Okay for those of you that just showed up. Yes, you can there'll be a presentation and then optional field trip after if you'd like to go on the field trip you can get into this By going to the URL that Shan just put in the local chat I would however recommend that you go to sign dot space and Sign up for a free account and download Their software I tried it this morning and I can tell you the software works a lot better than the web browser Okay, first of all, thank you all for coming and my name is bilge mackdenburg Everybody knows me as day Miami in second life. I'm a night while I'm a high school or science teacher in Southwest Virginia and I also run a Geology program at Ferram College, so I do so two levels and First thing I want to say is thanks to everybody that showed up and What's really cool that I've noticed because I've been on all morning is that we've got some people here are diehard science Circle folks. We've also welcoming a number of people from science base that are greeters. I see captain pirate and Galen here who I've known for many years who's another educator and I hope I haven't let anybody out But thank you all for coming so Let me start with the first slide here and I want to go over my procedure, which is basically Feel free at any time to throw anything you want in local chat. I'm monitoring it I don't have a problem at all stopping what I'm saying and answering your questions or trying to address your comments I think that that is a great way to run I always run my presentation so that I allow time for questions and answers Because that's that's what I want to hear from you guys is feedback and the first thing also that I want to say about this is Science space is exciting Hello, hello, is somebody else talking What I'd ask is if you have a question or comment, please put it in local chat. Do not use voice at the request of Science space, okay But like I said, I'll be happy to address your comments and questions as we go along All right, so let me explain why I put this presentation together because it's not our sort of typical Presentation that we do here, which is For an expert to come up and talk about the latest research in chemistry or biology or geology or whatever Instead, this is more of a technology presentation and as you can see on the slide That should be rising for everybody Obviously virtual worlds and online collaborations is something that's important to all of us Whether we're at science base or whether we're part of the science circle We understand that this is the way that business should be done in the 21st century and There are also I would say experts at the Department of Education at least here in Virginia that have already penned Technology standards for students here in the state of Virginia at the high school level if you can't read I'm going to read this out to you It's computer technology standard CT 9-12 grades dot 15 see it states students will participate in online courses social and learning networks and and Virtual worlds the yet that language is actually in the standard furthermore 9-12 dot 16 C states that students will participate peers and experts to assess their projects and use Communication media to locate those experts I put the website up there if you want to take a look at it, but I think those are some amazing stands and they're not new They've been around for years The real question is how do you implement them and I've been all over the state of Virginia asking educators technicians and so on as to You know, what do you mean by a virtual world in that language? How do you do it? I think probably the best answer I've gotten is Minecraft and this is certainly One of the more popular programs that's out there You know, if you've ever if you haven't been to Minecraft basically what it is is think of Legos online With your friends and you get an infinite number of so if you look up there on the slide It shows you I built just a simple lava field around it's supposed to be granite in one project that I did with the Vistae Virginia Society of Technology and Education and Elementary school kids love this. They're doing some amazing creative work in it and There is a chat feature very much like we have in Second Life here. There's no voice capabilities or Vibox Typically people that are in Minecraft use discord when they're doing that. All right So there is one option and it's very popular in Virginia Beach They run their own servers and they get students and teachers into it Years ago. My students came to me and they said We got a question from Synergy, what's the advantage of doing virtual Legos instead of real-life Legos? You get an infinite number of them the cost of Minecraft is only 26 bucks And you get to do with your friends and yeah, there is an advantage to building your life stuff, but Kids love Minecraft. I've got some high school students that love Minecraft It's just popular and it's available on all kinds of consoles and game boys and it just runs on just about everything All right So anyway, my students came to me and they said can we do it in my school district and the answer I got was a firm. No, I was told that in order to run a Minecraft server You have to give out the IP addresses the network engineer almost had a heart attack at that He said it's no way that we're giving out our IP addresses That's just gonna open us up to all kinds of security issues the software cost 26 bucks to get into and Students were Taken their software that they had download paying the 26 bucks and throwing it on school servers So there was copyright violation. It just wasn't pretty. So needless to say they never got passed. All right Let me go back one. I know what some of you are gonna think about well, what about second life? I mean we use it all the time And it certainly is a great Platform for I think professionals getting together like we are now to discuss a wide range of topics I'm not a fan of using it for K-12 because of a couple of things and the one that you all know what I'm talking about by adult content It's out there and it's easily accessible to students and there's no age verification anymore And I've even tried using it at my college Every year I go up every year I throw up second life and I said who'd like to come in the last time I did it out of about 25 students I got one student into Second life and did a great job, but most students just aren't interested and I think part of it is the complicated interface I mean if you look at your viewer right now look at all the menus and buttons and so on It's just for somebody that's coming in it can be overwhelming So I've tried to look for other possibilities and you know me I'm a huge fan of unity and a couple of years ago Number of people came to me and said why don't you check out sign space? you already love unity and What you can do is create in Unity which is an editor and then you upload it to Sign space and we have a question from foreign am I saying it right? What about alternative viewers? so I use talking about OSM or I'm not sure Can you be a little more specific? Because I know some people have had luck with OS simulator and schools and I'm not here to if you've got your favorite virtual environment to use with students by all means use it I'm not here to say that that you know you definitely have to use sign space. I want to give you an alternative and Like I say, I'm not sure which one you're thinking of I know like I said OSM has been used for a while But in a minute, I'm gonna go over why I'm so excited about sign space and I'll be honest I resisted it for a while I had to play with it for a while But eventually I got to the point that I really like it The real big advantage and I think why sign space could really take hold in the educational community is easy access You know, you can log in with a simple website Literally, and that's what Chantel threw out is You know, you just type in whatever is sign dot space slash location slash Eagle Rock and if you've got a fast enough internet and let's be honest those of you that are educators out there How many of you have asked gee? Why are we wasting all this bandwidth on standardized testing? Okay, that bandwidth that we're not using it for standardized testing could be used for a cool tool like sign space Because if you've got faster in it like I do at my school Access via the web browser is really fast And if you hardwire that talk more about that minute into that internet man, it goes blazing fast So That's what I like about science-based. You don't have to sign for an account. You want to try it You don't have to download software and right behind me is a screenshot from the Europa sim that we're going to be going to in a little while and You know, you see that there's much fewer buttons there's a couple of tabs at the bottom and that's about it navigation is the same as in second life as we're going to see with the arrow keys and so on and Good question is science-based more moderated I would say yes, okay. I'm going to get to that in a minute. Hold on. You're a little bit ahead of me here All right One thing that I want to say here is if you're planning on using the web browser interface to get in on the optional field trip You can you'll have chat capabilities, but not voice by box does not work unfortunately on the web client you have to use the the software download All right So like I said, if you haven't done so I would encourage you to go to sign dot space and a browser sign up Click the sign up button download the software Again, this is optionally can go in as a web browser I'm hoping this presentation less no more than 30 minutes and then we'll head into Science-based some of you have already been in there. I see some of you already in there now, which is awesome All right So let me say a little bit more about science-based some of you know about Cindy Valero on second life. She ran's aeropines park and This slide shows a picture taking it aeropines park on second life And what she did was redo it with Science-based and one of the advantages of science-based is that they have something called the questing system So for example, you can interact with NPCs Non-player characters you can tell people all right go pick up 10 snowballs in 30 seconds So you can make a little games out of it There's rewards that you can put in to the questing system and in fact one of my students I'm going to talk about a minute Bailey Paxton did that for her Europa simulation So you'll get a chance to see how that's actually done with education All right, but before I get ahead of myself a number of years ago Cindy came to my Computer group and she made a presentation on Skype and said We'd like to challenge you to come up with a space research colony on another planet or moon Using unity and most of my students just bailed on it But Bailey Paxton was one that was interested in making a colony and worked on for an over a year and Just finished it in May of 2018 and we upload it It's been uploaded to the Creator server and also uploaded to The live region if you want to take a look at it for those of you that are looking for it It's called FCHS space Space colony alright, and the other one is FCHS Eagle Rock, but we'll get to that in a minute All right, one of the things Although Bailey created it. I was one that uploaded because I want to control I'm gonna talk about network security in a minute, but I firmly think that teachers should be in charge of Actually uploading you there is some it's technically difficult for the first time you do it It took me about two hours with help from Joey Obama But like I said, I think that teachers need to be able to control it and I'll speak more about that in a minute All right. So anyway, this is what the Europa research colony looks like basically Bailey put out a series of Buildings that were designed for For Living Quartz or research and we got another question is sansar is still a thing It is I have tried sansar. I've got Oculus Rift system. So I had big hopes to be honest I wasn't a big fan if you're interested in sansar. I encourage you look into high fidelity Which I think is a is a better system again I haven't been in those a lot and it's really best if you got a high end of the array But I think that would be a better way to go All right, and one of the things that's a lot of fun. You can get vehicles in science base The blue thing is what we call our war wagon that you can jump inside and drive around on Europa For fun. We also try driving around in some snowmobiles on Europa Those people inside a building are not why they not work. Good question. All right That synergy is asking me is the atmosphere pressures really low this was on the Creator server and we couldn't get EBA suits on there and Then when we put it on the live server, there is an EBA suit that you can put on when you get to Europe So it's just another second life It is a virtual environment like second life. It has a lot of the functionality to it I would disagree and say it's just another second life One of the things that people are working on is trying to come up with a k12 um Grid server and I know second life had a team grid that didn't do so well We're trying to revive that on second life Like I said, we're hoping that this takes off because it's just a lot easier for Teachers and students to get into because of the web GL interface To my knowledge second life has never been accessible in a web server on a web browser And to me that I think can make all the difference in the world because I'm gonna be honest I'm a teacher. I'm overwhelmed somebody comes to me and says, oh, I got a great idea But you got download software and you got get an account and all this stuff I'm gonna say I don't have time for that. On the other end. They just send me a URL. I'm more likely to go into it So that's what the hope is. I'm gonna say more about that in a minute All right, so let me tell you a little bit about the way that sign space is set up right now They have two servers. They have what's called a creator server Which allows people to come in and throw up their stuff play around with it And then there's the live server which has more open access to it If you create an account on sign space, you only get access to the live server Guest accounts Can get you to live server for free But to my understanding they don't work on the creator server if you want to be a creator You have to supply an email. It's got to be verified. There's some other information You have to give through sign space. It's not terribly hard So if you're interested in creating for this platform, I would encourage you to look into that Like I said creator servers used for testing and what you do is Send it to review and eventually It gets approved and sent up to the live server All right, and that's a mistake Europa colony is currently available on both Whoops clicked it too far on the creator and the live server All right All right now we're at all right So we did the Europa project and then towards the end of the school year I had a student interest in geology So we decided to do an eagle an eagle rock project a geology simulation And there actually is an eagle rock virginia. So I went there and took this picture Of eagle rock. It's a spectacular cliff in virginia with this rock that's above it And um the geology is just amazing there So what we wanted to do is to try and reproduce it as much as possible in terms of the geology and the fossils and so on And when you log in, this is what you're going to see. Um, there's a welcome sign. There's the chat There's my 2008 Chevy pickup. We were able to reproduce that.  The truck goes away. All right Um, but the idea is when you go here, there are rock samples you click on them and it Ta teaches you about what kind of rocks are there? What kind of fossils are there? Um, We have uv mapped actual textures from eagle rock on a lot of the cliffs Here so that you can get a feel for what it's like to actually do that in virginia All right, so when you click on here's an example of a ui that pops up. Um, it shows a fossil That's found from this particular area Um, here is a shot in screen of the james river bridge Which is a replica of what's actually in real life Looking towards eagle rock And the cool thing is you can fly around just like in second life if you press down on your page up Button you can fly around in science space, which is really cool as a geologist I can tell you eagle rock is actually about 90 feet or 30 meters tall and I stood at the base of it and Um, I wonder what it would be like to go up there and in the in the virtual eagle rock That's right. You can just flap your arms and you can go right to the top. It's pretty cool It's flapping like an eagle. All right, some of you brought up the network security So let's talk about that from it if I control in other words My students make a sim like eagle rock and I upload I become In charge of it and what that means is I have almost full network rights to it So if at any time I'm getting concerned about who's going in there I can shut it down a couple of mouse clicks and nobody goes into it Or I can limit it to just my friends or to a whitelist or I can open up to everybody like I've done today I can control who can res there. I can control who can speak there So I really like that that level of administrative control that you can get And I've been told that you can give administrative rights to other people haven't played around with that yet But that makes sense that you'd want to do something like that Okay, maybe give rights to a teacher that's going to be taking your students in there All right, um Going too far clicking too fast Fun Let's talk about network security. Yeah, right. You it's like the security orbs that you have here um, one of the things too that I think is really cool about science space is then If it runs on a A url Then that means web filters are not going to block and that's huge in schools I had a student try to log into one of her sims Well standardized testing was going on those you in schools know how much the tech services department locks systems down And she was able to get in that's a really good sign Because the worst thing that can happen for virtual environments is a teacher tries it and it doesn't work So we want a system like science space that allows teaching quickly and easily go in without calling the network engineer To open up the web filter for this url or that one. Now, I don't know what's going to open for all schools I'm just saying it worked for mine I would very much welcome that you try it at your school If when it resumes and let me know if you have problems Maybe we will have to open up a web filter, but at least in my school was good Um, this coming fall is going to be earth science week october I think it's 14 through the 20th and national fossil day within the united states And I'm hoping to roll out eagle rock as a way of celebrating that To my students and teachers Um, I've just done a big update. I'm waiting for it to be approved by science space But it's got all the latest geology in it and information from the state All right, the other thing that I want to put in there is problem-based learning So when I went to eagle rock you saw this big landslide of rocks coming down And one of the things that I thought would be cool for students to do is If you were to see this, what would you do if you worked for the virginia department of transportation? You don't want those rocks going on the road where they could get cars or whatever And so that's one of the things that I would throw out for students is is what are some things you could do Like bringing a backhoe and rip all that stuff out Um But something for them to think about All right, eagle rock is fully multiplayer like science space And I think that it's going to lead to collaboration online in a safe environment And for example, here I am giving a virtual field trip to a teacher on the other side of my state Um in virginia beach discussing the geology or Rocky of eagle rock And let's see here All right, um right now science space Sims that I've thrown up are free to use If you want to get your own science space account You can get a free what they call region or sim whatever term you want to use on the live server You can throw up whatever you want on the creator server They limit you to 10 concurrent users on the live server And the regions have to be 100 under 128 megs Eagle rock does that Europa does not Um If you're going to use the web gl the web browser, they recommend keep them small under 100 meg or even 50 if You're going to be going that way if you want more than that um What's the problem? Jolendi is saying This is Is not good. What's your problem if you're saying well, I need more regions or I need more ccu's or whatever Um, then uh, there is a pricing model and right now They're like 50 off. I just signed up to upgrade my regions to Um 30 concurrent users and I think I'm up to 200 512 megabytes Of uh storage per region Um, yeah, it is small. Okay, and they're purposely keeping it small They want you to go and play with it And then if you want to make something more advanced then they're going to ask you to pay for it Which I mean, I'm going to be honest. It costs the money for running servers and IT support and all that And if you go to there, I put the url for their pricing up there if you go there I think they're asking pretty reasonable I'm paying 15 bucks a month and I'm up to I think 512 megabytes Somebody at science base. Tell me if I'm wrong or go to the url But I thought the pricing was was very realistic Or very reasonable It may go up. I don't know But again, they're just giving you a little bit So that you can play around with it and then if you need more you have to pay for it. All right. Um, so like I said Okay, does anybody have any other questions before I we do the field trip because we are right on top And I appreciate those of you that That have already put some stuff in local All right, so There's the url if you want to go into it With the browser Signed out space slash location slash eagle rock take a few minutes to get in there You do not have to have an account And you can pick a guest avatar male or female to go in If you download the science base software and create an account you can use that Please make sure you don't click the button that says log on to preview server That will take you to the creator server and you won't see anybody Well, I don't know if anybody's there now. So leave that unclick because you want to go on the live server Um, can everybody see behind me? What I did was a screen capture. Oh before I say this a few other things Uh, you won't be able to get on the free verse server. That's true Galen. Um, if you do love if you do run it on the web browser Um, I would recommend chrome fire fox or safari. Those are the ones that I've used to work pretty well If you can use a wired connection that works better than wireless close off your tabs Otherwise, you might get error messages Um, I'm going to be honest. I am running Second life and I've got two other computers on sign space. I'm in both Um, the eagle rock and your old precepts on a 10 megabyte um internet connection So like I said, the client works pretty well. So you'll need you know, and yeah, that's true Galen if you try and go into the creator server then Um, you know, you'll run into that. Um, I'm going to stay in second life if you're having problems Just throw something in a local chat and what I'd really like to know Obviously, I want you to go in try the quest in Europa try eagle rock click on the rocks I think more people are in eagle rock. So why don't we start with that one? But if you could just send me a net card a no card in second life Um, just take a few minutes when we're done. Uh, maybe at, um Was it 10 55 slt time? Um, just tell me if you were able to get in Were you using the web browser? Were you using the client? What problems you ran into?


It's what I've grown up with It's kind of like if you grew up with red hair you wouldn't picture yourself any other way I'm gonna try to address some things that like people always ask me, you know I'm not really going to talk about the adoption side because that's gonna be another video So if you want an adoption video give this video a big thumbs up and Comment down below and let me know because I would be happy it to do an adoption story for you guys But I got really inspired to make this video from another youtuber I'll leave the link to her video it down below because she also made a video about Growing up with gay moms and I think that that was it was interesting to see from another point of view there's not a lot of people who can relate to me in a sense and if I could be someone to Give some tips or advice to or I don't know if people are just nosy I will be able to provide you with some information and some insight So I guess I'll just start off by saying yes, I have two moms. They are Caucasian white American sharing Valerie and they're awesome. They're like my friends. I can literally talk to them about anything I do feel comfortable with that. I feel that we have like a really good relationship There's always a good balance in the household by certain personalities. I remember The video that I watched she was saying how she like wanted someone to like break her hair Sherry did my hair because I was in dance. So like I always needed my hair done I guess basically what I'm trying to say is both of my parents provided what I needed and they still do They're very good balance. I don't feel like I missed out on anything a lot of the times I feel like I have a better scenario than some people because some of my friends with straight parents like They're either divorced or they had like marital issues or something like that And I can probably say that my parents have been together for 30 years Well, okay, I'm gonna cut that to 29 but still basically rounding up 30 years And they have a very strong relationship I hope to have as good of a relationship as them because I feel like they set a really good example They have good moral standards and they're good people. So I mean comparing my life to Person like somebody else's I would not see that. I'm missing out on anything also in the video The girl talked about feeling like she was missing that father figure or something I don't know if she said that I don't I don't know don't quote me But I honestly don't feel like I've missed out on a father figure Because my grandpa was like so close to me and I miss him a lot I don't know why I just got kind of emotional there that part of my life didn't really like change at all That's not something that I really had to miss out on Breaking the news to my friends or telling my friends that I had gay moms It was kind of like weird because I didn't really know anyone else in my scenario or in my place Like I didn't really know a lot of families with two parents that are same sex because I'm 20 and like that's not very Common back then but it is now which is awesome because it's getting more accepted Which I feel is great because you don't ever feel like you're hiding something and I never hid Anything from my friends from anyone I met I kind of had the slogan of saying when I first met somebody Hi, I'm Alex. I'm Chinese and I'm adopted and I have two gay moms Like I would always tell someone that because if they had a problem with me from up front I knew that that person was not meant for me and that they just had to you know Scoot to the side because if they didn't accept that or accept my Family then they don't really need to be a part of my life and I mean it doesn't matter It's not everybody's cup of tea and that's fine I don't have a problem with that whatsoever a lot of my friends didn't have a big problem With my lifestyle or my parents being gay Um, I am very blessed and grateful to have lived in a more liberal and like more accepting area Maybe if I still lived in Ohio, it would be different I don't know because I didn't live that life But other than that like I feel like my friends actually really loved my parents some of my friends I felt like even like my parents more than they like me because their personalities everything are just like so like You know vibrant and full of life, you know So I never really had a big problem with people like not wanting to be my friend because my parents were gay there is a few times in Let's say I think it was like fifth or sixth grade this one girl Was becoming friends with one of my good friends and she's like don't hang out with her cuz her parents are weird But that's like the most hate I've gotten on this subject Which surprises me greatly because I always have thought and I've always like kept it in the back of my mind Like you might get hate for this. It's not normal. It's not normal I don't know so many times I feel like straight families or straight families I feel so like divisional um, I feel that like people or families with a traditional You know mom dad child. I feel like that Template breaks up a lot easier nowadays Which actually makes me scared because I'm straight if you didn't know I just wanted to put that out there because I know that some people think that like if somebody has gay parents They could make their kid gay or lesbian or whatnot. That is not the case. You are simply born with it I can tell you this from first-hand experience not first-hand maybe second-hand my parents did not choose to be gay You don't choose to be anything because I don't think that like my parents would choose a hard lifestyle And to choose to be a minority when you know you can get so much hate for it when you can like You know have certain family members turn their backs on you because they don't agree with it Um, I don't think people would want to choose that. You can disagree with me all you want That is totally fine. I am giving you from what I know and trust me I know a lot about this because I live with my gay parents that they did not choose that lifestyle It just it's them. It's who they are.  I believe it's hereditary. It's just like a gene You know, you're just born with it and that's how it is Surprisingly the YouTube community has been great as well You guys love seeing my parents in the vlogs and I think that's amazing I'm really just making this video to give out and share my message with the world because it's not very common to hear a 20 year old today Talking about growing up with gay parents. So that's why I kind of just wanted to talk to you guys about this I don't know. I feel like I want to ask do you have any questions if you do leave them in the comments down below I've also read in some of the comments Why does she call her parents by their first names?  So that's how that played out. Yes We all live together. I don't know.  Yes, we all live together.  I Didn't like him anymore. I just find that story to be so funny Sometimes I think they're more girly than me at times because they like makeup and stuff They don't love makeup, but like they wear makeup more than I do So I joke around a lot about that. I guess one thing I can say they don't really like to shop You know, like I would like to shop But that's fine because like my aunt like we always shop together I mean I have friends that I go shopping with shoot. I'll just shop by myself So, I mean that's not really like a big deal to me but other than that I have two parents that love me unconditionally that have been stable and You know have provided a very very nice life for me.  If you enjoyed this video, please give it a big thumbs up don't forget to subscribe to my channel for more videos and I will see you guys real soon. So bye


Last year I went to a place called El Quivali in northern Chile. It's one of the best places in the world to look at stars. The night sky was indeed magnificent. Or so I was told, I could only see 20 stars. You see, I'm night blind. My eyes don't adjust to darkness. It had always been this way, so I'd never been too worried. It was only in university when a new friend spoke up. Mila, this is not normal. You should see a doctor. Sometimes bad news can be a relief. In recent years I'd started stumbling over things. I'd walk straight into chairs and tables. I'd even bump into other people. They seemed to appear out of nowhere. I started to accept a new picture of myself. Clumsy and cloud-headed. My friends would joke that we lost Mila again. Hello? Are you still with us? When the doctor told me that I was suffering from a rare eye disease, my first feeling wasn't fear or sorrow. It was relief. I was relieved to know that there was an explanation. What had started as night blindness had developed into tunnel vision. I could only see what was directly in front of me. But that wasn't all. Eventually I would go blind. I was 21 and all my plans went down. This new Mila and her possible future, I did not know getting the diagnosis felt unfair. It wasn't what I had planned for. But that's not how life works, is it? You don't get to plan these things. But you do need to learn to live with them. Even today, it's a constant struggle.  Who would have thought? Yeah, however, losing your sight is not a big problem. It's a collection of many small ones. At first, just telling other people made my throat dry. Every time, it was like a punch in the face. Now, it's just a piece of information. Hi, I'm Mila, and I have tunnel vision. One of the hardest things has been learning to use the white cane. For the first two years, I refused to touch it. I hated how it made me seem more blind than I was. But there was something I hated even more, and that was crashing into other people and not getting the chance to explain. So I started practicing abroad, where nobody knew me. It felt safer. Slowly, I learned to love the freedom that the stick gave me. No longer was walking on a busy street like a scene from a horror movie. Every story has a silver lining. This one too. I'm losing my sight, but it's okay. Life doesn't end there. I'm often asked how I can be so positive and calm about this. My answer usually is, how could I not? Really, what's the alternative? Sit on the couch and live a useless life? I've come to realize that my illness doesn't define me. I may not see the stars, but I can travel to them, and that's exactly what I did last year when I backpacked four months through South America. In the end, which one is the worst, this ability? Suffering from an unfortunate condition or choosing not to live your life. If you think something will cripple you, it will. Thank you.


Elon Musk wants America to be more like China. That's interesting. Welcome everybody to the hot pop boys. Elon Musk has just complimented the Chinese work ethic in China and has also said that Americans try to avoid work. Run the clip. I think there will be some very strong companies coming out of China. There's just a lot of super talented hardworking people in China that are strongly believe in manufacturing. They won't just be running. We're not old. They'll be running the 3 a.m. Well, so that they won't even leave the leave the factory type of thing. Whereas in America, people are trying to avoid going to work at all. David, a lot of people feel some type of way about this, but I feel like a lot of people are not denying the facts. Yeah, I have never seen a wider range of disagreement where nobody is actually disagreeing with the premise. Everybody acknowledges that what Elon is saying is most likely true. I think the numbers show it to be true. The most productive giga factories for Tesla are in Shanghai. However, a lot of people were saying, come on, Elon, you want us all to be repressed, oppressed robotic slaves like the Chinese? I can't live like that. The factory workers only making $1,500 a month, man. You got to get out of here, man. If you like it so much, you go move over there and live the 996 lifestyle. And it's really interesting because people can't deny the facts, but people are still really angry. And I want to talk about why so many people are very upset about this. Like, why are they actually mad? Here's the real truth behind it. David, what's your take? Well, I think that people in the West, particularly like, if you made me say, I don't know, maybe a lot of white people more have achieved, and I'm not saying only limited white people, but like achieved a middle or upper middle class lifestyle that they feel is really well balanced and really fairly or well compensated. And they feel like Elon saying that because they do value what Elon says is a threat to that. And they also want to maintain the number one positioning of America or the Western world while not necessarily changing their work habits because they see China coming up. They see people sleeping at the factory. They see people just do whatever. You know, I'm not saying the life over there is great or their life for your average person is better than the West, which I certainly don't think it's as comfortable. But they're pumping the numbers. No, listen, listen, I'm born and raised in America. I like my life in America. I'm not rushing to move over there to work in an office in a tech job or a tech factory, by the way. But what I will say is this, every time it seems like when it comes to kind of brainwork and people put in the work on things that people like, like a non sports thing, people don't value it, but people only value hard work when it comes to sports. Like, oh my gosh, look at that guy, man. He made it on the team. He's getting playing time by just hard work and hustle, man, I respect that. I love it. He's a savage. And then when it comes to math leads, like people who are in math competitions, people will say, man, look at all these nerds putting in all this time studying math. What are you doing? It's just numbers. Yeah. It does remind me a little bit of this guy called Tommy Chin that I went to high school with and he was probably like the number one guy in our whole grade, number one or number two at math.  I'm just saying, man, he crunches the numbers quick. And he was very stereotypical sort of, you know, not cool looking. You know, I'll pop up a photo right here. Not of him, but you know, somebody who looks like him. And then I remember this like this cool white guy that we all knew. I don't know if I should say his name. Jeff, I won't say his last name. I almost said, uh, he was like immediately. I remember we had this like allergic reaction of me saying that and it always shocked me and it stuck with me where he was like, dude, that does not even count. Tommy got no life. He gets no girls. He's not cool. If I like just all I did was look at math books all day like him and I was a geek. I would be in the same math tier as him because Jeff was kind of good at math too. Not not on his level though. Right, right, right, like literally just not giving it props literally that was just like an allegory or just an example of litter an anecdote that really shows how people feel about Asians being more hyper productive in a factory sense or an academic sense in the West. They kind of discount it. They acknowledge it, but then they discount it because they go, uh, well, they're just like robotic dweeps that doesn't count. Yeah. It is interesting. There's definitely a racial element to it. I'm not saying all comments are racist that are criticizing China's work policies because even China had to outlaw their 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. 6 days a week work ethic the 996 thing that was getting out of hand. So China had to put an ax to that because they were like, oh God, this is this. They were going hard. They were going super hard. Yeah. But actually, you know, the same things have been said about the Japanese, the Germans before, you know what I mean? And even maybe during a time in American history, Americans were working so hard during the industrial revolution back into the 40s, 1910s, 1920s, the roaring 20s. When people are building these skyscrapers behind us and they're sleeping on the beams with the little sandwiches and the lunch pails and people are like, this is American excellence. We love this. And you know, there's a reason why there's all these skyscrapers in New York City and not in Europe. Yes. There's a reason why it's because they went and had that era when people in the French were like, you know, I'm enjoying my like 607th auto movement in 1922. And why the Americans? So it's just like working hard like trying to build the buildings. Yeah. No, I hear that when I meet Europeans like overseas. Yeah. And it's funny because America now is trying to move more towards a European mindset where they work 35 hours a week and have a lot of holidays. And then if they move towards the European style, which may be better for quality of life, but worse for innovation and productivity, how can they complain that the Chinese productivity numbers are going to basically eclipse America? Right. Like we said, the Shanghai Gigafactories are the most productive Tesla factories in the world. As far as like hardworking productivity, China is just being America like 80 70 years ago. Yeah. So, but people are mad because I feel like it even goes to Harvard admissions where people like discount Asian like good grades and good extracurriculars because they're like, yeah, they have boring personalities. And I in a most messed up way when I put on my Western hat, I see what they're saying because that Asians feel different, but I think it's just messed up to your point about the athletics where like they don't view our like discipline or focus or impulse control as like talent.  That's God given talent, right? Or somebody who's really good looking and has sisters.  That's just like them being born with it. You know what I mean? But I'm like, wait. So people who are just like kind of like shelter from bad things, but just study all the time there. That's not talent though. The weirdest thing is people very much pick and choose when to give credit for hard work. That's the fact and it depends on how this person looks and that depends on how much props you're going to give them, you know, because I think there's some sense of like some Tommy Chenization and you know, shout out to Tommy. I think he's doing well for himself in the medical world, but like I'm saying he's like, it's like, well, what other option did he have? It's not cool, bro. Hey guys, and listen, I'm not going to say that in China these middle-class workers have the same options as we do in America to watch Netflix, to go in this this rec league, to play fantasy football, to do all these other things that are great about America that we love about America. They might not have a lot of those options. They're absolutely. That's fine.  Like it's just not like that. I don't think it's ever been like that. I think the population and the culture and the history like probably prevent that from ever fully happening, but they can still work towards having a good life. I don't know that they're there yet. They're still in the development process there. But yeah, I don't think anybody would say a middle class over there is better than middle class in America for the most part. You know what's funny man growing up in high school, I remember I had a teacher who took a trip to Europe and he was like, man, they do siestas and tea time out there. Like what are they doing? They take breaks from work for like two, three hours. It's ridiculous. And then you look at America and Americans are like, Hey, how do I only work four days a week? Like I'm trying to work four days. Can I just work 30 hours a week? Well, what I think you're referring to is that there has been a shift in America over the years from the 1920s. Obviously to the 1950s. Greatest generation in all the way to 2022. I don't want to sound like a boomer. I'm just saying literally that is the like logical scientific arc of different empires. Sometimes empires they achieve so much that for the most part, Andrew, I saw this comment from a white person that said, you know, the truth is in the West, we're just fighting for our between having a low luxury life and a high luxury life. And if you work really hard and focus, you get a high luxury life.   That was a comment from a white person. I'll pop it up right here off the internet. Hey, let us know what you think in the comments down below. They were also another comment was like, Hey, you know, we're just at that point and maybe if China works really hard, their kids or their grandkids will be at the point we're at right now. Hey, maybe in 30, 40 years, Chinese are all relaxing in the sun. They're all trying to figure out a four day work to your point. Japan's already there a little bit. Japan is already past their ultra work hard arc still work hard, but not as hard as they just do. Let us know what you think in the comments down below. I mean, I think that there is no debate on the facts, but it's all about your opinion on where everybody's at in this whole timeline of history guys. Let us know what you think about the Chinese work ethic or the American work ethic in the comments down below. Thank you so much for watching. We are the hot pop boys and until next time we out. Peace.


7 Activities for Teaching Conditionals in the ESL Classroom One of the great things about teaching conditionals is that once you discover some classroom activities that work well for one, they can be adapted to suit any of the conditional patterns that you may be asked to teach. Here are 7 fun activities for teaching conditionals for the ESL classroom that you can easily adapt to help your students understand the correct structures and usages. 1. Pass the Pig. Tell your students to stand up and form in two lines, teams, and have an item that can be thrown and caught without causing injury or damage. Set the timer on your phone to sound after about 30-45 seconds. The teacher calls at the beginning half of a conditional sentence, throws the ball to a student at the beginning of the line and asks them to complete it. The student then throws the ball to their opposition in the line, who does the same, creating a different ending to the same beginning. Whichever team doesnt have the ball when the alarm sounds wins a point. Restart at the place where the ball is with a new beginning. Example with zero conditional, When I feel bored, I fall asleep, go for a walk, phone a friend. 2. Chain conditionals. This is a more challenging version of pass the pig and is sometimes referred to as a conditional train. The extra challenge is to create a new sentence using the end of the previous one. As with pass the pig, the teacher begins with a sentence, for example with a first conditional, If I go out tomorrow, I'll go to a beach. The next person in the team relay must then use the end of the previous sentence, If I go to the beach, I'll sunbathe, If I sunbathe, I'll get burnt. If I get burnt, I'll go to a pharmacy.Bear in mind you can include modals such as might and could in this pattern too. 3. Belmanism, Concentration. This is a game based on memorizing cards or other objects placed in front of the players that has become a standard activity in the ESL classroom. It is known as concentration in many countries. Create five pairs of cards with beginnings and endings written on them. For example, with a second conditional, Card 1 If I lived in Antarctica, Card 2 I would be very cold. Lay them face down and either mark all the backs of the beginnings with 1 and the endings with 2 or have beginnings and endings on different colored card. Set students up in groups of 2-4, with a set of cards each.  If they are a suitable match they keep the pair, if not they replace the cards face down and the next student continues. You must design the pairings so that there is only one possible match. Make sure the students say what the ending might be before picking up the second card to maximize student talk time. The student with the most cards at the end wins. Can repeat as time allows. 4. Milldrill Questionnaire. Milldrills, or mingling activities, are another ESL standard which use the simple questionnaire idea whereby students ask each other questions prepared by the teacher and write down their answers. Create a form with room for names and answers so that students can report back about what they've found out, using the target language pattern. Example, for third conditional. What would have happened if question mark. Lucy, we hadn't invented the wheel. Joe, we would have traveled around by horse. What would have happened if you had ruled the world? Sue, their world and tea have been in a wars. 5. Group Discussions. Set students up into small groups with role plays such as tour companies, or as political parties creating an election manifesto, have fun having them choose their names. Give them conditional questions such as. What would you do about traffic congestion if you were the government? Second conditional. What do people do when they go on holiday with your tour company? Zero conditional. Give out the same question to each group and allow them a few minutes to come up with their best responses. They report back with their ideas and you act as a voter or customer deciding which you would choose. Repeat with the next question or scenario as time allows. 6. Board Game with Prompts. You can use snicks and ladders, shoots and ladders, or any similar game board and adapt it to your target language point. To make the game more versatile, have squares with different colors and create your own cards in the colors that either have starts for students to create endings to errors to correct or questions related to previous lessons. When the student lands on a square they pick up the matching card and carry out the task. If they do it correctly, they stay where they are and if not, they go back to where they came from. 7. Using Songs. This idea is certainly more suited to a teacher who has a regular class of students, but is something that could be used to good effect if you do a little bit of pre-teaching at the end of one class by giving students a basic pattern to look for and task them with finding songs with that pattern in for the next class. Students must listen for the conditionals in the song then create some alternative, possibly less musical but more amusing lyrics and groups during the lesson. 2. Example Songs. Eric Clapton, Change the World If I Could Change the World 2nd Conditional. Gloria Gaynor, I will survive if I'd known for just one second you'd be back to bother me, third or mixed conditionals. Are you ready to teach English abroad? These activities for teaching conditionals will help you create fun lessons that your students will remember for a very long time. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. 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I think they should somebody who's smart, who does hemorrhoid cream, should ask Ani if they could use his badass song as a theme for their ointment. Because if you've got a, you know, you've got badass problems, they can solve it. Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Directs of Corbin. I'm Rick and you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks everybody for your stuff. It's good to come to the button. And welcome back to my black void. I hope it's nice and warm. And so my mom says every night she's with Corbin. And we just, we just saw a movie and that's why we're in the filming today. And there's always, this is also where we do all of our Bollywood bootlicker cocaine deals. That's true. Yeah. But Karen Johar is in the trunk. A new Tamil film that just, a new Tamil film that just came out with Ayer Rahman doing the music. It's called Ayalan. And read these other names. Forgive me for mispronouncing that. Rakhulpreet Singh R Ravikumar. And I believe it's sci-fi. I do believe there's definitely an alien. Awesome. That is all I know though. Great. So, I guess we'll figure out fully what this is about. Cool. Sci-fi trailer. I like it. Bring on more sci-fi. More sci-fi and more horror please. Sci-fi horror. Those two actually things do coincide. They do. A really good one if you've not seen it, which most of you probably have already, is the German series Dark from 2017. That's sci-fi horror. Yeah. Hey! I'm not ready yet! Hey! Here we go. Karen, quiet. Whoa. Geez. You're not Ja dude. Please explain to me why the music was funny, because I feel like it... I thought it was just he was playing music. I think it was very specific. It may have been an A.R. Raman song. Yeah, you guys are not the one that's having it yet. Wow. A plus for originality, never seen anything like that, but what in the name of all things living is going on? I'm guessing. At first it felt like it was going to be a very serious take on climate change and a new source of energy and maybe get some espionage and sci-fi thriller and then it turned into what felt like old sci-fi movies from the 1980s, like Ghostbusters and there's another one with a robot. What is this thing? It gave me some vibes, maybe just because there's an alien of Koimi Gila, which is the prequel to Krish, which I haven't seen yet, but it's very different in some aspects, but also just an alien coming. You know that there's an alien, that's not a spoiler for you. It did give me some vibes of that, but not fully. A lost alien seeks help to go back to his home, but everything gets harder after the alien returns to its home. Okay, so I'm guessing he goes back with him, the alien. I like the originality, and if you can make it like this fun, quirky, like wink wink nudge nudge at yourself, we know this is absurd, and don't take yourself too seriously. Right. I think it could work. Yeah, and that's the case, because most of the time in recent past, most things that are sci-fi or sci-fi drama, they're not sci-fi, comedy, sci-fi, farcical. So it looks like it's going to be a mash-up of drama, thriller, silly, comedy. Do you recognize him? The lead. Oh, yes. Say his name. Civic Carthikeyan. Is he in the boxing movie? No. He's not? Mavida. That's where he's from. Mavida. Mavida. That's right. I thought that's who it was, but if you haven't seen our watch on Mavida, please go watch that. Please do. Go watch that film, obviously. Yeah, please do. We really enjoyed that film.  I don't know why my brain did that. I don't either. That's very interesting. But yeah, the thing I would worry about, same thing I think I said with the Tiger Schroff film, is since the CGI isn't up to par with, let's say, Hollywood, or even like the Jawans or the Patans of the world, that could distract you from the story. If you're relying too much on it, obviously, I don't think the alien actually looked bad in terms of his CGI thought looked good, but in the city or some of the action, that's what would be a big concern for me. I think it just depends on how it's done, I think. If this was a Molly Allen film, I'd be like, oh, this is going to be so fun and unique, but I don't think it would be on this scale. I think it would be more like the little robot, the, right, right. I think if they did an alien movie, it would be more small scale. Yeah, definitely the jury's out on this one. It's definitely original, but boy oh boy, it looks like it could be a hot mess, or it may be really endearing and fun. Yeah, it's hard to tell right now because it's not what I was expecting. Not at all. But I'm open because I like the fresh ideas, I like the trying of sci-fi and originality. It's just not something that's done in Indian cinema. Yeah, I'd rather see this than a remake of some film. Yeah, absolutely. It seems like an original idea. A remake you're done. Yeah, no more ever. Oh good. No, in Indian cinema, they're done. Great. It's sequels to nostalgic films. Okay, gotcha. Like they've announced like so many now of like 90s films that now get a sequel because Gattahar too did these insane numbers. Are you going to do a sequel to Sholey? I hope so. Yeah, me too. Dude, do it. With Dharmenjara and Amadek Bhaktan just as old. Yes. Just do it. Do it. I think that would actually be really fun. I don't know how because I don't think that was like anywhere near the present day. Like I think that was... No. Like I don't know what year that was supposed to take in but I don't think it was like the 50s. No, I think that was the 70s. You think? No. Yeah, Sholey? Yeah, I think it was. No, it's weird. Anyways, let us know what you thought about it. If you are excited about it and anything else we need to know about it down below.