Well, so, let's see where it goes, I mean. Okay, we're back, are we on? Okay, we're back live inside the Cube, SiliconANGLE.tv's exclusive coverage. I'm John Furrier, the founder, SiliconANGLE.tv, and I'm Joe, my co-host. I'm Dave Vellante at Wikibon.org. We're here with Tom Roloff, a frequent Cube guest. Tom, great to see you. Good to see you, Dave. As always, head of EMC Consulting, and wow, what an event. This is just a super bowl for you guys. Fantastic, yeah, fantastic. It's great to see. I think we're growing a few thousand a year, it seems like, right? Yeah, we just had Jeremy on. He was very candid with the numbers, or he said 13,000 people here, but he said 9,000 paid. Usually the CMO doesn't die in that number, but it's a good number. It's good to see his parents in the numbers, but one thing he was highlighting is that 3,000 of those attendees are partners, so this is a social event, he really wants it to be social and comprehensive at the same time, so. It's a great way to exchange information with everybody, right? Not just about the new strategies from what we're talking about at the exec level, but also just getting down to the weeds on some things and getting some partners to go put hands on. Do you talk about the V Labs that we got going on? Some of the hands-on labs? No, no, just he talked about Area 51, we didn't talk about the V Labs, but tell us what's going on there. Well, you know, I think heavy investment by the technology groups here to go create an ability to go play with EMC gear. We've done that before, but now in a virtual lab kind of environment, so it's all on virtual machines, it's all on various EMC, VCE, and VMware technologies being used so that people can get very hands-on experience, not just with the EMC product, but with it as part of an architecture solution. Yeah, that's cool. I saw that actually a couple of years ago. Maybe it was last year at VMworld. Yeah, and we did the page out of that. That's right, that's right. Same idea. That's good. So, and then you guys had the CIO event. Absolutely. It was the second time you've done that, or? Yeah. You know, I love to see EMC building relationships with CIOs. I think as we start talking about IT transforming through cloud and the business getting transformed through big data, those are much more, you know, very senior level conversations. And so, certainly the consulting teams very involved in those conversations on a day-to-day basis, but it's great to see the company overall create a special event for CIO. So, it was fun to see. So, Tom, we just did a survey on Wikibon on IT transformation, kind of leading up to this event. And some of the things that came out of it is people really, we asked them, what are you going to be looking to the outside? Outside services for in 2012. Certainly cloud deployment. Some of them, cloud strategy, we're still trying to get our hands around cloud strategy, which is kind of interesting. And a big data strategy. Not at all big data deployment, you know. Hadoop deployments, big data deployments, way, way, way down, but big data strategy very high on the list. Are you seeing that in your business? Yeah, you know, on the big data side, I think everybody's worried about, are my competitors in my industry learning something about my industry that I'm not learning? What do they know that I don't know? But there's an element of, can you tell me what other people in financial services are doing with big data? Because if they're doing something I should be doing, I better find out about it quick, right? So, there's an element of where the consulting group has had a chance to kind of do a couple of different engagements.  So, and it becomes a, I'll be honest with you, I think on the big data side, the problems are actually not new, but the technology architectures and the fact that we can now get our arms around all this big data is new. And so, we're starting to be able to answer those problems in a different way, right? It doesn't require a three month consulting study. It can be a three week consulting study, and then rapid prototyping of some solutions. So, we're out talking to the field all the time. Customers, Dave's got the survey going, and we're also blogging in the services angle space. But one thing that's pretty clear, the messaging of EMC is so solid right now. You got Jeremy, who's just on CloudMeets big data. It's a nice cover story, because outside of the web verticals and financial services and government, which is real, the cutting edges right now. So, they're all on top of it. Outside of that, all the other major verticals, oil and gas, pharma, healthcare, all the usual Sussex media, you guys are targeting. They understand the mandate for big data and cloud, but they really need some advice. So, the good news is, your team's positioned perfectly with the consulting and the services side. So, what have you guys heard from there, and what are you delivering today in terms of solutions? Because we're hearing, hey, I just want to get, I want to learn more. So, it's kind of a learning environment. Again, outside of the web scale, and the real. Totally right, totally right. You know, I think this is one where, so we've always built EMC Consulting to have a vertical dimension to it. So, we, of the consultants in our group, about half of them have come from an industry, and basically consult only to that industry, the other half come in a horizontal dimension. That vertical capability and that vertical conversation is very important on the big data side, because our vertical consultants are actually talking to the line of business side of the house, right? So, they're talking to somebody who's running a part of a pharmaceutical company.  They think about it as, how do I accelerate drug discovery, right? How do I get to the point where I understand how to shrink the life cycle of, you know, my R&D process? Those problems have been around for a long, long time, right? They have been business problems for a long, long time. Now we have a way to say, hey, you know, one of the ways to do that is to move data around in a very different way. So, the business problem has a technology angle to it now, that's essentially having the business and technology problems merge, right? Which I think is the interesting thing about the... What, share with the folks out there what you've learned around this, because what you're really talking about as the old sales model and service model is, go after the IT guys, you know, CIO and the worker bees down there. Now you're, the line of business dynamic is interesting because they're talking a different language. They're not saying, hey, give me, provision me more cloud. They're saying, hey, I want to drive more revenue. So, how have you, how do you approach that? You also got a huge team. Can you share with your strategy? Yeah, so, I mean, I think this is the, you know, we're very vertically oriented in that conversation, right? So, if we're talking to a telco, and the telco's problem is customer churn, that's been a problem in telco for forever, right? But now we can actually give them insights into customer churn, not just by looking at their internal structured data, but by looking at, you know, all kinds of information. We can sit there and say, you know, hey, did you realize that when three people that are frequently called by your subscriber leave the network, here's the impact on that person's chance of leaving the network, right? That's a different angle on churn. When a bank says, I don't know, John, that you've got the brokerage account and the banking account and, you know, the wealth management account, we don't know it's the same John, you know, that's been a problem for forever, right? Multi-channel and 360 degree view of a customer, that's the way a line of business person talks about, I got to understand my customers so I can market to them differently. So is EMC structure on verticals not territories? So EMC consulting is. Consulting. So EMC consulting, especially in the Americas, is, goes to market vertically and brings in a technology consulting capability as the vertical, as needed in that vertical. And that's especially useful in the big data. Yeah, so you give that telco example on churn and say everybody has that problem and now there's the big data issue, so it's more than just when your cell phone subscription is up, right? It could be the products that are in the portfolio, you know, Sprint gets iPhone, that changes the dynamic, the whole pricing model.  Does it start by looking, obviously, objectives and things like that, but I mean, people must be trying to figure out what data is even out there that I can leverage. So you guys have expertise in that.  And, you know, we know most of the accounts that we're working in and I don't know if it's churn that we're talking about, you know, we might say, look, churn is a, here's the problem. Here's the way you've been thinking about solving a churn problem. Here's the information you've been looking at to get insight into your churn. And there's all kinds of analytics being done on churn all the time, right? But let's imagine that we expanded the scope of the data that you're looking at into not just the structured data, but into some unstructured data that's sitting in your enterprise. What about unstructured data that's beyond your enterprise? In the demand chain, in the supply chain, if you can sit there and say, hey, when the new iPhone comes out, here's what happens to customer churn even in the existing iPhone environment, right? So we know when that new iPhone's coming out, how's that going to affect the appetite for people to consider switching to a different provider all of a sudden? You could bring all that information together now. Now it's a massive amount of information, right? It's no longer the stuff sitting in rows and columns in your structured databases. It's all kinds of information that's coming together. And now you get into a interesting, I wish I had all that information, how do I actually gather some insight out of all that information? Now it's a technology problem, right? So now it becomes a, how do I bring all that together? How do I look at it in one place? How do I analyze it? How do I get in front of that? And when we do, we can bring very different insights to an old problem. So Tom, I was at the EMC-CIO event in the fall that I saw you there, and then you've had another event here. And I thought you guys really nailed it. I mean, very, from an infrastructure standpoint, it was a home run, you know? And Sanjay talked about transformation. It's still a little infrastructure heavy. I thought one of the areas that, well, you talk to CIOs in the, for instance, SAP community, that I thought could be a little stronger for you guys is the whole mobility. And I'm wondering, because EMC Consulting usually sort of is ahead of the rest of the ship. So what's happening in mobility? Are you guys involved in those types of discussions? Are CIOs, I mean, it's clearly top of mind. Is it top of mind in your customers? Huge, huge. So we're doing some work in banking right now, right? Where, you know, I think we're helping a large credit card manufacturer to think about an e-wallet, right? So we can help them develop the application that is the e-wallet. But ultimately, we've got to create the user interface on the iPhone, on the iPad, on the mobile device that you and we will all be carrying around, right? Very strong conversations about what's that user experience like? How are we going to actually enable a mobile worker in that way? And by the way, what's the technology infrastructure that links that to home base, so to speak, right? I mean, particularly in banking, by the way, just huge amounts of effort right now being spent on how do I render information to a user in the way that they want to consume it? And how do I ensure that I've got a user interface and a way to interact with all that information that extends the enterprise's information to the user in the right way? I mean, huge, huge set of work there. So I wanted to follow up on that because, you know, traditional complaint of consultants is they come in, they do some great work, and then you say, okay, let's do it, and they can't turn strategy into execution. Obviously, that's a big part of your value proposition. You can do that. My specific question is, when you look at Pivotal Labs, the acquisition you guys made, how can you as EMC Consulting, in the context of strategy taking it to execution, take advantage of that? So I think that Pivotal Labs is such an interesting capability, right? I mean, the app dev side of big data is a huge issue. Ultimately, we got to get all that, you know, all that analytics data that we've got. We got to go figure out a way to put it into a workflow and we got to render it to the people in the right way. Pivotal Labs has, you know, a hugely unique way of using agile development techniques to go make that happen. And I think that's a critical part of extending the enterprise's information to the end user. By, you know, in their case, they've done a lot of work on the website, but I think it's very easily extendable to end user devices. Do you see leveraging that in your practice or is it too far afield right now? You know, I think we'll find ways, you know, Pivotal, I think, has a very strong set of capabilities and I want to find ways to ensure that we're bringing Pivotal into the things where Pivotal wants to help and my consulting team will handle certain other parts of it, right? I don't want to distract Pivotal too much but the opportunity to bring them in together would be a good thing. It is, you know, as somebody who's bought a couple of consultancies here at EMC, it's an amazing distraction all of a sudden when you bring in a new, you know, a new shiny object like that and all of a sudden tell- Turns the conversation- Right. You tell 2,000 salespeople, you know, here's an interesting thing, right? All of a sudden 2,000 people want to help, right? So, I think we got to do that in a measured way. And certainly it's a gateway drug, if you will, to that shiny object to a good land DevOps. So, you know, DevOps is becoming one of the hottest areas and Bill Schmarzo has been on theCUBE multiple times.  But, you know, real time has been a big part of the conversation, Jeremy Burden, essentially teasing out, I kind of predicted that's the next pillar, a cloud of big data in real time. And so, that's a real conversation around business benefits. So, you know, having that shiny object in the DevOps space, so if you can bridge that app development, you'll win the hybrid cloud. You know, I think that's part of the idea behind the Pivotal Acquisition, right? I think they're excited about the analytics conversation we're having and the capabilities that they have in agile development of apps. I think the rest of the company just can't wait to find ways to bring them into the right conversations without defocusing them from what they're doing. So, from an execution standpoint, then what you're saying is a strategy is, okay, let's mind our business, we're growing enough to do on our own plate. Let them kind of integrate in slowly. They've got business that they're doing. Marcus not fully merged yet, is growing. You've got to get the workflow and the mechanics done, right? It's rather than throwing them all together. That's right. And let's be complimentary, right? I mean, they've got a great set of capabilities. Let's help them to grow into the enterprise accounts that we want them to grow into. Let's find complimentary ways to work together in those accounts. It's just not blocking them. It's just basically don't tinker with what's not broken. Just don't. Yeah, it's not broken yet. So, let's let it ride. Best move is no move right now, right? Yeah, I mean, this is, I think you've seen pretty good at, you know, we've done so many acquisitions as a company, right? I think the idea of, you know, there are times when you want to integrate quickly. There are times when you don't. This is one of those times when I think you don't. I think the Green Plum guys are taking a bite off that apple right now, because it's a real boost of energy for the Green Plum team, because they're now moving into a much more sexier, relevant area than just an appliance against pterodactyl, right? So they go, okay. Now they come to the real story. Absolutely right. And some real meat in the bone. Absolutely right. So, you know, let them play with it for a while. They're going to embrace it for a while. That's probably the right place for them to connect. Gilcook was all smiles at Pivotal when you were on the Maggie Perch show. Yeah, we had him on yesterday, by the way. Yeah, he was all smiles yesterday, too. Things are good there. Tom, I want to come back to cloud. We did a survey recently, and we asked one of the questions that we asked last year. And it was basically, you know, which are primary cloud strategies? Is it public? Is it private? Is it hybrid? You don't know. It's clouds of buzzword, blah, blah, blah. And one of the things that came out last year is a very small percentage of the audience, single digits, said that hybrid cloud was their primary strategy.  We did the same exact survey this month, and the number of shots of the roof went from like 9% to 37%. It was the single biggest strategy. What was the time frame between those two things? One year, exactly one year. And we surveyed the same people. It's the Wikibon practitioner base. And so that popped out. And I said, wow, that's quite amazing. So I'm looking for confirmation, you know? Oh, yeah. So are you seeing that? Oh, yeah. And if you roll back a year, was there a lot of skepticism on hybrid? Is that now changing? What's changed?  And I have used a number of slides as an introductory to that conversation. You know, and I think a year and a half ago, the slide said, you know, 90% of all data centers will have a private cloud strategy in 2012. And when I said that in late 2010, you know, people would come up to me afterward and say no way, right? This is all hype. This is not going to happen, right? When I have that conversation with people today, there is actually, I asked it of the CIOs at the CIO Connect event. There were 70 in the room and I said, which of you does not have a private cloud point of view and strategy in your enterprise? Nobody raised their hand, right? So in that audience, it was 100% who were doing the private cloud thing. Now a year and a half ago, people thought it was all hype. My second slide on that is in 2016, Gardner just went out and said in 2016, 50% of your data, even in regulated industries, will be sitting in a public cloud. And you know, you say that to people today and they're like, no way, right? In a regulated environment, there's no way I can, I can't afford to do that, right? But I think four years, so they say 2016 at Gardner, I think that's way too long. I think that is happening right now, right? So public clouds are taking to heart the complexities around governance, risk compliance of information. I think enterprises are thinking hard about what information can I actually let out and what would have to be true of the public cloud environment for me to put it out there. And once you get some things moving out in the public cloud and you've got a private cloud, now you do have a hybrid cloud strategy, right? Because ultimately those things have to be connected. Now you guys, speaking of cloud, you just announced the number of cloud services recently. So give us a quick update on that and then we'll, we got a break. Yeah, so I think global services overall is really excited about the cloud opportunity because it's, from a consulting side, there's a people process and technology angle to that, right? There's a technology architecture, which we got to get right. Then there's a process piece to that, how do we change the business processes in the data center around cloud and how do we get people to be ready for working in the cloud and they need different skill sets. So consulting is going to be very interested in the people process and technology side of cloud. But my compatriots in our technology solutions group, there's all kinds of EMC technologies that are a part of that, right? How do we make sure that we're creating a seamless way for a client to have a conversation that may be a little bit upstream when it's an architecture conversation, but rapidly gets into a specific conversation about, hey, VBlock is an interesting architecture for that converged infrastructure. How do we make sure that that's a much more seamless conversation for our clients? And then ultimately, how do we get a support organization that can support the architecture, not just the individual products? How do we get to the point where we say, you've got a cloud, we in EMC services can help you support that entire cloud architecture? EMC consulting, the tip of the spear of transformation, Tom Rolloff, always a pleasure. Great to see you. Tom, good to see you. Good to see you guys. All right, keep it right there. We'll be right back with Pat Kelsinger right after this. Thanks, guys.


Hello everyone and welcome back to our YouTube channel. I'm Sonia Trivedi, communications manager here at Moodle and I have with me Sun Taylor, a senior e-learning consultant at Catalyst IT Europe, a premium Moodle partner. Sun is a practice lead of pedagogy and community and she's here to share her knowledge and expertise on the importance of learning design in e-learning solutions. Sun, welcome. Hi, very nice to have you here. Firstly, you have an impressive title. If you had to explain that to someone who doesn't know what pedagogy is, can you please tell me more about it? What does it mean? So pedagogy in a nutshell is all about the science of teaching and learning. So the word pedagogy actually comes from the teaching of children, but in my world we don't obviously just teach children, we teach adults and that's a different science, so that's called androgogy and then you've got the self-learning, the hoitagogy, but it basically means that I support our clients, I support our hosted clients, I support the community, I support ourselves internally on any projects or work that involves supporting creation of content, creation of programs, looking at feedback from past runs of courses and making improvements to make sure that the learning is actually happening. Great, great. And do you have a team? I suppose you do. I work as part of a team of consultants, so at Catalyst my job is not part of the technical team, so at Catalyst we do hosting for universities and NGOs, but in our team it's more the business development side supporting our clients and customers who have questions and it could also involve working with people who we don't host so people can come to us on the back of a conference or they've seen us online or they've heard about us through word of mouth and they come to us and ask for help. So I work in a team with business development officers, I work with the sales team, we have a great digital marketing lead and I help write content for her and I also work with the product specialists to help solve complex queries that come through our ticketing system, so why are the courses not completing, why can't my students see this module, why has the certificate not released, so it's quite a broad range and our team deal with all of that. Yes, I can imagine, sounds like you guys are doing a great job but I'm curious to know a little bit more about your customers, what kind of customers do you usually work with? So in the European office, so we are actually a global organisation, we have offices in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, but in the UK office and Europe we deal with a lot of universities, so we host quite large universities like UCL, we host Birkbeck, we host Bath University, all these big universities are very big Moodle users over in Ireland as well, we look after Dublin City University, Maynooth and a couple of others and we do the hosting for them, we support them with their upgrades and security but also we do monthly meetings with our clients as well, so we look after those and make sure that their platforms are always standing up, especially during exam periods or during the rush in September and all the students log in and you know as well as then we also look after NGOs, we have some quite big charities but also training organisations, people that deliver apprenticeships or CPD training to teachers. Right, okay and now talking about your customers, I am curious to ask you more about your own work and let's explore it in a bit more details, what have you been working on lately, can you tell us more? Yeah so obviously you said my job title at the start was pedagogy and community and I have to stress you know how much the Moodle community is part of my role as well, so a lot of the stuff I've been doing with regards to pedagogy and learning design so that would be working with clients to look at what they currently have and make improvements for the next year, so this could be from having a very customised, heavily developed customised platform which is obviously the beauty of open source, you can build all these custom things but actually say well you know the technology has moved on a lot now, there's a lot of core features that you could use instead so it's looking at the whole platform and identifying new features and work arounds that doesn't involve development which makes upgrades a lot quicker and this is all the scaled down to maybe some courses that a university has ran, they've gathered student feedback and they want to put the feedback into action but they don't know how or they don't have the time or they want to know what other universities are doing so I've been doing a lot of work with creating content based on the back of feedback from students. Other things I've been doing internally at Catalyst talk about the community, I put on special show and tell talks between the teams so I get the developers sharing some of the stuff that they've been doing with each other so we call them our tech talks, we have them on a Wednesday and a dev will say well I've been working on SAML2 integration, I say right do a 15-minute show and tell and I'll record it and share it but also I've been getting involved in the community joining webinars and things like that so it's quite a broad range of stuff and I've been helping our business development teams write and create content for sales pictures and stuff so lots and lots of stuff. Must be very exciting. I love my job so much. Amazing, amazing but now I would like to request you to explain a little bit more to our viewers the role of learning designers. Okay so what is the role of learning designers in creating courses? What do they actually do? So with my learning designer hat on so I designed the training materials for my colleagues here at Catalyst so what I do is I work with the actual subject matter experts because it's very rare that a learning designer would be the subject matter experts they're just responsible for getting the information out of the people that have all the knowledge so what I would do is I would speak with them I get all the key concepts that I want out of them and then I start talking to them about okay so how like for example with a developer you know how would you want them to demonstrate that they have these PHP skills that we want them to have how could they what sort of outputs do they do and then you design the learning activities around that because at the end of the day the learning design you have to be able to measure a person's ability and skills against the job that they do so there's no point just giving them lots of information and then asking them to sit and exam at the end of the day because they don't do exams they demonstrate and this is where you can design the actual assessment to be maybe right here is a a brief go away come up with some responses to the questions how you would do this in your situation and then maybe present it back in a video or a working example so the learning design it's not just here's the content sit and exam it's like no okay so what is the context and you build in throughout your design small little assessment steps just to make sure that they've understand the key concepts so that when it actually comes to the end and you're having to prove that you have finished the learning that the skills that you've gathered can be demonstrated and Moodle provides all the tools to be able to do that okay okay and going a little bit deeper into the topic does it matter if you design for face-to-face instruction and learning environments what are the difference do they have anything in common can you elaborate yeah I mean so they have a lot in common and you know I have to stress that designing for online is very very different to designing in for the classroom a lot of this was made apparent during the pandemic where the lockdown happened and everybody flipped to online delivery and this is where tools like Moodle really came into their own because teachers and lecturers were getting very very stressed you know you hear of this zoom fatigue and the fact that you know they were trying to deliver live content online and they were getting tired because they were just constantly broadcasting broadcasting broadcasting what the online environment can facilitate is asynchronous learning offline learning so students can go through the content they can answer questions they can gather their thoughts they can curate all their content and then when it comes to the live session that's when they can ask the questions of the experts that's when they can do more workshopping and in-depth thinking because they've got all the knowledge up front it's like they try there's this model called the flip classroom model for face-to-face teaching and that's where you ask your learners to go away read up gather information gather questions put together notes of stuff that they didn't quite understand and that's what gets addressed in the face-to-face sessions and that's kind of like how the online learning environment can work and come really comes into its own but if you're designing purely for the classroom you know you can design these hybrid models of teaching but in my experience when you're delivering hybrid sessions designed for online first because it still works in a face-to-face situation but if you're designing for face-to-face it can be difficult to then try and deliver it online at the same time so you do have to have a different approach for each one right okay that's really interesting and if you take as a case study the digital learning content digital educational content can you please elaborate a bit more why is learning design important especially for digital learning environments so it is important because a lot of people are really familiar with how to learn in a classroom when you go online it can be very you have very different experiences and so it's really important in your learning design that you have your signpost you have your assessment points because you don't always have the instant feedback like you would do in a classroom so for example you know your teacher is talking to you or your lecturer is designed like a desk a table-based activity group work you are constantly getting feedback from your peers you're constantly getting feedback from your teacher but online sometimes it can be quite lonely so you have to structure these assessment points in you have to structure these three point points in and it's also a really good learning design it's about putting you the human into your content as well so it doesn't feel like a robot you're working with a robot but you're actually working with a real person so good learning design has you know the feedback opportunities the assessment opportunities and it's also you've got to make sure that it's all accessible as well and you know it's not just you know whether they need tools to help them learn like screen readers or text-to-speech but it's also accessible like through different devices as well so they're very very different things but just making sure that the content is you know able to be got out from multiple devices so when it comes to learning design you have to really structure you can't just upload a load of power coins and just say have at it kids it's the case of okay if I was a learner would I understand this how would I know I got it if I haven't got it who do I ask for help or how do I know that I'm progressing the same as my peers or how do I know that I am progressing where's the end what do I have to do to finish so these are all things that good learning design in the online space can really really really help people especially if you especially well definitely if you've been out of learning for a long time yeah okay it seems like you need to have really a structured process to create good learning design right yes and talking a little bit more about that if you can tell us about the tools and techniques that learning designers use to achieve their objectives I know we can talk probably another hour absolutely but still it would be interesting to know are there any new trends just a little bit more about that yeah so I mean you really could have an interview on its own like a series of interviews about learning design and especially when you think about when you're designing learning there's a very big difference between education and training so designing content or designing learning and courses and programs for a university is very very different to designing a say like a like a health and safety course done online you know we've all done them where we sit and we have to do our you know e-learning when we first join a company there's a very very big difference and that there's lots of models out there so for example some of the universities that I work with they use the abc model learning design model and it's absolutely fabulous because it looks at all the different ranges of processes that a learner has to go through and and the different tools and techniques to get that to happen and it looks across like the whole entire program of learnings not just one course but you know all the modules together so is there enough opportunities for collaboration is there enough opportunities for communication feedback reflection evaluation and it helps map that out and a lecture and in their teams to identify actually we don't do a lot of group work where what can we do to fill that hole and you know to make sure that our learners have those skills and then looking at the as I was saying these or like training type of content you know there's all sorts of models like the adi model you know ways of making sure that when you design that every time you go to review your content is it doing what you set out to do are your learners achieving first time if not do you need to change your content and all these different models that the things that straddle the both the both both of them so things like universal design for learnings this is looking at you know your learners and making sure that they are having the information presented to them in a way that they can readily you know consume absorb understand but also giving them the opportunities to give back so for example this video interview for me is like you know really really nerve wracking for me but if this was just an audio or a live broadcast i'd be absolutely fine and if you gave me the choice i'd say let's do a live webinar i'd be happy to talk you know so it's just giving people the choice to express their learning back to you in a way that suits them but also it could challenge them as well in a good way so lots of different things and you know they're moodle moodle academy have run a really really good series of webinars on learning design so you know there's lots of stuff out there if people are interested nice amazing actually you mentioned a couple of times about moodle so i can't help asking you a little bit more about that so how does moodle allow you to support good pedagogy can you share from your experience yeah so i have been using moodle since 2007 so it's been a long long time and i have worn very hats very you know very different hats with moodle so i've used moodle as a student i've used it as a decided administrator as a teacher i use moodle teaching adult education and b-tech diplomas i also use moodle as a learning technologist so this is working in universities and supporting academics using it and the tools in moodle have always supported good pedagogy they've always when martin you know created moodle it was very clear that he wanted something that teachers could use it was more than just a virtual notice board for them to chuck up slides you know there's forums in there to support conversation and the beauty of moodle with their forums is you can use those forums for different things forum could just be a general discussion forum or you could have a focused forum which is designed and built and scaffolded to support a particular learning activity so when i was working at crownfield university basic defense academy we had a lecturer there who used forums for scholarly discussions so she assigned them a couple of articles to read and they would have to summarize the article in a forum post and then they had to then respond to each other's forum posts asking critical questions you know to try and get their sort of skills of you know written communication up to scratch but also be able to ask the right questions and moodle supports just i'm just using forums an example moodle has evolved so much that you can do things like i don't want to say force users to interact so you can say this activity is not complete unless you've posted once and responded three times but you they also have now and grading built into moodle as well so you can actually grade the forums so it's at the moodle has really come a long way in supporting the learning process so whether it would be um like i say conversations so the communication side the collaboration side like the wikis and other tools like the database tool um you can use these tools to combine learning combine knowledge the assessment tools are incredible but the biggest thing that supports like really good learning design is the ability to track progress so me as a learner i can see where i am i have due dates i have content that appears as in when i finished the previous one but also as a teacher i can go in and see okay my students or my learners are all following the right path of this person's a little bit behind i can intervene and i can support so lots of tools there in moodle to make sure that learners know where they're going they know how to get there and they know what happens when they get there and what happens afterwards and that's you know the beauty of moodle for me great thank you very much Sam and before we end i have one more question actually you mentioned a couple of times learners so i wanted to know how things look like from the learner's perspective it seems like learning design concepts are more about learner's center design am i correct so how do we involve learners in the design process can you share a little bit more about that the student feedback some examples yeah yeah so it it depends on the situation so for example internally at catalyst we um like i said i i work with our subject matter experts to create content and we use pure moodle native tools so we use h5p we use feedback tool not just to give us feedback but for reflection as well because you know you can use all these tools in lots of different ways it's amazing um like quizzes assessments stuff like that and using those tools internally we can see what um you know con what what items people regularly get wrong and we can intervene but also the feedback is important so we um as a team um who look after all the learning we review the feedback every year we see what they have to say they'll say i really did not like that activity it did not make sense and then we can actually look at it and say actually maybe it doesn't make sense um you know it's part of our internal review process so i build the course based on the subject matter it gets reviewed by lots of different stakeholders before we actually release it to the whole company it's very very similar when i work with my um HE partners so it will be either we've had feedback this is what they want we've had the student union have a look at it as well this is their feedback and they'd like to see more um for example there was a lot of we need to sit down and read this and sit down and do this can it be a bit more active how do we get the feedback is we'd like to be a bit more active how can we be a bit more active and then you say well okay well this is where universal design for learning comes in because those that only have 10 minutes to sit a computer and do it can do this activity or they can actually just listen to it so you can record a podcast version of the content they can walk and they have a different activity to do to follow up to make sure that they've understood it so this is where the student voice and learner voices really do come in because at the end of the day as a learning designer we don't know everything we are constantly learning and evolving we learn through experience and these are the skills that we're trying to get our learners and our students to understand as well that they learn through experience so you have to go through something before you can improve so the learner and student voice is really really important and it also makes sure that you know if you're a good learner if you're a good organization that really cares about your people you are going to keep you know wanting to keep hold of them you want to keep inspiring them don't just keep giving them the same old stale stuff refresh it give new ideas try stuff be a bit brave and if it doesn't work fine it doesn't work at least you know not to do it again and just try a different way or revert back to the archway there's lots of things that you can do to bring the learner's voice into the content thank you very much Sam it was wonderful talking to you and getting your insights on learning design we learned a lot today and thanks to our audience for joining us we will be back for another video episode soon in the meantime you can reach out to catalyst it europe and learn more about their services at catalyst slash eu.net if you would like to learn more about our partner network visit us at Moodle.com and of course don't forget to subscribe here to our 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With this new understanding about the possibility and impact of dark matter, astronomers turn their attention to galaxy clusters like the one studied by Zwicky in 1936. Our case in point galaxy is known as the bullet cluster. The varial motion of its galaxies indicates that a collision has occurred. Two massive clusters have passed through each other millions of years ago and member galaxies are now flying apart. If we zoom in a bit closer, we can see the telltale arcs of more distant galaxies lensed by the gravity of the bullet cluster. Counting the lensed objects and the estimated amount of light bending involved for each one, a map of the area containing most of the mass of the cluster can be superimposed. We have used blue to indicate the locations where the vast majority of the matter must be located in order to get the observed lensing. Here we have the cluster's hot x-ray emitting gas detected by the Chandra x-ray observatory. The two pink clumps contain most of the normal matter, sometimes referred to as baryonic matter or matter made up of protons and neutrons. The bullet-shaped clump on the right is the hot gas from one cluster which passed through the hot gas from the other cluster during the collision. When we superimpose the dark, baryonic and visible components of the cluster's mass, we get the full picture. The galaxies and the dark matter have traveled a great deal further than the gas. This indicates that the galaxies and dark matter in the two colliding clusters did not interfere with each other. In other words, they passed through each other without slowing down. On the other hand, during the collision, the gas clouds were slowed by a drag force similar to air resistance. This combination had the effect of separating the gas from the dark matter. This separation is considered to be direct evidence that dark matter exists. These indicate that the galaxy clusters on average have 85% dark matter, 14% intergalactic gas and only 1% stars.


This is stock number 1073A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep and Jeep Cherokee headquarters today. We are checking out this super clean 2016 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk V6. This one does have the 3.2 liter V6 motor which pumps out 271 horsepower. It has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this Jeep is 100% ready to go. Bright white clear coat is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. If you want to check out all the photos on this Jeep in the upper right-hand part of your screen as they link right to our website click that and check us out there. 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Well, it seems as if our far-right rogue Supreme Court is poised to permit discrimination against LGBTQ plus people now It's not a foregone conclusion at this point in time But when you listen to how receptive they are to the arguments of somebody who wants the right to discriminate against queer people It seems likely that they are going to roll in their favor now the individual in question here is a Website designer and she hasn't had to turn away a queer couple yet But she just wants to make sure that she has the right to discriminate in the event one of them seek out her services So the Washington Post explains the Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed sympathetic Monday to an evangelical Christian graphic artist From Colorado who does not want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples despite the state's protective anti-discrimination law Those justices seemed amenable to businesswoman Laurie Smith's argument that the state may not compel her to create speech That violates her religious belief that marriage is only between a man and a woman But several appeared to be looking for ways to narrow their decision saying both sides in the dispute agreed For example that not all wedding vendors should receive such exemptions The case is something of a follow-up to the court's decision in 2018 when it ruled narrowly for Colorado baker Jack Phillips Who refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple the court left undisturbed however, Colorado's law that forbids companies open to the public from denying goods or services to customers based on disability race Creed color sex sexual orientation marital status national origin or ancestry Graphic designer Smith says that law violates her deeply held religious views and free speech rights by forcing her to create messages She does not believe now of course the state cannot compel you to say something that you don't believe but this is a business owner Who is open to the public who doesn't want to accommodate people on the basis of their sexual orientation? It is inherently discriminatory because if she's allowed to discriminate against same-sex couples Can she also discriminate against interracial couples? if a Christian store owner Doesn't want to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, but he offers wedding cakes to heterosexual couples Will this case lead to that being permissible it's hard to say and once you open the door to this things can get ugly So if this person can say oh this violates my deeply held religious beliefs Can other graphic designers say that they don't want to do designs for black people? Can people discriminate against I don't know somebody for being black and say look You can't come to my establishment. This is for whites only Jewish people aren't allowed Like you understand why this is a really old conversation that we had decades ago that it seemed like we solved But because bigots want the ability to discriminate Well, here we are again and this far-right rogue Supreme Court seems poised to side with her It just is shocking that in 2022 we're actually questioning whether or not somebody who has a business that is open to the public Can explicitly discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or race? It's just it's ridiculous But all these hypotheticals that I kind of talked about just now the same thing was happening with the Supreme Court So for example Katanji Brown Jackson brought up the example of well what if a mall Santa wanted to be artistic and reject a photograph with a black child because they wanted to create a you know, it's a wonderful life type of Ambience or something of that nature.  So if There's a black Santa at the other end of the mall and he doesn't want To have his picture taken with a child who's dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan Outfit that the black Santa has to do that. No, because Ku Klux Klan outfits are not protected characteristics under public accommodation laws And presumably that would be the same Ku Klux Klan outfit regardless whether of the child was black or white or any other Characteristic you do say you do see a lot of black children Ku Klux Klan All the time suppose it I Mean Hilarious, let me remind you. This is a Supreme Court justice who's actually asking questions like this.  I feel like a Supreme Court justice should know this But it's Alito and he is deeply Unserious and I think probably pretty stupid as well But I think that justice Sotomayor put it best if the court ruled against Colorado Just as Sonya Sotomayor said it would be the first time in the Supreme Court's history that it would allow a Business open to the public to refuse to serve a customer based on race sex Religion or sexual orientation and let's say that the court narrowly rules here and says that only LGBTQ plus discrimination is permissible Well, this case would then be used as precedent in future cases where a Christian business owner or a Nazi business owner doesn't want their business open to black people and Once you establish this precedent again once you open Pandora's box How do you go back from that now the court is Trying to pretend as if the question that they're answering here is a matter of well Does applying this public accommodation law to compel somebody to say or do speech that they don't believe in a violation of the First Amendment When that's not really the question that they should be trying to answer here The question is if somebody has a business and they accommodate the public are they allowed to discriminate on the basis of identity on the basis of someone's Immutable characteristic, but that's not the question that they're answering here And when you frame it in their way well prior precedent makes it likely that the attorneys for Smith here are going to be Successful because in 1995 the court unanimously ruled in hurly the Irish American gay lesbian and bisexual group of Boston That a public accommodation law could not be used to compel organizers of Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade to admit a gay rights group in other words if the court already said that excluding gays from public Accommodation laws is permissible then does it also apply to an artist as well? Are they not also exempt from a public accommodation law? Except the details matter here, right? So in the event that parade said we're not allowing any civil rights floats and they turned down all Political messaging well, they're not just singling out gay people in the event The artist in this instance Smith said all right look I'm not gonna provide wedding websites for anyone straights or gays that would be fine That's one way that the public accommodation law Wouldn't force her effectively to design a website for a gay couple in the event that came up But she wants to have her cake and eat it too. She wants to offer her business to the public But discriminate on the basis of immutable characteristics and that's just something that is inherently Unconstitutional, but yet this court seems poised to side with the bigot here So do you understand how we're moving backwards further and further again? We don't know how they're going to rule here in this case but when you listen to the way that they're responding the way that Alito is joking about this and not taking this seriously, it just seems like I Would expect them at this point to say LGBTQ plus discrimination is a okay


The following is a presentation of TFNN. Trade what you see with Larry Pezzavento. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, Larry Pezzavento. Okay folks, this is a chart of Bitcoin, an hourly chart. I wanted to show you at the top here when they gave approval. You notice it made the ABCD pattern up here at the top. And then everybody came in, they were buying their Lamborghinis and Ferraris and the market immediately dropped 20%. You see how it did it in ABCD format, just absolutely perfect symmetry. Where we have so far as we've rallied up here to the 382, we're up about 7,800 points in Bitcoin. The reason that I'm on the show today is I've, this is only for 10 minutes, but I wanted to express some information that I got from John Jameson. John has been bullish to crypto since, oh dear, 2012. I've never bought a crypto. He's given me some great ideas, but I don't understand them, so I never bought them. Some of my friends did and did really well, but he is totally out of the market now for a reasoning called the fact that when this was approved, the only way they could get it approved is they had it put it through for settlement in US dollars. And what happened was Coinbase, which is the chart I posted earlier, has 13, excuse me, 11 of the 13 ETFs are going through Coinbase. Now, folks, this is what scares John because this sets up a thing called single point of failure. This was a thing that was in the Financial Times of London over the weekend. John had been talking to me about several times, but that phraseology of single point of failure means that elder ducks are in the henhouse. And the problem is you've got all these wolves around the world hacking to get into that. And believe me, folks, we know these are all numbers and these are all computers. They're not making cars. They're not making widgets. They're dealing with zeros and ones. And John thinks the risk here of being long, any of these cryptos, is quite substantial. So he is standing aside and waiting to see what happens. But I want to give you my two cents worth on that because it's important. Let's talk about the market a little bit. As you know, we went short to Dow right near the high on Friday. That's where your stop is just one tick above that high. Right now, it's got a hundred and some points in it, which really is nothing. But there's a couple other patterns that we posted last night to look very, very interesting. And I wanted to bring those up to you right here. This is the gasoline contract. And you'll notice here that it made a perfect 382 retracement to the exact tick right there. And it dropped quite a bit already. The next one we wanted to take a look at. We'll get this one up here to take a quick look at it right here. That's a coin base again. That's snuck in on me. Hold on. Let's get here's the second one right here. This one right here is that cow, dear. All right. Let's get back to where we're supposed to be. Okay. Here's the heating oil went to the exact tick. It hit it on Friday. Now, it didn't go above it. Now, those of you that get the letter, I said, if we opened higher than $78 per barrel, I said, you have to wait for the market to back off and sell the first 382 retracement on the crude oil. That's what our game plan was. I'm going to bring it up here and show you it opened higher. You see where it opened at 7931. There was your first 382 retracement right here. It hit it one, two, three times 7852 and immediately dropped a dollar and a half per barrel. So, Mrs. Telling, now you locked in at least $500 profit on this, but that's what we're watching here as we're watching these things here unfold. Because these are really active markets and you want to be prepared when they pop up as near as they can. Now, we've got a couple others that we need to watch because those of you who remember, we were trying to buy the soybean meal, the July soybean meal, and we bought that today down there at 52. It got all the way up to almost 61 and now it's trading at 56. So, your stop has to be right below here. You're only risking $100 now. We bought it there at 352.10. Right there is where we bought it. Had the big move this morning. I had nothing I can do about that because it was in the time when it ran all the way up to the 50% retracement of that whole move down. And soybean, if you bought the soybeans themselves, that was at 12.15. That still has a small profit in it, but have your stop working at 12.09. The reason why the market is getting the proverbial kicked out of it right now is if you'll take a look at this is the soybean oil chart. Now, look what's happened. We have the ABCD down and look where we are now. We've now completed another one. Here's the second. Let's just get this up here so we can see it. There's your ABCD move down to there that measures to 45.59. We're trading at 45.42. Plus, we have the other one that is right here. There's your ABCD leg right here. And that takes you down just a little bit lower here. That's quite a bit lower, 44.31. But here's the area. The reason why we bought the meal is because it was the stronger of the three. That's why I pointed that out in the video that that was the one to buy so far. That's been the right thing to do. You know, once in a while, even the blind hog picks up an acorn. That's how he feeds himself. Okay, now that's a main one. I wanted to show you when you're looking at the heating oil here. Look what happened to heating oil just a few minutes ago. There is your high. Friday. There's Friday's high. There's Sunday's for high. Look at this. From the high on Friday, we just made a 382 retracement. And how did we do it? You have to love this, folks. I see you, Johnny, over there raising your hand. Hold on just a minute. There's your 382 right there. And if you sold that, you got to stop at break even. And you want to see how that one holds out. Okay. All right. Now, let me see. We only got about four or five minutes left to go in this. I want to cover the gold market here because we had a little bit of action in the gold last night. There's where we are. We thought it was going to get up here to the ABCD pattern here at 32. We went a little bit higher and then it had a pretty big break to the downside. Remember, when you're trading gold, you've got to risk a thousand bucks. When you're trading crude oil, you've got to risk about a dollar a barrel because they're that crazy. There's your 61% retracement on the way down. And this makes this. I just saw this, believe it or not. Of course, I'm not following it very closely because I'm taking care of myself with a lot of liquids and stuff. Anyway, when we're looking at this one right here, you'll see from the high down to the low, we went right up to almost the exact 618 retracement. We're doing this by two pips, 10 cents in the 20 cents in the in the gold. That's backed off a little bit. This is what I'm assuming is happening. We're getting ready to move down because our goal here in the gold is to come up. And I believe it comes in at 1949. There it is like here. We get there to excuse me 1981. There's what we're looking at right here. The big ABCD right there on this one. And then, of course, we have this monster one right behind it. And that also takes us right down to this level here. So somewhere between 1980, see, the old lows here is 1986. They're going to take that out. I can almost, well, you can't bet on it, but you assume that that's what's going to happen. So these are the areas we're going to be looking to be a buyer here of gold. And we've got the Fed coming in tomorrow. And that'll be an interesting one to pay close attention to. So let's keep that in mind. Not tomorrow. Our guest was going to be Grace Morris. And I will be back tomorrow. God willing, it usually is. Thanks you for putting up with me and we'll see you on the flip side tomorrow.