This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. It's one o'clock on a Monday afternoon, so you must be watching Think Tech Hawaii research in Manoa. I'm your host, Pete McGinnis-Mark, and my guest today is my really good friend, Professor Lionel Wilson, who is an emeritus professor at Lancaster University in England, and also an affiliate faculty member here at UH Manoa. So Lionel, welcome. Thank you. I know that you're just visiting here for a few weeks, but you've been here on many different occasions, so it's great to have you back in Hawaii again. And today we're going to be talking about some of the numerical models you do of volcanic eruptions. And as the viewers might be able to see, even our background image today is of a volcanic eruption, the Pu'u Ovent erupting back in 96. So tell me a little bit about what you do, Lionel. You look at volcanic eruptions, but… I do, yes. And I do this from the point of view of a physicist rather than a geochemist or a pathologist. Most people who look at volcanoes do work on the chemistry of the rocks, whereas my interest is the physics of what's going on, how fractures are open in the crust of the planet, and liquid rocks spills out in time. And you said the planet, and of course, I know you work a little bit on terrestrial eruptions. We're going to talk today about volcanic eruptions on the moon. Absolutely. And I'm sure that's a little bit different, even from a physicist's perspective. Oh, yes. In fact, it was when we first recognized eruptions on the moon that I got interested in this field and sort of asked the obvious question, well, wait, the moon's smaller than the Earth, the gravity is less, is that going to have an effect on the way eruptions take place? And it turns out to have a profound effect, in fact. And of course, the moon is a vacuum, so that may also affect the way you work. Yes, it does. Yes. In fact, if you think of the fire fountain eruptions on Kilauea, which everyone will have seen at some stage over the last few decades, the heights of those fountains are determined by how much the gas that's being released from the molten rock expands. And on the moon, because there's a vacuum, it expands much more. That means it accelerates. It throws material up to greater heights, spreads it to greater distances and so on. So, again, the major effect. Speaking of the moon, we've had a number of people on the show in the past talking about the moon. But let's just remind some of the viewers what the moon looks like. And here we've got, I guess it's the near side of the moon. It is. When you're looking at volcanoes on the moon, where do you look for them? Well, you basically look at the dark areas on this image. You notice that the dark patches are roughly circular generally. And that's because what's happened is that very large impacts on the moon have produced giant craters, placent, and they are the key places where eruptions are then taking place. So, all the dark material you can see is, in fact, lava that's flooded out into the depressions. And, of course, we know that it must be lava because we've got samples back from the Apollo mission. Absolutely, yes. Apollo missions all landed in these areas actually because they tend to be flatter and it's a safer place to land. But that was great for us because it meant that we got disproportionately samples of the volcanic rocks. And just to give our viewers a little perspective, when we're talking about volcanic eruptions on the moon, that's not today. That's way back in the history. That's a good point, yes. The moon's smaller than the Earth. And the size of a planet controls how well it conserves its heat. So the larger you are, the more slowly you cool. The Earth has not lost all that much of its internal heat. It's still active, of course. The moon and Mercury are both much smaller and they've lost almost all of their internal heat. So they stopped having eruptions about halfway through their lives. So we're looking at ancient eruptions. And ancient would be a few billion years old? Yeah, between two and four billion years old. OK, and of course the solar system's about 4.5 billion years old. It sort of died out. It's about the first half of the moon's history. It was active in the second half. It wasn't. All right.  We're going to see a picture of lava flows on the moon. Next slide should show us something. All right. And explain to the viewers what it is we're looking at here. It's a black and white image. Sure. What we're looking at is the southwest corner of one of those very large basins that's flooded. And fish events have opened up in the area off the bottom left of the picture here. And so lava flows have moved across down a gentle slope towards the middle of the basin. And there are one or two mountains here and a fair number of craters. But you see the low bait features running from lower left towards the upper right. Each of those is on a lava flow. And what does the scale be? Are we looking at tens of miles? We're looking at a gap of about 150 miles across the screen. OK, so these are big flows. What would you do if you were starting to think about modeling a lava flow on the moon? So do you worry about the chemistry or do you worry about what is it that you do? We start by thinking about the chemistry. And of course, from the Apollo samples, we know what the chemistry, in general terms, of these lavas was. Only enough, we don't have any samples from specifically the flows on that last image. But we know measurements from orbit that they're extremely similar. So we can take the chemical properties. And of course, we can either actually melt Apollo samples in the lab, although they're very precious. So we usually make up things with the same composition, melt them, and look at how they flow. And as they flow easily, in fact, they do flow easily. They're very runny liquids. So we then say to ourselves, OK, if there was a fissure of a certain size erupting this material, how much do you need to erupt per second? And the fissure is actually the point in the ground. Yes, it's the fracture. It's the fracture liquid that comes out of. That's right. So the liquid comes out, just pulls onto the surface. It flows away. And we have to say, well, because of the effect of the low gravity, what will this do? Well, if you have a certain thickness of flow, it will flow more slowly because there is less force acting down the slope. The gravity affects that. And so if we see a flow of a certain thickness, that tells us something about the rate at which the volume per second of the liquid that must have been coming out of the fissure. So that's the first step. Then you say, ah, but this flow is 200 miles long. Can it have gotten that far without cooling? So you then do a calculation that says, how fast is it losing heat from the top? How fast is it losing heat into the ground? Can it flow this far? And you need a certain threshold, a certain discharge, to make it possible to make a flow of the size that we see. Size that you can observe. And does the vacuum conditions change the rate of cooling? Or is the heat lost down into the subsurface? Well, they're both issues. Of course, the mean having no atmosphere and slow rotation, it rotates once a month. So you have a two-week day when the surface gets very hot. So that reduces heat loss. But if the eruption happens during the lunar night, the surface is very cold. That increases the heat loss. Most of the eruptions probably took place for more than one lunar day. So it kind of tends to average out. But it is an issue. And yes, they lose heat at the top by basically very radiating into the vacuum. When you see eruptions on Earth, you may sometimes notice, well, you notice fume coming off the flow. And you notice turbulent clouds and fume. And just, well, of course, in our atmosphere, none of that happens. So you just have the hot surface radiating away into space. So you have to take care of that. And the examples which we saw in that image. Any idea how long they would have been active in order to produce the flow? To flow that far, something like one Earth day. Is that all? Yeah. They were very high discharge rate eruptions. That's remarkable. Do we get such high discharge rates on Earth? We do. And in a sense, they would represent very dangerous eruptions. They flow faster than you can run. If you weren't in a vehicle, you wouldn't have run one of those. But the good news is they only happen on the Earth every 10 to 20 million years. So it's nothing we should be lying awake in bed worrying about in the short term. But those things do happen periodically. We see them in the geological record. And they are very impressive eruptions when they do happen. They must be. And presumably, they have an impact on the Earth's atmosphere as well as everything else. Yes. Essentially, all volcanic eruptions bring not just liquid rock, but also gases from the interior of the planet. On Earth, the communists went to water and carbon dioxide and some sulfur and other things. But of course, you release those gases into the atmosphere and sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide are both greenhouse gases. So at least locally and for very big eruptions, probably at least the whole hemisphere, you modify the atmosphere enough to. Well, you have two effects. You can either induce heating, or actually, if the sulfur gases condense in the upper atmosphere, they form little droplets that reflect the sunlight. And you can actually reduce the temperature as a result. So again, it's a complicated issue to work out exactly what the consequences of a given eruption are likely to be. So I guess if some of our viewers are wondering, what's the point or what's the purpose of doing the numerical modeling of eruptions on the moon, here's a great. Yeah. It's giving us an insight into what the, if you like, the rare, but very important punctuations in the Earth's geological history can be. And an obvious one is we all think of the end of the dinosaurs. And that's clearly a link to the fact there was a large impact crater at the time. But there were also a number of large volcanic eruptions in India at the time. And most people now suspect it's the combination of the consequences of those two events, lasting over centuries that was the critical trigger. Right. So your studies can actually tell us a little bit about styles of volcanism sometime in the Earth's history. Yes, they'll try it, yeah. And of course, they have a bearing on understanding the eruptions that we see today. Let's take a quick look at another slide, because we're getting close to a break. But let's just take a look. Here we've got an eruption on the Earth, all right? And we're seeing what I infer is a lava flow that might be, say, five or six meters thick. Yeah, that's a very broad. And it's got the flowing interior. And so when you're doing your numerical models, you have to worry about not only the volume, but how the surface actually changes over the course of the eruption. Yes, that's true. In fact, what you're seeing in this image is a very rough, clinkery surface on the top of the flow. And that's due to the way the flow is cooling. It's trying to produce a nice, smooth layer of chilled lava. But it's being deformed all the time by the movement of the still liquid lava underneath. And that causes fractures to develop. And so you get the very rough clinkery on the top. At that level of detail, or sort of in a general sense, your models can accommodate this kind of changes? Yes, basically they can. We have to rely on making melts of this material in the laboratory and making measurements on them with instruments that forcibly deform them so we can measure the rate of this thing, deform. But if we take that into account and look at the cooling rate, the rate at which you chill into the surface, and then how you stress it by the deformation from underneath, you can see how the cracks develop and how you get the clinkery surface. Can you assume that the eruption temperature for lava flows, say, on the moon would be similar to the ones that we have here or now? Roughly speaking, yes. Although, in fact, looking at the chemistry of those rocks and thinking about what the conditions must have been like inside the moon where the melting took place, it turns out that they would, in fact, have been erupted at higher temperatures than most of the eruptions we've seen here in Hawaii. You mentioned the gases that contain on Earth. Are they present as well? Some of them. It's an interesting issue. For the longest time, we used to think the moon was very dry in the sense of having no water at all. And as instruments, you know, the technology has gotten better over the years. We found traces of water in the Apollo samples. So we now understand that when the eruptions took place on the moon, a small amount of water was released during the eruptions. So it turns out, again, from looking at the chemistry, the main gas that was released was carbon monoxide. Not carbon dioxide, which is the common one on Earth, but the other oxide, carbon monoxide. And it's just a consequence of the subtle differences in the chemistry of the rocks. Interesting. Well, we're getting close to a break line, but when we come back, I'll be particularly interested, what are you doing here in the sense of why does somebody from England keep coming back to Hawaii? I know you've been here a number of times. We might delve a little bit into that issue as well as science in England as well. But let me just remind the viewers that you are watching Think Tech Hawaii research in Manoa. I'm your host, Pete McGinnis-Marc, and my guest today is Professor Lionel Wilson, who is an emeritus professor at the University of Lancaster in England, as well as being a full faculty member at UH Manoa. And we'll be back in about a minute. So see you then. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Living in this crazy world So caught up in the confusion Nothing is making sense Likeable science on Think Tech Hawaii. Every Friday afternoon at 2 p.m., I hope you'll join me for likeable science, where we'll dig into science, dig into the meat of science, dig into the joy and delight of science. We'll discover why science is indeed fun, why science is interesting, why people should care about science, and care about the research that's being done out there. It's all great. It's all entertaining. It's all educational. So I hope to join me for likeable science. And welcome back to Think Tech Hawaii Research in Manoa. I'm your host, Pete McGinnis-Marc, and my guest today is Professor Lionel Wilson, an emeritus professor at Lancaster University in England. Now Lionel, I know you've been back to Hawaii several times. Quite a number of times, yes. Apart from the weather and the beaches, why do you come here? Well, basically, because two things, you have active volcanoes of the kind that I'm interested in looking at. Volcanoes here are of the same kind of lava that we find on the Moon and Mars. And also, you have a group of superior scientists who've been working on these topics for a long time. And we have great interactions and thinking through how to improve how we understand these eruptions. Sure, I think so. What do you do? Do you go into the field with these researchers or do you stare at images? Well, for the planets, I stare at images because that's where we get our information. I do go into the field. We said earlier, my background is in physics rather than geology and geochemistry and so on. So it's good for my soul to go into the field with people, look at the rocks, talk, think through what are we seeing, what does this mean? Then I can take that information back and hunch over the computer and make models of what we've been looking at. And is it mainly Kilauea that you work on? Here in Hawaii, yes, yes. It's been such a rich fund of information over the last decades. OK, and you mentioned that you each has world-class scientists. What's the situation in the UK as far as planetary research or people who are working on volcanoes? Right. Well, people working on volcanoes, people often ask why do we have a volcanologist in the United Kingdom at all? We don't have any active volcanoes. You'd have to go back about 300 million years to find an eruption in England. But of course, we do still have responsibilities for some overseas territories. And we have one that's still active, Montserrat in the Caribbean, which erupted over the last few, well, the last couple of decades. So, and in the past, we were responsible for volcanoes in Africa, for example. So, there was a tradition from that point of view. But it's evolved much more towards understanding the theoretical background. And I think that's the major thrust. And the planetary research in the UK? We, the UK, it has a national space agency. We take part in ESA missions. ESA is the European Space Agency. The European Space Agency, yes, that's right. Via the links with the European Union, which are a matter of dispute at the moment, but it's not going to that. Yes, but it's just that the planetary work has never been a major source of funding in the UK. It's there, and it keeps going. But it's just not such a large emphasis. And certainly ESA, the US Space Agency, has grown all these fabulous missions. It's been responsible for producing so much information. So, there's motivation for you to come? Yes, of course. Let's take a look at another slide, because I know you brought along a number of images. Now, what is it we're looking at here? It looks like all intents and purposes are river valleys. It does, doesn't it? Yes, and when we first saw these valleys, they are valleys on the moon. I hope everyone's seeing it as a snake in depression. And the sun shining from the right-hand side, right? The sun is shining, yes, from the right, that's right. So, there's a prominent crater quite close to the middle. And then the slaking depression, this valley. And just for a very short time, people said, oh, there were these old river valleys. But there's a number of problems. The Apollo samples did not contain more than microscopic traces of water. The moon has no atmosphere. It would appear it never had an atmosphere. So, if you put water out on the surface, the first thing it does is boil. And it vanishes very quickly. So, the next fluid, which was a likely candidate, was of course lava, since we realized that the rocks we were getting back were largely volcanic rocks. And it then became an issue, well, yes, but how do you erode what looks like a river channel using lava? We're not used to that happening on the earth. Lava comes out of an event of some kind and flows across the countryside. And you get a positive feature, a lava flow. How do you get a depression? And the answer, which finally dawned on people as well, if the eruption goes on for a long enough time, then the heat that you're leaking into the ground under the flow eventually warms up the ground to the point where it starts to melt. If the ground is an old lava flow and you have a new lava flow, by definition, if this is molten, it's hotter than that. And what's more, this has a melting temperature less than that of the flow. So if you heat it up enough, it starts to melt. And as it begins to melt, different minerals melt at different rates, so you start to disaggregate the surface. And then just the fact that you've got liquid flowing over it begins to tear bits away and you slowly erode a channel into the ground. So it's carved into the pre-existing landscape. That's right. And if you do the calculations, it takes about a week to warm up the ground. And most of the eruptions we see here in Hawaii, individual eruptions don't very often go on for more than a week episode to do, but in one place. I guess Monolow in 84 went on for about three weeks, but that was really rare. So that's right, it's rare. And so that had the potential to just be beginning to warm up the ground underneath those flows. But these eruptions on the moon went on for months. So that's why they were able to warm up the ground, start to strip the ground away. And you would have a situation. I mean, that channel, I've gotten the exact depth, but it is some tens of yards. Well, in fact, I know you bought that particular image because I believe that was Hadley Wheel where some of the astronauts went. And the next image will actually show. Yes, there you go. I'm not sure if this is Jim Irwin. Right, with the rover. At the rover, but... On the rim of the valley. It explained to us a lot about what we're looking at. Yes, we're looking into this meandering valley, standing on the rim, looking down into the floor. And you can see the sloping sides, where originally these would have had nearly vertical sides because you'd have cut vertically down nearly into the ground. But of course, they've crumbled away. Micrometre, old bombardment, you're breaking up the rock. Let's just remind the viewers what we're looking at is a ground photograph of that same channel that we saw in the previous image. So here, I think what you're telling us, Lionel, is that we're seeing a channel carved into the previous thing rock. That's right, yes. And you do actually see in places that you can see them to the left of the centre, there are layers in the walls of the channel. And they are old lava flows, which this flow had cut through. So you'd have this... By the way, the calculations we've done on these things, the actual flowing lava was typically between five and ten yards deeper. So by the time it's eroded a hundred-yard deep channel, it may feel a little strange. You've got a five-yard deep flow in the bottom of a hundred-yard deep channel still merrily wearing away the floor and carrying it away. And this has gone on for months. Presumably, it was the models, such as the ones that you develop, that really helped people understand this, because this mission was in 1971, I think. Right. And at the time we didn't have any real knowledge of... No, we had the beginnings of the suggestion that it might be lava that was involved, but no idea of the numbers involved. The length of time the flows would have gone on for, what volumes of lava must have been erupted to explain these features. So let's go back a little bit to who cares about all of this. Let's sort of say, well, OK, we've had astronauts go to the moon to look at this lava channel, but trying to bring it closer to home, are there relevant things which we can look as back in the geologic record? Do we see this kind of thing on Earth? We do. Quite rarely, because you do need... Remember, I said that lunar lavas tended to be hotter than what we typically have on the Earth now. But in the Earth's distant past, we did have much hotter lavas erupted. And there's every indication that channels of this kind were created on the Earth. They're not terribly well preserved, but they are preserved in this sense that people have discovered deposits of minerals, of ores, and particularly nickel sulfide. And when these were discovered... Which is valuable, right? Which is valuable, yeah, it's an important source of nickel. And when these were discovered and people started to mine them and cut mine shafts into them and work out the shape of the deposit, they found that these things extended sort of in one direction for a great distance, miles, and the other direction only for tens of yards, hundreds of yards. And what's more, they tended to not follow a straight line or any of the pre-existing geology, they kind of meandered. And it slowly dawned on people that we're looking at ancient, tenuous channels of this kind on the Earth. And what happened was the hot lava ran over sediments, which were rich in sulfur and metals, absorbed those sediments and mounted them, incorporated them into the flow. Then then eventually the lava stops flowing, it cools and crystallizes. The first thing that crystallizes is nickel sulfide. So you get a concentrated layer of that at the bottom of the channel. So in addition to better understanding the evolution of the solar system or the moon in particular, there might be some economic relevance to the kind of models. Yes, yes, in this case, yeah. There are other aspects of that as well, of course. The presence of the big bodies of magma just below the surface that erupts and form all of these features, themselves have an influence. There are a hot spot on the, I'm thinking now, the Earth, the economic aspect. The Actus Plays is where they encourage circulation of groundwater, the rain falls, sinks in, heated up, it moves around, it dissolves minerals, it reprecipitates them. A lot of the Earth's metal deposits are linked to volcanic centers in an analogous way. Fascinating. So, you know, it does have. We can about a minute left line or so just to wrap up. What do you do next? Are your models complete? Do you need to refine them with field work or super computer or what do you do next? You could argue that models are never absolutely complete. And I think we understand aspects of lava flows pretty well now. The next thing that we need to spend more time on is looking at the products of explosive eruptions, putting material into the Earth's atmosphere. We had a big eruption in Iceland that closed down air traffic over the North Atlantic a few years ago. That was a big eruption, but not as big as they can be. And modeling the way explosive eruptions interact with the atmosphere still has quite a ways to go. OK, and we've had people like Sir Euffasian on the show in the past looking at other parts of the solar system. So presumably when you've completely solved all the problems of lunar volcanism, you can move on to another planet. Absolutely. We have Mars, which does have a small atmosphere. So it's a kind of hybrid between the Earth and the Moon. And people who've watched the show before will know I've done a little bit of Mars work myself. You have indeed. Different gravity field to the Moon or to the Earth as well. So still a fruitful area of research, which hopefully will continue to bring you back to Hawaii. Oh, that would be nice. Excellent. Well, I'm afraid we've run out of time, Lionel. So let me just remind the viewers, you have been watching Think Tech Hawaii Research in Manau. I've been your host, Pete McGinnis-Mark, and my guest today has been Professor Lionel Wilson, who's an emeritus professor from Lancaster University in England, as well as being an affiliate faculty member at UH Manau. So thank you for watching. Please join us again next week at 1 o'clock on Monday for another episode of Think Tech Hawaii. Goodbye for now.


Hello, and welcome back to episode 28 of the Pirate101 walkthrough series. Today, we are going to be going into this dungeon, and yeah, let's go one hour, go in, we'll do it anyway. Boom, amazing. So last episode, we helped El Toro do things, and we defeated El Guapo. So yeah, um, are you gonna speak? Nope, okay, we're just gonna be charging in and defeating these guys? Cool then. Okay, here we go, fishies. Okay um, rhumba. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no. Come on. No, no, no, no. Come on. Okay, let's get thisastes. No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh! I feel a little bit loud. I don't know though. Okay, you're getting information. Go El Toro, I believe in you. Nice. Nice. Do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Let's all do that. You're going to sniper him. You're going to hit him. Done. Let's go. Boom, that was good. Boom. Superb is always good. Double tap. Burst Fire. That's up-sitting. Let's see, yup. That was a nice hit from him. Overwatch, y'all! First fight, oh mega hit first fight. First first first first first fight. Sweet. First fight, epic hit first fight. Oh my god. Chantel, man. Putting in the effort, jeez. Amazing. The dodge though. Oh, that's two down. That's impressive. Okay, now we just need to focus on these guys. These fools. Okay, there we go, done. Oh, the dodge. Okay, well he did. Oh, go all the way. Oh, the dodge from my pet. That's amazing. Chicky-wee. Chicky-wee hit there. Um, let's... Yeah, you know what, we're just gonna...  Oh, the dodge. There we go, he's dead. Nice! This was impressive. No way is open, go in! I will meet you in the courtyard. We must try quickly. We'll split up, you go to the barracks tower and sabotage their armoury. I shall hunt Santarana in his palace. Okay. Um, let's go in here then. Find the armoury. Found it. Oh, there's more people. Okay, I will be right back after this battle. Oh, Kiroki, we just finished that battle. Um, now we are going to continue to look for the armoury. Apparently I didn't find it. It's upsetting. Oh my. Oh my god. That was Ipperc. Okay, let us go. Chists all of them. Deans, destroy these armaments and then we find El Toro. Boop. We're going to wait for more to respawn and then we get far away from those gears. Possible. And there's Kutekawaya. Why wouldn't you put five in here? Like, oh, there's one. Found it. I thought, like, why wouldn't you put five in there? That's why, because there's an extra one here. Okay, let's go out to the fortress. You dare move against Santa Rana in his own house? Ha, Santa Rana will punish El Toro for his insolence. We get to punish you. Okay, I will be back after this battle. Oh, Kiroki, we are back. We completed that. It was so good. Oh, we leveled up. Yay. That was my phone. Just ignore that. We leveled up. Yas, we are now level 21. Yeah, 21. That's amazing. Okay. That's great. Um, let's see. What are we doing here? Okay, let's... So, how long are you still dead for?  Okay, we need to defeat these guys. So, again, I will be back once I finish this battle. Oh, Kiroki, we finished that battle. We're going to get this quest. Just the lulls. Hey, you there. We can use a hand. Buses out of here, will you? I can't reach the lock. But I'm betting you can force it. You're locked tight, but the lock's old and shut. Fetch me some powder from that cannon, Yonder, and I'll have this door open real quick. So, yeah, this is always a good quest to do just because... That's it. Now, let's see to that lock. Um, what do we...  So, yeah. Stranger, how much obliged? Got room for a quick draw on your crew? Yup, sure do. Sweet. Yar. Okay. Um, yeah. So that gives you a companion, which is great. And it doesn't take long. I knew my new allies would tilt the balance. At last, after years of humiliation, I've indebted hands and I'll learn your name. Remove his mask. Indeed. Our long dance ends today, Santa Ranna. For you. You're right where I want you. There is something you should know. I have not come alone. You're bluffing. No one can save you now. El Toro always works alone. Not today. Young pirate, attack. JK. Oh, plot twist. He actually does not work alone. Oh. Um, kind of just want to go with normal setup. Until I've given a new guy epics. Um, yeah. I'm deciding that I'm going to keep Rumba down a bit.  So I'm just going to keep him down a bit, you know. You know how it is. Ba-ba-da. Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba. Ba-ba. Ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da. Is this the goal to defeat Santa Rumba? I think it is. Yeah, it is. But he's moving this way, so that's always good. Um, yeah. We're going to place a trap right in front of him so he can get hit. You won't offer any help. No, you're not particularly useful. Um. You know what? You're going to just wait. Um. Same with you. You're just going to all wait for a bit. Ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da. What if El Toro dies? This never happened to me. But what if he does? You know, like... What does that do? Ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-da-da-da. Okay. Ah shoot, hello. Um, you know... You know how it is. Boom. Boom. No! No! He's throwing on the wrong guy, thank you. Nope, nope, okay that's fine. Hmmm. Yeah, come towards us, that's a good idea. Oops. El Toro is about to die. The IE died. Oh, here we go, he's dead. No, not quite, he's a trooper. He's dead now. Unlucky. Unlucky El Toro. He's very dead. Okay, let's, um, why do you not move? It's bullying, honestly. Um, boom, boom, dumb. Boop, nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. He's dead. That was easy. Boop, boop. Boop, boop. Boop. Ah, boop. And one more is out of here. Okay, that was great. Okay, we've got people ready to collect, it's all good. Okay, here we go, El Toro. We're a part of it. Not the greatest part, of course. But an important part, nonetheless. When the people of Santa Pollo sing songs of this day years from now, they will praise the name of the pirate who helped El Toro tapo Santarana. I would love to talk to you about Captain Blood, but first, there is more pressing business. We must spread the good news. Take this letter to Don Rodrigo in his bank with him. I, er, he. That is to say, I am sure he will reward you. That was dramatic. Okay. That was great. Okie dokie, I am back. We're about to find Don into now. Here we go. I changed chicken ranger to companion number one. Um, yep, I gave him a double tap. El Toro has sent you with good news. I see it in your eyes. Santarana is defeated. It warms my heart to know that even tyrants are no match for this strength and cleverness of El Toro. And this pirate ally, of course. Don Rodrigo. I might have known I'd find you at the root of this rebellion. You will pay dearly for your treason. Attack! Wow, did not see this one coming. Completely out of the blue. Oh wait, why is El Toro here? I don't know. Oh wait, he's Don Rodrigo. What? Oh my god, did not see that one coming either. That is a shock. Okay, hopefully this time El Toro doesn't die. That's actually a pretty cool mega hit. Just saying. Okay, calm down, don't get too happy. It was just a chair. Jeez. I think she's so cool. Okay. Okay, let's do this. Nice. Double tap. Good. Burst fire. Good. Burst fire. Good. Amazing. Dunno, no no no. Dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno. Ba, ba, ba. Okay, let's hit you. You're going to snap a hand in the back. We're done. Nice. Nice. Double tap. Good. Burst fires. Nope. Okay, that's fine. Good. Hit the cat. Nice. Boom, boom. Boop. That's why I gave him double tap, you know? That's great. Boop. Dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno. Okay, pit go. Overwatch. No. Nice. Okay. Let's get her deaded. You can go on her. You can go on her. Suppose you can go on her as well. Dunno. Dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno. Nice. No, that's fine. Boop. One, one, three. That's pretty good. Okay. Let's go. Dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno, dunno. Ba, ba, ba, ba. Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. Done. Nice. Nice. Nice. Okay, we're doing some work. Got two lift. Okay, breastfire. Boop. Okay. Quick draw. Nice. If I get quick draw. Boom, boom. That's pretty good. Okay. Nice. Okay. He's got like one health, I swear. Yep, he has like one health. Okay. One guy lift. Easy peesies. Done. Okay. Nice. He's good. Easy peasy. Here we go. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom. Yes, my young friend. I am El Dor. Well, we didn't say that one coming, did we? You suspected nothing. I know. There is no shame. I suspected everything. Not because I've gone through the story before, but I suspected you. At last, we can discuss what brought you to Santa Boia. Oh, awful. Okay. Doki. Doki. So next episode, we will be back. Over. We should buy some land and we'll be going to buy some village. Um, yeah. Also winch and visit promotion, which I'll do sometime soon. So yeah. Thank you for watching. Leave a like and subscribe. And remember, talk outside the box. Bye.


How do you deal with arena anxiety?  Like, your rating is irrelevant.   So, you should play to, like, learn and improve and do better and fix your strats and get better at the game. When you do this, the rating will come by itself. You don't need to care about the rating, then the rating will be automatic, and you won't need to worry about losing it because it's like your natural rating is higher. And the way that you play to improve is, is you analyze losses. So the losses are actually good because you actually learn off them. You learn way, way, way more off a loss than off a win. Yes, okay, a win is nice, but it's not gonna help you get RNG won. The rating is short-term, learning is long-term.


Studying one-way two-parted but Lord Byron, here's how you can analyse this poem. The poem is written in four stanzas, one, two, three, four, and this creates a feeling of finality. The title of the poem is repeated in the first line and this repetition shows his feeling of grief. The speaker uses the words silence, tears and broken hearted, which belong to the semantic field of heartbreak to show his sadness. The repetition of the word thy, which means you, shows that the speaker is addressing their lover. Pathetic fallacy is used in the second stanza to create a gloomy mood. The speaker says thy vows are all broken, vows relates to wedding vows. This shows that maybe their lover was not supposed to be in a relationship with them, they were committing sin. The speaker feels ashamed and this is shown in the sibilance of share and shame and what this is showing is that they secretly feel really guilty about how things have turned out. The repetition of me in the third verse shows that the focus is now shifting to the speaker reflecting on themselves. The speaker asks the rhetorical question why weren't they so dear and this rhetorical question shows that they don't understand why they got so emotionally invested in this relationship. The speaker says who knew thee too well, which is a euphemism for the sexual relationship that he had with this person. They mention secret silence and deceiving the fourth stanza and this belongs to the semantic field of dishonesty which clearly shows that they weren't supposed to be in this relationship. The speaker doesn't know how they would act if they saw this person again and they wonder how should I greet thee? This rhetorical question shows that they have suddenly had to cut complete contact. They end by showing their sadness mentioning silence and tears which is a repetition of line number two in the poem which shows that they are feeling a lot of grief over the end of this relationship.


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Hello, everybody, and welcome to our Seesaw PD lunch and learn session all about the admin dashboard in today's session. We will be showing you school leaders how to use your administrator tools within our Seesaw admin dashboard and to supercharge your engagement with your school to foster those strong school climate and relationships and build those supportive relationships with your staff students and your families. I am Mia. Hello, hello. I am the training and professional development specialist here at Seesaw. I have been with Seesaw for about a year, and prior to joining Seesaw full time to work with amazing educators like yourself. I taught kindergarten in the Chicago public school system for 10 years where I use Seesaw avidly with my students. I do have some of my amazing colleagues joining me today. So in the Q&A and in the chat. I do have Emily Hannah she is an implementation consultant and Yvonne post and I have one more person that is going to be actually co presenting with myself, and that is Holly so I'm going to turn it over to Holly to introduce herself. Hello everybody. My name is Holly. I'm the digital learning coordinator at Bloomington public schools in Bloomington, Minnesota. So I did see some Minnesota folks saying hello in the chat so hello everybody I think I saw Beth. Hi Beth. I'm super excited to be here. I'm a huge avid user of Seesaw. Our district's been using it for six to seven years now and I love the admin dashboard so I'm so glad I was invited to co present and share with you how we're using that in our district so thanks for having me. Great. So I'm going to get us started today I'm actually going to stop my video so that you can really focus on the slides and all the information that we are presenting here. Alright so I wanted to start with a little turn and talk so when we're doing this virtually you're just going to put your responses in the chat. As administrators or leaders in your school or district that you have a number of responsibilities your job is to help hundreds and of staff and students and parents with so many things on your plate. Our question to you is, what do you prioritize as a school leader, go ahead and drop your responses to that question in the chat I'll give you about a minute to go ahead and think about that and drop any responses that you have in the chat. I'm coming in I see some SEL yes relationship student engagement. Let's see clear communication. Yes. Curriculum. Student and teacher needs. Some people say relationships maybe building relationships with your staff and your student your families are priority. Maybe it's a priority for you being physically present in your classrooms and having that visible presence. High expectations data informed practices are some other things that you might have considered or identify as priorities throughout your building. Research shows that schools achieve when principals promote collective ownership of school outcomes and provide consistent supports to staff students and families that need it. So we're going to spend our time today. Together looking at how seesaw provides the tools to support you in fostering engagement and relationships. So here is our objective for today you will use the admin tools on seesaw to supercharge your engagement with your school and in doing so, you will foster a stronger school climate and supportive relationships with your staff your students and your families. So here is our agenda I like to call it our roadmap how we're going to get there so we are going to begin by giving you an overview of the features of the admin dashboard we're going to walk you through how you can view different method metrics via the admin dashboard and how you can use those tools to gain data driven insights. After that we're going to discuss how you can engage virtually with your school and then finally to wrap it up we're going to talk about how you can send those school why announcements. So I'm actually going to switch it over to Holly she is going to begin sharing her screen she's going to take over and she's going to jump into viewing metrics in multiple ways. Alright, so for this piece we're just going to review how to get into your admin dashboard. So when you go to seesaw.me you're actually going to click on I'm a seesaw for schools administrator underneath your options there when you're logging in from your computer. And we've got a little demo for you here administrator sign in and you are in. So we're going to talk now about what happens once you are in so once you get into that admin dashboard. What do you see. So across the top are sort of all of your options so we're going to start looking with the overview tab but you've got a ton of options to look at engagement for your students your teachers your families and look at what's kind of going on in that in that space. So when you're on that overview tab that very first tab, you're going to see your engagement statistics for the last seven days so posts added any comments that were made likes of students and then visits by your family members just for those last seven days. And then that overview tab is a random selection of 28 student posts and so you can kind of use those arrows to look at a random selection of 28 posts or things going on within your school on seesaw. Now we're going to bump over to the analytics tab so the second to the last one from the right and this is really going to give you some more in depth data and so what's really nice about this is you can see all time data which is just I think so big when it talks about impact seesaws having on your building when you're able to see the number of total number of posts added the comments by students the visits by families it just really helps you feel that impact of seesaw on your building that other nice thing about the analytics tab is that you can sort by date so you're able to go into the start date and end date and look at that impact over time maybe you want to look at just a quarter of the school year and see what your data is looking like so it's a really nice feature to be able to dig deeper into your data. Now we're going to go back to the beginning of all those options across the top and look at that classes tab. The nice thing about the classes tab is that you can use those little arrows at the top where we have that highlighted in orange to sort by some different, some different things so what I love to do on this tab is go ahead and sort by posts added. And it shows me right away which classes are really engaged in seesaw, which classes have there not been a lot of posts in lately and then we can start to ask why that might be. I love sorting by family visits it's nice to see like, which of our classes have the most family visits and then again asking that deeper question of why, and having those conversations with teachers and teams of. So in those class has a lot of family visits. How is that happening or what's happening or what are some of the strategies the teacher is using to help that happen. You can also sort by total posts in the class over time and enrolled students and connected family members. We're also going to look at connected family members in the students tab but this connected family members lets you sort to just see how many family members are connected total in the in the class. The teachers tab again lets you sort by last sign and date so you can quickly see who in my building is using seesaw. There might be teachers that use it in the last hour there might be teachers that haven't used it all year and that's really good information for us to have as we think about who's really engaged and using this tool. The other thing I absolutely love about the teacher tab is being able to see who from my building is involved in the larger seesaw PLC. So who are my seesaw certified educators who are my ambassadors who are my pioneers, and we all want those types of people in our schools and our buildings because they really are our ambassadors they're sharing how they're using seesaw they are spreading the good word about seesaw So if you're kind of scrolling through that teacher tab and you're not seeing many of those little seesaw certified educators or pioneers or ambassadors that's a great administrator goal is to think about how am I going to get some teachers from my buildings into that larger PLC to really spread their use organic use of that tool. Now under the students tab we are able to sort by post added by the student we're able to sort by family visits, and this is where we can see connected family members so this is so important. I would say after that first month of school to get into this tab, sort by connected family members and see which are my students in my building that still don't have a family member connected. We want all of our students to feel. I heard many of you guys mentioned the SEL component of seesaw we want all of our students to feel connected to their, not only their teacher but their families and seesaw and so really important to go into that students tab and check on who still needs a connected family member and then do what we can as administrators and leaders to help that happen. The other thing I do love in this first column here is sorting by posts. This kind of tells me like, is the teacher sending out activities and is this is the student submitting posts so some of my teachers might be just using seesaw for the communication feature but they're not sending out a lot of activities. This is a quick way to check our posts happening by students which is good to know as well. I don't know about you guys all the admins out there but I love getting my weekly summary of what's going on in my building so this comes in on Sunday night for me. And it's just a great way to say see like who who's posting who's who's really engaged in seesaw. It's good to see how many parents visited this week the number of comments. I like to look at my top five and then even use this as a celebration moment so I have screenshotted this weekly update many many times and sent it out to my building and said, way to go Mrs blank for your engagement and seesaw this week we're really proud of you. Good work, proud of your students so it's just a great way to see that quick snapshot. And my favorite is when I look at this weekly update and see a teacher I hadn't seen in the top five yet, and it's just a really exciting thing to see and then share. All right, we are going to explore so I'm hoping it's going to let me share my screen now so we'll try that out here. I was talking to Mia too much before we got going and testing out my, my screen sharing just chit chatting away. All right, let's see here. Okay, I think it's going to let me in here. I have a question in the chat while you're doing that Holly about the weekly update so if you are an administrator on for seesaw you will receive those automatically they come on Sunday nights. See if there are any other questions while we're waiting. It's looking like it's going to make me leave the zoom meeting and come back in to be able to share my screen so I think that's worth it because I've got some books. Right back. Alright, so while we're doing that, let's see if there are any questions in the chat that needs to be addressed here. Okay, so I saw a question the chat from Rosie regarding how, what are the norms for seesaw classes I think that depends on a few factors.  So it we suggest for grades pre K through to that each grade level if you are self contained has their own seesaw class, and each student is in that one seesaw class. So if you're a specialist teacher, or if you are departmental you may want to consider setting up your classes based on subject area or the specialist class that you teach for those older grades it's much easier for those students to be able to switch back and forth between the classes so just some suggestions. Let's see what else we have here in terms of questions. I have a question about our professional learning community, and I see that someone answered that there are three different levels pioneer everyone is invited to be a seesaw pioneer so once your, your teachers your staff have kind of master those basics, then they are invited to be a pioneer community and then from there they're filtering in as an ambassador. If you are however an administrator and you notice that you don't have anybody in that professional learning community, you can fast track a few teachers to become a seesaw ambassador. As well, and then after ambassadors have been ambassadors for, I believe it's three years then they will be converted to seesaw certified educator. All right, it looks like Holly is back and I do see your screen Holly so yay. Awesome. Sorry about that everybody worries. It happens. So we're just going to do a quick little explore of the analytics tab we were talking about so like I had mentioned before across the top we can see all time impact so how many posts how many comments likes and family visits. And then as we scroll down we can look at some different pieces of data. So this right away when you come in it's going to default to 28 days worth of data and so you can look at your posting your weekly items weekly feedback as I hover over these it's going to give me more specific statistics. So the weekly feedback you're looking at your comments and your likes, and then the weekly parent engagement. So I like that you can see connected parents and you can see parent visits. It is really nice to be able to change what you're filtering here so if I want to change to maybe the beginning of the school year and look at our growth over time, I can use these arrows to go backwards so I'm going to change this to September 1. Keep the end date current. And this is what we want to see right we want to see that over time, our total items are going up sees us being used more. These dips will kind of happen around me a break that's a break for us here in Minnesota and then Thanksgiving break you can see some of those dips weekly feedback again you're going to see the dips when you don't have school. And then the parent engagement. So for me, as I was looking at this and prepping for this presentation, I'm noticing that parent engagement has gone down since the beginning of the school year so that's really important for me to, you know, talk with my teachers talk with my other tech leaders in my building and ask why that might be happening why is our parent engagement down maybe they got really excited and involved in the beginning of the year. It's starting to not I don't know if it's like it's the nuance of it has or the newness of it has rubbed off but what's going on with that and how do we get that engagement back up so just like all with all data in schools we want to use the data to make informed decisions and to reflect and so for me personally a big reflection here is what's going on with our parent engagement. Okay. So we're just going to throw a discussion question out and you can respond in the chat. And our discussion question is in what ways will you use seesaw to gain data driven insights for your school or district. So I'm seeing supporting teachers that need more support, which parents aren't connected, which teachers are using it effectively. And building usage that's such a great point Beth is that if you are an administrator across multiple dashboards or across multiple schools, you can kind of compare school to school, what your data is looking like and then, you know, engage with that school that has great data and talk about what's working how are you implementing seesaw differently than a school that that might their data, their data in their dashboard looks a little bit different. Celebrating successes, measuring student posts encouraging teachers and families, lots about families being connected that's such important data showcase our in house PD leaders. All right, thank you so much Holly so we're going to go ahead and switch over. And now that you have an overview of the dashboard, you know, the type of metrics that are available. We would love to jump into how to virtually visit classrooms. I want to make sure that everyone can see my slides now so you can just put like a thumbs up in the chat if you are able to see slide that the slide that says part three virtually visiting classrooms. Great. So virtually visiting classrooms means that you can see and you can actually engage with the learning that is happening in your building from anywhere. So through the admin dashboard you are able to actively participate with teachers classes and students. You're able to view student learning in a specific classrooms in order to really gain data driven insights in order to improve engagement throughout your, your school. One of the quickest and easiest ways to do this is by engaging with those recently added post directly in the overview tab of your admin dashboard. So as a reminder, in that overview tab you will see a sampling of the recently added post over the past seven days and directly from here, you are able to provide a like or a comment on those posts in order to start engaging with those classrooms and those students. And then to start to develop that presence that online presence and build those relationships. Just a little bit of background here these posts are a sampling from your most engaged teachers. This is a great way to quickly see and celebrate those teachers that are highly engaged, and that are using seesaw, most often in on your dashboard. If you would like to visit and engage with specific classes, you can do so in two different ways. So the first is going to be through the classes tab so you'll just click on that classes tab. And then what you're going to do is you're going to tap on the name of the class that you would like to virtually visit and engage with the other way to go to a specific class to see the learning that is going on and to engage is through the teachers tab. You can either go as I mentioned through the classes tab or the teachers tab. And when you're in the teachers tab you're just going to tap on the class name underneath the name of the teacher. And whatever way that you decide to jump in it's going to take you to that specific class that you collected that you select excuse me and you are going to be put into the journal view for that class. And this is where you can scroll through you can see all of the posts or the items that were added to that class. Another thing that you can do from this journal view is you can view posts by specific students so you can see here on the right. You can click on the name of a specific student, and you can take a look at all of those posts that that specific student has added to see saw this might be beneficial maybe if you have a parent meeting. A specific child's family member you just kind of want a little bit more background about what's going on academically with that child in that classroom. So on any post you can like and you all you have to do is hit that little heart that you see there and this can be done in the journal. This can be done as I mentioned from the posts that are visible in that overview tab, but you can hit that heart icon to like a post, or you can go a step further and you can comment by selecting that speech bubble. And from here you're able to either type of comment or you can also leave a an audio comment as well. This is very powerful because this allows you to reach your younger students that aren't necessarily reading those diverse learners. So you can really engage with student work and learning that's going on in a specific class. So visiting classroom virtually and engaging with student work is great because it allows you to start to build that presence throughout. This is a great way to kind of check in to see where you can set a perhaps a school wide goal or value or academic focus. This allows you to virtually visit and see where your teachers and your students are around whatever that's that school wide value or goal is that you have set you can kind of actually see what's going on in that classroom. And to get back to your admin dashboard, you can easily switch by clicking on the profile icon that you find in the upper left corner, and just going back to your seesaw admin dashboard by clicking on the name of your dashboard. So if you have a comment really does go a long way. Little ones get so excited when they receive that positive encouragement from all of the adults in their lives and especially from the principal or the, you know, the tech administrator or coaches and leaders in the building. Even just spending a few minutes every day as little as five minutes has a big impact on morale on student achievement on relations strengthening those relationships. So some things I've heard from administrators is, you know, every week they just put a calendar invite and they spend maybe 15 minutes. And each week they choose different classes for the week in the month they will probably cycle through all of the seesaw classes in their building and they just spend 15 minutes just providing a like or a comment and engaging with the learning that is going on within those virtual classrooms. So just to reiterate the benefits of virtual visits they're great for reinforcing those school values, maybe as a leader and administrator in your school you set a goal. Now that the school year is kind of up and in full screen in full swing you set a goal to have your staff, more deeply engaging their students or maybe your goal is more critical thinking in the classroom so you can virtually visit those classrooms you can see posts that students created within seesaw, all those multimodal tools really to allow you to get a glimpse into the learning and the thinking that is happening in the classroom from just about anywhere. You can also celebrate those accomplishments, celebrate student growth and those teacher accomplishment and virtually visiting classroom really allows your students to get to know who you are you can show your personality you can build those relationships. So there's a number of different benefits. So I'm actually going to jump in and show you how and to virtually visit and how to engage with the work in your seesaw classes so as I mentioned one of the quickest and easiest ways is to do it directly from this overview tab I'm in my admin dashboard. You can see here, if I scroll through I see a sampling of posts that have been added, I can go ahead and click that little like and add a like, or I can go ahead and click the comment feature and I can comment or I can either add that audio comment as well. However, if I want to be more intentional and if I want to visit specific classes as I mentioned I can either go through the classes tab and click on the name of the class or I can go through the teachers tab. And I can go ahead from there and click the name of the class as well so I'm going to go ahead and go through classes, and I'm going to scroll down here. I'm going to go ahead and visit this class here I'm going to select on that name of that class and what that's going to do is that is going to pop me directly inside of that seesaw class. I can scroll through that class journal I can see what this class is working on here. I can see that they're doing some work SEO work around what makes a good friend. Before I can also look at the work from a specific student so maybe, you know, I have a parent meeting with a specific student I kind of want to see what they're working on. I can click there and I can see all of the items that that specific student has either been tagged on or posted. So, when I do leave a comment for a student, there was a questions about how students see them so students do see those comments in their comments they will receive a notification. But the amazing thing about comments is also if the teacher leaves a comment, or anyone actually and they send that post back as a draft to their student those comments will actually open up in the work. So, that's very beneficial. If you're having students work on work on some work for improvement purposes but this is would be how you would comment, and you can just leave that type comment. Or you can also leave an audio comment for those students as well. So I'm just going to post that. And then if I hit the speech bubble and hit this microphone here that is how you leave that audio comment. And that just converts that comment to an audio file which shows up underneath that student post, and our students have to do is hit that little play button to go ahead and play that comment. All right, so to wrap up we are actually going to jump into school announcements. So I am actually going to stop sharing and I'm going to pass it back over to Holly. There we go. All right, can you see my screen. Yes, perfect. All right, and I just did want to say just with what Mia just shared as a current administrator, just that presence as an administrator in the classroom we know that in a brick and mortar classroom like our teachers love to see us around the building to see us in their classrooms. And we can do that in our virtual seesaw classrooms to to have that presence. And that's felt by our students that's felt by our teachers and so I just love that we have that ability and we can do that from anywhere we don't have to be in the building to be present in those virtual seesaw classrooms so I love it. All right, school wide announcement so this is just going to walk you through how to do a school wide announcement so going to that final tab in the admin dashboard the announcements tab and clicking on new school announcement. Here you are able to go ahead and filter by teachers students and families so is this a message just for teachers is it just for students is it just for family members or maybe it's for everyone. You can go in and edit the classes you'd like to send the message to and I will show that during my quick demo. You are also able to really do a dynamic message by adding anything in that seesaw creative palette so when I click on add attachment I get all of those options I get normally and seesaw to add a video to add a image, all of those great options and multimedia tools. And the other thing I love as a as an admin on a seesaw dashboard is the ability to see who has seen my message so as the principle of the school if I'm able to send something out I can see how much engagement I've gotten back by looking in that bottom right corner at who has seen my announcement. This is a teacher and student view so as a student or teacher they're going to go to that inbox tab click on school announcements and that's where they will see the messages from the family view when they're under their messages tab they will just see a new message there. And they can see this is it'll say the name of the administrator or or leader there so they'll be able to distinguish between the teacher message or the school wide announcement. One thing to note and you'll see this in the orange box here is that families cannot reply to the messages we send out school wide in the announcement tab so it's more just that one way communication of here's what's going on from that principle or admin perspective. And then, if families need to follow up they can always connect with teachers to do that. One thing we all love about seesaw is the translation tool so the seesaw translation tools are available for families with devices set to a language other than English, and families will get that little notification to press see translation, and they'll be able to see that school announcement translated in their language of their device, which I love. In the defense of announcements, we're able to create an environment where all students and families know they are welcome. It shows your personality so for me showing my personality in a video that I might attach to an announcement students can see that families can see that there's a big difference between just sending text and actually sending a video of what you want to say or sending it to students teachers or families, and just again establishing that culture where growth is acknowledged and celebrated using those announcements. All right so quickly I'll go ahead and show you how we do this so once you are in your seesaw dash admin dashboard it's the very last tab called announcements. You can see I send something just out today to remind my families that there's no school tomorrow. But I also added on that personal touch of the video so not only do I send the text which can translate for our families that have devices in another language but also just that personalized video message and just wishing families a great long weekend. So let me go if I want to create a new message to new school announcement. And here's like I said where we can toggle on is it just teachers and students is it just families. For me it's often families just families that I want to send an all school message to. But if I want teachers to have the fyi about the message I'll click teachers on as well so that they know what I sent to families. And then you can go ahead and go into the edit classes. Right now it's going to default to sending it to everyone including all your specialist classes your English language classes and so I almost always on select and then just go click on my actual homeroom classrooms to send the message to. Go ahead and type your text I always always would advise having text because we want that translation feature for our families on the back end. So I almost always do text and then when you click on that at attachment is where you can add the photo, a drawing if you if you want to show your creative side, a video and upload a note and a link. I'm going to go ahead and just click send now when you're ready. And as you saw previously we kind of looked at it from the family view what they will see. Okay. So let's discuss quickly in the chat. How will you use announcements to build culture at your school. I'm saying it might be more effective than our current messaging. For me that's absolutely true so my families actually check CISA more than they check emails from me. It's crazy I'll send something out via email to my families and get almost no interaction. And then when I send it through CISA, there's all sorts of interaction and so I think if we're training our families to use CISA as a communication tool in our classrooms it just makes sense as administrators to also use that same type of communication. All right, let's see. We see it just connecting with families promoting school events, sending out flyers consistent communication from the school, keeping everyone informed. Well, we made it through great job. Thank you so much Holly. So we covered a lot we talked about the features of the admin dashboard. How to view metrics in multiple ways, how to use that analytics tab to gain data driven insight there was a question in the chat that I don't know was answered there was a question about that. Data in the analytics tab that data is related to usage to student usage so post comments likes. If you would like to see data related to academic progress, you can virtually visit each class and go ahead and click on the progress tab to view and from that information by specific class and that information can be downloaded as well. We talked about virtually engaging by providing likes feedback comments on student post, and also the benefits of sending those school wide messages. So as we wrap up I would love to leave you with just one final to do. So your exit ticket which you can drop in that your response in the chat is what is one way that you will use your admin dashboard in the next week. So if you want to talk about the response to that question and I'll give you a minute and while you're doing that I'll see if there are any questions and responses. All right. So, thank you Curtis said just starting to establish that present and building those relationships with school students by commenting and liking. Julie said she's going to do the same thing as well Danielle creating announcements. I'm sorry using those school that announcement feature. There was a question about scheduling announcements that is not available at this time. But thank you for your feedback we will pass that along. All right celebrations, yes, sending video yes that's the powerful thing about announcements you have access to all of those amazing multimodal tools. Thank you to share a number of things with your teachers and your staff. All right, thank you all. Before we do sign off, I do want to make sure that everyone is familiar with our resources for teachers page. And I'm going to drop the link to this page in the chat but here you can find information on the admin dashboard information on how to set up or your classes for the year how to archive classes. And also, there's a link to all of our PD resources as well so if you need any additional info just head over to that page I want to thank everyone for joining me today. As a reminder, if you did join late or everyone who's attending this session will receive a recording 24 to 48 hours after the session is complete and you will also receive a certificate of completion so thank you so much for joining us today. For this admin lunch and learn.


I received a question about what is the recommended process for generating new ideal client leads every day, meeting new people who could be your ideal clients. I have lots and lots of ways and they're all listed in my mind map which is georgecow.com slash map, but today I'll just give you one daily process and this is free and it's to find out what online groups your ideal clients are part of and then connecting with the managers or owners of those online groups and being a resource for them on questions of which you're an expert. So here's the process. First list out the names of your current clients and past clients who are ideal to work with you. I'll show you buddy right there. And list out their names and then add them as a friend on Facebook and on LinkedIn. Okay. So these are current past clients who are ideal for you or prospective clients, friends, colleagues, acquaintances who you think, gosh, they would be ideal, would get a lot of benefit out of my service. Add them as a friend on Facebook and on LinkedIn. Now once they've approved your friend request, connection request, then go, let's just first go to their Facebook profile and you know how on each Facebook profile, there are several tabs. There's timeline, there's about, there's photos and then there's a tab that says more. Move your mouse over the word more and then click on groups. Now you can see what Facebook groups that person is part of that your ideal client is part of. Now if your ideal client is part of a Facebook group, chances are there are other people in that group who are your ideal clients or who know your ideal clients. So let's say your ideal client is part of 20 Facebook groups. Out of those 20 Facebook groups, which ones are most relevant for you? Meaning which ones, which groups are such that they might have occasional discussions where you could be a value about your area of expertise. So let's say out of 20 groups, your ideal clients part of five of those groups would be relevant for you to show up occasionally as an expert. Now those five, you could of course join those groups and be helpful there, but even more productive perhaps is to contact the group owners or administrators and offer yourself as a resource to say, hey you know, I just want to let you know that one of my ideal clients is actually in your Facebook group and I imagine there may be others in your group who would find me as a beneficial resource for them. So if you ever have anyone come up to you and ask you questions in this area, whatever your area is, please feel free to send them to me. I'd be happy to help them out, answer any questions I can and if I would be a perfect service provider for them, I would love to discuss that fit whether they would be a perfect client for me or I would love to refer them on to someone else who is perfect for them. So just offer yourself as a resource, not to sell, but to say I'd love to answer questions and be a resource and see if someone needs me, I'll see if they're a perfect fit for me. So you could do this also on LinkedIn. Go to your ideal client's profile on LinkedIn, scroll to the very bottom and you'll see what LinkedIn groups they are part of. So let's say after you've done this with 20, 30, 40 different client profiles, you've come to realize that there are maybe 200 group owners or managers that you love to follow up with regularly. Let's say that you do this Monday through Friday, you follow up with three people each day, Monday through Friday, that's 60 people a month. So every three months or so, you would follow up again with a group owner. Okay, let's say 60 people a month, every three months be 180 people. And let's say you have 180 people on your list, you would follow up with each of them every three months so that you can stay top of mind as the resource for what it is that you're so good at and that you're showing yourself as a helpful resource rather than trying to sell them something. So is that helpful? Always welcome your comments and questions below the video. And until the next video, I wish you well.


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I think we got this call the last week of March, I remember waking up to a call from Mark basically saying, hey, look, we're putting together this large scale initiative around COVID-19. Are you in? And I said, absolutely. Initially, we started building out just a 3D printing lab to help support local hospitals. And now it's been taking that idea and scaling it out larger than just ASU and hopefully to the general public. Several of our labs and associated partners across our campuses have been printing reusable face shield headbands on their 3D printers, as well as laser cutting plastic sheets for us to use as the shields. Every weekday from 9 to 5 at the engineering center here at ASU, we bring in volunteers and assemble these face shields from the components we've processed. We sanitize all the products and bin them for use at the health care facilities or hospitals they're intended for. Disposable face shields, they're just a one-time use. You're not meant to wear them for the entire day. It's more for if you see a patient and you need to see another patient. So that exchange, you put them on, take them off and dispose of them in a like a biohazard waste.  Our standard operating procedures and protocols developed here have been designed to be easily shared and used across the world in different contexts. PPE is going to become a routine kind of normal part of everyday activity in a lot of different areas that it wasn't before. And so with PPE of course comes face coverings and the expenses related to constantly purchasing these as well as the impact of the supply chain feels when there's such a high demand. We've developed and designed two systems, one using ozone gas, one using vaporized hydrogen peroxide and both of them have the ability to sterilize PPE such as masks, even sometimes in some cases N95 respirators as well as surgical masks and other face coverings that are going to be needed not only for clinics and medical providers but also that are going to be needed in communities right at retail shops, at barber shops, at all these small businesses. And so our technology we hope will be relevant not only now but in you know the rest of this COVID-19 epidemic as well as any related issues because we think that this technology because it's cost-effective and because it's scalable will be able to constantly allow people to reuse masks. I was born and raised here in Arizona, I've always cared deeply about Arizona and so getting a chance to make a direct impact on my local community, my statewide community and through you know one of the three major institutions or three universities in the state that's what is most exciting to me.


Live from the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, it's theCUBE at Dell World 2014. Here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Welcome back to Austin, everybody. This is theCUBE, we're here live at Dell World 2014. Todd Surty is here, he's the Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Emerging Partners at VMware. Todd, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you very much, it's great to be here. Emerging Partners, Dell. It's kind of this new animal in the industry. We've gone private, and here we are. So what do you think of Dell World? I think it's phenomenal. Coming off the backs of VMworld, we had one in San Francisco, as you guys know. We had Barcelona, we've got our V-Forms going on right now all across APJ, and just stepping into this is my first Dell World, and it is a very similar vibe. It's just electric, so it's great to be here. Very exciting. So what's happening in the VMware ecosystem? We were at VMworld in San Francisco. We didn't make the trip to Barcelona, but San Francisco was really interesting. Pat and Carl clearly have a strategy in place, executing on that strategy. You got partners coming in, doing the converge thing. How would you summarize what's going on in the ecosystem today? Yeah, it's in a very exciting time for VMware. If you look at the ecosystem and what's happening right now, we've got a convergence, if you will, of us and still our growth path of all of our virtualization products. At the same time, we see this significant upward swing in our next generation or our products around that, like end user computing, our Evo Rail, our VSAN, our VCloud Air, which was formerly VCHS, but we see this massive trend that's happening and what outside analysts are telling us and consultants are now is the time to explode these other products and other solutions into the marketplace. We've got it measured by billions of dollars that we see over the next three years that we could gain in terms of that growth and that growth is going to come out of the impact that we see with our channels and our partners. So we've made some significant changes internal to VMware to address that. Let's talk about Dell for a minute. They're an interesting partner in a lot of ways because while guys like HP and IBM move a lot of VMware licenses, so does Dell, of course. I don't know who's number one. They all claim they're number one, but that's fine. You let them fight over that, you know, Monica. It's great, but Dell doesn't own an operating system. They're not trying to own the software world like some of the companies. And so it seems to me they're a clean partner in that sense. I wonder if you could comment on that. Yeah, you know, it's a great segue to the fact that our relationship with Dell has been, as you know, about 10 years and that 10 years has been at the birth. Really, if you look at this last big chapter VMware's had, and it started out with an engineering, you know, focus and really collaboration between the companies. If we look at your comments on it, Dell to us or to me in my new portfolio of partners here is one that's extremely, you know, just in terms of the changes they've had, very agile, very quick. You know, I've seen them make decisions where we're now trending towards additional areas where we're growing, not only from a product and solution, but we're trying to define that by solutions straight up the stack and into our customers. So, you know, very different view that I see with Dell as opposed to the other partners. Not that they're not all great and we're going to, we have trends and acceleration points, but this one's really special to me and the team. Yeah, so Todd, you know, I think it's a great point you make there. Transitioning from, you know, Dell always was, you know, a good OEM kind of view for your licenses. As you move into the Evo family and vCloud Air from a cloud standpoint, how does Dell engage with VMware and how you guys have quite a few partners? How do they really differentiate themselves? You know, maybe start with Evo Rail. I mean, the configuration is very specific.  Do you guys look to allow them to differentiate and add value on top of that? Absolutely. And you know, so to your, to first your point, you know, Evo Rail specifically and what we're doing there, we launched, Dell was actually one of the first partners that made that commitment with us. So that's huge. Anytime, even though we both have great big brands, this is a new product, a new offering, it's this mini startup sitting within VMware. So first and foremost, they made that commitment. They made that commitment as well. They had a time to market advantage. So us just playing through how we're going to come in with Evo Rail. When you start to really get down to where we are, when we come in with our sets of software and those assets there and you look at the power behind Dell and their servers and the compute, now we have an opportunity to go into marketplaces that we're already seeing like the government and Fed and things like that. So we're gonna focus in and double down. Right now the world is kind of our oyster when you think about how we're going to segment and make it special in terms of what Dell and VMware are gonna do. We've got this mini collision, if you will, that's happening in the field with our channel partners, with our direct sales reps on how we can actually sell, go to market, and good things are happening. They're happening though in terms of just collisions. Now we got to be thoughtful about it and start to build out how do we want to go to market? What are those key examples, those key kind of go-to-market attributes that are going to make it special? But to one last point to your question really around what we're going to do here, we're actually now in the process of going, fundamentally what is Dell going to be different than some of the other partners that have made the same similar investment and we're finalizing those real-time right now. Todd, cloud is another interesting example that again relates to the sort of clean relationship with Dell. You were involved in VCloud Air, I guess at the time it was VCloud, you know. VCS, yeah, yeah, yeah. VHS, right, good name change. We'll have to question you on that later. Yeah, thank you. But for example, some of your other large partners have gone all in on cloud, they're owning their own data centers. They're competing with VCloud Air. Dell doesn't, Dell has a different strategy. Dell wants to enable clouds. Now, of course, the heavy, it's OpenStack, which you guys are now putting your toe in that OpenStack water, but I wonder if we could talk about the cloud dynamic. Generally, what's happening in the cloud market, hybrid cloud, and then specifically where Dell fits? Yeah, so I appreciate the question. So, you know, what we see in the cloud, first off from a VMware perspective, is that we've kind of termed it as hybrid. So most, if not all enterprises right now, love the ability to think about or be in a public cloud sense, but can't do that quite yet for a whole variety of reasons. Technology, security, compliance, all those things that you list up. So we've come out and said it's about a hybrid world, not about a public, and it is about taking what you have private. So what we've done specifically with that is we've launched what's called our VCloud Air, or formerly called VCHS. And within that it gives customers choice, it gives our partners choice in terms of how they actually can take and leverage the attributes of what is in the public cloud. Those attributes for them are around all the things that they've trained their teams up on. So the products, the level of what they have from a solution offering, the analysts that they have that they're hired, that work through all that set of products are built and based on virtualization, are based on VMware core products. So we are leveraging that technology. It's exciting to look on a global basis as you see what's happening in the service provider or telco space for us. I've spent the last year flying around the world meeting with most, if not all the CEOs, C-level folks across from SoftBank to Orange Business Solutions, T-Systems, Telstra, CenturyLink, AT&T, to name a few. And there's 4,000 other ones. Yeah, I mean it's huge, it's a huge market, but what they're telling us is this is a massive opportunity for us to accelerate what we're good at and to be a software company we're not. And so they are tending to lean towards our enterprise ready type hybrid cloud service and looking in the same sense, if they want to continue on that journey, we are actually learning and providing that feedback, that best practices back to those companies where they want to continue to build their own clouds. Yeah, so there's some clean examples. There's a lot of VMware customers out there. They want VMware, they want that homogeneity. That's sort of straightforward. And there's some guys that want to go all open source and that's cool too and I'm sure Dell can support them and provide infrastructure. It's that gray area that's sort of interesting. And I'm wondering how you go to market with Dell to help customers understand when should they choose? Because customers are going to say, well, we're VMware shop but we're thinking about this, there's OpenStack coming out, we got Microsoft choices, we got all these choices. How do you and Dell collaborate to help customers squint through all that? Yeah, so I would say how do I want to collaborate at this point with Dell because we're still working through that? You know, to your point, customers need choice. They need choice of on-premise and they need choice of off-premise just if you make it simple and clear and easy. From a perspective with Dell, I see a massive opportunity for us as we look at the baseline of what we built already together and that's working within our customer base. Our virtualization software, whether you call it NSX, whether you call it, you know, some of the things we're doing around vSAN and how we're collaborating together, it gives us this format to actually explode into the cloud and cloud for us can mean a bunch of different things. It's a service that we offer that we can actually work with Dell on. So if you look at the announcements, for example, we did with SoftBank in Japan, it was really around a joint venture that we launched within there. So both companies came together. In China, we both came together with China Telecom. In Australia this week, we just announced Telstra. So we are going to look at Waze and we're already in conversations about how do we leverage our cloud service, our cloud offering, that is really designed at the enterprise, leverage the investments we've made from a technology perspective and really go to market that way. So there's still TBD on that, you know, ask me that question in a few months when we hopefully meet again and I'll tell you exactly what we're doing. What are you hearing from partners generally in Dell specifically about things like vSAN? Because you go to vSAN, you hear sort of Pat positioning it and it's sort of out of the box and it's starting to scale and it's sort of a low end solution and of course Dell, a lot of small mid-sized customers. What's the conversation like? Well, are they asking you where you're going with that thing? How do we fit in? What do you tell the ecosystem partners about that white space?  And so, you know, vSAN for us is a major investment and we're going to continue to scale it. If you look across what we've done in terms of the Software Divine Data Center and that element of how we're working and leveraging storage, we're telling our partners, we're telling our customers, you know, to bet on this as we actually move through and continue to invest into that offering. It is a top of mind conversation for us right now with Dell in terms of how we're going to evolve vSAN today. There's a number of things we're doing across within the vSAN, but even tied directly into our EVO Rails, so that appliance in terms of making it easy and delivering that to our customer base. So, more to come on that as well. Okay, and obviously you still need hardware to run on it. So, where they fit in. Yeah, Todd, you have some background working on the Federation solutions inside of VMware. I'm wondering how that dynamic works when you're talking to partners in general, especially the big service providers in Dell. Yeah, so, you know, I'll take the elephant in the room first, you know. So, interesting that, you know, I have this Federation in that Federation today. Exist EMC, VCE, you know, Pivotal. Cisco actually sits within that Federation. And it is one of which we approach it the same way that VMware and EMC have always approached the relationship that we are here about offering choice for our customers, ensuring that we put the same level of investments and time and effort behind all these. The Federation, for us, is a way that we are leveraging and actually working closer with some of our combined customers when you think about specifically EMC and VMware. And we're seeing some great attributes in terms of how we're tying together and leveraging the storage elements that they do and how we move forward. It is not a, you know, a completely agnostic world though. You know, so from a Dell perspective, we are adamant about ensuring that we stay focused, we stay committed to whatever we've designed, whatever we've developed, whatever we brought into from a go-to-market perspective. Our next iteration of enabling our teams is going to be critical to ensure that we continue down that same path as we look at the different, whether it's the Federation of Companies or other. The last thing I would say is there's huge opportunity in that Federation as it relates to Dell. You know, you think of Pivotal today. I don't think there's much we're doing with Pivotal and Dell today, which as they look at launching and we do some additional things from a cloud perspective, that hybrid world, here's a perfect way to segment in terms of the developers and some of the things Cloud Foundry, for example, within Pivotal and some of the other big data elements that we can leverage and pull out of that company. I think Pivotal's a huge opportunity for a partnership with Dell. I know they've got the thing going with Cloudera, Tom Riley's up in the stage today, but Dell is agnostic to the sort of software partners that they're working with. You mentioned Cloud Foundry. Internet of Things is another example where I think the Pivotal relationship could actually blossom, in particular with GE's focus. I think Dell and VMware and Pivotal could actually do a lot there. I wanted to ask you, leading up to Dell World, we heard a lot in the trade press. Heard a lot from Michael. Michael wrote a piece about what it's like to be a private company. He addressed it today on stage in his keynote. It's interesting to see IBM giving up its x86 server business. You got HP splitting. You got Symantec splitting. You got Elliott Management trying to get EMC to spin off VMware, which ain't happening, people, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And Michael addressed that saying, we don't have those distractions. All of those were driven by the financial community, presumably for short-term gain. Michael's contention is that, okay, we now have more time to focus. We have a longer-term horizon. And, oh, by the way, customers and partners don't really care about that stuff. So I'm going to ask you as a partner, do you care? Do you have visibility on that? Do you see any difference, public or versus private company? What's your take on that? Speaking from my perspective and actually listening to Michael today on stage, I completely utterly think it helps us to ensure we double down on where Dell is going. I mean, he put it so perfectly when he said, it is about our ability not to care about the next week, the next month, the next quarter, that year, it's about where should we invest our time, our money, our efforts to support our customers. And that's really exciting stuff. With anything, when you have a transition like that, it could be a tough transition, and he's changed it into what I believe is a phenomenal transition in terms of where the company was, how they came through it and where they're going. And so, very excited to be a part of that. It's interesting, I mean, you work for a public company and you focus on weeks and months and quarters and I guarantee Dell's folks are still focusing on weeks and months and quarters. It's just different, they can make decisions to shift things around and not have to, he calls it a 90 day shot clock. I guess, you know, what you're doing in your role, you don't have to worry so much about that. Obviously, guys like Pat and Carl do on their quarterly calls. I work for Carl, he reminds me that every single week when I meet with him during my one-on-one that I do care about stuff like that. It does trickle down, right? I mean, so there are those pressures and it's interesting to see private companies these days raising more money, delaying public offerings. It's just, it doesn't seem to be as attractive as it used to be to be a public company. Having said that, if you've got momentum like VMware has, it's not so bad being a public company, is it? We've been a rocket ship, which has just been phenomenal. I've been with the company for five years and to see what's happened from the start, the transition from Paul Moretz to Pat Gelsinger and just look at the future, it is off the charts. We continue to scale. And vice versa, when we look at Dell, we see the same innovation, we see the same things out of Dell, so exciting to be partners with them. Well, in VMware, I've seen and studied and paid attention to their whole TAM analysis that Carl and others have done and Pat included in your CFO as well. And it's pretty crisp, there's big markets out there, a lot of competition, big markets attract competition. So that's a good thing, you guys are in a position of strength, so Todd, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE, really appreciate your insights, your time, good luck in the new role. Thank you, I appreciate it guys, thank you very much. All right, keep it right there, everybody will be back with our next guest, this is theCUBE, we're live from Austin, Dell World 2014, we'll be right back.