Thank you. My name is Els and this is my colleague matt. We're both from the University of Bermートium so we haven't had very far to come today. So thank you for coming to this particular session, which is a workshop about accessible and inclusive practice. So what we'll do is, we'll talk a little bit about things that we've done, and we'll have an element of reflection and then we'll also see perhaps what you would like to do yourselves if there are ways that you could do similar things to what we've done. So what we've done is called the inclusive educator initiative and we'll talk a little bit about what that is, show you some of the content and then we'll talk about the impact that it's had at our university and what it's led to and that's what the accessible educator refers to. So as I said, we'll give you some examples and ask the question what you could be doing next. So first of all the aims and content of what we were trying to do. So what we wanted to do was have a means for educators to commit to inclusive practice. So it's different from let's have a training course on inclusion, we've got that it's compulsory and when people start the university they have to do it and it's very general but we work with academics and other staff at the university and we felt it was important to talk about inclusion specifically in the roles that people had without making them jump through a hoop and tick a box and say yeah I've done that I'm inclusive now it was about a commitment towards becoming more inclusive and so what we did is we created a voluntary resource sometimes we call it a course but it's not like here's a course you have to take this course so you can sign up for this course it's functions in many different ways it's a repository and it's a tool for communication we'll say a little bit more about that in a minute and so we wanted to use an existing platform so nothing new and something that was accessible at any time but crucially when we were talking to our provice chancellor of education at the time she was very keen that it needed to be done in 30 minutes or less and of course the reason for that is is if you package it as something that can be done in 30 minutes or less the very busy academics all around us might be more likely to engage with it and think oh I've got 30 minutes obviously the the aim is that they would come back to it that there would be some level of continued engagement with it but it was very much and I think that is part of its success package as something that you can do this in 30 minutes you know do you want to know a little bit more about it do you want to commit to this are you inclusive already or is there more that you want to learn that's what you can do so we also you can see there had a badge designed so again people could put that on their profiles online in their signatures and what have you so there was also a little sort of outward thing that people could show again to encourage perhaps other people to wonder about what it was and engage with it and so the design principles of this was that it needed to be realistic concise focused practical and I thought it was also very important that it would be enjoyable to some extent not some terrible thing that you felt oh I don't want to work through this also we wanted to make sure that everything in there was evidence based to give it credibility so that we're not going to say oh this is inclusive practice when actually we don't have the evidence to back that up and I already said we didn't want people to have to do this and tick it off but it would be part of an ongoing process as something that you could go back to as a commitment that you make rather than something that you tick off as oh I'm inclusive now and it needed to be comprehensive and address inclusion and enhanced representation of all underrepresented groups that's a big ask so obviously certainly in 30 minutes but it actually helps to have something very wide as the focus so that you could link to lots of resources and think about the types of groups that needed to be thought about and included but not sort of throw lots of information at people because they weren't going to take all that in at that point but that if they had a question they could come to it and find some answers about the particular students for example that they were thinking about and then very importantly the four things at the bottom we wanted it to encourage self-evaluation, generate as a bank of good practice but also promote continued discussion ownership of the resource and establish a community and promote collaboration so as I said we used an existing platform so we simply used the VLE which everybody was already familiar with and was very easy for us to put things on too so we kept it very very simple in that sense so I'll talk very briefly now about the impact that it's had on accessible and inclusive practice not that you can measure that very easily I'm not suggesting that for a moment but what we did see is that people did enroll themselves so there's a self-enrolling it was sent round it was university wide communication and also in specific targeted groups we did go and talk to departments about it and people did enroll themselves on it and then we got some people who are EDI champions in their departments who were telling other people about it and we started getting inquiries about could we make this compulsory we don't want to that's part of the whole ethos but we did embed it in our courses that were already existing the training for post graduates who teach and the pgc in higher education again it wasn't compulsory in the sense that they had to do that in order to pass their courses but it was part of the courses and we led them to it so that everybody who starts at the university knows that it exists and can come back to it as opposed to if you ask people did you do EDI training right when they started at induction they've forgotten because they just did it alongside lots of other things they had to do and it was very overwhelming and so the only challenges and this is this is something that we do keep thinking about or to keep spreading the word I mean can you put that information out again about this thing existing are people that are on that are enrolled or they're telling other people about it and obviously we want people to to come back and ensure that the resources are up to date is another thing that we need to make sure somebody's doing that and if something new comes out say from advanced HE about inclusion we make sure that it's posted and then added to the bank of resources so that people always have the latest information about whatever area of inclusion there is so it takes a little bit of time to maintain but not that much and it is because it's a BLE it has got this quick discussion platforms built in it's got quizzes built in so the interaction does come with it already so that's been really really useful welcome yeah and another example of the impact is that people we could see on the discussion boards that people started talking about particular themes that were of interest to them and one major theme that came out was accessibility as part of the whole talk about inclusion a lot of people were talking about how to make my materials more accessible which was part of the course but that's where the discussions very often went when people were talking about their practice or what they wanted to develop so we saw that and we thought okay I think there's perhaps a need for accessible educator I think that's how it went that's pretty much it isn't it I think yeah so as Elle said there's a lot of resources in the inclusive educator and conversations around accessibility but more and more of the discussion topics within the reflective discussion were around accessibility and digital accessibility and considerations and questions and observations around that and we've already got an extensive set of digital accessibility resources for staff in terms of technical guidance in terms of how to you know comply with the legislation those kind of things but we wanted something that was more practice driven and was more about approaches that you might take from a teaching practice perspective and that's where the accessible educator came along so exactly the same model as the inclusive educator the same kind of approach it's a 30-minute self-paced course it is primarily reflective it's about you thinking about your approach to your teaching rather than just kind of testing your knowledge and being bombarded with all the legislation and all the requirements around the web content accessibility guidelines and and all that kind of stuff that information is there and it's signposted if they want to find it we signpost backwards and forwards between our more technical guidance resources as well but what we have seen with both courses is that those are being referenced in HEA fellowship applications you know those are good providing good evidence and good context setting for staff as they're working through those fellowship applications so that they're having a real positive impact from that point of view both courses accessible education as well as inclusive educator are still self-enrol are still optional there's no mandatory element to them so we have to keep on doing that kind of awareness raising that knowledge raising those conversations with departments where perhaps departments are thinking about asking their staff to engage in those courses so there's kind of pushes intense period of activity perhaps and then perhaps activity drops off for a bit but we are seeing the badges on people's email signatures and those kind of things which is always it's always nice when you see those coming back to you so some examples then from the resources and this is the home page of the inclusive educator it's just on canvas we said it's just on our VLE it's deliberately simple and straightforward in terms of navigation as we say it's itself enrolled so there's a join button on the home page people can just access it anyway otherwise and kind of browse through but to properly engage with it you've got to join the course and it's divided into a number of areas in terms of what canvas calls modules and then discussions and a few other bits and pieces so this is the structure of our courses so you have an introduction a brief page or so of introduction that sets the context and the rationale for the course and the reason for asking people to engage with it we have a set of qualities in both courses that these are the qualities that an inclusive educator or an accessible educator would subscribe to in order to apply those qualities in their teaching we have a number of links out to other resources you know that those are the kind of the optional on top of the optional course if you like those are the things that make it take longer than 30 minutes but we have various kind of quick starts in terms of quick starts quick points that you can take on but more detailed information that you can engage in and then the kind of the the the meat of the course if you like are then two self-assessment quizzes and they're just reflective activities that colleagues work through in their own time in their own pace with no no right answer to them but just to allow you to reflect on both your attitudes and your actions in the area of discussion for the course both courses the the attitudes quizzes are really short there's seven questions in those and then there's there's 14 or 16 questions in the in the actions questions in the actions quiz elements as well and we're going to take you through some of those from both of the courses in a moment so you'll get a chance to sample those we then finish with a discussion element so the examples of inclusive practice that's a reflective discussion element that's an opportunity for colleagues to share with each other approaches that they're already taking perhaps to comment on approaches that other people are taking so a bit of a sharing of practice and we get you know really extensive good posts in there but also responses to posts as well so there's a good conversation happening within that that area and people picking up tips and approaches from each other as well as they work through none of this is marked or assessed we do go in and you know kind of review what the the discussions are like what kind of approach people are taking we will sometimes pop in and respond and add some encouraging words usually is is is my approach or I guess you do similar but that's essentially it essentially it's self-paced and it's standalone the final part that's not on that slide is that there's a commitment statement so there's a very simple I commit to being an inclusive educator I commit to being an accessible educator yes or no people hit yes by the time they've got that far through and that gets you the badge so you know you kind of make that commitment to yourself and progress through so I'm going to take you through self-assessment quizzes we're going to do this on Bevox if I can get that all working on here which hopefully can so let me just get that up for you so this is the first question but obviously you've got to get into Bevox first so I will just read that out because having watched some of the livestream yesterday sometimes quite hard to see it from anybody who's watching the livestream so you need to go to the to bevox.app and the id is 185-985-361 that's 185-985-361 I just obviously give you time to get in there and as I say there's no this to liberally set up so there's not a right answer in terms of the quiz it's about you being honest with yourself in terms of your approach and your your attitude so we'll start off with some of the attitude questions first of all so it's not a test no pass mark it's the engagement it's just that commitment at the end that's the pass mark there's just a couple more of you to respond I'll just give you a moment to do that I will just pop up the results because it's always interesting to see and so brilliant you've entered into the spirit of it which is great in terms of just being honest in your responses there and then we do provide some feedback so I need to just swap I'm going to have to jump a little bit around between the two things so I'll let you read the feedback I'm not going to read that out to you okay is everyone reasonably ready for me to move on so I will move on to a second oh I don't do that what's right Dory haven't it hello welcome with something some activities from courses that we offer um or or kind of self reflection activities if you like so so we're allowing people to have time to just reflect on those think about their answers okay so I'm going to flip flip back to the the feedback for that one just bear with me while I get down on the last slide forward then but this is one from our accessible educator course okay yeah okay feedback to that one spare with me how's that okay so those those are the examples of the the attitudes questions and then we move on to the actions one ones so again a few examples from both courses okay and these first for you don't have any feedback or comment associated with them so they're just just purely for you for yourself and then I'm just going to skip forward to the two from the accessible educator course okay and this one does have some feedback associated with it so just find that one for you I just wanted to add something about the decision to have two different types of quizzes and usually there's no feedback on the actions because the actions are statements that are based on good practice based on research so you know how I say it was evidence based these statements are statements of good practice it's sort of acknowledges that you might have good reason for not putting it into practice but it's actually saying these are actions you should be considering um whereas the other thing was more about reflecting and raising awareness of how inclusive am I ready what could I be doing the actions are like oh here are some things that we think we should be doing do you do that you could still then decide not to but it's sort of that distinction has been made and so that's why the first one has feedback to sort of say this is what we think might be going on whereas with the actions it's like here's a statement of good practice do you do that and so it makes people reflect but in different ways right I had to come out of those those polls now thank you for your your contributions and engagement in those um skip forward slightly okay so that was obviously quite a kind of a solo reflective factivity you're doing that work on your own um so here's the bit where you get to talk to each other now um you can just do that with the person next to you or you can do that as a larger table group however that kind of works for you but really focus on those first two questions we've got on there so what did you think about these types of questions um what do you think about the way that makes you think in terms of engaging with that resource um what about the the types of questions and the type of content of those questions as they were being asked and the type of feedback that you got from them as well what were your thoughts as you were engaging in those um and if you had any if you feel you want to kind of go a bit further and think about any strong personal response to any of the questions um or any other reactions feel free to have those conversations as well but really just focusing on those those first two bullet points um and if there is anybody watching online feel free to put that into the the Q&A section on Vvox and we'll come we'll come back and pick those up not going to ask every table to feedback not not particularly going to get feedback other than perhaps if if some people have things that they really strongly want to share with the group after your discussions we'll very happily take that um and share that with the room okay stood up for 10 10 minutes so 10 minutes yeah so that Just going to give you another couple of minutes. Ychwanegwch chi'n gwneud hynny'n gweithio gyda'r Llywodraeth Cymru a'r Llywodraeth Cymru a'r Llywodraeth Cymru a'r Llywodraeth Cymru. Ychwanegwch chi efo'r llwyddiadol y Llywodraeth Cymru a'r Llywodraeth Cymru efo'r Llywodraeth Cymru a'r Llywodraeth Cymru a'r Llywodraeth Cymru. o'r tych yn amlwy fawr, o'r cyfeirio dillwyddo, o'r cyfeirio'r pryd, o'r cyfeirio'r pryd. Mae'r pryd wedi bod yn r튼 nhw'n hun, o'n rhoi wedi eu cyfrannu i chi i unedau y bwysigau. Yn eich bwysigau, yna, mae'n bod yn ddod o'r amlwyddo. Mae'n ddysgu sicrhau iday i chi i chi i chi i chi i chi'i cael eu bwysigau. 이것 ond, sut ach 때ch laeth posie, a'r merch f Soundcast'y hyd fynd wedi eu rwyda chi mewn symh would. O erioedd arnell ar gyfry agaigus cyde, roedd mawr yn gwneud a chi'n d ffordd hwn ac mae'r eich cwyddiadau o hyfy o bobl yn sailu chi'n gant yw miliwn, we take your object differently, and in a way that kind of mirrors the approach we take in the course, you know, listen at the discussions we have in the, the course of discussion forums, you know, it really is just post or share something or reflection or any of those kinds of things, and in a way, that was what you're asking you to do here, although we're asking you to reflect on the questions and the approach there a little bit more perhaps to your own responses, but probably that thinking came in to it as well. So really, really very much focus around that Having said that, is there anybody that wants to share something or a thought that they were having or a response to those, the question types we asked you or the questions we've got up on the screen? Is there anybody who wants to share any of those things with the rest of the room? Yes, thank you. Some of the questions that we've been asked, going right to a minute or sort of went away with some of the information that we've been asking. Some of them we have to know that these questions were made up or… Look at these areas of… Look at these areas of… I don't know if it's just a bit particular to what you're saying, but I don't know if it's just thinking… Could you take that one to a third? I mean, I think that's a great idea. Can you just summarise that in the mind? Yeah, so just in terms of the question for anybody tuning in online stream was whether we thought about providing an action plan essentially. So, you know, if you answer particular answers, you then got a kind of a feedback of information that you can take away in action. Hopefully that summarises your question. Yeah, I think, I feel we did talk about that at some point. I think we were limited by the tool we had available to us at that point. So it would be nicer to do that in a more sophisticated way that you could provide it. What we're trying to do with the feedback there is to provide some of that kind of prompting and some of the feedback then signpost out to other resources. So there's a little bit of that, but I think that could go further. I have a question. So in terms of just the framework of the task, in terms of stating questions to educators, I worry that it may be a bit too passive per se and it doesn't force that introspection among educators. We were talking as a table of the scenarios and the questions that you both educators, what if it could be in terms of like a video, so like creating a video of what the questions would be like. The only problem is that when you sort of like take tasks like this and you just put like text on it, it could maybe seem a bit like it doesn't know you to probably engage with it. And maybe you'll see like sort of like video responses where like students had to select all that educators. They were like, it was an example of like, I think it was like the good students versus like the bad students, whether that was actually was portrayed as like a video. And then the question actually followed up for the response. And then I was just like thinking, the only problem with the questions I thought that does actually truly provide that introspection among the educators just because it's in the question of format. I feel like creating that video allows sort of like the educators to sort of see, am I actually guilty of these scenarios on screen rather than just sort of the question. I'd like to ask that to the room actually. What do people feel when they were going through the questions. I think it's a great question. Yeah, because you could provide those examples those kind of almost role play examples those those case studies. Yes. Deeply aware of the online folks. So I'm at the University of Minnesota and I was going to ask, did you use case studies and that gets to your point in some ways to we did this a 30 minute module required. I was on the task force when we went to the consultation groups students faculty administrators across five universities in the state. They all said we want to hear from students and we want case studies that play this out and we want to hear how the teachers responded in those cases and how the disability folks responded. And I think that was a big piece of why we got 3000 responses in a place that doesn't do that Minnesota the University of Minnesota is not known for compliance with mandatory programs, so I think that those cases and your questions with those cases, it made me think that we need more of those questions at the end, so thank you for that but the cases were great for the kinds of things that you're getting at and that they were student voices and they were diverse in their disabilities their backgrounds or experiences to I'll come back to something on that first. I would agree and I know videos are particularly popular case studies are very powerful. So if I were to develop this, I would definitely do that because I think there is something static about this even though it's reflective but there's two things there one is, because it's voluntary sign up and not mandatory. People don't they come to learn, or they come to share or both. We've sort of already got that audience in the first place so it's very unlikely that they'll look at the first questioning and the second question girl this is a bit boring. It's more likely they'll go through it and I think it comes to life on the discussions afterwards when people share their practice and respond to what they've read. That's when it comes more to life. If I was developing it, I would 100% on case studies and I certainly would want to liven it up with different formats in there as well. In the 30 minutes, I don't think it's achievable. And so you have to compromise somewhere. And somebody over there was saying how vital the 30 minutes when I think it depends on your context for us. The 30 minutes is the one principle we're not going to go away from. So that's it's a compromise somewhere. That's the one where I think I still feel like that's where we are, but I will give that some further thought because I think it's not impossible. There are some things we could do with that, but not to the extent that you have. And I think that would be a really valuable thing to do. But I think it becomes a different thing. And I certainly want to work on that. Doesn't it have to be a relationship? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I agree. Different formats, comic strip, as you just mentioned, would also be very effective. They are and I think they would work very well. But yeah, that's a future development one thing, if anything. Hi, thank you for sharing this. Our table had a couple of questions that are linked together. Firstly, are these quizzes anonymous? And if not, are you sort of gathering the data on the responses and seeing sort of what your staff are doing as a collective? The quizzes are anonymous. I'm not collecting the data because we're not giving enough context here. You know that question that says I have my reasons. They may be very good reasons. And so there's a huge conversation to be had there. So what we do is we have the conversation at the end where people can bring those things in. And occasionally somebody says that particular question. There's something wrong with the language or there's something wrong this bit. I felt it was a little bit patronising or something like that. So we have an open dialogue there about improving things, but we're not doing the stats. Sometimes people say, can you tell us how many people from the medical school have done this? Can you tell us that? That's the only thing we can actually say it widely, but they go, what about my department? We cannot tell you that. We ask them at the beginning to identify their school, but we don't go deeper than that. And it's very clear to the participants that this is not about that. I think the statistics would be interesting, but actually only if we could follow them up and get context. And so again, that would be a different piece of work. I think it might be different as well if it was mandatory, because I think then the institution will probably be asking us for that data in terms of benchmarking a point in time and then measuring change over that time in terms of those changes to those answers. But as we say, the course is optional self sign up. So, yeah, thankfully, we're not looking at that data and we're not sharing that. I'm following up from that question. Is the discussion anonymous as well? And do you scaffold that in any way or is it just, here's a discussion area, contributing example or reflect on the questions, how scaffolded and supported is the discussion? I'll just answer that briefly and then I'll come in. So the discussion is not anonymous, that is named in terms of those responses, but it's scaffolded in terms of share an element of your practice or comment on a post that somebody else has made. So you're not kind of required to share your expertise, particularly if you're thinking about digital accessibility, for example. Well, share something brilliant that you've done from an accessibility perspective. So actually we see a lot of people saying, well, you know, I'm going to really take that point away and think about that and maybe apply that to my practice. So it's much more reflective in that sense and responding to what else is there, but it's not anonymous. And I think that's why we have, we do have rich data, because one of the things is we noticed a lot of the discussions were about accessibility. So we felt there was a need to actually set up a resource to support people with that. So that was one example. But you know how many discussions you set up for people in your work, and sometimes people just post something and then they go away again. It's different here. It's the, I think one of the best things that I find about these resources is that we genuinely have a conversation across the campus, and I cannot imagine otherwise, because you know people do work in huge schools and they're in their own silos talking to the same people about the same things. But this actually goes across and it's fascinating to see how many people actually read it and sometimes people from the School of Education, who are very, very much clued up on some of these issues will post really long things and other people are finding it helpful and people there's a discussion. There's a place where people can connect to others and say, I can come and talk to you about X if you want just you know here's my details. That's where there's a rich data on what people actually choose to talk about what things they find interesting, what interaction we're getting, and who wants to do what and the cooperation that you get. So there's something definitely very rich there, which I expected, but I didn't expect it to be that amazing. It was one of those, we need to have that at the end. Yes, but actually that's where I think a lot of, you know, people can be on the 30 minutes there I think and put that time in and it's fabulous to read what good practice people are sharing across the whole campus. So yeah. I suggest we move on to some more questions for you, but again just pick up that conversation where you were because I think some of this and some of you might already have been there. And again it's just another opportunity for you to talk to each other and maybe raise some more questions at the end. And people online I don't know if anybody has used the platform but they can also put their questions on. So this is really about where you go next with this and I think some of you already do what we do or other things or in different ways so I would encourage you to keep sharing that. And also if equality, diversity and inclusion is not actually part of your official role. You know, and you're here. What is it? Are you trying to develop that? Are you wanting to develop that? Is that something we should all be doing within what we do? And so reflect on the ways you contribute to the development of resources on inclusivity. So this is Canvas because that is our platform. Does your VLE actually lend itself to work like this or do you need something else? And in terms of the design principles that we saw here, I think we've already been touching on that like some of the things we do is limited. I'd still argue it's because of the 30 minutes, but maybe we should be doing and thinking about doing other things as well. And I think that question about, you know, is it voluntary? Is it mandatory? Who delivers it? Where do they go? Should it be face to face? Well, all those sorts of things be interesting if you could pick up that conversation in your groups for the next 10 minutes or so. And then we'll just come back to see if there's any more questions, any more comments. And, you know, I'll just let you get back to taking that discussion a little bit further about the future. What's next for you? What is in the pipeline? We've actually got five minutes till the end of the session. So five minutes. Unless you want to stay and chat after the official end. We're here. Yeah. Roeddwn i eich cynhyrch, Roeddwn i eich cynhyrch ymlaen i ddeunydd. Roeddwn i eich cynhyrch. Roeddwn i eich cynhyrch ymlaen i ddeunydd i ddeunydd, ddim yn hadeithio. Roeddwn i eich cynhyrch roedd y ffordd a'r prifysgau i gyd yn y pethau. Roeddwn i eich cynhyrch roedd yn ei wneud a'r ffordd ymlaen i ddeunydd i'r ffordd a'r ffordd a'r ffordd a'r ffordd. ond ydw i'n gŵr eich oes wedi'i gychwyn ei gei'r rhagor a gawdd o'r drafodaeth, arcwyddo'i dweud arnyn nhw'n pesoedd gŵr. Wrth gwrs, mae'n rhan o'n ei dŵr haf, rhagor o'r dweud.  Ond, mae'n deunydd i mewn gwneud o gyda'r lle fydd yn gofio. Felly, roeddwn i'n gwaith wedi gweithio i fynd i ni yn mynd eu ddweud i mwyaf a gwych, ac mae'n gw onsiaidion, mae'n argynnu'n ddysgu i'r hefyd, ac mae'n gwaith yma'r cynyddo ei hunain o'r rhai mewn rwydytol. I think I have a nice insight in the three sentences of the topic, and I'm going to hand some of the sign for that. I'll just get it over there. Thank you. I'll be able to do it with you. I'll be able to do it with you. I'll be able to do it with you. I'm going to hand some of the sign for that. I'll be able to do it with you. I'll be able to do it with you. I'll be able to do it with you. I was going to say.... dwy'ch yrhaid. ddarlŷ! Felly, ddim yn gwleidio ddim yn gwleidio ddim yn gwleidio'n gwrthiol. Roeddwn i ddweud i ddryf i ddarlŷ, dyma wnaeth ymlaen. OK. We're out of time, unfortunately. So, if you want to go to lunch, lunch should be ready and you feel free to leave with no disrespect from us whatsoever, feel free to leave. If however you want to carry on talking or you want to talk to us, please do stay. I believe it totally in your hands. Other than to say, thank you very much for your engagement. It's been really, really interesting conversation, really both in terms of big group and also little conversations going on on the tables as well. It's really, really interesting for us and useful for us to share this and get your feedback and gives us further thoughts about how we might develop further and different elements that might come in or other approaches that we might want to take. We're also thinking about putting together or are putting together in one of our areas of one of our faculties, a kind of a face-to-face version of this of the course and actually thinking about how to do accessible educator as a face-to-face version is quite a challenge in many respects. And so this is going to really help towards that. Not that you were in any way a guinea pig set for that. That wasn't the aim, but actually this is just a kind of a convenient connection of events that this might feed into that. Thank you very much for all your thoughts and input and we'll be here to answer any more questions or continue the conversation.


Okay, welcome back to the second lecture, to our second class on conquest of our mind. We've been looking at how do we ensure that we keep our minds well and healthy and stable as we go through life. And the first point that we looked of was taking every thought captive. And we have a question by Abraham. He asked with the temptation of Jesus, did he open the door to the enemy? So the question I think what is being asked is, you know, Jesus was tempted as we are, then why did he even have to go through this? Why did Jesus have to be tempted? So here's maybe just bring about one or two scriptures as I'm answering this. So when we look at Hebrews chapter 2 verse 17, I'm just picking up that verse and just reading it for us. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 17, it says, therefore in all things he had to be made like his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make propitiation for the sins of the people. So it was necessary for Jesus to be in every respect like you and me, so that he could be our high priest before God, since he had also gone through the same temptation and suffering he's able to help us when we are being tempted. So this is something Christ wished to be tempted so that you and I could be strengthened in our temptation, because Christ was one without sin and able to keep away, but in order for us as a warning for us that, you know, all we did, regardless of how safe or of how holy we feel, we are all against temptation. That's what Christ wanted to show as an example to teach us how to battle against that temptation and also to be confident to be in that mercy and to also show us a way out of that temptation. So he permitted that so that you and I could, number one, so that he could see us in our temptation, know what we go through and also give us a way to walk out of it. So that's something that Christ wished and willfully did, so that you and I would have an example to follow on how to battle against that temptation and what is it that we do to keep away and to resist the enemy by the word. Ibrahim, I hope that answered your question. Yes, madam. Thank you so much. First up. Oh, sorry. Was I my, my, could you all hear me? Yes, ma'am. Okay, great. All right. Okay. So let's, let's move on to, I think before we move into this, the second and the third point, let's just quickly go back to what we were, what we were looking at is anybody would like to, you know, bring up any kind of an example that, that you have decided that, you know, there are, there are these thoughts that are there and, you know, just taking what we learned right now, taking those thoughts to captivity. Anybody wants anything to share? Anyone would like to share anything before we move on. Okay. All right. So I think we'll, we'll go forward. The next, the next point that we're looking at of when we're conquering the mind is, you know, something that we've heard over and over and over again. It is to renew our minds. It is to come to a place of transforming the mind. So in order to combat or conquer these things in our mind, we need to keep our mind holy and come to a place of constant renewing of it. And I just want to, let's, let's just look at about, you know, what are our natural minds and what, you know, where is it, but what, what is it by default? What, what does scripture talk about our minds by default? And for this, I just like to read Romans chapter eight versus five onwards. Okay. Romans eight versus five onwards. Okay. So I'm just going to read that. If you have your Bibles, you could open that alongside with me to understand what the mind is about and why is it needed that we continually come to a place of renewing it? Okay. Romans eight verse five for those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit, the things of the spirit for to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritual minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then those who are in the flesh cannot please God, but you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If indeed the spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he is not his. So when we, when we're looking at two of minds here, we're talking about one is the carnal mind and one is the Bible talks about man have a carnal mind till we are a new creation. And then we continue to be in a place of progressive, progressively satisfying that so that we become more and more like Christ. So when you look at these that that entire few verses, it gives you a description of what the mind is. The carnal mind is a mind that does things that that are in error or are have desires that are wrong. It is a mind that desires the things of the flesh, the things that are carnal, the things that are fleshly. It is more geared to to to enjoying things of the world as it says in in Romans chapter eight verse five, it says for those who live according to the flesh, set their minds on things of the flesh. So we see that the carnal mind desires things that are fleshly, desires things that are of the world. It talks of how the carnal mind is an enmity with God or enmity with the ways and the thoughts and the desires of God and it resists all what God has it resists the ways and the thoughts of God and it cannot and it does not want to come in subject to what what God's word says or subject to the law of God is and it says nor indeed can be it is not in a place where it can be the carnal mind is not just an enmity against God. It cannot be subject. It cannot be made in obedience to the law of God and that's why we need to have those renewed minds. A carnal mind is the mind that cannot please God Romans eight verse eight. So then those who are in the flesh cannot please God that is a place a carnal mind is is not in a position to please God. A carnal mind it brings about death. We see that in Romans eight verse six it says the car the carnal mind it for to be carnal mind it is death whereas spiritual being spiritual minded has life and peace. A carnal mind makes a believer indulge in many things that are not of the spirit. It is of a worldly nature and we see that in in verse first Corinthians chapter three verse three it says for where there is envy strife and divisions among you are you not carnal right and you're behaving like mere men. So this is the description of the mind of being carnaly minded of being fleshly minded. And so as a believer we are called to renew our mind. So remember we did say that when we are saved we are saved in our spirits but it requires a renewing of the mind to move it from a place of being carnal to a place of being renewed and and we see that in scripture Romans chapter 12 verses one and two and let's read that together let's just let's just read it I'm just going to pick it up from from another you know another translation and this is again NLT. So it says Romans 12 verse 12 one and two so dear brothers and sisters I plead with you to give your bodies to God let them be a living and holy sacrifice the kind he will accept when you think of what he has done for you is this too much to ask. So verse two don't copy the behavior behavior and customs of this world but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. So renewal is is what what it talks about is changing the way one thinks it is renewing it is being transformed being changed in entirety in its ideals in its attitudes so that so that you can prove sorry don't copy the behavior and customs of this world but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think then you will know what God wants you to do and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is. So when we are renewing our minds what we are doing is we are letting go of all that is fleshly letting go of all that is carnal the way that we originally carnaly think the thoughts that we have and having the word of God taking on God's ways and God's thoughts scripture very emphatically says in Isaiah 557 to 11 it says the unrighteous man has his thoughts and those who are unrighteous or those the wicked man whose thoughts are unrighteous let him return to the Lord and God will have mercy on him and God says in verse 8 the Lord says for my thoughts are not your thoughts nor are your ways my ways for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts for as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven and do not return there but water the earth and make it bring forth and bud then that it may give seed to the to the sower and bread to the eater so shall my word be that goes forth from my my mouth it shall not return to me void but it shall accomplish what I please and prosper in the thing which I sent it so what does it do so first of all we understand that that it it needs a renewal and when there is a renewal what is it what does it do it undergoes a transformation and how does it how does our minds undergo transformation only through the word of God our our thoughts are renewed only through the word of God being transformed through the word of God and it you know the the the notes actually gives you and it says it undergoes a metamorphosis metamorphosis which is it undergoes a complete change the transformation that is seen like how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly the kind of renewal that takes place is something that was different you know if you if you look at the way that that a caterpillar evolves the pupa is is is the way that it is but then when it is being transformed it comes out as something beautiful it comes out as something completely changed and completely transformed which is what Romans 8 6 is talking Romans 8 that what we read is talking about to be having a spirit filled mind to be having a spiritual mind is to have a renewed mind because that's what leads to life and peace so we are called to live that mind which is renewed so a renewed mind cannot be seen akin to the carnal mind because a renewed mind is a mind that is able to keep away every thought that is not an alignment to God's word or every idea that is not an alignment to the will of God so a renewed mind is a mind that is being trans that is transformed that that it changes so what is the content of what should the content of a renewed mind be we saw the content of the carnal mind the content of the carnal mind is death the content of the carnal mind is is that which does not please God the content of the carnal mind are those whose thoughts and the ways resist God who's not subject to what God's word says it is it is the carnal mind is that which desires the wrong things so we see the description of the carnal mind but what is the description of the renewed mind for that let's turn to Philippians chapter four verse eight so it says finally brethren whatever things are true whatever things are noble whatever things are just whatever things are pure things are lowly lovely whatever things are a good report if there is any virtue anything praise worthy meditate on these things this is what the renewing renewed mind looks like it is a mind that things in accordance to truth in nobility in just in that which is pure that which is lovely that which is good report so all of that is what a renewed mind looks at and to come to a place of being renewed and we are called to do that and that's one of the biggest ways of how we learn to conquer our minds is being in a place of renewing the mind so if you look at it in progression knowing that there are thoughts that you may need to to bring to captive captivity and in to the obedience of Christ and then renewing it now you know a simple way of learning how to renew your mind is number one is to recognize what are these thoughts what are the thoughts that are in disobedience to God so recognizing it and you know the next is to if we could if we could just use a word like either replacing or reframing your thought into God's word into into God's God's thoughts so recognizing it you know taking it into captive okay and then reframing reframing those thoughts into what God wants you to think about so the earlier on we did that exercise of understanding what are those thoughts that we need to take captive that we need to pin out that we need to bring out now it is to saying what how can I reframe how can I replay how can I renew this by God's word so that you know my thoughts are pure my thoughts are true my thoughts are worthy my thought as my thought is of good report okay so the same thought that you had last you know in the last couple of minutes we kind of wrote that down the same thought that you had now reframe it renew it use God's word to display something that that is that is that is not an obedience to God so you know maybe we'll just take a couple of minutes to complete that and say okay this is what I have got it I have recognized it now I want to replace it I want to reframe it to renew my mind so just take maybe three or four minutes to maybe write down what is it what are the words or what are the thoughts that you are going to bring about so that you can continue to renew your mind so that you know you have that that experience of transformation as you do that okay couple of minutes maybe three four minutes to do that yes Christopher I think you have a question yes pastor I just wanted to uh confirm what it's actually you want us to do um so the first part was having the thought that may have made uh having those thoughts made captive so that would be now we are you know skipping it uh you know uh kept kept now you know bound basically yeah and then in this in this stage we are talking but renewing the mind so are you talking about replacing it with something else so based on what God yes wants to yes yes or how do we do that I mean in the scripture scripture so we need to find the scripture or it would be good if you can find scripture to help you to renew that part of a thought that you would have like let's say the thought is maybe it is about something to do with your with your children okay the thought of maybe they would I'm telling you that is because this is something that you know that that did come up in a discussion in the morning about um maybe uh about how they're they're doing or how you know what will come out of their lives and I found a you know I I found a scripture saying you know we do not bear our children in um uh in captivity but they are called the blessed of the Lord they are descendants of the Lord right so so just declaring that is renewing your mind so if you can find a scripture that would be wonderful because the word of God is living and active and that's what brings about you know as as you read in in you know just a couple of verses that it will do what it was sent forth for it will accomplish what it was sent forth for so scripture is definitely the place to go okay we'll move on to the last last point that we have here is so we've we've learned about taking the thought our thoughts captive we've learned about renewing our minds and now it is to develop a positive mindset it is to continuously being in a place where you have uh um and a positive or optimistic or a spirit filled mindset now when when you know to to understand that God just as much as he's interested in everything in our lives you know the Lord is is more than interested in how we think and uh you know the verse that talks about in Psalm 139 1 and 2 it says you have searched me and known me you know my sitting down my rising rising up and you know my thoughts from far off right so uh God wants or desires that we have a better attitude or a better lifestyle of thinking because um uh a lot of what we think impacts us as as we have as we had spoken about and uh you know when we are when when we are developing a mindset but what is a mindset a mindset is something that you carry throughout it's not like for position or for uh uh you know pockets of time but it's something that you carry out so every time you have thoughts coming to your mind you're either you're either building like a negative a negative um empire or you're building a positive empire depending on what are the kind of thoughts that you are engaging in okay so it is to discipline yourself and be in a state of positively always thinking about about things that are that are good and true and noble like we said the renewed renewed mind right things that are good lovely good report noble just all of that so uh positively using scripture to combat any thought that comes about so this means that you know we were always on alert we're always in a place of being like a century trying to watch out for what those thoughts are and I think that is that is what we are called to do to be able to have a mindset a positive mindset because in every situation when we're saying we to build a positive mindset it's not some psychology uh pop psychology that throwing up it is to say that we look at everything through the eyes of God through the promises of God through based on who God is so even in a situation that that may seem most unlikely positive we look at it in the way that God has seen it we look at it that even um you know as uh Romans 8 26 I think it says um all things work together for good to them that love the Lord so even at a place where there is something that is negative we we receive it as you know all things will work together for good to them that love the Lord so so seeing it in through a positive light and certain examples that we can bring about is you know in numbers 13 where the about the 12 spies where Joshua sends about sends the spies um to go look up the the land of Canaan now all these spies were sent to the to the land and all of them all the 12 of them saw the giants right including Joshua and Caleb and the and the rest of the 10 um uh they saw the giants but 10 of them how did they see it you know they saw themselves as grass hoppers before the giants and were immediately they were immediately frightened and they immediately said you know this is uh this is not a place that we should go or we will we will lose the battle but you know if you look at it interestingly the other two Joshua and Caleb saw the giants as bread that are ready to be eaten what did they see they saw victory so they had already won the battle the minute that they saw it so the way that they saw it the way that they perceived it was one saw it as a problem and the other saw it as uh you know as something that was victory and they they began they saw things as the way god has seen it so when we um when we speak positively we speak into our lives but when we think negative or when we speak negative we can begin to feel defeated even before we have entered into the place of war or entered into that place of battle so we are to learn to look at things from the point of the way god sees it and another example is um is the way that Abraham you know he is called out uh in in Genesis 15 he's called out and shown by god he's he shows Abraham shows god and sorry god shows Abraham the the stars and says you know look up to the heavens and count the stars and number them see if you are able to number them okay so what does uh what does Abraham do you know he goes out and and god gives him a a picture he gives him something to visualize and uh he he's he begins to visualize and say and say you know this is as much as what your descendants will be like for a man who didn't even have a son out of out as a promise right he goes to visualize and he sees the promises of god and he begins to see that as a reality so we are also called to think in the way that god thinks to understand number one to see the way that god thinks god the way that god thinks is not small and concealed and little and uh limited the way that he sees it is huge is big it is it has a lot of details in it it has it has many things in it and that's that's how we are called to think the way that god thinks god also you know if we look in um uh Jeremiah uh Jeremiah 29 11 11 it says god thinks about a good future things that are not yet seen he says that's what's going to come or you know at the time that he speaks to Abraham um god god tells Abraham that you know he he's he promises Abraham to bring life into into a dead situation and for 25 years uh Abraham waits for that promise so god calls things that that has never been to come to fruition to come to an existence so that's what that's how we are called to think to have that sense of a positive attitude to be able to align all of our thinking to the way god thinks to align ourselves to the way god um god's word says to align our thinking uh into maybe visions and dreams and ideas that the holy spirit may be may be bringing into our lives and to completely eliminate all that is that's that's negative because that's the hope that we have been called for you know we keeping our hopes alive the anticipation of what is to come of knowing that when we have entrusted whatever it is into god's hand he makes things much greater much larger for us and uh you know as we read that scripture in Ephesians 3 20 it says he is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that you and I can ask or think according to the power that works in us so when we are in the midst of his presence in the midst of that power the lord can do much more than what we can ask or think even better than whatever we can imagine and whatever we can we can think think of so we are to be completely strong and completely persuaded in our minds to know that whatever god has uh has shown to us that's what we are going to be receiving okay so developing that positive mindset is what we are called to do so here we've completed um how do we how do we come to a place of being at a place of conquering our minds is one taking every thought captive bringing it to the obedience of Christ renewing our minds on a regular uh basis with the word of god and developing a healthy mindset by continuously by keeping our minds and our hopes on seeing things through the lens of god's promises through god's word amen okay um we have a good 15 to 20 minutes available for us uh either we can open this up for questions or or any kind of a sharing um that maybe things that you have done or or the way that you have you know done this in your personal life I think will really help and encourage one because I have a story which I'd like to bring up and maybe something I'd like it to be open to anybody who'd like to share who's built through this journey or who are uh in this journey as well okay yes mangi I think there's a question that you have or a share yes pastor uh see this similar question that I the what I had earlier I brought earlier um in many churches especially in in black churches and also um Indian churches also uh people put more if they focus more on like on the devil not not like they are focused on the especially on the devil but also they put more they give uh they cast out devil most of the time and and from what what we've learned today that temptations and temptations temptation begins in us because of what we see what we think what we we hear and how my question is how much should we how much time should we spend on casting out the devil and speaking about enemy instead of focusing on improving our our souls our relationship with God and spending time in prayer because I find most of the time it's devil this devil that's devil this devil that and then we forget that we've got the responsibility and we can yeah okay thank you pastor thank you mangi I think that's a that's a great question at mangi's question was we see that a lot of times we people churches lay a lot of emphasis on the devil on what he does and casting out rather than rather than immersing ourselves on building our relationship and ourselves in God and I think there in itself lies the answer do not give the devil more importance than he needs so it says resist the devil and I would would say it as you know even in the literal sense of it once you have identified maybe things open doors what we are you know where we may be engaging in working with the enemy to being able to cast out to being able to rebuke to pull down all of his works that is sufficient there and to park that and work on building our relationship with God because it is not so so I think I want to answer this in this way it's not just about not only about identifying what the enemy does and you know doing rebuking all of that that is in our authority that's what we are called to do but at the same time we have to still build our muscle you know our spiritual muscle and that happens only when we continue to meditate on God's word pray read scripture come to a place of edifying ourselves learning from it it's like this you know you go to the if you if you you know take a physical example when you are faced with let's say let's say some kind of a illness or a disease right in order to fight it yes you may do all you know you may you may take your medicines and do all of that but you need to still build your physical self you need to build stamina you need to build immunity you need to build bone structure so that you are stronger to fight a disease that comes about so you don't pay too much attention about skirting the illness but you pay attention to building yourself up so that you know you're strong your your body learns to fight a germ or a or a bacteria that comes about so similarly identifying recognizing is important but keeping it at its place and not exalting the devil or the same or the evil one much more than the place that you give the Lord we are called to continuously you know pray at all I mean if you look at scripture there are so many things that say love the Lord your God at all times or pray I love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind constantly keep your relationship with God growing so yes the focus needs to be that and give the enemy the importance and the focus as it needs where it is where is it under your feet and not on the top of your head so yes the idea is to build your relationship with God more and more so that you build your immunity your stamina against the enemy not that you're spending too much of time figuring out how to how to recognize and keep the enemy at bay it is when the more that you build the the more that you stay in that we learned about that right sanctification when we are healing comes through very naturally sometimes when you're just in the word of God just meditating just worshiping just being in the presence of God in itself builds you up a lot more and gets you stronger so that's the place where we are called to be okay any other questions or any other thoughts or any sharing we have 10 minutes more so if anyone would like to share or bring up any thoughts you can take this time to do that if not we could just close with a word of prayer maybe one or two of us can pray that you know God helps us to keep our focus on on the way that we can I share yes Avni go ahead go ahead the Romans 12 1 and 2 has been Lord has been sending this verse very very often like probably on daily basis this comes to me in every situation when I find myself struggling and I find that I've actually entertained something that I shouldn't be and this word comes to me renew your mind and do not be confirmed to the pattern of the world because many times we see that those who are following the pattern of the world they sound better they look better than we who are struggling to walk in the narrow path and you know sometimes we start wondering what is happening like and especially like my my younger one my daughter she always says mama why are they not troubled as much as I'm troubled I pray and I'm still troubled and they are not troubled mama they are not following the word of God but they are all happy and I'm struggling so I always tell her read this Romans 12 the entire chapter is like a beautiful chapter for us to be strengthened to you know know that no matter how much we are being tried and trusted by the world and by our own self or by devil anywhere but the final word is from the Lord and what he has promised through his word no one can take away our fruit our portion our you know inheritance that we have in Christ so this word has even today morning Romans 12 when I just was talking to my niece and she was asking me something I said just I don't have time but you just go and read this Romans 12 and you'll be blessed and after that you were teaching on it I was so glad that Lord has been ministering to me through this word and especially ma'am you know when we were talking about like temptation I remember that many times we think in our own strength that we are on the right way and everything is fine with us and we are following God but you know as the sanctification as we have read is a progressive thing in our life and God knows Psalm 139 says he knows deep inside what is going on so even I was you know thinking of certain relationship with somebody that it's all okay and it's all going well but then in the process of sanctification I came across a season of my life where I realized that actually it wasn't that good but I bless God for teaching me through APC especially not only Bible college but through the church and all the teachings that we are receiving that by the renewing of my mind and by holding on to the word of God I've really seen the power of God working in my life and he has you know done that work in me which I needed to be you know be more forgiving be more rejoicing in the Lord be being more experiencing the victories that God gives in our situations where we feel defeated and you know delivers us from all kinds of self pity and and you know condemning ourselves living in guilt and condemnation so I've seen Lord doing this in my life day after day day after day day after day and it's a joy it's a joy understanding that what power is there in the word of God I mean people keep praying Lord humble me humble me humble me but when we say humble me we do not know what we have to go through through the refinance fire to be humble it's not just a prayer which you know surfaceially it is it looks good to pray that humble me but when we say humble me the process is as it says that when you are being disciplined by the Lord it may not seem good at that point of time but it will bring you to a place where you will not be ashamed anymore so personally I have really been blessed and I've understood that what the power word of God carries in our life and how we can hold on to it and truly experience the joy and victory that Jesus has provided on the cross that's my testimony man thank you so much thank you Avni for sharing that was that was so wonderful thank you yeah so I maybe I'll also quickly share and then I think we can close so something and so much so in the lines of what Avni was saying about you know this constant prayer of Lord surrender you know when we say surrender I keep telling myself you've got to be completely clear that when you're saying surrender it is laying down every right to to yourself and so when you when you pray the prayer it's a beautiful prayer to pray but like Avni was saying actually going through that place of surrender is is very hard yet what comes out as a result of that is so beautiful and so something so when we when we're looking at surrender and I think for me personally when I was looking at surrender it is surrendering all all of life's decisions that that we've I made making and will make because there is that sense of so maybe bring it out as an example there are there are certain things that you know maybe there are certain decisions you make for for your family because you know that that's that's what God would would like you to do but however the the kind of responses that come can be very very difficult at that point of time so that's that being in that place of surrender is actually completely lifting your hands and saying God I have no right to hold this anymore and I'm willing for you to take it to the extent that you would want to so that it will turn out to be something so beautiful so you know even for decisions that that we've had to make for different you know issues within the family sometimes it comes and it comes like condemnation especially when people condemn you for certain decisions you've made maybe it's within the home itself or within the family itself that there are condemning words that are condemning thoughts you know it's because this is something that you did or something that you and you go back to God and say Lord you know this was done I I know that you know this is as part of your will that we surrendered to this and did this but coming again that the thoughts the the scripture that says Romans 8 1 there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus and that becomes like a repeated you know word of God that that that I had to completely keep telling myself there's no condemnation whatever we've done or whatever the decisions we've made is going to come for out for his glory maybe you can't see it right now it's not evident at this time right now but it will come it's just looking at the promises of God and saying Lord I'm keeping away every kind of condemning thought that's generating within me that's being generated by the outside and knowing Lord that you will bring to to fruition what you have promised so yeah so that's so much in line with what what you said thank you Avni for sharing yes Louis I think you have you've raised your hand would you would you like to share your thoughts good morning ma'am good morning everyone um please this is not to um they get what anybody is saying but um is the word surrender the most accurate word we can use considering the fact Bible says we are not ourselves we have been bought by Christ so it means that ownership is is is Christ he owns us even though sometimes you want to want to want to give him the good and take the bad or give him the bad and take the good but he bought he bought us the way we are both good bad ugly everything so is the word surrender the right word to use or allow him be the owner of the property both the divinity the humanity and everything that that's why I'm trying to see if we can if it doesn't change the narrative of the discord okay all right thank you thank you for that yeah thank you right um I do see um Christopher you've added a question I'm going to keep this and maybe we could we could look at it next week problem romance 12 was three we can we can address this next week I'd keep it as a as a reminder to be addressed next week so could one of you just close with a word of prayer please and we could we could end today's session ma'am shall I pray go ahead Rupa please go ahead and before I pray adjust a small line to add ma'am um in the bible it says we we should humble ourselves but I went through a course called in image Christ image training there it is very uh specifically told we should never pray that God shall humble us we should humble ourselves give us God ask God to give us the strength to humble ourselves that is that is that just a small edition that's all ma'am I'll pray Father God we come to your presence Lord we have enjoyed your father spirit of the living God pouring out into our hearts your life the word of life through your servants master thank you for the teaching we are learning Father God please enable us to renew our mind each day as we dwell on your precious word Lord God Father we surrender ourselves humble ourselves under your mighty hand O Lord you have a plan and purpose for each one of us Lord God help us to be in tune with your purpose and Father grant us hearts that trust in your leadership in your authority your guidance your shepherding to embrace you in all that we do and say and walk master thank you Lord I see uh pastor trouble with the small cold father please send forth your word and heal her bless her efforts and all that she does for you Lord thank you for making her a blessing to us Lord God thank you for all our classmates that they all stand and learn together thank you for this experience Lord learning from each other thank you master in Jesus name amen thank you ma'am amen thank you Rufa thank you for being so sensitive to what you saw thank you God bless all thank you thank you thank you ma'am thank you ma'am bye bye


Hello, my name is Sandy. Today we will be exploring Roblox. Roblox is a free online game platform and game creation system. It allows users to program games and play games created by other users. Before we get started, don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell to enable notifications for our channel by clicking the logo during the video. Also, leave us a comment or check out our related videos by clicking the pop-up cards in the upper right corner. Here's how to get started with Roblox. Roblox is more than an online game. It's an educational tool where the opportunities for digital creativity are endless. You could even explore their website created just for the classroom. To access the site, go to education.roblox.com. This is where you will discover resources including lesson ideas, tutorials, and games that have been designed just for the classroom. There is even a list of educators who specialize in teaching through Roblox. As you can see, this list is global. To start using Roblox as a player, you first need to sign up for an account. And this is totally free. You could play games on Roblox through a variety of devices such as Mac, PC, Tablets, iOS, Android, Xbox Live, and even on Chromebook. In order to build games on Roblox, you have to download Studio, which I will talk about later. Roblox is ideal for students of all ages and participants under 13 do have safety limitations when they sign up. If you locate the username on the top menu, mine shows 13 plus. If I was signing up as a student who is younger than 13, it would have a different icon, indicating that I am under 13. And there are areas of Roblox that will not be available to me if I was. Once you sign up for your free account, you'll land on your profile page. And if for some reason you don't, all you have to do is go down to this menu, pull down to profile, and then it will bring you there. Here's where you'll find friends, followers, who are you following? You could write a little bit about yourself.  And it just comes by default. Everybody sort of looks different. If you would like to change what your avatar looks like, you click on avatar shop. And that's on the top menu. And then when you click on view all items, this will come down and it will say filters. And you go all the way down to where it says price. And instead of any price, you're just going to click the second selection and then type in zero, zero. And hit go. And then here are all the free options that you could download in your own personal collection. And this is where your students can personalize their avatars. Once you have personalized your avatar, you could jump right in to start playing. I recommend you start off by searching for an obby. This is short for obstacle course. And it is just that later in the video, I will demonstrate some basic tools in studio so that you will be able to start building your own obby game. When you search for obbies, you'll actually start putting it right here in the search bar. And I actually spelled it with an I. I think it's spelled with a Y. But I actually typed in easy afterwards. So it sort of picks up like some key words. And then you can tell how many people have voted on it and how many active players. So I'm going to choose this mega easy obby. When you click on the game you want to play. And in this case, it's the mega easy obby 700 stages. Here you'll find the description. You'll have a little bit about it. And then it will actually allow you to have a private server. Now the private server, if you want to do that with your students costs a little extra money. So that's something you would have to think about. But you would just hit the play button. You could also favorite, follow it, and you could vote on it here. But when you hit the play button, it actually begins the game. Once you get into your game, you will need to use the keyboard to navigate your character. So the D will turn the avatar one way. The A will turn it the other way. The W walks one way. And the S walks a different way. Also you need to know that your space bar is your jump. Another thing you need to know is that if you are using a mouse, that's going to be the best option to navigate through these games. Because the scroll on your mouse gives you a different viewpoint.  So you could see the whole game. If you do something wrong, like run into something, you technically fall apart. So once you get through one stage, it gives you some progress. Another thing you could do is if you actually run into things, you fall apart or you could actually fall off the entire platform. That's me falling apart and that's me falling off the platform.  Now that you've experienced a little bit of being a player of the game, let me show you a few little tips on how to start creating. What you're going to do is you're going to go to the create on your menu and then you'll come to this area here. When you hit start creating, it's going to check and see if you have Roblox. And if you have Roblox, which I already do, it will actually open up the program. When Roblox first launches, you'll see this page here. This page will show you your templates and it will also allow you to choose from different themes and some different gameplay themes. So when you go to all templates, we're going to start with the classic base plate. Once you open Roblox Studio, you should see this toolbox. This is where you get items to use. You'll see explorer. This is where you're going to actually be able to select parts of your buildings and edit them. And then you'll see properties. So each thing you select, the properties will expand below that. You will also be using these four tools, select, move, scale and rotate, along with using this part option to where you could bring in some different shapes. And of course there's a lot more to learn, but this is just a beginner's video. As you learn the basics, you could go on to do some more intricate things. So one thing I want you to do is resize your base plate. So you're going to go over here to workspace and make sure it's expanded and you're going to click on base plate and the properties will expand. And you're going to go down to find where it says size. You might have to expand size. You're going to click on the first number X and make that 20, make the Y2 and make the Z20. What this does is it makes it a much more reasonable size. And don't forget, if it kind of disappears, use your scroll wheel and use your right click. And you could also use this tool right here. This actually shows different parts of your picture. It kind of helps you scroll around. So now that you know how to change colors and change surface textures, we're going to create this as a spawn area where when you first enter a game, the avatar lands on it. In order to do that, go to where it says model and then click on spawn. And what that does is it brings the spawn tool right to your base plate. You're going to move it around. You're going to center it and there you have it. So this is going to be where the avatar lands.  And then it's going to show you my avatar landing right on the spawn plate. So in order to make your obstacle course a little more interesting, you might want to add some things to it. Like for example, over here are a bunch of different objects that people have made and they're free to use. So you literally can take drag and drop them. Now this is very large. I'm going to take that one out. It's very large. Let's find another one. There it is. Oh, I put a couple in. So here's my, here's my little art pieces and I can make them smaller. I can move them to where I want to move them, bring them closer to where we need to be. It's actually really, really far behind it. So now it's kind of like on my art piece. So you kind of like think about there. Here's my other ones that I put in here and you could delete them by just right-clicking and delete. So you can add other things into your obstacle course. And the other thing, and it's kind of cool because it actually makes shadows and everything like that. And those might even be interactive. I haven't even tried that yet. But in order to make the obstacle course for your piece is you're going to go in and you're going to, let's do the anchor on this little guy here, give him an anchor so he'll stay there. And then we're going to go and put a part in here and we're going to make a block. And we want the block to be, let's bring them out here to be exactly right next to it. We'll make it go a little bit lower maybe. And then you could also change the scale of it by doing that. And if you want to have a better idea of what it looks like, you can always use your right-click, kind of look at it from above. So when you click it, you have to anchor it or it will not show up. Now I'm going to hit play. And then here I have it. It's here with my first step. You use your W, use your spacebar. And I jumped right on top of my first step. I'm right barely on it, but I'm on it. So that's basically the basics of how all this works. And once you have finished making your game, you could actually publish it. You could share it with others. You can make a private and have some fun with it. Thanks for watching an episode of our Ori County Schools Teacher Vlog Series. Make sure to like, follow, and subscribe to all of our dear Diss social media pages.


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