Derek Rackley, I'm back with my fellas, Dave Archer and DJ Shockley. I will get to those guys in just one second, but let me give you a quick rundown of what we will be talking about throughout the next call of 20 or 30 minutes. We will get into a discussion about kickers. Yes, Youngway Koo missed one this past weekend, but we'll talk a little further beyond that. We'll talk about some interesting kicker stories the guys might have had throughout the course of their careers. We'll also get into the Falcons defense and they had a really good performance against Kansas City holding them to the lowest amount of points that they've had all season. We'll get into a discussion about whether or not the Falcons defense is good where they're at. Have the defense of woes been fixed or the guys still feel like things need to be improved on that side of the football. We're also going to talk about the guys that we'd like to see in a Falcons uniform, more specifically in the draft. We'll fast forward to 2021 and talk about some of the potential guys that could land on the Falcons as unfortunately the losses continue to pile up. That pick starts to go down, which means better player. And then we'll get into the discussion, the age old debate, DJ and Dave, about whether or not you draft for need or you draft for the best player available. I'll get the guy's opinion on that. But first, let's start with the game this past weekend and I want you guys to give me a one sentence headline about what you would say after the Falcons 17 to 14 loss to the Chiefs last weekend. Dave, let me start with you. Give me a one sentence headline. If you are running the sports column of a newspaper and a quick support behind your headline, nice effort. Learn how to win games at the end in 2021. There it is. And that's that's been the theme throughout the entire season. The Falcons just not able to close games out. I think I saw a stat during the game that with the Chiefs lost, the Falcons are now 0-7 this year on games decided by six points or less. So finishing obviously been an issue for DJ. What do you got for a headline for us? Just a few plays away is the headline for me. Back in the ball game, there were a couple of plays here and there and fumble. We know the miss field goal and miss tackles. All those things could have contributed to a big win and you were just a few plays away. Yeah, just a few plays away is definitely true there and I'll end with my headline guys and I'm kind of me and Dave were thinking on the same lines here and my headline was Falcons fight Chiefs hard, but end with familiar results. And again, just the inability to close out games and Dave kind of talked about as far as 2021 goes, whether that's the same personnel, whether that's a new coaching staff, somehow they have to change that internal mindset on finding a way to finish out football games. So like we said, we're not going to touch a whole lot on this game. It's a Falcons 4-11 season right now. I think most people are interested in where this team is going to go from here moving forward. So we'll just go ahead and we'll fast forward. We're going to push that button on the old cassette tape. You guys remember, you have those fast forward, baby, fast forward, baby. Right. Just fast forward, fast forward right into the next topic. We're going to talk about kickers and kickers doing kicker things. Now, granted, Young Way Coo did miss a very important field goal in the game last weekend, but this is not going to be a session where we're going to get on top of the shoulders of Young Way Coo. He's had a phenomenal season. He'd hit 27 in a row. He's one of two Falcons, Pro Bowl representatives this year. But what we're going to do is we're going to talk about some kicker stories that kind of make us think about kickers doing kicker things. So DJ, there's been a number of different examples out here and I'm going to just kind of leave it wide open. You can pick whatever comes to your mind, whether it was a college game, pro game about just one instance where a kicker just did something where you were like, man, that's such a kicker thing to do. And Rack, it's so funny you say why because it goes exactly with what I'm going to bring up. But first, I want to kind of piggyback on what you said. A lot of props to Young Way Coo this season. I mean, the number of 50-yard kicks that he knocks through this year to the guys would have been absolutely amazing for the Falcons. So give him a lot of credit.  So still a lot of props to Young Way Coo. So mine is, since you said wide, how about all about the wide rights for FSU going against Miami? How many times did we see that? I think we saw it in 91 and 92. Saw it again in 2000. We saw a wide left, wide right in 0-3. How many times in that game versus one opponent with the game on the line can you go wide right or wide left and completely destroy the hopes and dreams of so many Florida State fans over the years? I remember watching the notes growing up and being like, man, there's no way he's going to miss this one again. And then you watch it 15 years later and you're like, how did that happen again? So all the wide for me with the FSU and Miami rivalry, something that sticks out for me when it comes to kickers and the end of ball games. It's amazing how two words and wide right and wide left can just become synonymous with the point game. But that has definitely happened. Arch, what do you got? Kickers doing kicker things. What comes to the top of your mind? Yeah, first thing comes to mind for me is a game, the game we were getting ready for in New England. Our kickers out, warming up, slips and falls on the field and waxes head on the turf. Concussion. He can't go. What? Can't go. He slipped and fell and hit his head on the ground. So our punter had to kick in the game. I mean, you've heard me say it for a number of times. You know, you don't even wash their uniforms. You just hang them up in the locker. They don't really need to have their uniforms washed. No offense to any kicker out there. Well, yeah, offense to all kickers out there. Let me take that back. Young Waikoo, amazing season guys. He'd hit 30 straight inside 40 yards. We all expected him to knock it through. And I know nobody feels more bad about it than he does. We've seen a number of kickers have big moments and sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't. They're gunslingers. They only get called on once or twice, maybe three times a game. And you got to go out and try to knock it through. He's done that all year long. Just didn't happen on this game. By the way, there are a lot of other plays in this game that we could have made that wouldn't even have Young Waikoo be on the field to try to tie the football game. But yeah, you can't fall down in warm-ups and knock yourself out. That's brutal. Arch, where were you in this equation? I know you had some days of king or something. I mean, you didn't give it a try. I can punt. I could punt. I punted in high school. I was back up punt on a team, but I wasn't place kicking. I mean, that's got knee injury written all over it. I wouldn't do that. Arch wasn't going to try to jeopardize his standing in the quarterback room. Well, plus I didn't have the square toe rack. I couldn't go to the square toe shoe because I'm not coming in soccer style. That would kind of hurt you scrambling ability. All right, I'll cap off the kickers doing kicker things and guys, I'm going to go back and I talked about this a few weeks ago when I was on here with the Falcons Audible with Kelsey and Will. And we got into a discussion about some different things and I talked about the Falcons Vikings championship game from back in 1998. And the reason why I bring it up, obviously we're on a Falcons podcast, but also I'm born and raised in Minnesota. And when you're born and raised in Minnesota, unless your parents came from some part of the country where they were a Giants fan, a Steelers fan, a Cowboys fan, whatever it may be, you're just kind of born a Vikings fan, right? Well, that was the season where everything aligned perfectly for Minnesota. I told this story a few weeks ago. My parents even bought Super Bowl tickets like week 16 of the regular season. Guys, it was a foregone conclusion that the Vikings were going to the Super Bowl. They were the most untouchable team in the NFC that entire season. Gary Anderson, the kicker with the low bar single face. You can see the whole face. I don't know what that one bar down there was going to do. Anyway, if anything would have ended up coming his direction. He had missed a kick all year. And the Vikings had a seven point lead, a chance to take that game to a 10 point lead and make it maybe insurmountable for the Atlanta Falcons. And what does he end up doing? He misses. I think it was wide left on that one, DJ. He goes wide left, maybe by the length of a football or two in the entire state of Minnesota was absolutely stunned. It was the quietest I've ever seen. Number one, when he missed a field goal. And number two, when the seemingly untouchable Minnesota Vikings went down to a different Anderson, the Morton Anderson from the Falcons. And of course, the Atlanta Falcons ended up going to the Super Bowl. That was such. And again, just like the only coup, he had a phenomenal season. But Gary Anderson doing kicker things for the Vikings losing that game in Minnesota to the Falcons. I know you guys remember that one. Archie, you remember that game, right? No question about it. I would fast forward 17 years and Blair Walsh, missing the field goal against the Seattle in Minnesota again to win the football game in Knox, Seattle. That was a 26 yarder with 27 seconds left or something like that. So I guess we say all of this that, you know what, you don't like it, but it happens and it's been happening down through the ages where a lot of times you don't want to leave it up to the kicker. Most of them are really good. Certainly ours is really good in Young Waikoo. But again, I think we have to emphasize there's so many other plays in the game that kind of eliminate that being the one play that decides a football game. Yeah, I mean, you always think that these NFL kickers, they're getting paid to do this. Some of them are getting paid a ton of money to do this. You're thinking this is your job. All you got to do is make a kick, but you're right, Archie. Just like any game, there's probably a lot of plays that could have been made to where it didn't come down to a field goal even against the big bad chief. So speaking of the big bad chiefs, let's talk a little bit about it. Yeah, okay, go ahead DJ, sorry. Fellas, I just want to point out something. You guys both have mentioned my headline numerous times since we've been on the podcast. So I think the hierarchy of my headline I think would have to go first, right? Because you guys have been, you got good headlines, but for some reason you guys keep saying just a few plays away would sound like my headline. Archie, last time I checked, we weren't giving away prizes for whoever had the headline. Did you remember me saying anything about that, Archie? Oh, I thought it was always a competition, my bad, sorry. Yeah, shock is what he's done is he's gone down to one of the local five and dime stores.   All right, we'll do something. While we set up this next topic here, you go ahead and grab whatever stuffed animals that makes you feel better as far as your headline. Choose a giraffe. Get the giraffe. That's a really nice one. They're called best so far, but let's talk a little bit about the Falcons and Chiefs game because I want to talk a little bit about the defense in this game because as we mentioned, the Falcons defense ends up holding the Chiefs to the lowest amount of points throughout the entire season for Kansas City and the lowest passer rating for Patrick Mahomes. And we've talked a lot about the improvement of the defense, Archie. So I want to start with you. Are you sold that the defensive woes have been solved for the Falcons defense? Or do you feel like there are still holes, still improvement ways for this defense to get better? No, there's certainly ways to get better. I have encouraged with the way they've played. If you take the first five games, for instance, they were giving up 32 points a game. Over the last 10 games, Atlanta has given up 20.2 points per game. That would be near the top of the National Football League if it were for a 16 game schedule. 20 points a game, you're going to win most your games. Now that puts the onus back on the offense and I know that's where you're going to take us, Rack. But no, I don't think it's fixed, but it's certainly they're playing to higher level. They got to add a few pieces to help them play with the personality they've been playing with over the last 10 games. DJ, we've always known about the playmaking ability of a guy like Grady Jarrett going to the Pro Bowl this year. Foyer Lua Khan has had a fantastic season, had a great interception in that game. Keanu Neal, when he's healthy, is probably one of the most punishing safeties that plays the game. But what are you seeing from this defense, DJ? Are you seeing enough improvement to where you feel like this is a defense that can help them win next year, or they still need to add pieces?  And then on the back end, Keanu, you got to love how he's came back from the multiple injuries he's had in the last couple years and been a stalemate on the back end.  I mean, we're putting this guy as a rookie on some of the best receivers in the game that's been around for multiple years doing it. So, I think the pieces are there. There's always more complimentary pieces that you can add. I mean, look at a guy like 2EL2Mariner this year who's played a pivotal role for this defense. How about Michael Walker coming in and some key moments in playing well as well? You've got some young pieces that are here that can help you, but I just love the fact that you have those three guys at the three major levels that you need for this defense, but there's always room to grow in any defense. But what they've done over the last, like Arch mentioned, 10 weeks, and even the last three out of four ball games holding some really good offices to the under 21 points is a huge stepping point for this defense going forward. Yeah, look, like I think we're all in agreement here, guys, that we've seen improvement. We've seen some flashes of this defense playing really well. And I think I've said this comment before and I'll update it for this week because it kind of applies as well. But at the end of the day, when you're a four and 11 team, nothing is set in stone. No job should be solidified. Nobody's got anything on lock. And obviously this comes off a two seven and nine season as well. So, I feel like and to your point, DJ, you mentioned everybody. I would imagine the Super Bowl winner is going to be finding a way to get better. That's the reason why we have the draft. That's the reason why we have free agency. So, no, this defense is not there. They have found some really good pieces and guys that all three of us have talked about. But this defense still has a ways to go if it wants to be able to compete to help this team get in the postseason and that will start with our next discussion which is going to be the 2021 draft. So, that's what a lot of the fans, especially Falcons folks, are looking at right now. How does this team get better? And because of the couple of losses that we've ended up having, it has ended up making the draft position better. So, DJ, let me start with you. If we're in a 2021 draft and we're not going to get into the discussion about need versus best player available yet, we'll get there in a moment. But what do you feel is out there right now as far as personnel or player coming out of college that can help this Falcons team?  I think you got to have that pass rusher that is equivalent to a guy that can change a ball game for you. You look at somebody's teams who are going to be playing in the postseason. They have one or two guys who are complete game records up front. And, you know, when you're looking at some of the guys coming out this year, a quick pay from Michigan, a really explosive guy on the edge, pass rusher guy, really well-formed. Greg Wiseau, 15 and a half sacks over his career, opted out here so you know he's going to be healthy and ready to go right away. I just think we're having a guy like Grady in the middle.  Now, it doesn't take foul as a guy who would expect to become that guy. It wasn't as much this year, but there's always room to grow and have extra pass rusher to go along with what you got on the back end. So, for me, it's one of those pass rusher guys I think can absolutely make come in and have a impact on what the Falcons can do, especially when it comes to rushing the pass. Yeah, Boogie Bastion, one of the guys that DJ was talking about there, a little internet connection glitches every once in a while, but he is definitely a good player that's kind of falling under the radar a little bit just because of the team that he plays for, but once he continues to work out, he'll probably end up shooting up the draft boards a little bit more. Arch, who do you got? Offense, defense, who do you like as far as draft available that's going to help this team right away? Well, I think I would go defensive side of the football. I don't think there's a pass rusher that deserves to be picked the first five picks of the draft and you're probably going to have a top five pick. So, now you've got to start evaluating what you need to where you're picking them. Do you trade back in the draft, maybe get you an extra first round pick, and then you've got to, you've targeted a pass rusher. To me, Aj Charell has proven that he's an outstanding corner on the outside. I think you need another one. I think you go get Patrick Sertan, you go get Caleb Fairley, the guy out of Virginia Tech, two long corners that can run, that can play dump, bump and run, play to the style that this team has adopted. I think that I would look in that direction. Those two guys are both rated in the top 10 in the draft. They would not be a reach. So, you've got to look that way. I know there's going to be some discussion about quarterback, potentially drafting your heir apparent to Matt Ryan. Certainly, that's something you could look at. But who's that guy? Because Trevor Lawrence is clearly the best quarterback in the draft. I'm not sure about Justin Fields. I'm not sure about Zach Wilson. I'm not sure about Trey Lance. Who is? And so, do you roll the dice in your first round pick, knowing you could get a guy that could come in and play right now in your defense, like we saw with Aj Charell? Or do you roll the dice on a guy that's not going to play for you, probably for another couple years? That will be something the Falcons really have to juggle. Yeah, and I think the bigger question, Mark, too, Dave, when you start talking about quarterbacks is like, we don't know who the head coach is going to be. We don't know who the offensive coordinator is going to be. So, what is the style fit for whatever those quarterbacks that are available in the draft? Most people are in agreement that Trevor Lawrence is the only can't miss prospect in his draft, but the Falcons likely are not going to have a chance at him. So, a lot of variables fall into the discussion. DJ, I was kind of on the same wavelength as you, his pass rusher, and I looked at a guy like Russo from Miami. Maybe he ends up being a little bit of a stretch like Arch talked about, but we just don't know because he opted out this season. He had a great year last year in 14 games. We didn't get a chance to see him in 2020. So, what has he been doing from his training regimen? All that stuff will be determined as we get down the road a little bit, but I felt like pass rusher was a big need. The other one that was interesting to me, guys, is yeah, a lot of it comes off when you play against the Chiefs, but they're kind of the bar right now, probably along with the Packers and the Bills, as far as offensive production, right? But it's hard to look past a guy like Tyree Kill, right? How can you find somebody in the middle of the draft like Kansas City did? Fifth round out of West Alabama, a guy that had some off-the-field issues, but a guy that ran 4-2-9, okay? We've always said that speed kills in the NFL. How about the mismatched nightmare that he ends up being on whatever Kansas City ends up doing? So I thought about a guy like Cadarius Tony from Florida. Didn't really do much his first few years, but this last year had a great season and he's that type of player. A guy that's a wide receiver can run routes down the field, but you can also hand him the ball off in the running game. He would probably be more of a middle-round guy, right? Isn't that where they say a lot of drafts are make or break in the middle rounds? Can you find those gems? That's probably where we're going to end up finding some of the best results for Atlanta as can they end up knocking it out of the park in the middle rounds. All right, so with that being said now, let's have the debate. All right, do you draft for need or do you draft for best available? I think this year is a really good example of it just to your point, Arch, because there's not necessarily a pass rusher that is let's say worth a fourth or fifth overall pick this year. So Dave, maybe it's this year, maybe it's overall, but what are your thoughts on draft versus need versus best player available? Well, I like certainly best player available. We saw it happen for Atlanta, like in 2018 when Calvin Ridley was still on the board, the probably one of the top 15 rated guys and you looked up at 26 and Calvin Ridley is still on the board and you went and got him. It's paid pretty good dividends now. Is it equated to wins? No, but he's he's had an outstanding year. He's going to end up with about 1,400 yards receiving this season and he's got he's going to if he gets one more touchdown, he's going to have more touchdowns than anybody in their first three seasons and he playing their play in the position. So that was a pretty good draft that was the best player available, right? It was not necessarily something you needed because your receiver core was pretty good with Sanu and Jones and you went and got Ridley. I thought that was a pretty good move, but I think you got to try to mesh the two together, playing it for there's a lot more equation here in the equation guys. It's the ability to if you see a guy or you've got some needs, whether it's corner, let's say it's one of those corners and you want to trade back somebody wants to jump up and grab a quarterback, you can grab back, you may be able to get yourself another the first round pick.  How about Najee Harris sitting in the back end of the draft on the first round at 6-2-2-30 and you could get him at 25 because you were able to trade back and use that for some for some capital to get you a couple players. That's going to be interesting to me. Yeah, great discussion and point there, Dave, because we didn't really talk about as far as needs for Atlanta is the running back element. They've got to find some balance, they've got to find some threat to where teams are actually convinced that Atlanta is going to run the football and they're going to be able to do it effectively. They thought by bringing in Todd Gurley that would happen and it hasn't yet this year. DJ, where do you fall on this one? Best player available? Draft for need or is it some combination of the two?  And when I think about the running back position and you say draft for need, I feel like need means upgrade. Need means somebody who can come in and give you value right now. And I think when you draft for need, it gives you an opportunity to get the guys that can come in right away and they can feel the void that you're missed. Like you can watch the tape, you can see them and you can see in games where you need certain spots to play better. Now, availability for guys who have been around are also are great.  I mean, I remember a few years back we traded up to get Julio Jones because he was, you know, available and we had go get him. Well, here's the time where I think need is really crucial because of some of the spots that you've seen this year that may have been a weak spot. And we mentioned a few. I love the fact we're talking about corners. You look at this league where you got receivers galore everywhere having multiple guys and we've seen it this year. Teams are going to stress your vertical teams are going to stretch you. In the run game, you need a back and I love Najee Harris and I love his ability to catch the ball in the backfield. Similar to what we saw when girly came out, big physical back, but also can hurt you in the past game. And Najee Harris fits that mode really well and I will fit this offense and what they like to do very well. Hey, Ravis. Yeah, when you start talking about about the draft and it'll be very interesting, it's going to be an important draft for the Falcons in that we know that there's some cap issues, right? So you're not going to necessarily be able to go out and shop like you want to in the open market in free agency. So I think you could probably qualify and quantify this draft as one of the most important drafts the Falcons have had in recent history. You might have to go all the way back to 2008 when Matt Ryan was in that draft. We had Curtis Lofton inside linebacker. I think Harry Douglas was in that draft as well. Guys that came in and played right away. That's what you're going to have to do in this draft. You're going to have to go get guys that could come in and plug and play because I don't think you're going to be able to go shop and as much as you would like to. Yeah and early on guys and I don't know why I just keep feeling this but like early on I feel like this is a draft to your point Dave where whoever this new general manager is might end up being creative with that first round pick but trying to stock pile picks because if he starts analyzing the salary cap situation unless there ends up being some some very creative ways that they release players that freeze up some money you're right. They're not going to be able to go out and find that pass rusher and pay them off whatever it ends up being $150 million. They just may not have the financial wherewithal to do that. So maybe they do end up trading a little bit in the first round to try to stockpile some picks and try to build this thing with some young talented players. Maybe one of the reasons why there's some cap issues is because of Julio Jones and I'll throw this one out. What about an all Alabama wide receiver court by drafting a Davante Smith. He ends up being available. Does he end up helping this offense? They have too many receivers guys. Can't have too many guys that go catch the rock. I'm playing quarterback. You got, I love guys that will go get the football. You kidding me? Look at both my quarterbacks. Couldn't wait to jump in on that one. Yeah. I'm just saying like the guy is a legitimate playmaker and if the Falcons stay where they're at I don't know maybe Davante Smith is a little bit of a reach at that four or five position depending on how things shake out in this last game but he's going to be a player that's going to be available to the Atlanta Falcons. Do they decide to go all Alabama and end up being crimson tied out wide. Who ends up knowing but I'm sure if it's Matt Ryan or whoever it ends up being they'll be happy to have those weapons outside. So I think guys we both kind of all three of us have I don't know a varying opinion but I feel like this is the year where it's going to be a little bit more about best player available because I don't know with certain teams like the Atlanta Falcons if they've got that person that's sitting there where they need them that's worth it at four or five that fits exactly what they need. So we'll end up seeing how that shakes out. We'll talk a bunch more about that as this thing ends up moving on into the off season but some very interesting decisions as you mentioned Dave and DJ for the Atlanta Falcons especially when it comes to personnel in the draft over the next few months that are going to be very important to them turning around things here in 2021. Let me give you one last second here DJ Falcons Travel to Raymond James this weekend to play the Bucks what are you thinking about for this game? It's week 17 16th game of the year what do you think for the Falcons against Tom Brady and company? Well I think it's one more opportunity for you to put something on tape matters and to put something on tape for a player standpoint Tom Brady the guy who knows exactly what this game means means a division rival go out and play your style which you played the last couple of weeks but go out and get a win man play good play solid in all three phases and put something something good if the Falcons fans something positive going into 2001 to feel really good about that hey at least we finish off the season with a win but I want the guys to go out on a high no doubt darts what kind of positivity do you are you thinking about in this final game for the Falcons I want to see Matt Hennessy on the field again guys I thought your run game improved with Hennessy and Gono in the interior offensive line I think they're more physical had a few issues with pass blocking they're going to get a nice opportunity to go get another solid defensive front get them some more play time no offense to Alex Mack but his his career is probably done here is his contracts up you drafted Hennessy for a reason I'd like to see you get some play time those two guys and see if hey those two big guys along with Quist Lindstrom young players in the interior is that the future of your offensive line yeah the opportunity in this final game of the season with really nothing as far as postseason goes on the line does Raheem Morris and company make a couple of adjustments to get some guys some playing time get some things on tape and see if they've got anything to work with who knows Raheem Morris may not even be here next year he might be on the staff but to give whoever comes in a little glimpse at what 2021 is going to look like well 20 and we apologize to our viewers for any of the technical difficulties that have come through this podcast but guess what it's 2020 and Sam Larson our fearless member of our digital team is going to do some magic and he's going to make us look and sound great so we appreciate that but with that I'll go ahead and close things out Dave DJ thanks so much for your insight once again on this podcast we will be back next week after the game against the Buccaneers hopefully things will be much more clean and Chris and we'll have some some wonderful insight for our viewers about things after the Falcons game this week guys thanks for joining us I'm Derek Rackley once again we're signing off from the Falcons Audible presented by AT&T we will see you next time take care everyone Happy New Year Happy New Year Happy New Year you're listening to Falcons Audible presented by AT&T


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It will switch back to just displaying in the default last recently updated order, but that's a new feature that we've added it's a it's a relevancy based filtering searching. And the Travis has really been instrumental helping us think about that as the librarian, and we'll be continuing to work with us on future improvements for displaying more relevant search results and a couple other things that Travis helped us to do one is, you'll notice that if you see a book that has a cover. This right here is the link to the book so if you were to launch this it would like it would click this link it would launch the book. So will the cover as well so if I click the cover. It will also launch the book in the real world as well as the title. If you find a book that has h5p activities, you'll see here we're displaying how many h5p activities there are. In this it was going to tell you how many of these interactive components user has created in their book and clicking on this link will take you to a special h5p listing page for each book. So for example this digital workbook has 131 h5p activities. So it will also show you the names of the activities and if you want to see what the activity looks like you can say, oh here's the crater lake activity, and then you could reuse it or embed it, or clone the book and get it if it was embedded in the book. You can also expand all of them on a given page so you can see 20 at a time to kind of scroll through and see what kinds of activities of book has if you're thinking about adopting it, or wanting to see the range of interactive possibilities.  You'll see we put 20 per page so you can scroll through and see the next set of 20, or the third set of 20, or so forth. So that's a new feature that we've added and we think that's going to help people find and quickly identify. Any kind of interactive content that we want it earlier in the chat there was a question about the h5p thing that I was showing, does the page that shows h5p activities show all the h5p activities in a books back end or just the ones that are embedded into pages. This is going to show you all of the h5p activities that have been created in that book, even if the activities only like a demo activity or only partially built this h5p list page will include it. And so someone could look at it and be like oh that is useful that is not useful. Now, it says right here only the ones that have been inserted into book content will be included if you clone this book. So if this book has 20 h5p activities that haven't been inserted anywhere and you clone the book. It won't clone the 20 that weren't inserted anywhere it will only clone activities that have been inserted into public openly licensed content in your book. So that's a nice protection if you're the author and you've got something that's not quite ready for building yet, but it's also nice if you want to share a work in progress h5p activity. There'll be available there and someone could download it imported to their book and then finish it so it's a way to share things that aren't finished but only clone the things that are, and that's kind of the kind of compromise that we built for that. I'm going to pause my screen sharing presentation, and I'll pass it over to Travis who's going to talk a little bit about some stuff that he and Lee have been working on related to collections and directory. Thanks to y'all hi everyone. Once again I'm Travis the press books librarian, and I'm excited to tell you all about collections. So collections are there basically we are grouped by a particular theme like like healthcare or interactive we are. The topics are chosen based on general demand feedback from the we are community and and resources available in the directory. And we created collections for a few reasons. One is that the directory keeps getting bigger. And for anyone looking for we are we we wanted to surface some of the, the content that we think is really exceptional. So when a collection visits the directory for the first time. It can be kind of overwhelming there's a lot of content to sift through and collections help bring that exceptional we are to the surface. We also hear from librarians and faculty that certain subjects are in demand or are underrepresented in we are collections really make it easy to define those resources in one place for those looking to create their own we are these books can provide some. These collections feature, they feature beautiful formatting and creative use of interactive elements, and collections also just make it easier to find things.  So collections really help surface resources that might otherwise be difficult to find. I'll show you some examples and where where you can find these collections. If you right right near the top of the directory here. If you click on one of these book covers, it'll display the collection in the search results below down here for the full list of collections we have this search filter here on the left. You'll find the name of each collection and the number of books it contains. If you want to know a little more about them over on pressbooks.com. So that's what we call the collections hub and this is just a page with with brief descriptions of each collection. I can put a link in the chat if you'd like to have a look on your own. We've set up some landing pages as well just for collections that we want to promote on social media. It's not really important to the function of the directory but it's it's here if you want to see a little blurb about what, and what's in each collection and, and maybe what some of the inspiration was. We have blog articles with details about some of the content so there's really a lot to dive into if you're curious. So when we create collections, we, we aim for quality over quantity. Right now they're, they're fairly small. The fine arts collection is the biggest just because the scope is is quite broad. We look for creative commons licenses usually licenses that allow derivatives but there are some exceptions just based on the subject matter. There's a variety of we are rather than having multiple items covering the same material. We look at things like presentation and formatting content and how it compares to other we are interactive elements we generally select original books rather than derivatives, unless the originals are outdated or unavailable, or maybe if a derivative is heavily modified and offers some additional content. So just to go back to the directory. So this is the health care collection here. I've put together not just a bunch of books about health care but I've, I've really looked for a diversity of health care topics so there's, there's more general stuff about a nursing and anatomy but there's, you know there's also stuff about health care, which sometimes gets overlooked in in some programs. There are some great examples of textbooks that have been cloned and tailored to two different course multiple times so now they've got all kinds of fantastic additional content. And it really helps highlight the collaborative nature of we are, and these collections are quite collaborative as well because, you know, often people will reach out to us on social media. And it suggests this book or that book and we've we've made some really great additions that way, and looks band and grow over time these are kind of living collections so we're always thinking about new, new collections and listening to feedback from the community. And it's, it's thanks to the, you know the great we are community for for creating these, these resources and fostering such a collaborative culture and we're excited to have another way to to showcase some of that hard work. I was, I had a question ahead of time from someone in this meeting they said, if these collections look great. Could you show us how I would navigate or find a collection on the directory. Yes, I think you showed that briefly but could you kind of walk somebody through from prospects directory, how they could look within a collection or see which collections we do have available. Sure. So, let's say you want one of the collections that's not listed up here, you could go down to the search filters on the left here, and just expand these, and just click the check mark next to whichever collection you want to see so say for instance you want to see a language learning collection, I'll just click this check mark, and then I'll see all the books in that collection. And I can see up here there are 16 books.  This is it it's very, very straightforward. I saw a question in the chat here from Lauren, or maybe a statement, I would love to see a student created books collection. Is that in the works. It is actually that's that's on our, I think that's the next one where we have on the agenda so stay tuned for that. Awesome and then if people had suggestions for other collections they'd like to see, or books they want to have added to existing collections what's the best way to make that request. The best ways is over social media. So you can just tweet at us or, or even contact us on on LinkedIn. We usually respond pretty quickly. Thanks so much Travis it's been really awesome. I think having a librarian on staff at press books that helps to think about metadata thinks about findability, and also thinks about how each of you, many of you are librarians or instructions and are thinking about organizing and finding information for your instructor so thanks for all your work on that Travis and we look forward to what's coming next. Probably a student authored our collection, just as was requested. Okay, the next thing I want to show are some things that are happening with the press book product itself. The first is kind of a minor change but it may be important for some of your users so what I want to share is, if you are a new user to press books and you have been invited to join a book with a role, the next time you log into press books you will see in your dashboard and updated book invitations and book permissions widget. So this book permissions widget will show you what you can do if you have no roles, you can create a book or clone a book that's how you get started. But if you have been invited to join a book, you will get an email about this, but sometimes people delete those emails or they don't read them. So let's say they log into press books, you will see on your dashboard, all of the invitations to join a book that have been made for you so this user Rick has been invited to join this book as a collaborator let's accept that invitation. He's been invited to join this book as an author, and this book as an editor. So now you'll see when Rick goes to this board, you'll see these books that he's joined now are available in his my book list. So if Rick were to log out. And then let's log back in as Rick, and if Rick goes to their admin dashboard, you can see here the other two books they haven't accepted invitations for if and when they accept those invitations they'll also show up in their available list for my books. So we just tried to make it a little bit easier for new users to kind of orient themselves and realize, if you've been invited to join a book, your invitation will just be pending here, unless you accept it or until you accept it. That helps people not forget about pending invitations they have to join books and makes it a little bit smoother for users. Another thing that we did was we have added in our export routines, in particular with McLuhan, people wanted to be able to customize the footnote font size separately from the body font size in their PDF exports. I know Ed Beck has asked us about this as of other people in the past so now in the newest release of press books. There is in your. So to find this you go to a sample book, you come to appearance theme options, and the PDF options tab. And you'll see there always was a body font size choice so let's make this 12 point. And then there's also now a footnote font size which you can make separate so we're going to make that. Let's see the two thirds the size of the body font size. And I'm going to then save these changes. Once I've done that the next time I make an export for my book you'll you'll notice that there is a distinct difference now from the body font size and the footnote font size so I will make a PDF just real quickly here. And then I will download my PDF and show it to you. Here in this book, I have a chapter with footnotes, you can see here my body font size is at 12, and my footnote font size is much smaller. You can change and adjust that as desired for your themes. This will be available in any of the themes that support what we call Buckram. So the majority of press books themes will have this option available, but some of the very old themes will not. If you have that feature and it's not available in your current theme, the advice would be to switch to the theme that does support it. And that's available now for all users. Another thing that we did are kind of couple kind of minor changes but we talked a little bit about the new contributor feature that we've added. If you haven't seen that before but there's a guide chapter all about it that we'll put in the chat but the contributors feature is awesome, and we think it's really powerful, but one of the changes that we made is if I add a new contributor to my book, let's make this person an editor. So I've added Delcine as a contributor to my book. And now I'm going to add Amy as well to this book. And we'll make her an author. When you add new users to your books, we will automatically create new contributors. And when we create the contributor we will bring in the user profile information for them. And we will also bring in their gravitar photo, if there was a photo associated with them. So at the time of creation, if the user had a gravitar photo image, we will import it and size it properly as their contributor profile picture.  So let's do a change that we made to the editing profile so friendly human doesn't have a profile picture, but would like one. So here it tells us the images should be square 400 pixels. Previously if you if you uploaded a very large image you can crop it and resize it. But if you have one that's already the right size we will just skip the cropping step entirely so let me show you the two methods. If I upload photos I'm going to select a file here and I'm going to pick a very large. I don't know if this one's large, I think this one's probably too large. And then we will, we get to this stage and we say okay how do we want to crop this okay let's crop it like this it's giving you a crop option. And now this image has been cropped. But if you pick an image that's already been sized correctly. So let me pick one that's already 400 by 400. So this image when I click, except this image, it just applies it doesn't ask you to crop it because it recognizes it's already the right size. So it's a couple of changes that we made for how we handle that contributor feature and try to make that a little bit easier for people to use with their profile pictures. So that's what we've done there for contributors. You can now see that this user has a profile picture as do these others, which were imported from gravatar. And then finally another kind of product change that we made was we improved the logging for our SAML imported. So if you're doing a single sign on with SAML. We now just have better logging in the back end. In case you have problems or you have issues or you had trouble setting it up. This is better logging tools for us administrators. Most of you that are using it are already using it successfully without issue. This is just helpful when you're first setting it up when you run into issues, better logging early helps us diagnose the problem and solve it faster. So that's a pretty minor change but it's helpful for us and our support team. The last thing I wanted to share is what we're working on now and what's coming next. So the big project that we've been working on over the last couple of weeks is improving our export routines, particularly for the EPUB export format. So I'm going to show you in press books right now. When you go to make an export, you have the supported option is the old EPUB 2 standard specification. And then we have EPUB 3 listed over in other formats. EPUB 3 has now been the accepted standard for quite some time and EPUB 2 is quite old. So all of the major book readers now support EPUB 3. And EPUB 3 is really a better kind of more modern standard because it uses the modern versions of HTML and CSS. So you can make well-formatted web books and they will look good in EPUB 3 specification. So this team is working on refactoring our EPUB exports. So in the near future, there will be one EPUB export option and it will be EPUB 3.2, which is the latest version of the specification. We're really excited for this. We're going to be able to fix and clean up some old legacy issues in the EPUB exports. And we think the end result will be cleaner, better, easier to maintain EPUB exports with less confusion about what's the difference between EPUB 2 and EPUB 3. So that's going to be one newest version of the EPUB export for everybody. At the same time, we're also going to be working on cleaning up the underlying HTML and PDF exports. That'll be coming a little bit later, but we want to make better and more accessible exports for your PDFs and your EPUBs. So that's a little bit invisible work, but we do think it will result in just better, easier to maintain exports in the short and the longer term going forward. So what you have been wanting to know about page views and how widely visited your books are. Historically, the way that Pressbooks has supported that is we have allowed network managers to configure Google Analytics as a third party service, which means you send all you Google Analytics ads page tracking information with JavaScript to your site. And then when a person visits the site, it sends information to Google and Google Analytics will present the dashboard to you as the person who's configured it. So that's good for many people, but some people don't want to use Google Analytics for a variety of reasons. And in other cases, the network manager would like to be able to let book authors see their individual book dashboard page views more easily. So we've been working on a solution that we think is both privacy protective and doesn't involve third party tracking software, and that can do this at the level of the book. And so I want to show you some cool stuff that's in the works. So what will happen is at the level of your root site, there will be in your dashboard a little analytics button, and you can configure the date range that you'd like to see for this so I might want to see the last quarter. And this will show me since the beginning of October, the total number of page views I have had on my homepage, and on my catalog page. Maybe I want to look for just the last month. And you'll see on this day it will show me how many page views and visitors I had on each day for a given site for my route site. So I can see this site had 75 visitors and 142 page views on my integration site. And that was 80 more than it was in the previous period. And these are the people that are most commonly referring people to my site. The other thing that's going to happen is in addition to being on your network route site. A similar dashboard will exist for every book on your site. And that's the part that I think is most exciting for book authors and for you as network managers. We still need to get this configured and working correctly for all of our networks it will be very soon, but you might be able to see for example this had 10 page views on October 2. One page view on October 14. This is not the most visited book in the world but more visited books will give you much more interesting information. I'll show you which chapters in your book or pages in your book were visited most frequently. How many visitors how many pages. And you'll also see that there's a few settings that are available so if you want to exclude page views for logged in users. So only people from the open web who are visiting your site. That will be there, and you can decide whether or not to set cookies. Some people don't like setting cookies because it gets stored in a user's browser so you can respect others by saying no cookies. If you turn cookies off you won't be able to know whether they're return visitor, but the feature will function pretty similarly.  So it's working soon. It's not quite available. It's there on your books but it's not working 100% fully functional but it will be quite soon. And we'll talk about that a little bit more in a future product update and share with you that. But we think that's a really nice feature to help people understand how frequently their books are visited without needing third party software or invading users privacy if you don't want to do that. The first question was, will authors be able to see this not just admins. The answer is yes, anyone who is a book administrator will be able to see that analytics dashboard in their book. I don't think right now that book editors and book authors will see it but I could be mistaken. I'd have to double check on that. Ed was asking about including other information on that page. Right now Ed, we can only include page view information but we would, we're thinking about ways that we can hook and extend this to include some page events. The one that we're most interested in adding support for would be book downloads. So if you've made file downloads available on your web book homepage. That's information that we know everybody would like to have and we're trying to find a way to add that information there. It's still some ways away but that's on our roadmap. You asked about a couple of other things which would be how many clones interact with each of our activities. That's not on our roadmap right now but if we can figure out the page down book downloads. We might look at some of the more difficult ones in the future as well. Thanks for suggesting those. Thanks all for attending the Press to Books product update this month. We're excited to see you in November and appreciate what you do for the open education communities on your various campuses and at your institutions.


Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. It's Eva from Bohemian Crafting and today I'm coming again with some idea I saw on a seven plaza channel. She have created page edge strips Beautiful decorative strips you can glue it on the side of your paper of your journaling page journal page and They are so gorgeous and I was so excited to do that tutorial. I Did mine unfortunately through to that Editing videos for my patreon and editing videos for YouTube. I somehow Lost the first part of this So I'm gonna explain what I have created at the start and then I will put that the rest what which I still have on my computer Together what I have created here. These are strips. We're gonna create today again. I did used Newspapers for creating these strips and I have to say this is so much fun. I never created strips like this on the edge of my journals I did create it tap Like tap edging with some clusters, but never did this one. It's so much fun and it looks amazing I hope you will enjoy it So I'm gonna quickly show you what I have started with and then I will somehow add it to my already made video So first I went to a section in my newspapers where are all these puzzles and quizzes I wanted to have few papers which do have this beautiful background like those crisscross and the you know this background you can see that here and Here and here so I wanted to have a few pieces with just simple background which will Which will be really good with all these little embellishments. So I did cut them out and back them with that wrapping paper like I did before and Then I took my newspaper and from advertisement section I neatly cut it strips with some advertisements and Also with some writing. I'm gonna cut a few pieces and show you what I did Once I had prepared my pieces of newspapers neatly cut it I took my ruler and took one of an old T-died paper as I had prepared for my journals and I just rip it on the pieces over the ruler edge and then between just Just rip it on pieces. You can do it artistic way and Enjoy it. It's very satisfying And then I just started to glue all these pieces together. So grab the glue take some newspaper paper take some T-died paper and Just start to put them together to one long strip. I took it from here like I'm making Something like snippet roll base for snippet roll and that was In my head when I started to put all these pieces together That I'm gonna make it like base for snippet roll And kind of decorate it also that way Like I am making snippet roll. I try to keep one side Kind of straight and this side I didn't mind if there will be some you know overlapping edges Because I knew I will do a little clusters on my long strip So I didn't mind that one edge will be bigger another edge will be shorter because I knew I will use all my Mini embellishments I created already in a previous video. So I knew I'm gonna use it As a decoration So if there will be something Not too nice. I can always cover it with all my prepared Mini embellishments And to work with all these scraps. It's really very satisfying To grab my newspapers and start to Look for the right treasury In my newspapers. It's so much fun And I am more creative than if More creative than if I will use some, you know decorative digital digital design I found myself that in my head are coming the ideas much more easy way And quicker way Than if I will be sitting here and staring on some decorative papers And thinking what I can do with them. I do have one more. So I'm gonna glue it here So once I had the base strip Kind of a long base strip. I took Few more papers to kind of reinforce it To make it stronger. So I took two few more pieces of newspapers And glued them from the opposite side to kind of reinforce All these papers to make it Nice and neat I think I'm gonna keep it this way Then I pull out from my stuff. I do have here this perforated paper This is edge from office paper. I think it's called Neverending or linen paper And it does have on both sides This perforated edge to help the paper to load into the printer In the end of printing process you you just rip off this edge from the paper and then you are You have in your hand nice a for size or us letter size paper So I'm saving these edges And I have to say I love to use them in my journals They are gorgeous decoration. So what I did I took this strip and kind of place it in the middle of my snippet roll paper or This this collage strip that way I should say that So I glue it in the middle of my collage strip And I had that collage strip quite wide this one It's not that wide like I did in that video and The rest you will see because the rest I do have already Already in the videos, which I didn't delete luckily So you will see that rest In the video And I was also talking about that till now. I've been following Kind of ish the parts That Margaret did in her 100 days project, but from now on I'm going to kind of swap it to my needs I noticed that this this challenge doesn't have too much views on my channel It's sad, but I hope it will get better because in the end we will have beautiful journal made from newspapers and for that I need to create some parts and some something what I would like to see in that journal. So In these videos, which I uploaded till now. I already I think show Every basics about how to work with newspapers and from now on we will use all these Basics to create all kind of things for the final journal. I hope you will enjoy these parts Which will be probably different than a Margaret's challenge, but it will be again Short videos with the thing you can create in one video and you will have finished Finished product. I hope you will enjoy that and if you will join me to create all these you will finish with beautiful journal Hopefully beautiful journal made from newspapers in the end. So I do have video Which starts from now on when I started to create to decorate my strips And I end up with these so from now on I'm gonna add the videos I already took when I created this one. I will put them together So you will see how I was continuing with this process. I hope you will enjoy it and I do have now my base for creating these page edge collage strips I'm gonna keep them all together. I'm gonna keep this all together I'm gonna kind of create that snippet roll which I can cut later On the size of my pages and from now on I'm just gonna up there here and there the paper the paper slips mini embellishments and tickets which I already created from newspapers and this should be Just fun to just enjoy it. I do have most of them distressed from From my previous work.  I can also add there before I will do anything else I can add there some stitching Which I think will look totally cute. I made it quite white Which I will probably don't need to have in my journals as a you know page edge So I was thinking if I will make it This way then I can use my perforated strip this one As a navigator and I can cut this Long strip also on the half here so I will have more strips with all kinds of decorative elements on it.  I'm gonna cover with anything I will find here in my papers These slips of paper I think this way. Yeah, I do have so far glued all these the paper Slips of papers all these little Embellishments I have created I added also cutouts. I do have From newspapers here and there. These are just light papers this one And then I cut a kind of like large words, which I think they will be perfect to have there This one these Numbers in circles. So I do have this layout so far This I found forgotten So when I will flip it over. I do have here this White strip. I'm gonna use it because this is white And I'm gonna cut it on half or using that strip. I'm gonna cut it right here all that strip And create two Narrow strips from this wide one And here we are strip number one and strip number two So all these little pieces I will probably out there just glue and let them Be on the right spot where I meant them So here But it's not holding. I'm just gonna Glue back and this is strip number two. I'm gonna distress the edges those straight edges And then I can add My little embellishment here and there and I think I'm done with my strips Through that process of decorating one part just fell off. It was just got ripped off So it looks like this without any additional decoration just my paper slips or or slips of papers mixed together with those tickets I made before glued on Newspaper collage strip and here is how I did decorate them using my little offcuts and cutouts from newspapers, which I did back with Old envelope or sometimes I did not back them with old envelope. I left them as they were So I do have loads of these already cut it off and prepared So this is how your strips can looks like If you will use a newspaper images, you can find them in advertisements in sport Sports part in newspapers. This is some advertisement. This was in Yeah, words of wisdom. I have no idea. I think it was close to all those riddles and puzzles This is just cut out from some some column, you know, and all these Are things you can find in the columns In the newspapers and they do look stunning. This was in the bingo Bingo ad-bingo ad-word advertisements. There were those Snooker Or billiard Billiard balls. So I cut them off and back them with that old envelope And one I do have here So these are my decorated strips or page edge collage strips using images I found In our newspapers. I have to say I love them so much I think in newspapers you can find so many inspiration For making junk journal Decorations really so many so many amazing little numbers little words There is so many beautiful Images if you do have newspapers where there is What was happened a hundred years ago, you know, some newspapers has that section So you can find there even old old Photographies Or old photographs. So go to have a look to your newspapers Because you will find there a real treasure for junk journal makers So this is my sharing for today. I hope you will try it. I hope you will go to You will go to hunt for treasure in your newspapers Thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you so much for spending your time with me I started to put together all these videos in one playlist A link will be down below and also I started to add The names of other channels. I saw already some videos with the 100 day project Challenge, please go to have a look. There is so many wonderful channels who are joining this challenge and you can find there so much inspiration It's a really great try And get prepared some things easy things to do for your journals So all the names will be in the description box below as well Thank you so much for all this amazing inspiration. You are sharing with us with makers And thank you so much to Margaret for Inspiring me so much that I did join this one as well. It's so much fun. And I really do enjoy it Have a beautiful day. Take care of yourself and I will see you soon. Bye