One of the passages that is often brought up about a person possibly losing their salvation, possibly no longer being in Christ, no longer abiding is John chapter 15. Now that was one of the passages that gave me trouble when I used to believe that a person could lose their salvation, could walk away, could forfeit their salvation. That was one of the passages that I turned to. But when I read the passage, is that really what it's saying? So let's go to John 15 and let's see. Now he starts off saying, I am the true vine and my father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away and every branch that does not bear fruit, he prunes that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. What he says, already you are clean because of the word that I spoke in you. So he says, Abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit itself unless it abides. Now it is clear that he's saying you have to abide in him. He's commanding abide, remaining him. That part is not disputed, I don't dispute that part. Now let's go on to where he says, if anyone verse six does not abide in me, he is thrown away like a branch and withers. And the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burn. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done. By this my father's glorified that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. Verse 10, if you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love. So it's clear that a person in order to be saved in order to actually have eternal life, that person has to abide. They have to remain. It's true that if you stop believing, it's true that if you stop abiding, it's true that if you don't bear good fruit, you will be cut off and thrown in the fire. You can gather it up and thrown in the fire. That's crystal clear. But wait a minute Corey, doesn't it kind of go against your argument that one saved always saved? No, it doesn't. The Greek understanding as well as the biblical understanding of believing is different than how we see it maybe today. Biblically, as far as salvation is concerned, when a person believes it is understood that a person enters into a continual state of believing, of constant believing entered into one time, continual until that person leaves this earth and goes to heaven. In English, we mark the beginning of that process with an ed with the past tense ed as in believed, but the Greek rendering is almost always in the present active participle. It's in that tense of the word pistas, meaning believing. For example, when you look at John 3 16, it says that whosoever shall believe in him. Well, the word that's used there is the ha pistuan, which is the present active participle, meaning believing the believing ones. Same thing in John 6 47 when he says that person who believes he has currently presently eternal life. Well, the person who believes the word that's used there is also the present active participle of pistuan. There is a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be a Christian. Christians do abide continually. Christians keep believing continually. Christians, true Christians, bear fruit. How do I get that from this passage? Well, if I ask you, if a person is going to continue to abide, continue to believe, continue to remain, continue to bear fruit, is that person ever going to lose their salvation? You would have to say no, if that person continually does that. Well, what does Jesus say the person is going to do? I'm going to address two issues here. When we look at the remainder of chapter 15, he says, you did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide or should remain. The question is going to be, is Jesus talking to his disciples or is he speaking about all of believers in general? I believe that he's speaking about all of us in general. Though he's speaking directly to his disciples, there also is an application that can go towards us and that he chose us. We are already told throughout the scriptures that all believers are chosen. Whether someone disagrees with that, that's another topic, but it's clear that we have been chosen. Anyone who rejects that rejects the clear reading of the scriptures. Now, you can look at this passage one of two ways. He's either talking only to the disciples and the disciples only. Well, if that's the case, then do not use John chapter 15 as an argument to say that a person can be cut off, since he goes on to say that he chose them to remain in him and to bear fruit. Now, I think though that the passage also applies to believers. I don't see any key that shows us that he goes from talking to all of us in general as a whole to now only speaking to the disciples. So let's look and see. Verse 12, this is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you to do. No longer do I call you servants, but the servant does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends that all that I have heard from my father I have made known to you. Well, what of this that that's just being spoken by Jesus doesn't apply to us as well. All of this also, even though he's speaking directly to the disciples, it also applies to us or can be attributed to us. Now, if someone says that it doesn't, that's fine. Just don't use this passage to state that you can lose your salvation. But if you're going to state this passage so that you can lose your salvation, then you've got to apply it to all of us. And he says that you didn't choose me, but I chose you, which is true for all of us as believers. He chose us first. Then after him choosing us through the spirit, we in turn choose. John also tells us that we loved him after he first loved us. So the initiator of all of this is God. We respond and in responding. So he says that I have made it so that I have chose. I've pointed to you that you will abide. You will abide and you will bear fruit. Well, that's just what God said in Ezekiel 36 when he says that he will put his spirit in our heart. And those people who have God's spirit, they will walk in his statutes and they'll never depart from them. So keeping that in mind, it should be clear that this passage is not teaching that you can lose your salvation.


Alright, thank you so much DigiKey. This week's IonMPI is MicrochipLady. What is IonMPI this week? Okay, this week's IonMPI is from Microchip. Weirdly coincidentally, I actually, this showed up on the DigiKey.com slash new featured product list and I had a breakout board designed for this. So now that it's back in stock, I was like, oh, I can talk about this chip and also I know a lot about it because I already wrote a library and come for it. So this week we're talking about the Microchip MCP3421. It is an ADC, a single channel differential ADC with up to 18 bits of resolution, which is a lot of bits. You know, most ADCs that people have had microcontrollers are 8 bit, 10 bit, 12, maybe 14 if you're lucky. So 18 is quite a lot. 18 basically means you can start doing very small measurements on the microvolt scale. What I like about this ADC is, you know, it's straightforward. It's got a single channel differential. It's got the 18 bit. It uses I squared C. So it's very easy to interface. It's got a couple settings. So you can change 12, 14, 16 bit resolution, which also will change the data rate because it uses a sigma delta and long input. It's got a built-in voltage reference. So you don't have to have like an external, you know, A ref generator, add to your bill of materials and size. It's all built in. It's got a built-in oscillator. It's got built in gain. So up to eight times gain. And it's like really simple to use. It's just like a SOT 236. So let's take a look at it. So you see at the bottom left this this chip, by the way, you know, is I squared C and it has a fixed address. You can see there's no address pin. But there's variants that come, you know, different variant ordering codes that come with different addresses. I think I have a diagram later of that. Differential input powered from 2.7 to 5.5 volts. The internal reference is 2.048 volts. So your signal has to be within that range and it's differential. But as long as like both the positive and negative are between ground and 2 volts, you'll be able to read the differential signal in. So it's a sine data. And then just I squared C for configuring and reading back. Just uses Delta Sigma. So, you know, one of the things about Delta Sigma is you can basically add as many states stages as you want. So, you know, you can do eight bit, which is fairly fast. Then, you know, every bit you add doubles the amount of time it takes because you have another stage. So the trade off with having Delta Sigma is it's not very fast. This I think when you go to 18 bits, it's like three, four, maybe five samples per second. So this isn't when you're wanting to like measure, you know, potentiometer or an analog like audio signal. This is good for sensors like pressure sensors, strain gauges, thermocouples, anything that needs high precision, but you don't need very fast reading. Okay. So here you go. So the at 18 bits, you're going to get, you know, 16 microvolts per LSB. But then on top of that, you can have a gain inside. There's a gramable gain of up to eight. But still, you know, even when you multiply by eight, remember, it has to be less than 2.48 volts. And the output, which it gives you will be between negative, you know, whatever number of bits divided by two to positive. So you can connect the negative pin to ground if you want, if you have a single ended output. But, you know, again, it's designed for stuff like thermocouples and we stone bridges where you want differential input. And here's an example of some wiring.  This is kind of what it's set up to do. And, you know, if you need, I think for some strain gauges, you know, if the if the change is very, very small, you might want to add a op amp at the bottom, you can see there the MCP6V01, I think it's an auto zeroing precision op amp. So that will be good if you have a measurement that's, you know, you're going to go below that 16 microvolts per LSB measurement limit. So the demo that I've got is, you know, because I looked at the issue, it's like, you know, you can just hook up a thermocouple directly, you don't need anything else. They show an MCP9800, but that's just because you want to get the ambient temperature to do, you know, compare against. So you because the thermocouple has the change in temperature from ambient. So you use the ambient to then calculate what the absolute temperature is. You're really overhead over the demo now. So I've got, so this is the, okay, so this is the breakup board here that I designed. So you can see the chip over here.  And then this is the differential input. And then I've wired the differential input here to a k-type thermocouple. And then you can see this is the ADC reading. I'm just picking this up. And then when I breathe on it gets warmer and you can see the ADC fixing up, even only a couple degrees. The micro voltage can be, you know, with eight times gain and 18-bit resolution. It's good enough. You can actually measure a thermocouple and get a couple degrees precision out of it. Directly no pre-amplifier, no signal conditioning at all. So a very simple and easy to wire up analog digital converter. Okay, so let's go back. We were just showing off the thermocouple. Can you go back? Yeah, okay. So then, yeah, we're gonna do the next one. Sorry. So this is the PCB design. This is just an image. Again, the bill of materials is small.  But honestly, probably most of these items you're already going to have on your board. So really, you know, all you end up needing is just that Saat 236. Because again, it can run from 2.7 to 5 volts. You don't even need a regulator for it. And then to write a library, you know, I just wanted to write one very quickly. I just loaded up the datasheet into chat tpt4 and microchip. Data sheets are so good that it was like, yeah, no problem. Here's the library. And as always, we... The link is into the chat, isn't it? We use these tools. We link, disclose, we put it in any code. We link to the actual chat that you can see where Ladyata typed and stuff. And a lot of the code is trained on Ladyata stuff, not all of it for things like this. So I think we're encouraging others to do that. And I wanted to mention we... Can you do that? Yeah. So, you know, what I like about microchip is the datasheets are so good that they're very easy to parse by a chatbot. And it was able to kind of pipe out the library. And then, you know, there's a couple typos and so, but I fixed it up and published it on GitHub. So if you want to get started with this chip really quickly, I have a full Arduino library that sets the gain and the resolution and displays it on this TFT or displays it in the serial port and also calculates your samples per second. And then, yes, if you want to... The default iSquared C address is 0x68. But if you want, there are a couple different variants and DigiKey does stock them. So if you want multiple ones on one iSquared C port or either use of an address conflict, check the ordering code because, you know, they're not going to be compatible. On the other hand, if you want to make sure that your system doesn't... Your design doesn't get affected by part shortages, just make sure that your code is looking for any of the eight addresses that you could get depending on which version you place on your PCB. And kind of interesting. Dark mode. Not only is it in stock, but DigiKey looks like they rolled out dark mode. Dark mode. Maybe they just did it for you, but everyone should check and see. Love it.  I'm going to take it. So in dark mode, in stock, all the options are available. This chip is about $2. I found it very easy to get started with. Order it and you can have it in your hand by tomorrow. All right. And then there's a short video that Microchip has. We're going to just play a little snippet from it and then we'll see you on the other side. Chip's MCP3421 weight scale demo board was designed to demonstrate the MCP3421 ADC's performance in such an application. It uses the PIC18F4550 microcontroller for data processing and USB communication with APC. This board also demonstrates the differences in system performance by adjusting the parameters of the sensor signal conditioning circuits by means of Microchip's MCP6V07 AutoZero'd operational amplifier. The MCP3421 Delta Sigma ADC can detect an input signal level as low as 2 microvolts. When measuring such a low input signal level, a low noise operational amplifier is used. The MCP6V07 AutoZero'd operational amplifier has input offset voltage correction for very low offset and offset drift, which makes it ideal for boosting small signal levels. Various signal conditioning schemes can be tested, providing the user an idea of how best to achieve the design requirements. Additionally, you can connect your own load cell for evaluation. An LCD displays the user selection option, ADC output code and weight. Buttons beside the LCD allows user control. The S4 button is used for offset calibration. S3 adjusts the signal conditioning gain settings. S2 is used to change the information displayed on the LCD. And S5 resets the demo. A LabView graphical user interface allows gain calibration, shows weight, standard deviation, ADC code and other data


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Roeddwn i'n meddwl â Allyson i唯ed Gweithrediol, oherwydd hen Alyson a Roby yn y gweithiau sy'n ei bwysig i'r gweithio mewn cymdeithasol y byddwn i'n mynd o supermarketau. Felly iddyn nhw wedi跃 yw'r gweithiau. Rwy'n ymdian nhw'n sefyrdd gweithiau sy'n meddwl a llwyddiad dwi'n ei wneud i gael rwyf yn L-ele Moodle, ac yn y bêl yma wrth gwrs o'u bydd arno enwedig yn ei bwysig i'w mynd i'w bwysig i'w yma. There might be a change in management, or there might be a re-shifting of departments and things like that. But, after having been asked this a couple of times, I just decided, oh here, you know... Are we really asking the right questions of moodle? So I want to explore that a little bit with you today and see maybe what you think of it. Or if you have any pearls of wisdom for me, maybe by the end of the presentation. That's my Twitter handle as well either during the presentation or afterwards. If you have anything to say about it, please connect with me. I'd love to kind of continue the conversation. So in terms of kind of situating me, you're getting a little road trip through Ireland. You were in Dublin just in the previous presentation. This is where we are in Athlone. Martin mentioned OER 19. That was in Galway, so the other side. So it's a little road trip across the middle of Ireland. And that's our campus. We were one of 13 institutes of technology in higher education Ireland. Those numbers are dwindling because we're changing. We're repurposing and renaming. And we have technological universities now as well on that landscape. So the numbers are dropping, but we're still currently in Institute of Technology. And as I say, that's our campus. It's small. That's about 5,000, few 5,000, 6,000 full-time and part-time students across a range of disciplines. We have faculty of science, faculty of business and engineering. And we have both a strong research focus because we have Level 10 programmes. And those of you who are familiar with the NFQ framework for Ireland's National Frameworks for Qualifications, we're on this side. So the yellow and the purple, that's us, right up to Level 10. But we also have a very strong industry focus. So lots of applied programmes with placements and so on and really lots of links with local industry. We're really embedded in the community and that's something we're quite proud of. My role has also changed quite a bit. I started back in 2000 as a French and German lecturer. And now I am that. So it's slightly different. But I am currently in the Graphic Design Department working with students and I also teach digital applications in the Faculty of Business. So I wear money hats. But since 2007, I've also had the role of education developer and I was kind of trying to grapple a little bit with these titles. So in the room, you know, are you a learning technologist?  Any educational developers? What else have we got? Instructional designers? You've got a three or four different hats, yeah. It depends on the day of the week which one I choose because the jobs, you know yourselves, the job is quite varied, yeah. So at the moment I'm going with educational developer with a strong technology focus. So I think that covers quite a bit. And I'm kind of moodle teaching support as well since 2007. And I have to do a shout out to Anthony who is also here from Athlon IT who is the brains behind the moodle administrator and does all the tech stuff as well. So, but we have been working together quite a long time trying to help people to get to grips with moodle and see how we could use it in lots and lots of different ways. And that's what this is about. So it's kind of like a little jigsaw if you like of the kinds of ways that we use moodle. So you've got your standard undergraduate. I'm going to have a look at my pointer here. So the standard undergraduate programs that you're all familiar with. We've also got our postgraduate programs again up to level 10. Again, you're all familiar with that as well. But we've been trying to branch out really to try and be an inclusive Institute so that we have our academic supports. We have an academic writing page and academic writing center. I mean, try and encourage students to go there to use Tarnadine as a formative tool to look at the resources that we have then in terms of improving their skills. And we also have peer assisted student support. Do any of you know PASS? Manchester was one of the places where PASS actually originated. So it's a support system, a peer system where secondary students help first year students settling in college. So we use moodle for that as well and the PASS mentor is really actively involved in looking at how educational technology might help them. We have recently as well, we have kind of short courses and I was delighted to see Steven's presentation yesterday because we started looking at CPD, particularly for our placement supervisors because they need that kind of on-the-job knowledge, if you like. They don't necessarily need an accredited programme. They need something short and sweet and we're using moodle for that as well. So plenty of hats. And the one we've started as well down there in the bottom left-hand corner are badges. Believe it or not, we're only just using badges. How many of you are using badges for ages, I suppose? Yeah? I don't know. But for us anyway, we've only just started using badges and they are great. They're great. So I'm delighted to see that our badges have been awarded and our badges have been awarded to visiting Chinese academics. So they're going home in June with two badges, one for learning, teaching and assessment and the other one for technology-enhanced learning and they're thrilled with them as well. We couldn't offer it, excuse me, we couldn't offer accreditation but we could offer a microcredential and that's why I think that we're really looking into those kind of those achievements or recognition of achievements. So that's kind of us as well and we have our PG DIP. We have our accredited education programme with lots of modules where Moodle and lots of different technologies are embedded in the system and I suppose for me the key thing is it's embedded in our practice. We kind of don't really think about it too much and I'll get to why that's important in a little bit. So this is where we started, picture it Friday afternoon and nobody else wants to be around. There were six technology enthusiasts in a very old computer lab in AIT and two software engineers had found a new tool and they wanted to show it to us but that new tool was Moodle. I was teaching French and German and if you can imagine, I was trying to find authentic resources and I was constantly having to point students to a URL here and a link there and so on and all of a sudden Moodle was going to give me a space to put it all in to structure it and construct activities around. So I was thrilled and I haven't looked back. However, along the way we had this and this and this and this and this and there are a few more that I could have put in there as well. Policies and strategies and maps and more. Do you ever feel that you just bogged down a little bit with all the policies and all the strategies? The intentions are good but it stifles innovation a little bit and when you find that you've got to be responding to whenever you have an innovative idea you've got to be responding to a strategy. Find the page in the strategic plan where that links to it then you'll get the funding. So this is kind of where we're at at the moment and there are more to come and I'm sure that it's similar for a lot of you as well. And from that point of view I suppose I was thinking we're reflecting now. We are, I suppose, what are we now? 15 years, is that right? 15 years using Moodle last year and we're kind of trying to think well where are we going to go now? And last year I suppose you're asking why on earth is this or what has this got to do with Moodle? Last year I was looking at the website after the Moodle Mood and I came across the core values. Was it last year that Martin introduced the core values? I came across the core values on Moodle and it was a bit of a light bulb moment because for me in our institution Moodle has become so embedded in practice it's another dare I say it, another IS. Just a system, yeah, or so we thought. And all of a sudden here we had a group of people talking about core values aligning themselves to UN sustainable goals and then really talking about a mission statement and that was quite transformative for me because it made me think about where we stood. So getting bogged down in all of this it made me step back and look at what Moodle was trying to do and then see well where do we fit in or does it even align to where we're going? And I don't know if you saw it yesterday but I misquoted Martin. I wanted to change the world not just improve it so in my head somewhere as an educator that's what I want to do. So I had a look at the core values and I went back to our own strategic plan. Do you all know your own mission statement from your institution? Could you quote it for me? Yeah, your core values? Your goal? I didn't, I didn't. So I went back and I had a look at it. This is ours. I'll give you a minute to read it. I've highlighted the word impact because I think in the current climate we really do need to have a different kind of impact in education particularly higher education. So it's broad-ranging and that was our strategic plan up to 2018. We're doing another one now just to see if we can follow on from that and that's our compass. That's supposed to guide us, okay? Do you always go back to your institute vision or goal when you're thinking about a new and innovative idea? This is supposed to guide us. Those are our values. I'm not sure if you can see them but we have the inclusive focus, excellence in teaching and research, partnership, collaboration and teamwork, transparency and accountability, and professionalism, integrity, truth and collegiality. That's our catchphrase if you like. Truth is great and it will prevail. Just think about that one in today's context. A lot of fake news going around. So those are our values but I wanted to see did Moodle's values align with ours? So I did a mapping exercise. You're all familiar with these. I think they're incredible. I think as a compass for a company to have it's an incredible set of values. And they do match. They do map and I was delighted to see it. I was kind of hoping they would because otherwise we were in trouble but they do match and I was able to move them around and see that yes, we have aligned our values and yes, we're on the same page which is really important for me. So what does that mean? Does it really matter if our values are aligned? This is quite high level thinking I suppose. On the day to day basis this is the kind of stuff that we're doing. The cannot do this tends to come from EMT where people aren't using Moodle on a regular basis but they are the decision makers. So the key decisions they make are cost, reliability, support, availability which you would expect. Moving on to the educators and I asked them that. We did a survey a couple of years ago and those of you who are from Ireland would know that the VLE project there are two papers I put at the end of it about staff and student impressions of the VLE and I suppose what staff really wanted was ease of access, reliability and good training so that they could use the tools and students wanted access to content, flexibility and different kinds of assessment ideas. So very much the micro level, day to day running of the business not really talking about high level philosophical statements like visions and goals but it does matter. It does matter that we're singing on the same sing from the same hymn sheet because otherwise this kind of thing can happen. Do you recognise it? Yeah? The latest digital bling. Are you guilty of it? Yeah? You know that the magpie is attracted to shiny things. Well I found that of late there are lots and lots of companies looking for buying for attention and it's who has the shiniest newest thing and if you have it and you can actually promote it well enough then you're more than likely going to get an audience particularly amongst the group who are the decision makers. So I was trying to counteract that and I was trying to figure out why is it that people aren't looking at Moodle? Moodle has all of those things. You know we can do all of the kind of the shiny new things but I actually decided I suppose I came to the realisation. Moodle is like a comfy pair of slippers. It's the thing that we've been using it since 2003. We're really comfortable with it. It's embedded in our practice. We've started learning about new things in a really organic way. It's conversations over coffee, meeting in the corridor, actually looking to see we're sharing maybe a programme. What are you using? Can I do that too? So it has been really, really organic in its growth. We're almost at 100% capacity in terms of our teaching staff and that's approximately 200 people. There'll always be the laggards. There'll always be the people who just won't engage but that's okay because that's life. But we've got a really good engagement rate of them from the academics. And what we valued as well was that teacher autonomy. You know academic freedom is really important for faculty and we've let them do their own thing. We haven't imposed templates. There's no top-down kind of decisions being imposed. What's happening is the students are saying can you use it? And the staff are saying well how do you do that? It's going to make my life easier. It's going to make my teaching better. So we're not shouting it from the rooftops. It's kind of a suroptitious group. We're underground and that has had a negative effect because there's a lack of visibility in the upper echelons of our institute. And there's also a perceived lack of innovation. We haven't been shouting from the rooftops all the cool stuff we've been doing but now there's a perception that we're actually not doing anything at all. So the focus is on the wrong stuff. So what do we need to do? First off I wanted to look at those high-level questions. What do we want from Moodle? Okay what do we want from our LMS? We always call it a virtual learning environment as opposed to a learning management system because it brings everything together. We've used lots of social tools. We've used lots of other tools but Moodle brings it all together. It's our one-stop shop for our students and it's a platform that they can easily access and particularly with mobile app. It's readily available for students. So we use a mobile app but we'll probably push it a little bit more after the Moodle Mood. How can Moodle help us get where we want to go? Think of our compass. What do we want to do? We want to have an impact across research and industry. And then can we learn from the wider Moodle community? I think what I've taken away from this Moodle Mood is that real sense of community and I'll be at the Moodle Nest workshop later on just to see how that can happen. I think we've been in our little silo and we haven't really reached out and I think it's time for us to do that. I haven't been at a moot in about five years and things have changed and moved on quite a bit so I'm delighted that I came back. And then this shared vision of what higher education can do. I know it's quite high level. I know it's quite philosophical. My God, look at what's happening nowadays. Look at what's happening. Pick a country and think about the impact that we could have in higher education on the future leaders of our countries. So high level stuff. But then let's get down to the practicalities. We have Moodle, what we call champions or coaches. They're going to be getting involved with Moodle Nest. Our mobile app, we haven't really pushed it. We're definitely going to look at that a little bit more. I think we need to start shouting from the rooftops what we've been doing. So I picked up on Steven's CPD model yesterday. So thanks Edinburgh and AP and any other suggestions. What else could we do to make ourselves more visible? Not even on a wider scale, but even with our own institute. We've done our own mini Moodle Mood, but it was a while ago. So showcasing things as well. But it's a comfy pair of slippers guys. So we have to make it a little bit friendier now. So can it do this? I would argue. Of course it can and so much more. Thanks very much guys. So we've got a couple of minutes for questions. If you raise your hand and Bob and Helen will run around with them. Microphones and come and find you.  Thanks Geraldine. I really enjoyed that. It's interesting talking about the mission statements. I don't know what they are. I think I can probably name a couple of the core values because whenever we put a paper to the LTA committee, we have to say which one it's aligned to. And I think it's a good technique. And one of the things we've been trying to do on our blog site is we've got hints and tips, news and events. And the third one is academic spotlight articles. And we've really failed to get enough of them. Really just showcasing how people are using it. So I think this has just given me a good idea to try it. Well, I've always wanted to reinvigorate that. But also say this is supporting this particular value. So thanks. That was a really good reminder. Yeah, I think it's just that we just lacked visibility and there's lots of really good stuff going on, but we haven't been showcasing it. So I think we need to get the word out a little bit more. And I think that's from this is what I've taken anyway. Any more questions there? So if you do have strategies like Stephen or anything else that you'd like to share, something that works really, really good in your institute rather than having the conversation about changing an LMS. And you know the change management is something that I don't necessarily want to go down the road of. But if there's something else then please feel free on Twitter to give me a shout out and let me know. Could you go back to your Twitter handle just over on the screen there? I'll have to go right back will I? I should have done that at the end as well. Yeah, sorry now. This is really bad. It's at GS McDermott. I've been tweeting a little bit so. Ah. Oh, someone's going to do it for you. Thank you guys. No next one up. That's not me. I'll do it. I'll do a tweet and we'll follow up from then. Jeldyn, just for my point of view having been involved in lots of different strategies and this kind of stuff. It's the storytelling as well as the philosophical kind of stuff. And really good leaders are very good at talking about where we started and the whole story and how it all fits together and that kind of thing. And I think that if you do want to make a change, even if you want to have a refocus on Moodle, it's about telling that story. It's about saying like this is why we chose this. This is our mission. This is our value. So I really appreciate what you did there. I think that's a great approach for anybody who's looking to like reinvigorate their Moodle and to fend off potentially someone coming in with a shiny suit and going, oh, let's get rid of all this and really bringing in our visibility. Yeah, I think it has given me an opportunity to kind of refocus as you say and see where we go from here. So we'll have great things for next year's Moodle. Thank you very much, Jeldyn. Thanks a lot.


The final event of the season coming up the ATP finals the groups have been set And we've got some really crazy matches in the group stage But we're gonna go through all the players and what their best case scenario is and maybe some predictions as well So starting with the groups We actually have the green and the red group in the green group We start with Novak Djokovic as the number one player in the world Yannick Sinner the number four player in the world He goes in there as well Stefano Siddi pass the number six in the world He is also in that group and Holger Runa the number eight in the world also in that group Let's start with Runa and his chances of getting through he's got a 2-2 record against Djokovic And of course they just played an absolute epic last week in Paris Unfortunately, he lost that match, but still very competitive He actually holds a 2-0 winning record over Sinner the last match being in Monte Carlo this year So he's got to be happy with that and he also holds a 2-0 record against Siddi pass But he hasn't played Siddi pass in over a year so things might have changed his probability of winning the whole tournament is about 5% which is actually the lowest out of anybody, but this is what my predictions I reckon that he might lose the Djokovic in that first match But I think he can beat Sinner and I think Siddi pass is gonna be a win as well And I reckon he might make the semis and get out of this group with the match coming down to who wins out of Sinner versus Runa I'm gonna go Runa just because of the 2-0 head-to-head. Let's go over to Siddi pass now He has a losing record against Djokovic two wins 11 losses They haven't played since the Australian open though back in January He does have a positive record against Sinner though five and two But he did lose their last match in Rotterdam at the start of the year And he has a zero and two record against Runa and haven't played for over a year So not sure what to expect there. He's got about an 8% chance of winning the title And I don't think it's gonna be a good tournament for Steph I reckon he loses the Djokovic the way Sinner's been playing I reckon he loses to him and Runa's just starting to get into form as Well So I reckon he loses all these matches goes 0-3 and stays in the group stage doesn't get through to the semis But it's just a nightmare draw his best chance probably Sinner But then again as we know Sinner's been playing really well lately So I reckon it might be a tough event for Steph heading over to Sinner now the number four in the world He has a losing record against Djokovic zero and three with their last match being a Wimbledon And it was a loss there is a losing record against Siddi pass two and five But he did win their last match in Rotterdam in February And he has a losing record against Runa zero and two with their previous match being in Monte Carlo at the start of the Play-court season. He's got a good probability of winning the title though 14% But I don't think he beats Djokovic He might get the win over Siddi pass and like I said earlier I think it comes down to whoever wins out of Runa and Sinner and I'm back in Runa to beat Sinner So I reckon he doesn't make the group stage I reckon he comes down to the wire and he just misses out because of that Runa loss But this group's gonna be really interesting with some really fun matchups heading over to Djokovic now the world number one He's actually got a really good record against Sinner three and oh But they're only match being a Wimbledon in 2023 and Djokovic getting the straight sets win He's got a good record against Siddi pass as well 11 wins two losses The last time playing at the Australian Open final this year And he's got a two and two record against Runa having just won their previous match last week in Paris And that might be as tough as tests because Runa has been very good against Djokovic throughout their head-to-head His probability of winning the tournament 45% and I predicted for this one I reckon he beats Sinner despite Sinner playing really really well lately I just feel like that three and oh head-to-head. It's so good for Djokovic I think he beats Siddi pass because Siddi pass hasn't been playing super good lately And also Djokovic just beat Steph most of the time And I think he just gets through Runa like he did last week and I reckon he's gonna go on win the whole thing I think Djokovic should be the champion based on the fact that he can beat pretty much everybody Maybe when he gets to the semi finals of the final, you know It can never have could be a test But I reckon he goes three and oh on the group and goes on the win the whole thing heading over to the red group Now we've got Elkara's the number two in the world Mevvedev the number three in the world Andrei Rublev the number five in the world and Zverev the number seven in the world So a real stacked group in this one and this one's more random I think than maybe the first group because the first group you kind of expect Djokovic should go through But this one could throw up some weird ones Let's start with Zverev though at the very bottom of the rankings in this group number seven He's gonna take on Elkara's who he has a even record with three and three But he did lose their last match at the US Open a couple of months ago He has a losing record against Mevvedev seven and ten and he's played Mevvedev so much this year Their previous match was a loss in Beijing a few weeks ago to Mevvedev He does have a positive record against Rublev five and three but lost in their last match a couple weeks ago in Vienna So not great for Zverev coming in against these guys He has about a seven percent chance of winning the whole thing and I reckon this is gonna be tough I think he loses to Elkara's I think he loses to Mevvedev And I think he's probably gonna lose to Rublev as well the way Rublev has been playing So I don't think he gets out of the group stage probably goes oh and three a little bit like Siddi pass in the previous group Going over to Rublev now the number five in the world actually never played against Elkara's before so that could be a really fun matchup See them play for the first time He has a losing record two and six against Mevvedev including the loss at the US Open a couple months ago And a losing record against Vera of three wins five losses, but he did win that last match in Vienna He's actually won all three matches against Vera this year So maybe gaining some confidence in that head-to-head. He's about an 8% chance of winning the whole thing And I'm gonna back Rublev the way he's been playing lately. I reckon he beats Elkara's because we're not sure what to expect from Elkara's I don't think he beats Mevvedev I think Mevvedev will be too solid and I think he can beats Vera for a fourth time in a row and make it to the semi-finals Where he'll probably play against Djokovic in the next group. So really interested to see how Rublev does I think he's in great form. I know Sid has been the talk of the town But I think Rublev should be considered as well jumping over to Mevvedev now the number three in the world He has a two and two record against Elkara's including a win at the US Open a few months ago He has a six and two record against Rublev also beating him at the US Open And he has a ten and seven winning record against Zverev beating him in Beijing a couple of months ago He's got about a 14% chance of winning the whole thing And I reckon Mevvedev is gonna be a serious threat not just to the guys in his group But also to Djokovic down the track. I think he beats Elkara's on indoor hard courts I think he beats Rublev and I think he continues to beat Zverev And I reckon he might even make it to the final and maybe lose the Djokovic in the end But I reckon Mevvedev is gonna be a serious chance of winning this whole thing Probably the second favorite in my opinion and the last play on this group Elkara's the number two in the world Not sure what to expect from him because he's been injured lately hasn't been great either lately having a really bad loss in Paris But he does have a two-two record against Mevvedev unfortunately losing their previous match at that US Open He has never played Rublev which can be dangerous It's also dangerous for Rublev because he's never played Elkara's and he has a level record three and three against Zverev Having won their previous match at the US Open But remember US Open Zverev had just beaten Sinner and maybe it was a little bit tired coming into that match So we might not have seen the best of that matchup He is the second favorite to win this event with a 20% chance of winning the whole thing Which to be honest, I think it's a little high considering he's never played this event before and I don't think he's gonna get through very far I don't think he's gonna beat Mevvedev because maybe he's playing a lot better lately and also he's playing injury free I think he might lose that matchup to Rublev Rublev is looking really confident But I do think he's gonna beat Zverev and at least get one win in his debut But I don't think he makes it out of the group stage I think Rublev beats him to take his spot But it really comes down to what does Elkara's look like physically because we know that if he's playing healthy He can beat anybody in the world and if he is playing healthy He could make the final he could win the whole thing But it's so hard to know whether or not Elkara's is actually 100% healthy because if he's not he's not gonna beat some of those guys So there it is that is my predictions for everything also the head-to-head and all the matchups for everything Let me know down in the comments below. Do you agree with my predictions? I picked a little bit of a random one with Rublev and Zverev and a little bit random there with maybe Runa versus Mehvedev in a semi and then Rublev versus Jokovic not picking Elkara's not picking Sinner I know people are gonna lose their minds because I'm not picking Sinner But it's I just think Rublev is gonna get through and I think that Runa's gonna get through the way Runa's played the last two weeks It's so hard not to pick him especially because he can almost beat Jokovic And if you can almost do that you can definitely beat Sinner But let me know down in the comments below who are you picking to win the whole event and who do you think is actually gonna make It out of the group stage this week in Turin