Good morning, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. My colleague, Beth Pickett, is actually going to do the majority of the presentation today, but I wanted to take just a couple of minutes to introduce our organization. For those of you who are less familiar with the NROC project and the different things that we do and how we support educators across the country. So NROC, the NROC project, is focused on collaborating with educators such as yourself to come up with new ideas to engage students, develop content and tools to address those needs, test them with your learners and your educators, and then refine those over time and get them out into the great wide world so everybody can benefit from them. Our organization has been around for many years now, founded in 2003. We are a nonprofit, mission-driven organization and our model, even though we're self-sustaining and we do have paid memberships that help us do what we do over the long term, our model is to really work with foundations and other funders to build those core content and educational technology assets that we then get out to you in a couple of different ways. One is to make it freely available, we're going to dive into that in detail this morning, free to individual users. So individual teachers and students anywhere can access our resources today and use those with your students and we hope that many of you will kind of jump in when we're finished with showing you hippo campus and try a few things with your students. And then we have low cost memberships. If you really want to do a deeper integration with something like Canvas, your learning management system, or other systems that you use at your school and you want to be able to look at student data and that kind of thing to really help guide the learning experience. So that's when membership kind of comes into the picture. So just kind of a nice overview, I like this slide because it shows both the core content materials that we've used grant funding to build and those include a two semester algebra one program, a developmental math sequence which maybe the name is misleading a little bit, it's when you're in higher ed you call it developmental math and I think everybody else calls it the math you really should have a good knowledge of when you graduate from high school. We also have an English program, again it's designed for that transition between high school and college and making sure that students are really solid in their reading and writing skills as they make those transitions. We have a couple of different tools that we offer to actually deliver this content to students. So one is ed ready, hopefully we'll be doing a session on that in a few weeks to give you an idea of what's available to you there. But today we're going to focus on Hippo campus which is an amazing repository of digital learning objects that are at your disposal and completely free to you and Beth is going to be diving into that a little more deeply. There one question did come up and I'm going to use this new new to me zoom functionality I'm going to answer live. So someone asked what does nrock stand for and it actually kind of goes back to our origins in 2003 when we started out as a curator of open educational resources and it was called the national repository of online courses and at that time like I said we were really focused on kind of curating making sure that the resources we pulled together could be used readily so you understood exactly what was in front of you how it applied to your day-to-day curricular needs and you could get it into the hands of students. Since then we've actually started building things and have really focused on the needs of educators in math and English as they help students with transitions in those areas and so we decided everybody knew nrock so we kept the nrock project as the name but it's the acronym is kind of gone by the wayside now. So with that I am actually going to turn this over to Beth Pickett who's going to do a great deep dive for us into the Hippo campus application. Perfect thank you so much Danny let me make sure I've got all the right buttons pushed. Can you hear me? Yes. Perfect all right I want to make sure that that is working. You should be able to see my screen right now I will go to the home page of Hippo campus because we were jumping around in there a little bit before we started the webinar so thank you all for taking the time to come and be introduced to Hippo campus. You may know if you took biology or physiology in college the Hippo campus is the part of the brain related to learning and memory and we've made a bit of a play on words here with the hippopotamus on the screen. Hippo campus is basically like a digital library that is free and open access for everyone to use and to share. I'm going to go ahead and speaking of which let's stop my video buy a little bit more bandwidth for you. All of the content at Hippo campus is free for people to use easy to access and multimedia content curated passing through you know under the nose of subject matter experts to make sure that the content we offer is academically sound. So you can go on YouTube and look up a subject that you want to teach to your students but if you want to know that something is high quality and it's organized in a really easy way to find it come to Hippo campus it's there for you to use. I have been asked to make sure that my descriptions today will be appropriate for people who are visually impaired so I'm going to try to build those descriptions in as we go. So here we are on the home page of Hippo campus which is where everything starts. You'll see two basic boxes on our home page on the left is a browse subject box. It has a listing of 13 different subject areas in math natural sciences social sciences and in the humanities. There's another box on the right that says browse collections these have the logos of our 20 different collections that are housed at Hippo campus. They run through our own NROC project collections of math and English plus content from Khan Academy Phoenix College in Phoenix Arizona not to be confused with the University of Phoenix, YU Art of Problem Solving, content from Mount San Jacinto College. If you come to Hippo campus and you know of a particular collection from which you would like to see content you can go straight to the browse collections area and click on any of those icons to get that content but most people are not necessarily familiar with those different collections so what the teachers would do is just come to the Hippo campus home page and go right to the different subjects. Because Tan is an NROC project member however you guys have a special version of Hippo campus that is branded for OTAN and I'm going to show you now how to get there. If you look in the upper right hand corner of your screen there is a black navigation bar and right in the center of that is the label log in. You should see it right there I'm showing it with my mouse right now. If I click on the log in button I get a dialog box that pops up with three tabs and the default tab is log in. It's divided into three horizontal sections. I don't want the first section yet that first section is if I ever need to log in for some reason we'll talk about that later but right now the very last of the horizontal sections says if you want to visit someone if you want to visit someone else's my Hippo page you can look them up here so I'm going to come here and click and type my OTAN into the box and then click the button that says look up and voila it opens up now to the home page of the OTAN branded Hippo campus. So now that we're on the OTAN branded Hippo campus it means a couple of things not only does everybody know that this is a resource that OTAN has provided to the students and the users it also makes sure that you're not seeing any ads as you go through the content itself. Any questions so far? Not yet. So I am going to show you one of the subject pages starting over here on the left hand side in the browse subjects box the first choice in the math category is arithmetic. I'm going to click on that button to get to the arithmetic subject matter home page. The home page the the core area of this arithmetic home page and all the subject home pages is divided into three columns and on the far left hand side of the column is basically how you navigate around and find what you want as far as the content. This content at Hippo campus it's video, animation, simulations and interactive activities. There are very few PDFs, Word documents, anything text based. This is all multimedia. So over here on the left you have some olive horizontal colored areas that tell you they ask you basically are you looking for a presentation on something that would be when you're teaching a student for the very first time about a topic. Some worked examples that the students can watch to see how a problem might be solved and some simulations with which they can interact. So let's go ahead and start in our own EnRoc collection. It's one of the listings on the left hand side in this far left column is developmental math arithmetic. So I'm going to click on the developmental math arithmetic and as soon as I clicked on that you might have noticed that the middle column populates with the names of a bunch of different learning objects. In this case they are all videos. Yeah, pardon me. Can you make your browser window larger so that we have a larger view of hippocampus or make your browser fill the whole screen? I can try that. It's going to stretch it out a little bit. If I view in too much when I go to maximize in a little bit I'm going to run off the screen but let's try it. Thank you. Does that help? Yes and then I think you're going to get to this question but we had a couple of questions about if and when you might actually need to set up an account. Right. I think you're going to address that a little bit later. I am but especially for people who may be somewhat new to technology I want to reassure them that they and their students can use hippocampus without ever creating an account. If you'll notice where I've been so far I have not logged in. I have not added a password I just go. It's an open resource it's right there available so don't worry about the password or even create an account if where you are technologically you don't want to go there and do some of the things that that would allow you to do basically which is create playlists and we will get there a little bit later in the presentation. So this should be a little bit bigger on the screen. Hopefully it allows you to see things a little bit better. So what I had just done on the left hand column is going into developmental math arithmetic. The middle column now populates with the names of all the different videos that are available for developmental math arithmetic and they are shown in sequential order in the order that most teachers would normally teach that content. There is a tiny button above the middle column. It's a pull down menu and it says sort and if I click that little arrow I can go to an option of sorting by the topic name which is an alphabetical sort or sequentially as is the default. I'm going to stick with the sequential the very first topic under whole numbers is place value and names for whole numbers. If I click on that name the video pops up in the video area which is the third column the far right hand column and there is a media play button all of the controls for the volume. It'll tell you how long this particular video is almost five minutes long and then underneath this whole third column video area sort of in the lower left hand corner right there's a little tiny word that says maximize so I'm going to go ahead and click that so that my screen is shown a little bit bigger it's easier to see the video so let's take a look for just a few seconds about what this video looks like. How much money would you rather make in a month? This amount or this amount? Of the two amounts of course you'd rather make this amount but why? Well all numbers are made up of one or more digits a digit is one of the symbols zero one two so you can see that he goes really back to the beginning and because this is a developmental math course the audience and the examples that he uses and the level of speaking is for an adult even an adult who like your adult basic education learners may be having to go back to square one to learn this material. Within the video box in this little control bar is a tiny box called cc which you can probably guess means closed captions and especially for our n rock content we not only have the captions in English so people can read along in addition to listening to the audio but we also have the closed captions available in Spanish so down here at the bottom of that closed captions box that popped up when I click the cc there's it starts off the defaults in English but if I move my cursor to the right a little bit and click Spanish you will see the audio if you listen is still in English but they can read along in Spanish and for those who are English language learners who are also having to learn math on top of the language being able to read the content in their native language can help break down those barriers keep them engaged and help them learn this material any questions about that good so far all right I'm going to turn off the closed captions minimize my screen again and introduce you to some of the different collections we have here at hippocampus one of the reasons we have multiple multiple collections not just our own is because we understand that different presentation styles hit students in different ways one student might totally love con academy another student might find his level of vocabulary to be somewhat intimidating so we have a variety of different ways to teach the same material and I want to show you what some of those are in particular there's one I wanted to show you from the stem bite collection now stem bite was created by a high school physics teacher using google glass to present videos showing how math and science are used in the real world so here's one on order of operations for this stem bite we're going to get baby penny dressed now I have a two-year-old son but getting a little girl dressed is a whole another matter little girl outfits have a lot more parts to them sometimes I'm not sure what all those parts are for but it reminds me in math of order of operations when you're doing a math problem it really matters whether you do the addition subtraction or the multiplication division first it can totally change your answer and the same is approximately true when you're dressing a baby should we put your pants on you go take for example the onesie here penny's got her pants on don't you and I could strap the onesie underneath now I think that looks just fine but my wife tells me that's not the right way to do it the onesie supposed to be snapped underneath the pants so in the same way let's say you're simplifying an expression and you do the addition subtraction first before the multiplication you might end up getting a funny answer just like penny look kind of funny when I did it the wrong way it's okay don't cry so long as you follow the rules of math the order of operations or the rules of society the social norms you can be sure that your final product looks exactly the way it's supposed to there you go there you go so these are the kinds of things that can help students relate what they're learning in class or why it's important to learn certain things like order of operations in a way that they can really relate to so stem bite is one of my favorite collections for that aspect of learning things like math and science we have another collection called art of problem solving this particular collection is more aimed toward middle school and high schoolers who are learning math but it may also resonate with some of the adult learners because the gentleman who is teaching it Richard Ruzik has such a passion for math and is so able to get into the heads of people who are trying to learn it really like his style so let's look at something from the art of problem solving and we won't go through the whole video for most of these just little snippets but I like the penny one and I wanted you to see her get dressed today we're going to talk about rules now I know I know I know you don't like rules but you're thinking about home rules and home rules are always about what you can't do math rules are better because they're about what you can do now I'm going to start with one of the simplest rules of addition the commutative property we'll start with an example I've got some hats here I've got two floppy hats three fuzzy hats that sounds like two plus three hats it's also three fuzzy hats and two floppy hats so that's three plus two hats so in general Richard does a really good job of explaining things first and specific examples with numbers and then later especially in the algebra content teaching students how to take those numbers and step back and stop start using variables he's really good at explaining all of those things by the way if you hear sniffing in the background it's because I put like dogs in the laundry room and they're trying to wonder where I am and why I'm not letting them out and they're sniffing rather loudly so I apologize for that hey Beth I wanted to just one question has come up a couple of times and I thought it might be best to answer it live so one question is about content specifically for the ESL learner and whether we have collections that address the very specific needs of those learners so maybe you want to just talk to that for just a moment and then another one which you are going to get to in a while the college of career readiness standards for adult education we have done alignments for those and those are available for math and a little again a little bit later on in the presentation Beth will show you how to access those yes in fact we're almost there not quite on the standards but as far as the ESL goes no we do not have one specific collection that focuses on that we do have areas of our English collections that also talk about how our content can be used for ESL but no we don't have anything specifically and only for them we do have supports like I showed you in math with the closed captioning but other specific material for teaching English as a second language we do not have a collection for that however we are always open to adding other free resources to hippocampus so if there are resources that people want to suggest to us that we could approach the creators and incorporate it we are always willing to take a look at that so what i'm doing right now is going a little bit through the different collections to give you an idea of the variety of what we offer phoenix college so as you could tell a little bit with art of problem solving that audience is a little bit younger than our adult our adult students not that our adult students wouldn't be able to learn from that but again like everybody else the adult students may have a different sensibility for how they like information to be presented to them so now and I forgot to do this earlier with the art of problem solving I've gone back to the arithmetic home page left hand column and I'm choosing a different collection earlier I chose art of problem solving and I picked the very first video available for them now I'm in the phoenix college collection left hand side I'm clicking their arithmetic and it has populated the middle column with all of their different videos available so phoenix college I think I was going to show the first one adding integers with the same sign using color counters and you can tell that this particular presentation style is very straightforward for if you have a very no-nonsense adult who just wants to learn it clearly here we go I will maximize the screen welcome to a lesson on adding integers with two color counters in this lesson we'll look at examples of adding integers with the same sign in the next lesson we'll look at examples of adding integers with different signs an integer is a number that can be written without a you can see quite straightforward there as far as how he's presenting it Beth yeah um can you open one of the n rock math topics or videos that has the close captioning in Spanish and just show our viewers how you toggle to the Spanish version of that closed captioning sure we'll do that again so on the left hand side left hand column I've gone to the n rock collection developmental math arithmetic and I clicked that to populate the middle column with all the videos I've clicked on the first video or might as well click on a different one because you've already seen that place value I've clicked on estimation video which populates it makes that video pop up in the right hand side the screen where we show things I push on the play button in the media control panel that's there and here we go do you have enough money to buy what you need I'm going to pause the video now double click once on the cc button and it defaults to the English closed caption now our closed captions are a little bit different than some you might have seen on tv which are two lines at the bottom of the screen ours is over to the right in a column the default as I said and you'll notice when I have the mouse inside the viewing area the control panel is available to change the volume click on the cc or play or pause when I move my mouse outside of that area that clears the screen and the control area goes away it makes it a little bit easier to see so over on the right you can see we have the English uh subtitles available and all I do is click on Spanish if I want the Spanish version but again he's still speaking in English about how much more does one item cost than another these are common questions that rounding and estimating can help you finance does that help answer that question it does thank you and then you'll be talking about playlists in a while um there are folks who are asking about how these materials might be shared or assigned to students and so um people are itching to figure out how to actually implement perfect well let me take a sidebar if you just have one video that you want to share with students from hippocampus if you'll notice over here we're in the far right under the uh video viewing area and the very last little icon below the box that includes all these three columns it's a little it's supposed to be a chain link it looks like almost a sideways snowman or a number eight and it says link to this topic if I roll over it if I click on that you should be able to see that a dialogue box pops up with a link and you can copy and paste that link you can throw it in an email you can put it in a word document or a google document and share it with your students so in this example we're looking at the estimation video from the nrock project in the dialogue box that popped up all you have to do is highlight the entire link starting with HTTP and copy and paste it anywhere you want so that's a really easy way to grab videos and animations sort of onesie twosie and use them in your for your students if you want perfect if a little more advanced one step up from that is the playlist where you gather a bunch of those together we'll get there perfect thank you back uh-huh I still wanted to show you one of the other collections which is why you this is an animation and this particular one had to do with factoring so what I've done is in the far left hand corner I found the why you collection pre-algebra foundational concepts I clicked on that title it populated the middle column with all of the different why you videos and now i'm clicking on the one the title that says factoring and now I can play the factoring video hello i'm professor von schmohawk and welcome to why you in the previous lecture we saw that numbers which divide evenly into a natural number are said to be that number's factors for instance since three divides evenly into six we say that three is a factor of six numbers that have exactly two factors with the why you video is that they have done a very nice job not only of professionally animating these math concepts and using you know ding and a highlight or changing the text color of the font of the numbers from black to red showing how things move around which can be a really helpful visual way to learn the math but their their goal is not only to teach how something is solved how a math problem is solved but why do we do it that way to help those students who have that itching desire to know I understand the formula but why does it work hence the name why you now you will notice that professor von schmohawk is holding a pipe and we have had people write to us and say oh we've been trying to get the kids not to smoke totally true it's a bubble pipe and every now and then probably not often enough you'll see the little bubbles come out so it is not a tobacco pipe he's not actually smoking anything he's just got a bubble pipe that's an item there for why you if you scroll then back over to the far left hand column in the simulations area so we had presentations we had worked examples we have simulations oh i'm going to show a simulation then i'm going to go back because i want to show you worked examples as well simulations the fet collection is one of our collections they are interactive activities so we were just learning about factors in one of our earlier videos now we can go to the fet interactive simulations and practice so here we have multiplication i'm going to go to factor and click on that this is sort of a it's not an animation but it's a little bit cartoony in the way that it looks there are three boxes available which are supposed to represent easy medium and hard i'm going to click the first box which is the easy one and i've been given a times table grid and beneath the times table grid it says question mark times question mark equals 16 and basically what it's asking me to do is find on the times table grid the two items that we can multiply to get to 16 now my grid only goes up to six so i can't use two times eight i have to go and take my mouse and scroll around in the grid until i get to four times four and if i click on the four times four box i get a little audio signal that i have done that correctly now beneath the grid the formula has changed to what times what equals 20 so i can either go to the four times five box word that or the five times four box either one of those would work it gives the student an opportunity to practice what they just learned so those are how our simulations and interactive activities go now i forgot to show something just a little earlier do you remember when we were in on the left hand column all the way at the top and rock collection under the presentations we had developmental math arithmetic and we went to the place values and names for whole numbers the presentation if a student wants to watch the presentation and then see how it is used they can go back over to that first column scroll down to the worked examples area and also in the n rock collection developmental math arithmetic click on that and they'll get all the worked examples that perfectly align with the presentation they just watched on place value and names for whole numbers so let me play one of those worked examples for you i think you'll recognize the person who is teaching it find the place value of three in four thousand three hundred and fifty six these are from sol con of con academy we hired him to do these for us years ago before con academy really got as big as it is today so these are actually folded into the con academy content on his website as well but these are the worked examples that he did specifically for us to align to the presentations that we give the students in our developmental math the arithmetic and all the other developmental math sections that we have okay yes dany um so one actually at the end of the presentation i will circle back to this um sarah is asking if we provide student worksheets and can they um can things be downloaded can the media be downloaded when students don't have internet access and at the end of the session i will sarah um share with you some uh oer resources that are text resources that are aligned specifically to n rock math and english sort of separate but i'll make sure that you have the url for that um and beth can address that question then i'll go to the next question so remember that focus of hippocampus is the multimedia the video the animation the simulation the worked examples so we don't have on hippocampus itself a whole lot of text based workbooks pds any of that dany you asked earlier you passed on a question someone had about the standards so let's say we're back in the left hand column and we click n rock collection developmental math arithmetic and we're at um let's see place value and names for whole numbers i'd like that video and let's say that i want to find out well is it aligned to any standards that i'm looking for because i need to fulfill certain standards for my students so here we are after i click the name of the video in the middle column it's popped in back over on the right hand side and underneath the video to the left of that little link that i showed you just a few minutes ago there's a check mark i'm going to click the check mark and it opens pops open a new dialogue box the standards dialogue box at the top of the standards dialogue box is a drop down menu if i click my mouse and hold the drop down hold it on the drop down menu i have four options of standards that i can look at that align with this particular video california standards college and career readiness standards for adult education ding ding ding national standards and common core standards so of course for otan i'm going to do the adult ed standards and it immediately populates in that dialogue box by grade level cc rsa b nbt one point one a and all the other standards for which this video helps meet that standard so that's one way to do it starting with the video you can go the other way as well so i closed the dialogue box now i'm back on the arithmetic subject page with that video still popped up there but at the very top of the of the main box where the three columns live you'll see some tabs that i haven't mentioned before we have been in the default tab it's orange now it says browse topics then there's a tab called launch a course textbook correlations but the fourth tab is called standards correlations if i click on that tab it takes me to a new view of the three columns and instead of the collections and course names in the far left now i've got the standards and i have it set for adult education grade five and it's got all the different uh standards here listed by you know c e one point one c e one point two point one let's say i want c e one point three point one if i click that in the left hand column it populates all the different videos from any collection here on the arithmetic page at hippocampus that help meet that standard so for example uh here's one multiplication of multiple term radicals from n rock here's one one variable fractions part two from a op s that's art of problem solving if i scroll down a little bit more square roots and real numbers from con academy rational exponents from why you and as in earlier if i click on any of those video titles in the middle column i click on it the video pops up on the right and i can go ahead and watch it any questions on the standards i do want to show you how to change if you don't want grade five if you want a different standard here in the olive horizontal bar where it says standards basically i'm going to click on a uh button that says settings by click on the settings button it pops open a dialogue box called standards settings and here again is a drop down box content standard which one do you want and it's the same options we had earlier california standards cal college and career readiness for adult education common court or national so i've got my college and career readiness i can pick the subject we're on the arithmetic page so it's only giving me math it's not going to give me any english subjects and then i can anywhere from third grade to twelfth grade so let's say i'm searching for math 12th grade i click the save button at the lower right hand corner of the dialogue box and those are the standards um one two three four five we have six standards here for which we have content at hippocampus if i click on one of those standards in the left column again we get different content popping up in the middle column and i can click on it in the the name of the title in the middle column and it pops up on the right how are we oh i just did something i need to tell you what i just did how we're doing so far any questions we did have one question come up um that asked does each collection explain its target audience no you have to figure that out either by sending me an email and i will tell you or watching it a lot you'll pick it up pretty quickly when you watch it especially the the collections that are aimed at a bit of a younger audience the middle school and high school you can tell those pretty quickly but there is not a description overall of the collections thank you ma'am so it's more trial and error on that or just shoot me an email and i can help you with that okay so here's something to pay attention to here we are on the arithmetic subject page i want to take you to english and show you what's there but there's no way to get directly from the arithmetic page to the english page so i think of this sort of like a christmas tree with a star at the top and a string of lights you know 13 lights going straight down to the bottom if you're at the bottom if you want to go to another string of lights you have to go back up to the top so i'm going to click on the otan logo it will take me back to the hippocampus homepage and now i can go to a different subject page so we're going to go over to english and take a look there and beth we did have a request to show a grammar lesson when we're in in english if you have oh well i'm just about to get into all the english stuff so perfect this is great okay so we have our own n rock developmental english collection this is for students who are graduating high school they need shoring up to be able to do credit level college english and we do that pretty quickly in 10 units now i've told you a few times that hippocampus is based on video animation simulation interactive activities our own english collection is the one place on hippocampus where you will find a pdf because each of our 10 units revolves around a reading area what we've tried to do in our developmental english is it's an integrated approach and here's how it works students are introduced to a topic through a reading let's say the topic sentence and they read something and they learn to spot a topic sentence in a reading and then later when they go to writing we ask them to write their own topic sentence so it's almost like the reading is sort of role modeling how to do it and then they get to practice it in the writing now our installed english course actually has a feature a writing center where they can correspond with the teacher write the paper in that software hippocampus can't do that hippocampus is not tracking any student notice we still have not logged in anywhere we're on the hit the otan home page but it's free and open to the public which also means it's not tracking anyone's student's activities we're not big brother watching who's doing what we don't know what any one particular student has done that's not the purpose of hippocampus that's something for ed ready which is a different webinar so that's but anyway i want to show you so for example in this middle column now we've got the 10 units of n rocks developmental english we've got the introduction we can go here actually what's that going to do oh i was going to do the writing workshop so here's the writing workshop from unit one you may notice that all the stages for each unit are the same introduction and this is the order introduction pre-reading reading post-reading pre-writing writing workshop one writing workshop two and then grammar in context so let me go ahead and play just a little bit of this imagine it's the bottom of the ninth two outs and your favorite baseball team only has one more chance to win the game coach pulls you from the stands to bat what do you expect to do you have a great imagination but in reality the odds of hitting a home run on your first at bat are discouraging writing is no different success requires patience and commitment to write read and reread to create a polished final draft so we're really teaching them about the entire writing process as we're developing their skills as writers so i want to show you something in particular in one of the other collections if you want straight on grammar that would probably be of course we have our own n rock collection and back over on the left hand uh call them right now i'm going to go over to the mount sanya synto which is a community college here in southern california and they have two of their instructors larry and ted so we kind of call this the larry and ted show they do a wonderful job of presenting fundamental information on how to put together writing bits and pieces to create an actual paper they call this course crafting an effective writer tools of the trade and so i've clicked on the verbs and adverbs lesson from that middle column here we go all right now let's take a look at verbs and adverbs verbs indicate an action or a state of being and adverbs are going to modify verbs adjectives and even other adverbs without action verbs your prose is going to seem lifeless it's going to be pretty short and simple so if we take a look at an example you'll see how you can add to your verbs without verbs this particular sentence lacks energy the seals got out of the water moved across the deck and made sounds at the spectators so how did they get out of the water how did they move how made sounds i mean all those are vague verbs we can bring more action verbs into this the seals leaped out of the water they slid across the deck they barked at the spectator so in other examples from mount san yasinto they will show you know red crossouts what you expect to see somewhat in an english paper but they really break it down quite nicely especially in those grammar lessons in addition this particular mount san yasinto i'm going to take you to a new place here at hippo which we haven't been it's not any uh it's not hard to get to i'm just scrolling down the page to what we call below the fold and you'll notice that there are two columns below the fold on the right hand column it says links and there's a link here for something called the course reader for crafting and effective writer tools of the trade and it's basically a free handbook i clicked on that link it opened a pdf and 90 page pdf in a new browser tab that goes along with this entire free set of presentations so that is also available as a free resource to your student not only do they have a free workbook we have a free basically handbook for our developmental english and why i say our i mean the n rock project and that's over here on this left hand column below the fold it's called the teaching english blog but actually the blog a while ago was replaced with what we call these english foundation lessons these are html pages but they correspond to the same 10 units for which you saw the videos earlier and these deal with specific topics in reading and writing that may be of interest to your students and in particular if we're looking for grammar we've got a listing here for prepositional phrases subjects and verbs and punctuation so let me click on end punctuation it pops open a new browser window it gives a bit of a lesson and then there are several items we can click on to expand practical application an example of how it's used your turn to let the students practice a little bit of this and then met a cognitive questions with sample answers so that is a second option again all of this is meant to find what works really well for your students what is going to resonate with them one student may really love the workbook from Mount San Jacinto college another might like the foundation lessons from n rock it's all good as long as they're learning the material let's see and we are coming relatively close to the end of the hour I think there there was an interest as well in understanding how to put multiple items into a playlist I will go through that really quickly because you're right we're running out of time a little bit I do want to show you just in case you I'm going to show you how to make a playlist if you forget also below the fold and the right hand column there is something called it's a four-minute video called how to make a playlist on hippocampus okay so until this time I have not logged into hippocampus I'm just a random person out on the web or maybe your student or yourself coming to hippocampus to learn material if I want to make a playlist and collect things that are saved then I need an account and to do that I need to go back up to that black navigation bar in the upper right I'm going to click log in there are three tabs in this dialog box the first is log in the second is create an account I already have an account but if you want to create an account this is where you would go be sure that you're on the otan branded hippocampus before you create your account so that you can create what we call a child account of otan and not just the public hippocampus so that you can get the branding and no ads I'm going to go ahead and log in we've seen the screen before earlier when we went to the my otan at the bottom of the three horizontal sections we went to the last one but now I'm going to go to the top one I'm going to go what did I call it otan demo that's what I called it otan demo so I put in my login name and my password and I click the button that says go to my hippo page and you'll notice I'm on the homepage really it doesn't look any different except in the upper right hand corner uh navigation it now says log out or edit account so now that I'm here let's go ahead and go to arithmetic in the subject with those 13 areas I'm going to click on arithmetic and now I'm back but there's a new item available at the very top of that left hand column it says playlists I've got a new playlist and I'm going to speed it up a little bit here I hope you don't mind let's click on what do I want to do I think we're good on we're good on time Beth we we were reminded we can go over past the beginning of the hour so you don't have to go into hyperdrive yet all right um so here we saw earlier I believe we saw the factoring and why you if I click on uh pre-algebra foundational concepts on the left I click on the name of it on the right but I'm going to click and hold my mouse and I'm going to drag that little puppy if you'll notice I'm clicking it oh clicking on it in the middle column holding down my mouse and moving that text over to the left hand column where it says playlist it has turned blue my playlist is blue and I let go and that basically drops that video into the playlist bucket so I'm making a playlist on um factoring now I'm going to go back over to the fed collection in the left hand side I'm going to find that arithmetic interactive activity that we did earlier well now here I've gone all the way down to the bottom of the left hand column I can't see the playlist so I have to stop and scroll back so I can see the playlist uh at the top of that left hand column and now I can hold my mouse over the name of arithmetic this particular simulation that I want in the middle drag it and drop it in so it's that's all there is to making a playlist log in and drag and drop into your playlist now my playlist if I click on the name new playlist it now says a parentheses two means I have two items in my playlist and if I click on it those two items pop up in the middle column but even better on the left hand column where it says new playlist parentheses two there's a tiny little icon with an arrow going up and out that says open this playlist in a new browser tab if I click on that here's my playlist in a brand new tab it's all by itself it doesn't have all the rest of that hippocampus stuff it's perfect to use for my students to send them this particular link uh I have just highlighted what's in the url area of my chrome browser I can copy and paste that and share that with my students now this particular one I don't really want to keep this name I'm going to close that browser tab and go back to hippocampus I want to change that name so that's a little better than new playlist so in the olive bar where it says playlists I'm going to click the edit button and here's my edit playlist dialogue box and there's already a a box available that I can type over where it says the title of my playlist and I'm going to call this OTAN demo for factoring I just type it right into the box and then at the lower right I click the save button and now I have a new title you have to be a little careful if you're changing your titles because look when I click on the open in a new browser window it has now changed the url the title determines the url so if you change a title of a playlist that you've already sent out to your students you will have to send them a new one so make sure you pick a title you want to stick with before you send something out to the students here's another thing with the playlists I'm going to now I'm back on the arithmetic subject page I click on the edit button I want to add to this playlist a link to something that's not in hippocampus I have this other video from youtube I want to use peachy awesome here's my list of playlists and over on the right there's a column called settings with a gear icon I click the gear icon for that one particular playlist and down here in the lower right there's an opportunity to add an external url as a playlist topic well I happen to have gotten one earlier from youtube so I'm going to go out to youtube copy and paste the url from the chrome browser url area the address area and I'm going to paste it into url to launch and then I'm going to title this I don't know more factoring from youtube and there's a little button on the left that says add url don't click the save that's for something else over here to add the url so now yes now you can go away because you're already saved um the o10 demo for factoring has three items in it two of them are from hippocampus one of them is from youtube and it will pop right up either uh on the hippocampus in the media window or if you open the new tab for a playlist it will show here on your playlist so that's the quick and dirty playlists uh how to do those again there's a four minute movie exactly how to do that right below you know on the hip every hippocampus subject page has that link to the how to create a hippocampus playlist right and I'm going to type that um url directly to that little tutorial into the Q&A area again I know that that section went a little quickly for some folks um so and I know there are a few steps so I would encourage you to watch that four minute um video to get a really solid understanding um are folks not seeing let let me type that in the chat area for some reason perhaps the url I'm sharing is not um going out here so I will put this in the chat and then Beth there was sort of a question in terms of process I think as we moved from sort of the public facing non logged in um version of OTAN's hippocampus site went from there to a teacher creating an account and thereby having the ability to create playlists I think we may have lost a couple of people and that for that transition if if we could go to the logged out state and show um where you would actually create an account yep the OTAN site that would be fantastic sure so I'm back now on the hippocampus home page for OTAN up in the upper right hand corner nav bar the black navigation area I'm going to go ahead and log out so now I'm back where we were most of the webinar I'm not logged in nothing has happened anybody can go here and look at anything really although most people won't know about the OTAN branded site they'll go to public hippocampus so let's say that I'm an OTAN instructor I do want to create an account have to start on that OTAN page if you don't I can fix it later but it's best if you start on the OTAN home page then you go up in the upper right hand corner of black navigation bar to log in click it once I don't have an account yet so I can't log in which is the first tab available in this dialogue box I need to create a click the middle tab create account I pick a login ID and a password it asks me the password again for my email address my name my position and my was a college or a high school what state that helps it figure out what standards to put in although your OTAN so it already knows you are a subject of interest if you have one and then there's a little button at the bottom that says create my account and voila you click create my account and you're in and you're ready to do playlists fantastic thank you so much the only other thing that I might have shown but I think we'll let people look at this on their own I've shown you just two of the subject pages we have 13 so biology chemistry you know econ history and government go look at some of the resources that are available because there's a lot here at hippocampus math and english are the two that are most filled out and complete because of course we have created our own content in those subject areas but we have a lot of content in the others as well a few places you will notice that content is still in flash either the content cannot be updated as it is with the sci-tech collection because those are they're actually really wonderful interactive activities for english but they were created in flash and they can't be updated others like some of the dallas county learning objects are in the process of being updated from flash to html 5 so if you poke around you may find some things that are still in flash we are trying to take care of that and that's pretty much all I had anything else danie from the questions um we have a a couple of questions let's see um typically is hippocampus there's there's one question about districts um a district administrator having browser settings that don't allow chromebooks to access vimeo or u2 um do are there recommendations for um putting in a request perhaps for the um district administrator to allow access to hippocampus as a a safe i mean you can i'm not sure how that would work on your end but normally hippocampus is not blocked by schools and if you approach the people who are in charge of blocking and unblocking and show them what hippocampus is all about that should help but beware if you are using youtube videos in your playlists and youtube is blocked your students may not be able to see those particular items on your playlist yeah good point good point so we're really asking for the hippocampus.org domain to use uh techie language that domain to be sort of cleared or approved by your administrator and we can you know if you reach out to us we'll put up our email addresses at the end so if you need any assistance um you know with language making that overture then we could certainly try and try and assist you there um and then i do have um dana i'm sorry this is melinda um i'm also going to pop in here real quick because i'm a google administrator yes um if they also needed maybe some verbiage to send to their network administrator on how they need youtube or why they need youtube um or anything with the chromebooks they can also contact otan and we can get that information to them as well yeah not specifically to hippocampus but specifically to the chromebook something's being blocked we have verbiage we can send perfect so that might help as well dana are you ready for me to stop sharing and send this back to you yeah that would be great and i am just going to go back to my um slides here real quick bear with me i know you can't see it yet so bear with me um this has been just a great interactive session you all have kept me really busy in the background addressing all of your questions um but if there are some things that we weren't able to get to or there are some things that are still a little bit unclear um i think maybe we have one or two people who had created teacher accounts but maybe not on site um these are all things that we can address for you and we would be more than happy um to help you um our email addresses are bpicket at nrock.org and dpedrati at nrock.org they're on the screen now um please feel free to reach out to either one of us directly if you would like some clarification um maybe uh assistance with part of the um uh resources that we shared today um we would be more than happy to help so just send us a message and we'll address your questions as they come through and i think that is really all for us today that's all the content that we have prepared um both beth and i hope that you will take some time to check out the hippocampus resources um and share them with your students hi danny and beth thank you so much this is anthony from otan again thanks for a great presentation on the hippocampus we really appreciate the both of you spending some time with us this morning to let us know about this amazing resource i do want to take just a couple of minutes i did see it um to your point danny there were a couple of questions about you know maybe um okay how do i get started again so i just want to show folks on the otan website where they can get more information about the n rock resources including hippocampus and where we have provided some information about how to get started with those resources so i'm going to go ahead and share my screen and you should see the otan website which is otan.us so again just a little bit of orientation to our website so come to the otan website otan.us our top story is the list of upcoming otan activities for the week um we just started off the week with our hippocampus presentation but if you continue to read the news item um on this page you will see a list of the of the webinars so we have upcoming this week we have a very full schedule again um all kinds of webinars that we hope will be useful for you as you are working with your students online if you look for in the right hand corner if you look for this COVID-19 field support button and go ahead and click on it i do want to direct your attention to the if it comes up here i want to direct your attention to this first resource that's listed under the otan heading it's our otan resource guide if you go ahead and click on it um this is a place where we are trying to put a lot of information about a variety of resources and how you might use these resources with your students um into this guide but i want to point out um if you go all the way down towards the end of the resource guide to this online curricula section we do have a space devoted to n rock and uh dany in the very beginning of her presentation mentioned um a number of things including hip uh including hippocampus ed ready and those developmental courses so in the resource guide we do have some information about those resources and how you can connect with otan to get more information about them um so in the very beginning beth mentioned the um the otan portal on the hippocampus site so actually if you click this link this will direct you to the my otan space on hippocampus and then you can create your account and then do the other work that you would like to do there as well um but uh beth and dany also talked about ed ready they talked about the developmental english and math courses so we have a lot of information about that in the resource guide um beth and dany mentioned that you can reach out to them at n rock but you also can contact us at otan as well um pennie pierce and one of our coordinators i think has been sitting in on the webinar this morning so she and netta annaseri um can also help anyone who has questions about the n rock resources um that are available through our partnership with n rock


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So there's this new movie called Crazy Rich Asians, and somehow Hollywood has managed to whitewash this one too! Wow, they've really cocked Asian wash. You're a Nicholas E. ...characters that they replaced with White Axe. Wait, that's Aquafina. Nah, I'm just playing, I don't think there was much that they could do to flip that one since Asians, it's in the title. So if you guys haven't seen, there's this new trailer out for this movie called Crazy Rich Asians. It's by Warner Brothers, it's a big motion picture, it's based off a popular book, and it's got people talking. You know on our channel we cover a lot of things Asians, so here's my take on why you should go watch the movie, and also why you shouldn't. Huh? So the first reason why you should watch that movie is, it's the first all-Asian cast of a big movie in 25 years. And you know to all the Asians who are used to being waiter number three or sexy little Asian girl number two, I mean this is a big deal. They put a $30 million budget behind it so you know they didn't cheap out. It's got a successful Asian-American director behind it, John M. Chu, who's also done these movies. And it's got a whole lot of funny Asian comedians in it, some of whom we know. So the second reason why you should watch this movie is because if it does well at the box office, then it's actually gonna open the doors for more Asians to be in movies. People need to see that our faces can draw the crowds and make money. Well that experiment of giving Asians a movie didn't really work. Back to being a martial artist and token Asians. And the third reason why you should probably watch this movie is because it does expand and go beyond the usual stereotypical Asian movie roles. There's eccentric elites, there's professors, there's royalties, there's boats, there's Asians, there's English. I mean how many movies got all those elements in it? I mean a lot of people including a lot of Asians didn't even know that there was an Asian country where English was their official language. Singapore. And reason number four is that it links Asian Americans with their fab Asian counterparts which nowadays with globalization is even more relevant. And when at any point in time was there ever a movie that was filmed in English where like two Asian people fell in love? There's no movies where Asian people fall in love. People don't even know that Asians can fall in love. And the fifth reason is it's based off a really popular book that was at first written mostly for Asians but then really blew up amongst non-Asian women. Can you believe it? Guys, the book about an Asian love story was popularized by non-Asians. This is important because it shows that this movie is not just meant for the internal Asian community and it's not just releasing at Asian theaters and Asian areas. It is a theatrical release. It's a big movie. And the sixth reason why you might want to watch this movie is that the Fung Bros. we make a very, very short cameo in it. No, we did not get paid to be in the movie and no, we did not get paid to make this video and no, I don't even think I'm going to get an IMDB credit for being as a background extra but I got to meet the cast and the crew and they were all very cool people and they're just trying to make a movie that makes an impact. Now it's time to be the devil's advocate. You're looking for a great excuse not to watch this movie. Here's one. It's about rich Asians, mostly Singaporean, Malaysians and Chinese so if you don't relate to that story or you don't care to see it, then don't watch it. From now until the movie comes out, you might hear some Asians saying everybody Asians should watch and support this movie. It's for representation. Nope, as you guys know, there are many different types of Asians from different backgrounds and not everybody is going to relate to this story or even want to see it at all. If you have a negative connotation about rich Asians, maybe this movie changes your mind. Maybe it doesn't. I don't know. You just got to decide for yourself. I think a lot of people might be surprised to hear me say this but you do not have to support it just because there's a lot of Asians in the movie. I mean listen, maybe you want to go watch a movie more like Better Luck Tomorrow, Bang Bang or Gook or something about like basketball or something a little bit more like conventionally American. I mean listen, it's valid. All right, all right, all right, all right. Personal bias aside, this is not the Asian Black Panther Wakanda forever or the Asian Get Out that some of you guys were waiting for. Someone out there should write that by the way. It's supposed to be a romantic comedy. It's supposed to be maybe a little bit cheesy, very fun.  Oh my gosh, Asians on boats and fast cars? That's crazy. We need a date night movie too. Why do we only have to watch white people fall in love and whip each other? Every show in every movie that shows Asians in a different light is one step for representation. You know Hollywood takes time. I mean to be honest, this is kind of a groundbreaking movie in some ways. Now whether you want to watch this movie or not, just know that movies like this do help Asians in the big picture. Not the small picture. This movie does not represent all different types of Asians. But still a stepping stone. Still a stepping stone. It's getting there. It's getting there guys. It takes time. Alright everybody, that's my two cents on it. And even though we appear very slightly in the background of the movie, I mean we didn't even get paid two cents to be there. Either way, I'm going to leave the link down below to the trailer so you guys can see for yourself and decide whether you want to go watch that movie. But it does look like a fun movie. Seems like a good date night movie. I don't know. Anyways guys, we haven't done a video like this in a while. Let me know what you guys thought about it. Give this big thumbs up. Shout out to David. He's out in New York. I'm actually back home in Seattle right now for a while. Yes, I did move back home with my parents. More on that later. But everybody, until next time, we out. Peace!


What is happening YouTube? Thanks for tuning back in to the channel today, right here with me, the Rust Belt Mechanic. So today we're gonna throw some more tools into the mix and what are we gonna be talking about? Ratchet wrenches. Ratchet wrenches specifically from SP Tools. I've also got some other comparisons to throw into the mix with you, just to keep it nice and fair and show you guys some differences in them and between the price points in the market to show you guys hopefully what you guys will be looking for. So when we think about ratchet wrenches, what do you guys think of? Normally the first thing that comes to my mind is gear wrench. They were pretty much the pioneers of the market for the ratcheting wrench and then a lot of the other manufacturers kind of followed suit with that. Matco, Mac, Snap-On, they all followed suit with that. Heck, even Husky has their own line of ratcheting wrenches out right now. So I've got three or four sets of different ones right here that we're gonna be going through and trying out. As you guys can see behind me, this is the new toolbox I picked up from SP Tools a couple of weeks ago. They also sent me some ratchet wrenches to be testing out. I've had a chance to test them out for about a week now so I think I'm gonna go through the differences between those and some other ones in the market, go over some price points and see what you guys think about these ratchet wrenches. First up on our list, we're gonna have our SP Tools, SP10158. It's an eight piece 15 degree offset wrench, ratcheting wrench set. This is the standard set. Normally I would have liked to go with the metric one but we got these just to give them a try out. Now these are a very impressive set of wrenches I will have to say myself. Now I've gotten to use these wrenches for about a week, week and a half. Now in the shop I took them in and we really started wrenching on them. The biggest things I really enjoy about these are their nice slim profile. The chroming on these is absolutely fantastic. There has been no imperfections to the set that I've got but I really like that everything on this is low profile. It's a nice thin slender wrench, a nice gripping opening and a nice 12 point end here for the ratcheting box end. Now when we as technicians start messing around with a lot of these ratchet wrenches, we start off with some of the cheaper ones but when we get our hands on some of the really nice ones they just, they feel that much better in our hands. Now it's hard to explain for that one and for the money, some people might not want to justify that one but SP Tools I think gives you a really good reason to look at both of those areas. This eight piece 15 degree offset set is actually only like 120 bucks. 120 bucks?  This is also a fantastic tool. The ratcheting box end wrench of these is gonna be a 72 tooth design and if you guys have used box end wrenches or ratcheting wrenches for any amount of time you understand the feel of them. The ones that actually take like, you know most of the turn before they start clicking those ones are just absolutely horrible especially in tight places when you're underneath dash in tight places in engine bays. Now these ones will not disappoint you at four degrees plus or minus one there on the turn radius before it clicks is in a really awesome range. The competitor here, snap on they're gonna have just a slightly higher amount. They're gonna have an 80 tooth set. Now an 80 tooth that's gonna get you just a little bit more at about a three to three and a half degree before each click in the ratchet starts clicking. Now the biggest difference I'd have to say is in the quality of the ratcheting design inside of these. It's gonna be kind of hard to pick it up but you can hear compared to something like we'll say a gear wrench. It's more of a dull tinny click to it whereas then when you go to the snap on ones they are, they're pretty smooth like really, really smooth. I don't think I've seen any ones that have been better than these but obviously for the price point they better be freaking amazing. The price point on these SP Tool Ones at 119 bucks for this set is absolutely phenomenal. When you compound the price along with the fact that these things are absolutely stellar they're a nice thin design to them. The selector on this is the other thing that I really like. The selector is a really thin design flat to the head. It's not gonna be protruding any at all. It's gonna be easily selectable, slides really easily without catching and then able to have that nice really fine tooth click on top of it. The open end to it has their own little patented design where it's got deep grooves in offset here to be able to grip some of those fasteners just a little bit better. Grab one of these snap on ones to compare here. Now the snap on ones they have their flank drive which has a couple of teeth here inside of it. The SP Tools one, they don't really have any teeth here but like I said they do have the end ended corners here to be able to hopefully grab in some of those areas. The snap on one I do give it to them that they do have these are able to be serviced. Now when you're talking service ability you know on a tool truck the guys are able to swap out these ends but I've also had an issue with whenever these things break the tool truck doesn't always have these in stock. So I don't know if it's hard to get them or what it is with that but they do tend to break here and there but for these price range they hopefully don't break very often at all. The snap on ones this set, now granted this is a 10 piece metric set and we're comparing to an eight piece standard set. So it's a little bit off in the price range on that one but the snap on set here which is part number SOXRRM710 that one's gonna run you $505. Over $500 for a 10 piece ratcheting wrench set. Now when you're the best of the market I guess you can kind of get what you want out of them but is the top of the market really worth that much extra? Now in my mind having those is a good comparison route. Now if I was looking at another set I'd be going over to SB Tools and I'd be having a look at their wrenches. When you can have this kind of quality right in their ratchet wrenches and be able to save a fourth of the price or even you know at most to match a set like a half of the price I would definitely recommend a look at a set of these. The next set we're gonna have up for comparison here is the SB Tools SP103111 11 piece metric flex head gear ratcheting wrenches. This one runs from eight millimeter up through 19 and is a very comprehensive set. I'm gonna be comparing these to the gear wrench set that I have. These are the gear wrench. This is just a smaller seven piece ratchet wrench fully flex head design. Neither of them have a selector switch or a locking mechanism on either side so it's a pretty good comparison in that one. Now in using this ratchet wrench set I've been used to using my flex head either the blue point ones or my gear wrench ones here at home. My gear wrench ones were the ones I started off with like 10 years ago. I've also got a buddy who has a set of the XP gear wrench ratchet wrench set and I wish I would have grabbed that set to be able to compare this to because it is also an 11 piece set as well and the teeth they match up a lot more. Now when we're talking the feel of the teeth the gear wrench is just a little bit more clunky than the SP Tool one. The SP Tool ones they feel a lot better. I don't like that the gear wrench has a little bit of imperfections in the sides of their wrenches. I don't know how well the camera is gonna pick up this one but here in the side of the wrench there's gonna be some knurls here and there like it got ran through the machine and got caught on the edges here and there. Whereas the SP Tools is nice even all the way across. Chrome Vanadium, there it's a really high strength steel and that would be just about the same as the gear wrench ones as well. They say they use the same steel. It does have a directional arrow mark here on the ratchet wrench so you can have a look at it and see that without having to guesstimate and it saves you an extra three seconds but the gear wrench one does not. Now when we're talking serviceability of these again neither one of them have really much serviceability to the ratcheting area of it but the Flexhead does have the Allen screws there on the end to be able to service the ends if you really need to replace the heads I guess. As far as the insides of the ends of the wrench again the SP Tools is gonna be the same with their nice little indent groove design to be able to grip inside of there and the gear wrench one really does not have any kind of teeth or gripping area. The XP ones they do have a little bit of knurling on the inside of these so I guess it would be some kind of a comparison to say that to those. Now when we're talking price point there is a little bit of difference in these. The gear wrench set if you're talking about the comparable 11 piece XP set those ones are gonna run right around $300 or so and then the SP Tools one they're gonna be running right around $329, $330. Sometimes you'll catch them on sale and you might be able to get a better deal on them. As far as the tooth count, tooth count is exactly the same 72 teeth on both sides of it and they're able to grip easily with a 12 point head on the ratchet end wrenches. In this certain point the SP Tools are a little bit more expensive but for the feel and the difference in the ratcheting of it I would say that the SP Tools one compared to like the gear wrench XP set the SP Tools ones are just gonna be slightly better and for that extra $20 or $30 I would actually rather purchase the SP Tools set. Now I didn't really cover a whole lot of packaging because it's all really to the preference of the buyer on that one. The Snap-on ones they always come in this blow molded case and for 500 bucks I would imagine that they probably should come with really something fancy to go with that. SP Tools one they come in this nice rollup bag with some Velcro straps to be able to take them on the go. Me as a standard in the shop mechanic really doesn't have a need for this to go bag and which is why I didn't really include much of the packaging for these because me personally I use these toolbox widgets that of which the newest, latest, greatest toolbox widget designs are gonna be coming out there actually available for pre-order right now. I'll be sure to put a link for that one in the description below where you guys can check those out and vote for those for one of the best tools of the year over on P10 Magazine. Make sure you guys go and check those out. They would be a great combination to be able to put the SP Tool wrenches in here which I will definitely be doing later which is also another reason why I really haven't done a toolbox tour of my new SP Tools toolbox here at the home garage because I'm working on getting some organizational bits that I think you guys will really enjoy. Overall, these wrenches are something that I am actually gonna continue to use and if there's any kind of updates on wearing, durability or anything to them I will be sure to bring these to you guys as well. Now I know that there's all other kinds of brands of ratcheting wrenches on the market today but I think that these were pretty good comparisons to the newer SP Tools. SP Tools is kind of newer to the market here in the US and I just wanted to give you guys some comparisons to the tools that I've been crunching with and working with here over the last couple of weeks. Now hopefully here coming up I'll be doing lots more reviews on a couple of more SP Tools as well so make sure you guys stay tuned into that one. SP Tools was also awesome enough to be able to give me a coupon code for you guys as well. Make sure you guys look down in the description below for that coupon code if you guys are interested in getting yourself a set of these wrenches. That's about all I've got for you guys on this specific upload. Make sure you turn on that bell notification for when I come out with cool new videos like this one. I've got a whole lot more coming down the pipeline for you guys coming up here soon. I've got quite a few more videos to be able to edit from the truck show this last weekend but I wanted to be able to get you guys some cool tools here to break up the middle of the week for you. I appreciate you guys tuning in for all the support that you've given me over the last couple of weeks it has been an awesome blessing here on the channel. Thanks again and as always, you guys stay awesome.


The NeoKey Trinky. This is like a USB key or a thumb drive, but it accepts a keyboard keyswitch, mechanical keyswitch. You solder it onto there, and it's got the capacitive touch on the end. You can do any sort of HID thing, so this can be MIDI. You can do control-alt-delete button. I've got a Raspberry Pi 400 computer sitting right here. This is going to, when I press it, enter in my ToeBeans emoji. It is the NeoKey Trinky, and it is a mechanical keyswitch USB key style trinket with an underlit NeoPixel and capacitive touch.


Oh my goodness. Wow. Let's take a moment here. Thank you. Do you need to change anything else? Okay. Oh, wait a second. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Sorry. My goodness. Thank you all for being here. Oh, good. All right. So good afternoon. It's a joy to be here with three generations of my family and with so many of you who have served for the city and who I've been able to partnership and partner with and other ways over the last decade to move this community forward. In this room, 12 years ago, right here, I announced my intent to run for mayor of Burlington. I said we would fix the city's finances, hold city officials accountable and get stuck in stalled projects moving again. I promised the people of Burlington a fresh start, hard work, and a steady hand during the crises of our times. I didn't know then, of course, that those crises would include a global pandemic, an insurrection, an economic shutdown, and then sustained high inflation. I didn't imagine standing here that day that we would see a multi-year shutdown of the largest construction building, largest construction project in the state's history, the city's history, an unprecedented drug epidemic, and the closure of only high school. But if I had known then what I know now, it wouldn't have mattered. I would have stepped up for this job without hesitation, serving the people of Burlington with an amazingly talented and committed team and in partnership with so many people who cared deeply about this city has truly been the opportunity of a lifetime. With the City Council, with everyone here in this room, and most importantly with the people of Burlington who steadfastly supported dozens and dozens of our initiatives at the ballot box, we made good in that opportunity. We delivered on those campaign promises and then we delivered on much, much more. With a focus on equity and data and with dogged persistence, we got the big questions right and we forged great progress. It took seven years, but we lifted the city from the edge of insolvency to a double A rating, saving taxpayers nearly $45 million in counting. This financial strength hasn't just saved money, though. It's been critical in the years since as unexpected disasters hit and we needed to move aggressively first to fight COVID and then to construct a new 21st century high school. We took on and we beat one of the biggest banks in the world in order to resolve the Burlington Telecom debacle. And then with our credit and our credibility restored, we went out and proved that city government could still get big things done. We realized generational projects this community had been waiting on for many decades. Let me talk about a few. We completed the largest parks project in the city's history by rebuilding and upgrading the entire eight-mile-long lakefront bike path. The northern waterfront, which was abandoned in derelict as late as 2014, is now alive with skateboarders, kids learning to enjoy the lake and visitors arriving by boat. Today, hundreds of thousands of riders pass through our modern transit center every year and you can take a train from Union Station to New York City for the first time since the 1950s. And the Champlain Parkway, the mother of all stuck-installed Burlington projects, is now under construction and ironically, it's ahead of schedule. I guess it depends when you start counting on that one. Don't start 12 years ago. As a result of what we put in motion, this investment in renewal will continue and expand for years to come. This fall, we will break ground on a $30 million effort to transform Main Street and we have secured nearly $50 million of TIF funding and federal dollars to rebuild another 10 blocks of Cherry Street, Bank Street, and the new streets through City Place and rebuild them to the great street standards we created in 2018. What that means is the downtown of the near future will have healthy and tall street trees, outdoor public art and dining, protected bike lanes on Main Street, and beautiful planted gardens that also help keep Lake Champlain clean. In 2011, our housing market was totally broken and had built just 550 homes in this great city in a decade that had seen unprecedented national housing boom and particularly a downtown housing boom. With innovative partnerships at Cambrian Rise and City Place and Wichamplain College, a complete rewrite of our downtown zoning, the elimination of wasteful parking policies, and more, we have turned this around. Since 2011, more than 2,000 new homes have been built or are in construction and our pace of new home production is still accelerating. We are on track to meet the goal I set at the end of 2011 to increase the 2001 to 2011 housing production rate 400% by 2026. I came to the mayor's office with far more experienced building homes than I had in politics and there was, to put it lightly, some initial skepticism, should we say, around the developer mayors focus on making housing plentiful. But we made the case year in and year out that to make good on the promise of housing as a human right, we need to build a lot more homes and we have won that debate. We are a community that does what it takes to make that possible. We had a moment that dramatically represented this shift in attitudes and land use policy just a couple months ago when the city council considered an effort to rezone 84 acres of the south end in order to legalize housing in that zone for the first time and make it legal at substantial scale. I had to abandon an earlier effort to do something like this because it was too controversial just a few years ago, but this time it passed, it passed unanimously and even more amazingly, every person who came out to give public comment was in favor of the change. We've led the conversation on the other great issues of our day. We are leading the nation with our muscular and innovative local climate policies. We were the first community in the country to create net zero energy revenue bonds so that we can invest $20 million into improving our grid and electrifying everything. We now require all older rental buildings to be weatherized, to meet modern insulation and air sealing standards, changes that make a huge impact. And while many have given up on the critical climate policy of properly pricing carbon, because they don't think it's politically possible, before the end of the year here in Burlington with the approval of the voters, with the approval of the legislature, with the signature of the governor, we will implement one of the country's first carbon pollution impact fees. When 26 first graders and teachers were murdered just a few miles south of the Vermont border, here in Burlington we ended years of silence in this state over common sense gun violence policy. We passed gun violence charter changes and we demanded that the state act. Eleven years later, some of what we called for is still pinned to the wall in a state house conference room, but Vermont is now a place where life-saving gun violence initiatives can become law. For my first months in office until now, we've pursued the essential and difficult work of eradicating racism. In 2019, before the horror of George Floyd's murder, we created one of the state's first racial equity, inclusion and belonging departments, and it is now far better resourced than even the state's own diversity and equity initiative. And in 2021, we started the already beloved tradition of the city hosting a major Juneteenth celebration every year. We've also worked tirelessly to get policing and public safety right. I've challenged our officers to live up to President Obama's 21st century policing ideals by becoming one of the first cities in New England to comprehensively deploy body cameras, overhauling the way in which we respond to mental health crises and becoming the most transparent and data-oriented department in Vermont. However, I also have long understood that our public safety depends on having police officers willing to put themselves at risk for our safety and fought those who sought to decimate our officer ranks. Well, I regret, I don't have many regrets, but I do regret that it took 18 months to reverse the city council decision to eliminate 30% of our officers. We are now on track with our rebuilding plan. We have a confirmed and committed chief, and we are in a trajectory to become a stronger, better resourced, and more skilled police department than ever. As we've gone directly at these big issues, that's always the way I thought we needed to do it. As we've gone directly at them, my perspective was always informed by what was on the minds of Brawntonians. One of the things I'm going to miss most when this job is over is my weekly coffees. My weekly coffee and a bagel, sesame seed with a slice of tomato, they know that out there, with dozens of neighbors in the New North End. We have had now more than 500 of these weekly talks, but just about every week, still, there's a constituent who comes for the first time, and I never leave without learning something new. I also love the conversations I had with Brawntonians about the issues of the day at our Mayor's Book Group meetings. We haven't had one of them for a while, but they were great when we did them. We hosted them in partnership with UVM Humanities Center that bought hundreds and hundreds of books for this community so we could do these events. One summer, amidst the huge community debate we had over City Place, we read a book called The Triumph of the City, in which writer Ed Glazer makes the case that cities are human kinds greatest invention, and that they make us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier. The noble work of making these complex inventions function is, of course, never really done. It's never really finished. And because of that, because there is so much important work still to do, and because so many constituents have urged me to run again, deciding whether or not to seek another term has been one of the most difficult decisions I've faced in this job or in my life really. After 12 years, the longest unbroken stretch of any Mayor, with the pandemic behind us, the economy largely recovered, and investment and progress on track to continue, I have decided that now is the right time to conclude my service as Mayor. I will not be seeking re-election for a fifth term as a Mayor at Brawnton. However, I want to be clear, while I am not certain what I will do next, I have every intention of staying involved. We still have an enormous housing shortage and the second worst homelessness problem per capita of any state in the nation. We have a deepening drug crisis that is taking an enormous toll on this community and on the rest of Vermont, and a wide range of serious public safety problems. And we are not doing nearly enough as a state to take on the climate emergency. These issues are bigger than what any one community, even Brawnton, can solve on its own, and they are not going to fix themselves. Addressing these challenges will require committed, tireless leadership, and I am going to take some time to explore how I can best continue to work on these challenges. I also want to be very clear that while I will not be on the ballot in March, this administration intends to run through the tape from now until April. I shared that with our department heads yesterday, and I don't think they were surprised, but I'm committed to handing off a strong, effective, and resilient local government for our next city's leader to Steward, and that will mean a lot of work and big decisions on public safety, the budget, infrastructure, and more over the next six months. As you can see, I take great joy and have incredible pride in the work of this administration. I want to say thank you to the many department heads, current department heads, and past department heads who have, some of whom have traveled from some distance to be here, as well as our colleagues who just couldn't be here but wanted to. I've been so grateful and proud that you all joined and committed yourselves to this team and to Burlington. I also see in the crowd today other city workers, union leaders, business and nonprofit leaders, the builders of this city, and I want to say to you thanks as well. I am so proud of our collaborations as well. And most importantly, I want to say thank you to the people of Burlington. I am so grateful to have had your faith and confidence for 12 years, and I want you to know, I want the people of Burlington to know that that is not a confidence I've ever taken for granted. I actually brought a prop here. I keep on my desk at home this frame copy of the 2011 Democratic Caucus ballot. And there's some great details here. There's a sticker, there's a plastic sheath that made sure people held on to it. I left my ballot in my jacket pocket, almost didn't get the ballot in, but I leave there on my desk to remind me that if a single one of the 540 people who supported me that in November had voted differently, or even simply if they had decided to go home instead of sticking around for six hours in the third ballot, the last 12 years would have been very different. Certainly would have been different for me. I think they would have been different for this community. Every time I walk up the stairs to the third floor of City Hall, I am grateful for this role. I'm full of respect for the Office of Mayor, and full of respect for what city government can do to improve the lives of our neighbors. Almost done. There's a little, not everyone knows this, a little kitchen down the hall here. I remember kind of hiding in there 12 years ago, waiting, hoping for a crowd to build before I walked out to launch what seemed at that point like a fairly improbable campaign. We had done the work. We had made the calls. But as a first-time candidate for office at my first-ever press conference, I had no idea what to expect. I had no idea if anyone would show up. But you did. And you did time and time again for the city, for the tough times and the celebrations. We've had lots of both. We have been tested. And together, we have made this wondrous invention of Burlington an even more special place to call. Thank you.