Good morning, evening, everyone, wherever you may be. We have been roll calling, you know, the places that you're coming from, welcome to the second day of open-ed conference. Can you believe that? Did you all sleep? Well, I hope so. And I hope you had a good first day yesterday. We've really had lots of fun, you know, bringing this conference for you. Before I start with introducing our speakers for today, I'd like to just remind you to check out our welcome desk and virtual lounge via Zoom. So you'll find lots of resources there to help you navigate the conference and also meet new folks. And also if you have not checked out Discord, please do so. There's a lot of really fun, interesting conversations, lots of pet pictures being shared and food pictures being shared. And, you know, you'll meet a lot of, you know, folks in the open community in there too. And of course, if you have not checked out conversations in Twitter, our hashtag is OpenEd20. Check it out too. There's really a lot of amazing conversations in there. So I have the pleasure of introducing our speakers for today and just a little background on how this journey came about. So when we were brainstorming, I don't know, back in the summer of who might be our possible plenary speakers, Mia and Maaha were the first person that came to my mind. Yes, yes, because I really want to amplify their message and provide inspiration for all of us as we reimagine open education and even higher education, writ large. So when I invited them, you know, sent them an email and they said, yes, I was like so ecstatic and I was so happy. And I really think that their work with equity and bound, socially just academia and the many other projects that you will hear from them as they do their presentation, underscores the need and the imperative for us to build online communities that are rooted in care, compassion, concern, kindness and equity and with social justice as its core. And so we are in for a treat today and what a good way to start the second day of our OpenEd conference. Folks, let's give a warm, warm welcome to Mia, Samora and Mahabali. Thank you all for joining us today. Thank you so much. We're so happy to be here. Salamu alaikum, which works for morning, night, high five. I'm Mahabali from the American University in Cairo. And I'm Mia Samora from Cain University which is right outside of New York City. And we are so thrilled to share with you today equitable emergence, telling the story of equity and bound in the Open. Which we co-facilitated together and these slides are bit.ly slash miaja. We have a couple name. Miaja, that's the blend. So before we get started, tell us how you're feeling today. If your day started earlier like mine, take a stretch, take a sip of water, get ready for an interactive keynote. How are you feeling today? Optimistic, excited, grateful. These are really beautiful. Inspired, excellent. Low energy, so you guys woke me up. Yes. That's good. Jazzed, I like that one. Feeling thankful to be here and hear from everyone. Thanks, Kathy. Motivated, energized, inspired from yesterday. Yes, yesterday was awesome. I was in a few sessions and I was really happy to be there. I see some stressed and that is something I think we can all understand. Skipping breakfast. It's an ongoing thing. But that kind of contributes to the stress. So we try to, yeah, hungry. Yeah, start, get something to eat. Yeah, get snacks. I would show you the table around me and how many snacks I have over here. Overextended, I know that's- I have curiously strong mints. You dance while buried in paperwork. Confident, I love that. Making breakfast while listening, that's good to do. Wonderful. Ready. Open-minded, I like that one. This state of feeling. Gratitude. All right, expectant. Oh, now there's pressure. And Danielle Leek, this is your W-A because you put us in a good mood with this tweet that you sent out just today, like a few minutes ago. So thank you for that. Go ahead, Mia. Oh, I'm sorry, I've lost the screen. Not just a minute. Oh, so we're talking about the journey for today. Oh, so the journey for today is just as the image appears, it's winding, it's, you know, there's no clear pathway. There's some ominous images, like ominous sky in the background that sort of, you know, there's some foreboding in the background, but there's also sunlight coming through. And we thought this was the perfect image to describe our journey today. And it's our journey with Equity Unbound, but also our journey today is we're gonna be moving between topics and also hoping to have you contribute. And we're gonna give you some choices over which way we go with this keynote. So the first thing we wanted to ask you in the chat is what does equity mean to you? And we'll wait and read out some of the things that you say. Dead, no. Level playing field. Dispensable and excessive systems. Justice, fair access, need-based, that's an interesting one, representative and available. Access and opportunity, justice, considering others. Accessibility. Do you think of it at a different speed than I am? No, I just, I'm just throwing out ones that catch my eye, they're coming in so quickly. Everyone gets what they need to thrive. Struggling with it, everyone gets a shot. Level playing field suggests competition and winning. I like that, that's a good point. Distribution based on need. Meeting people where they are. Opportunity to all. Listening. Centrality. Reconciliation and decolonization. Hi, Jess. Dismantled power structures. The access and inclusivity. Differentiated supports for all. Okay, let's move to the next question, Nia. The next question we wanna ask you is what does unbound mean to you? Oh, someone said liberation about equity and people are here saying freedom. Limitless. Barrier free. Across borders. Uncensored. Free, with a lot of ease. No paywalls, lowering without restriction, yeah. No chains, I like no chains. Emancipated, no gatekeeping. It's very interesting the ones that we choose to say at the same time. Well, we're also just like catching them as they fly through, right? Fearless. Unstoppable, able to soar, empowerment. Okay, so this image is probably one that some of you had in mind when you said equity versus equality. And you've probably seen one similar to it, but I like this particular one. I'm not gonna pause too much because I know people are familiar with this kind of thing by now. One of the things I say is obviously there's this equity piece where you give people different supports to reach the same goal. But sometimes not everyone wants an apple. And so why are we assuming that the goal is unified and everyone wants the same goal and we're just about giving them different supports to reach the same goal? What if someone wants an orange? And we know that oranges don't grow on apple trees. So it's a lot more complex than that. But not only that, there are also some invisible inequalities. Like someone may, maybe they don't need an apple, but they need care. They look like they're privileged and they have everything they need, but it's intersectional, right? It doesn't stop there. So the question was thrown out to Twitter. What is equity without care? And what is care without equity? Feel free to type your responses now. It's my pinned tweet. So if you want to reply on Twitter, that's okay too. We received some interesting feedback when Maha throughout this tweet just recently. Kate Denial says care without equity is a fundamentally unjust practice that tries to place a bandaid over a deep rupture and pretend the injury is taken care of. Equity without care can be harmful. It privileges a goal over the humanity of those engaged in reaching that goal. And so that bandaid is maybe not even the best thing you can offer someone. It's a temporary thing, right? Catherine Cronin wrote that care without equity is care for a few because it can potentially exacerbate inequality. And Sarah Lambert was saying that equity without care in organizations can become diversity theater. So it's a performance or a show, but it's not true equity. Kate Boll suggested that both care and equity are design choices made by those with the power to choose how others will be treated. Neither fully challenged the power that gets to choose. And so what Kate said made me think of Nancy Fraser's model of social justice where for her the epitome was parity of participation where everyone gets to participate in this power of decision-making of how things will go. And I love this quote from Desmond Tutu that Tatalini Assino taught me, which is he's saying, I don't wanna pick up the crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. And a lot of people in my part of the world, this will resonate with you, right? But I would argue not even just wanting the full menu of rights to be given to us. I think we need to be able to have the agency to create our own menu and choose our own ingredients. And that would be more socially just rather than have someone else decide what our goals are and what equity means for us. And so, so kind of Walgie is also, this terminology also comes from Cheryl Hodgkins and William's work that builds on Nancy Fraser's work with saying, care is a milliure tip. So it's gonna be the responsibility of maybe an individual and experienced by an individual kind of like also what Catherine was saying. Whereas equity is transformative and has systemic impacts. And so, while Mia and I were brainstorming, this is maybe two days ago that we came up with this model that we're really proud of, but it's a work in progress. It's a work in progress. We put care and equity on a spectrum and put them on two axes. And so we thought Tanya Elias was saying that equity without care is structural so that it can't be undone by someone being careless. And that's a little bit like what Sukaina was saying. And Donna Lanklow was saying something quite similar that you want institutions to put equity as a structure in place. She doesn't want empathy from her institution. She wants justice and people should be able to get treated well and with dignity regardless of who cares about them or who doesn't. Parisa Mehran and Sarah Lembert, were more skeptical about this quadrant and they said, is it tokenism? Is it diversity theater if you do equity without care? So now we want you guys to look at the right bottom quadrant where care and inequity converge and Autumn Kane said something so articulate. Care is a coping mechanism that arise in environments without equity. It's the scramble that we all know in our hearts. And I think there's one more Mahapras one more time. There's one more quote. It was our dear Catherine, co-founder of Equity Unbound who said that care without equity is care for a few. The few who are seen. This means less or no care for those who are less visible already marginalized care without equity, writ large exacerbates inequality. So what is the result in this quadrant of care without equity? It ends up being a selective kind of lens on who needs the care and ultimately it exhausts us all. It's about effective labor. It's about being so drained because our hearts and our energy is put towards fixing what the system hasn't addressed. And those are things that also Martin Muller and Tim Fawn said in their response to this. Then if you have equity with care, we hope this comes close to justice. And this feels kind of, I'm worried about saying this, but I think the virtually connecting model of intentionally equitable hospitality attempts to put a process in place that is a systemic kind of equity, but also to make sure that the people involved who are enacting this have this sort of equity embodied and they do the care in the everyday work. But of course, none of this is perfect even if it's your goal to do it. It's aspirational, but it's something ongoing. But of course, this dark corner on the left bottom quadrant is where no care and inequity converge and that obviously a systemic injustice. And unfortunately, I think our hearts have been broken over and over again and we know what that looks like. And of course during COVID, this was happening in spades, right? And so this is maybe a simpler image to look at. We just wanted to recognize some of the tweets that helped inspire our thinking. And this is just a work in progress. We've only had two days to think about it and even already I'm starting to think of other things to include. So feedback is welcome. We've tweeted it out. If you're here, please get back in touch with us and tell us what you think we might be missing and what we could add to it and we'll develop it, inshallah. We wish we could hear your reaction to this picture. We found it by, we were looking for something and we found it and we liked it. So give your mind a break for a second. This is our pause moment. And I'll just take a quick look at the chat. All the quoted people are women. I'm almost automatically now. Honorary Desmond. It's doing that. There is Martin Weller, but he's from South Africa. There's Simphons and Martin Weller in small font. Very small font. They're kind of... But yes, I actually intentionally do this and now it's natural. I don't do it on purpose anymore. It was intentional and now it's intuitive. It's become systemic. Is that? Exactly. Okay, so I've already talked about intentionally equitable hospitality. Folks wanna read the paper by the co-directors of Virtually Connecting or if you've experienced Virtually Connecting you probably understand what we're trying to do which doesn't always work, of course. Yeah. But other ways, how do we achieve equity with care? And one of the things that we know is important is centering empathy and care in a time of trauma. And we've even positioned care as an act of resistance. We've set out to ask the simple question, can care be an explicit tool of social transformation? And we've discovered along the way that centering empathy also means the importance of making ourselves vulnerable. So the founders of Equity Unbound along with Parisa Mehran who's a very important partner in our work, we've written about this and that will be something that will be distributed after it's published soon. And so it's just always important to remember the different layers of applying equity and social justice work. So there's, of course, in the situation or embodied in context, like when you're with your students in the room and something happens and how you respond to that. And of course, if you have a curriculum that's designed, for example, to be flexible or to be agentic or to center social justice, it becomes easier to react in that context, building on what you've already got as a foundation. But there are also higher levels. Yeah. Advocacy at the institutional level is a real profound step in this kind of hierarchy of layers of social justice work. I'll just give you a very quick anecdote from my own experience. As the director of a master's in writing studies program, my graduate assistants came to me several years ago and indicated that the GRE exam was a hardship for applicants that they know are worthy and wonderful people.  And as soon as I heard that, I eliminated the GRE from our requirements for application portfolio because I thought it was so important to live this process of equity. So that's an example of how one can do that in an institutional context. But I think the sort of final horizon of an empowered sense of equity is the work that can be done as public intellectuals and producing public scholarship. And so that's the level that we're imagining is unbound. Laura Turnovich is saying, I'd say more about advocacy and institutional work. And I would say, actually, Laura, you can tell us, why don't you tell us about what you do in your own institution? I would say in my own institution, some of the things, the kinds of advocacy I was doing, especially during COVID. So one of the things with me is that my public scholarship has always been more unbound than my institutional advocacy, but I still kept trying to do my values thing. But when COVID happened, I was talking all the time about centering care, about advocating for the grades, the pass-fail thing, advocating for no proctoring and trying to make sure that every space where I had a voice to make a difference, I would talk to the right people and influence them before decisions were made as much as possible. And also encouraging them to listen to the student voice, empowering my own students so that they can rise up and protest. Because sometimes you want it to come from the students, but they need help in how they write their message and to get all the information they need. Somebody needs the link to the slides. It's bit.ly.com. Am I? Okay, so... So I'm bound by institutional structures, by institutional timelines, by institutional or academic standards of what is allowed, what counts as knowledge and what priorities are, by whom to share with. So we sort of just wanted to think this is maybe a difficult one to write in the chat right away. Feel free to write, of course, but think about how does your open practice connect with unboundedness? And what ways might your institution be restricting you and your open practice be an outlet sort of for your values? We asked on Twitter, what does equity unbound mean to you? Some people responded around the concept, others responded around the network and the community, which was very interesting to us. I asked Jim Stafford to clarify if he was coming in just in terms of the concept, or in terms of the experience of the network. And he said that he found his way to the network through one particular experience, which is the 1AG global resources that we developed for online community building. Next slide, Mahav. Can you... So basically I thanked Jim for clarifying that he found his way in in one way but was thinking about the concept more broadly in his tweet. But I also pointed out that there are several doors in which you can find your way to the work of equity unbound. And so there was this conversation I was having with Mia when my daughter drew this doodle on one of her Arabic textbooks. And I was telling her, is this the same character? She's like, yeah, it's a story. And I said, do you read it from right to left, like in Arabic, or do you read it from left to right? And some of you may have seen my blog post because she said, you can read it either way. If it's from left to right, this is the story, but it's from right to left. This is the story. And I was talking to Mia about this concept of a bilingual story that reads both ways. And it made me think of the notion of crystallization. If you're not familiar with this notion, it comes from Laurel Richardson. It's a transgressive perspective on research validity. It's sort of against triangulation where you're trying to get all the angles to give you the same answer. It's actually the other way around. It's like looking at human and social interactions from multiple lenses. And that there are diversion possibilities because people can be looking at something like equity unbound from different perspectives coming in from different doorways and perceiving it in different ways. Also the equity care concept, people had very different perspectives on which would be. So it's totally all right to have these complex and partial understandings. Exactly Jess, bi-directional stories through crystallization perspectives. We also wanted to share with you the value and the disposition of emergence as a really important underpinning for us. We are a knowledge community that leaves room for unknown and unforeseen learning outcomes. The learning of participants depends on being a co-evolving part of a dynamic whole. So as facilitators, we're striving to catalyze growth and to facilitate bottom up knowledge production. This next thing is something that I think is helpful to sort of understand the growth of equity unbound over time. We're going to show you something called eco-cycle planning and those of you who are going to follow references, this full reference is there and the links are there. It comes from complexity science and agriculture and it's a little bit of a complex diagram. I'm going to try to sort of explain it. Let me see if I can use annotation from Zoom to sort of make it easier to show what I'm saying. Yeah, I think this helped. All right, so the first thing is to think that when you've been doing something for a long time, whether in your work or in the context of something like equity unbound, we're still going to describe what it is in a minute. But there are things you've been doing for a while and they just keep going on their own. They don't need new resources. You just need to manage them and these are maturity. It's like harvesting, right? But sometimes something changes in your context and it's no longer achieving what you need. Maybe it's falling into a rigidity trap.   You need to notice that and you need to say, we're going to creatively destroy this and go into renewal and start a new idea. And that new idea is ingestation.  And unless you give it resources, you'll fall into the poverty trap. So what you want to know is what great new ideas do you have that will help you meet your purpose and what kind of resources you need to give it so that it comes to birth and it can then grow into maturity eventually. So sometimes in order to give birth to these gestational ideas, you need to decide to destroy some stuff and it requires a different kind of person or a different dimension of you as a leader. Are you more of a manager who maintains what's already there? Are you kind of a heretic if you're comfortable with this word? Who's willing to destroy something that everyone's been used to doing for so long and they can't imagine letting go of? Or are you a network weaver who's always got new ideas all over the place? Or are you someone who's really good at tending? You're an entrepreneur and you're good at starting new things, right? Yeah, parenting goes through this cycle every few months, especially when they're very young. Yes, iterative, always iterative. So I love this model. And if you want to see a video of us going through it with our community building resources and deciding what to go next, you can watch this video later by Nancy White, who's a wonderful person. And so in your own context, what kind of practices, just think about this. Did you have to creatively destroy during COVID? What about ideas that are in gestation that you need to nurture with resources for them to be born and to grow? Where are you going to get these resources? You've had a good idea for two months and you haven't started it yet. And then where are your strengths as a leader?  Is that why you might not be enjoying what you're doing sometimes? Go Mia. So at this point, we want to formally introduce you to the open network and community that's known as Equity Unbound. Equity Unbound aims to create equity-focused, open, connected, intercultural learning experiences across classes, across countries, across contexts. The original founders, Maha, Catherine, Catherine Cronin and myself imagined a network of learners and educators that would collaborate across literal and figurative boundaries. Next slide. So there are four prongs of our Equity Unbound work that can be apprehended. And so we have the first prong here. It's represented by this pink box and it's our open and connected curriculum. So this is for learners and educators everywhere. At all levels, undergraduate, postgraduate, post-professional development, all those who are interested in exploring digital literacies with an equity and intercultural learning focus. So this curriculum is ever evolving and it's crowdsourced by the community and it's a series of activities, learning resources, events that support co-teaching, co-learning and collaboration. So COVID-19 hit. The next prong of our work is represented by the blue box and it's commonly known as our continuity with care work. So again, this was born of that abrupt moment of crisis known to us all as the pivot, the dreaded pivot when much of the world realized that education would have to continue in an online environment. We crowdsourced a list of resources to assist in online teaching, including specifically care strategies and care tips. We also held open forums to develop and extend care and support the open community. It was a place that nurtured us during a really hard time. Moving on to the third prong of equity and bound which is represented here by the purple box. It's commonly known as socially just or imagining socially just academia. So on the heels of the horrible horror filled murders of Ahmed Aubrey, George Floyd and so many others, we doubled down in supporting Black Lives Matter, shut down academia and more specifically our commitment to social justice. So we're asking, oh, we organized in the summer of 2020 an event that was called inclusive citation, but we're asking the question, in what ways does the status quo of the academy contribute to systemic racism? And how can we start to address this problem? So since then we have continued to organize a series of workshops, conversations around these issues. So finally, the green box, the last prong of our identifiable work is the wonderful partnership between equity and bound and 1HE Global, whose mission is to build a global community of educators focused on better teaching. So with so many of these COVID-19 challenges still looming large for the education sector, we have developed some open educational resources for online community building. And these are open accessible activities and pedagogical strategies for teachers everywhere, whether they are in higher ed or in the K through 12 context. And none of these were me and myself alone. The Beha always had collaborators. So with the equity and bound curriculum, our co-founder was Catherine Cronin. Whoops, something weird just happened. Whoop, what happened? Hang on, this has to happen, right? These things always happen. Must have clicked something. Okay, whoo, hang on a second. It will come back. There we go. Okay, one, all right. Two, all right, good. We saw too much, pretend you didn't see that. The reveal. We were supported from Mozilla Open Leaders with a mentor who was Sam Ahern, but the entire community really. And there were others as well involved in equity and bound at various points. And some of them are here in one of our meetings together. And then with the continuity with care, we had a crowd sourcing projects and we had several sessions, sometimes with educators, sometimes educators and students. But there was also a Twitter DM that is we'll talk about later, maybe. And then with socially just academia again, where a large group, it was inspired by a conversation I had with Kim Fox, who's with us here. And we have several collaborators. Not all of them are in the picture, but Jasmine Roberts, who is one of the conference organizers and Titalini Asino, who has organized open-ed conferences co-organized open-ed conferences before and others whose names we'll mention later. And then with the community building resources, Autumn Keynes was a key co-curator with me and myself. We use the virtually connecting YouTube account and just generally virtually connecting resources and one HE. And our key collaborator there was Nikki Spaulding. And so here's the time for the poll. I think I can just run the poll, right? I'm gonna run this poll. And we wanna ask you, which one of these do you wanna hear about first? You can vote for more than one. And then we're just gonna pick the ones that you prioritize and talk about them first. We have slides on each of them, but we'll go through slower, the ones that you guys are most interested in hearing about. So someone closed the poll. I didn't close it, but someone closed it. Is that normal? Something weird just happened, it started again. Okay, I didn't touch anything. I don't know. Sorry, it was my fault. Okay. I'm not touching anything. No, no, pretend it was Zoom's fault. You're doing a lot. Don't worry about it. Sorry, Sam. Okay. I thought maybe Zoom can't handle 300 people, 300 plus people. It's almost... Oh, it's actually quite a different vote now, though. Look at that. It's like, it's a race. You wanna know the popular vote or the... Okay, I don't know. Other people can't see the poll until I end the poll and share it, right? So it looks like people have stopped voting at 73%, which is quite a lot of people. And I'm gonna end the poll because people have just really stopped. All right, let's see if I can share it. Looks like we're gonna start with socially just academia. Yeah, so you can see it. Okay, let me just share with everyone. So yeah, socially just academia got 45%. And then the equity unbound curriculum and then community building resources and continuity with care would be the last one. All right? All right, I'm gonna stop sharing results. So let's click socially just, and Mia, you go with this one, okay? Yeah, sounds good. Yeah, all right. So you already mentioned the first event, so let's... So yeah, first event happened. It was called inclusive citation and it was just the moment of all the frustration emerging so much. And so vividly sort of prompt us to have that inclusive citation event. So next slide, Meha. Okay, so what's amazing is this whole vast project started with the seed of care basically. Meha reached out to her friend Kim Fox who's here today at AUC and said, how are you? Are you okay? And they got to talking and this sort of vision of needing to do something as soon as possible sort of emerged from it. And so my response to their interaction there was just to say so, so, so much has emerged. This is an example of our theory and value of emergence. When something grabs your heart, it gains a certain momentum and it can be something important. So this is an open networked long-term project. It's a series of listening sessions, conversations and workshops aimed at dismantling oppression and promoting decolonial and anti-racist practices in academic institutions, research practice, curricula and teaching practices. Many of the people who have come I think are grounded in institutions where they're seeking a pathway for how to do this kind of work. So this is something that happens on a public and open scale and then is brought home locally. These are the wonderful facilitators of the project Tutalini Asino, Mahabali, Leslie Chan, Jose Cosa, Kim Fox, Doris Jones, Manita Mulman, Jasmine Roberts and myself. One of Jasmine's tweets really caught my attention and all of our attentions by saying my little academic heart is full. Another example of the power of these conversations to give us strength as we move forward in a time when we need the network and the community in order to do the work that we seek as important. Tutalini was saying that asynchronicity can be an example of decolonizing time. We always struggle with this inequity and then this idea of when we're gonna do work because people are all over the world and it's convenience. What's convenient for one is not convenient for another. So we had a great conversation about time and decolonizing time and it's with so many different implications involved. And we're still in the process of creating that asynchronous community for socially just academia beyond the conversations that we're having live to make sure that we have space to stay in touch and work together beyond those life events. So academia is centered on the idea of learning but we also forget about the need to unlearn. There are many things, many habits when we are professionalized that we take on that ultimately sustain certain kinds of epistemic inequity and injustice. And so this unlearning process is very much what we are trying to do with this aspect of imagining a socially just academia. Jasmine says in what ways, or I guess she was quoting but she's saying in what ways are our scholarly practices also activist? So we're thinking about that convergence and identity between scholarship and making the world a better place and taking action in that direction. And I love what Jasmine actually wrote right now in the chat and I think it's worth quoting as well. Keras in action, remember that when someone shares their story related to trauma, especially trauma related to the legacy of colonization and you do nothing about it, that is an oppressive act. And I think I almost did something like that to someone today. So just because you're someone who intersectionally is, you know, marginal in some ways does not mean that you might not hurt someone in that way or oppress them or something like that. Self-reflexivity is a very important part of this work. So Kim says academic responsibility seems to be a convenience says Jasmine. So in terms like inclusivity, we all need to be on the same page, avoid reactive inclusivity. That idea of inclusion is something that always has to be taken a hard look at, you know, what is it that we're all striving to be a part of and why are we assuming we wanna be that we should all be on the same page? So Kate Denial says that she joined a fantastic international launch and we like this slide simply because it just showed all of the faces and not all of the faces, but some a small selection of the faces that have joined us and there's been so much profound learning. So these things are archived by the way, these conversations and there will be plenty more moving forward. I just realized I'm like this in that picture, which is okay. This, it's like a lean back and enjoy, which is very much the experience. If you need to stretch, go ahead and do that. We're halfway through the keynote. We're almost, we're getting close to it. Meha Alfreie says I had to rearrange my schedule today to be able to attend this event. And I'm glad I did such a wonderful international group coming together for a great cause. These are recorded so you can watch them later. Yes, and there's so much work still ahead of us. We're just getting started. Miriam Hacker said, just finished this workshop and one concept that struck with me is the way that colonial debris remains in theoretical frameworks. This comes from Chosse-Crosse. There is a need to reimagine how we analyze and understand experience in academia. So thankful. So that idea of colonial debris, the things that are sort of like left behind and lodged in the way we go about what we do when we are producing knowledge that still continues to sustain in some way profound injustice and inequity. These are the things that we're thinking about when we talk about colonial debris. And this was a useful model for thinking about it. Okay, so the second one was the curriculum, right? People want to hear about the curriculum. And so that's the origin story. This is actually Mia, Catherine, and I together in the UK at Coventry, I think it was, that we took this Coventry University, yes. And we were doing a workshop together with Alan Levine for about, I think, intercultural something about microaggression. Yes. Oh, you went unmuted. Oh, now you're okay. Okay, keep going. And our motto is the only way to make borders meaningless is to keep insisting on crossing them. It says my internet connection is unstable, so let me know if you can't hear me. Lina Munza, this article by Lina Munza, I'm gonna put the link in the chat because it's such a good article. It's called War and Translation and she's a Lebanese translator who translates the stories of Syrian women into from Arabic into English. And her work is some of the work that we work with in our curriculum and also she inspires us with that quote especially. It's a foundation of a lot of what we do. So Equity Unbound, Mia and I teach courses and Catherine at the time, she doesn't anymore, teach courses where we can integrate some kind of intercultural learning. When we do intercultural learning without an equity focus, it can have a lot of power, differentials in it and it can be really inequitable and problematic. And so we wanted to create a curriculum that would focus that but also build on the open and connected learning that we know works for us and start giving opportunities for students to do them as well. We select articles and videos and then people can contribute to their own whether other open participants who are educators or students. We use annotation, usually using the tool Hypothesis. Sometimes we do it open and public and sometimes we do a group for our students to work on together and a lot of other educators join in even if they're not part of the entire curriculum sometimes they'll join into that. We do studio visits which are informal conversations with experts in an area. They come in, they talk to our students and again, anyone else in the world can join. It's not just our students even though it's designed for our students. This is our Twitter hashtag and sometimes we have activities on Twitter, slow chats, that kind of thing. We were originally doing aggregated blog posts but right now we aggregate our own students blog posts and we don't do that on the site anymore but we were originally doing that. And then sort of a crowdsourced knowledge bank like anyone can contribute to it. Now that aspect we need to is now in I think a poverty trap or something. We need to work on improving that so that it's easier for people to contribute than originally we planned. But the things, I saw people talking about Canaan and things like that in the chat and it's part of like what we think about is when we choose authors and speakers and guests we're very careful about whom we choose. I mean, we choose mainly people of color, people from the global South, lots of women and the thing is when you choose those people are you always choosing the famous ones or are you able to reach people that are maybe less or known as well who actually offer a different perspective because just because of someone's identity that's important but it's also important what do they have to offer and what do they give to students. And for me, being from my part of the world but working in an American university it's really important for my students to see African scholars, to see Arab scholars, to see that knowledge comes from different parts of the world and it's not just coming down to them but it's coming from them as well. And the other thing is that the activities that we do are almost all open, connected. There are some levels of course of private and closed and within our own classrooms happening all the time but the equity and bound part of it is in that open side of it. And it's open for participation and contribution. So anyone can use what's there, it's open, it's on the web, anyone can contribute to it. We say this but we know of course that if you don't know me and me or you don't know Catherine you don't know some of the other people who are with us, who you saw in the pictures they may not do that. So we're always trying to sort of try and encourage that but we know that this is easier said than done and in practice it's a lot more complex than that. For me, like for my students I give them an assignment to contribute something to the curriculum because if a few of them will do it they'll have the competence but most of them won't do it on their own unless prompted, right? Mia, I think I want you to do this part. Yes, so this was on the heels of asking questions about equity and bound and what it means to people and one of our partners, Persim and Ron, said do I feel 100% belonging to this project? No, and that's because of who I am and in which era I live. I'm an Iranian woman living in the age of Trumpism. This makes my presence too political. So when I joined the events held by Unbound Eck or Equity Unbound I stick to the groups led by its founders but she says this, equity Unbound is where I don't feel like a minority within a minority. In particular, I'm proud of the facts that she says that folks are not there to get promoted by using equity and social justice. The research budget doesn't control the choices made in how the project is evolving and unfolds and apparently this project actually wants to make a difference. To me, this is the most meaningful thing that the directive comes from the care that's born of our hearts. Next slide. I also love that she says, I don't know if you said this. I was reading the chat. Research budget doesn't control this project. Yes, I did. Did it say it? No, but it's something that is the case is that sometimes you have to follow the trail of money to know where the inflection really lies. We're really fortunate and privileged I think that we never needed to do that. Yes, we are. But next slide, Mahat because I think there's a followup point that I think is really important here. I moved it. It just takes a while to get to it. Yeah, sorry. Sorry, pause. It's a whole look how many miles. That's good. It gives us a pause. But, Prisa also responds to the question of what do you get from it? And this is what I love the most. She says, I'm not looking for a sense of belonging anymore. I just wanted to be a place where I can bring all my complexities, criticisms, radicalness, hopes, dreams without being silence to be able to improve my teaching by learning from like-minded educators. I responded by saying, this is everything. But I also furthered that idea by saying the notion of an all-encompassing or comfortable sense of belonging is seductive and problematic. It's a mirage. I think we fall into this trap sometimes when we get too enthusiastic about looking for that soft place of belonging because it's so closely related to tradition and who's in and who's out and who deserve to become a part of this. And I think that what I like to sort of, we like to move towards is the care because care is real and it makes transformative difference in how we can live together. And it moves through different connectivity without being a kind of all-encompassing blanket of in or outness. As Akena Walges also says, thank you so much for sharing and nurturing it. It was a joy to listen to all of your stories. It's good to be reminded, it's okay to feel as well as to think and read about issues around equity. And here there's something, I think we didn't put in the slides, but it's the case that when we started Equity Unbound, it was more something we thought we were doing it for our students. And then we realized halfway through that it ended up being something we did for ourselves because the work of social justice is such hard work and such effective labor because systems are so unjust that it became a supportive community for educators. And so that's where the continuity with care came originally to help educators who wanted to care find support with other educators who are like-minded outside their institutions so that you can get that energy back into your own institutions and learn from each other. But that Equity Unbound became what made me a better teacher in my classroom even in the parts where Mia and Catherine were not there and no one else was there. All right, we're doing very well on time. Yay. Yay. So the community building resources which we launched in August this year, but this is urgency that people who had never taught online which maybe a lot of people here had taught online before but those who didn't didn't know how to build community. So we started making these resources available here which I know Regina sent earlier and you can take a look at each one of them and there are different kinds. There are introductory activities to use at the beginning of the semester. There are warm-up activities to use at the beginning of a class or maybe to cool down at the end of a class. Those of you who came to the Mad Wild Tea yesterday, that was one of the warm-up activities. And if you come to the spiral journal towards the end of the conference in one of the tea times, that's a good cool-down or warm-up activity. And there are also these liberating structures. If you've never heard of the liberating structures, I'm sure some of you have. These are great structures to ensure equitable conversations. They work really well online with breakout rooms and they help people have a good conversation in breakout rooms, even though when you're not there as a facilitator. And so we have ideas also for setting the tone that are not, I mean, a lot of these are video demonstrations of something with adaptations of how you might do it if your students don't have their camera on, if you have to be asynchronous, that kind of thing. If you don't have breakout rooms, how would you do it? But they have videos of people doing them so it's a little bit easier for you to learn how to do this on your own. But the setting the tone ones aren't necessarily videos. Kate Bowles contributed the safety considerations to keep in mind when you introduce an introductory activity that might harm certain people who are particularly vulnerable. And there are notes that Autumn Keynes and I wrote about video conferencing and how you would go about setting the tone there. And Mays and I had contributed a trauma-informed pedagogy. How do you ask students how they're feeling today? And so the thing about this one is I think the urgency of it. People saying, we were just discussing this today. And so the timing was so important. When you look at that eco-cycle thing, we had to move from the idea to the birth in something like two or three weeks. Yeah, real-time reactions, yes. And you realize that you can do things like that. Yeah, if you're given the resources to do it. So true. And you're also in a community that is there for you and supports you in moving forward. Definitely, because these are contributed by a lot of people. And a lot of people, when they saw them, started contributing more to them. But the idea actually came out of a virtually connecting session that Autumn and I were in. And people like Patrice and Irene were in that session. And from there, that's where we continued the conversation. Mia, do you want to keep- Yeah, Alan Levine says that it's a great collection, but he makes a very important point that it's not all tied to tools and platforms. It's not the tools, it's the pedagogy, it's the community building, it's the relationships. That's what's at the heart of designing this. And this is Henrietta Carbonell saying, the same thing we were saying earlier, is there's a lot of people who are losing that social contact part. And this is how to build community. And Kim Fox, Kim, you've been quoted a lot today. She's saying she'd been watching videos all week, getting ideas. If any of you have used some of these and you think some of them are good, that would be great if you just mentioned in the chat which one, so that other people could try them as well. Mia, I'll let you go to the next slide. Okay. Oh, I guess it's K. Saibatom says, fantastic ideas for online community building here. In the rush to create digital content, don't over focus on curriculum and forget the importance of establishing relationships. I guess I made that point just a minute earlier, but it really is an important one that the spark of learning happens in the connections that you make with students and your co-learners, et cetera. So this is the emphasis in the collection itself. And Janae Kohn, we just love this tweet because it's a wousa. This collection of community building online class activities is a veritable treasure trove. So many wonderful ideas for sync and async activities that promote community, equity and engagement. We want to tell you something. We are showing, obviously we're showing off a little bit, but we're also trying to point out the particular things that people found important about them. And also to let you know, like when we ask people, what does equity and bounty mean to you? We didn't get a lot of responses. So these are actually unsolicited tweets that were just people were sending when they found the resources rather than ones that we asked for feedback on. The sync and async was important there. That was important there. And for this one, I think I want to emphasize the aesthetically pleasing yet practical. So making it easy for people to find stuff and how it's organized. And Jim Stoffer, you're getting quoted a lot too, but we really like this cookies on a lower shelf. It's like, you could have heard of liberating structures, but seeing someone do it makes it a lot easier to imagine how you could do it in your own class. You can grab at the sweet stuff easily. And I think I also liked that Thomas Tobin noticed the equitable aspect of the resources. So yes, they're about community building, but we're also trying to make it an equitable form of community building. Just because you're building community doesn't mean that everyone is gonna feel welcome. And then James Lang, who's never been a fan of ice breakers and we had this conversation in our continuity with care. I'll mention what this is in a second that a lot of people don't like ice breakers, but he found one that he liked. And that's why we don't call them ice breakers. We call them warming up. We were trying to figure out why it's even called an ice breaker, but that's a whole other story. Okay, I think we actually have time to do the last one. Yeah, sounds great. We've been through all of them. So the continuity with care, which started with a crowdsourcing. We just did this bit.ly slash online with care, which now I think this Google doc is so full, but it's harder to get into now. But people were just crowdsourcing. What are people doing about this continuity with care thing? What can they share with their institutions and stuff? I think this one with Daniel, we put in here because it was the date was March 10th and the whole emphasis was, if you need something right now, here's something that's just coming out. And it again, emphasizes that eco-cycle responsibility that we've been talking about. Then the actual call that we had was on March 13th. This is Cherish Perlutz. We also like the monkeys. Talking about how it felt, like being with friends on that day, I remember that conversation, Mia, that day every minute someone would say, oh my God, my institution just said they're going to close tomorrow. Oh my God, my institution just said they're going to close. And I remember people getting calls and leaving. I remember Robin Derosa leaving in the middle of the call, Bonnie Stewart leaving in the middle of the call because everyone was hearing that news all over the world, like ripple effects. We were, the global ripple effect. Australia, yeah, it was crazy. And this is a quote from Sena Haber, who's a Moroccan living in Ireland about how it felt because you would feel isolated if you didn't have the opportunity to be with people here. If you're the only one who's caring that deeply about your students, I'm not finding a lot of support where you are. And talking about how, you know, this was a time to model our values and not just focus on learning out. I'm sure a lot of you had that same time. But the real continuity with care is invisible. There's a Twitter DM that I started to invite people to the conversation that we're going to have. Initially it was just to invite people to the conversation. They didn't have time to send them email. And it's been an ongoing DM ever since then, up until today. It's been my lifeline. It's been a place where I brainstorm with people. It's been a place where I'm anxious and I go to people. There's a lot of people there. You can't go to the coffee shop to meet with your friends. There is the DM, right? It really kept us, our hearts full and supported. Okay. We are actually about five minutes out now. Five minutes and we'll be done. And then we can take questions if people have things to say in the Q and A. Thank you so much for keeping the chat active. That's how I know people are enjoying. So I, with the DM, it's a, I would say it's kind of a private space between friends. If it gets to be too many people, it won't be a lot of fun. But we will have a socially just academia private space that's maybe a slide team, maybe a mailing list. And that one you'll be able to join, inshallah. That will be open and have maybe channels and things like that. So I'm kind of now, I'm realizing what I just did there. I just told you about the exclusive aspect, which is the DM, but yeah. Well, also it's mindful just to be, it's mindful also of the way community grows. And it's a management concern that I think is a thoughtful one. And there are other spaces where we can start new ones as well. And have threads within. And I think that's powerful and important. Yeah. All right. So we're asking you to tell us in the chat, what's one key takeaway that you have? Oh, thanks, Beth. Oh, I didn't realize I said inshallah.  Like, and all my close friends say it, like whatever their religion, even when they're atheist, they say it. Consider care, whatever I consider, whenever I consider equity, that's nice. Oh, they really like the care with that equity, I'm so happy to hear that. Cause we worked so much on that slide, I think. That's when we really pop in. We got really excited and the energy like was really coming from thinking about that deeply. News are always partial. It's taken it inspired. Seductiveness of belonging. That's an interesting road to start to think about. Giving birth and destroying. Difference between care and supportive spaces. Reactive, the value in reactive being responsive, yeah. Someone said something about, check yourself when you ask students to focus on academic sources, need to be more inclusive. And one of the things is sometimes that they won't be peer reviewed articles if you want diversity. That's one of the key things that I always say. It's just, it's not credible just because it's not peer reviewed, right? Bonnie Jean, you're totally invited to join us in this work. And I hope we'll be in touch cause she said that. She wanted to join, be a part of it. Bring her. Actually, we should, should we, should we put a link to that? I think it's still open. So Regina had put the link for social interest academia. If you go to the original event, I think you can still register. The event is over, but you can still register and then you'll, we'll send you an email to join us. I think that might be the best way. And you can of course follow the Twitter accounts as well and stay in touch. We should maybe, I don't know, put these resources up later. The links. Yeah, we can put them up as soon as we wrap up. We just have some last few words. We can add it to the end of the slides. Yeah, so from the link that Regina just sent, look for the event itself and sign up for it even though it's over. I think it's still open. Okay, so I really like, I like tennis by the way, very much. So do I. It's a thing in the family for me too. I didn't realize that you like tennis. Yeah, I know. I never said that. I'm not as good as my sisters, but I still like it. And I can play, but I like watching players. My sons are kind of play. So I love this quote from Arthur Ash, you know, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. It sounds simple, but it, a lot of people get stuck, right? Get stuck in the poverty trap because you're trying to get more resources than you need to get something started because you wanted the whole thing. But like with the community building resources, we launched with six. And the six made a difference at the time because it was mid-August and people were about to start. And then we added to them. And now they're 30 plus, they're maybe 40 now. So our takeaways. Start with your values. Center social justice and care and do it at all the levels within your control and influence and listen for critiques, right? And reflect and iterate. You're never there or done when someone wrote something similar stuff before. Really embrace this emergence. You know, emergence is not being able to see everything. You can't see where you're going completely, embrace that. Be responsive to your community. And Mia and Ma, we have a question actually at in the Q&A from Letisha. And she asked, thank you so much for your amazing lecture. One question, have you worked more directly with medical students? Nope. I don't have medical students in my institution. My husband is a doctor. Does that help on me as dad is a doctor? And my parents are doctors. We have doctors in the family. My husband doesn't let me work with him. Like he says, why isn't everyone listening to you in the country about this? This is a good question because I think this is such an important question because in many ways, when we're talking about care, we're thinking about healing. Healing on scale, like at scale, is what we're thinking about, right? And so there isn't really like the inference of the question is an important one. I can tell you something. I work with people who do liberating structures and I've given workshops with them. And in the UK, the NHS, the National Health Service, get free liberating structures workshops so that they can use them in their own field. And things like eco-cycle planning and some of the liberating structures are used a lot in the medical field, not with students, with actual people who wear in the healthcare field to make sure that they're listening both to the patients and to each other, and able to have productive conversations, but not us directly working with them in the way that care is a very different meaning, right? It's a much more complex thing. And even things, notions like equity are much more complex in the medical field, I think.  Yeah, I was just emphasizing some of the aspects of what it means to embrace emergence. First of all, you have to have a tolerance for not being able to see everything at first, but also you have to be responsive to your community. You need openness and that allows for agility in ways that are maybe less doable within your institutional context, but it's a way of navigating through the kind of landmines of this time and the challenges that we're facing in society, et cetera. Finally, find and grow your community, your allies, and the intersecting affinity spaces that you can then perceive in your network. That's important that those affinity spaces allow for different levels of engagement, right? They don't have to ask everyone to be fully engaged when it makes sense for them that they can come in and out. And this one, I was just at the display posium on Friday and I realized it's also important to find time for playfulness and making and finding joy in learning spaces. And we all need for our own mental health and wellbeing because there isn't a systemic way to do this yet.  Something that sounds simple, but it's so central and not in some ways easy. So remember that, the playfulness and the creativity and your wellbeing. Thank you all so much. Thank you, thank you so much. Yeah. Yeah, what you said, Maha, about finding pockets of joy.  Find those pockets of joy whether, for me, it's like having dark chocolate. It's for me, the way to Regina. And cooking.  Chocolate. What do other people do? Tell us in the chat, what do you do to find those pockets of joy? Pockets of joy. Definitely baking with my daughter, does that to me. And dancing. For me, it's walking, deep breaths in the walking and then noticing just this simple beauty of nature all around me, that one's really powerful for me. Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of walking and kakayoki, prayer. Yeah, prayer for me as well. Meditation. Meditation. Play piano. Centering. Watch movies. Pleasure movie. Oh yeah, binge watching is also healing.  It's so important. Your mind needs a break. Yeah. Hey, what did you guys think of that? Your mind, take a break. Give your mind a break picture. Yeah, for me, reading. What were we saying to Daniel? What's that? What was the thing we said together on a WhatsApp today? We need a world. Oh, world recharge day. We need a world recharge day. I have this like GIF file for my students when we take like a break in class and it looks like a battery that's charging with the, you know, like the bars going up, but it's a chocolate bar with the chocolate appearing. And then I say recharge. And also if you want to continue the conversation beyond this session, we have immediately following at 11.30 or so. Up to a five minute break. Yes, I think a few, you know, a few minutes break and we'll meet you at tea time. Make 11.30, 35-ish, so. And we're also, we've also got virtually connecting tonight with Teri Green. Yes. Right? Yeah. So if you can't make it, you can come to the later one. It's at 1.30, right? 1.30 Eastern. 1.30, yes. Yeah, Andrew Murphy. I just wanted to say I love what Jess said in the, it just caught my eye. I mean, there's so many good things, but I just read the birds and cat cage picture reminded me of Paulo Freire to be careful not to become the oppressor in our efforts to emancipate. I think that's a beautiful one. That image just, we needed to put it there even though it wasn't like in the flow of the conceptual things, we were sort of loading up, but we wanted it there because it was meaningful. And thank you, Jess, for articulating some things around that, yeah. And there's really a lot of good things that were put on the chat by our attendees. It's like, I want to read them. So when we save this, yeah. Yeah. I'm saving, the chat saves automatically for me and I'm a panelist. So Regina, are you going to share the chat with folks? Do you have a way to share it? Nicole, do we have a way to share it? Can we embed it in Sketch? We do have a way to share it. We want to consider that maybe people, this was a... Do you have the people who registered and only share it with people who registered? Can you do that? We can absolutely do that. Yeah, that might be safer. I think you're right. Like with chat, it's not necessarily meant to be shared publicly, but... So people who registered for this event, I think, makes sense. Thanks, everyone. It's such a pleasure and one of the things that's tough is that we're... It's wonderful that we can connect with so many through the screen, but then I wish I could see people, see people's faces, hug people. This is always the hard part. Yeah. Well, at least we'll see their faces in the tea time and the V Connect. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I don't like Zoom webinar for that aspect where you can't see people at all. Even though I don't ask my students to turn their cameras on, when I'm at conferences, I do want to see people's faces, which is very funny, because I'm not obsessed with the camera thing, but... There's something about seeing their faces, even like the screen and like, oh, hello. And there's really a lot of tweets about your session, so thank you. I'm looking forward to seeing them when I finally have a break. Yeah, it's probably tomorrow morning. After the recharge, after the run. I need to go check on my child. But nobody has questions, which is great, I guess. We've said everything. Nobody has. Nobody wants to be in tea time. People interact a lot? Yeah, that's true. Maybe they'll ask the hard questions for tea time. Yeah. That'll be harder. It's never hard. It's just like... Just thinking. I'm just kidding. Actually, for you, it's never hard. It's always like... What are you saying, especially for me? For opening up. A lot of people are tired. A lot of people are tired, invigorated. Bye. That's great. I'm glad that I would choose the sort of outcome beyond the conceptual stuff, then those would be the words. So that makes me really happy to hear. So someone is asking, if you go to the equity unbound website, then you take a look. It's really difficult to navigate it, but we need to work on that. But which one? Where would you start, Mia, with just the general... Yeah, I mean, basically, you see that there's the curriculum, and then there's all kinds of events. You see what that's where you see the activities, the events, the resources. Then you can also see the imagining socially just academia, and you can also see... She doesn't have readings, though. The readings are in the curriculum itself. I mean, because I don't like to give canon. I would say Bell Hooks is maybe the most person that I like reading, who embodies... I think it's really important this embodiment aspect of equity. Was that the question is what to read? I didn't hear that. Readings of where to start. Oh, I thought it was about... I'm not sure what they want to start. I don't know what they want to start, but that's what comes to my mind is Bell Hooks. Yeah, Bell Hooks is a... Maybe others in the chat can have their recommendations, like, what's the first thing you would send someone to read if they're interested in something like what we're talking about? Because sometimes the journey is really winding. But I'd say, because what I like about Bell Hooks is that it's about how do I embody this in my practice rather than... Oh, yeah, definitely. Thank you for that. That's for decolonizing. Oh, John is asking the books in my bookcase. Oh, there's so many. You know, it's like one of those things where there's the accumulation of books that come from your grad school years, and then you're just, like, pleasure reading, and then my husband's books versus my books, you know, like all of this, but okay, I'm just reading. I'm just turning around and seeing, you know, there's something on Glenn Gould here.  Richard Wright is right in front of me.  I'm just reading Brothers Karamazovs. There's a Holden and Bakov section. You know, okay, so, but that was my, like, informal response to that question. But, you know, when it comes to the work, the social justice work and the question that Mahau is responding to earlier, I think that's an important list to generate. And I would also put Bell Hooks right at the top. Paula Freer, who was mentioned. Yeah. And Hybrid Pedagogy, I would say as a journal as a whole with short articles, that's a good place to go as well. Yeah. It's an open access journal with short articles. Are there other spaces that we look at a lot? Here at the core by Sherry Spellick. This is these are examples of things that. For her blog. For her blog. Yeah. Paul Prinslew. Paul Prinslew. Paul Prinslew, for sure. Laura Chernovich, who's on this call. Yeah, Laura is on the call. Catherine Cronin, who's our collaborator. Okay, so I posted the link for that Zoom thing. It should still work. I'm going to check that it works. I don't think I closed it. Oh, it doesn't work anymore. So, okay, I'll figure this out. I'll figure out a way for people to be able to sign up. I'm sorry that it doesn't work anymore. Kate Bolton, Francis Bell, for sure. Thank you, Tanya. There are too many people. If we started, it's one of those things that you know in the Twitter list, like name, I don't know, 20 women or something. You'll always forget someone who's really, really good. There's always addendum after addendum on those tweets, right? Yeah, exactly. And that's a wonderful thing, because that just means there's so many more. So, are you going to follow up with the socially just academia gathering? Yes, I will create a new form. I'll just create a new form or something. Okay, yeah, because it means a lot of people. And I will post it everywhere. Okay, I'm sharing my screen, aren't I? I have to stop. Yeah, share screen. No, it's not. Okay. It's about to show you my email. But no, it was on a different window, so it's okay. But, all right, so yeah, I'll create a form and then we can send it to all open at attendees if you want, or put it on the schedule or put it on Discord, put it on Twitter. We'll put it everywhere. Okay, great. And if you can't find it, tweet us and we'll find you. Yeah. I'm sorry that the community, we need to now move on with this, creating that space so that people can... Yeah, there's the... Okay, there's a social justice channel. Yeah. Okay, that's a good place. Thanks, Jeff. Excellent. So we have 10 minutes till tea time. You wanna take a little break? Yeah, maybe. I think I'm gonna make some tea for tea time. Quick.


Hi everybody and thank you so much for tuning in. A huge welcome to you if you're new. Hit the subscribe button if you haven't already and you'll get some notifications whenever I post a video. So today I wanted to talk all about the use of social media in a positive way. The power of social media and how it can bring you opportunities if used professionally and wisely and I wanted to do a different spin on it because we're always taught at the very start of university or if you're working in healthcare you might already know this and if you don't already know this you're heading into university. There will be warnings about social media and the fact that you can be up against the NMC for inappropriate social media use and it does terrify you and you sort of go through Facebook and everything and you set everything to private and you erase things that you think might be seen in a different way than what it should be. But here no I'm erasing all of that I'm going to show you how the positive use of social media can be really powerful and it can actually bring you so many opportunities if used wisely. So my first thing I'm going to say which I have said before and I'm going to say it again but if you're not on Twitter get on Twitter if you have a Twitter account but you haven't used it you're inactive get using it make use of Twitter because Twitter for me has been by far the best thing I have ever signed up to especially in nursing. So once you get into Twitter and you've signed up you've registered you go out and follow people follow NHS websites doctors nurses chief executives trusts your local trust and then also look on their follow list so people that they follow scroll through their list and see if there's anyone else that you might be interested in following as well and have a look at their page if you're interested in them like the stuff that they post then give them a massive follow as well that will just keep you in touch with the nursing world also follow your university because a lot of universities post on Twitter as well and it makes you feel like part of a community in that sense I love Birmingham City University for this because a lot of lecturers and the university all on Twitter they like they retweet they comment they're motivating they share all of their stuff from the university as well so it's good to be in the know and it just makes you feel really part of the the university family and not like that it's your the lecturer I'm the student like that divide it makes you feel as one like a really nice community so it's really good for that as well then once you have got all of your followers or once you follow whoever you want to follow start tweeting treat your Twitter as as if you're on placement or as if you were a newly qualified nurse or a nurse out there so use it as if it was your work that's how I use mine every now and then I'll post some personal life stuff some little bits to show that I'm not a robot so but mainly my Twitter is literally nurse mode and that's how I think of it I think if I wouldn't say this on placement if I wouldn't say this out in practice as a newly qualified nurse I'm not going to say it on Twitter I'm not going to like it on Twitter I'm not going to retweet it on Twitter that's the way I think of it and that's the way you have to think of Twitter I think is see it from your professional life if that makes sense it's also a really good thing to have as a revision tool which might sound strange but sometimes if I've learned something in lectures or if I'm revising at home I'll do a little poll poll poll how do you say it that sounded really strange I'm sorry like a Twitter poll so why do this sound weird I'm so sorry but anyway you press the little tweet button and there's an option at the bottom it's got like a little it's got like little lines where you have sort of options for the answers for your poll and I could have to stop saying that word so write your tweet write your question whatever question you want to ask or whatever and then you put your answers in the boxes and you create like a little Twitter poll for people to vote on and guess the answer to and that's just it helps it's helped me in the past revise as well because I'm sort of implementing what I've just learned on Twitter and sharing the information that brings me on to next point to share information so if you find a really good policy or guideline you think this is amazing tweet it say this is a great guideline what are your thoughts and start up some conversations with other people that's another really really good thing to do sorry I've just realized that this vlog is turning into Twitter tips and I don't want Twitter tips right now I'm going to do that as a separate vlog so erase everything I've just said but um they're just my little tips okay started anyway you're on Twitter you're loving life you're doing your tweets the use of hashtags I need to I'm going into Twitter things again but anyway the use of hashtags on Twitter is really powerful as well because people search hashtags so if you put a hashtag on your tweet then if people are searching that hashtag they will see your tweet and they can like it comment follow you and spread the message so for example my main ones I tag the student nurse project which is STN project I will hashtag student nurse because anyone looking for student nurse hashtags is going to be for them I will also hashtag general practice or GPN or GPN SNN which is our Twitter page for GP student nurse ambassadors so I will hashtag all of that so then anyone that wants to know more about general practice or student nurse life anything like that they will see the tweet and then they're like oh yeah I've got this information now I'll retweet I'll comment I'll like say things and it's just like a little ripple effect if that makes sense so my point of all of this is if you do all these things people will see your tweets people will see your positivity people will see how good you're doing how well you're doing and it's just nice it's just a really nice community but aside from all of that it might bring you some opportunities so for example I started my blogs and then I started I started blogging originally blogging was my first thing I started and then I thought I'm going to try blogging and then so I turned my blogs into vlogging so I shared my blogs and my blogs and one of the main ones were my general practice nursing blogs and vlogs which I tweeted I used a hashtag I tagged people it got some likes it got some retweets and then I had an inbox from somebody so I had this inbox asking would I come and speak at the general practice nursing conference I know what so I got the opportunity to go and speak at general practice conference and then from that I became a general practice nursing ambassador for the NHS England so I get to go to conferences I go to universities I spread the message about general practice how amazing it is and all of these things and then that has another knock-on knock-on effect because then people like and retweet these things and these posts and then you get other opportunities like I've then gone on from that to do a leadership workshop which was amazing it's completely erased my public fear speaking which some of you already know about because I tweeted about it I instagrammed it I did a whole vlog on it so a few of you do know about that as well from that I did my leadership workshop and then leading on from that I did another talk at the best in practice nursing conference at the NEC Birmingham what and that was all about leadership and how we can all be leaders and things like that which I again I did a vlog about go back and check that one out also from that then got offered a chance to write an article and get published so yeah so Twitter has been amazing to me is what I'm trying to say is if you work Twitter right and if you shine if you show your personality if you share that this amazing profession that you love and you you want these opportunities I mean you have to want these things for me I I didn't know I wanted it until I saw that I could do it and then I was like actually yes I really want to do this I want to get rid of my fear of public speaking so I'm gonna throw myself into it I've had amazing opportunities from it I've met so many amazing people along the way I've met amazing nurses doctors healthcare assistants nurse and associates surgeons people that aren't even really in the profession but they love our NHS are I just it's amazing I've met so many people and I've had so many opportunities I've had invites to things it's just incredible so I just wanted to share the actually with the positive social media use it can be really really beneficial and it all looks amazing on the cv that was the other point sorry it looks amazing on the cv it's going to make you stand out from the crowd and hopefully bag you that job so the next part to this video I wanted to share some stories for you guys that aren't on Twitter some amazing things happened recently actually last year the most recent one was back in October so in October UCAS released a tweet which had a link to the website and it was sort of entitled what do nurses do in this article that they'd written about what nurses do for people to look at it was very very behind with the times it was really simplistic that we were just handmaidens to doctors a lot of lot of nurses on Twitter were very offended by this and to be honest I even I read it it takes a lot for me to get offended by anything but I read it and I was like oh not sure about this and a lot of people retweeted they commented oh UCAS I'm so sorry for you because they did get a bit of a stick from everybody and I felt so sorry for them I thought oh there's poor things whoever's done that tweet oh anyway they then worked alongside some amazing nurses and that are Sienna think to then revamp and rewrite this section because of the power of Twitter the power of social media the power of nurses coming together they created a change they create they made UCAS think about what they'd written and they they changed it and they updated it and actually what it says now is a lot more better but I'm going to put the links below because there is a better explanation of it and I'll actually post the UCAS link as well so you can see what they actually have put there on there now but it was amazing it was really good to see the next one you may have heard of because I think it was shared across all social media sites I think a lot of people knew about this one but there was a nurse who ran a marathon for the Guinness Book of Records she ran for the Guinness Book of Records but they disqualified even though she won that race and she won that Guinness Book of Record title did they disqualified her because she wasn't in the traditional nurses uniform and a lot of people again got very very offended by this oh this went viral this the amount of people that liked retweeted commented because as nurses some people wear their own clothes just depends what type of nurse you are where you're working some people wear scrubs some people wear tunics some people wear dresses there's so much variety in nursing and they disqualified her because she had they disqualified her because she put a script on because that's what she wears in her line of work and so yeah the world went nuts about this and because again because of all of the hype and the likes and the retweets and the backlash from it all Guinness Book of Records had to give her that title so she's actually got that title I'm going to find the link and put it below so you can read more about it but how amazing is that again the power of people coming together using social media in a positive sort of way it's just amazing that we can change things just by positive use of social media so I hope that I've shown you that with the correct use of social media how powerful and amazing it can be and if you're going to use it just use it wisely use it in a professional sense and you'll be amazing and I hope that you have as many amazing opportunities and maybe even a chance to make change out there so go out get on social media use it positively and good luck


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