All right Hello everybody if it's Wednesday, it's Warhammer and that must mean it's time for another episode of Warhammer weekly live It's working I can see it right there. Can you see my head? Can you see your head? Yeah, you're in the frame Don't lean that way. Okay. All right everybody. Hi. We have a big audience as you just heard I'm sure everybody heard that over the mic No, I'm engaging our you know our viewers joining me as my new permanent co-host Tyler This is what I realized I probably need a catchphrase you do Also joining me yes is Tom sadly. He's here. What's up Tom? Hello friends. All right I'm so excited to be doing this live. This is wonderful quick shout out to Damon who Helped us organize this whole thing and gave us the room and all of that. He leads up all the hobby stuff here I hope everybody is participating in all the hobby events at adept con if you're watching this out there in the audience And right here, it's okay. Yeah, that seems like good Yes, thank you for watching that live because obviously I can't do it right now If you're if you're here, I hope you're enjoying the hobby classes and doing all the fun stuff I mean, that's what this event is really all about right? It's the hobby stuff all the rest of this is just ancillary Something I've heard they play games. I've never taken part in them And if you're not at adept con you're missing out you should come here next year. There we go. Okay, so we're gonna get right into it No other Is that better? You didn't do anything Never mind. All right So What does it say? What about your face? Oh your face is in the way. Oh the mics in the way your face I don't know move in a direction that gets it out of your face. You do you this is Tom here. He's there. Okay Let's talk about the GW reveal everyone Everybody's important Tom. All right, we're gonna do some Q&A afterward by the way. Let's get into this Overall hot takes here. We go the reveal show Tyler One out of ten one being you would have rather done literally anything else in the entire universe Up to and including repainting all the walls in your house and then watching them dry you don't mean it was the Greatest experience of your life bar none. It was religious. You had an epiphany. You have seen the face of God One through ten, how are you rating every there is no trees? So three out of ten have us okay, we're not we were exposed to get so that's not everybody knows that and Skaven and we didn't Ghost pirates like Like we finally got pirates No, we finally that's not that I'd say give me a number. Oh Seven I mean, I'm really excited because like like they're dead, right and they're pirates Like this is like this pretty good like Konstantinos. I know Vampirates. Yeah IDK Whatever don't really care about any of that because we actually I got night haunt and I was right after I also have to say That there was this that the boat was gonna be a thing that the boat was gonna be a good night hot thing It's about 18 months late, but you nailed it. I did No, no, but like if you go look at the rumor engines. I called it. This was ghost like this was like undead pirates Okay, I'm giving it to you.  Thanks At least you the correct answer was four out of ten and most of that was for a game. I don't play That is the correct answer. All right, what'd you guys think? Yeah, whatever else you're saying Yeah, it's the night on the night hot carried it Let's do this I'm gonna raise my hand slowly and I want you to clap when I hit your number. Okay, everybody know what I'm saying Okay, if you're a one out of ten two out of ten three out of ten four out of ten five six seven Okay Look, I mean that doesn't tell the whole story. Look, I don't want to be I'm not gonna be mean to anybody here But I'm but like we never do that on the show never do that I am a positive person by nature, but look legit. I was let down by this by this preview show I'm sorry I thought this was the first adepticon in three years the largest wargaming convention in the US the new home of Golden Demon in the United States the biggest the best the most important the most awesome Right Okay, then an anemic 25 minute preview mostly of stuff we knew was coming Doesn't really feel like it blows me away. Why are you so negative?  All right, that that pig was the best part of the preview That's a strong statement. I'm ten out of ten on the pig I'm ten out of ten on the beer thing okay So but like I just you know it we we this is supposedly like a two-hour window of time They blocked out that was legit 25 minutes of content Okay, like we're gonna film more than that and and like absolutely and like hey I appreciate them moving through it quickly like Mike and Eddie are both awesome people. They're both super nice. They're great I have nothing against anybody who put all that together and all of this But like man bring some real reveals show us some stuff like this feels like it fits in an overall It's not something special. We've always had a pretty big model release Yes fire the cons for a west every year need I remind us check the tapes go to the records Daughters of Cain the rock and roll. Nope. No, you're wrong. The second rock and roll video came out here Oh, yeah, I know the second one came out here It did that was the one where this is where they reveal morality at any rate The point is is that there's been so much good stuff here. That's true. Okay, I acknowledge that at any rate Let's get into what was here and talk it through. I've got this 40k thing up on the screen because I actually think it's like a thing I'm super excited for I like painting imperial nights and cast nights and these guys are actually super cool So if you're a 40k crossover like this was a total win for me. The birds were great Yeah, I love like the vultures. Everybody thought was an AOS thing turned out to be no What a wonderful Such a great left turn they pulled out of that rumor engine. So yeah, the bird's been solved Yeah, I don't like this night's horns, but I like his cool tentacles and stuff we seen before Yeah, I'd give him a different face mask, but teach their own. He's awesome. He's awesome. The little on a juror war night is awesome a plus good stuff, but we're not a 40k show, so who cares But I am very excited to paint these nights We don't care indeed. All right, let's talk about the actual AOS adjacent thing here Which is underworlds? Okay And let's talk about this this warband So the exiled dead Well, I'll just scroll through the pictures here Doesn't he looks like a mix of like a delac character Yeah, the necromancer the mix of a delac character with the with the jeans to your cult So let's talk about harrow deep here. We go. Who's excited about this exiled dead All right, I got like okay, let's do this hands in the air, please if you're excited for the exiled dead in the room Okay, one two three four five in a half you get a half credit So I mean that tells the story right it's underwhelming. It's underwhelming look man I they showed us big arm guy. Yeah, and I thought cool We're gonna get a crew of Frankensteins like yes, that's the official name. They're Frankensteins You remember like right when I started I was like, oh, let's get weird, right Let's get super weird give somebody else a big leg and give somebody a giant head And we got like a crouching ghoul Yeah, we got like more we got like what looks like some pretty good conversions on the base zombie kid Somebody with a moderate amount of conversion talent Got that zombie kid and was just like yeah, I can do some of this. I can put some 40k bulls in the bag Like what disappointed me the most was actually the necromancer. Yeah, because Nothing about that models like said techno Nothing about the model said anything regarding like electric like there's no those diodes or none of like it just it was so Blame to me. Yeah. Yeah, but what's fascinating is like with a head swap. He would be decent, right? It was interesting that they said that he was a vampire necromancer, which is not something we've seen So it might be an interesting direction that they're going That stuff is pretty sweet You put a big electro thing on a normal stick like a stick he found outside in the woods It's like I got I've got this super high-tech thing that raises the dead with the power of electricity Which by the way, this isn't the real world. Hmm. This is the mortal realms We don't need the power of electricity to raise the dead.  Yeah, I ate some bad cheese on Tuesday. What happened all the dead in the town raised Oh, man again You know, it's like it's in a magic world like the whole private science monster story Is it as impressive? I had to use pseudoscience magic. It's cool Monday.  Yeah, exactly. All right. Yeah, so overall Let's let's heart monitor this ready. Here we go So All right. Yeah, like Right, I wanted to see more of like a mad scientist type vibe I wanted to see more of like I wanted to see more cool Experiments of them shoving different him to like shoving different dead together Prank of science a really cool concept, right? It's all the different body parts stitched together. It's a strange monster We could have had more exploration there like with all of the different creatures of AOS. Yeah Yeah, you imagine. Why are we still just stitching together humans?  They're good-looking zombies. It's good-looking models. None of this looks bad It's just I wanted to see more you could shave the bolt off and just have more zombies, right? Yeah, exactly. It just it doesn't feel like we went far enough, right? I would have liked to see more Okay Next up the realm of beasts literally comes to life. Okay, so Let's just get into this thing here Dude, I love that dude. All right, the Thondian strong point. I'm gonna start on this box Yeah, because this is the relevant part. Okay, who's excited for this realm-based Terrain box hands in the air put them up One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve. Okay more thirteen. All right more more for this Yeah, so about Four years ago, I was at Warhammer Fest in the UK and I was talking to the head of their Like scenery and terrain group and I said, you know, it'd be a great idea You have these realms and they have wildly different terrain in the books What if we just did like a box of terrain for each realm that people could build their tables? That was my New Year's ball in here. It was yes. Yeah, and I predicted it to everybody Before the mortal realms existed is when you predicted it And I'm not trying to claim credit for this. This is not that's not at all. I'm saying I'm just saying like I think that's been an idea that's been in the zeitgeist for a while because it wasn't I wasn't the only person who thought of that This is good. I actually like this. I like that they're really like a lot of these strange pieces I like I don't know if anybody's built those buildings yet that came in it Did anybody pick up this box that when they would have had the some of the pieces previously They're actually really nice. I will say that they're functional. They're like good L shape. You can fit good units in them It's really easy to see that you're in the space. Like they're good functional nice quality terrain What do you like? What do you like the new crate dragon piece of terrain? That's what that is, right? It's the crate dragon. You mean the monster the thing like on the ground. That's oh the crate right? It's fine. Okay What do you think Tyler? What do you think of the luminous piece where in z-cad we have the waterfalls and I know Yeah, we were just talking about that. Yeah, I mean I dig the top part Yeah, what the train project we're gonna do a table of all this new stuff from deep cuts got an amazing realm of Heavens Matt's plug for them They're not paying me or anything so but yeah Yeah, no idea, but the bottom half yet What I'll say is this though. I love like I want to know what's going on with all of the like earth motes They just have endless water flow. I'm sure sure because like the thing in the lumen earth terrain and apparently now it's in Like What it's saying is that if you're in the mortal realms and you find one of these things it's a highly valuable resource, right? Like I could see that I could see that and listen water spring. Okay, cool. Yeah, crate dragons fine All right, are we all excited about this guy right here our our our new monster the incarnate guy Everybody like the new incarnate. Yeah, let's go hands up. Who likes the new incarnate, dude? Does everybody remember the old monster sarkanum incarnate of beasts in the carnate of playa? Okay, like clearly. Yeah, this is clearly like a take on that idea. Yeah, this dude looks cool I'm not sure about what it means when it's a thing. Everybody can add to their army. Well, they said it could be summoned Like it's kind of a point for it. Yeah, it's a few hundred points, right Sure, like but it also seemed to be summoning like a monster because they mention Nate like they named monster, which is awesome No, you know like not a surprise. Yeah, I've been playing night one, right? And first of all this thing would look beautiful as a night on model Like you're all that painted up with like glowing green. It'd be great But more than that. It's a monster like my army notoriously doesn't have monsters So like getting monsters actions and something I would assume that it's gonna be a war scroll with the keyword Yeah, so this might be a really interesting solution to some right pull yourself in so do we think it's gonna be Predatory like it's gonna like predatory like if the wizard guys like that's what they kind of that's what they said it goes All right, I'm gonna construct a world here for you ready. Let's let's construct a world Yeah, okay, if this thing is too good by even 1% What happens? Everybody has it right because that's the only thing that stops two good things if dragons tomorrow We're just like whatever every faction you can take them now Hence the point I'm saying like imagine it's going to death and everybody now. I just see like The floodgates would open so like you gotta be really really really careful with a piece like this because if it's even 1% too good It starts showing up not literally in a hundred percent of lists. I'm okay, but it shows up in like a lot Like 80% of list like I summon my incarnate. I summon my incarnate. Oh, we should have more Pokemon Because every battle is just Pikachu against Pikachu That's it. We need some more types in here So this would like be like the Steelix or whatever that guy I know that one because I watched the cartoon when I was stuck at work. All right, so at any rate Pokemoning all right, so If this thing so it's let's say it's not too strong Then your only other choice is to like wheel it back and make it weak and then no one takes it No one buys the box unless you have the situation you talked about where it legitimately makes something That has some unique element that some armies could find valuable, which is like boy. That is a Like get out Robin Hood and split the arrow with the arrow. Do we think they can do it? Yeah, it can be done I think they can do it a hundred percent. I I hope that's what this feels like where you just mentioned It's a monster for my army that doesn't have monsters or it allows some versatility I absolutely believe in the rules team and that they can do it and I hope that's what we get I hope we don't get the other two sides. I Guess okay, all right Yeah, no when I saw this okay, let me let me take you back to my emotional stage I'm sitting in the front row of the preview And I'm like All right, I am thus far deeply underwhelmed And I'm like, you know every other one there's been one preview item and then it like blows right they were just like they were Right and then they're going right to the next one and I'm like, okay That's all we're getting just this thing and then they start up another another age signal thing.  You thought we were getting an army, didn't you? Well, we'll get there All right, and instead what we get is this instead we get our ghostie boy Oh my gosh, so we're our goal. We're actually getting two units for night hot. I I I can't believe it Like this this is this is a mirror. Yeah, right. Oh, yeah, but I Know not gonna bait me into that one I'm not talking about a crossbow tonight. Um, no, so like this pirate guy. This is a standalone kit folks That's huge. We thought we were only getting like one-off heroes. Yeah, sure Look, he's in a boat Being in a boat does not Equal pirate. I mean if I take the Staten Island ferry I'm not suddenly like putting on my passion ravaging the high seas But you could I don't think I can I think that's the point. There's a gap there Look at me. I am the captain now. How deep in the ocean can this boat go? Not at all. This is a ferry, sir All right, I mean it's a pirate No, it's a it's a ghost captain.  He's the only dude, so I'll give you ghost captain.  He portages people Yeah, he's he's fantastic. I'm the first thought was He's playing a role that dreadblade heroes are already playing the way that they describe him Right and launchy and the soul seeker and launchy and like we have it in the spell ghost Yeah, I that is literally carrying troops around and now we have another one, right? Yeah, so just for these give us Yeah, I don't know sculpt wise this guy is an A for me. I love this dude.  Yes winner winner. Yes, and that's my point like a great sculpt like a great model That sums up everything right when you see a great model you even if you're not playing that army It's exciting when it's cool, right? And we just have to accept it like terrain or a generic endless spell guy He's just not the same. It's just not the same. I am so excited for this night mom Yeah, I'm sure like this is he's a he's a game changer because here's the question Tom for you is this The high wound hero that knight haunt have needed. No does this guy? Does he have nine wounds? He probably has eight. You don't think he has nine wounds. That's a lot of both Definitely three wounds about that's three So do you think he has ten wounds? He's got No, he'll be eleven. The world I want. I'll be right over what you Ten wounds, that's the problem. The world I, it doesn't matter, you can't get any cover anyways. The world I want is you But you would lose a lookout sir. I do want you to be a ten wound hero I want it so bad just because I want to see the crest full. I'd be like I want to go to chart your emotional state and down No, I mean hopefully they've learned their lesson and black coach is a hero monster. There you go Like that's just two keywords. Don't have to change anything else. We're good And this guy can be however many wounds and he's fine like Does he teleport go surround? Yes. Okay, Tyler. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I think does his or dead for three damage No, he said he said the ore hits really hard and does a lot of damage. Is it a three damage or it's a D3 Okay, I wanted to be three damage so I can continue the joke of it doing more damage than a Giants Club Want him to hit people with that's legitimate. I mean what I'll say is this This from the way they described him. He actually reminded me not of the dreadblade hero But he reminded me of the command ability. So the night haunt command ability is he spent a command point during movement phase And you teleport a unit to you And it makes me like as soon as they said that I went oh, we're losing that command ability Because now it's gonna be tied to this guy, right?  They said he's a centerpiece. Yeah And so I don't know what that's gonna mean. I assume that's why I'm saying I think he's a big hero when they say centerpiece is like GW code for Many wound for a hundred and four model a hundred dollar model. Yeah, I mean, so these are a lot of things means this is a hundred dollars At least if you're in Australia, you can trade your car for their conversion rates wacky down there and So that's two and then three is like, yeah, it's gonna have a lot of wounds It's gonna be an important part of your arm. Sure, right? I think I see that I think this thing's beautiful This was the rock star of the night for me and I wasn't expecting it I don't play night haunt though and it's in the end. It is awesome, but it's just one model So now comes the important discussion How did we not see what the summer books are Somebody explain this to me or could we even talk about like night haunt and daughters that are coming, right? Like you could show the books and talk a little bit about them That would have been super underwhelming But at least it would have been something because we actually know those are coming like at this show at the end of March Theoretically we are let's say three ish four ish months away from having those summer books Yeah, right that's in there in a perfect world. Otherwise for six that could be the worst case could be September But let's let's hope three three four months somewhere in that range, right? We all up here. I think believe they're gonna be silver Nephins gave it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, right. Yep. Thank you wife thing. Yeah, I've moved away like from Luminat this summer. I think we'll get them later in the year. Yeah, we got we gotta wait until I mean It'll ride in the winds So if we all believe that and by the way, it's either Sylvaneth or Lumineth now because we saw the KO Tomes Celestials coming At this point we're down to so few potential books because of the Tomes Celestials like through process of elimination We've all managed to to basically cotton to what's happening here. Yeah, so just show us the books I didn't need anything else.  Yeah, there you go. That's not Yeah, you're gonna use old models. That's my point So that's really disturbing that all those hands went up Because it's cool I mean raps but the the point is is that I don't care I don't care if we don't get the re-sculpt just announce the books and talk a little bit about them We're so excited the scaven books gonna bring all too mischief and wackiness and mad inventions to the mortal realms The Sylvaneth are gonna be I guess growing trees No, we're getting new models You know you're not Back me up man. It's happening. Yeah, exactly. I should have those new whatever the turnoff writing turn off writing fleas man That's like those were perfect for Sylvaneth being that I do believe we live in the worst of all possible worlds at this point I think that the great Yeah, I think that the the great great true irony of my life like talking about my disappointment scale would be they're like New self nothing scaven really scaven you get a book and the requisite hero that comes in the versus box. Yes, right? Sylvaneth for new units What is happening sounds like everything Tremanna ancient or whatever you get they get a new tree lord. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it is an order No, that's oh no curse and they're kind of elves. I bet they are kind of I back the wrong play All right, so that's basically the preview show We haven't talked about the season war. We did that's the oh That's fine. You're right. I'm sorry already with the question of the night. Yeah. Yeah, he's still here. I'll mention it here I'm sorry. There you go. You're right. I apologize as part of Thondia. We're getting this book. I am sus Let's talk about this. Okay. Are we getting I'm sorry to go with you guys. Is it what's the 40k? It's like every six months, right? Yeah, they're getting a season, right? Is that what I got? I hope not Are we going to the six months 40k seasons? I don't think so. I think this is more like Because they said it's continuing on a broken realms when they were like, yeah, it's a whole new book introducing the narrative of Thondia I was like Okay, cool. I don't care, but great. This is good for people who care Like I don't mean that in a good way like not every product needs to be for me I was happy to see it narrative expansions are cool. Lots of people really get into that a plus I want tons of narrative stuff out there. Everybody likes to drink that stuff up Awesome, and then they were like and it's got match play rules in it, too. And I was like, oh, no No, we don't need that so you missed like so you were setting up for this But for the Q&A they you know somebody asked about it And one of the things they said is that like there will be a new GHB But the rules were meant to be kind of a both and yeah And so that there will be there will be match play kind of competitive content Potentially scenarios stuff like that to be used in addition. So you missed that And that again that probably isn't going to be in the article. So it's interesting to me that That they're going down that road You know, yeah, yeah, I mean here. Let's let's look at the actual article Season of War Thandia includes realm rules for setting your games in Thandia and mechanics for creating your own hero from the realm of beasts So that'll be the narrative. Let's see that back. Yeah a grot priest on a dragon anyone. Yes, I would love that I would love that we would all love a grot priest on a dragon anyone who doesn't get out of this room No, it'd be great You know would be explorers you crack open this book We'll also find the deals of details of fantastical flora and fauna to be found across girl cool beans Like that all sounds great I love the idea of more narrative stuff if they if we were including match play stuff the match play stuff I would want and here's exactly what you just mentioned. I would like cool new battle plans Sure, like that's where he's okay. I'm good with that what I don't want is like here's the Not Tom celestial not whatever with like two new sub rules for this one army again Just give me the army book. Yeah, season of War Thandia. Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting because like the season of war like Monica mm-hmm, like super script or I don't know. Yeah, like I understand there the series that like they're identifying that this is a certain The first one. This is the first in however many they do so it makes me wonder if they're gonna be doing one of these for Like different regions of girl throughout this Edition is basically the yeah, I I suspect we're gonna be in girl a lot longer than just this Yes, that was you Tyler thank you a hundred percent we are not leaving Gerr in this in jp 2022 very infectious the whole taking credit for everything You'll get better Yeah, I mean like if it was new battle plans that new guy, you know cool stuff We can all use for match play that can make the general games were interesting I'm for it if it's two sub rules and now I got to have a fifth book with me for my army. I'm not for it It's that easy. Yeah, that's really that you it's work. Totally gonna have to We'll be in the app, but okay fine All right What wasn't what else wasn't here? What else were you hoping to see Tyler? Well, I mean Yeah, oh what else would have been cool to see general sandbox. Maybe a little preview I mean presumably that's gonna be in June. Sure. So get a slam dunk general's handbook. Yeah, we're doing it What else yeah, I mean it's just weird to come to depth con after you said three years Yeah, and not get but I mean we did talk about how it felt like this is a transition year and it's gonna be battle tones and I mean essentially we got battle tone dread for it. Yeah, right like dominion of chaos We got like battle tone dominion of chaos girl. Yeah, but it's just for girl terrain. Yeah Tom, what were you hoping to see? Honestly a new army. Yeah, sure. I just didn't think it's gonna happen And I agree. I agree. I don't think it's gonna happen, but I wanted it so bad sure Now as one of the only two nine-haunt players that are actually playing in the champs this this weekend I'm super stoked for that For a ghost of pirates go go like go grab the GW crew like you gotta what you got to do Okay, let me help you out here cuz that guy probably exists somewhere in this building Probably he's like if they got those pictures, he exists somewhere in this building Someone has a copy so you need to lie and wait behind a plant And then when you see somebody in a Warhammer TV shirt come by you just Get them. I mean it's drag him into a closet. Hold on. Yeah, you drag him into a closet Just knock about hitman style you put on their Warhammer TV shirt and nobody will know the difference Then you just walk in there and be like how's looking for that night haunt thing. They Steve told me to get it out And they just give you the box like I've seen this in movies But the reality is is that Sure see what you can do gonna take a lot of whiskey. All right Mine was yeah, I mean obviously I want to see this game in book I was really hoping to get a sense of Kind of what they saw over the rest of the year like get it like it would have been neat to for them to extend the roadmap into the winter and and like had or just into the next season or something and said like death and Destruction are the next to like again. You don't need to give me the books like keep that going like reveal Sylvaneth and Skaven. You don't need to show me more than that Yeah, right and then coming and next in the fall or whatever comes with the cold wind comes a new death Tome and a new destruction tome and I'm like, oh, okay, cool now We can speculate on that like that gets us talking. It's interesting and that costs nothing They need nothing like it's a black rectangle with a question mark It would be great if like they just showed us the art of the new books assuming the art change Yeah, sure, like I know that's a big ass all the art will change except for fire slayers The art and my pot. Yeah, sure. Sure. Like neither of those books are changing But They didn't give us that sure so did anybody have anything that you're hoping to see Oh We don't need a new tree kid We've been down there. We take all the existing tree kids We get them together. We bury them in that same hole in the desert where we throw all the ET games I've seen the tweets. Yeah Anybody else any thoughts? Yeah more models, right? Yeah, that's how many actually new that's a great question. How many let's count them How many actual new models did we see? Like in there you're counting across the board. Well, I mean so like let's go. Okay sure the we we saw a bunch for like the ash Whatever People on a ton of models We saw the blood bull team. That was amazing. That was that was amazing We saw one for horse heresy no two for horse heresy two for horse heresy But with the obvious implication that there's gonna be more and they were in like watch the video and you'll you know figure it out like Yeah, we got what we got like the battle tone Gerr box. Yep. Those are new models. They're trained, but it's models new train. Sure. I love train We got the undead warband. Yep more zombies zombies Again, it's not it's not zombie. Oh, and then the night in the cast lens. Yeah Yeah, I mean Maybe it's from my look. I know I have a bias toward a OS. Obviously that's the show is all about But on the on the more fantasy side of things it just didn't feel like we had the excitement this year Right.  That's really big for you, right? So like I just wish that we we could distribute this more evenly especially at a big show like that I thought we were getting a war cry box. I wouldn't sure like a new edition of war cry, right? Well, we don't want that either, but I would take No, but we're on the edge, right? Like we we're at the three year mark We are we are like you would expect that that's right about where we're at And so I mean next year will be 40k, right? Yep. Next year will be 40k, and then we'll have some now That's true. I mean some else true and then we'll have another launch and then we'll have a OS You're after like where does war cry? Did it? Well, you know this a very wise man put together a little show and he was talking about maybe like a five Year cycle, I don't know who that would have been Might be in this room standing off camera off to the left, but my left And that's that's the right answer like you know uncle Adam and his video talked about like the five year cycle And he actually charted out kind of where the games at fall Yeah, and it's just super logical. It makes sense. You wouldn't feel like you're on the treadmill as much I hope they watch that video and go. Oh, yeah. No, actually. This is right. Let's change our entire business plan I'm sure Minutes away from happening. All right, so that ends the time of the preview people who are watching out in the in the world Hello, everyone. Welcome. Now you can stay tuned in. We're not gonna talk any more about the review show Instead, we're gonna do some amount of time of Q&A We you all can just since this is live and in person you just ask us whatever you want So it's an AMA like we just ask what everyone I mean This is all going live out to the internet, so please be Respectful children watch the show like in all seriousness like please be respectful. Please. Yeah, they don't watch it live So like just don't curse don't say anything inappropriate that kind of stuff Yes, there's a mic that will come around. I need to unmute it and Just turn it on Yeah, I just signed up. There you go Thank you, Uncle Adam for doing our money. Yes Who is too good for this work? I Was wondering what Tyler did for hobby this week It's supposed to be a safe space I am Regretting that if anybody saw that show I felt like an ad about experience why I apparently committed to painting like 20 to 30 units heroes count as a unit everybody Might be 30 heroes, but yeah, not Absolutely, nothing Sorry I've got a little bit of whiskey.  All right Who's got our next question? Yeah, you just put your hand up and then we'll take the mic around Martin from New Jersey It's also this question also involves Uncle Adam because you might know with your kill team expertise With kill team rebooting off cycle because that was what a few months ago that they did it and not a summer release Well, my question was is that if this summer is going to be Horace heresy Do we think that war cry is still getting its three-year cycle just possibly it's a holiday release instead? It's a great question. So I Tend to agree with Uncle Adam and with others who've said that war cry will get updated set this year I think that they'll push it into the late summer early fall But because obviously the heresy launch will be like that's the moneymaker. Yeah, that's the like That's the milkshake that's gonna bring all the boys to the yard as it were and I think that the ancillary game a little bit more I I Think I Think the I think always with the games like kill team and work right they they are ancillary and see them I just don't think they're big enough profit revenue drivers so that they that they feel the need to like schedule a whole Critical part of the cycle around them right because obviously they have the calendar very well understood at this point as to when they release critical items And so I just don't feel like it takes one of those spots. It's probably my answer Yeah, yeah, all right Question by the way, don't worry even if you're talking you you can talk in a normal volume into the mic everybody Here's okay. This is I Chris from San Francisco Since the dragon's we haven't seen any large models for us Yeah, do you think that one this would have saved the show if you get a lot of model and second Do you think there's anything that's gonna come up in the near future or we just gonna wait till the summer It's a good question. All right, I'm gonna let these guys go first Yeah, man, I just like like said earlier. I feel like we're not gonna get a whole lot this year Yeah, they're catching up. They've got a lot of battle tones and a lot of product Yeah, it generally feels like they're behind so yeah, I doubt we're gonna see much. Maybe we'll get Something legitimately new maybe an expansion of an existing range or a new army and maybe early Q4 I'd be my guess but yeah, I Know you might push back we had this conversation in a dedicated show We were pushing back a little bit like that seems very weird to say because they I mean there are a company that's trying to sell models Right, so they have to release you would think new models at some point But yeah, I generally feel like we're not gonna get a whole lot this year. It's kind of weird I mean we got seasonal war going yeah, and that's gonna be a box of terrain Right, like that's gonna be a full-on box of terrain with the monster in it Like these we saw the cover of it. So like the the incarnate is in that box initially and then they said that they're gonna break it out separate So I have to wonder like we're gonna get a dual box for daughters first night on I suspect That's probably closer than we anticipate And then we'll probably get like we know that there's a summer pairing of books of Skaven versus still without us we don't know so rats in trees, right?  I think we'll see Luminette this fall And so I I think we're gonna get a lot of dual boxes and so that's a lot of product now That's not new armies. Unfortunately. We probably don't have a new army Like that's just probably where I think it'd be a limit at the expansion we'll get it like We are we are you better tuck in we're getting more hippos And we're getting just it's gonna get it's gonna be standard Luminette wild like it's what we've come to expect We'll probably get three to four kits. Yeah a foot hero Terran no, come on now. That's not what's happening. I push that off to the future. Yeah He'll respond to Malakin sure Like I tend to I tend to agree like the big monsters the big exciting kids Let's let's face it like think about excited we all were when Sort of the mega-gargants were revealed or when Krondis was revealed or you know whatever like you can if those don't catch your fancy like You can pick the one that hits you Right because I suspect everybody in this room has some big model that you that came out within the last couple years That you were like whoa You know that blew you away like for me when I saw the keeper secrets for the first time But the updated keeper secrets. I was like yes, this is what I've been waiting for literally my entire life Yeah, like the twins. Yeah, Texas and in Sinesa, right? Those kinds of things are so bad not only Sinesa's fine. She's fine the Those kind of things not only do I have to imagine their revenue drivers for them But they're also just really excitement-driving like we all put a lot into them You see a lot of great painters want to paint them they you you it's cool That you only have to buy one off and for your army, which is like the best thing in the world Nobody you see a normal a new normal infantry kid or something come out. You're like yay I'll buy 40 of these that's gonna be fun to paint But no one will be saying about that about the crossboost sure but bright sides But if you but you know when you got one you're like, yeah, that's cool like I can do this one thing I can do this one project. Yeah, right?  Yeah, like legit Yeah, this is the launch of something that they see as I like there's a whiteboard Somewhere in GW that says it looks like this and it's like 40k Sales figure numbers here, and then they've got Horace heresy sales figure number here And then they got a timeline and they're trying to make a go to be Okay, and so they're like, how do we make that happen and the answer is put out a lot of plastic Yeah, right so there's only so much time that the team has for sculpting for Putting these models through and obviously we're still just you know dealing with the the pandemic and all that kind of stuff So I think that Tom's probably right I think Q4 you'll is when we'll see some more models. I mean, I'll be honest I didn't would have never never even guessed we were gonna get the So like that surprised me a lot he was way bigger than I thought I think you'll get like a lumineff in the fall or winter and that's that'll be what they've already said that they have those kits done Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah. No Kelly's Yeah, hi guys, I'm Kevin from Chicago is my very first adeptic on my question is And my question is how has it been first impressions so far compared to past events? Yeah, like Good, I mean the badge thing is always terrible I'm gonna see about getting a paying for an app company to develop a new app with digital badges At this point I'll fund it if that's what it takes Like I'm done with that But yeah, like I so far awesome like I love seeing everybody here. Everybody's really excited. The energy is really high Everybody's really positive People are generally stoked and I mean legit It is amazing and wonderful to see everybody's face in the room in this thing for the first time in years I did not know how much I valued coming to this event, which is incredible events in general until they were gone and And seeing all of you and having everybody here. That's why I wanted to do this I guess we'll just make it a yearly thing now But it's awesome and my honest answer is it hasn't even really started yet So get ready because you're gonna be on a really interesting ride over the next couple days Like it's gonna be intensity in 10 cities tomorrow through Sunday Did you sign up for both a OS in it? That's my question Wisdom wisdom there see unfortunately, I am not wise That was never in question So some of us have four days of AOS Probably not the wisest so you not doing more than one event I'm guessing I hope not is the right way to do a depth on the first. Yeah. Yeah Don't do too many events because you really want to experience it for all that it is and so like kudos to you You you can make the mistake someday like I am making now and filling your days with events But enjoy enjoy the day Did you bring an army? You could head down to the Toledo vits guy. He has Super cheap mostly painted by the way. Yeah. Yeah, you can paint an army on the table by by Saturday No problem. You don't know without lifting a brush I saw a lot of painted plate bears down there and those guys are Hey guys Josh Chicago good to see y'all Thanks for doing this live They talked about I believe terrain rules for the Thandia stuff, right? Yeah, like yeah What do we anticipate any thoughts on are we getting like more formalized terrain rules in AOS perhaps or is Narrative Well, there are let's talk about the ways this we need we need two terrain rules. Yeah obscuring and impassable That's all we need and this and we've done it So way number one this goes in the box is they add more like started generic terrain rules That those just have terrain rules that already exist in the game baked onto them, right? like oh this thing is the floating water guy is arcane and Obscuring because there's mist and water rising up from it or something like that You can gain cover from behind it cool Then I'm all on board for it. That's all I really need that kind of stuff, right? Or there's the other way we can go where it's like if you approach within three inches of the waterfall of the endless water stream of Gerr, then you roll a die for every model on the roll of a six that model heals one wound However, if you heal more than 10 wounds Then the unit has become overstuffed on water and it's move distances have until you're next here Yeah, I'm being like slightly facetious, but I'm not Right because like if you have this custom terrain rules for almost like every piece in there I just I don't I don't want it. I don't need it and you know That that's what's gonna be sent to event organizers Sure, who would then just all promptly tossed out to my don't be like no These are just L's in their cover and I mean one would hope yeah, so I don't know man It's a good question. I hadn't thought about that nightmare, but I appreciate you Thank you. Well, say if I got a question, okay Hi, Michael Lee from Montreal, Canada Question who's winning currently the t-shirt contest so in the team Look at look at look at this man. Yeah, he's Team Tyler there in the crowd. Yeah in the team Tyler versus team Tom showdown Team Tyler is still in the lead Until we get to the end I'll see come on I will be like saying double attacks Yeah, sure All I'm saying is if you want Tyler to keep in the lead bow you or Tom to win, you know what to do I'm gonna be bringing a couple out of the merch stuff out in April to the merch store like there was requests for more socks I'm gonna have more. I'm gonna have more socks lots of people. It's been a very popular comment And I did test and get a pair of the socks. They're actually pretty nice. I haven't with me I'm not wearing them at this moment, but I did bring them with me to wherever this weekend We don't need one I mean Yes There's more about me pinning these two against each other for my own personal amusement. I appreciate that. Yeah So I mean my wife has asked the same thing and I told her the same answer never But I am gonna try to add some more stuff so there will be more things coming Like a half dozen people ask for toddler versions like two to five year olds Yeah, what would like young kids like the smaller like baby and child stuff Is that something people would want if so put it in the comments or put it in the chat if you have young kids That's useful. Very weird. So my name is Anastasia. I'm from Ferndale, Washington So a question for winds like since you don't want a short. How about an apron with your name on it? Yeah, so I so I was going to I've been trying to find an apron Like I was I'm wearing one now. I've been trying to find one that we can do part of the problem is the site We currently go through for it doesn't have a good apron And like I'm actually I know this sounds silly, but I am super picky about this Like I have three custom-made aprons, which are these like one of them is the green one That or the beige when I normally wear and then I have a black one my wife got me That says my wife is a Warhammer widow And so I just haven't found one that's of high enough quality That I feel good about putting our name on out in the world like any people can make a t-shirt and it's nice I can test it all those I'm happy with the quality of t-shirts But like aprons have to be I'm gonna stand up here for a second Like an apron has to have like these kind of pockets and you see how far down this one goes all the ones I've seen for sale stop like here. This is not an appropriate length So as the answer is I'm looking at a couple of sites as soon as I can find somebody who has a good quality for it Yeah, I will make one because I really want to put that out there. I Would my pants would be so much more ruined than they already are if I didn't have it. It's a good investment All right, any other questions? Oh, okay I've noticed a small trend with Game pork shop updating a lot of key heroes with the war bands like your skink star priests and now the necromancer Do you think that trend will continue and what other key hero models need updated? Okay, so I'll give my while they're thinking I'll give a quick off-the-cuff answer to this which is I Think they look at those little foot heroes as inspiration for the underworld's war band for kind of who's who's in the mix Right and so I don't know that it's I'm not sure it's really their directs like the way the sculptors kind of lead the They're the tail that wags the dog as it were at GW and so my impression is that They just kind of look around and go what would be the appropriate cool thing I'd like to sculpt or that we as a team would like to make that'll kind of fit into the overall goals And so I think that's how we got the skink starts here, right? He was the right size hero. They're like we want to do a You know, we want to do a Serif on one. Okay, cool. Let's that guy's the right size right guy in the chair too big Little dude too little like yeah, this guy's the right sort of size. We can do the right stuff with him I think it's probably the same with a necromancer. You know, it's just it's a cool one Because we already did vampires so this necromancer vampires Yeah, yeah, that's the skink star seer and that's the new necromancer dude. That's what you're asking Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I think but now that's that's a non answer to your question. I was buying them time to think But my real answer to your question is I I hope that they pick all of the fun little Heroes like that that can sometimes be underwhelming in the AOS game and give them new interesting sculpts So you could pick things like the Warlock engineer in Skaven like a good like it just a simple Yeah, like yeah, thank you like a motor pack master would be a great win in Skaven that'd be fantastic You know having some giant rats and stuff You know in cities just having like an empire or not empire But you know what I mean like an empire general type of thing like that kind of guy like a free guild Commander would yeah, or some more different sorcerers, you know, just you could go all look all around the realms There's lots of those little heroes. They're very character and cool. I'd love to see them Just take a new individual and sculpt on them Yeah, definitely any come to mind that they haven't done yet that you think would be Yeah, yeah, I was looking at the They've done a lot actually go through the 25 factions on the website just realizing a real time how much they've already covered Yeah, no, I think I think it's a great question and kind of little insight. Yeah, the one that struck me was the Like so my son is working on a flesh eater corpse army Mmm, and one of the things that anybody that's had any exposure to flesh eater corpse is that like the courtiers are it's like a It is a nightmare solution Let me just point that out like yeah, you have to take one of your ten models and Make them a hero, but then you're short a model for your unit Like I understand the logistics of what they were trying to do But it's a terrible solution right for them like they said they were trying to pull together These these one-off heroes for this is such a good point. You're dead on they need to make a courtier And they have and they have like Duke mayor over whatever the guy's name is is for specifically for bulls Yeah, yeah, but each of the other two units the players and the Kryptonters Don't have clear hero models and that would be an easy low hanging fruit for a flesh eater corpse I know a lot of people don't play the army But like man that that seems like a very bright clear easy way for that's a great idea. It's a really great idea awesome All right Time for let's say one more question if anybody has another question anybody got one more. All right. Who's our final question? Now that they're making terrain again. Do you think they're gonna fill out the endless spells? I Think the second wave of endless spells We got were originally supposed to be models for an army like for death and then they ended up Shelving and everything like that. Yeah, like you mean like the gosh is on the spells Yeah, those are all clearly the gosh is on the spells like launch on the soul seeker and the Horrigus and all that were clearly supposed to be just like the endless spells for Gosh that they then canned when they saw how they were gonna do everything I think That right now more endless spells are highly suspect Because endless spells come from a different model location than It's China plastic. Yeah, and obviously that's much trickier for them Just because of the increased cost of the raw supply and then for the shipping, you know If shipping costs continue to be three four five times higher and with logistics problems Yeah, the economics and the timing of getting those things across is tough I'm sure that they like all good ideas have their day So it feels like eventually they'll just do more of them in another box set like a new malign sorcery kind of thing But you know when you look at like the armies it's not like they're introducing a lot of new ones with the stuff That's been coming out here like I didn't have to didn't get endless spells, right? And and I think that's right. Yeah, I think that's largely just the supply constraints And they know it's it's not a winner of an idea. So my answer is on What timeline do you mean, right? Because if you're saying like by 2025 sure in the next year? No That would be my guess. Yeah. Yeah, they're in a interesting place, you know, we we're talking about this new Potentially predatory type in the spell that's gonna be really expensive and how it's a very fine line I mean, it's functioning a summon for every army. It's what it seems like the vast majority of the damage in the spells are Non-existent in the meta right now. It's true because they're all terrible. We were just talking about No offensive spells, right? Like tell me other than the gosh chaining arcane bolts, right? And like croak doing his aoe tactless doing his aoe in terms of endless spells Well, yeah, but like who is doing magic damage right now? Yeah. Yeah, it just basically no one basically The major ship from 2.0 because we had quite a bit going on sure All right folks with that that brings us to the end of our Warhammer weekly live in person at adepticon Thank you all everybody Thank you all for sitting with us in this very warm room She's everybody doesn't know it at home, but it's dabbing over here It's fine. It's very shiny. I know Thank you all out there who watched we really appreciate you watching this remote. Thank you all so much Thank you to everyone who gave who you know set us up with the room to everyone at the convention everyone running this I hope everyone who is here has an awesome Amazing wonderful weekend full of the best next four days of your entire life bar none I want you to leave on Sunday and go no no that was better better than when my child was born Then the day I was married. This is it. I have reached the mountaintop. I Have seen the face. Okay, so And with that I'll say thank you as always we really appreciate it and we'll see you next Wednesday


OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Can you all hear me well? Yeah, it's very good sound. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you, Brian. Thank you for sharing that with me. Good morning. My name is Mariana Sova, and welcome to the liquid syllabus presentation. I prepared this with my colleague, Hillary Sherman, but unfortunately she's not here today. She's not feeling well. I think all these viruses going around. So both Hillary and I worked on these presentations, so I hope you will get to learn something new or maybe refresh some of your ideas. This liquid syllabus, if you don't know what it is, we're going to walk through it and learn why it's such a great, crucial, equitable tool to try to reach all our students. So thank you for being here today. Oh, I'm sorry. I will talk quickly through the slides so you can use the QR code on the board or the link. If you'd like to access the presentation, I'll show that at the end too for the late commerce. So let me know if they're working. I tested them and they were working. So hopefully they are working for you as well. We have only one in person activity here. Ellie who is actually monitoring the chat. So if you have questions, you're welcome to put them there or we're a very small group. So you're welcome to address the question. Just let us know. And I'm new and I'm happy to answer to the best of my abilities. Right. So thank you. So let's do a little word map. If you could either scan the QR code or go to mentee.com. And we have a voting code there. And if you can answer two questions, I'll go ahead and start this in a moment. Yes. So there are two questions. What does an equity minded syllabus look like? And I'm a two one format or tools to use to create your liquid syllabus. So I'll start these voting tool here in a moment. Good morning. Ladies. No. Thank you for being here. You're able to see that. Please let me know if things are working well. May I see the QR code again, please? Yes. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you so much. Is it working? Yes. I'm sorry, we had this QR code here for my in-person FDs. This one may not work. We did it this while back from Google slide. So I have the updated one there. So I'll go back there to share with you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Is it working? Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you. This one too. Thank you. Oh, you know, I'm sorry. We had this QR code here for my in-person FDs. I'm sorry, I have no QR code. And this one there. I'll go back there to share with you. And I didn't get to print again, you know. So I'm sorry. But you know, for the red, you could take notes. How is the Mentimeter going? Good. Good. We work through space. Yes, but I think you can enter more. The way I chose it. So what does an equity minded syllabus look like? Consider the diversity facilitates learning. city facilitates learning. I love that. I see the word welcoming in the center. Friendly. It's hard to read right as I keep moving. Um, warm welcome from teacher, accessible, clear, encouraging, insure, unsure. Okay. Inviting, creative, scaffolded, attractive, I love that. Friendly, simple. Thank you. So let's see. Let me move to the second one. I can see all these different tools here. Okay. There's another question for you. What format or tools do you use to create your syllabus? Oh, let's see some of the results. Word, google sites, very good, source, canvas, this, I wonder how maybe you can share more how you use canvas to create your syllabus or maybe just the canvas. They have templates. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, canvas. Yeah, canvas, google docs. Okay. So a variety of tools here. All right. So we can cover some of them and you can share others that you use and how they work well with you or they may not work. Some of them have limitations, right? Okay. So thank you for sharing your ideas. So why do we do this with syllabus? Paying attention to quality or to equity. Obviously the latter one, right? I was reading how equality could work sometimes, right? If everybody started the same place and everybody has the same needs, but how often does that happen, right? And equity, I was thinking about Dr. Beteris when she was saying yesterday equity is shoes or fitting in shoes, right? Like if you give somebody the wrong pair of shoes, you're not doing any service to that person, right? So giving everyone what they need to be successful. And I think you're familiar with that image that is better than even explaining, right, what it is. I mentioned earlier how I created this presentation with my colleague, Hilary, but unfortunately she's not able to be here. We gathered a lot of these ideas from some of our F1 courses, specifically the Humanizing Online Curriculum or online, I'm sorry, course, with Michelle Pekenski-Brock and we were looking at some ideas of belonging versus fitting in. Like a lot of students feel like they need to fit in, right? They need to change who they are, their true self to fit in. That could be the humanizing and very stressful if that happens continuously, right? How about belonging? You belong here. I believe in you. You've got this really valuing students trying to meet their needs and stop assuming yeah who they are, that quote that says it is not uncommon for students to complain that faculty are unapproachable. While faculty complain that students are not being used, right? How often do we do that? Well, they're not coming to class. They don't care about my course, right? Such perceptions, especially one form at the start of the semester, can impact what students learn and how instructors teach. Therefore, it is critical that these perceptions are prevented if, of course, is to be successful. So why start with the syllabus? Because it creates that warm welcoming environment. And Michelle here was sharing how syllabi often send cues of distrust and hostility. You need to do this. Come to my office hours. These two, no more, right? But those positive relationships emerge from trust that the better talks about trust a lot yesterday. So you joined the session, right? So hopefully we'll get to meet all the objectives, recognizing the benefits of an equity-minded syllabus and other things that pretty much answered the question why. Identify equity levels and student success factors, reflect on identities, and create a class count in your syllabus. Incorporate equity and culturally relevant pedagogies in design and equity-minded syllabus. Obviously, some of you probably already have designed a syllabus using all those great tools, but hopefully you'll learn something new today, or maybe you'll refresh your mind on some of other ideas. Okay, thank you. What's your name? Francisco, I'm with LA Unified. Francisco, thank you. I can see that. LAUSD on your computer. Can you just break out with her? Yeah. Your students use their phones to access the phone. A lot of them, right? And based on this graph, they're more black and Hispanic students, percentages are higher for these students due to low income, maybe, or different disturbances that the society has caused for them, right? So we have to keep in mind when we design our syllabus who our students are. So why liquid syllabus? It's an online interactive tool. It's easy to edit. If it'd be longer when you first designed it, I was talking to Ellie earlier, I felt the same. I have to start from scratch again. Yet it's easy to edit. So you put more effort first and then it comes easy. It's tablet and phone friendly related to what we were discussing previously. It's accessible. You could use the old text, color contrast, good headings, subheadings. You can link it to Canvas and make it more visually appealing for your students, not just the link, right? You can reduce cognitive load by using tabs and pages, not everything in one. So nice design. And it creates a welcoming, caring environment. I'm going to play this video from Michelle. Let me make sure I have the sound shared. Yes, we do. It's a short video. I know what you're thinking. I have a syllabus and I've worked really hard on it. So why should I take the time to also create a liquid syllabus? And what does that mean anyway? After all, I already have my syllabus online in the form of a PDF. And I know all my students can access it in Canvas. But folks, the thing is when your syllabus is behind a login screen, it may be tough for students to get to it from their phone. And no matter how lovely it looks on a computer, reading it on a mobile device is tough. The information in that syllabus is important, right? The bottom line is when we use tools designed for print products, they don't result in mobile-friendly experiences. And that's not good for our students. How might things change if you used a website tool like Google Sites or WordPress to create a liquid version of your syllabus? For just a moment, imagine being a student. It's the start of your first semester in college and the week before class starts. You check your email and you get a friendly welcome message from your sociology instructor. It includes a button at the bottom to check the syllabus. You tap that button with your finger and instantly you go to a syllabus that's easy to read and experience with the swipe of your finger. And you also discover something pretty special at the top. Hi, scholars. My name is Katie Whitman-Conklin and I'm going to be your instructor this semester. A little bit about me. I lived in the Central Valley of California for a lot of years with my husband and children while he was stationed there with the Navy. And when he retired, we moved to Northern Idaho where we now live with our kids on a family ranch. You think to yourself, hey, I'm going to love this class. I can't wait to get started. But you know what? That's not the only benefit of a liquid syllabus. Since it lives on the web, it's shareable with a simple link. That means you can place that link in as many other places as you'd like. How about adding it next to your course description in your college's class schedule? Or on your profile page on your college website. Or a link on your own professional website. And you know what can really help promote your course and encourage more students to enroll? That's right. Share it on Twitter. When we design with web tools, we create mobile-friendly content that supports our students in so many ways. It also lets them know we care. So hopefully that says a lot even better than my sales and the future, right? I guess. Okay. So cultivating care can start right there, right? As Michelle was saying with that warm welcome. Syllabus is a great resource. We want students to know what we expect from them, but also we can set the tone of your class. First impressions matter, right? A lot of students, I think, based on research drop at the beginning of the class. And I don't remember the numbers, but they do, right? They don't feel a connection. They have busy lives. We teach adults, right? They're not school children that have to keep going, right? They have no choice. Perception of an instructor being approachable led to higher rates of motivation, engagement, and active involvement based on the research 2001. Not things may have fluctuated, right? A pandemic and everything else. But awarding and caring presence is what truly matters. I remember my daughter's school, I was saying, what makes this teacher so great? Because everybody was talking about this particular teacher and they said, she's just so sweet and caring. So yeah, you have the expertise. We all do. That's why we are in this profession. Yeah, that passion carries over. As I teach at Miracost, I wanted to show you a little bit on how equity looks like at our school. So if we go through the bullet points, it starts at the top, right? We have a new position of an inclusion, diversity and equity and accessibility officer. So this is a fairly new position. We started and this person is trying to be in different spaces and collaborate with different communities and make an impact on how students experiences at Miracost are. We also have a cultural competency, diversity, equity and cultural competency committee that puts together conferences and workshops for new full-time faculty when they come on board. We have a social justice and equity center. We also have some safe topics and equity online, different workshops that some of our faculty put together, district-wide webinars. We invite keynote speakers that address that equity piece. We got a lot of books during the pandemic. Again, how we can create more equitable inclusive spaces for our students. We redesigned the college mission and goals to faster that equity. And you see how it's coming down to in class, what do you do to ensure that equity piece is continuing, showing respect, value, acknowledging students, showing empathy, care and humility. Based on research, there are six main student success factors. Students can directly focus, nurtured, engage, connected and valued. I was talking to Ellie yesterday. She was the first person who walked in and we were talking about how we feel like our students are our children, right? We nurtured that. We value that. And I think the humility piece says so much to me, right? Really, really connecting with the students in the most genuine way. We saw that data about how many of our Black students, Latinx students use mobile phones, right? So how do we close those achievement gaps? We have to model what Miracoste striked to model. I'm not saying we're perfect, but we're making strides, right? Trying to meet the equity personal levels, right? We all have biases, stereotypes, privileges. So I have some links later on that are too different to Yale surveys of your biases. It's interesting to take those, to kind of reflect on yourself and try to be a more equitable instructor. At the institutional level, we just got the label of Hispanic serving institution. I'm so happy we finally, I shouldn't say label, right? But we've finally been recognized like that. And I think this should have happened so long ago. But again, we're making efforts into closing those achievement gaps and serving, being proud of serving all these students. And at a professional level, we are here to learn from each other, right? And learn about our experiences. And if I hear how you better serve your students, I want to go ahead and implement those ways too, because again, we come from a culture of care for our students, try our best to help them succeed. So a lot of times, identities may not be the same with the perspectives. Many times, we think of students as a risk. And Dr. Victor Rios is encouraging us to change that perspective from at risk to at promise. I really like his speech. I'll play a little bit of it. But basically, he shares how his teacher was there for him, no matter what. And he was not ready in the beginning by the teacher kept persisting. She showed a lot of caring respect, welcome him. The teacher listened to him. And he makes a point. My teacher cared about me and my culture. So again, valuing, nurturing, listening to our students, we don't know everything, right? We learn a lot of cultural aspects every single day. So empower your students, believing their potential so they can succeed. So Dr. Victor Rios, I'll let you play that video, but you will leisure because I don't want to take up too much of your time and allow time for discussion too. So Dr. Victor Rios is encouraging us to get rid of our deficit perspective in education. Everybody is here to succeed. We have students sometimes who are literate. That doesn't say that they cannot succeed. Value students' stories, cultures, and communities that the students bring in and provide resources. I'm sorry at the bottom. I can't see the quote there, but he says, when you teach from the heart, your mind will follow. And I think a lot of times that could be applied in different jobs that people may have. I remember working at the Marriott and I asked my mom, did you hide in me? I feel like I'm not really ready for this. And she said, you just have the passion of serving and helping people. So I said, oh, okay, all right. So I guess I could go forward. Again, from Dr. Victor Rios, the statement is, the teacher believed in me so much that she tricked me into believing in myself. It's, yeah, Christy got to give me eyes. What a powerful statement, right? And a lot, I think, how often your students feel like that, right? They come thinking, but I can't. I'm not sure how to present this. I don't speak enough. How do they say? My English is not very good. I'm like, you are level six. Yes, you have some. So again, changing that mindset, their mindset, and helping them to believe and gain that self-confidence, believing themselves. I think sometimes the adult education practitioners were the only positive force for students. And so they really left on to that. So I just, you know, sometimes I'm having a bad day. I just put that aside and tried to be there for them. And it's a challenge to manage all of that. But you have to watch this video. It's amazing if you haven't seen it. It's a great message. Yeah, I agree. Thank you for mentioning that, Christy. As you know, like some of our students actually come to school and that's the only place they can let their true self out, right? Share. And then they connect with us as Christ was saying, sometimes we're like their counselors, right? They trust us so much, but you have to build that relationship to get the trust, right? So again, comparing our assumptions sometimes with the realities, the availability of programs, equal students ability to access them, well, not for everybody, including for me. I grew up in Romania. I came here and the teacher was talking back then about Blackboard. And I was the only one with my hand up, and I was like, I don't know what Blackboard is. And everybody was looking at me. Luckily, I had enough language to speak about, but most students are not. They don't know about the support services programs we have. We have to bring them to let them know about what we have. Another assumption students will seek support if they need it. Well, not everybody, right? Or they may not know where to find it. And some students are reluctant to seek help, even when they know they need it. I had a student who last term said she came during break time to share with me. Thank you for sharing about the healthcare and especially mental health. Yeah, she said I was about to just quit school. And that was just day one of school that she already felt like she needs to come back because of the resources that we had. Another assumption providing general information and advice is sufficient to a student. Well, they need that personalized guidance from us. They need to build that relationship with us to move forward. So, Francisco is curious about the class pack. So, again, these are different pieces that answer the question why we need a liquid syllabus, how to work around equity and why equity is important. So, in my syllabus, I included this class pack. You will see the resources. I learned about this from different instructors. Now it depends what class you're taking, what level, right? So, some could be more elaborate. I teach level six. So, this has worked well with my students. My colleague who teaches level three reduced it a little bit. You can also have the students build this video. So, you may read something in advance and then re-edit your schedule. I like that idea. Students build it with you. And a lot of students do that as you talk to them in the beginning about community guidelines, right? And expectations. So, providing students with clear and unorganized scores, offering a variety of assignments, being present in the students' learning journey by giving them good feedback, timely feedback, I should say. Provide that supportive and safe environment, starting with a good syllabus, a warm, welcoming syllabus. Reach out to students if you see that they're not participating and, again, don't assume that they're not there because they don't want to be there, right? I will treat you with dignity and respect. I like to be, like, directly to the students. I will do this for you instead to the student that is, like, a little bit detached. And I love this one. I'm not, oh, sorry. I laugh with my students about this one. I will not be perfect. That's my favorite one. I tell my kids that too. So lovely. Can we not always laugh about it because I'm, like, sorry if you thought I'm super woman. I am not, right? And then later, there is a problem in Canvas. They cannot access the link. Or maybe I forgot to publish something that I thought I did. All those things, students feel more encouraged to tell me. They feel like they can approach me, right? And then you tell them, remember, I told you I was not perfect and we laugh about it throughout. So it's very important. So now the class back for the student. So basically I told the students what I, what do you expect from me? I should expect from you, right? So we want them to be active in our classes, communicate with us. Let me know, just as you let your boss know that you can't be at work. That's why I care about you. I need to know, right? Treating everybody with dignity and respect. Do your best and have patience with technology. My colleague here, Chris, always says give yourself grace, right? You'll need to have patience with technology. And with the experts, Ellie was saying how, like, she usually asks students who's more tech savvy, right? And then we get that help from them. And not only that, but they feel valued. They do. They really empower and help the teacher. We do like as adults, right? We all do that. We all like to be useful to others, right? And yeah, give yourself grace. It's okay to make mistakes. And here's this Francisco, like you want to add anything else to this. They usually feel like it's a lot, but some students sometimes, you know, as building that report, they add more. So Marianne, yes. Lois Rhodes is asking, may we plagiarize these packs? So, you know, usually educators are like that. They want to share because the more we can always paraphrase, right? Absolutely. And I think most of us edit those anyway for our own groups of students. Absolutely. Probably I want to use the word grace with my level two or so, right? They may say, like, what grace? Like, right, I don't know. Absolutely, yes. And you have access to my liquid syllabus so you can copy anything. You're welcome to. No copyright while they do that. So we already talked about this, right? Whose job is equity? Everybody's, right? I am part of the diversity, equity and cultural competence, comedian. Sometimes they just look at us like, we're the leaders. Well, I'm no expert. We all try to learn from others, read, inform ourselves. So it's everybody's responsibility. How do we join? Do you join? Oh, I can show you how you can join. Eventually have a little course. So you can probably join that. But it's always working progress, the Canvas course. Alpro has the equity, yes, modules coming out. They're piloting the online course. Good. Let me know. So how do we embrace students' culture and become culturally responsive, showing a lot of attributes of caring? We've already discussed about some of those attributes of respect, honor, integrity, making sure that the marginalized students are treated just as everybody else, right? Everyone has the potential to succeed. I don't just say it, but I believe in it. And students can connect with that, right? Teacher modeling these values to a patient being patient, persistent, and responsible. One of my favorite ones is this one from Geneva Gay. Teachers are tenacious in their efforts to make information taught more understandable to that. And also presenting the material in different modalities, right? And usually using multimedia and so on. Caring also prompts effort and achievement. Let the students know they're not alone. You're part of the journey. We are doing this, right? My favorite one is tell your story. Dr. Benners was talking about that, to be vulnerable. If you attended the keynote yesterday. I think sometimes it's harder to be vulnerable, but maybe have a little welcome video in your syllabus that talks a little bit about you. Katrina was hearing how she taught English in China, right? And then in Mexico too, right? Well, I was a student in Mexico. So it's just kind of like I've been a student. And the students can relate to that. And they understand that you, you know, you have a broader experience and being in different countries, being exposed to different cultures and developing their stories as well, right? So if we can pause for a moment and imagine you are a first generation student. You can close your eyes if you feel like. For me, it's like very touching to imagine all this. An African American or Black student. A Latinx student. An LGBTQA student. Financially insecure student. A student whose native language is not English, like me. I don't have to imagine that. A student with limited access to laptop, computer, but limited access to a smartphone. So again, that's why we're trying to create a liquid syllabus. A student with dyslexia and other cognitive differences. My colleague, Christy, taught me about this really great fund called Lexand. Maybe you can write it down. Is that okay, Christy? Lexand. You can also, well, you can write on the screen. But that's okay to write on the board. Yeah. And if you write on the screen, the people watching remotely can't see it anyway. So yeah. But do you? Oh, okay. We might. I'll show you how to do it. Yeah. So this fund, Lexand, is click the pin. And then I'll just leave it in red. And I'm going to write it down. Oh, thank you. Yeah. This is just quick and dirty. And so I'll go into another app. And then you just exit out. Thank you, Ryan, for giving us these machines. Thank you, Ryan. So now to be able to answer the whole situation. So that's one of the most beautiful funds, especially for students with dyslexia. There's quite a lot there. So I started doing that right away when I worked with Christy. So we've gotten your syllabus examining your syllabus from the student's perspective. What does it convey about the culture of loss? What is your perception of the instructor's teaching style? Do you feel the words? What are these structures that you choose towards teaching? Would you feel comfortable writing that word, that connection? These are my language. A lot of times when you're in your students, you see this the instructor role. But if you use the I and you, it's much more we. Yeah, we too. Yeah. Yeah. I will partner with Christy. Actually, yes, I have a slide on the language tool in what can sound more welcoming. So I think we kind of cover this, right? Looking at who are our students, basically. I remember in my last student at Cal State support office, our teacher kept emphasizing that. Think of who your students are. This is, no, this is the California community coaches. So this is data from 2019. We have a checklist at the end. But as you can tell, 67% are from non-white backgrounds, like a white variety, especially in California, right? So just knowing who our students are, the way we teach it. And I'm in a play like a movie. And yeah, I just want to add, especially here in this area, also have the refugees preceded them and they've their own horrendous problem. And they're so traumatized that they've seen something slightly the longer they take it in a way that you can't even imagine is their service to being in that way. It was a real challenge of dealing with this. I can even begin to add something else to keep me. Thank you. Yeah, I think a lot of our students, they come with a lot of trauma and they find the school just to save space. And that's it. And maybe not even that safe space. But in that meaning, counter with your teacher is harsh, then how can you continue going? And that's it. We also have to do this in the end of, sometimes I don't even know how to approach them. I just tell them. Okay, but that's right next to some people are saying, so just I'm not sure either. Is that when I think it's talk, maybe yeah, and I put a message that's everybody. Yeah, so several people are saying. Okay, thank you. Hopefully this is going to work well. This is a very short video. I'm just saying work well in the sense that we don't have any some issues. So this is more text than anything else. I tried to remove it, but then it keeps going. Hopefully the video is like, it was eye opening for me in so many ways, right? Especially when they show the arena of how many of these people cannot graduate for their class or fail and so on. I hope our Zoom stay, I hope our sound will be back to normal. Did anything stand out with you there? The whole thing that stands out for me in adult ed, every time I go to a conference like this, I see people mostly like myself. And the research shows that for students of color, when they can see faculty, like it's so great that you men are here, you know, men are not numerous in the educational profession. And men of color, when students see teachers like themselves, they feel more welcome and administrators and administrators all the way through. So I think if you ever have that power to be part of the hiring at your agency, you know, you don't just choose someone because of their base, but try to look for diversity in your staffing. Yeah, yeah, very good point. That's what we're trying to do at Miraclos Statue. Like that video reminded me of this reading festival author we had a couple of years ago, Michael Golden, who is a San Diego, who grew up homeless in San Diego. So he came to our school and he shared his story, how his counselor would tell him, well, you could choose construction, you could choose something that you'll bring your money right away. And he says, but I want, I want to continue my studies in the college, the high school counselor will basically put more hurdles in his way. Yeah, I just wanted to share when I was at University of Pennsylvania, I told my counselor that I was planning to go to law school, which I did potentially do.  You should be an actress. Wow. The funny thing is I did actually become an actress. But that was, that was in the 60s. And that was the attitude of a pretty woman should not even think of using her brain. Thank you for sharing. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. That that can impact someone. I don't know. Luckily, some of these people don't get stuck, but not everybody reacts the way the way you did or the way this author did eventually, you know, getting, getting a graduate degree from UCLA from LA UCLA. I couldn't say UCLA because I was at LA University at that time. All right, thank you. We're all in the University of LA. Oh, thank you for that. Thank you, Brian. So we were talking about some learners and some of us making great person impressions, conveying that good tone, information, expectations, acting students, local line and in campus. I don't know about your classes, one that we teach, but they have a variety. So it's just, it's just a very precise line. So you wanna keep them where they are.  Giving students tips for study and using a lot of accessibility images. So here's a visual about that, right? If we think of office hours, what could be welcoming? What could be welcoming? We used to call them office hours. And they call them student hours. And give them flexibility, right? You could tell them, hey, this is my schedule. But you could also, that could be really nice. We can set up, morning, evening, afternoon, evening, evening, evening, evening, evening. I'm trying to reach them. Also, to design your assignments, right? And how you use the language to talk about your assignments, right? How do you welcome students to complete the assignment and giving them choices versus yes, you need what you need to do. That was just mentioned. And the participation you expect from your students, right? What do you expect them to do based on a variety of assignments you had, all going hand in hand, right? If the students have a video that they don't want to watch a video or they learn better from texts or a PowerPoint, so that's what I mean, yeah, right? And again, if you read that, it's just like a language of the time here. So they're different, as you said earlier, they're different ways to create these liquid syllabus, to basically focus on chunking, reducing that cognitive mode, using headings. And they're different phone friendly formats like WordPress, Wix, Libre, and Google Sites, there may be more. The WordPress usually is a steeper learning curve, you know, to pay. Wix and Libre are not so easy to navigate to the side of the screen, and it's user friendly. So that's why that's what I'm talking about. So getting a little bit more practical, not talking about it, but you have to apply it, right? That's what they say, work a lot. Right? So some of our tips, again, based on the equity course and humanizing online classes, this is not really about regarding how we teach. Again, if students can access some of us from their phones, and it's easy for me, right? The pictures, right? And then I said, oh, really, a lot of hard ones. We're doing the hike, right? Just more like, I'm not this person on a pedestal here, I'm at the same level. Well, you can create a nice video. If you feel like me, I'm going to switch again, right? I don't this part, it's a great tool for that. And if you need more instructions involved in that, basically, the pictures can be sliding. It's easy to record. Here, my colleague, the recruiter, welcome now for Level 1 class. Very basic, notice you have three sentences, but you can see the welcoming welcome. Welcome. Looking forward to. Thank you. Contact. I have questions, right? So you're going to see that. So we had a picture or a video, and next we had the book and message. Now we have that section about this course. Try to use a bulletin list. Answers to these questions in the bulletin list, right? We have kind of a syllabus checklist. But, you know, the important first information that you want students to remember. You get kind of standard speedy resources. What else? Having the teacher philosophy. And I also copy. Okay, so you're welcome to copy mine. Again, my colleague said that for Level 3, we shouldn't even know how to really work. She said, because students don't need numbers. Even my Level 6, I explained to them, this is what it means, and that's what we did. But it's basically a short narrative that says, and then comes the learning pack that consists of lights, so hopefully you get to adapt that to your class. I'm just copy of this. Equipment, minding, of course, policies, not just policies, right? Okay. Focusing on the asset based mindset. And you can just develop with your students, as you said. How many times do you still syllabus that text? Only text. Then OEI, do break, doesn't say that, right? Just make sure you use them well, obviously, and use them. Continuing with our ideas for a negative united syllabus, keep those short resources, present some family, relate them, explain to students about them. Obviously, use descriptive ways to ensure accessibility. I'm going to say, like a person's read person's story right there, I used to teach in person through pandemic. And usually we would get wives right about writing these sources. And I tried to keep them in my so I remember because we have, not only said help students, but I'm right. And I just posted it in my syllabus. But what happened later when there was a training, I felt embarrassed because she was talking, she said, when I was, my dad was teaching students for me. And the student was, we definitely had to report because I approached them. And I couldn't even remember it was years after or not years, but it was sometime in the past. So she said, she or it was fun. So by the student's trust, and I felt okay approaching friends.  And I'm like, I want to do a better job. So including those support resources, have an inclusive statement. I copy that too. Okay, but I tried to modify and just try to use these. These are some of those from your across that this is the uprights. No, well, basically, it's rising solidarity and arm and students were undocumented can thrive to the safe space, the deck, and our students, the students driven by the staff and teacher support. So hopefully, I'm sure you've seen accessibility is a huge piece in a lot of sessions on accessibility that the Google sites do have that accessibility. You can create headings, subheadings, use descriptive links, embed files, use the bullet to the number less. It's very hard to read like a very dense text, right? Use videos with accurate caption so you can edit them and look to them or someone else. Think about that contrast. Well, there are a lot of pieces coming together there, but I try not to be convinced by right in those things. We can look at some sandballs. We have maybe just a minute here. This is my colleague's center. So Hillary teaches level three. That's both a message, just beautiful face, smiling, walking, class, important class information. This is a picture of our campus and she's still a student from their meeting. Let's look at the tabs, everyone, home course information. This is not like a long stream of information. So it's very easy to access nice buttons. Yes, this is done with Google sites. Yes. So buttons that link, and I can show you, or maybe I can't show you, but I'm supposed to stop in a moment. This is mine. You're welcome to check out, but if you click the preview, you can see how your syllabus will look on different device, electronic devices. So it's really nice to see like if the student access my syllabus, what does it look like? And the format is very well done. Instead of you don't transfer very well as you. So that's it. If you need to know how you could do this, basically go to Google sites. There are templates already done there for those. You can start from scratch. As I said, it's harder in the beginning, but then you get better at it, right? And see the preview, and you can insert pages here, right? You can add more pages, you can choose different themes, you can insert text blocks, images in bed, use your Google Drive. And these are very cool too, because you tell it how the layout is supposed to be just like the slides, right? So I don't want to go over this trouble, but hopefully it's looking new. Let me go back here so you can take it to the first slide. Yes, I was going to escape. So if you want the QR code again, there it is.


Welcome to JSA TV, the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott-Okitaya of JSA here at ITW 2019 in fabulous Atlanta. Joined by my friend Eric Bozic, he's the vice president and general manager of Edge Micro. Eric, welcome to JSA TV. This is your first time here. Thank you. Yeah, it's my first time here and great to be here with you. We are honored and there's so much going on for our viewers who don't already know they should. What is Edge Micro? Who are you guys? What are you doing? We're in a really exciting space. There's a lot going on with the Edge and Edge computing. And Edge Micro is creating a distributed carrier-neutral co-location ecosystem. So it's kind of an exciting thing to do. Our goal is to deploy that and reduce latency, increase capacity, and create a platform for a whole new generation of applications that are going to need lower latency and higher performance to really deliver new types of experiences. And Edge, absolutely one of those buzzwords of the year, of several years. How do you specifically define the Edge? Well, today the Edge is really built around a centralized cloud core. And that works really great for scaling. That works really great from a latency standpoint for some users that are nearby. But the latency can be highly variable. So we want to distribute that Edge farther out. We want to get it closer to where the users actually are and create a more predictable experience for latency-sensitive applications. And here at ITW, of course, our telecom community, the carrier service providers, how can you help these carriers get closer to where the content is? Well, we're going to bring infrastructure out to those more, actually the less-served locations or underserved locations. Instead of building one massive data center to scale this direction, we're going to spread things out and create a larger footprint that carriers can connect to and become part of that ecosystem that I talked about, who creates the environment. And for sure, getting to the Edge enables new technologies that are quickly coming to fruition like 5G. So how can wireless technologies like 5G be leveraged at the Edge to deliver services? Well, you know, a lot of users connect via landlines and terrestrial connections, but a growing number connect via wireless. We all carry our devices around and with 5G coming, those devices are going to get faster and faster and enable better experiences. But having a faster radio network doesn't necessarily solve the problem of latency because oftentimes those radio networks have to travel a long distance to get back to a core gateway where they'll connect to the Internet and provide infrastructure access to the infrastructure for supporting applications. So we're going to support technology that enables local breakout so those fast wireless access networks can connect to the content locally in this distributed Edge ecosystem that we're building. So we're going to really help accelerate those 5G networks. I just love that. So Edge Micro distributed Edge ecosystem. Very good. I love it. All right. Where can our viewers go to learn more? Well, you can follow Edge Micro on LinkedIn and you can go to our website, which is www.edgemicro.com. Yeah, and we'll put it right here. Edgemicro.com, check it out. Thank you so much for joining us. It was a pleasure having you, my friend. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV here at ITW 2019. Happy networking.