Hey Virgo, welcome back to the channel. This is Kelly from House of Virgo. I'm going to fix my microphone. Hope you guys are doing well. Welcome back to another episode of Your Love Lives. So if you're new, please do smash that like and share and subscribe button if you enjoy my ratings or after you listen. If anything resonates, do be mindful that some of the messages may or may not resonate, so take a fit, leave the rest. And this is a Virgo channel. You don't have to be a Virgo son to listen. You could be Virgo son when rising your Venus, okay? Personal reading links are below in the description box. You can also follow me on Facebook. There is a address right up above here at the top of this video, or you can go in the description box. Everything there you will need. Okay, so Virgo, yesterday's reading. Did you meet your gas station person? I don't know, but let's see what love messages come out or coming out here for February. Virgos, 2023. What love messages for Virgo? Okay, you've got attraction and new love. Wow. Nice Virgo. So, yep, definitely a new person will be stirring your romantic feelings in February. And I feel like you're not going to be even paying attention to this with attraction. You attract romantic love by enjoying the moment fully. So it looks like there you are sniffing the roses, not even looking around, not even paying attention to your surroundings, and attracting a new suitor here. Okay, one more card for Virgo. One more card for Virgo here. Okay, retreats. Time to disconnect from the world. Yeah, Virgo kind of feels to me like in February, you're pulling back and doing you. I love it. And attracting new love because of this. All right, let's try and see who this new love is or what the energy is playing out. Okay, Page of Pentacles. Very interesting. I feel like you'll be receiving a message from someone in regards to some business ideas or plans, something to do with money, finances, or career. There'll be a connection, communication, email, text messages, phone calls. Okay. Somebody very muscular. Oh, look, King of Swords is here, Virgo. So it could be a Libra, Gemini, or Aquarius. This person's showing up. It could be a lawyer, or someone who works in communications or telecommunications. I feel like this person, all business. It looks like strictly business, right? But something happens here. Maybe Spark gets made. Okay, let's see. You've got the son, three of wands, and the six of wands. Very nice. Okay, hmm. Somebody's trying to help you with something in February. Maybe it's your accountant or a tax person trying to give you an opportunity or try to get to help you get back up on top. Yeah, that's a very straightforward message, Virgo. So I don't know if you've done your taxes, you're doing your taxes, or someone works in law. It could be a lawyer. Somebody's trying to help you here. But it feels like there's some romantic feelings. Okay, it just feels like there's some romantic feelings with somebody new that... So they're just giving this energy. Like somebody does your taxes or helps you with something, files some papers and sends them out. And you're in a situation of waiting to receive something back. Okay, but there's definitely... Yeah, look at this. Virgo, I also see you at a crossroad here. Like you have a decision to make. Okay, let's go into that. Let's see what this decision is in February. Yeah, something to do with money. Temperance, Sagittarius energy, Leo here. Also balancing something to do with your money. Yeah, you've got like this... You come to some type of crossroad. Which direction to go if you can afford to do something? If you can afford to move forward here, what is the the best that you can arrive at? This is the question. Okay, is it related to this person? It could be. Tell me more about this King of Swords. So male, female, energy, just keep being mindful. Okay, they make some kind of an offer. Virgo, I just kind of feel like this person comes forward in like a very kind of very cold, strictly business kind of energy. Okay, notice, I don't know if you notice, there's no cup energy here, but except for temperance where she's holding the two cups and it feels like this is something... They just gave me that song. You want to be starting something? There's something here. There's no cups, okay? It's because it's new and there's a new love. There's a new attraction happening here. These feelings or this energy could show up later, but you get involved with someone, strictly business, and something here begins to grow. Maybe you become... Okay, wow. Six of cups. Here's your first cup card that just came out in the reverse.   You're still kind of stuck in the past in regards to maybe a past relationship. Okay, I feel like you're being unrealistic unrealistic about a past relationship. You might be trying to decide, well maybe it is time to move on and let somebody new come in to your life, which I do feel like somebody's showing up and yeah, here you go. There's a fool here, so definitely a new beginning, a new start. Two of cups, so there's an energy of like two people connecting and meeting. Okay, so I feel like Virgo, you come to Crossroad too. Like should you invest? What should you do? Right? Somebody new comes in. I feel for a lot of you, you could be having these romantic feelings for someone also. Okay? Somebody comes in that you do some work with or something happens and you kind of find yourself attracted to this person. You want to kind of disconnect and go somewhere with this person. You might ask them out for coffee or meet somewhere, but I feel like something occurs here. There's like a little love spark that happens and this might be like the catalyst that kind of helps you move forward or getting past being stuck in the past with somebody else. Okay, so but the six of cups in the reverse, I don't see you really making any kind of move on anybody here and I don't really see anybody making a move on you, but I do feel like an attraction develops. I do. All right, so that feels like a singles reading. Let's take a look, you know, and yesterday felt like a singles reading as well, so if you are completely single and you have nobody in your life, I would kind of refer back to those. Refer back to this and refer back to yesterday's message. All right, let's get into the overall message for Virgo. Let's see if there's anything else. Spirit wants you to know Virgo, overall in love. All right, okay, you've got hammer, sabotage, rebuilding, targation, repetitive movement, persistent, working on something here. Okay, you're rebuilding something. Somebody wants to rebuild some type of relationship with you or finish building a house that you both started. All right, keys on a ring, having options, and there's a love call. Okay, keys to a house. Will you move in with me? Somebody might be asking you if you guys could live together or if they could move in with you, you can move in with them. There's a decision being made here, so you could have somebody that you're already connecting with and this energy starts playing out. I feel Virgo, you're going to be getting a love call, perhaps around Valentine's Day, which would be on the 14th. Yep, look at this, relocation here, Virgo, wish coming true. I feel like there's a relationship that's moving to the next level. Somebody here is really wishing and hoping that you guys could keep moving forward. Maybe that's part of the decision process that you're going to be at. Somebody knew there's an attraction develops and then you have, but you're still kind of stuck in the past or stuck on someone or maybe you're waiting, you know, energetically for something to change with another person and here it comes. Okay, here it comes. There's a love call coming in, someone to tell you that they've been thinking about you and they've been, you know, they either they've relocated or they've moved, they want you to come live with them or and or vice versa. There's a conversation that takes place about this. Okay, all right, cards are going everywhere. Oh yeah, okay, could be a Leo for some of you. Eight of wands, yeah, there's good news, Virgo. You're going to be getting some good news. A lot of Cupid's arrows flying through the air, love messages, speedy, very fast, a lot of phone calls, it's not just one love call, it's like repeat. If you don't answer, they're calling back. Somebody's really trying to get a hold of you in February, taking a lot of courage and strength to do this. Not really sure why, but yep, they're coming in to make an offer to you, tell you what their plans are, tell you what the idea is, you know. This definitely feels like an overall, you know, can we living together, giving a key to a home, buying a home together, finish building a house together, working on a relationship, rebuilding it, making things better. Okay, wow, six of cups in the, yeah, this is that person.  You have a couple options happening here, more than one Virgo. All right, healing and recovery. Okay, yeah, somebody's definitely been praying at night, praying, saying their prayers, meditating, trying to manifest definitely in their prayers. The Four of Swords is always the healing and recovery. It's a period of retreat as well. It's a period of solitude and rest and renewal. Okay, yeah, so there's definitely an energy of somebody showing up here.  Let me see, you know, when my five of pentacles shows up, that's a bloody stump for me. Let me see what else here, Virgo. Oh my gosh, yeah, oh yes, Virgo. Like, there's someone from the past here definitely showing up. They're still stuck on you, Virgo. I mean, there's a romantic offer and a brand new opportunity, the gift. It's a gift coming down from above. Like, there's another chance here to try to fix this person, wants another chance to do something right here. Okay, making that love offer. Virgo. And it's not just a call that says, hey, I'm thinking of you. It's not just a Valentine's Day thing. It's not just a checkup. This is like, the purpose of the call is to let you know that they still think of you, to let you know, to express their love. It's a message of love and to start the ball rolling, to start communication again. And so that they can make that offer. Okay, there's the six of pentacles. Yeah, giving and exchanging, giving and taking, reciprocity. I feel like definitely, Virgo, what are you? Okay, eight of sorts. Let me see. Yeah, I feel like this person was very restricted, maybe had some mental breakdown or some type of mental restrictions or issues or having a hard time, seeing things through. Okay, first court card here. So you had the King of Swords with new love and then you've got whoever stuck on you from the past, you could possibly have a water sign. Okay, Queen of Cups, Cancer Scorpio Pisces. This could be, as I said, it could be female, it could be male. So yeah, this person's very, like, knee deep in feelings for you. Definitely, definitely is in love with you. Definitely must have made a mistake. Insecurity, perhaps held somebody back from making the move that they've wanted to make for the longest time but just didn't know how, didn't know if you would receive them, didn't know if you would agree, or if you were even interested anymore. But it feels to me like this person is approaching with love. Okay, there's the King of Swords again and there's the King of Cups. So what the heck? Listen, Virgo, looks to me like you're going to have a choice between new love or a past lover. Yeah, I feel like that first message ties into this in some way because, you know, you've got whoever it is, whoever's new coming in. You've also got, at the same time, because when it rains of pores, you've also got someone from your past making their way in as well.    I'm not sure but energy is being picked up here. I feel like somebody doesn't want you to go with somebody else, okay, or lose you to another person. Why? Why is this person, all of a sudden we have the magician here, Gemini energy. Oh wow, I can't even believe it. Seven of Cups in the reverse.  For sure. Very focused on doing this here. The ghost returns. That's what I'm hearing. If you had a ghosting situation, yeah the ghosting is the ghost returns. Virgo, like I can't with this. This person gets some clarity. They get a restored sense that the illusion or the fantasy ends. Yeah, this person really ready to have a new beginning and really do it do it right this time. Okay, so if you were having a struggle in a relationship in the past, you know, and this person just wasn't coming in with the bloody stump, I mean it's like really simple. There's no need for hate and there's no need for anything else other than, okay, somebody weren't wasn't able to make it to the table.  The seat's still there.  I mean it's just as simple as that. And then if they don't show up, you know, the invite was on the table. If they don't show up then it's okay. That's fine. I'll, you know, take the plate out, fork, knife, spoon for the next, for somebody else who wants to show up. You know, there's no need to be jaded or bitter or angry. It didn't work out. So, there's a seat for every butt. There's a lid for every pot, Virgo. But of course now you're going to have two people showing up at the table here. Maybe you should just take, just take all the, all the silverware, all the plates, let them all sit down at the table together. Just have a good time. Hey, Virgo. I don't know what you're going to do.  There's definitely new beginnings starting here for you. Definitely a new phase, new developments. A leap of faith, taking a risk here, Virgo. Who are you going to choose? Who are you going, who's Virgo going to choose? Oh Jesus. They gave you the lovers. Well, that's a decision. That's having to make a choice. They're saying, go with your lover.  That's, that's the answer. Go with the person that you love. Okay? For some, it's a Gemini.  What else, what else does Virgo need to know?  What is that old saying? Is it, is it better to be with the one you love or the one who loves you? What do you guys think? Leave a comment. Leave a, leave a note there in the chat. What is better to be with the one you love or the one who loves you? Okay. Yeah.  You know, I'm waiting for your ships to come in. You're waiting for that new love, brand new love start to happen. The blessing to come in. You're going to get a couple of them. Here, Virgo, you're going to get a couple of blessings. That's for sure. Okay. Yep. And you might have to juggle. You have to weigh your options, Virgo. Who do you want? Right?   So, if I was going to answer that question, I would say we both have to be in love. We both have to love each other. That's my answer. I don't know what your answer is, but I don't think that's a question maybe that can be answered. Let me see. This past person, let me take a look at their their emotions and their feelings for you, Virgo. Past persons, emotions and feelings for Virgo. Oh, gave me a whole bunch of cards. Playfulness. Pay attention to the red flags. Okay, you guys had some struggles. You had some struggles. Red flags. Maybe it was like too many, too much fun and games. Let your friends help you. Release your ex very soon. You will have to make a decision to free yourself. All right, Virgo. So, this is going to go two different ways. I do feel like, because I was asking how this person feels about you, they might have had somebody else and that's why things couldn't move forward. They've released that person. They're freeing themselves or just getting ready to make a decision to free themselves from an ex or a person. Either they had somebody in their life or the energy of the ex was still residual and they were comparing everyone they met to their ex and letting this go. I feel like they got a lot of support and friends to help them because there was a lot of red flags with someone they were connected to. There was a lot of fun and it was playful but it was all fun and games and it really wasn't anything. I feel like this person kind of got bored or you know something. They just not that they got bored. I hate to see that. It just was very frivolous. A relationship was very frivolous. Okay, so I definitely feel like this person is letting go of another person and they're coming back into your life to make things right with you. Okay, what are the messages of love here? Oh my goodness. I'm not taking all these messages of love for Virgo. Okay, new love. A new love or recommitment to love is developing Virgo. Alright, boundaries. Firm boundaries are needed now here Virgo. There's a longing. Someone is yearning for you secretly yearning for you. Okay, a lot of passion in this connection. Try something you've never done before. There's an awakening happening and I feel like this is with this person and this trying something they've never done before. Yeah, this is new. I feel like this person is kind of getting out of their comfort zone and trying to connect with you to rebuild a relationship and do something, you know, out of love with you. I feel like this person is very much in love with you. Okay, was not able to do something and now they're awakening to this. Meanwhile, Virgo, you've got somebody showing up new.    Like, wow, I mean, this is like, this is straight out of a Hallmark movie. Let's see what their Chinese sign is. Oh my goodness. No, let's look at the physical Oracle. I want to see physical features. What physical features are showing up for this person? Show us, show Virgo. Okay, this person could be very tall. Very tall. Oh, look who it is. Oh no, that's just a beard. They may have a beard. Could be a tall person with a beard or they just have a beard. Oh, okay, somebody has a piercing. I feel like that would hurt. I don't think I could ever get a piercing on my lip. I feel like, or maybe it's that kind of lip piercing. Okay, somebody's got a mole right above their lip there and we have someone with very blonde hair. Very blonde. That's almost platinum bleach white blonde hair. Okay, we've got somebody with very wavy hair. All right, somebody could also be slender, short hair, tattooed, tattooed. Oh, and a moustache. I mustach you a question. Do you still love me, Virgo? I mustach you, Virgo. Will you move in with me, Virgo? I love you. Virgo, I love you. And I want to be with you forever, Virgo.  Do you like my moustache? Yes, I do it just for you. All right, Virgo. Chinese sign, please. Virgo, who is this person? All right, all right. We're going to take a look first. Let's look at the past. Who is this past person, their Chinese sign? Virgo and this past person. All right, year of the tiger, year of the horse, and year of the dragon. We have an ox, a rabbit, year of the rabbit, year of the snake, okay, year of the pig, and a monkey. All right, let me ask, I want to ask about this new person and see what the new person is. I'm only going to pull three for the new person. Okay, year of the dog, year of the dragon, and year of the horse. Okay, let's keep that very simple. All right, let's get some names, Virgo. Let's see. Let's get some qualifiers. Anything that you spirit can tell Virgo, qualifiers about this person, anything Virgo can know about. Let's start with the new person showing up. Qualifiers about the new person. Okay, all right. All right, their initials, the name starts with the letter S as in Sam, S. This person, I don't know if they work for school or, but I am picking up for something with law. Also the name could, they're just saying a last name, they're saying Weissman, I think, Weissman. All right, they just said that, Weissman. Okay, okay, Rosiri. I just heard the last name, Rosiri. So weissman, Rosiri, oh maybe it's a lawyer, law firm, Weissman, Weissman and Rosiri. I don't know, they just said Rosiri. Okay, we're also getting the letter M. Okay, and I just heard the name Sandy. Okay, they just gave me the name Sandy. Sandy, Sandy Beach, Sandy Hook, Sandy. All right, this is all for the new person. Okay, somebody lives, okay, they're giving me a place called Queensland, Queensland, they're Queensland, Queensland. Oh boy, okay. Oh and now they're saying United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates. Okay, initial C, this is the new person, we have a C, the letter C, carry. Okay, well, all right, they're giving me two years, they're giving me 1978 and 1993. Okay, 1978, 1993, and I'm also picking up Jensen. Okay, 1975, okay, and that's weird. Who does that? They just showed me somebody texting and I don't know that people do this in a text but they say PS, you know, when somebody writes PS in a letter, the end of a letter, well somebody does that in a text or they will or they have, somebody says PS instead of saying oh by the way or just giving the final text, they address it with a PS first, it could also be an initials PS. All right, let's get information about this past person. What information can Virga know about this past person? Okay, somebody's name is Joe, Joseph, Joe, JoLeen, Joel, it starts with a J-O, okay, and also somebody is from maybe South America or Spain. I'm just hearing, okay, past person, okay, oh Jose, they're just telling me, somebody's got really short brown hair but it's kind of like a Harry Styles kind of cut, if you know who that is. Okay, oh letter H, I just heard Josh or Joshua, okay, initial letter H, picking up strong Libra vibes right now and Pisces. All right, also H-A-Z, has or za, that's weird, not weird but has or hasza or hasam, okay, also there's an H in Arizona, okay, we have C, huh, okay, and they're just telling me C-1, I don't know what that means, C-1, the second person. All right, and then a letter G again, we have September 4th, September 1st, September 8th, August 24th, and August 28th, okay, we also have somebody's birthday is on the sixth, somebody's in a wheelchair, okay, and yeah, I'm picking up some Enter the Dragon Bruce Lee vibes there with those mirrors, the Fun House for sure, I don't know if you guys have ever seen that, I'm sure you have but I think it's Enter the Dragon, isn't it, that's the scene, all right, you got a nice as Virgo, so many things, this past person thinks you have the best ASS, or AZZ, we also have area code 856, and they're giving me, hold on, hold on, we have 375-210-561, a lot of C's, I'm hearing Zach, okay, a lot of C's in this reading, wow, okay, in 824, could be August 24th or 824, all right, let me get a charm, and then I'm gonna close your reading out for the night, I've been so super tired lately, you guys, so I'm just trying to get through these readings, I hope you'll understand, all right, we've got a ship's wheel, okay, okay, that's, I don't even know what that means, two ship's wheels here, one's golden, one is silver, two ships in the night, I'm just hearing, and the Bermuda Triangle, they're telling me, maybe somebody's going on a cruise somewhere near the Bermuda Triangle, I know this is really dark, sorry about that, it's because I'm recording it last minute at night, so my apologies if you can't see, but I'm picking up a Bermuda Triangle, maybe there's a cruise or a ship, somebody's going on here, oh I'm dropping charms, and okay, also yeah, somebody has a, do you wear a mood ring or somebody has a mood ring, and I'm also getting dying Easter eggs, somebody does something with eggs, dies eggs or creates beautiful eggs, there's a pink flower here, and that looks like Japan, this reminds me of a cherry blossom, something to do with cherry blossoms, and also a pink star as well, very pretty, there's something to do with Japanese or Japan in this reading, so I don't know if you're connecting with that in some way, and then we have a sea with like it's a little red, I don't know if that's China, I think that's something to do with China, okay very interesting, I'm going to leave your reading there, I've run out of energy Virgo, so sorry, but yeah if you want to get a personal reading there's a link in the description box below this video, I have a special going for February, where it's 15% off, so definitely check that out, and also yeah, if you want to follow me on Facebook, there's a link below, actually you guys have to tell you, I know I go back and forth with the Facebook, right, I've had it for so long, and when I started my Facebook page, before I was doing real estate, I was in real estate, and the majority of the people on my Facebook, all my friends and followers and all, are real estate people, so when I finally decided to use my Facebook for my YouTube channel, um, a lot of those people, just like it's not their thing, you know what I mean, um, but I didn't, like I decided against real estate, because when the pandemic hit, everything shut down, and I was like, uh, I'm not gonna do it, and but now that I've been using my Facebook for, um, my channel, eh, not much has really happened in there, like I'm so active here on YouTube, I'm not as active, so I've been creating reels, trying to have fun with it, but um, eh, I do, I, to be honest with you, like I don't want to lose it at the same time, but it just takes a lot of extra energy for me, and I know I'm like, oh you guys can follow me over there, but you're all here, so most likely I'm going to shut it down permanently, because it just really serves no purpose for me, it really is a waste of my time, really not to connect with all of you, because we do connect here, which is where you'll always find me, but I'm just kind of like, eh, you know, so don't be surprised if one day you just, you're like, hey what happened to Kelly's Facebook, it's gone, it'll be gone, I probably won't, I'm not that person that announces me leaving before I leave, when I'm done, I'm done, so I just go, so yeah, just a little something I wanted to share with you guys, because I know I've gone back and forth, I'm like, oh I don't use it anymore, I dropped it, and then I had someone hacked into my stuff, and then finally I got rid of that person, I knew who it was, and then I was just like, okay everything's cool, I'll go back to using it, but I'm just like, eh, I don't know what it is, I must be like, growing older and away from it, like I just, it's not really interesting to me as much anymore, so maybe I'll just keep it up, and I just won't even use it, probably it'll come to that, so if you want to follow me, you can follow me, like I said, the link's below, if not, you know where to find me, I'm always here. All right you guys, have a great night, and I will see you all back here, hopefully tomorrow, all right, take care.


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Watermelon is one of the great treats of summer and you know I always wonder how in the world you know if the watermelon is ripe and if it's going to be juicy and sweet when you bring It home and cut it open. Well Some expert told me somewhere along the way that if you look at the bottom of the watermelon And you see yellow at the bottom where it was resting on the ground That means it's ripe and ready to eat if it's white then it's probably not very ripe and not sweet Watermelon is just a hydrating and refreshing snack any time of the day. It's nice and cold. It's just so good One way I like to do it is to serve it for breakfast sometimes and even for dessert all Prepared the same way. So let me show you what I do first I've got a slice of watermelon on the plate And this is kind of a small watermelon and what I'm going to do is make a watermelon pizza So this could be an individual size pizza I would say so get a nice slice of watermelon and then I've got some coconut milk-based yogurt I love that coconutty taste. It's unsweetened unflavored and I'm going to add a little bit of lime juice to it just to kind of Jazz it up a little bit and give it that little Tart refreshing flavor of lime. So just add a little bit to your yogurt You can taste it if you want a little more lime go ahead and add it. So just stir it up good and Then I'm going to slather it over the top of the watermelon slice and the yogurt is our pizza sauce so spread it around to cover the pizza and You can leave that rind along the edge uncovered because that's the crust and Then I like to put some berries over it today I've got some blueberries and just sprinkle that as one of the toppings right over the yogurt and I like to Put some fresh mint and fresh basil over the top just a little bit to add that summer flavor Little basil and then over the top. I've got some chopped Pistachios, but you could also use some toasted slivered almonds even some toasted coconut all you have to do is Slice it pizza style into wedges serve it up and enjoy. I'm Sue Dodin sharing good food for good life 365


My name is Ruben Sanchez and I'm from Liberty High School. I will be attending the University of Oregon in the fall. I will become a trauma surgeon. I will attend OSU Honors College in the fall and I will become a physician. And I will become a psychologist. And I will become again a college nurse. And I will become a registered nurse. Family practitioner. A public health educator. This event is one of the highlights of my year. It gives me energy to see the brilliant, diverse, and hard-working young adults who will be joining us as we take care of patients in the future. More than three-quarters of our Kaiser scholars this year are from diverse backgrounds, more than half are bilingual. And what's exciting for us is the people that you end up serving just a few years after your college education. You're going to help represent who they are and what they want for their health as well. The scholarship shows me that the sky's the limit for my ability and that I need to take the chance and opportunity to advance my life in others. It is a motivation for me to keep fighting the fight for a better future ahead of me. Congratulations to you all and thank you. I believe in each and every one of us to stand up stronger every time we're knocked down, whether it be from hardship, unexpected disasters, or seemingly endless homework. My advice for you as you embark upon your educational career, you have to pull from within yourself to say that I really want this. No matter how hard it is I'm gonna stick it out and I want this. You can do this. You've already figured out how to study, how to get good grades. There is a person at the end of everything we do. You have the privilege and you have the responsibility of someone's life being entrusted to you. And you got to get it right. Don't be afraid to ask for help early and often. So I'm going to share with you just three simple affirmations that I hope you will commit to memory and call upon when you need it. I am a Kaiser Permanente scholar and I can do this. I am a Kaiser Permanente scholar and I get to do this. I am a Kaiser Permanente scholar and I am loved.


Welcome to a new Pressure Plastic video. In this video we're going to show you how to make a plastic bowl using a laser-cutted mold. So making molds like this means you can make them very accurate and easy to make another one because you just laser all the parts again. We provide all the drawings for this in our download pack and we have Matijs from the Netherlands who's going to show you how to do that. Hello. Hey. First I will show you how to make a laser-cut mold. Then I will show you the molding process and at last I will show you how to finish up the bowl. Let's get started. Yeah. So before making the mold make sure that you separate all the parts so it's easy to recognize them and then remove all the brims with the angle grinder so it's easier to connect them together. I started with welding the small bowl. I just took some plates and welded the points together. Always make sure to first weld all the corners together and then make the long lines. This prevents the parts of warping. After finishing the small bowl I welded the big bowl. With the big bowl I want to be sure that all the edges are really flush so I use some tape and some matches to first hold it into place and then weld everything together. After welding the balls make sure to make the edges as smooth as possible. This will make it easier to release the ball from the mold. Especially the inner balls should be really, really smooth. So after grinding I use sandpaper to sand it down first and then to polish it. Especially the inner part should be as smooth as possible so it's easy to take it out. This ball is a bit more difficult to sand so I use some sandpaper and did it by hand.  First make sure that the spacers will fit and then weld them together.  I use some paint first to make it recognizable which part is the inner and which one is the outer part so I made them black so it's easy to recognize and easy to stack them together. For the molding process I use some mold release. This step is optional you don't need it but this can help with getting the ball out of the mold. So if you recognize your ball is sticking to the mold you can use some mold release to make it easier to remove. The ball approximately weighs 300 grams. I use around 350 grams of plastic so it's easy to recognize when everything is molten in the oven. You can see some material flow out and then you know it's time to get it out of the oven and clamp it together. Then if you fill it make sure that it already will touch the sides and then put the counter part in and make sure it's evenly spread. After fitting the ball I put it into the oven. The oven was on 220 degrees preheated. After 30 minutes I checked if the material was totally molded by compressing the mold. When I saw that the material was flowing out I turned off the oven and let it cool down. To streamline your process you can also compress outside of the oven. For that we did an upgrade on the oven. This you can see at an upgrade page of the start section of the website. This was the molding process. For finishing up the ball I use a sharp knife. Polypropylene is not easy to sand because it's too soft. So I use a sharp knife to first remove the excess material and then I scratch all the ashes which make them really smooth and nice. At last I edit the polypropylene logo. This to make sure that you still know this ball is made of polypropylene so it will be recyclable in the future. After mastering the technique of making this ball you can play around with colors like mixing different colors together making a proper green one making a just plain white one or to play with different materials like polystyrene really solid or this one also from polystyrene. This one is a nice polish finish and it's also translucent as you can see. All right thank you. So that was the process on how to make your own mold using laser-cutted parts and how to make a ball. If you want to know more about how to finish a ball you can watch the video on our website. Thanks for watching and if you have any questions feel free to post the topic in our forums. So see you next time. Bye.


Now, to my understanding, Elon Musk, just like Bill Gates and many past prominent media celebrities have been put in the spotlight to distract from the people running the show, pulling the strings, the puppeteers, as it has always been. In the case of Elon Musk specifically, he's been an irritatingly prominent character. You have to understand that no individual person has that much power and wealth. And if they did, they wouldn't want every single person on the planet to know about it. Elon probably also doesn't want you to know that most of his persona is entirely fabricated as he didn't even graduate college, let alone get a degree in physics. Just recently, Elon Musk has allegedly acquired Twitter. Everyone, I'm an Elon man. My bag, my bag. I love you. I need my solider. Now, there's no proof of that outside of news articles and media posts, no legal documentation, no official paperwork, just getting people to believe it through their control of the media. It does sound like an alien is using Elon as a mouthpiece to talk through. I wanted to reach out personally to share my motivation in acquiring Twitter. There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter and what I think about advertising. Most of it has been wrong. The reason I acquire Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner without resorting to violence. There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society. In the relentless pursuit of clicks, much of traditional media has fueled and catered to those polarized extremes. As they believe, that is what brings in the money. But in doing so, the opportunity for dialogue is lost. You know, with how much Elon Musk has manipulated the stock market with Tesla and Bitcoin over the past few years, he should be the last person talking about money because I would argue he is the most responsible for money lost and gained between the Bitcoin, Dogecoin nonsense and Tesla shooting up and down. Also really ironic for him to talk about divide and conquer, when the same people controlling him are the ones who strive to divide people as much as possible, get us to hate each other, deterring as much attention from the elite as possible. Elon Musk is, quite possibly, the largest distraction yet. Of course, butting his nose in the rusted Ukraine war, no reason to be involved in it whatsoever, just pushing the mainstream agendas further. But what's the real reason for Elon Musk to be viewed as the owner of Twitter? You know, whether he really owns it or not is kind of irrelevant to the dog and pony shell. widespread verification will democratize journalism and empower the voice of the people.  How crazy would it be if you have a smart refrigerator and you have a dream about overthrowing the government and then when you wake up in the morning for breakfast, the refrigerator doesn't let you open it. Not out of the realm of possibilities, guys. And they might have pushed the envelope a bit too far with Elon suggesting digital ID for Twitter, kind of the same with Neuralink when people were freaking out about brain chips, microchips. But Elon tried to make them look cool and beneficial. Yeah, you really need that improved memory. You're going to be so smart after we wipe out all your thoughts with five gram antennas. Fantastic. Yeah, so to the general public, Elon Musk is supposed to be some super smart, successful, intelligent, world-saving tech guru billionaire. Yeah, that wants to improve humanity.  And this graphic someone made parallels the world economic forms, crazy statements to Elon Musk's, you know, the carbon tax, the universal basic income, getting jabbed, microchips, and one world government. And you guys got to keep in mind that one of the biggest tactics they use is they gain your trust, tell you some truth, appeal to you, but then they suddenly swing back into the normal agenda.  So they have no creative thought or imagination but go figure. Anyway, thank you guys for joining me.  If you do want to support me, you can check out frank-defaunow.com where you'll see all of my businesses. Outside of that guys, please drop a like on the video, leave a comment down below, subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week, and be sure to check that notification bell so they don't notify you of my videos. Come on guys, go to frank-defaunow.com, support me, take some stress off me so I have time to relax and actually iron my shirts for these videos.


Hello. I'm Leigh Ann George, the coordinator of the spec survey program at the Association of Research Libraries. And I'd like to thank you for joining us for this spec survey webcast. Today we'll hear about the results of the survey on learning analytics. These results have been published in speckit360, which is freely available at publications.arl.org. Before we begin, I just have a couple of announcements. Some of the presenters have been muted to cut down on background noise, so if you are part of the group today, feel free to speak among yourselves. You won't interrupt. But we do want you to join the conversation by typing questions in the chat box that's in the lower left corner of your screen. At the end of the presentation, we'll read your questions aloud and then the presenters will answer them. This webcast is being recorded and we'll send all registered slides and a link to the recording in about a week. Now let me introduce our seven authors. Michael Perry is head of assessment and planning at Northwestern University Library. Kristen Braney is data services librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Abigail Gogan is assistant professor of information services and liaison librarian at the Library of Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Andrew Asher is the assessment librarian at Indiana University Bloomington. Kyle Jones is assistant professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Indianapolis. Brooke Robert Shaw isn't able to join us today. She's assistant professor and assessment librarian at Oregon State University Libraries and Press. And Dorothea Salo, also unable to join us, is the faculty associate in the Information School in the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If you want to continue the conversation with us on Twitter, you can use this hashtag that's on the lower right side of your screen. They are all speckit360. Now let me turn the presentation over to Michael. Thank you so much, Leanne. So to begin with and set the stage for what we'll be talking about, what are learning analytics? For this project, we use the common Simon's definition above. Learning analytics are the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their context for the purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environment in which it occurs. So how does learning analytics differ from the more well-known world of library assessment? So if we think about learning analytics as the aggregation and analysis of student data for those purposes of understanding learning and the context in which it occurs, assessment is actually the evaluation of student learning outcomes using those educational designs. So learning analytics is different from assessment because, one, the data is primarily quantitative. And two, it does not have time to focus on the strategic educational designs but observation of student behaviors, learning, or otherwise, and the relationship to the variety of outcomes. So with those definitions out of the way, what topics do we cover in the survey? The main areas focused on learning analytic initiative participation amongst libraries, library practices around those, library and institutional data sharing, data protections that are put in place for learning analytics data, privacy policies and the practices around with them, procedures and trainings for library staff on the various components of learning analytics initiatives, and then, finally, partnerships between libraries and other entities. So the survey had a 53 respondents of the 125 ARL institutions that was 42%. Questions were not required, so the response rate for individual questions may vary and those will be all highlighted in the respective slides to come. The survey was open from April 30th to June 15th, 2018. So what does the overall learning analytic participation look like? Of the 53 responding libraries, 81% indicated that their institutions were participating in learning analytics projects, which suggests a broad uptick across ARL institutions. Nearly three-quarters of those respondents indicated that they had staff allocated to these projects. So setting the stage aside, I'll now turn it over to Kristen to talk about the findings on library data practices. We're both advancing the slide. Thanks Mike, you're being very helpful. So I'm going to talk a little bit about the practices around learning analytics and learning analytics data in particular. So when it comes down to staff allocated for learning analytics and CSI components of institutions who applied saying they are participating, and of those that are participating, the majority of those actually are using librarians to do the data collection and analysis. So all the responding libraries said that they have staff librarians gathering learning analytics data, and the vast majority of those libraries say that staff librarians are involved in the analysis of that data. The numbers are a little bit smaller for non-librarian staff. 89% of the respondents also had non-librarians gathering the data, but only 64% of respondents had non-librarians analyzing that data. When it comes to the types of data being collected, we see chart breakdown here. We're seeing a lot of information on library instruction being gathered, and this kind of correlates with some of the library staff being in charge of collecting that data. Also seeing quite a bit of information being gathered kind of automatically on research usage. But the most common data collected is research reference consultations and instructions. And it's a little bit interesting to see the breakdown here. The darker green is with identifying information, and the lighter green is without identifying information. So it's really a mixed data being collected with identifying information without identifying information. Now what libraries do with that data is a little bit mixed. So fewer than half of the libraries reported sharing the data with other departments on campus or with the central data warehouse, but another 20% did indicate they were planning to share this information within the next 6 or 12 months. Those numbers don't actually encapsulate the form and format of that data that is being shared, that is something a little bit deeper within the actual results you can go look at within the survey. But most of what we see is that libraries are sharing data with other departments that correlates with collection usage rather than data about patron interaction. And this kind of correlates with what historically we expected we'd be sharing collection information. There are some libraries that are not sharing or not sharing all of their data, and we asked libraries basically why they weren't doing that. The top responses for not contributing data to the institution really center around privacy and confidentiality although lack of resources such as personnel and time also played a very important role in decisions not to share that data. I should define privacy versus confidentiality a little bit more in detail to make sure things are clear. So privacy is kind of keeping information to yourself so we're not choosing not to disclose information such as the patron deciding they don't want to disclose information versus confidentiality as the library has the data but we hold it confidential and it's known but it's kept within the library. All right, next thing we want to talk about is library data collection. One thing that's been interesting is that in response to learning analytics it seems that libraries are actually collecting more information. So the majority of libraries indicated this is 91% that in response to institutional learning analytics efforts they're actually collecting the same or more data with personal identifiers than they had previously. So there's some indication that the amount of data that the libraries are collecting is going up with these new efforts to do learning analytics. Despite that increase only about 50% felt that library data was important to campus level initiatives. And it's actually a really interesting breakdown graph here and we asked two different questions. How important do you think library data is to institutional learning analytics? And how important do you think library it is for the library administration to participate in learning analytics? So the green, the dark green is very important, the light green is not important, and the middle green is important. So you're seeing a slight difference in how libraries are judging the value of analytics because when you ask libraries about the importance of library data to the institution in general, maybe a little over half are deeming it important or very important, but when you ask about the importance of learning analytics to library administration all of a sudden you're looking at the majority of libraries saying it's important or very important to the library administration to participate in learning analytics. So we found this result to be pretty interesting that there seemed to be a difference between the perceived value of the library data within learning analytics versus the library data to the administration within the library. I'm going to wrap up my topics about data in particular. I could talk about data all day. I'm a data librarian, but I want to talk about data protection because this is a really interesting topic and one that comes up a lot when you start talking about learning analytics. So we asked libraries to go through some information about how they're protecting that data and that data protection encompasses quite a lot of different factors. So one thing we asked about, for example, was are you anonymizing your data and how are you doing that? Of the 50-some institutions that responded, only 15 described a technique for anonymizing their data. So if they were collecting data with identifiers and then they subsequently anonymized that, they had some description of that. A lot of those actually said that they received de-identified data from the Office of Institutional Research. So when they received learning analytics data from the university, it was already de-identified. There wasn't a lot of really in-depth anonymization techniques that were being described. Another data protection that is often put in place is to limit the retention of sensitive information. And it's interesting that about 38% of the libraries report having a records management schedule or a policy that controls the retention of learning analytics data. That breaks down a little bit further that nine libraries that didn't have a retention schedule or a policy report that they planned to hold onto learning analytics data indefinitely. There's really a wide variety of practices with respect to how long this data is being retained. On the data management side, if you're interested in that like me, only two libraries reported having a data management plan for learning analytics data. To give a little bit broader breakdown of some of the protections that libraries are putting into place, we have this graph here. The top things that libraries are doing to protect learning analytics data is limiting staff access to the raw data which might include identifiers. After that, they're removing those direct identifiers from the data. For example, removing a student ID so you can't correlate library checkout information with a particular student. And limiting the scope of data collection to make sure we're not collecting too much data on any particular student. So there's quite a variety of data protections that are being put into place. Some libraries are doing more. Some libraries are doing less. But the top things that people are doing, libraries are doing are to limit access to the raw data, remove those direct identifiers, and to limit the scope of data collection. And with that, Abigail is going to dig a little bit more into privacy policies and practices. So Abigail, there's a slide for you and it's all yours. All right. Thank you, Kristen. So to address the back half of the survey that we sent out, we wanted to know what are people gathering and what are people doing with that data. But we also wanted to know some of the infrastructure that was available for staff, for students who are engaged with these learning analytics. So we wanted to ask some of those infrastructure questions and see where best practices were and what we could find out. So where we started with this was privacy policies and practices. And as you can see, 90% of the libraries who responded indicated that they had some sort of privacy policy at their institution but a much smaller number, only 62%. And that number is not right. Kristen, do we know what the other number is? Have a separate library policy. I'll have that on a chart in a second. We asked about how often those privacy policies were updated and whether that had been updated, whether those privacy policies had been updated regarding learning analytics. And it was really fascinating to see that there was no consistency when those policies were reviewed, how frequently, and only seven libraries told us that they had specifically updated for learning analytics. Abigail, those numbers are correct. I'm the data person. So does your institution have a privacy policy? 90% said yes. Thank you. Separate from the institution's policy, 62% said yes. But 50 people answered. Correct. The ends are how many people answered that question? Okay. Thank you. So when we asked what was in those privacy policies, so of the 62% who said they had a library privacy policy, what did those refer to? And as you can imagine, the primary thing that they referred back to was that university policy and also then the state policies on library records. A number of them also, so about a quarter of respondents said that they pointed back to the ALA Code of Ethics and then other terms of services. Interestingly, this was right about the time of GDPR. We did not see that come up particularly. Another question that we asked about was about informed consent and how learning analytics projects were reviewed within the library. 42% of the libraries said they informed students about library learning analytics initiatives. However, only four of those libraries said there was a mechanism for their students to opt in. So while there may be telling people that we're gathering this information, there wasn't a specific opt in. We also saw that the majority of our respondents thought IRB approval, and 60% of the libraries indicated that they reviewed FERPA with their staff members when they are addressing learning analytics work. We thought the informed consent was probably the most interesting number out of those, and this chart reflects what it is that we were finding there. So of the 43 respondents to that particular question, 18 informed students that there were learning analytics happening, that we were gathering this information and doing something with it. So 25 said they do not inform students in any way. And of the 18 who said they informed the students, four allowed for opt in, five allowed for opt out, and six said that they neither provide an opt in or an opt out method. So there were only five respondents total who gave students a way to opt out of participating in learning analytics. Now in terms of procedures this builds out a little bit further on IRB as well as the FERPA questions that we had already asked. And we asked about procedures within the library. Were there internal staff guidelines and documentation? And that was only available at 25% of the libraries who responded to that question. Further only 33% of libraries had any kind of process for handling external requests for campus entities. So before Kristen said it's very common for us to think about sharing collections data, and that was where we saw the most data going from the library to a department but there was no particular process at 26% of the libraries for handling those external requests if they asked for that data. In terms of the training that library staff involved with learning analytics, it usually had to do with using specific tools and then IRB and FERPA requirements. City training came up a lot. These were the breakdown of the types of training that library staff used. As you can see the focus was mostly on tools and IRB requirements. Here's how to gather the data. Here's how to use spring share or another specific tool. And then it goes further down. You can see at the bottom there was eight respondents who said data cleaning, nine with anonymization practices, seven respondents told us there was no training. So we didn't track particularly to see what those particular institutions were gathering so that will be an interesting further question in the data what they're actually doing but they're not offering any training to their staff about library learning analytics. And then finally we asked about partnerships. We wanted to know what was happening both at the campus level and then also at the professional level. And almost 40% nearly half of the respondents for that question said they are participating in some sort of learning analytics initiative alongside other campus units. And that raises an interesting question back to the value chart that Kristen pointed to earlier. When we look at it on a professional level, nearly a third of respondents said they were working with Consorcia, Goela, the Greater Western Library Alliance Success Initiative, and the UNISN project both came up specifically as Consorcia where library learning analytics are being gathered on a regional or national level. And I will turn it back to Michael to wrap us up. Thank you so much Abigail. So having looked through all of this data and analyzed the response to the surveys the group came up with some recommendations for libraries about how to approach learning analytics and learning analytics data. First among those, libraries should put in place a schedule for reviewing and developing privacy and data management policies. The process should be handled by an informed dedicated committee office or individual which would be indicated on the policy. And it's really important policies should be written in a clear, concise understandable language so that students actually understand what the policy is outlining. Wherever possible, actual systems and data types should be identified in the policies so that they get a very clear picture about what data is being captured and used. And policies should include a revision history approval process, last review date, as well as contact information for that individual or committee that is handling that work. Wherever appropriate policies should link back to governing documents such as university policies, state and federal laws, and ALA ethics. And the one thing, and this is something that Kristen talked about that I think is vitally important there, is really developing internal data management policies for libraries learning analytics projects. That is the service that many libraries offer for their faculty so it's something that we should have the capacity to do in-house. Second, libraries should explain training on data handling best practices, really that go beyond institutional FERPA and IRB training and requirements. Library staff would most benefit from training on underutilized data protection practices identified in the survey's results such as technical protections like encryption, storage and transit, processes for data minimization including limited data collection and retention times, and anonymization strategies. Library should commit to protecting privacy of their information about their users and their information habits. And such commitments should be applied to the user data that they keep and share. Third, as many projects are perceived to be for internal use only the institutional review board may not be contacted even when the data are subsequently used for research. Similarly, many IRBs do not see the data already collected as carrying potential for harm. Libraries should develop best practices for assessing the ethical and personal privacy risks to students internally. Rather than relying on IRBs regardless of whether they have immediate plans for disseminating the findings of their work. The changing nature of learning analytics data means a lot of those policies that are laid out by IRBs don't really fully bring to bear some of the concerns that might be raised. Fourth and final recommendation, libraries should be more transparent with their students about learning analytics projects. Only one respondent provided a clear document outlining learning analytics projects that were going on in the institution. And it was even unclear if that document was actually publicly available to students. This transparency includes engaging with students to inform them about what data is collected and how it's being used. And really getting a sense of turning them into partners on any potential projects that they are being included in. Thank you Michael and Kristen and Abigail. And now we welcome your questions participants. Join that conversation by typing your questions in the chat box in the lower left corner of your screen. And we will read the questions allowed before the presenters answer them. And while you're typing, I'll get you started here. So what was the most surprising finding from the survey? I'll go ahead and get started. I think one of the things that jumped out me the most that I've been thinking about kind of recurrently was in the types of data that were being collected. And it was the security systems, namely security cameras and CCTV things, of which I believe it was either 23 or 25 people identified that they were collecting that data and using it for learning analytics, which was kind of surprising to me. The thing that really stuck with me though in thinking about that was one of them tagged that as not identified data, which is kind of interesting as you think of video of someone doing something in the space. There's any number of efforts to underway in different industries that look at trying to re-identify people based on data, video data. So it was really interesting not only that we were collecting and using that data, but we thought just because we didn't have in place a way of connecting that to an identified person, it should be obvious that really video of someone is identifiable. I think for me, speaking as a data person, I think one of the things that was most surprising is how all over the place the retention policies were. I kind of had a sense of people doing more or less data protections and that made sense with what I see with researchers, but I guess it's because I'm at a public institution which has record management schedules for everything. So I was surprised that it was under half had retention policy for this type of data, and particularly surprising was the number of respondents who say that they were holding onto this data indefinitely. And that raised a few concerns with me about how to protect that data if it's being held on to for all time. So we do have a couple of questions coming in, so I'll go ahead. This is Kyle Jones. By the way, I'll go ahead and read off the first. So the first is from Sarah Lippincott, and she says I'm really surprised by the finding that so few librarians think that the data they collect are relevant to campus learning analytics projects. This seems to imply that many respondents don't believe their library's activities and services contribute to student learning or success. Is there another explanation? I think I can take that one. This is Abigail. I don't know that it is that they don't believe that they're not contributing to learning or student success. I think that they don't see that the quantification is useful at the campus level. I would be hesitant to assign a lack of value of library services to whether or not hash marks of who's walking into the building or counts of who's walking into the building is useful at the campus level. So I think they're two different questions, and I'm not sure that I'd have to go back and look at the data. We didn't really have the opportunity to go into why they felt it wasn't that. That would be a very interesting question to dive deeper into. So I can follow up on that for a second. So I've been really interested in looking through the qualitative results, looking at people's comments on various questions. One of the things that really stuck out to me is kind of a theme is that people express that this is very new work. This is nascent work. They're trying to understand better what the capacities and capabilities are. So it may not be that they don't think it would be valuable. They just don't know what the first steps would be to interacting at a larger institutional level. And this is Michael. The other thing that I was thinking about was I think in a matter of just trying to execute these projects, there's probably bigger systems that should get more bang for your buck out of leveraging first. Namely, whatever your learning platform is be it Canvas, Blackboard or something else. The wealth of data that's available is there ends up being the primary driver for a lot of these projects. Whereas library data tends to be very siloed between individual systems and in often different formats. So I think a lot of places are starting with that more centralized, larger data set. And then beginning to look at, well, okay, if we have that, how can you pull in other things? Going on to another question here by Roxy and Selberg. The question is, did any of the respondents indicate any positive results from any of the learning analytics work that they were doing? I'm not sure that was really the focus of our survey in terms of what people were actually doing with the results. We were more trying to figure out are people participating in learning analytics and some of the considerations around privacy and data workflow. So I think that maybe Kyle has a different answer having gone more into the qualitative pretext response of that. But I don't think our survey was necessarily designed to answer what people were doing with the results of their learning analytics endeavors. Yeah, I would second that, Kristen. I didn't see anything in qualitative data that suggests that people were commenting on the efficacy of these projects. They were more talking about the processes, the practices, the documentation that forms them. So it would require different questions to get at those types of results. And the following question kind of connects to that last one. And it is, do any libraries maintain documentation of the studies or research being conducted on a regular basis? And again, for my understanding or my review of our work, that's not a question that we asked about. However, if that's something that you are interested in, I know from my own research I've been really informed by looking at the OCLC database on the value of academic libraries research. So it's a very good data visualization tool for putting down what type of, what I would consider the learning analytics type of work that's been going on in academic libraries. And just generally to add on with that, I didn't get the impression that they were documenting the research being done. There may be one or two exemplars who are tracking that, but I didn't get the impression when people were talking about where the data gets used that there's good either internal or external. This is where we use this data because of the low number of data management plans and retention and that kind of documentation that we did find. Yes, we did only have one person that did actually provide a document that outlined learning analytics projects in that sort of holistic way. I'll be honest, it's been a while since I looked at that specific document because it was attached not within the survey results itself. So I don't even remember the detail that it went into, but there was only one person that had anything even resembling that that was provided. So moving on to another question or last question that we currently have, Catherine says that the important analytics to me, a library and educator have to do with to what extent students are applying what they learned in the library to their lives and work. For this, we use the Kirkpatrick model of training evaluation. Do other librarians use this model? If not, what models of evaluation are they using? How well do they work? Do you have any info on this? In a model like this, be useful for this broader question of the value of the library to students' success. So we didn't ask that. I know I'm not using the Kirkpatrick model, so I will speak for myself that I'm not using that. So we did not ask about application. I think that would be a really interesting follow-on or something else to look at. But this was much more focused on I think what we're seeing right now is a much bigger focus on quantitative capture of usage primarily. Like, do they have a reference consult? Not what did they learn and apply and do out of that reference consult, but did they have one? Or ask a question at the reference desk. I think we're still in that nascent phase where that's more of the questions that we're asking are these things we can pick off pretty easily rather than necessarily being able to look at the application further down. Yeah, and I would echo back to what Mike said at the beginning of the presentation about the difference between learning analytics and assessment, because we really didn't get into assessment that really deep are we being effective versus learning analytics, which is more the quantifying what we do in libraries, which was particularly what this survey is asking about. I suspect there's other literature out there that goes more into these deeper measures of assessment using various models. And this survey is really looking at I love the word nascent. I want to start using that all the time when I talk about library learning analytics. It's kind of nascent growth that we have with quantitative assessment kind of across the board what data do we have, how can we use it, what does it show and showing that that's really kind of a new area of growth in the library. So I have a question for you to talk about this nascent project. For our listeners who maybe have yet to begin learning analytics projects or just getting started with LA, what do you think should be their first steps for ethical practices and protecting privacy? That is a lovely question. Yeah, that's a very, very good question. So I have an answer from kind of the practical side of things because I think about data protections a lot and somebody else can answer kind of the ethical ramifications. But I think really having a considered approach to all this data collection and kind of thinking through things, what do you really want to know, what did you do need to answer that question, trying to think about do you need that to be identified at the individual level or not. And if you do need individually identified data, what protections you're going to put into place and how long you're going to hold onto that data before you hopefully delete it. So I think kind of a more measured approach is what I personally advocate for kind of thinking through the privacy and the data protection implications as we go along. Because I think it's very easy to say oh my gosh we have all this data and go for stuff and then realize you're doing things that might have privacy implications. But if you think about privacy through kind of all those steps and how that plays out in terms of what you're collecting and how long you're keeping it, that's the approach that I would advocate for kind of as a data protection advocate. My colleagues might have other answers. Go ahead. I think Kristen is setting me up here since we butt heads on whether or not we should be practical about these questions or a little more philosophical about them and I tend to take the philosophical angle. And I guess what I would ask of all of you would be to consider the consequences of participating in this space in the first place. What social structures are you supporting what power dynamics are you enabling in what ways are you propping up the quantification of student life in ways that don't need to be quantified or can have a lot of other harms on student life besides privacy but things like autonomy and a student's ability to pursue his or her interests according to insertional values. Those are the questions that I'm a bit more concerned with though I definitely appreciate the practical approach in having kind of privacy embedded in the practice of doing learning analytics. I think that is the way to do it instead of thinking about it as an afterthought. Go ahead. And I think to follow up on what you were just saying, one of the important things for me was that fourth recommendation, be transparent about what you're doing. I know that students understand what you're doing, what you think the perceived benefit of doing it is going to be, and really try to make them partners in this work. It was a conversation that I recently had with our campus's head of enterprise systems and analytics about his conversations around this because he's very interested in the notion of what student perceptions of privacy are and how those might be changing. And when he's talked to people he's like the most frequent response I get from people is just do you think this is going to help me? And can you explain how this is going to help me? So I think in thinking through those things that Kyle pointed out, really think through too what the actual benefits for students are going to be. And I think you can make an informed decision about is the potential benefit going to outweigh concerns that you have. And then in making sure that the whole process is transparent to students they can get information about that. And I personally think can opt out if they so choose. I think we can offer a system that I think we can all feel a little bit better about. I will point my favorite question which is what happens if someone who doesn't have good intent gets their hands on this data? We tend to approach it from how will this help our students? What will this do? I like to play the devil's advocate and say okay well if we're tracking all of these things like that video tracking that Michael mentioned before what's the worst? What if we have someone misuse that data to stalk someone or something like that? What are the worst case scenarios because we need to be thinking about those now? Thank you presenters and thank you all for joining us today to discuss the results of this learning analytics survey. And I will remind you once again that you will receive links to the slides and recording in the next week.


The 2020 census provides a snapshot of our nation, our population, where we live, and so much more. The results are critically important because this once a decade census data determines how federal funding is allocated to cities and communities that rely on it for social programs, infrastructure, and more. Completing the census in an age of misinformation poses challenges. With me today is DeVere Cohen, senior writer and editor focusing on immigration and demographics at Pew Research Center and Robert Santos, vice president and chief methodologist at the Urban Institute where he's an expert in social science and policy research. So first, what's the what's the what are the Pew trusts doing to try to help educate people in this time? We have a lot of interesting work going at Pew Research Center. We've been taking surveys of the population asking people what they know about the census and what they think about it. We just released one last week in which people said favorable things about the census. They'd heard of it. But there's also a lot of mistaken beliefs out there. For example, most people think there's a citizenship question on the census, which there is not. We're also writing blog posts. And my favorite thing is we've published something called a mini course. You sign up for five short emails written in plain English telling you all about the census, how it's done, its history, the challenges it faces, and what the data might show. So it's interesting when she says that a lot of people still think that there's a citizenship question. What are the implications of that? The implications are that because of the year-long citizenship fracas, there's been fear instilled into the immigrant community and the Latinx community. And that fear does not go away simply with the declaration by the Supreme Court. We expect that that's going to have a risk of non-performance or non-participation by the Latino population. And what kind of under-representation or what kind of hesitation do we see already in that community? Already there are expressions in the community of individuals questioning the use of the census data, how it's going to be used. There are efforts being made to try to get the message out that the data will not be used in that capacity, however, it's an uphill struggle. This is traditionally something that is supposed to be just raw numbers. We're not talking about politics here. We're talking about a relatively simple idea, who are you, where you're from, etc. But when politics creeps into it, or even history, let's say if you were one of the DACA recipients and you decided to register and all of a sudden here you are finding that perhaps that wasn't your best interest long-term, how does that complicate all of these things? Well, really the census face is a long-term challenge in counting what they call hard to count populations. So it's not just the immigrants that we're focusing on today, but also communities of color. Our own survey work showed that black adults and Latino adults were less likely to say they were going to participate in the census than other groups, young adults, many of whom who haven't taken a census before are less willing to say they're going to participate. So this has been a challenge the Bureau has faced for decades, and they're hoping that they're going to be able to do a better job this time, and we'll see. And if somebody says, listen, these are rounding errors. What's a quarter of a percent under count mean? What's one percent? What are the real ripple effects of that? Well, it's funny that folks say that the last, the 2010 census was how did to be the most accurate ever within a few hundreds of a percent of the total population. However, that masked the fact that there was an over count of certain populations, like white and elderly, while there was an under count of Latinx population, Asian Americans, African Americans, people who rent the hard to count populations that we just discussed. And because of that, the implications are that within states and within communities, the minority areas or neighborhoods, communities that are underrepresented tend to get less than they deserve, based on a true count, while other communities get more than they deserve. And when we look at this kind of in the long term and in Pew Research, you've been doing these things for a long time, thinking, have people's attitudes toward the census changed? The census every 10 years has a knowledge struggle, because what do you remember from 10 years ago? Do you remember that you filled out your form or not even? So they have to get people educated. And we find that the same kinds of mistaken beliefs persist. For example, 10 years ago, we did a survey. We asked, is the census required by law? Many people thought it wasn't. Most people, in fact, and the same thing is still true today. So each time it's like the wave comes in again and washes away the footprints in the sand and they have to start again. It's a persistent problem. We're at a journalism conference and we were just talking off-camera. You're having trainings for journalists because newsrooms look different every 10 years. And not everybody remembers covering the last census if they have done it. That's right. This is my fourth census, I will say. First two as a journalist and second two with Pew Research. But you find a unicorn when you find a journalist who's covered more than one. Not to mention multiple ones. And of course, what's going on in journalism these days with all the turnover and new journalism organizations coming on, there are a lot of folks who've never done it before. So there's a lot of training going on out there by multiple groups, including the Pointer Institute, whose workshops I've been doing. But also the IRE journalism organization Reveal is doing something. There's a group called News Counts that's matching up academics and press people funded by Knight Foundation. So there's a lot going on out there and we'll see whether it meets the need. We flicked at it. But the climate of misinformation or disinformation, how much of an impact does that have? And what kinds of, if you've got any anecdotal evidence or examples of how are people, well, purposefully steered or misguided when they see information about the census that could be really impactful in their lives? It's a big problem because most folks nowadays get their news and information from social media. And because of that, the opportunity and the risk of infusing misinformation into those venues heightens the risk that people are going to come away with misperceptions about what's really going on in the world. Now, Pugh just did a survey on misinformation, correct? So you should work and discuss some of the results. Yeah. That's not so much my area, but I do know that for journalists, there's a balancing act. You don't want to feed the flames by saying, there's this information out there specifically this, but it's wrong because there's some concern that that might fuel people's memories in the wrong direction. So as I understand it, and it's, again, not my area. You don't want to amplify a bad signal in the first place, right? That's right. Right.  You know, camouflage misinformation in the guise of truth. For example, there were letters that were sent out by a certain political party that appeared to look like official Census Bureau documents. Even on blue paper. Right. And so there are many ways that misinformation manifests, and the results can be pretty bad. So are you optimistic? You know, every census is a high-risk endeavor, inherently so, because it's the only thing we ask everybody to do in the United States. And so, and it's complicated as our society has gotten more complicated and as people have gotten more fatigued and unwilling to answer surveys. So it's a high-wire act just to describe it really. Previous censuses have had big, you know, problems leading up to them. I could go into them if you want, but just suffice to say that every census has something that comes up that everybody thinks is going to sink it. Who knows? So cautiously optimistic. I'll just say that in the research that we did at the Urban Institute, we took the magnificent performance, purportedly, of the 2010 census, superimposed that performance level on a 2020 population. And we saw an undercount. And so we're a bit cautious about that. The problem, not the problem is, the beauty is that the United States is becoming a more diverse population. But the more diverse population tends to include the people that are hard to count. And so there is a real challenge on the Census Bureau's hands. We are doing all we can to make sure that everybody gets counted, that we convince that we try to engage grassroots efforts, peer to peer, to get people to understand that it's okay to participate and that they deserve to be counted. And so that's what that's, we're right now just focused on trying to get the count out. Okay. Bob Santos from the Urban Institute, DeVaricole from, DeVaricole and from Pew Research. Thanks so much for joining us. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you.