He really didn't talk on the phone much, you know, it was very, hey, meet me at the restaurant. Meet me at the two sisters' restaurant, you know, meet me over here, meet me at M&M's, you know, that was basically the conversation that we would have. The thing about mine is that my informant, who was my partner, was wired. So it didn't matter, you know, he decoded the whole conversation in court. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101.   Yeah, yeah, yeah. I drank it like water. Wow. Did you go through times of paranoia? Like, I dealt with paranoia. Like, I was paranoid. I thought everybody- For police. And everybody talked to me, that's what I'm saying. Paranoia from the police. Yeah, I thought everybody was working with him. Yeah, because you don't know who might be undercover. You don't know who might be a rat. All that. Talking on the phone. One phone for two, three weeks and chasing other ones and all kinds of stuff. Did you always talk in code to everybody or only to certain people? Like, became a habit when you said certain things? Well, we really didn't talk on the phone much. You know, it was very- Hey, meet me at the restaurant. That was it. Meet me at the two sisters' restaurant. You know, meet me over here. Meet me at M&Ms. You know, that was basically the conversation that we would have. The thing about mine is that my informant, who was my partner, was wired. So it didn't matter. You know, he decoded the whole conversation in court. Yeah, I remember a time when it was a drought and I went to Houston and I can remember a guy took me to the wrong spot. I told him meet me at the super one. But when he met me, he met me and then he took me around this corner. And in my mind, I was already angry because it had been a drought and it hadn't been moving in so long. I was totally ticked off at this guy to where it became violent as soon as we even got out of the car because I felt like he betrayed me and I felt like he was trying to do me because I didn't really know him. Right. These are the things that happen when you're trying to deal with droughts. You know what I'm saying? Did you ever have a drought? Well, I had droughts, but my droughts was never to where I was really going- No, I didn't. I didn't deal with people that I didn't know. But the person that I was doing a deal with was supposed to know the person. Your business is hard to trust people. You can't trust people that good. It goes the same way throughout life with all these businesses, whatever you're in. It's hard to trust people. But the difference is when you're in a legitimate business, and yes, it's hard to trust people, but you're not going to go to prison behind somebody else if it's illegal business compared to when it's illegal and you don't trust somebody, they can send you to prison for life. But they worse.  I remember Dame D'Anne saying something about it when he was owed some money by a corporate American. The way they treat you is even worse, because they can't even handle the situation that they're creating. I agree with that, because they do it behind paperwork, computers, and you have to face off with people who are weaker than you, but they just know how to play the game. And they take more chances? They take chances.  You know, in the street, they ain't going to say that, because they know you might do it.


Hey everyone. Happy Monday November 2nd.  So let's check these out Starting with the Nasdaq So when the Nasdaq started out pretty strong But it was still the weakest of the bunch when it came down and broke below in the negative territory Tried to push it positive and then came back and consolidated. That's where I got short right here and cut a nice little runner down Apple okay, so Apple was the big Frustrator of the day. So I had this initial push-up. It pulled back. We got long right here as it broke through the lows On a mighty 90 signal got long right here and rode that thing up those two big bars Gave us a really nice profit. I got out of a decent amount, but I held on because I was looking for To break the highs of the day and it never did that it rolled over I held on held on held on which if looking back at the the one mistake that I made is I held on to that law last piece Just kind of in a hope mode thinking it would it would come back never did when it flushed down here This was actually a really good signal for mighty 90 So I got long again It started to bounce but never never did enough for me to get out of any and then just rolled over So ended up turning what it was a fantastic winner into a net net loser on Apple for the day Amazon this one was a little frustrating because we had this little bounce here and I was trying to get short all day I was you know just weak all day saw this little bounce was gonna get short right here just use the The peak here as my exit point it pushed up there. So I bailed cut my losses quickly Unfortunately, just it bled down exactly what I wanted it to do. Unfortunately got flushed out of that one Facebook had this initial push. It was bounced up between these pivots. We got long for an upside runner cut this nice piece here Had a nice profit came back down. We added and then it just rolled over and ended up taking a Loss I did get once it once it broke down below this pivot started consolidating I did catch a little piece here for a winner net net positive 35 bucks on the day in in Facebook Microsoft cut a downside runner as well very similar got into this one right at the same time as the Nasdaq pushed into negative territory It's chopping around and so we got short and caught a little runner here in Microsoft MU got a little downside runner as well The other thing I don't I didn't like how I was trading today was I did not let my runners run very well I was taking profits too quick after that Disturbing apple trade that got me all flustered this morning But MU came down. I was I was watching just kind of grinding lower all morning Finally caught a downside runner right here got this got this little piece Netflix Caught a little downside runner in net. Oh, I'm sorry. No Netflix was he was an upside runner He was strong and it was kind of consolidating bouncing around when I had that big push broke through the highs Came down got long right here and just caught this little piece up right there I was looking for more up to that pivot never did so when it rolled over I just cut out and took a little profit Nicola so Nicola had that big push up and there was consolidating Consolidating we got long that right in here I was looking for a bounce. Unfortunately. It flushed one more time got us out before it did bounce So it took a little loss in Nicola Tesla Tesla had this big big bounce Initially, we actually got short right here and caught this little piece right here for a small winner in the mighty 90 trade and then ended up trying to get long again right here and Pushed up and then just rolled over so net net and Tesla minus 114 on the day Twitter Twitter was weak all day. I was looking for a spot to get short here It just barely bounced and roll over again. Finally. I got in on this little bounce here and caught a little piece of that I was a super small so 122 dollar winner there Uber Uber This was a early morning runner that we took so we had this push and pushed up in between these pivots Here started consolidating got long got this nice runner up here We we held on to a little bit tried to try to Look for another continuation up it ended up rolling over but still nice winner 282 bucks in Uba and Then a win So when we we did catch a a small We got some puts right here and took a tiny profit out of win on a mighty 90 trade I with it was strong one of the stronger stocks on the board I was just consolidating here I was looking for another push up to the pivot got long got flushed out and ended up taking a loss net of 240 loss on win for the day Zoom big push up early in the morning took a short here rode that down for a little profit Obviously left a lot on the table. Of course, you don't know that in hindsight in hindsight Can't trade that way but took a nice winner of 220 at a zoom So net netted on the day plus six hundred thirty three dollars and fifty cents I'll take it because I don't feel like I traded very well today. So hope that was helpful Let me know if you guys have any questions. We will talk to you tomorrow Election Day. See ya


My name is Nurmagnesi, and with me, Freddy Roland, who are both part of the HPLA group here at Red Hat. Today, we're going to talk about a new way to deploy OpenShift clusters at scale in an automated way. It's called zero-touch provisioning or ZTP for short. After the containers revolution for Kubernetes, which is the basis for OpenShift, became the de facto standard for infrastructure management. Having multiple clusters in your organizations spread across data centers, regions, and multiple cloud providers has become a reality. And with that, when the number of clusters increases, the need for administrators to have robust and reliable tools to manage their fleets of clusters became more apparent. Open cluster management, also known as Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, is an open source solution for managing multiple clusters. It offers solutions for challenges like policy enforcement, application management, and also cluster lifecycle management, where you may deploy, upgrade, or deprovision your clusters. Open cluster management is available for download as an operator from the operator hub website. Now, the notion of cluster being this gigantic thing with hundreds of nodes in a large footprint with movie tendency still exists. And we do see that, but less and less. What we start to see is smaller clusters with new and more compact apologies, such as three master, three workers type of scenario. And as we are getting closer to the edge, it comes as a requirement to support more lightweight infrastructures, such as, for example, in 5G, the Far Edge network with the distributed units. So with that, we got to a point where the entire deployment needs to occupy the absolute smallest possible footprint, just a single server. To achieve that, Red Hat engineers have been working to reduce the footprint of OpenShift, so it fits into more constrained environments by putting the control plane and worker capabilities into a single node. OpenShift typically requires a temporary bootstrap machine, which is usually a separate machine and, of course, a provisioning network, but edge deployments are often our environments where there are no extra nodes to spare. However, for these use cases that we're interested in, a new functionality provided by OpenShift called bootstrap in place, eliminates the separate bootstrap node requirement for single node deployments. So when installing a single node OpenShift, you only need the node that you wish to install on to. Yet, few things to keep in mind here. Single node OpenShift, or SNO for short, is still in developer preview in OpenShift 4.8. At a while at least, 8 CPU cores, 32 gigs of RAM, and at least 120 gigabytes of storage. It does not have the option to add additional hosts after you've finished your installation. And as you can probably assume, single node OpenShift is not highly available, which means you cannot expect zero downtime for your Kubernetes API. So how do we deliver a single node OpenShift all to the edge in large scale and do that with good performance? First, let's define our requirements. The topology will be hub-spoke, where the hub is a cluster running the management application. We want the spoke cluster installed on bare metal, like, for example, a server at the base of an antenna in a 5G Farage environment. We should have a minimal performance impact on the hub cluster when installing spoke cluster. Also, we want to be able to automate the process to avoid errors. So the derivative API, like currently CRDs, is required. It will allow us to use GitHub's oriented deployments. Customer environment will be disconnected, so no access to the internet. And we want to be able to install a thousand spoke clusters, import them to Ocm, apply policies, get a status of the policies, and all of that in an acceptable timeframe. So in order to install cluster, Ocm is using an open source library called Hive. Hive is an operator which runs as a service on top of Kubernetes. The Hive service can be used to provision and perform the initial configuration of open chief clusters. It supports several platforms, like AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, and more. Hive also supports bare metal provisioning as provided by OperaShift installed using API. However, this feature requires a separate pre-existing provisioning host to run the boot sub-node. Also, this host will require specific network configuration. And for Hive cluster install, Hive will start an installation board taking about 800 megabytes of memory on the hub cluster and also will consume some storage for running the installer. So with the additional node and additional workloads on the hub for Hive cluster installation, this method cannot meet our schedule requirements. So how can we take that away from the hub? So there is a way to install bare metal clusters without the need of an additional boot stop. The assisted installer is a SaaS hosted in reddit.com that enables the user to easily install OpenShift on bare metal or VMS. It provides a UI where the user is guided to the process of providing the minimum input to create a discovery item. The user will need to boot the server without ISO where an agent will report to the service, the hardware, and other sanity checks. Then the installation can be kicked off by the user once all prefab shades are done. So, good news are that assisted installer supports SNO. There is no need for a boot stop node. And the installation is run on the node itself with bootstrap in place for SNO. No need to run the installer on the hub cluster. And the bad news are that assisted installer is SaaS, node need access to the internet to communicate. It had a REST API and node a declarative API, and the user needs to boot the user himself. All right, so we need to take the assisted installer from the cloud into the hub. How do we do that? We packed the assisted installer as an operator, deployed on the hub cluster without any UI. We created Kubernetes API based on the API defined by Hive so that the integration with OCI will be easy. And for booting the node, we can use existing capabilities like MetalCube. The permitted operator is capable of booting a host given a URL of an ISO and using BMC, which is a baseboard management controller. Either way, if you want more information on the assisted installer, you can check out the talk we did about it earlier this year. A link is available in the last one. So now we have all the pieces. Multicluster management on the hub cluster with OCI, cluster provisioning API with Hive, agent-based installation with assisted installer, bare-metal ISO boot with MetalCube and bare-metal operator. And all we need is just to connect everything together. So let's walk through the high-level flow. First, the assisted installer will generate an ISO according to parameters defined in the CRDs. Once the ISO is ready, the bare-metal operator will connect to the bare-metal via the BMC interface and boot it with the ISO. Once booted, the assisted installer agent will start collecting hardware information and report back to the assisted installer service. Once required validation are made, checking for example that we have enough RAM and CPUs, the assisted installer will kick-start the installation on the spoke cluster. Once the purchase is installed, Hive will report the CRD to OCI that the cluster is ready to work with. OCI and with an imported cluster, deploy is agent called clusterlet, then apply policies if any are defined and also configure primitives to report metrics. So now, let's take a closer look at the APIs and CRDs we use for the ZTP flows. Note that some of them were already defined. Cluster deployment and cluster image set came from Hive. Cluster deployment was enhanced to enable to plug an external installer. Using cluster deployment gave us the ability to keep the existing open cluster management interface. Bare-metal host is coming from the MetalCube project and managed cluster and clusterlet edition config came from open cluster management. The infra-env and the nmstate config are the resources needed to create a discovery image. The two are linked with the label selector that allows infra-env to locate the relevant nmstate configs. Those contain network configurations such as static IPs and more. Users may configure infra-env with SSH key to debug the host on the discovery fix. The bare-metal host contains the BMC connection information to the target bare-metal machine. It would also load and boot the discovery image on that spoke. Agent cluster install specifies the cluster's configuration such as networking, number of control planes, et cetera. The agent contains hardware information about the target bare-metal machine. It is created automatically on the hub cluster once the discovery image on the machine is booted. You'll see that in the demo. One additional note about managed cluster and clusterlet add-on config. Both are open cluster management CRDs. In order for the cluster to be managed by the hub, it needs to be imported and known. Managed cluster provides that interface. Clusterlet add-on config contains the list of services provided by the hub to be deployed on the managed cluster once imported to the hub. Over the next few minutes, I'll demonstrate the deployment of an open-juf cluster comprised of a single node. Such a low footprint cluster is useful for many use cases and you'll see how such deployment is performed using the declarative API we mentioned previously in the session. I'll start by creating a cluster image set and pull secret which are prerequisites for registering the cluster to assisted installer. Following up with creating cluster deployment and agent cluster install to register the cluster. Now we can monitor the cluster events and agent cluster install conditions to get better visibility to the installation process. I'll follow up by creating the infra-env resource which contains configurations relevant for generating the reddit.coros discovery image such as SSH key, ignition config and more. Notice how this is immediately reflected in cluster events. We now get an ISO download URL which we could use to download the image and upload to our server but instead we have the assisted installer that will monitor that URL and when it becomes available, update the bare metal host. Then that bare metal operator will automatically provision the host using that image. I'll speed up the recording so we can hop into the next step and see the host reports to assisted service. The assisted installer will approve the note for us and the cluster will start preparing for installation. The installation has now started. I'll speed up the recording once more and we'll see the installation steps take place. The installation workflow consists of several steps. The cluster, which in our case is a single node that also functions as our bootstrap machine starts the installation by writing the coroS image and cluster configuration to the disk. Then the machine is being rebooted and started from the disk. It no longer depends on the discovery ISO. Lastly, we move to the finalize phase where we wait for the cluster to initialize the core OpenShift operators. The cluster installation is now completed. Let's validate that we are able to interact with the cluster by gaining CLI access using the admin cube config available in a secret. Note that we can see our single node in a ready state. It functions both as a master and worker. That concludes the demo of a single cluster deployment. All right, now that we saw how to deploy one SNL cluster, are we ready to deploy thousand SNL clusters? We used about 100 physical nodes and used libVirt on top of them in order to spin up VMs and simulate those core clusters. Here's the result of one of the one care runs. We did 10 seconds scheduling for polygaming, meaning that we'll create all CRDs for one cluster, wait 10 seconds, and then get the next one. So it takes about three hours to create all of them and about an additional one hour to finish all the recipe install. So the blue line is initialized, meaning that CRs for cluster are created and applied. The red one is booted, the automated operator booted the Spark machine with the discovery ISO. The green is discovered, meaning that agent CR was created on the hub and that the hardware discovery phase is completed. The provisioning line, the one in purple, shows that OCP installation is in progress. Completed means that OCP is installed and managed means that OCM imported to cluster. The success rate is very high and out of a little more than 1,000 cluster, maybe about only five cluster did not finish the installation successfully. A lot of performance improvements were done on the way to be able to achieve this milestone. In an ideal world, we just pull everything from the internet, but in the real world, it is not that simple. Pivot data centers are mostly disconnected from the internet for security reasons. Here are the components that are required to achieve a disconnected setup of the deep. So we need an internal registry server where we should mirror the OCP release and also all the OLM containers. We need an HTTP server to also our course live ISO and the root FS. These are needed for this to be installed to create the discovery ISO. And of course, we need some networking configuration like firewall rules, make sure that DNS and HTTP are well-configured. Exact steps are available in the below beta variable. Now that we have all the declarative ZPP APIs and we can use GitOps to deploy full sites and use also the power of OSTM policies to apply a contribution. The source of tools is a set of Git reports that contain a site planning. A site planning is a set of the image files that contain all the different settings for the cluster that we want to deploy. 20-foot parameters like cluster name, domain, IP ranges and also definitions for the hardware like BMC credentials, static network definitions and also additional operators that you want to be installed. All that combined with customize, we are producing a final output. It will be a Yama definition of all the settings that we are passing to OSTM that will apply them. Create this cluster and after that, you will apply all the configuration via policies. So for example, a 5G profile will include machine config settings for NTP and SCTP, performance add-on operator for a real-time kernel and other features. SRI moving if you want to interact with low-level S4 function and in the end, PTP configuration is also required. Below is a link to a repo with all you need to use GitOps with our RCD and deploy ZTP with 5G profiles. Here are some of the features planned for the TTP component. We want to support additional cluster topologies like TreeMaster or TreeMaster and more workers. Also, the user may want to add an additional worker node to an install cluster as a data operation. The flow would be very similar, only that the starting point will be an existing cluster. Regarding lead binding, the idea that the persona that will be in charge of booting the host and maintaining the hardware inventory is not the same persona that will create the clusters. That way you can pre-boot the host and build pools of host that cluster can be built for. So with the lead binding option, a new integration in OSTM will allow the end user to select the host to create a new cluster. And finally, more improvement for SCAR support. What about 2,000 SNL nodes? Maybe more. Here are some useful links with all the projects we mentioned. Open cluster management, Hive, Assisted Installer, ElmetaCube, the ZTP, the hardware repo, provides a walkthrough that will guide you if you want to try ZTP. We also added a link to Assisted Installer in redder.com and we encourage you to try it out. We also added some additional talks down below. This session was pre-recorded but will be available in the chat for any questions you may have right afterwards. Thank you for listening. You're welcome to reach out to us and share your feedback, wishing you all successful installations. Thank you. All right, thank you so much to, sorry, thank you so much to Fred in there for that talk. You guys can come on and answer questions. Yeah, I guess you can write in the chat too. Hey, Fred. Hi, any questions? It looks like we have a couple in the chat. David asked, the remote worker node will be asynchronously managed. Will it be able to handle periods of disconnection? Yes, so it would be like, it would be other layer, layer three. So it will be needing to run those kind of disconnection. It's still working for us, so I don't know all the details, but yes. Okay, thank you. Someone asked, what is currently the place where most time is spent in the scale deployment? In other words, how much time, how much can it be sped up? So like I said, we did some scheduling between applying the different clusters, like 10 seconds between each of them. Actually, one install will take about 40 minutes. So, and the bottleneck would be, I think around 8CD, so that the cluster will be and overloaded if we get all everything on at the same time. So it really depends on how fast your storage is on the hard cluster. If you want 8CD to be able to handle all these CRDs at the same time. So I guess that in the future, we will try to lower the stage of its time between the configuration of the clusters and see what happens. And then, only guess, I don't know who that is. What issues did you face when optimizing SNO for scale? So SNO itself is an open shift just with the one cell or so. So it's a different effort that we did for the hub, for the Hub site. SNO itself is defining that some operators need to behave differently when they know they are running on a single server. So I've been a team effort to understand what operators are running or they should behave and what they want to do is need the minimal performance to be able to minimal impact on the single node. On the Hub site, there have been issues regarding caching when you are working with controllers and the caching, all the CRDs in your memories is having a heavy performance impact. So we have been working on having it to cache more filter and also run into the performance having the right disks for the Hub clusters. Thank you. David asked, was there a method for deploying the SNO for public cloud for testing, specifically from cloud.rh.com for testing? Yes, SNO is available via Assistant Installer in the cloud, SAS version of assisted service. So I will paste the link on the chat in a few minutes. But it is, so it will be the same process, just configure some parameters, download the ISO and you will need to boot your server yourself. And which you will be able to look at the SNO on your own server. Okay, thank you. Yeah, if you want to post the link to the slides, that'd be awesome. I put them in the SCAD also with the transcript of the talk. And if anyone would like to talk with Fred or Ner after this talk, you can feel free to meet them in the breakout room. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.


OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Hi everyone, welcome. We have so many friends and family members from different states. We're super excited to have you online today. We're so happy that we can provide you this webinar, this part one webinar of a three-part series on CK-12 and some of the partnerships and resources that we've been able to work with CK-12 on. I am not your presenter for today. Your presenters are Debbie Jensen and Lindsay Kincaid. Debbie Jensen is a subject matter expert for OTAN and she has devoted a lot of time and effort to make sure that this project is successful and really believes in what CK-12 has to offer for adult learners. Lindsay Kincaid is one of our favorite people and our support people at CK-12 who's making things happen. And you'll see once we dive into the subject a little bit more that we at our adult learners, our adult educators have a dedicated page and a dedicated home on the CK-12 website. So we're very excited. Again, Melinda has introduced me for you. I'm Netta Annissary and I'm one of the project coordinators at OTAN and we're so excited to be presenting for you today. Before I go into the next slide, I do want to tell you a little bit about OTAN because we do have a few friends that are visiting us from other states. Can you still see my screen, Melinda? Can you answer that for me, please? Yes, we can. OTAN website. Okay, perfect. So OTAN.us is one of three state leadership projects for California. One half of our house does the programming and development for the California Department of Education. The other half of the house does the training and professional development for adult educators throughout the state. So we offer anything from Google trainings to Microsoft trainings to digital assessments to SMART goals and more. You can always see our activities on the very beginning of our page here where it says upcoming OTAN activities. We have COVID-19 field support resources. We offer online courses for our California educators and you can see a little bit more about our training, our resources, how to stay connected with us and you can join OTAN. This is not a presentation about OTAN, but just to kind of give you an idea that we are dedicated to finding the best resources for our adult teachers in our state. But luckily we partnered with CK12 who is providing resources for everybody internationally. So we partnered up and we are giving you this presentation today on CK12. So let's go back to that presentation. I just wanted to give you a brief overview of OTAN. Everything on otan.us is free, by the way. So if you're outside of California and you want to access any of our resources, you can do that. So all you got to do is type in otan.us. Now back to our presentation, CK12.adulted. So a couple of years ago, I met our friends at CK12 at a Go Open Summit. And so people that attend the Go Open Summit will be able to share with you some of the best resources and advocates of open educational resources. So free resources, but quality. Quality free resources that we can find for our learners. And we found value, especially for our adult students that are seeking basic education, secondary education that are subject-specific. I can talk about econ, chemistry, world history, et cetera. And that's the key in social studies and sciences. Now that's not what's limited at on CK12, by the way. You can find additional resources that can support your English language learners. You can find additional resources that can assist your career tech students. And we're building on that. We're developing on that. But what you'll find today is mainly resources to support your basic ed and your secondary ed students. And so it was a partnership that was needed for our state. And we knew that it was needed for our nation and internationally to support adult learners. So CK12 listened and supported us and partnered with us to not create a page on OTAN site because we really want to have it open for every adult educator out there. And said, hey, let's do this. As of March of 2021, we have a home on the CK12 website. And we even have our own URL. So it's ck12.org slash adult ed. And we are going to be talking about this a little bit throughout our presentation. But let's move on to the objectives of today's session. So I've talked to you a little bit about the partnership between CK12 and OTAN. We'll get an overview of CK12. Lindsay is going to be talking to us. We'll do a live session for everybody. And that will kind of kick it off.  But then we'll show you a little bit more about how to find resources. We'll dive a little bit deeper into resources, some assistance that's available for teachers, students, and then what's so special about our page. At the end, we'll be able to go back live into CK12, answer any of your questions and also kind of get a good kind of overview of it live. Now this is a part one of a three part series. So you do not, if you signed up for today, be sure to sign up for part two and part three, because today is the overview. We'll dive deeper into how to create your flex books and create those resources. And so you can have it for your own in part two. And then part three, we'll do some advanced features and then be able to reveal kind of what you guys have been working on. So this is, we're hoping that you can join us for part one, two, and three. All right, that's enough for me. I know you're waiting for Lindsay Kincaid. Lindsay, take it away and tell us a little bit more about this CK12 foundation. Absolutely. Thank you for that. And as you were just saying, this is the three part series. I do want to let you know that you can kind of enter at any time. So if you have some colleagues who are not able to make it today, but they're going to maybe catch up on the recording, anybody can join us for part two. Anybody can join us for part three. So we encourage you to spread the word as we're doing this. But like Neda said, I'm Lindsay from the CK12 foundation. I've worked there for about six years now. We are a nonprofit based out of Palo Alto, California. And everything we do is for free. If you go to our site, you're not going to see any advertising. You're not going to hit a paywall. You're not going to see any advertising. You're not going to see any advertising. And that doesn't sound special. We did this past year because of COVID. We were founded to give people access around the world to the best materials. And so that's what we've done. We are not the household name that maybe we would want to be. Some of you may be just hearing about CK12 for the first time, but we have huge numbers who we serve. Again, students and educators all around the world are coming to our CK12 foundation. We're going to be looking at how we're going to use our materials to use with their students or even to create materials to use our platform to use their other open resources and like build a flex book.  While Debbie's going to be doing some presentation here in a little bit. So please start, start asking any of your CK12 questions and I'll be sure to address them live or type answers to them.  If you want to go ahead and flip the slide. If you want to go ahead and go ahead and type answers to them, you can go ahead and type answers to them. So if you're free, it's like, oh no, why is it free? So I just want to let you guys know that while we are free, we're still the highest quality content. CK12 has been around since 2007. Which in the ed tech space is like dinosaur here. I mean, that's like. Forever, right? A long time. We're here to stay in the space. So you can use us with confidence. We have a lot of work to do. We have a lot of experts, even some partnerships with like NASA. So our quality content is there. And then our foundation works really hard to make sure that all of the resources are accessible across all devices. So we're going to work on. Whether it's a MacBook or a PC, we're going to work on your iPhone, your Android, your tablet, your iPad. We're going to work across all of those devices. And also we do have our books, if you customize them, you are able to download them into a PDF. You're gonna lose some of the great interactivity that we're gonna talk about today, the ability to do the videos and the interactive simulations, but sometimes you just need a static copy for accessibility reasons. And so we're able to give that to you so you can work with your students offline if you need to as well. So I think I find it helpful to go live right now and like show you what a flexbook is because here in a minute, I'm gonna pass it off to Debbie and she's gonna do a really great job of like talking you through the different parts of a flexbook and again, how it taps in specifically to our adult learners. But before we start throwing all this jargon of plicks and simulations and flexbooks, I find it helpful to just show you what we're talking about here. So let me really quickly, I'm gonna show you a science lesson and then I'm gonna show you a little bit of a math lesson. And so here we are, we are, I've just thrown you into the middle of our physics for high school diploma book. And this is a lesson on sound waves, but this is a pretty typical CK12 lesson as far as how this is built and how this looks. We usually open up with an image, some sort of attention getting questions or prompt at the beginning. And then you're gonna see that throughout this lesson, we have images and charts. And then we have these interactives that make these books the interactive books that we've built. So this is gonna be a simulation, which I'll launch here in just a minute, but it's why does a violin sound different from a guitar? That's a very good question. How do we tune a pan flute? That's another simulation. So the lesson is built around a lot of summary information on that concept. We've got videos that either CK12 has created or have been curated by our team. And then you'll see summary questions and review questions to help the learners as well. All of our lessons, again, this is kind of what a typical lesson looks like. All of our lessons should have an adaptive practice attached to it. All of the CK12 math and science resources that is some of our other books, like in the areas of social studies, we'll talk a little bit more about them later of why they don't have the adaptive practice. But the math and science books are gonna have adaptive practice where the goal is for students to get 10 correct. And this is really awesome because it's going to adapt to each learner's needs. And so if they are getting the answer correct, it's gonna give them a positive message and they're now one out of 10. And then if I get the answer incorrect, I not only have the opportunity to give it a second try, but I can also come over here to our friend in the corner who we call Flexi. And he is kind of the brains to our site now. We're able to talk to him and he's able to offer us hints. But he could give me a quick refresh around sound waves if I needed help. So I missed it twice. So now I'm still at my one for 10 and my skill level is in the beginning level until I progress further. Since I missed that question, I'm gonna stay at kind of an easy medium level. But if I were getting questions right, one after the other, then I would be a more advanced student who's being served up medium and hard questions. But the goal for all students is to get 10 questions correct. So that adaptive practice, that's a really important feature of our lessons that you see down here in the bottom right-hand corner. I do wanna show you what one of our simulations looks like. And you'll notice that this launches just right from the lesson. And they open up with these questions that often people put on the board or in the Zoom room. And you could start your discussion with your students like this. You could put them in breakout rooms and have them talk about it.  But then you're taken into a sandbox environment. This is where students test out their hypothesis. Well, what happens if I'm looking at the string and this harmonic number? What if the string tension is like this? And they'll actually be able to hear it and again manipulate the different graphs. We have worksheets for these. We have extensions when the students are finished with the simulations now that they know about the violin. How can I make a wine glass thing? How is a frequency spectrum created? So our simulations are just this whole environment. We have about 120 of them labeled physics and chemistry, but I've seen them used at all levels. I was in a sixth grade classroom where they're using our rocket launcher one. And it was really awesome. So know that these are embedded and just right here in the lesson as part of the learning experience, part of that interactivity.  And again, I'm just trying to give you a little taste of what these lessons look like and then we'll dive into how to assign, how to view student progress, all that good stuff. But I just wanna have a picture painted in your head of what this looks like. This is a lesson from our interactive mathematics for adult basic education book. It's on unit conversion. And our math lessons sometimes are a little bit different because they have what we call inline questions here where students are going to try it based on the directions here. And so this one's a speedometer. So we're learning about the speedometer. And then they're able to answer questions right here. And I've got that one right. I'm guessing get this one wrong. But what's cool is that when you miss it, it still gives you some feedback on why you missed it. So it's really important, I think, for all students and learners to get that instantaneous feedback. And we're really working on that at CK12 to help coach them when a teacher isn't just standing nearby that they can do learning on their own. So you're gonna see some questions like that. And then you're gonna see our plicks. When we talk about plicks, we're talking about a Play Learn interactive Explorer. There's about 1200 of them. There is something that you are doing over here in the playground. This one looks like I'm playing with ice cream. That's kind of cool. So I would be dragging something here and then answering some questions related to this activity. And we have like said 1200 of these across all the different branches. So if you are looking for that perfect five minute warmup or you've got five minutes left in class, what's the review? Or just an activity that's a little different from your regular lesson that gets people excited. I highly recommend the plicks. Debbie, I think that's all I wanna show them right now because I'm gonna come back on at the end. And like I said, I'm gonna take you through the toolbar and the insights and talk about assigning and LMS integration and all of that. But first we just wanna get you really used to what the actual offering is and how it best relates to the needs of the adult learners. Thanks, let's move on to the next slide. This one, what do you want as a teacher? The most that you could ever dream of would be to reach the needs of every single student. And in the reality, you're just, that doesn't happen. You kind of aim for the most and hope for the best and try and help tutoring who you can, but inevitably somebody slips through cracks. And that's the thing that's so wonderful about CK12 because it's a digital textbook that everyone has available. Their needs can be met individually. And you as a teacher, you are told what they're doing and what's not happening and what is happening. And so it's the best of all worlds for the student and for you. Next slide. Now, when we talk about search and Lindsay will do this live, there's two things that you're going to be seeing. There's two places you can go. Across the top, you've got the dashboard, you've got the library and that's where when you select something, some resource, they put all of the resources that you select in your library. So you can always go back and find it. Subjects, that's another place where you're going to be able to search and also explore. Then where I've got the numbers, when I got, when I was the original search that I did was for mathematics for my ABE class and I needed some math help with fractions. And so I chose those things. And when I came back the next time, they had more things to recommend for me. So recommendations are there and that's at one. Two, these are standards. So you can search by standards. You can search by concept maps or you can use the search up where the number four is and that's where you could just type in what you're searching for. Next slide. This is search by subject and you can see that there's lots of subjects, especially, okay, I will talk a lot about ABE. And this works for high level ESL as well. We need the language at a lower level. We need the math at a lower level. And so what you can see here is the math at the various levels and you can see the things and that is very helpful for being able to address your needs for the students that you're teaching. You can also see that adult education now has its site. So we are there. We just started in March. And so we have, we're just beginning and we have basic education. So ABE, we have the high school diploma and we have the high school equivalency. Now our dream is ESL. And this isn't just our dream, it's CK12 string too because they know that worldwide there are many people that need help with their reading. They need help with their writing. And so this is a dream. We need partners, we need you. And so you ESL teachers, you teachers of all the classes as you create, please share so that we can all build together because that's where this all got started is with teachers that were needing some help and needing some work and they were adult teachers and they took the CK12 materials or even some of their own and put those in for us to be able to use. So that's the exciting part that we have there for us. Next slide. And Debbie, I was just going to say to add to that ESL, I mean, we're getting a couple of ESL interests and so you could see here that there are definitely resources even if they haven't made it over to the adult education site or page rather, you could still see that there are options for English enhancements with spelling and writing. So I mean, even if it wasn't necessarily located in the page, Lindsay will kind of when she shows us live will be able to kind of show us where some of those other resources really you can build your own. So don't yet just think, oh, it's not for ESL. Oh no, it's not for Career TechEd. That's not true, right? Because it's very powerful where you can create your own kind of what Debbie just told you. So I'll move on to the next slide. This is the, what is available? They have the, and these are all links. And so when you click on any of these you're going to be able to go and find more and browse them. They have their Flexbooks, their original Flexbooks were wonderful, their Flexbooks 2.0 integrated and made everything whole, made everything work together so that as you saw with Lindsay, they're powerful. You have the adaptive practice, you have simulations, you have the plicks. I always like to point people out with the study guides because even though that seems like that's kind of low tech even the study guides are wonderful because the students can write on them. They can highlight them and so that they can access them and use them and they were created by students. So it's not the teacher telling them what they should know but it's the student saying, this is what I need to know. And so they were really great. You also can find schools in your area if you're looking and saying, well, does anybody around me do they even know about CK12? What are they doing? And they have that as well. Next slide. This is your simulations and it's just to kind of let you see the variety that they have and this is one slide. There's so many more, but they're cool topics. Even if I'm not in doing physics, knowing about what a driverless car is or the scientific measurements or metric units, unit conversions, rockets, acceleration or on the prom night when you're looking in the mirror. How does a mirror work? These are the kinds of things that they have in the simulations. Next slide. These are the plicks and again, these are just two random choice slides of them. There's many, many more. But I wanted to show you that you could use this as an introductory kind of to your lesson or something that you want them to learn or to get enjoyment from. These were the math ones and they were order of operation, combining integers, simple interests, rounding, equivalent fractions or in the science, natural selection ecosystems, the water cycle, chemical reactions, pH. When your students ask some question in class and it's maybe not on particularly on topic, you can see if there's a plicks for it and then you could bring it back and super wow them it would be great. Next slide. These are the study guides and I just wanted you to see I'm a writer. In fact, people laugh at me because I even take notes everywhere I go. It's just me. And so the study guides were very, very appealing to me to give me that extra help that I needed. And so this is just to give you an idea of what they look like. Next slide. They call it discover actionable insights. But what it means is that they're paying attention to what your students are doing. They're paying attention to the ones they skip, the ones they get right, the ones they don't get right, the ones that they had to get hints for or they had to get a higher level or lower level question. All of those are the actionable insights and they give these to you as a teacher. And then it's not just like you got to read charts. They make suggestions for things you can try. So it's magnificent for helping you as a teacher. Next slide. Now they will create an automatic grading and reporting for you. So that if you do create a classroom in CK12, these things are available to you there. But let's say, next slide, that you already have an LMS like Google Classroom or Canvas or Schoology. They will link to that and send the grades and everything to yours. And so you don't have to have two places that you need to go to. So that's very, very helpful. Next slide. Now we're going to go over to the adult education webpages. And so this is what you're going to see. And we are proud of what's here, but knowing how big adult education is, we hope that someday there will be huge numbers of courses here. So this is our beginning. There are four math courses. The reason there's four is that they're slightly different. If you've worked with your students with math, you know that there's different steps, there's different sequences that work best and maybe it works best for you as a teacher. And so they may all be the similar material, but they're presented slightly different. So take a look at each one, see which one resonates with you. Next slide. These are the high school diploma courses on the left and the high school equivalency on the right. U.S. history, U.S. government, economics, biology, chemistry, physics, pre-algebra for high school diploma and algebra one for high school diploma. And then under the equivalency, you've got foundational math, algebra books, excuse me, algebra basics, geometry, data statistics and probability. If you're teaching high school equivalency, you're recognizing these titles because they're directly from the things that are in those equivalency courses. You've got algebra for high school equivalency. And then we tried to glean everything CK had, CK12 had for our adult learners in the equivalency program. And so there were teachers who were teaching high school equivalency and these are the things they made. And so you may find one that you like better or another one. I particularly was thrilled with a science for high school equivalency because high school, science, are we talking physics, chemistry? These things are huge. But to pass the exam, you don't need to know everything. But there are certain specific topics you need to know. And so we applaud our teachers that have gone through and spent the time to figure out what they need and what CK12 has to be able to meet the needs for our adult students. And so these things are here, please take a look. Next slide. Going along with our teachers, one of our teachers created an introduction for how to use CK12. And it's to the adults in their class. And so it's right there. And you have access to that and you can use that as well. And that just makes it so much friendlier. Our adults often struggle to get back to school and now they're into a new medium and it's online and they don't really know how to use it and they have their questions and this is here for them. So it makes it so that they can feel comfortable and that they can do the work and be successful. Next slide. If we continue on through the adult ed webpages, they're then going to ask you, are you an educator or are you a student? And then they take you down two different pathways. Let's go to the next slide and see what the pathway for an educator would be. Here, they want you to get started and they're gonna hold your hand the whole way. They'll show you how to create a class. They'll show you how to find your flex book, the thing you're looking for and they'll show you how to assign students. And all of these are linked so that there's more information for you on all of these topics. Next slide. Continuing with the website, the webpages for adult ed. Not everybody's interested in a flex book. You may be pretty happy with what you have but you want some more resources. And that's what this is. This is taking you directly to the adaptive practice or the plix or the simulation so you can choose from them as well. Next slide. Then there's a deeper dive. Strategies for using CK12, the flexlets. Now those are super cool. Don't miss those. These were designed right at the beginning of COVID and they were for teachers that we lost that last quarter.  And so the flexlets were designed to meet those needs to help students review. And so they're wonderful. They're wonderful short and great. So take a look at those. They also teach you how to customize flex books and adaptive practice and how to get started with your LMS. Let's keep going. Next slide. Now, she mentioned flexi. I showed my grandson flexi and he said it looked like a chicklet and that he was a great friend. And that's what I think your students will find. One of the testimonials I'm gonna look at some of those in a couple of minutes but one of them, the big point she wanted to make she was a science teacher and she'd used a CK12 for several years.  It's there for them. So flexi helps provide immediate feedback, answer the questions, provide interactive examples, asks the students questions, gives them hints, offers recommendations, provides reminders, even asks reflection questions, which is super cool. Next slide. Now, we had some people asking about the standards. And at the bottom, you'll see that versus how does CK12 align with the career and college readiness standards? And you will see that the math standards have been aligned. We're hoping for other alignments. This one was done by one of the people that used CK12 and they made those alignments. And so we will share as those of our people that work with CK12, as they share with us, we will share that with everyone. Let's go to the next slide. There are over, there's hundreds of testimonials. And I went through them all and they're all wonderful because everyone has a different insight as to why CK12 meets the needs of their students and their classroom and their schools. These were just some of my favorites. And so we have the one who is the director of a school and he wanted his students to investigate and experience lessons to be able to go at their own pace and design their own learning. Another, she was very funny. She's the one on the top row. And she said that one of the students was giving the typical complaint. Teacher, I didn't have my computer. And another student that was sitting on the other side said, hey, dude, just use your phone. And that's the wonder of this. It works on all devices and it works well on all devices. So that means they have the ability to work on their materials and their resources, their schoolwork from anywhere at any time. And that's marvelous. We had teachers who were excited because they were frustrated in the sciences and the social studies because the world changes so quickly that your textbook is outdated the minute it's printed. And they wanted to be able to talk about what happened in January or they wanted to talk about the latest in science. You can do that with CK12. The customization is so readily available that you can add these things that are happening right now. That's a lot of power for you. It's a living document. Another teacher noticed that, or noted that she loved the fact that she didn't have to take all of her materials home, that they were there. She could put them in her CK12 Flexbook and all her own materials could be there. And so it made her life so much easier, right at her fingertips. We also had a science teacher that was saying how much the changes that happened in the science world and how they love the simulations and the things that were there and available for them too. One teacher, he wanted, this is the one on the bottom in the middle, he wanted to be able to offer his students lots of dynamic activities. And so it wasn't the Flexbooks for him. It was being able to go in, type in a topic and find it. And that there were things that he could then enliven his class and excite his students. The last lady, though will ring a bell with adult and teachers. She had a parent come who was all apologetic because he couldn't help his child with their homework and because his English wasn't very good. And she said that she emphasized to him that CK12 is available in over 90 languages. And so that you can meet the needs of your students even if they're speaking a different language. I think we're ready to go to the next slide. And on the next slide, it's posing to you the question if you could engage every single student anywhere, anytime on any device and it was free. What would you imagine? And now we'll turn it over to Lindsey and she'll show you. Yay. All right. So hopefully you guys are getting excited about what you're seeing. Debbie, I've left a few questions in the Q&A for you to as kind of the book creator of the OTN CK12 books to let you respond to some of those. And then there was just a reminder posted to remember to use the Q&A window if you would like. I put in a lot of links to the chat as we were talking. But what we're gonna try to accomplish here in the next 15, 20 minutes is I'm gonna give you a tour of CK12. I showed you a lesson, but I wanna show you what is available right now for like grab and go, setting up an account, using just searching for our plicks or our simulations. And remember that part two of this webinar is all about customizing. So we want you to leave today kind of eyeing maybe a series of books that you think you want to adapt for your learners or seeing what's possible on CK12 and then maybe you wanna create your own book from scratch or use some resources of ours and some resources of yours. We're gonna kind of set you up for that today and then next week that's really what we're doing the deep dive into. Okay, so keep the questions coming in. I'm gonna share my screen and hopefully tap into a lot of what you guys are wanting to see. Let me share here. I'm gonna turn off my camera because you guys don't want like the awkward profile I'm presenting to you. So I'm just gonna go ahead and turn that off. And here we go. So I am on the CK12 homepage. And while everything is completely free on CK12, you do want to set up an account at some point. That's just so we can, you know, help you keep track of the resources that you're using or creating, make recommendations, all that kind of thing. So I'm logged into a demo account right now but if you have not signed in or signed up you're able to do that. We've got a few single sign-on options for you.  And we get the question a lot of like how are the teacher and student versions different? And to be honest with you, they're not entirely different. You can see that here I'm in teacher view and it's asking me what I want to teach today and it kind of serves up some products here and, you know, some of the things we showed you on slides. And if I go over to the student version they really just have a different view. They have access to most of the resources that our teachers do because this is set up for learners around the world, you know, whether they're in a classroom setting or not. So it looks a little bit different. We give them different pathways to access their learning. But they in general have access to the same content that our teachers do. And we definitely hit flexi harder with the students because that's who they're using to talk to and help them on their personalized learning journey. But I'm going to go back to the teacher view assuming that most of you on this webinar are probably educators looking to use these resources with your learners. And so this is, like I said, the basic page of, I told you that we are pretty heavy in the math and science subjects of CK12. We kind of started with middle school and high school math and science. And then we've branched out from there. We created some college books. We have some translated content. We have countries that are adopting us like the country of Georgia is using our flexbooks to educate their whole country. Books for Chile and Brazil. And then a smattering of like English content and then social studies content. And you're going to see this little icon next to our social studies content saying that this has been created by users on the CK12 platform. And this is something really cool that I want to highlight is that we have CK12 content. But then there's this whole other partition of the site where users like yourselves are able to create or adapt materials and then post them so other users can use them and share with them. And I've got a great example of that here in just a minute. But this is the adult education area. So if you're interested, I'm going to click on one of these and it's going to take me to this adult education page. It's also that the CK12.org slash adult education is the, or adult EDU is the shortcut if you need it. And this is the page we've been referring to in the PowerPoint with these books. And like Debbie said, we are just getting started. We just launched these books. So there's a lot more that we hope to do with these books to further customize them for adult educators. Of course we would love to round this out with some other subjects as well. And then definitely venture into the areas of ELL and CTE but we're working on our partnerships and other authors to kind of help us build out that content. So we're hoping to at least get you excited about the potential with these books. And then we want to continue to have those conversations with you about other books that we should be creating. I'm going to jump back out to the main page real quick because hopefully you're excited about an adult ed book but maybe you already have a book you're using and you are just intrigued by these different CK12 resources that you're seeing and you might want to access them individually outside the book environment. So if I press the CK12 logo I'm able to go back out to the homepage and the menu option that I find the most useful up here I really like this explore menu option. And this is where you can go directly into the resource that you're looking for. So we were talking about study guides earlier if you want to see our study guides offerings we've got a quick link for that. If you wanted to see all of our physics and chemistry simulations and again broad topics that can be used at all ages and levels you're able to go there. If you wanted to view all 1200 of our plicks across all the different branches from that explore menu you can access it. And here you have all the different branches that you could be using or you could be searching here for a certain concept and you can see that all of these are tagged to different concepts. So I just, I think that going again back out to the homepage this explore menu option this is going to get you pretty quickly to what you're looking for. I'm not sure CCSS and NGSS interests too many of you but that information is there. And then we do have a certified educator program that's kind of how we came to know Netta and Debbie they're both CK12 certified educators. So if you are wanting to go even deeper than what we're going to be covering in these webinars there's a self-paced, totally free online course that you're able to go through and come out of it with that badge of distinction that you're a certified educator. Lots of other resources here too and then flexbooks. Okay, so I want to show you that you can come up here to the search bar. We earlier kind of dived into a book based on the subject but you can also come up here and search for anything. So, well, I can't see my chat window I'd ask somebody to type in something or in the chat window. Let's go to what's the lesson I like? Continental divide. I feel like that's one I've seen in a lot of classrooms being used. When you search for anything you can search for a big concept or a micro concept. You're going to get a lot of search results but what I'm wanting to show you here is that there are two tabs that you want to access. One that says CK12 content and one that says community contributed content. So we've got 4,461 results for continental divide and CK12 world and you can use the filters over here on the left to narrow down for what you're looking for. Now you're seeing that this just is going by standard grades. Honestly, we don't really believe in grades so much at CK12. We really are just concept based wanting to reach the learner wherever they are. And since we are international what's often taught in the U.S. at a certain grade level is dramatically different from say what's taught in India. So I would kind of ignore this grade filter anyway but if you know you're looking for a video or you're looking for a real world example or adaptive practice or a plix you could just search for an individual concept and narrow it down here. And you could access that, you could share a link, you could assign it to your students. But I told you we didn't really have any great language arts books. If I search for something like language arts it's gonna pull up our Common Sense composition book which is a good start. But if I come over here to this community contributed tab I'm now gonna see books that our users have created either in full or that they've adapted some of the CK12 content and uploaded it to the site and curated their own books. So you can see who this was created by. This is a third grade language arts book a language arts companion, fifth grade language arts book. So the point that I'm trying to make is that even if CK12 doesn't have the perfect book just neatly labeled for you I really encourage you to search by subject or by individual topics in the search bar and then flip from the CK12 content tab that the community contributed tab and open up some of these resources and see if you like them because all of these resources can be added to other books. You can combine books. Again, you can take your open resources and pull them into some CK12 books. So that's the key to the search there. Really recommend you using that. I'm gonna go back out to the homepage again. So if you want to access any of these individually know that you can and these are all assignable through a learning management system or through a CK12 class. The whole magic to the Flexbook 2.0 our newest Flexbook is that we have I'm gonna go back to the adult page here. We have taken all of those elements and we have put them together in the interactive Flexbook. So before we used to have our Plex separate from our simulations separate from the adaptive practice. But as I showed you earlier we've now brought them all together in our lessons in a way that makes, you know students going through the book really exciting. So I'm gonna come down here. This is great actually because we have somebody on this webinar who I've never met in person but Shanna friend. She is the author, the main author of this science for high school equivalency book. In fact, she probably had a different title on it when it was her book. But I believe she took a lot of the CK12 content and started to make it work for her adult learners. And then when Debbie was using that community contributed tab to search for content that was available she stumbled across these awesome books. And she's like, Lindsey, I love these books. And Debbie's like, I need to use these. I love the videos that she's created at the beginning of the chapters. Like let's work with this. So Shanna I'm blind to the chat window right now but I don't know if you wanted to tell anybody some context for like how you've created these books or what your process was. I know we're looking forward to like learning more about you and talking to you later on this week about these books. But you always get the author information here. You get chapters, you get details of the books. But again, let me just go into a section of this book. I'm gonna go into work and mechanics. There's a lesson on levers here that I like. Just to show you again, I'm in the book. I'm in that science for high school equivalency book. I've dropped into a section in chapter 16. And then you can see that immediately we serve up other ways to learn. And this is that idea of on CK 12 we want learners to learn their own way and some do that through those simulations, those clicks or those videos or that real world application. So these are all ways to engage your learners even before they start a lesson or after they're into the lesson or if you have those students who are like I'm finished early, what else can I do? Or hey, I'm still not understanding that concept. Do you have anything else that could try to teach it to me? That's this other ways to learn here. But then you start and you get in a lesson and I showed you earlier how you were able to access videos and simulations and clicks here in the lesson and that there's adaptive practice down on the bottom as well. A few additional things I wanna show you is that there is a toolbar and we do a great job hiding it. So make a mental note that your little toolbars up here, these nine boxes. And this is where you're gonna find your menu options to do a lot more things, both as a teacher and as a student, okay? We've got some learning tools where you can view some insights. That related content is what was on that learn more page. You can see that there's been some highlighting happening over here. Just because it's digital doesn't mean that students can't make some highlights in some notes. That's going to be on their show up in their individual accounts like right here where you can see that I've highlighted four random things over time here but students can still highlight and take notes. You as an instructor can add additional resources if you wanna add in something else for the lesson, a PDF, a JPEG PowerPoint. You're able to upload that right into the lesson here. And then you can do all kinds of things with this. You can assign it if you want some feedback on how the students did. You can just share it. You could take this URL up at the top and just email it out or post it, you know, and if you've got a website and you just say, hey, to start class today, we're all gonna do, look at this lesson. You can just grab the URL and share it if you want. Again, if you want to know analytics on how the student did and how the student interacted with this page, you're definitely gonna wanna use the assign button. And then the topic that we're gonna get into next week is like, okay, well, I like this lesson but I really say you don't enjoy this video. It looks cool, so nothing against this guy. But you can press the customize button. It's not liking me do this because it says that I've already customized this and it's already in my library and it's having to think extra hard. But if you press customize for the first time, you're able to give it a title and then you can come in here and you can change anything you want in this lesson. So you can post a picture of a lever in your house. I could get rid of a video. I could change this plix. I can change the text. So we're gonna show you how to make those changes in your book next week. And that's an individual lesson but you're also able to really the real magic to it is at the book level, you know, you're not bound to these, this has a lot of chapters, it has 33 chapters. You're not bound to those 33 chapters. You can at any time you want edit this book and it basically makes a copy of CK12's book which again, Shanna made her book based on a CK12 book and then Debbie took Shanna's book and made the adult learner book. And now I am making this so I could put my name at the end of this and this is my version of the high school equivalency book that lives in my library but safe in my school, you know, we're not gonna get to be on the solar system. So I'm just gonna go ahead and remove that chapter. And then we're not gonna do earthquakes. I'm here actually in Kansas City. We don't do the earthquakes or volcanoes but I wanna add in a chapter on tornadoes. I don't see one on tornadoes right now. So I can add in my own chapter on tornadoes. I can add in a lesson that I've made in class as long as again, it meets our license which is generally an open license that you just, you can't take like a Pearson worksheet that's copyrighted and put it into the book. But things that you've created, things that are open source, you can add that in, add new chapters, add new lessons. And then within any of these sections, you can also do the same thing. You can rearrange. I'm gonna do cell theory first. We're not gonna get to cell division. So I'm gonna go ahead and remove that. And within a few minutes here, you could have a book that matches your scope and sequence. And the best part is that it's always editable. It's a living book. So you can dive in whenever you would like and create your own book. So I think that's again, a little preview of what's gonna be covered in more detail. Again, it's not liking since I have this edit thing. What we're gonna cover in more detail next week. But what I want you guys to do is I want you to explore CK12 a little bit, which again, using this explore menu is a great way to do it. See what deals with our simulations and our flex and look at flex books, look at schools near you who are already using our resources, check out the study guides, dive into some different content, search for some subjects or concepts that are immediately relevant to you. And then also, of course, since hopefully these books are great starter books for you that you're interested in, maybe this only gets you a 60% or 70% of the way there. You say, hey, I like this pre-algebra book, but I need to add a few more chapters to it or I need to do some rearranging. We're gonna dive into that really thoroughly next week on how to customize these books or even how to start with just a blank CK12 shell to curate your own content. I'm trying to think, Debbie, how are we doing on the questions? I'm trying to think of what else I need to show them. I guess I didn't show the language that's important too. Sorry, let me show you a couple more things. I see the question in the Q&A about the audio text. CK12 doesn't have an audio component to it, but we are optimized for Chrome. And so any of your Chrome extensions that have that speech to text or text to speech ability is gonna work with CK12. So just other third parties are doing it better than we would. So we use our resources elsewhere. And then we're partners with Google and Google helps us do the Google Translate. And so you can instantly change into other languages. It's not gonna be perfect because it's Google Translate, but I would imagine a lot of you have learners who speak different languages that you don't have any resources for and how nice that they can instantly change Samoan. They can instantly change the language where they can get the text and the menu options in a language that works for them. So that's huge. And then one more kind of preview here is that if you have assigned this lesson to your students, if you've assigned it either through Google Classroom or Canvas or Schoology or if you don't have one of those LMSs, you've used our CK12 class, you're gonna be able to get insights. And this is just gonna show you a little demo of what insights look like. But if I had assigned this lesson to all my students, I would get a scatter plot of how my students performed and I would be able to select a student and see how much time they spent on the lesson, what their skill level was with this practice and then their engagement. Were they highlighting anything? Were they watching any videos? Were they clicking on those clicks? So you start to get analytics that just a straight up score wouldn't show you, that you get really a broader picture of what is the student doing? Only three minutes and 24 seconds on this read. Molly Brown, like her engagement was low, three minutes. Surely somebody here spent longer than three, oh, nine seconds, yeah, just beginning. So you have a lot of insight into what's going on with your students if you wanna do a deep dive into it. But you also can just do a regular heat map and get scores passed back through Google and Canvas and Schoology, if you would rather do it that way. Let me stop there for a minute and we turn my video back on and say hi to everybody. And again, like what I'm showing you, that's a very quick overview. And so what I'm challenging you to do is to figure out which parts of the CK12 platform interest you and how you're gonna be able to maximize these free resources for your learners and your context, okay? And then the next two weeks, we're gonna build on what you've seen today, a really drill down into the customization aspect. And then since I only kind of touched on the learning management systems, we'll talk more about assignments, I think, coming up in a way that'll make more sense to you once you've spent some time exploring the site. So Debbie, you talked to me here, how are we doing? What else do people need to see? There were some questions. How many students can you have? Endless students. Yeah, you can have as many students as you want. If you are already in a situation where you're using Google Classroom or Canvas or Schoology, we recommend you just going in through those applications and using the classes as you've been using them. If you do not, if you're like, hey, I'm a lone individual or my situation's different, I don't have access to need those learning management systems, that's great. We have a CK12 class for you. And I think it taps out maybe at like 500 students in one class where you might have to build class A, class B. But basically, basically endless. You can have as many students as you want. Again, everything's free, there's no charge or anything for students or anything like that. What is a heat map? Ha-ha, let me share my screen again. These are good questions of a heat map. So I'm showing you, these are our insights, right? Where say I assigned this lesson, this writing equations with variables, I wanted to see how my students did. I'd click on this little lightning thing and I would be able to, again, I'm gonna look at demo data here. Look at my demo class. But let me show you what a report looks like for CK12 and Google Classroom and Canvas and Schoology of it's gonna look the same as a CK12 class report. So just bear with me here. Well, I go into a CK12 class. I'm gonna go into winter 2020. This is a class that we set up with some of our interns, I believe. And I can see the assignments. I can add students, I can do all this in CK12. But the reports is the part that you're asking about. And this is a heat map. So it's color coded with that green and red and orange. So at a glance, you can tell how your students are doing here. So none of these students did these assignments, that's fine. But let's see, it looks like this is me, apparently. So I got 88% on this quiz that I did. And you can click on it and you can learn all about my progress on this quiz. So if I got seven of eight correct, took me 45 seconds and you can see exactly what I missed. Which again, all these analytics are huge as you're trying to figure out what's going on with your students. This little clock says the student did this but it was two days and 17 hours late past the deadline when I set up for the due date for this assignment. You can, let's see, the practice that I did look at earlier. Let's see how Carl did on his practice. He got his 10 correct and then even a couple more correct. He spent four minutes on it. And you can see the breakdown of his adaptive practice questions. So he did two easy questions and then quickly started advancing to the medium and hard questions. And again, I could scroll down and see exactly what he was answering. So I just, I think of this again, I was a classroom teacher and I was in a public school with six classes and 30 kids in each class, one of those. So I didn't always have time to like give every student their 20 minutes of analyzing their progress. So this is your like at a glance, quick check-in, how are the students doing and these grades would be passed through Canvas and Schoology in Google Classroom if you were using those. But know that when you do have a conference with Bob, you can sit down and you can say, Bob, let's look at all your work and you can drill down into any of this and be like, I think you're struggling with this skill because here I could see this or you only spent 30 seconds on the lesson. There's lots of analytics to help support you in any of those kind of individual deep dives or for you folks who are working with IEPs or special needs, things like that we're giving you the full breadth here of opportunities to check student progress. We have another question. I've used adaptive practice with a few students and it's worked very well. I fussed with trying to create my own quizzes but without success, will that be covered in one of the next two sessions? I'm gonna show you right now. I'm gonna go back out always pressing this logo going back out to the homepage. So the question is I showed you our adaptive practice where it's set up for kids to try to get 10 correct or sorry, adult learners, anybody trying to get 10 correct and it's gonna advance easy, medium and hard depending on how they're doing but some people want more control than that. They want to just make what we call in CK12 land a quiz although that could be review, homework, independent practice quizzes kind of a trigger word that I wish we would change. When you're in your library, this is a tab we haven't really explored. This is where the things that you create or the things that you add to your library are gonna be stored and you've got to create new button here. And so one of the things that you can create is that quiz that I'm talking about. By the way, this is also where you would start creating one of your books from scratch if you wanted to but that's next week for sure. But creating a quiz allows you more control again, so it's not gonna be adaptive but you're able to access our question sets if you want. So you can give it a title. This is gonna be a really fancy title.  They have one attempt, they're gonna do it in 20 minutes and I'm not gonna show any hints and I'm gonna shuffle the questions. You've got all of these different controls over how you wanna present the quiz. And then what's nice is that we have opened up our question bank to you. So all of those adaptive practice questions that the students are able to do, you can also search for a concept up here and find questions. Okay, I'm gonna look at these 19 gravity questions for physical science. And so it just pulled those into my quiz on creating but I can go in and, oh, it doesn't like my, sorry. It doesn't like, but I put the slash in there. Let's see if it'll, it should take hyphens I think, okay. If I come in here and, oh man, 20 minutes. You know, I'm going too quickly in my demo that the system's like slow down. These are the questions, the 19 questions that we have available for gravity in our database and I can choose which ones of these I wanna have in my quiz. So I can select these, I can sort by difficulty. Say, I didn't think the hard questions were very, I didn't wanna do any of the hard questions. So I could deselect the hard questions and say, let's do more of the easy and medium questions or you can sort by type of maybe I don't want any true false questions. And then again, you can open these up and preview any of the questions at any time. And you can also add in your own questions using our question editor. But when I save this, it's gonna change where it's not gonna show 19 questions anymore. It's gonna say that my quiz so far is of 13 questions. And I can continue to add questions that's as much as I want.  You can see, let's, let's steal some of these chemical bond questions and do the same thing and start building a quiz that way. And then once you've built your quiz, you're able to save it. And it is going to be in your library where all the stuff that you make goes. And so here is that quiz that I just made that at any point I can access it and I can assign it to my students. I can download it as a PDF, lots of things I can do. So I would just come in here. If I'm using Google classroom, I would link it to my Google classroom. And my students would be doing 33 questions, one attempt, 20 minutes. That's probably not the best settings for that. So I usually do unlimited and, you know, like show hints or I'm a little more favorable on my quizzes, but you can control all of those details and assign it to your students. I'm hoping that that. We have another question. Oh, sorry. No, no, no, yeah. Hit me with more questions. Another question, can you integrate with GeoGebra? You know, we have integrated with GeoGebra if you probably saw that with our math content. Anything with an embed code that can be pulled into our books? Let me go up to subjects here. Probably like our adult books, I'm sure have some GeoGebra in them as well, but I'm just diving into something. Our team has been working with GeoGebra to create these interactives in-house. But I believe if you are a GeoGebra user, this should be an embed code that we've got when you edit the lesson, we've got a place for embed codes and that can be a video, that can be an image, that could be, like I've heard of things like Quizlet, you know, some of those other subscription type things you might use. Anything within a bed code that you slap in there should show up on the screen. Next question was, I see topics for forensic science, community contributions, but I thought that I saw a flex book textbook on forensic science. Probably. So coming back out to our homepage here, remember that we've kind of gotten the start of the adult ed things on the adult ed page, which is just our start, but you might wanna come out here into the broader world of all of our content and find other flex books. So this is on forensic science. Forensics, you are gonna give me something tough, the former English teacher that I'm trying to think about it. So what I would do is I would come here to forensic science, and then I'm going to search by a flex book textbooks. And it's pulling up like each time forensic science is referenced in a lot of our different like human biology books. So now I would have to drill down a little bit more into this, but you're right. If I go over to community contributed, Big Sandy Lorraine has created a forensic science book. And probably if you got in here, you would be able to see what she used as the primary source for the book. That wasn't the best explanation for your question, but I would encourage you to like, that's actually the wrong example too. If I come up here to like geometry and I browse by subject, we have a lot of flex books that CK12 has created and we've kind of put a lot of them on the shelves while we're doing the interactive, the latest, greatest, everything unified together. So when I just went to geometry, you're going to see that you have filtering options here to see different languages, the different grades. You can see which ones are 2.0 and which ones have been community contributed. So you've got choice here. And so here's a Pythagorean theorem book. It's not a flex book 2.0. It's not one we're showing on the adult page, but you may want to pull pieces of this into your adult ed books. Same thing with a lot of these other books. Here's Geometry in Spanish. You can customize this book or steal chapters from it. Lots of options, our CVSE books done in partnership. So use our flex book browser to find things well beyond what looks like we have in that, what do you want to teach today option or on our adult page right now? We have a couple more questions. Is there integration with Desmos, a math graphing program? I don't know much about this. Yeah, I'm not sure how you want to integrate. Of again, all I can really speak to is that if there's some sort of embed code where you can take something going on on Desmos and embed it into one of our flex books, it'll work. Otherwise we don't have any set partnership. Our only partnerships are with Google, Schoology, Canvas, and a little bit with Clever and Class Link and a few of those sign-on systems. What is the highest reading level in the English lessons? Yeah, that's a tricky one. I, as a former English teacher, my hope and desires that sometime we kind of get Lexile scores or we're able to better speak to the vocabulary and what reading level you can expect. But like I said, since we are a concept-based organization, it just depends. So I would like, for English specifically, this is our common sense composition book where if I wanted to see who wrote it, I can tell that this was San Jose State University. And I could go into these lessons and I could start looking at it. But we unfortunately aren't really able to tell you a whole lot about the reading level. This would be, all right, well, this was a college-level book. Let me see what's going on here. Some of our Flexbooks we have basic, at grade and advanced is what we call it for our middle and high school content where the basic has been pared down a little bit. The at grade is what the typical student studying that concept at their grade would be able to do. And then advanced usually has some higher-level thinking and some elevated language to it. But that's a great question and something I'm hoping that we're gonna like pay special attention to as we're building out these adult books. We have two more questions. Do you have GED previous solved question papers for math in CK12? I do not believe so. I'm wondering if I fully understand that question, Debbie. I don't know if you understand it better than I do. But again, we had those, the GED books that we adapted from Shana, our community contributor. Did they have papers? What do you make of that, Debbie? Well, in the one textbook, they do have a pre-test that you can give the students to find out what they need to study in the book. And that is in one of the books for the high school equivalency. The others, it's the CK12, it's the materials that are there. So that would be my answer. I'm not sure that's the best. The next question says, can we connect with Moodle? We have a ton of users who use CK12 with Moodle. We don't have that grade pass back where they don't talk to each other in the same way that we do with Google and Google Classroom and School G and Canvas. But if you're talking about, grabbing a link of our resources and putting it into your Moodle feed or board or whatever they call that, you can grab the URLs and you can use them as much as you want. It's just, it's not quite as slick with that progress feedback. And the last one that's here says, I noticed there were college lessons. Will CK12 have GRE lessons or any material similar to that? Maybe. I mean, we're, as a foundation, I'm gonna check and see if there's anything labeled GRE for a community contributed. Oh, it's gonna pull up everything with greatest. Let me go to like, Flexbook textbook. Oh yeah, Gretna. GRE is probably a tough thing to search for. But no is the immediate answer of, I don't think we are actively working on that. Again, I'm excited that after years of kind of middle and high school math and science that we are venturing off into the adult ed space. And that has started again with like CK12 core content of math and science. But we wanna build out from there. But I'm guessing we'll move toward CTE and ELL or language arts books to go for these adult learners before we would go after like our GRE students. That's kind of a different ball game. But you're always welcome to create a book on our site. Any other questions, anyone? We have answered all the questions that were in the Q&A. We wanna, I think, do you wanna go back and share the screen and give them some contact information from us? Cause this is just the start of a conversation where, you know, we want to hear from you. We want to partner with you of, I would love, like actually, Demi and I were talking about this before this webinar. We're starting to get lots of emails from people saying, hey, I'm in this situation and I wanna talk to you more about this or I wanna share this with my department or can you do a demo for, you know, several of us in the building? And like the answer to all that is yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. We wanna know what your ideas are, how you're using these books, how we can make them better. If you have awesome adult content that you think is licensed compliant or it could come onto the CK12 site, like let's talk about it. We would love to work with you on that. So the easiest address for me is partners at CK12. That's an address that I man, but it's also visible to a lot of my other teammates. So that's cool to see everything that's going on. And then you can see Debbie's email address there and go ahead, Debbie. Yes, you're definitely welcome to contact me as well. We have one more question that popped in. How is the community contributed content vetted? Is it vetted for accuracy? By the CK12 team, we are largely hands off of these books of the community contributed. And that's why we've made it pretty clear that there's the CK12 tab, there's the community contributed tab. And then like a lot of our social studies books, for instance, were made in partnership with El Paso Independent School District in Texas. And we put that all over the description. We put that community contributed label saying that, it's social studies, but this was created in Texas. So that may or may not work for everybody. Or again, we think it's strong enough content that we wanted to highlight it for people, but you may wanna be making some tweaks to that book based on it. So community contributed is really up to you. You're checking boxes saying that you have agreed to the license, that the content's appropriate, and then it goes onto the site. And unless it's flagged for us, it stays up there. And it's kind of up to you to look at the book and see the content. And where it gets tricky is, as I know that Shana was saying, like we've used her books as the core of a couple of our books on the adult site. And she's like, well, what if I'm still working on it? What if I'm still building it? What if I still wanna make changes to it? And when you start making copies of somebody else's book, you've kind of separated that process where now that book is not gonna be updated by Shana because it's a CK12 book and it's our responsibility to update it. But we'll talk more about that next week. That's a great question. We'll talk more about publishing, not everything you do on our site is immediately available for the world to see. So you can create things in peace knowing that it's not immediately posted for everybody. So we'll go over some of those best practices and talk more about our license and talk more about kind of the do's and don'ts and how to make sure something doesn't get flagged on the site. Lindsay, I was gonna say OTN worked in partnership with CK12 to make sure that what we were grabbing from the community contributed was vetted with it, with Accurus to check for accuracy by an adult basic educator and adult secondary educator. So we do have folks that are looking at that before being posted onto the adult site or page. Yes, I think the adult page again is its own thing that's getting a lot of attention right now, a lot of eyes on it. Again, it's not perfect, but we're continuing to that process. But the general community contributed. I mean, we have hundreds of thousands of flex books on our sites and we're just thankful when people want to post their work in case somebody else can grab it and save some time and helps them with their learners. And then Lindsay, I know I've given, I've asked someone from our participants to share their email address because they wanna be kind of involved in creating more writing and reading resources as well. So we'll definitely take that, notate that email address and as we move forward with our efforts, make our team a little bit larger. Yeah, or if you guys are Twitter people or LinkedIn people, again, we're trying to like throw a lot of things out into the world and network in any way, just to figure out who our folks are, who are gonna be our great partners in this journey. So you can also find us, there's all of OTAN's information, you've got CK12. Again, I'm pretty easy to find and that is easy to find of just, if you're into the social media stuff, connect with us there too so we can stay updated on what everybody's doing. Yes, and you'll find we partnered with CK12 with a couple of different posts. So we've always tagged CK12. So if you wanna find us and then find CK12 from there, you can find them at at CK12 Foundation on Twitter.