They asked the students to complete the very first concept map. And then we had a class that was dedicated to going through any issues they had with learning the material and using the technology. And what came out of that is that they would have liked to have had some guiding questions, basically resources to support them through using the technology before they launched into using it. So for the second concept map, I did provide a lot more guiding questions ahead of the students completing the concept map, whereas they came after the students had completed the concept map for their first module of nutrients. So yes, there were some challenges, but again it's a learning curve for everybody. And overall, I think the class and I came together more as a team as a result of using the technology.


Moodle course restore. It's possible to save the course you've made on one Moodle site and reuse it on a different Moodle site. When you save your course the process is called backup and when you add it or upload it to a different site the process is called restore. In this video we'll look at how you can restore a Moodle course into your own personal Moodle cloud site. You can also restore a course to the Moodle site of your school or organisation but the way you do it might be different so you need to check with your administrator first. You are the administrator of your own Moodle cloud site so the process is not quite the same as when you are a teacher in your organisation site. First make sure you saved or backed up your course using the video on course backup to help you. Make sure you have it in a safe place on your computer. Our teacher Sam has her practice course on her desktop here and she's logged into her Moodle cloud site where she's an administrator. You might not be an administrator on your organisation's Moodle site and that's why you should ask for their advice if you want to restore your course there. We click Site administration, find courses and then click restore course. We can then import the backup file either by clicking the button to upload it or as our teacher Sam is doing here dragging and dropping it in. When we click the restore button we prompted to check the backup details and we scroll down and click continue. Note how it appears we're doing in reverse what we did when we backed up the course in another video. On the next screen we decide if we want to add this as a new course or into an existing course. Again you might experience this differently if you're restoring to your organisation's Moodle site and you don't have administrator rights. If we restore it as a new course we need to choose the category. Our teacher only has one category on her Moodle cloud site at the moment so she clicks that button. Clicking continue then takes us to another screen to check the settings and we press next again. We can edit the name and details of the course and decide which activities to keep. We move on again, we do a final check and then press perform restore. Once the process is complete there is a green success message and Sam's practice course is now available on her Moodle cloud site.


I usually don't watch Bill Maher, unless I have a really good reason to, or unless somebody shares a clip. But apparently Michael Moore, who has a pretty good track record at making predictions, has a prediction about the 2022 midterm elections. And keep in mind, this individual predicted Trump's rise when nobody else really saw that coming. I didn't see it coming, right? I thought it was a possibility, but I certainly thought that Hillary Clinton would likely win over Donald Trump. But people like Michael Moore saw it. So he is making another prediction here. Is it a bold prediction? Yes. Am I sold on what he has to say? Not necessarily, but regardless, let's hear him out. Good winning filmmaker who's hit movie, Bowling for Columbine, makes its 20th anniversary this year. And he's the host of the podcast, Rumble with Michael Moore, my good friend, Michael Moore. Michael Moore. Mike. How are you? You look great. You look like Michael Less. I am feeling pretty good, actually. I've spent the pandemic trying to take care of myself. Yeah, you look great. I see you're in your bunker there with him. Hey, I was going to criticize him because he had a Ruth Bader Ginsburg action figure behind him, which is incredibly cringe. But he gets a pass because he has a Starbucks worker united hat on, showing solidarity with unions. Okay. Love to see that. Thank you, Michael. Undisclosed location. So listen, we've talked about the midterms many times here. I think there's sort of a bright spot there in the fact that the country is on the brink of disaster, which for the first time I can remember, the midterms are sexy. This is the one usually we had trouble getting people to go out and vote for. But now there's very high enthusiasm for a midterm election. So what do you think is going to happen? Well, just before I say what I think is going to happen, I need to preface it by telling everybody who's watching that everybody needs to show up and you need to bring five to ten people with you on election day. That's a lot of people, but make it, you know, play here, make it a fun thing, never party afterwards, whatever. But I honestly believe, Bill, and you and I are two well-known pessimists, I think. And I have never felt this optimistic and I was on your show here what's now six years ago when I said that Trump was going to win and the audience booed me and you stood up for me. I was just saying, look, I'm out, I'm around, you know, I'm from the Midwest. I think I had a pretty good sense of what was going to happen. I think the opposite is going to happen this time. I think that there is going to be such a landslide against the traders, especially the 147 Republicans, who just hours after the insurrection voted to not certify the elected president of the United States, Joe Biden. And I think that there is going to be so many people coming out to vote. I want to thank the Supreme Court for reminding women that they are in fact second-class citizens and taking their rights away like this. There are so many, I don't know if you've seen the list of states, starting with Kansas, which by the way, 60% of the people in Kansas a couple months ago showed up to say, no, we want abortion legal and we want it in our constitution. We want it to stay there. This is, I think that there's going to be such a massive turnout of women, 70% of all new registered voters in Kansas for women in Wisconsin, it's 17% more than men are registered. Well, let me just pause it here. This is a really good point that more women are registering and there was a spike in women registering to vote in key states like Pennsylvania, for example. After one, the draft opinion was leaked. And after the Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v. Wade, now one thing that is a little bit iffy about what he's saying here. And I don't know if he's right, I hope he is, but one thing that gives me a little bit more pessimism than him is even if you see these ballot initiatives like the one in Kansas or sometimes, you know, other ballot initiatives, the minimum wage in Florida, even if you see voters opt for the progressive option when it comes to individual policies. The problem is that sometimes these issues aren't as salient. So what do I mean by that? Well, we get these situations where voters, they'll vote affirmatively in support of the right to abortion or, you know, in favor of legalizing marijuana, increasing the minimum wage while simultaneously, you know, after voting that way in a progressive way on a ballot initiative, they'll vote for Republican candidates. Why does this happen? The same thing happened with regard to the 2020 Democratic Party primary. When voters, according to exit polls, at least overwhelmingly supported Medicare for all, but yet they still voted for Joe Biden. So why does this happen? How do we explain this phenomenon? Well, it's kind of difficult, right? Nobody really knows what's going through the minds of voters, but I think the takeaway is that people have different levels of salience for these issues. So in the state of Kansas, for example, while they may very strongly support abortion, their support for abortion is not as strong as their support for electing Republicans overall. So if you prioritize abortion here, but you prioritize Republicans getting elected here in spite of them going against abortion, well, you're going to opt for Republicans. And it's a little bit weird, right? Because they're doing this cost-benefit analysis, possibly subconsciously, right? Overall, they just agree with the policies of Republicans more. Not that Republicans have that much policies, but perhaps they've, you know, agreed with the fear mongering when it comes to CRT and whatnot. So that's how you can explain that. And why I don't have that much hope from stories like this, because even though it's an encouraging sign and even though, you know, people are going to opt for progressive policies, they still might think, OK, well, you know, I support the border wall more than I support abortion. Therefore, I'm going to vote for this Republican who's going to carry out Trump's policies. I believe the election was stolen, and that's more important to me than the issue of abortion. People rank things differently. So that's why it's hard to say definitively that one issue is going to influence the entire election. But to Moore's credit here, you know, women are registering in droves and that is correlated like the jump in women registering to vote is correlated with the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. So I really hope that he's right here. We'll look at some polls here in a second about Pennsylvania 12 percent. I mean, in most of these states, women who have these are women who have not voted, who've not been registered or coming out to register. And then look what happened in Alaska. Alaska really gets one member of Congress and elects a woman, a native Alaskan woman that's a great plan to defeat Sarah Palin. Alaska. This is like, there are so many signs of this that I think I honestly think if we all do our work and if we all get people to get out there and we get out there ourselves, we have a chance to do something that it does happen every now and then. 1993, Canada voted every conservative member in parliament, except for two, out of office. Gone. All of it. Except for two. In four years later, in Great Britain, 1997, every conservative member of the British parliament in Scotland, in Wales, and from Northern Ireland were all thrown out of office. I think we could throw out a huge number of these Republican traders in November. November 8. Look, I hope he's right about that. This is according to 538. When it comes to the Senate, Democrats are favored to retake the Senate, but when it comes to the House, Republicans are still favored. Now I want to caution you all about the Senate. In some of these states where Democrats are polling more favorably, these are states where the polls have been incorrect. This is why I'm a little bit more pessimistic than Michael Moore, although I do hope that he is the one who's proven right and I'm proven wrong. Polling has looked surprisingly good for Democrats. Are they being set up for disappointment again? So the last cycle in which Democrats really felt the polls didn't set them up for disappointment was 2012. Polls that year did fluctuate somewhat, but they usually showed President Obama as the favorite to win re-election and forecast models based on those polls did the same. There was however a dissenter, Dean Chambers, founder of the website Unsealed Polls. Chambers, a conservative, argued that most pollsters were systematically undercounting Republican voters, so he re-weighted their results to reflect the more Romney-leaning electorate he expected, unskewing them. Much mockery from liberals about this rather crude methodology ensued, and when the results of the election came in, Chambers got egg on his face. Obama and Democrats actually did somewhat better than the polls had showed. Here's the funny part. In every election cycle since then, Chambers would have had a point. Whether or not Democrats retake the Senate is based on these states where polling has been pretty inaccurate over the course of the last couple of cycles. Now pollsters have tried to adjust to account for the deficiencies in their methodology, but still it's something that you have to keep in mind because we just don't know.


Hi, welcome to Historic Districts 101. I'm Amy Moore, preservation planner here in the City of Columbia in the Planning and Development Services Department. Since we're not able to meet in groups in person at the moment, our preservation team here thought we'd put together a series of short videos to talk about different aspects of historic preservation in Columbia. This particular video will briefly cover the different historic districts in the city, the staff who work within them, and a little bit of information about what is reviewed. And now here are the other preservation planners who work in Columbia. Hi, I'm Rachel Walling, preservation planner. Hi, I'm Megan McNish, preservation planner. Hi, I'm Christina Poston, preservation planner. So giving a quick rundown of our historic districts, we have 15 historic districts spread out throughout the City of Columbia and over 180 buildings that are considered individual landmarks. We're going to get into what all this means a little bit later, but just to give you a quick look at it, we have four different types of historic districts. One landmark district, one historic commercial district, seven architectural conservation districts, and six protection areas. Out of our 180 individual landmarks, we have three different levels that they may be designated as. We have group one, two, and three. And there are four members of planning division staff that are assigned to these historic districts and we're the ones with you today. This is a quick look at the city as a whole and where our historic districts are located within the city. You see them in the different shades of blue spread from the north and sooner ridged down by the river and the mill districts over to five points area. So as Rachel said earlier, we've got four different types of historic districts in Columbia. One of the more common types of districts we have in the city is the architectural conservation district. That's a geographic area of the city that collectively contains a number of historic buildings that were either constructed in a similar architectural style or share a general time period of construction. The intent in these districts is to preserve both the form of the neighborhood as well as the character of individual structures. So generally speaking, these districts highly prioritize the retention of original historic materials. One of our other more common types of districts is the protection area. And protection areas contain some historic buildings or landmarks, but also a large number of either non historic or altered buildings as well. And the purpose of these districts is to protect the form of the district as a whole rather than individual structures. The next type of district that we have is a landmark district. We currently only have one in the city. That's the kind of Robert Mills area around the Hampton Preston mansion in the Robert Mills house. But landmark districts are a geographic area that contains a number of landmark buildings or other historic buildings that are intact, highly intact, or from and from kind of roughly the same time period of construction. And what makes a landmark district really distinct is that these are all really high quality, high style buildings. So it's an area that contains a lot of buildings that are really important to our city's history. Then lastly, we've also got the historic commercial district. And that's a geographic area of the city that contains a large number of historic buildings that were constructed for commercial use. And we currently only have one historic commercial district in the city. And that's the West Jervais historic commercial district, which is the area of Jervais street kind of west of assembly street down towards the river. So in addition to our historic districts, we also have over 180 individual landmarks. And these are buildings or properties that are designated due to their importance to our city's local history, the state's history, or even the national history. And there's three different levels of landmark designation, the first being group one, which is primarily architecture found in the city of Colombia that is a higher style or a rare style of architecture, or has to do with a nationally or state recognized historic architect, or may have to do with people or events that were particularly important to the state or national history. And examples of that would be the state house or the Robert Mills house. And then examples of group two landmarks, which would be buildings or properties that are still important architecturally to the city of Colombia, but maybe not as rare or high style, but may still have associations with important people's events. Examples of these would be the Villa Tranco or the Siebel's Bruce Insurance building. And then last but not least, we do have group three landmarks, which also have unique architecture for the city of Colombia, as well as associations with important people or events. And examples of those would be the Palmetto building or the North Carolina Mutual building. So in addition to all of these 180 landmarks, we still take applications for landmark designations. So if you think your home or your business or your property is historic, reach out to your preservation planner and we can help you through the designation process. So we're just going to run through which preservation planner handles which district. This is any more speaking right now. And I handle the West Dervay Historic Commercial District, the commercial district we have downtown. I also handle a lot of projects involving individual landmarks. These are not shown on the map because as we just said, they're over 180 and they're scattered throughout the city. But you can contact me if you know you're in an individual landmark building and our plan changes. And again, I'm Rachel Walling. I currently oversee the Landmark District, which as Megan mentioned is also known as the Robert Mills District. It's around the Hampson Preston and Robert Mills House, right off of Taylor Street. Another district I oversee is the Melrose Heights Oakland Architectural Conservation District. And that district is roughly between Trenham and Millwood. I also oversee the Oakwood Court Architectural Conservation District, which is one of our smaller districts, kind of at the intersection of where Devine and Millwood meet. And last but not least, I oversee the Wales Garden Architectural Conservation District, which is a residential neighborhood just south of Five Points. As I said earlier, I'm Megan McNish. I oversee the Cottontown Bellevue Architectural Conservation District. This is an area that's kind of north of Elmwood Avenue in between Bull Street and North Main. I also oversee the Elmwood Park Architectural Conservation District just across North Main from Cottontown. I also oversee the Granby Architectural Conservation District. That's one of the Mill Village areas that Rachel mentioned earlier. And another Mill area, the Whaley Street Protection Area. And lastly, I also oversee the Waverley Protection Area. And again, I'm Christina Poston. And some of the districts I oversee is the Earlwood Protection Areas, both A and B, which is kind of located in the north, along the northeast, north main corridor. Another district I oversee is the Governor's Mansion Protection Area, which is located around the Governor's Mansion. Another district I oversee is the Old Chandon Lower Waverley Protection Areas, A and B, which is located east of Five Points. Another district I oversee is University Hill Architectural Conservation District, which is located near the historic core of the University of South Carolina. And then last but not least is Seminary Ridge Protection Area, which is probably one of our most northern districts, and it's located near the Lutheran Seminary. So a common question that we get is, what exactly is reviewed in my historic district? So there are different levels of review. And our DVRC, which is the Design Development Review Commission, which is the Architectural Review Board for the city, quasi-judicial board responsible for reviewing certain things that's laid out in our city ordinance. So they typically review all new construction additions that are visible from the public right-of-way, exterior changes to contributing buildings in most districts, preliminary certification for the Bailey Bill, which is tax incentive for historic buildings, and then they review demolition or relocation of contributing buildings. As staff, we can review several things, but it's generally limited to smaller projects than those that go to the DVRC. And so we can handle things that are just minimally visible from the public right-of-way. So in addition, on the back of the house, that's still visible from the side, perhaps, that might be something that staff can review, just not highly visible. We can review changes to non-original features or changes to non-contributing buildings. We review fences and driveways, and we also talk over general maintenance and repair projects if people are planning on their homes. So that was a really quick look at what we do as preservation planners. We, as we mentioned before, we all have historic districts, historic areas that we oversee. They're listed here underneath our contact information. And would say, you know, if you're planning a project for your house, please just get in touch with us. One of us can point you in the right direction, more than likely. And for updated information, updated, occasionally we do have shifts in the districts that we oversee. Someone might be out. Our updated information is available on the website. So be sure just to check us out and make sure you stay in touch. So thanks for joining us for Historic Districts 101. We hope that this little video helped provide you with some information. As Rachel said, you can find how to get to our contact information on this slide here. And we're going to be planning some additional videos. So if there are topics you'd like to see us cover, please feel free to email us at preservation at columbiasc.gov.


I don't mean FNAF AR cringe They've been asking since 2015 for six years now. What's in the box? Well? We're finally gonna learn the answer Hey This solves nothing all right all joking aside You may be wondering what this is and how the freak I have it so early And I want to tell you all the answers to that right now Of course after you hit the subscribe button and like the video and leave a comment cool All right, cool. So this is Darko's brand new plushie the showtime plushie He showed it off a few times and it's actually available to pre-order right now I'm not being paid by Lewis Dawkins. Darko to you know say cool things about this plushie He didn't even tell me that I had to make a video But of course if Darko himself Fricken 1.5 million subscribers sends you a free product of his upcoming plushie that isn't released for another like three months Yeah, of course, I'm gonna make a video about that. Are you kidding me? So yeah, I'm not paid to say anything I'm gonna be completely honest I wasn't even told to make a video and you guys know me I get critical real fast, but spoiler alert I really really would recommend buying this plushie as of the publication of this video There's only like one day left. So make sure you get one of these before they're all gone Yeah, so now I guess I'll fricken talk about the damn thing after what a two-minute intro So the plushie itself is kind of small comparison Here's a fnaf plushie. They're about the same size and the cool part about this showtime plushie Is that it actually has a built-in music box that plays some of Darko's songs There is a version without the music box, which I think is a little bit cheaper But honestly if you want this thing you might as well go full out and get the music box with it The music box is in the body of the plushie and it really doesn't you know interfere with you know It's still super soft even with a gigantic, you know music box in the body itself Yeah, it's actually really well made a lot of details on it as you can see a very detailed suit and bow tie He's got going on.  I'm gonna be honest I don't have the other Darko plushies so I can't really compare the softness, but trust me This is still super soft again even with a music box inside of it which speaking of the music box Let's talk about it So this plushie plays some of Darko's songs it has three songs in it darkest desire the first one into the pit and also a Preview for the lonely Freddy song which will come out eventually and I was so surprised again I'm not being paid anything to say this. I wasn't told to say anything I'm being completely honest the audio for the music box is insane. It is so clear and crisp It just it sounds like I'm listening to it, you know with a pair of headphones, but of course, it's inside Darko's plushie I'm not gonna play the full songs. It doesn't have the full songs.  Well, I would actually probably think Darko would get mad at me But I can't because the copy of the plushie that I got sent doesn't even have the preview Kind of smart on Darko because I totally would have accidentally leaked it instead. It has fetch Which of course the final plushie will not have which is kind of unfortunate because I really do like fetch So what are my thoughts on the showtime Darko plushie? Well, I highly recommend it Maybe I'm biased because I got it for free Maybe I'm biased because it came from freaking Darko which by the way Darko, thank you so much man for something being a freaking Free plushie and no, I'm not just saying good things about the plushie because Darko now has my address No, but seriously, it's a good plushie. I highly recommend it. Super soft cool songs This is the final day you can get the plushie. Don't miss out linked down below again Received it for free. I'm not paid to say anything. I wasn't even told to make a video. All right. Peace