can rest on guilt or even hold one spot of it to mar its purity. Today we will not avoid our brothers and sisters but look within the light and see the light in them. No longer is guilt attractive no longer will I maintain a hold on the past where the past is not inside. If I look within I will see the love and light of my eternal being. Today I will see that guilt is never justified in anyone whatever he or she may do. If I look within I will see the truth see the divine love and innocence. Now today it has given me to heal and to extend healing to all the world. I practice with the lesson today seeing that happiness is an attribute of love. God being love is also happiness. To fear him is to be afraid of joy. It is happiness that I seek today and I cannot fail because I seek the truth. God being love is also happiness. Amen.