So I'm on my way to pick up a couple of puppies that you've been watching Don't have a name quite yet for them, but we'll find out when we see them drove in from Sacramento, it's about a 10-hour drive from Sacramento to Salt Lake where we're picking up the dogs Two brothers, I think they might be from different letters, whatever doing their setters on the way coming up so been working on names and The tricolor guy I'm kind of leaning towards Floyd Always been a big Andy Griffith fan and Floyd the barber was always one of my favorite characters My wife Janelle will not go for goober Opie or Gomer Which are all very very good dog names So we'll see maybe Floyd won't look like a Floyd and I'll name him something else Oh There's dad No Hi, hi, are you guys? What are you doing?


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Hey, it's the last day of ISTI 2015 in Philadelphia, and there's one more set of poster sessions I'm going to be able to visit here. So we will take a look. This one's called Wander to Wander Hello. Oh, do you mind again? I'm the periscope guy now Okay, do you do you mind? Tell us about wondering. So this is our way that we introduce research to our students. We let them all kind of pick a topic. We all close our eyes, something you're curious about. And then we use the big six research model to introduce research skills and the research process to our students. And then everybody makes a product to show what they learned and then they share it with their peers. So we all become other wonders and adventure seekers and information seekers. And what grade? Elementary. This was a K5 project. We've done it with as low as kindergarten and then also our fifth graders and we scaffold the information. So the process that you use with your kindergartners is a lot different than what you do with fifth graders. And tell me about the big six. So big six is a research model built around the idea that you are learning a process you're going to use for any project that you do, but you're integrating the content. So you start with a task, what you want to know, then you find resources, you use them, and then you share, synthesize, and put everything together. What has been the most interesting wonder that a student has come up with? I love to think.  You let them pick that topic? So we explain that your topic, you might not find an exact answer to your topic. You might just find some information that would help you know more about that. So for example, if you pick something about the human body, you might just be learning about a body system and not actually how that works in your body. One last year we had a girl who wanted to know about mermaids or if mermaids were real. Why did cats land on their feet? Some of us, we did one about pop rocks. Why did pop rocks pop? We had a kid who explored that and he was able to find the answer. That was the fun one. What do they do for their answers? So what did he make for his pop rocks to show others? So we don't actually kind of different from a genius our idea. We don't actually make a product like a physical thing. They usually make a visual. So they make a movie. We use the app 30 hands sometimes or iMovie, some kind of presentation tool that they make a presentation. They usually use one. We kind of scaffold it down. They use one picture and they put their voice over it. So we're not into spending lots of time making our product. But they share and then we have a view what we call a viewing party and they give reviews to each other. They fill in stars and they kind of finish off with that idea. They've shared what they use. And do you have a page about this? Is that a s'more? All right. And is that... Where's the link for that? There's your Twitter. Oh, I bet there are people on Periscope who screenshot this stuff. So s'more.com slash one pcw1. So that's great. They love the idea of a viewing party. Yeah. So when we interview, you get hearts. So let's... Renee shared some really great things. Simple especially for primary grades. Hi. Look at all those. Oh, I feel famous. I've been on Periscope and everything. Great. Yeah. Good morning. It is morning. It's 11. It's still morning. It's been a weird day. Yeah. I will say that every kid can do research and every grade can do research and it's about teaching kids the right way to do things and then they become lifelong learners. They love your ideas. Hey, thanks. Feel free to visit us and have your kids wonder. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Have a great day. My name's Tony, not Periscope Guide, FYI. Oh, man. So then it's kind of my thing, I guess. So I bought yesterday because I saw a coupon code for GoDaddy for 99 cents. TonyScope.com. So it's not... No, I didn't, but maybe... No, I don't want to be none of that. My name's Tony. Thank you. Morning on the West Coast. Okay. Ten best apps. I don't see Stick Around on there. Darn. No, there are better apps than Stick Around for... Depends on your purpose, right? Oh, there's giant QR codes, but no link with them. So... Would you like TonyScope? Actually, I linked to that. I did a search and I found this site called QuickScope. And so that's what I've linked TonyScope.com to. And you can see archives and you can fast forward and rewind the replays, which you can't do with the regular Periscope. So it's kind of neat. It's not a Twitter sanctioned app or website, but it works for now. Yeah, that is pretty nice. All right. Well, I want to go to this other booth. I think this might be the best named booth. And there are some pretty good poster session names around here, but this one is called If These Walls Could Talk and Features Augmented Reality. I mean, it's a perfect name. And that's where you don't need a QR code. You need an app and maybe a subscription to a channel, but then no QR code. It just recognizes the picture as a trigger and layers information on top of it. So let's see if we can, if she doesn't mind having a microphone. Oh, you're back again. Okay. Famous now of her coming back. They came. I'm sorry, I got confused now. I'm so sorry.  So when we had the families come as a end of curriculum study to the celebration of what they did, the parents were able to log in with our class account and then see what they, their videos for their Egypt unit. But we did the same thing with our first grade. They did study parks. And so we had them create little trigger cards as well. So they were, when people came to see their video popped up of them talking about their park design and all that stuff. So these are just examples of what you could do with augmented reality in the elementary classroom. Yeah. Always your biggest surprise doing this with kids. How easy it was using the Erasmap app. We had kindergarten, we didn't have the Erasmap doing it by themselves, but the other grades were able to attach their trigger card to their video by themselves. And the way that the teachers actually grasped this was amazing. They really wanted to do it because it takes QR codes to another level. So it's not a QR code. It's taking student artwork as you can see on the table and then making it come to life. Awesome.  No, am I on there? Where am I? I didn't watch it. It's gone. They leave after 24 hours usually. Oh really? I try to put them on YouTube or something. Oh, I'll have to watch it. I'm going to look at some of your other triggers you have here. If you want to tell us about any of them, like where they go, that would be our first graders learned about the food chain and where their food comes from. So for homework one night, they had to draw a picture of what they had for dinner. And then in science class the next day, they used an app called Poplet where they showed a food chain of their food items broken down and where it comes from. Just in case people aren't familiar with Erasma, let's back up. When all you do, you don't push a button or anything. You just open Erasma and it recognizes that student's picture and knows to put the Poplet on top of it, the image. So with Erasma, there's actually a few steps. You have to create a class account first and then you log in the devices with the class account. And then when you're ready, you just upload a video to Erasma and then you have to have some sort of trigger card to attach that video or photo to. I love that your trigger cards here are kid drawings. That is super cute. Yeah. And I like that it mixes the physical with the digital because little kids need to draw. They need to draw on paper and this is neat. This is the second grade we have in two little cardboard collages of their shelters that they studied for shelters around the world. So this was actually instead of the standard kid drawn card, it was something like a mosaic piece of art. And they made them all themselves. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I'll do this middle one. And so the video that's popping up, we actually took the video to the next level. So instead of a standard video, we used a green screen backdrop using an app called Doink. And then the student in here, he's actually talking in Mandarin because we're in immersion school. So everything we do has a language component. So it's either going to be Spanish or Mandarin. So I should know this off the top of my head, but is Erasma available for Android? Yes, it is. And it's a free app. So then parents can come in with their phones. It doesn't matter if it's Android or iOS and get to scanning. Yep. We give them all of our account information. So when they come in to see their projects their student works on, they just bring any device that they have. And as long as they're logged into our private class accounts, they can see what their child's worked on. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you for sharing. One thing. I think you win the award for the best named poster session. Thank you. So if these walls could talk. I love it. I love it. Yeah. Follow her on Twitter. She's great stuff, great enthusiasm. Yeah. Let's see. Why doesn't it look out for ones that have student presenters? Oh, hello. Hello from the USA, from Pennsylvania. France, huh? So if you're from France, how did you find out about, how did you find this periscope when you're in France? Did you follow me already on Twitter? Did you just find it in the periscope app? Oh, it's Suzanne Sallie. I love her. She does really great work with iPads in her school district. Follow me on Twitter. Terrific. I love it. And she's from Phoenix, Arizona area. And has been really working with iPads for several years. So this one is about digital storytelling with movie trailers. Good morning, Suzanne. Do you, do you mind if I record you? All right. I've been watching your periscope videos that you haven't. Uh-huh. Terrific. Well, tell us, well, who you are and then show us around. Now, with what I do at the camera, sometimes I go to your name tag because people are always asking for Twitter and I'll pan around. Well, you've watched, so you know. All right. Well, I'm Suzanne Sallie. I'm the education technology specialist for the Creighton School District in Phoenix, Arizona. Not Mesa apparently. No, not Mesa. I live in Mesa. And so sometimes they seem to get that on my name tag. So we're just here talking about doing iMovie trailers using the iMovie app either on iPads or on Mac computers. And we have teachers using them as a way to introduce topics to their students, building a little background that hooked to get the kids engaged. But we also have students creating trailers for a variety of different ways. And this is really a good way to get students into creating movies without having to be overwhelmed by a lot of the editing tools. That's a completely scaffolded. Like they don't get to pick how long a clip is because Apple has picked it for them already. Well, and because they don't get to pick how long a clip is or how much text they can put in, it has to be short. I think it really helps the kids learn to be concise and not go on and on and on. But we've had kids do book trailers as either an alternative to a book report or an extension to a written book report. They've done biographies. So Abraham Lincoln, George Washington. We've seen it used in science. One of our teachers did a whole unit on storms. And at the end, this is how the kids showed their learning was they created trailers on storms and they get really creative in what they do. So what's been the most interesting topic that you've seen a student make a trailer about? Well, I think one of our storm trailers is really interesting because it was about tornadoes. And we're in Arizona. We don't have tornadoes. So it's a little dust devil thing. Yeah. Yeah, just those things. But these kids did in the middle of their trailer to kind of demonstrate a tornado. They took black butcher paper and wrapped a kid up in it. And the kid twirls around in there. So he's looking like a tornado. Yeah, so it's really cute. We have it. It's in there, but you'd have to find where it is. So yeah, go ahead and show us. What's your top tip for having students make movie trailers? Well, I think probably one of the top tips is you have to make sure to tell the kids to be very concise in what they're writing because we've seen kids go in and when they put in their text into the trailer. Yeah, they make it really long. And because it goes quick, you can't always, you don't always have time to read all the text. So I think that's one of the big things that our teachers have learned as well as the students. Is there a place where they can watch some of these trailers? You know, I haven't put them online, but I could because we have our project in our district for our mobile devices. It's called I Achieve and we have a website. You have great blog posts. I do have great blog posts and I just did a blog post about iMovie trailers, but I have a tab on our website that for ISTE 2015 that has a lot of our resources in there. Here's the tornado one. Okay, let's see if we get the one where the kids... What's the address of the blog while we... Oh, great. You're going to ask me that. It's in my feedly. I don't know. I don't know what the address is. Oh, well, I think you're asking somebody for phone numbers now. I think if you just looked up Suzanne's I Achieve Reflections because it's through blogger, so it's a blog spot. So it comes up. Yeah. Oh, there's our Abraham Lincoln biography. And if you've never done these movie trailers before, you see that, you know, they're really fast paced. They don't linger on one image at all, but that's what movie trailers do when you're in the theater.   This might not be the best choice, but a lot of the teachers are using them as a supplement to a written project. So the kids already wrote a biography about Abraham Lincoln and now they're going in and kind of extending their learning. And we always feel like multiple exposures to content is the way that our kids really learn and embed their thinking and their understanding. So this is one way... From even making my own trailers and what kids do too, is that we watch them. I do. We'll talk about that in a moment, but I watch my own trailers again and again. So even though I wrote it and put it together, it's fun to watch. And it turns, you know, something kind of ordinary, very exciting. Well, I've done some for my family. For my daughter-in-law for her birthday, I did one because I have a 21-month-old grandson. So I did one with pictures of my grandson. And then for Father's Day, my husband and my son, I made a different trailer for each of them with pictures of our family and kind of a story about our family. And it just became, I think, you know, one of the best presents that they had gotten. I don't think I have this online, but I really should do it.  And then we have, on video, the first time he rolled over for real and made that into a trailer.  And what great memories to keep for them to have, you know, when they get older. Well, and my son and daughter-in-law, they play these, the trailers over and over for my grandson. And he just laughs and he claps and he goes, more, more. So there's a question from Adam Jones. Hey, Adam, how do you get them over not understanding how to use iMovie? Well, yeah, the kids catch on fast. And the trailers are so simple. Yeah, it's different than a full on iMovie and trying to move clips around. Yeah, this is a good way to introduce them to that video editing. And then I think it's an easy transition into using the regular iMovie projects where they're creating a full length movie and doing the editing and all of that. So this one is just so easy. About cacti, right? You know you're from Arizona then. Yes. Well, we've actually used that when we've done some presentations and trainings with teachers. We have them, we introduce them to the trailers and we have them going and create one. And, you know, sometimes the hardest part about creating one is thinking of, what's my topic? How am I going to get all my images? What do I want to say? So I actually have a folder in Google Drive that I give the teachers a link to that has pictures that I've taken. So I tell them, copyright free. They have my permission to use them. And we give them a sheet with saguaro facts.  You presented that at mobile learning experience and Wes Fryer was talking to me about it the other day. He was so impressed with how you organize that. Oh, good. Well, thank you. That's quite an honor to know that he was impressed with that. Should have been burning. Okay, so let's look and see what you have on the board here. So there's, you have some steps on taking, on going through an iMovie trailer. So you got to choose a template and one that makes sense for your content, right? You know, there are different ones and a family one doesn't really make sense for, you know, for, for topics. Those are some thinkers. Yeah. And I think you also look at because these have music built into them. I think you also need to kind of listen to the music and go, is that music really appropriate for my movie? Yeah. And then do you kid storyboard? We'll talk about that in a moment, but there is no voiceover. So the words that are on the screen, you have to be really concise with because you don't get to talk over them. But if you put in a video clip, you can turn off the sound to the audio sound, the music soundtrack, so you can hear any audio that's in your video clip. There's, but there's such short clips. You know, it's really not meant for you to have, to have a voiceover. And then step, where, oh, step two is over here. Then step two. So, so iMovie trailers have a built-in script that you can kind of fill in when you, when you get started, when you customize, I guess, the outline. And then they have their own built-in storyboards. But where you add photos, and it doesn't, where it says landscape, you know, that you tap there and you can get to your photo library, or if you're on a Mac, you drag in there. But, and it tells you how many seconds long it would be. But you don't have to put a group photo and a two shot there. It can be anything you want. And so sometimes that, that's, kids have a hard time getting over that because you, and I do too, when I'm making my own trailer, I see, oh, landscape. I'm like, wait a second, it doesn't have to be landscape, but in my head, I think so. So what do you have over here? Well, I have over here, you know, we, we talk about, this is digital storytelling. And so we kind of take the kids through the steps of digital storytelling. And part of digital storytelling means the kids are going to create a storyboard themselves to kind of plan out their trailers. So I have a friend named Tony Vincent, who has names even on your, on your poster. That's cool. It is, who has created some storyboard templates for all 14 of the planners that are in the i, iMovie iPad app. But I think you also have some for the Mac app. Yeah, people really like these. So I've, I've spent two days of my life creating these. But they're worth it because you don't see that it's landscape. All you see is that it's 1.1 seconds. So it gets that out of your mind. It's good for planning, especially when you're sharing iPads and you don't, you don't, you don't have time for that. And I mean, I even use them when I'm creating my own tweets because it helps me if nothing else, know where I need to put in text, how many pictures I'm going to need to gather to put in their pictures or photos. So it's been great. And then there's this other one over here that's kind of, we have teachers use this, this other one because it really tells the kids they're going to do a proposal to their teacher. This is what I want my trailer to be. And it helps give them some tips on which trailer they might, I'm glad you, I'm glad you like that. Yeah, I went through every trailer and tried to put them in a genre so that students can just check them off. The students to give do a proposal to their teacher of this is what I'm going to do. This is how I'm going to do it. And then the teacher can kind of have an idea. Yeah, and somebody asked where those are located. So you can get my trailer, PDFs at learninginhand.com slash trailers. And I have some samples there collected. And if you have better examples, I'd love to replace some of the ones that I have there already. And the other thing is that these are all fillable PDFs. So if you wanted to fill them in using like Adobe Reader or in preview on the Mac. And I even, so I bought software to make this happen because you can't make fillable PDFs for free. And you can actually check these off like online, isn't that? In that case, I kind of tickled myself when I was like, oh, wow, I can make that. So somebody asked to repeat it. These are fillable PDFs. And there, you can just check them out learninginhand.com slash trailers. And they go along with every iPad and Mac movie trailer. And we're going to show us one on. This is actually a lesson that one of our teachers did where he kind of gave the kids their project, what they were going to talk about. And some stuff here with because they were working in groups and their different tasks. And then he even gave them some video tips down here. So that's from a teacher. Pull the iPad steady. It gives people headaches when you're shaky. Definitely you just don't do what I'm doing on Periscope and I'm all over the place. Watch for wind breezes. Yeah, the microphone. The kids were going outside and and doing little video clips and the popping peas like I just did for our Periscopers. Yeah, record at different angles. Yeah, those are those are really, really good tips. So oh, and we have kids just some more pictures you want to catch. This is as as the students are creating or working on putting their projects together. So they're doing their storyboards. They're outside videotaping and this was one with the storms. So they got real creative. They took a fan out there so they could have blowing leaves and perfect and things. This is some teachers at mobile 2015 working on their trailers. Yeah. So yeah, record this Periscope. People have been asking that. And then people always ask about the mic if you're new to seeing this. This is an iRig mic HD. It's like $99 on Amazon. I have my own URL shortener called TonyV.me. So go to TonyV.me slash microphone and it's that's a short link. And somebody else asked me something else about I the questions went by and I forgot them. You might have to repeat them because with Periscope, they're there for like a moment and then disappear. So that's that's yeah, yeah, they go really quick. But yeah. And the thing about Periscope is I can't see what my battery is. And I found about one hour wears out my whole battery from 100%. So that's that's bad. I have a chart every chance I get. But this microphone, it connects to the lightning port. So I can't charge while I'm doing this. But that's all right. So asking what is on your website? I don't know if that's mine or Suzanne's. I have just the movie trailers in a blog post and then you have like you do so much more than movie trailers. You have all sorts of ideas on on your website. Yeah. On our website or I achieve website, which you I think you showed the the you are or the QR code. Because we do iPod touches as well as iPads. And so we have a lot of things on there. We have copies of agreements. We have management ideas. Just a whole a plethora of things. List of the apps that we're using on both iPods and iPads. So because we still use our iPods because they're great for some of those younger kids fit right in their hands. Great. I'll answer that the URL shortener in a moment. But I don't want to keep you from from your your public here. But thank you for taking time with us. And let's give her some hearts. Okay, want to talk to you about oh yeah, my URL I'll tell you a little bit more about that as we leave here. But thanks for sharing. Thank you. And it's fun to see my little movie trailers on your poster board. I know we love it. Awesome.  All right. Thanks for sharing. All right. Have a good rest of this day. So I've had my own URL shortener Tony V dot me for a few years because I was using tiny URL and well Tony URL dot com was taken.  And you have to have hosting. So I have like a go daddy host and you install the software. So it's a little complicated to set up. But then it's my own URL shortener. I'm the only one who uses it. Nobody else. Wes fryer has a really great write up on this.  You are L's with the with the word you in it. So now there are two people here. Uh huh. This is Chris Giles. How you doing? Oh microphone. What's up? Tell me about your button. Oh hey. This is my second button. And she told me it's one of the top three that she's made all day. Oh you can go like somewhere and make a button right now. Yeah. It's a Skype Microsoft booth. You go in and you could choose you have 18 different backgrounds to choose from. And then they have a little circle so you know where to stand. They have tape on the floor so you know where to stand. And then you know my first one was like but my second one was beautiful. Yeah. Do you want to what's what's your big takeaway from SD 2015? This is my first time being here. So my takeaway is I've kind of overwhelmed and I've gone to a few sessions and then you walk out and you go I've gone to one session but I missed 17 other ones that I really want to go to. And then I've called FOMO. I know and then fear of missing out. Yesterday I spent half a day in a session walked out and realized I missed 500 other sessions I wanted to go to but my half day session was excellent. Good good. So I think my takeaway is I need to come next year. I haven't come for a couple years and I kind of I mean I've had fun. I love this and Periscope's been really fun. But when I'm at home I can be in all the sessions at once. When I'm here I can only be in one session at a time really. So there's some advantages to hashtag not at ISTI. And I find was when I wasn't here I followed the hashtag at home. Here I don't follow the hashtag at all. I'm just so busy walking around this session session. I haven't even been on the hashtag to see what people are posting other than my own stuff and I post it. Well the hashtag ISTI 2015 is pretty useless. I mean it's just like it flies by so fast. Yeah so like in my session and and a lot of others we have our like our own session hashtag. Otherwise you'd never find things within that room. That totally makes sense. Yeah I think it's like crazy. So I need a picture today with you when you have time. Yeah well here well sometimes people will screenshot for me. Yeah and so I hate vertical video you know that but I'll do that. Tony hates vertical video and comic stands. Sometimes I have to embrace both but there's hearts for that. You were warned. Oh and then Charlotte all would be like Tony's walking around with his camera and we didn't even know until like halfway into the conversation and they looked and wait a second what are you doing. The wild part is that there's you know 31 people watching right now and they can ask questions. Oh that's really neat. Well the answer is yes no and sometimes. So so now I got to talk to John Samuelson. Are you busy John. No if Tony Vincent asked me I am never too busy for Tony Vincent.  So John what I do is I linger on people's name tags while they talk so they people screenshot or they try to find you. So I want I want to hear about your poster but before this there's something I found out people don't know. You've changed your Twitter name. Used to be iPad Sammy and you're still iPad Sammy in my heart but you're also John Samuelson. When you change your Twitter name do you lose all your followers. What's what's the process. What happens there. It's not really too much of a process. I managed to lose probably about 4500 to 5000 followers actually is how much I lost but that was just because I think there were a lot of bot accounts that just follow iPad maybe or look for Apple things. So there are they really followers if they're just kind of phony accounts. I don't know. So so you can go on a Twitter and you can change your username anytime. It doesn't change your profile pic. It doesn't change anything but but your username in that URL. Your followers come with you. The people you follow are there. Yeah no it's seriously it's that easy. I just what I did was I was holding my name along for a long time and then I decided finally to switch over. So I just went in and released my name real quick and then I typed it in and it's just typing it in the settings and then you're right back and then I saved iPad Sammy just in case I didn't want anybody to jump on it. That's that's exactly Sammy's. So people have been parents coming. I was around with my friend Wendy Wells yesterday and she's trying to tell people well it's Wendy Wells Ed Tech but there's no C and so we had a little strategy session after that and she changed her her Twitter name to the Wendy Wells because there's already a Wendy Wells and and that's easy to say and you know and it did affect her periscope account weird but otherwise there's not really any bad effects but I did tell her go back in and get your old one and tell people you have a new one just you know through a different email address. Okay so a question from the internet. What is an innovation strategist. Yes well I'd like to think it's a fancy word for a tech person but what we do in our district is well in our district this year it can mean anything that your boss tells you that it means but for us we do a whole combination and we try and get teachers integrating technology by teaching model lessons. We advise them on what types of devices they need in their classroom. We advise them on what to use so they basically tell us what they're trying to teach and then we try and go in and try and help them with whatever tools we have in our bucket to try and get them learning and integrating technology and getting kids to be creative. People watching let's do a little brainstorming there's been so many different names for tech specialists tech coaches innovation specialists what are some other ones that you've heard and while they're typing do you have what what are their names have you possibly been called. Well and we're so we're called whatever what's our nickname at the they call us in the district office in Ostrats which oh I like that yeah I was thinking so I'm thinking we need to change it now that what they're trying to do is we're we're actually talking about this this morning I think that I'm I like tech dudes but so what we're they're trying to change us to future ready something and then I'm like I definitely am not going the future ready route so they might we might have a bunch of other people and then I will protest silently and not take that title so I think we we need to be more future ready that's toaster teacher on special assignment that's legitimately what we are we're just hostess so yeah well yeah so anyway okay so you have a cool poster here and everything's about signal to noise it looks like you have a twitter account for this it's the student media film festival and we want to hear about it okay so this is one I took this over so you know Tony when you move across country you just take a new job in a district and they give you their 15 year old film festival to take over because the person's retiring and so there's not too much pressure as we have about a thousand people attend so I tried really not to mess it up too much but now we're kind of trying to take it to the next level we've got a video over here let's see if we can actually get it going a video over here that's our high school drama winner that I think really translates well because it doesn't need a lot of sound in here and it's we there are many categories the kids make five minute videos we have a maker space coding festival and teachers and students show off what they're doing before the film festival and then we have a big award ceremony so look at this can't I'm admiring the camera angles no you should watch this Tony you would really enjoy this one and I did this is one of those films I showed down at the mobile learning experience me after Istie's done yeah right and so I think that this is a I think this is a great video I and the whole family got involved with this one and it's on the Oregon coast it's called home and it doesn't have a lot of dialogue it's just you know it speaks for itself so and we have different categories there's like PSAs create there's music video news reporting all sorts of things so we're trying to now take it over and give it our own little flair since it's been going in the same direction for about 15 years so where can they watch these online yes so we have a website right now and what I and you'll like this one Tony the what what we're trying to do right now is I'm trying to figure out ways they haven't really been releasing the videos which I think is a crime for the district so I'm starting to go through the YouTube straighten it out make them public instead of unlisted and we're making Stampsy sites right now so what Stampsy is it's like a Pinterest that has makes it into a fancy website and this is the first one I use where we're putting up all the finalists and the yes it looks like cannon beach right it is and so um so we're going to make Stampsy sites drama is the first one I did but we the finalists have been being shown but we want to show we the winners have been being shown we want to show the finalists too so we're going to make Stampsy sites and then if you follow that video BSD account we're just going to start tweeting out the stamps and you can watch them because they're great the K through 12 it's awesome we love doing it we just I just feel like we need to display the kids creativity more this video is getting a ton of hearts it's like I want to like I want to watch you talk but at the same time I think people would be mad if I turned away right now don't watch me talk watch this video it's in it's incredible because the boy right there is in junior high school and it's great to see them after they won the for best drama because I think I believe the girl's a junior hunter and you can see the whole okay you got to see it and you can see the whole family there it's really great and I remember I showed this one to my wife and she's like gosh it almost brings a tear to my eye at the end because it really does it's good so the videos cannot be this one is about at the limit it's five minutes is the limit on the videos but that's something because the festival has been going so long we're considering changing for certain categories and make condensing them a little bit. How do you spell Stampsy? Stampsy just like it sounds S T A M P S Y it's a new website I got it off product hunt it's a great website so instead of making pins you're making stamps and it takes it you know but the the it takes all these videos and it makes it into a nice looking website it almost reminds me of sway by Microsoft I've been watching sway by Microsoft how it comes down and they're trying to get a little bit fancier at Microsoft with their stuff and and so sway I think is the first example of Microsoft might be trying to make its comeback and it looks a lot like that but Stampsy is a free website anybody can start using it so it's really good and if you follow the video BSD Twitter today I'll tweet a link to one of the other videos on Stampsy and then you can go ahead and you know look at then you can probably get to the site from there oh that's great so there it is but okay yeah it's a it's a great thing and uh yeah this is one of my sessions at mobile 2015 learning experience I wonder who invited me oh wait it was Tony Vincent it was you so it was good and I don't know I just like to do stuff that's that's different and I think that this is really something where we're trying to combine maker spaces coding and video creation I'm really a big fan of the creativity using technology right now and you can do this in the classroom no no Scott Hackey is the originator he's the person who luckily retired and I took his job and so Scott Hackey gets the credit and Todd Fremeth is another person those are the two main people 2007 right there's some stuff from there 2007 and so we have some different examples they were um they're big fans of like the printed stuff and I keep saying you don't need all the printed stuff here you we can but um I like some of it just for archiving it yes yes and so what what I'm trying to do is I always I always was talking to Scott a little bit about it and I said okay we need to get our like logo a little bit more concise and things but yeah he has his I really like the stuff he he's been a digital arts teacher in Beaverton um gosh since the late 80s I believe so yeah and we have it at a big uh we have a big screen where we show all the winners so everybody in the auditorium and we we have to actually take like an hour to raise up the screen and we have a nice time lapse of that too I could tweet that out too but yeah that I that's because I learned from Tony Vincent can make cool this is a good opportunity for a time lapse video and then we made that one so it's pretty cool but yeah thanks for stopping by we John you are and we need we need some serious hearts for for John Samuelson thanks everybody for listening Sam C like that people are jumping all over that okay so pins are out stamps are in I just like um I think if you teachers if you look on Product Hunt every day Product Hunt is the best website to look at new things and then maybe hack them a little bit or change them for you to fit your educational needs that's right or just pay attention to what John says because you're always on top of this you can always yeah and I tweet them out you can always follow me on Twitter the old old iPad Sammy knew just myself John Samuelson thanks John I'm so glad that I got to run into you and I'll even see you next week at Tech Camp yeah I'm getting ready to jump on a plane on Sunday and come right back all right I'll see you there John is great we we do a Tech Camp in Tucson for the Arizona K-12 Center and he's uh co-teaching one of the the week-long classes for teachers that we have down on there he's teaching with um John Spencer about uh making your writing published so uh follow follow John Samuelson because I'm sure he'll be tweeting out from that camp all week I might even be periscoping from the camp so um now I'm just now I'm just wandering around but uh as I'm wandering around so many people here have mentioned they must follow me on periscope and they say that I keep making their phone buzz so much but I've only been doing like maybe the most five in one day maybe four but I guess that those notifications can add up um oh here's students here so let's let's do that one uh body chemistry do you guys mind being on camera being on the internet you don't mind okay so so I have a microphone so that people can hear you really good I want to know all about your poster here called body chemistry so can who wants to do the the most the talking you okay so tell us who you are and where you're from it and tell us about your poster okay hi we're from Mexico City we are from Godwin Institute and we came here with our project that is named body's chemistry it's an app from the app store you can download it it's totally free it's about here it is app store and it's a game based like on yes that's the icon it's a game it's play like mostly candy crash it the levels are divided in the parts you have on your body we have the brain the blood that's the brain and it tells you like you have oxygen magnesium carbon and oxygen in your body and you play making as many match as you can you got 37 minutes 37 seconds to make as many as you can it's making chains if you don't know which chain to make or anything you make the shuffle button and it will catch you to moves but it will shuffle all the elements and we do also have the part like where you learn what does the oxygen does in your body and there's a brief explanation learn before you play yes we learn it we've got our chemistry class and we were like it would be really useful to have on your phone what does the oxygen for classes does in your body what does the hydrogen and so on the fluoride fluoride and sodium and so on well it also have a part like here where if you play it'll it is not all like only the part of the game but if you put brain it will come the elements that are in the brain like it is not only like okay i'm gonna play so because you only also learn because while you are like playing like in your brain it stays stays the elements that are in your brain well in this case or in your skin or in your bones and so on well we came up with the idea well we developed this project because um in our school we're from Mexico City the teacher told us that the subject in which students struggle the most is chemistry and and she told us why not you like you create an app which can motivate and get interested will make the students interested in chemistry by using this app while you play you learn okay can i ask questions now all right so first of all before a question you might have the best giveaway this is so neat for an app this is an eraser correct so it's an eraser with their app icon on one side and a qr code that i'm assuming goes to the app store to download it goes to the page about it and then you could download that is genius i love these i can have one right uh oh and a pencil oh awesome body cap so that's the name of the app so now um we're some questions online too for people that are that are watching uh did you was it all female people that that worked on this so so no no boys involved that's that's you're the team the three of you uh did you have were there other teams at your school building different apps um no not it was just they created we have other two teams created by the web page not an app now okay so then what did you use to make the app we use x code the software from mac it's an app it's an app to create specifically apps for the app store yeah so that's not sometimes there's these websites that you can kind of make you know you code online but you're using the real deal you're using what all the other you know big time programmers in the app store use right when you're using x code yeah for sure so what was your biggest surprise in making your own app well the research you have to do because it is not only like the design it also like you have to think what you're gonna do because it is not also not it is not just like okay i'm going to create an app but what what i'm gonna use like the purpose so on yeah like to see like you upload your app and then to see like a hundred people downloaded you are like wow they want my app and they search it and they find it i think that's really like exciting do you guys check every day to see your downloads not every day but yes like twice i have an app in the app store called stick around and i check the first thing i do in the morning before i like even get out of bed as i get my phone i'm like okay what are the sales because they only apple only reports at every 24 hours right so um and so i just always interested to see you know how many how many and it's all over the place if yours is anything like mine you know one day you have several the next day it's like oh we're like one or zero see like it was unloaded in nation and you can see what countries they were downloaded in so apple makes all this information available to developers when they've submitted to the app store yes that's really exciting to see i got a hundred downloads you're like well my app is on a hundred iphone all over the world uh people want to know the name of your school godwin institute okay let me let me get your logo there for your school the goodwin institute in mexico city how long are you in the united states for them are you standing one week you're here nice anything else you want us to know about your app or what you learned from it it's basically it and we will be so excited to know if it works for people to help really a student like eight graders seven graders that are studying chemistry and i think it will be very do you have plans for a future app what do you have plans for a future app well by the time no we're like in the process for arranging in the app for ipad for it looks like equal to the one that is on on the iphone so people ask me because i have one app and i don't want any any others because i just want to work on that one because it takes time right so how long did it what can you tell me a timeline of when you started your app to what it is today um we started it like in february and we like finished like in may kind of did you know x code before you got started or you learned x code because you had this app idea yes because my friend sissy last year she made an app about math so you wanted to do it too yeah yeah we participated oh thank you thank you for sharing people of and when if they when they like something they can give hearts so let's see let's see the hearts oh there they are oh it's gonna get colorful they do they do i love that you're learning and helping other people learn at the same time that's brilliant i'm so glad you came to isti enjoy the rest of your time here yeah it's it exceeds on on youtube so if you follow me on twitter is it on there um tony vincent you'll see it you could even tune in right now if you get the periscope app you're welcome thank you they were amazing and they tag team that so well it was it was really good edutopia has a booth well the thing about periscope is it never tells you how much battery you have left you just have to wait until you get that warning so i think i am going to wind down here i have a session at 115 uh about my app stick around i get a half hour to kind of talk talk about i want it to be like half about the development and the things i've learned kind of like the insight that those girls had had said too so um that's exciting to see though a lot of people have been leaving isti like they say they're um they're going oh is wendy periscoping she might um i didn't get to periscope my session this morning i wanted to do like a like a pre-show when i was walking around talking to people that we had a terrible connection in that room so it really depends on the room here at isti yeah um if internet works but like i was saying so many people are leaving early that maybe uh internet will get better because there won't be so many people here um so the other thing i plan to do i've taken a lot of pictures when i go to sessions or things that i couldn't record from and i think i'll take you guys through my photo album as a way to kind of review what i've what i've seen at isti so keep your notifications on or check back later to see that so uh i guess i'm off to find lunch we'll see you later


In this dynamic market environment, there are a number of reasons why a company might find the need to reinvent its brand, rebrand, reposition itself. These reasons could include technological changes and social-cultural changes, demographic changes, market changes of any sort. In recent times in the New Zealand market, we've seen three fairly big companies reinvent or rebrand themselves. These include Zed from Shell, Telecom going on to Spark, and Air New Zealand who reinvented itself in a very different way. So it's interesting to look at these three examples because they've all gone about it in fairly different ways with equally significant amounts of investment. Zed is an interesting case because obviously they changed their brand name because the license ran out for Shell and instead of paying royalties to the Shell organization, they decided to change the name to Zed, being a New Zealand-owned company now. And so when they went about it, they changed the name first and the logo. And this meant a lot of cynicism and skepticism. People were accusing them of just slapping a fresh coat of paint onto the company and not really making any changes. It's not until recently we've seen some of these changes happening sort of after they've changed the logo and the name and they're more positive now. So that's one way of doing it is to change your name and your brand first and then to make the business changes later. With Telecom, they claim to sort of be approaching it in a different way. So they're claiming that they've changed a business model over the last few years, half a decade. They're moving more into clouds, iPad, sort of apps, all these sorts of more dynamic environments being a data company as opposed to a telecommunications company. And so they've made the changes. Then there was that transitional period in the middle where they changed the logo from the old logo to the new, what we know now as the Spark logo. And now it's come to the very end of that transition and they're going to change their name from Telecom to Spark. And so the argument there is that the business has already changed and it's simply just a name change at the end. And if we contrast those two examples with the third example of Air New Zealand, that's probably the most interesting case in my mind because here's an example of a company that went through equally significant changes to the business model, if not more significant than the changes experienced by Zed and Telecom. So they reinvented their brand completely using design-led thinking, changing the customer experience, the look of their planes, interior, exterior, all of the above. But they've reinvented themselves without changing the brand name at all. And so that's a very interesting example of hanging on to the brand equity and the heritage that's tied in with the Air New Zealand brand, but changing everything else essentially about the business. And in a way it's more of a genuine adaptation of the company in my mind. So rebranding is obviously a very expensive investment and the downside of just changing the name is that nothing else really changes. So essentially it's like painting a bus a new color and calling it a new public transport system. So if you change your brand, your logo and all this signature letterheads, et cetera, the color, the font, that's a very superficial level of changing. And unless the business model changes dramatically and the culture changes to adapt to these new circumstances, it really is just a waste of time. You're literally painting a building with a new color and it ends there. And that's a huge investment, both in terms of time and cost. And so the argument is, well, why not invest that money into actually changing the company for the better as opposed to just changing the brand name? So that's the downside. In terms of positives, I guess changing your name does send a signal out there both externally to the marketplace, but also internally to the employees that the company is still relevant. It's still dynamic. It changes the foot and it changes for the better, hopefully, to make the company more, you know, adaptable to the new market environment. Whatever the path the company chooses to reinvent itself or rebrand or reposition itself, there are some essential points to remember. The first one is, you know, make sure you're doing it for the right reason. So in some cases, a name change or rebranding of an organization can come across almost as a CEO wanting to make their stamp on something. They don't want to work with someone else's legacy. They want to have their own legacy. They want their own baby to nurture and to grow. And so this is a bit of an ego trip in my mind if a CEO approaches rebranding in that sense. So you have to be careful that the change is actually genuine and it is for the better of the company and the customers. The other essential point to remember is that if you change, then the only change that really counts is the cultural change within the organization. Because it's from the employees behaving in a new way, systems being implemented to make the company operate in a new sense, that true changes come about. And those are the changes that hopefully will actually matter to the marketplace.  What they want is that you're providing a new, better service to them.


The metadata store has given us a way of exposing our research data and collections. I guess previously they've been hidden, they haven't been that well exposed to the wider world. We have internal systems which describe the grants and projects that people are working on, but they're internal and they haven't been exposed to, you know, outside of getting that message out there and getting collections. That's the hard part. We chose the Redbox Mint software because it gives us workflows that we didn't have previously, so it gives us workflows for dealing with data coming in from the official data sources at Latrobe and externally, and then massaging that data and putting it into the right format, having a workflow to deal with the different stages of curation of that information and then pushing it through to our own infrastructure. And it's well designed to integrate with our current Vital Fedora research online repository. At the beginning we really relied quite heavily on what University of Newcastle has done, and in particular their configuration files, their project object module file and associated files that they've got in the repositories. We've based our builds upon that configuration. Duncan and Greg, both the technical competency but also really good communication skills. So Greg Pendlebreed did fantastic documentation for Redbox. When we were looking at the Redbox Mint system, specifically the Mint system, it had a particular way of handling the creation of an identifier for a researcher. That identifier was specific to that software system, in fact specific to that implementation of it. It took the identifier that had been created in the Research Master System, which is our research management system at Latrobe, and in order to make them hopefully unique in the world, we used our ISO code. Our thinking is that with the structure of the identifiers that we've got, even if the Redbox Mint system were to be superseded by some other system, if our records were to be migrated into a completely different platform, we still have identifiers that will make sense. There's been a lot of talk about metadata storage projects being more about cultural change than about being software development. And I think that has been more true than we could ever have imagined. It's cultural change for people in a library who have to think about being the originators of material, the first people to essentially publish a data collection, rather than dealing with material where publishers have already handled this material, have made lots of decisions about how it would be described. We are making a lot of those decisions for the very first time. So we are working with researchers who now have to think about their research data as something that can be published, as something that other people will actually be looking at, which is something that many of them have never considered before. Talk to people about research data and the default thinking is, yes, we can put in your system, but of course it won't be publicly available, will it? And we've asked the question, why not? What is the issue with making this material publicly available? It makes sense to us at this point that putting your work out there is a way of claiming and a way of asserting the work you've done, whereas a lot of the default thinking we're coming across assumes that it's the opposite, that exposing your material makes you vulnerable, as we see it as actually claiming the territory, claiming the work you've done and actually as having great potential advantages. So the Mentor Data Stores program gave us some momentum because it brought attention to the project. So the funding, getting the steering committee together, getting attention from the university was made a lot easier just by having this as a project at La Trove and it has really exposed a whole lot of work that we need to do and given us momentum for that actual process of engaging with researchers and getting collections and exposing research at La Trove.


Hello, and good morning to you all. It's another stormy day in the UK. We've been ravaged by storms. I don't know what the name of this stormy norm, and don't know what the name of it is, but it's thwarted all me outdoor plans. A lot of you know that a workout does, so thwarted. Nevermind getting a video together. Can't even make a living. Can't even graft, so we're back. We're back in the fungarium, hence the... I'm here to talk about camping for beginners. There's probably, I know, there's loads of information online, on YouTube, and Facebook forums and everything. It's all out there if you search for it, but I know a lot of people who watch my videos don't, some of them don't watch other videos of other campers or don't go on the forums they're just here for the waffle. So this is for you. And for people who've just searched it out, who are just starting out in wild camping and bushcraft, this is just my opinions. This is just my, what I've gained over the years of doing what I do. I've been running this YouTube channel for about eight years now. And before that, I was an avid wild camper, hiker, just into bushcraft, and just being outdoorsy, basically everything that you see on the channel is what I was up to before the channel existed. So I've put some years in and I've learned some stuff along the way. So this is just a video giving you a little bit of what I've learned and maybe making it a little bit easier for you to deal with your first wild camp. So the first section is when and where. Shall I put some graphics on? Should we do this properly though, right? When and where? No, yeah. When, hold on. So when and where? I've hope I've done that. If I haven't done that, you're lazy. You're lazy, hazy. Do it, do that. So what time of year do you wanna be going wild camping? So you've got the itch.  I wanna get out. I wanna just a bit of freedom. I wanna get out. Or you've maybe just watched my videos and thought I wanna slice of that action. I wanna get out there.  Come on, mate. I can't go with you, but I can certainly give you some top tips so that you have a better experience. I'd say for my first wild camp, I'd wanna be going in summer.  That's the main thing. I want you to have a good time so that you go back and you do it again. Obviously, I want you to leave no trace and be a respectful camper and all that, but I want you to have a good time. That's the main thing. If you don't enjoy it, what's the point? What's the actual point? There's no point. I wouldn't go in winter because you're more likely to put yourself off if you go in winter. So I would go in summer and I would maybe even better would go late spring, early autumn, so that you're not having to deal with bugs.  So if you're an amateur and you're going out starting fires in summer, it's not the one. So you've picked your time. So let's just say you've chosen September. Good time of year for camping that. September, early September, great time. You've got your time. Where'd you go? I've mentioned on a few podcasts and Q&As and stuff like that. And on the subject of the podcast, I do do a podcast and I've started doing video podcasts like this on video and audio over on Patreon, which you can check out there. And that's a great way to support the channel and thank you if you do and thank you. And hello, if you already do, shout out all the patrons. So what I've said on questions before is that if you're starting out with camping, just starting a campsite, I would just go to, because you can get some lovely campsites that you can see trees and there's mountains and you get the feel of it, don't you? You get that feel that you're actually out there doing a bit. And if you've come from never camping to that, that'll feel like you're out back mate. So I would do that. And also some campsites offer nearly wild experiences so that you can have a fire and maybe string a hammock up, practice a little bit of bushcraft. And that's definitely the way I would go to begin with. There's a website that shows all the campsites that allow fires and that allow this nearly wild experience. And I'll put that website down below. And that's got all different sort of campsites all around the UK. After that, you'd wanna be trying Scotland, places like Scotland. If you're lucky enough, this is geared mainly around people in the UK. So if you can get to Scotland, then I would do that because it's legal to wild camp. You can even have a fire, obviously leave no trace, but you don't have that paranoia because a lot of people are like, I'd love to go camping, but I'm paranoid. I'll get moved on or I'll get seen or whatever it is. In Scotland, you don't have to worry about that.  So as long as you're mindful and respectful, then that's a good way to go. Any of the national parks in the UK, it's harder to camp in woodland. If you are gonna camp in woodland, then I would try and get permission first, ask the landowners and see if you can do that. There are also woodlands, as I say about this nearly camping stuff, there are woodlands about that offer the experience, so maybe try that first. Google Earth is a good place to start, mate. I'd always just go on Google Earth, have a look around, see if you can see any roads next to big woodlands and farms and stuff, and see if you can find out who owns it and just be polite and respectful and maybe they'll let you camp there. Offer to tidy the wood a little bit, maybe do a litter pick or something like that. I'll look for somewhere that I wanna camp and I'll look for a pub or something nearby because you can park your car in a pub and then hike out to your destination camp and back to your car because people will just think now he's left his car because he's had a few too many sherbet's, he's done the right thing, he's left his car in car park and that's fine. The thing about wild camping is a lot of people don't wanna give away their locations. People like myself or people with a big following, I don't think it's right that you let you give your locations away because it just puts too much pressure on that particular spot, so you can always go onto Facebook forums where people are giving away their locations and just work from there or just go on to Reddit and ask questions there as well.  In the past, I've just put a little note in the car just saying I'm doing a sponsored walk or I'm out taking night shots, star lapses, just a little note so that when they find your car, they're not gonna report it to the police because I've multiple times I've had my vehicle reported to the police. Right, so just open my van and got this. Damage days, your wallet drawn a notebook at Whitby police station for safe keeping. Well, there you go, I must have left the van open. Like I've left the van unlocked with my drug. Mate, that is so lucky. I'm so lucky, ain't it, that the police found it and not some scallywag. I shouldn't keep this in though because people worry about me. I'm all right, it's fine. The drugs at Whitby police station. It's all right. Thanks for watching, see you back. Not for trespassing or anything, but because people were just worried. Well, they didn't know where I was or what I was doing so they were just trying to find me. So I've had phone calls from the police a few times. So that note would just mitigate that. It would stop that from happening. Just saying I'm out taking photos of owls or whatever, just something so that they know that you haven't just disappeared. You've got your time of year. You've got your location. Check the weather forecast. Check multiple weather forecasts. If you're off into the mountains, check the mountain forecast. But be prepared for it to be wrong because it's been wrong for me multiple times. So just be prepared for everything. Another tip would be to put your bike in your car or your van or take your bike on a train so that you can drive to a pub or a little village and then you can get on your bike and then cycle even further so you can just get away from everyone. I've done that quite a few times. I would suggest you go on your own for your first wild camp or just with one other person because although it can be fun to go in groups, it can be, if you don't know what you're doing and you're just a bit loud and a bit boozy, it doesn't shine a good light on us wild campers and if a landowner does find you and you're in a big group and you've got your music on, it doesn't look good and you're more likely to get moved on. You're more likely to leave a mess and things just get carried away. So I would keep it small at first, just maybe one or two people. Just so that as well you can be stealthy and with Woodland, if you are gonna camp in Woodland without permission, get in there late, leave early, leave no trace, be respectful and just give us a good name so we know when we're going, we know where we're going, what we're taking with us. I have done a full video on kit. You can get a full camping bushcraft kit for, I think I did a video, it was around 250, 260 quid. I'll leave a link to that video here. I just researched, did a lot of research and got together a kit that wasn't rubbish.    Go outdoors or something like that. And they're the things that'll weigh the most as well. So I've been camping with a lot of people and it's been their first time and one thing that they always get found out with is packing too heavy, especially if you're going up into the mountains and into the fells. So them three things away, you'll save the most weight. And then work back from there, you've got your, so you've got your backpack. People often make this mistake when they first go camping. They end up getting like a hundred litre backpack and just fitting it with everything. Because they think, oh, every eventuality, but what about this? What if I wanna do that? Don't worry about it. Strip it back, mate. It's wild camping. Strip it back. So get your bag.  Check places like military mart. X military stuff is good. You can pick up some good deals on eBay. Have a little bit of a shop around, mate. Because that's half of the fun is getting your kit together and having a little shop about for what you wanna customizing your kit to work for you. Look at a few reviews on YouTube.  And practice putting it up in your garden.    Get used to wearing your kit.  Just get used to it. And then once you've got your top three things sorted, you can work your way from that. You can get your cook kit sorted. You won't need water purification at first and things. They're the sort of stuff you can pick up later down the line, just take some water with you. Because this is just to see if you like it. You might hate it. So you don't need to get all the water filters and different fire lighting kits and stuff.  Just a bottle of Evian, you're fine. And don't play the keeping up game. Don't keep up with the Joneses. It doesn't matter what your kit is. You don't need to be coming out there with a Hillyburg tent and all the bells and whistles and a Patagonia onesie and everything. You don't need it all at first. It doesn't matter. It just needs to be functional and cheap. Cheap and functional is what you want. Yeah, I won't spend too much time on the things that you need to take with you because I have done videos in the past. And I'll put videos to the kit reviews and stuff that I've done below this video so you can check them out.  That's it. If you're prepping wood, just check a cheap saw. Even just get a panel saw from B&Q or from B&M, whatever it is, just a five quid you can get a panel saw. They're flat.  Another thing is knowledge, mate. You want to be scrubbing up on your knowledge because you don't want to just be going out there where you saw and all your gear and just chopping off limbs or trees that are living and not knowing what you're doing. So either do a little course or just scrub upon your knowledge as far as, which this is, you know, it's really important actually. This is one of the most important things is to scrub upon your knowledge. You can't buy it. You just got to study because you need to know, you know, if you're in the mountains, you need to know certain weather patterns. You need to know how to, you know, things just like self arrest. Like just if you're sliding down a mountain, how to stop yourself sliding down a mountain, how to navigate without a compass in case it just, the fog comes in. Just all these little things. And if you're in a woodland even more, you need to know which trees are prone to dropping limbs. If you're going to be foraging which plants not to eat, how to safely start, maintain and dispose of a fire is one of the most important things. There's a lot of factors. So scrub upon your knowledge. Yeah, and always tell people where you're going. If you're going on your own, or even if there's just two of you, mate, tell someone, just give them your location or give them a rough idea of where you're going so that when, if you don't come back, at least they've got a starting point to look for you. Mainly mate, enjoy yourself. Enjoy yourself. Be respectful of other people's land. Be respectful of the land.  All these things you need to learn. It's knowledge mate. Knowledge is power. And you can spread that knowledge and teach people because you might be just starting out now, but then one day you'll be, you could be telling someone else how to do it. And it's all about good drills. Like passing on respectful and good knowledge. So that we, because in this country, I feel like it's hard to be a wild camper because there's not a lot of open free land to go wild camping and adventuring in. So we really do need to be respectful to give a good account of ourselves and this hobby that I love so much and that I'm sure a lot of you do as well. We need to, each and every one of us needs to be an ambassador for it, ambassador, ambassador for it. So that the younger generations coming through, they can learn because a lot of it can be ignorance. So people just need to learn and so that's it man. Just carry the torch, fly the flag, do whatever you need to do, but don't ruin my hobby. Look after yourselves, take care and I'll see you soon. Au revoir.


What's going on my people? Listen, I am here taking over Shan's channel because of this comment. Okay, but before I get into my video here, I just want to bring attention to the set now. I just want to bring attention to this set up here, and the only reason I bring attention to it is because Shan doesn't let me set up her shot the way I would set up the shot, the way I would like it. My aesthetic. She has her own aesthetic when it's nice.  But I think mine is a little bit better. So if you think so too, go over to Shan, let her know that Jared knows what he's doing and that he can set up your shot beautiful. Now anyways, back to the video. This video is going to be all about what I didn't know about being a father until I became a father. And this is gonna sound cliche, but the amount of love that I felt for Ryu when she came out of that womb, it was like a wave of emotions.  And I got something to admit when Shan was going through her pregnancy and she had the belly bump, she would always get me to try to connect with Ryu through the belly. And I just couldn't do it. Like it was really hard for me. It felt like there was a barrier between me and Ryu. It felt like I couldn't really feel her, you know, emotionally, spiritually. I felt like I couldn't connect with her. And I did a lot of pretending. I'm not proud of it. I feel guilty. I felt guilty the entire pregnancy because of this. And you know, I think that it's a lot easier for the woman to connect with the baby when she's in the womb because she's literally physically connected to her. She has this emotion. She could feel her. She can literally sense her before she even gets to moving.  I'm sitting right here and I was one of those guys, but it will hit you because when that baby comes out of that womb and it is real, those emotions come heavy.   But listen, guys, that is one of my favorite times is like, she just laying there. She's looking at you smiling, cooing and kicking and there's just like this weird connective thing that I feel when I'm changing her diaper. I can't really explain it, but I'm sure there's other parents out there that are like, yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. It just feels so tribal. It feels so, you know, I don't know, it's just a crazy experience and I never would have guessed that that would have been a magical experience. So the third and final thing that I want to share with you guys is I think there's this misconception that fathers don't know what to do when they're alone with the baby. And the only reason I found this out was because Sharon went on a work trip and I was left alone with Ryu and the amount of text and calls and concerns that came with that was overwhelming.  Can you really do this? Are you all right? Do you need any help? And it was cool and I'm sure it was out of love, but what it made me feel was that like, nobody thought that I was capable of doing this. And what I really want to share is that fathers have instincts as well, just like the mothers do. Like I wake up just before Ryu wakes up. I hear her cry and I can tell what type of cry that is.  And so I just really feel that fathers need more credit in this area. And just because we didn't carry the baby and we didn't spend that type of time with them, we still are connected and have DNA and wrapped with that baby. So I would love to, you know, I didn't do any research on this, but I'm sure there's research out there on the instincts that fathers have with this baby. So if anybody out there knows anything, drop it in the comments. But I just really wanted to say that if any fathers out there feel like the family, the friends are making you feel like you're not as capable as the mother you are. And that's it, man. I say that with love and I say that with peace. And I hope that I don't get attacked for saying that. But yes, I am capable and I can take care of my daughter. Okay, wait, real quick before you guys go, I have high check chance channel. So I think I should share and shout out my channel. I have a podcast on there. It is called enjoy the podcast. We talk a lot about fatherhood. We talk a lot about relationships and it's everything from the male's perspective. So if you're wondering what he's not telling you, go over there and check us out.  I'll say that again for anybody who was not paying attention. Do you ever, do you want to have kids? Do you want to be married? I never had a chance. Kids, yeah, I could do kids. Who said I can do kids? I didn't even know. What nigga says I can do kids?  I think we put trauma in this distance because we go, yes, we recognize that that was a shitty moment, but we don't need to feel it. But what ends up happening is it internalizes. It exposes out of any other poor that you have. I don't want to say it's not our fault completely. But it took me a long time to become aware and to understand that I was emotionally unavailable. When all these women kept saying the same thing like, I can't read you, I can't get you. I'm like, yeah, why do they keep saying this? The actual nice guy is going to be able to challenge you. The nice guy is not going to challenge you. He's not going to want you to evolve. He's not going to want you to help. He doesn't want to help you grow. Right, right. He's just going to agree with whatever you're saying.  Right. So that's kind of like an indicator for me. And when I say I'm not good, like, I feel like that resonates with people of color a lot.  Yo, this is called fashion, bro. Fashion. Ladies, do you like this shirt? Friends of Benefits is a version of like love bombing. I've loved from what you guys described. I've loved. No, do they communicate during love bombing? I understand you communicate. But like, imagine me being like, all right, I love you. But when I say that, I really mean I care for you. I would never say that unless I meant it though. But, but that's the symbolic, the symbolics of like flowers and dinner. What? No, it's not. Me giving you flowers as I love you. What's the fuck? Yes. No. No, I'm comparing the two. There's a, there's a, there's a, okay. Just like you said, I just told you with the origin of flowers and what they are back in 1417. Sure. Yeah. You don't believe, do you not, do you not think that flowers mean something? I guess we got to just, we got to do that first. It's a symbolic gesture. It's not, I love you.


I think a lot of schools in the country have great educational programs, but when it comes to really experiencing how to work with other people in a business environment, Alabama really has the resources and infrastructure to give people opportunities to lead organizations, take on leadership that's outside of coursework, and serving in my fraternity and in the Student Government Association really exposed me to the kind of responsibility and independence that you can take on outside of the classroom. When I was doing my college search, I didn't know what I wanted. I applied to about 10 schools and visited every single one of them. My mom attended Alabama and both of her parents actually met at the university, so that was kind of my foot in the door to visiting. As soon as I got to the campus, I just fell in love with it immediately. I remember on the flight back to Chicago deciding to go to Alabama and it was the best decision I made thus far in my life. The last phone call that I had with my grandfather was telling him that I was going to go to the university and that meant a great deal. He was very involved at the university. He served as a veteran and also played for the Alabama football team, so that was a really cool moment that I had with him. This really has become a home to me and it's very special that I have that to share with my mom and both of her parents. I received my bachelor's in mechanical engineering in 2022. I learned a lot in the engineering program, but what I didn't realize was how much I was going to learn from the extracurricular and organization opportunities that the University of Alabama has. I had no intention of getting involved in Greek life or student government. I was much more focused on my education and I found myself being pulled in a lot of extracurricular involvement opportunities and that developed a real interest that I had in business. When I found out about Alabama's MBA program, I saw it as a great opportunity to sharpen my skills in business, which those interests really started to flourish with those involvements on campus. Being in the Madison MBA program has been the best educational experience I could have asked for. I've had the opportunity to get involved on case team. The MBA case team is about 20 to 25 MBA students who compete in case competitions throughout the U.S. A lot of the times the judges at these case competitions are executives of the company, so they have very real vested interests in these business ideas. One of the greatest things that the University has to offer is all the opportunities to find communities coming from Chicago. I didn't know anybody at the University and being forced out of my comfort zone was the best thing I could have asked for from the University to teach me how to network with other people, learn about different people's perspectives and their experiences and develop myself more as just a holistic person. I think when a lot of people think of the University of Alabama, they think of athletics. That's what I thought of, too, but what I've really discovered is that everything that the University of Alabama does is reflective of the excellence that the athletics is known for. Everybody at this school has such a sense of unity and purpose. Everybody's looking to make each other better and everybody wants to get the absolute most out of attending the University of Alabama.


And the past week or so has been so intense, hasn't it? Because I think not just, it's not just the amount of things that have happened. It's, and it's not just the pace at which things have happened because things seem to be changing day by day. Bits and pieces come out and obviously social media is a difficult place at the best of times, but there's been a lot of noise on that as well. You've got to try and sift through it. But it's also obviously the seriousness, the severity of everything that's going on because obviously a lot of it is the future of Everton Football Club that is at stake, the potential new owners, obviously the discussions that we have and what it means for the current and potential old owners and things like that. And just everything from on the pitch to the financial spectrum, just there's just so much going on and there's so much to try and get to the bottom of and there's so much noise around it. The trying to find some clarity amongst that is just very, very difficult.


Welcome to George H. Smith's Excursions into Libertarian Thon, a production of Libertarianism.org and the Cato Institute. The Problem of Heresy The problem of heresy from the Greek heresis, meaning choice, was a dominant concern of the Catholic Church throughout the later Middle Ages. To understand the reason, we may profitably compare the medieval heretic to his secular analog, the traitor. The reason is to the modern state what heresy was to the medieval church. Indeed, the word traitor sprang from a religious controversy. Trotitoris, handers over, were those Christian bishops who obeyed an edict of the Roman emperor Diocletian, circa 303, to hand over copies of scripture to the state so they could be destroyed. The Trotitoris caused a major schism in North Africa. Theologians wrangled over whether Trotitoris should be restored to communion and whether bishops who had been Trotitoris could perform valid ordinations. The Donatus schismatics argued that Trotitoris had lost all such privileges and that ordinations by such handers over were invalid. Catholics such as Augustine took the opposite view, maintaining that the spiritual powers of bishops lay in their office and remained valid regardless of the sins of particular bishops. Augustine believed that the exclusionary policy of the Donatus would prevent the Catholic church from becoming truly universal, an organization that included both sinners and saints and would doom it instead to the permanent status of a relatively small group consisting only of the pure. Clearly, treason implies betrayal, but one must belong to an organization before one can betray it. That is what distinguishes the heretic from the infidel. The infidel is an outsider, a non-member who is incapable of betraying a church to which he never belonged. Likewise, a foreigner cannot commit treason against any government but his own. During the Middle Ages, the individual was inducted into the church through baptism. Since baptism usually occurred during infancy, it could scarcely be called voluntary. Nevertheless, the god-parents made promises on behalf of the child that obligated him or her for life. Thereafter, the Christian, bound to the church legally and irrevocably through baptism, was required to defer to official doctrine as ultimately determined by the Pope. In the words of the medieval historian Walter Ollman, heresy was the sin committed by a Christian who showed intellectual arrogance by preferring his own opinions to those who were specially qualified to pronounce upon matters of faith. Heresy was more than a sin, however. It was also a crime. The heretic committed high treason against the political authority of the church and endangered the theocratic foundation of government. Orthodoxy, i.e. right thinking, was the ideological bedrock of social and political order, and the heretic threatened to undercut this foundation at its root. The parallels between heresy and treason are therefore more than superficial. Heresy was itself punishable as treason because it subverted the authority of the church from within. The notion of orthodoxy per se, i.e. shorn of its religious connotations, is unobjectionable, even to atheists and other free thinkers. An organization must establish an identity by which to distinguish between members and non-members. If an organization is ideological in nature, then its identity will be defined by a credo, a set of beliefs or principles that determines the conditions of membership. The ability of that credo to withstand philosophic scrutiny is irrelevant here. Whether rational or irrational, a credo constitutes the orthodoxy, the intellectual foundation of an ideological organization. An organization without an orthodoxy is an organization without ideas. Thus understood, an orthodox credo is a feature of all ideological institutions. Because philosophy normally lacks institutional affiliations, it, ideally, does not have credos, orthodoxies, and heretics. This is the nature of the beast called philosophy. But it does not render philosophers inherently more noble, honest, or undogmatic than their theological cousins. Potential problems for theologians arise because most are at once church members and philosophers, and those roles may conflict. If a philosopher joins an ideological organization and commits to its credo, then he too may experience the tension between orthodoxy and heresy. Between loyalty to an organization or movement and loyalty to the voice of reason. I see no evidence to suggest that philosophers, if confronted with this decision, will necessarily choose better than theologians. When viewed in an institutional setting, the ideas of orthodoxy and heresy, broadly conceived, are neither irrational nor dangerous, so long that is as membership in an institution is voluntary. Dissenters are free to quit an organization or never to join at all. That was the case with early Christianity before it became the state religion in 4th century Rome. Christianity was more than a theology. It was also an organization, and as such, it needed to forge an orthodoxy, an intellectual identity, a set of beliefs that unified its members. A heretic in those circumstances might be expelled or banned from a particular organization, but he would remain free to go his own way. Only after Christians acquired the reins of state power and substituted power for persuasion, did their notions of orthodoxy and heresy become dangerous. Through the instrumentality of government, what had been orthodoxy for a single religious movement, became orthodoxy for society as a whole. As the distinguished medievalist R.W. Southern observed, the church was a compulsory society in precisely the same way as the modern state is a compulsory society. As the good of the church became synonymous with the good of society, heretics became more than wayward members of an organization. They became threats to the foundations of social order. This transformation was caused not by the notion of orthodoxy per se, but by the politicizing of orthodoxy. Heretics were ferociously persecuted by Catholic authorities at various times during the Middle Ages. One of the most atrocious examples occurred in the early 13th century in southern France, during what is usually called the Albigensian Crusade. Thousands of heretical Cathars were slaughtered indiscriminately, men, women, and children alike, and entire towns were devastated, even though the Cathars kept to themselves and threatened nobody. Upon learning of those wholesale massacres, a delighted Pope Innocent III gave thanks for a double blessing. Wicked heretics were being killed, and their killers were that much closer to attaining salvation. As that supposedly great Pope put it, God hath mercifully purged his people's land, and the pest of heretical wickedness is being deadened and driven away. Wherefore we give praise and thanks to God Almighty, because in one and the same cause of his mercy, he hath deigned to work two works of justice, by bringing upon those faithless folks their merited destruction in such a fashion that as many as possible of the faithful should gain their well-earned reward by the extermination of those folks. Historians have long been aware that medieval religious persecution, which became centralized under papal control, known as the Holy Office of the Inquisition, not long after the Albigensian Crusade, often had political undercurrents. But some of those historians have offered a defense of sorts of the persecutors. We are told that rulers and church authorities were generally more lenient and open-minded than the people they ruled. As R.W. Southern put it, on the whole the holders of ecclesiastical authority were less prone to violence, even against unbelievers, than the people whom they ruled. According to another historian, heretics aroused intense feelings of fear and hatred among the mass of the people, because they dissociated themselves completely from all the values on which society was based. That conventional interpretation was challenged by R.I. Moore in a brilliant and provocative book, The Formation of a Persecuting Society, Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 1987, 2nd Edition 2007. Moore questioned whether the masses feared and despised heretics as much as some historians have claimed. On the contrary, heresies often attracted substantial segments of the population. Generally speaking, according to Moore, it is not true that medieval man feared and resented any deviation from the Catholic faith. Rather, the reason why preachers of heresy were denounced, pursued and extinguished by whatever means availed was precisely the fear that they would undermine the faith of the simplices and with it the social order. After examining various cases in which heretics appear to have been executed by public demand, Moore concluded that, on inspection, their numbers shrank rapidly. According to Moore, we possess no true evidence of general popular antipathy to heresy as such. Thus, medieval persecutors were not agents of society at large, at least if our conception of society is one which includes the great majority of its members. Persecutors had their own agenda. Heretics was a political threat because they declared their own independence of the structures of established power. They looked for their authority to those who heard them. Emerging bureaucratic regimes stigmatized and persecuted heretics, along with Jews, homosexuals, witches, and even lepers, as a means to consolidate and justify their own power. This has been Excursions into Libertarian Thought, a production of Libertarianism.org and the Cato Institute. To learn more about Libertarian philosophy and history, visit www.libertarianism.org.