Jordan brand has officially announced all the releases set to drop this holiday season for 2023 and I'm telling you right now it is loaded with bangers so let's go ahead and get started with the first shoe first up right here we have the satin bread Air Jordan ones we've talked about these in multiple videos if you guys haven't seen the previous video check that out as well right what do you say it's a well built shoe is clean like in hand it's nice everything about as nice as built well I'm just saying like it's a cop like 180 bucks for your girl not your chick for your girl your wife whatever your daughter I gotta stop saying that but it's a clean shoe okay so for me deaf and cop definite cop and if it is an extended sizes I'm going after these like I need this you I need it okay next up right here we have the reimagined royal Air Jordan ones see see see that's wrong that right there I told you that's my color right there that I'm like a royal blue cobalt blue person okay so that's me right there like the blues so this is a hundred percent like you need these in your collection to pair like I'm gonna wear breathing deep I'm gonna get these I need these like I'm saying like I'm real simple and they don't have a whole bunch of colors but they're gonna be dusty they're gonna be perfect it's like okay they are perfect for me I'm going after these it's gonna be like that's way yeah all throughout so what happens is they have the reimagined series so what they're doing is reimagining old OG classic iconic colors and models and stuff and then they're like putting a spin on it like this is a leather shoe let's do sway yeah the air Jordan for the brand fours is coming out or the black cement fours whatever one you like to call those are gonna be a leather version this time we never seen them in leather besides right on a baseball cleat or something like that but it's interesting to see them do that spin and that twist on it give us something different some people are like just give us the OG we want that but this right here I'm not mad at it this shoe is clean to me it's a great shoe yeah it's funny because this is like one of those samples that came to life type things you know it's like damn they did that cuz they did like a suede black cement three oh yeah they did it they did a suede black cement three and it was a leather one originally you see I'm saying right so it's like they had all these samples from 10 15 years ago and now they're calling it this reimagined series now in current time but it's like they've been doing this but now it's just like a new thing new series so it's fun we already talked about this one right what is the what is the color on these the mauve the sky jay mauve mouth mauve whatever you call it again this one you know wintertime classic can't go wrong gotta have these red metallic or what do they call it now University red you know they always got to switch up it's not it's not gonna hit the same but either way great shoe gotta have it would you rate these out of 10 they get a good nine nine yeah okay look at the material look at the leather on it oh yeah that's what I'm saying I got the letters good you know like you said it's just a good looking shoe this is a great shoe right here yeah I already know and it's gonna be indestructible I feel it I feel it I'm gonna go crazy in these like do you think do you sure getting two bears I gotta ask you this or you guys can tell me in the comments hold on do you think that the Air Jordan ones like this to low tops do you think they wear better than the Air Force ones like the Air Force ones do you scuff them easier or do you scuff these easier I feel like the Air Force the Jordan ones in an all-white don't scuff the same like you know you clean your shoes and start to fade in white okay the Air Force one just based off of what I'm thinking and I'm pretty sure I'm right but I don't know you can correct me but they just use cheaper materials on the Air Force one and it's actually a mixture of different types of leathers like on the Air Force yeah so with that you're probably gonna get you know the creasing and the scuffing and all that stuff naturally on that shoe more they're gonna come correct when it comes to because I feel like when you wipe these when you're trying to clean them everything like they last longer good yeah yeah yeah I think the materials are definitely better on these at least in my opinion yeah that's what I feel like this one like is this just me thinking yeah no no that makes sense that makes sense so next up right here the what is this fire red sale gray cement so like I'm assuming this is like the fire red threes but or the fire at fours now they're making a fire red two I don't get that it's a good looking shoe so it's similar to the OG colorway but they added a little bit right there on the back end with the darker colors I can't tell it looks kind of like it's green but it looks like yeah it's supposed to be like black or gray just like that yeah I'm trying to figure out what mix with that front cuz that front is gray on the tip right right it's a lot so the OG colorway cuz you have like the Chicago and the white and red the OG colorway looks really similar to these but they gave it a little bit of a twist give it that fire red vibe I just hate when they be changing the colors and don't match yeah the color blocking is all right it's yeah it's nothing to be like oh I think with the Chicago's coming out and just sitting like that and these other twos that are coming out and just sitting this is definitely one of those like let's grab it at the outlet let's grab it on sale let's right right cuz it's not gonna sell out yeah like and there's gonna be the people in the one you can still copy it might be the people that live in the one small town that's got the one-foot locker it's like bruh it sells out of my city every time okay yeah that's a unique situation there's exception to every rule oh my god 175 bucks like people are gonna be like too high I'm not spending 175 this should be like 140 that's what so I don't know I feel like that color combination right there is fire this is kind of interesting right that's fire right there okay this is cool I can mess with that one so whoo this is Air Jordan too low but then they do that to them it says it says white university red black coconut milk yeah so these are I could take that one right there they did way better they came back but it's only kids no what I'm not going after him like when they first dropped like that like I feel like I'm still gonna be able to walk in because they're two your local shoe palace and be like oh they're sitting on shelves like twos don't go like that right maybe cuz I'm a size 13 but okay the white university blue twos remember those the white with the baby right those are clean those is clean sitting on shelves those should just go automatic no so I'm like if those are combination everything if those ain't selling out they're not selling out they're not all the women's really this is a women's yeah but either way it's clean yeah take your time take your time you might be able to catch those on sale that's all I'm saying okay this this shoe oh okay now this is what's starting to happen this shoe came out before really this is the fear pack Air Jordan 3's so you got the fear 3's the fear 4's in the fear 5's right so with those three shoes they came out on the same day and I remember getting this whole pack back in the day when it first came out of course yes you know me and I got rid of my pair I kept the 4's cuz I really like those and I kept the 5's but I didn't keep the 3's I had them for like two or three years or one time and I was like she's not for me let's get rid of them you know cuz I I don't know I had I still had like the black history month 3's and some other 3's that were like kind of similar so I was like you know I'm not gonna give you a long story short now I'm like I'm ready to I'm coming back I'm coming back and I'm gonna hold on to rockin I'm looking forward to it type of situation so I'm excited to make new memories in this shoe right here and because of that it's got a lot of people hyped up like where's the 4's where's the 5's can we get those two like we know they'll probably drop them later so yeah but again colorways that we thought would never come out again right and now ten years later whatever but they kind of have to do that yeah they kind of have to yeah so that's what makes you know it's so every shoe is not safe like I get that but at the same time like those shoes are starting to crumble and yellow and fall apart right it's like so even if you love that shoe and you like I want a new one I need to get it back like cool grade 3's came back and all these other different models burgundy 5's you name it we can go down the line but great shoe and it's a great fall wintertime shoe right so I got the fear pack $202 and I came to be like 180 I know I know they don't know that price point that little bit changes people's whole thing when you when you bust over 200 I know but the thing is the thing is though this goes from like a sneaker selling for that 230 you know and it was 180 if he was making that 50 bucks right now they're like we'll make this we'll just take that you guys just figure it out go figure it out type thing yeah inflation you name it all the different stuff like I get it but I feel like things are just inflating really fast these days like yeah they said the dunks and the Air Force ones retail is going up again on those what because it all because they still been selling and everybody been keep buying them pandas and all the other stuff tells going remember it don't used to be under 80 bucks yeah now I think retail is gonna be like 125 or 130 or something wow and it was like man our forces are a hundred bucks now it's crazy yeah like and it just keeps going up like I don't know if they've announced it yet you guys might have heard this first actually there's gonna be some changes to the game so anyways I don't know they're now saying Air Jordan 3 tell him a secret I'm here for the people okay Air Jordan 3 this is the cup what is the cement gray as they got the coconut milk where's this coconut milk coming from so it's like a black cement elephant vegan elephant some type of way this is dope this is a women's release and again they need this to come out of man's are fired need this to come out of man's this should be a full run size for kids everybody fire colorway yeah just out of just cross the board just you have the look at the materials look at everything it's just cross the board it should be for everybody I wouldn't give it a full comparison to the sneaker but you have the the tinker black 3s remember the ones that you got with the 3m on them all black on the side of them right you like those you be wearing those a lot like these kind of fall in place with those right like similar not the same but like kind of similar vibe like all like 3 like kind of again not on the exact same path but just kind of like giving that vibe and it's like oh this is a great like sleeper type shoe looks good on foot but I think you know I'm saying like people's gonna respect it I think people gonna get this shoe and I think like the girls whatever if some guys if they can get it in their size they won't get this shoe yeah because again what we talked about the the dark colors you can kind of beat it up yep clean it up where it's more yeah no I'm excited and then with the with the 3s you know they got the older cut and everything so they did the craft force remember you saw that in the gray version right and we're like they got these weird patches and everything on it and everybody was kind of roasted them but then they did this olive colorway right here and and now everybody's like oh this is kind of cool they clean I like it it's a basic shoe I'm just hard on the greens it will it's and then it's got the little square patch in the back and the mixture of materials and all the stuff and they don't got the nets on the side it kind of cheated it but at the same time people are like yo the craftsmanship the shoe is amazing I love how they did it so I think you're getting like very polar opposite responses on a shoe like this either you're gonna like it or don't like it yep so for me it's a cop for you and not for me I got the gray pair and I'm a gray and green suit already got rid of the gray pair see but the green the green is a nice switch up for the Jordan 4 on a release it is so I think for me for those reasons I will consider purchasing this shoe and then you have to come out with some merchandise to match it so this is the olive craft SE retails a hundred or two hundred and ten dollars where they come in with this two 10 these ones are five or two those are worth two 10 but the thing is I'm interested to see the materials all the way because I haven't seen the one they almost did that material you got a shoe with that material like on the like the Florida Gators yeah like Jordan six yeah it's kind of similar that but I think it's a little bit different scout like that crack distress type of leather yeah but I think they mixed the materials around the toe and the nets on the side of the foot so the color of this is the Georgetown Air Jordan 5 so remember you got the Michigan's and the Oregon's and all the different ones was like the schools I think it's a really really clean shoe like I think it is great for the winter time I think wear easy clean I think everything it's gonna hover a little bit over retail maybe but people are gonna be able to enjoy this shoe and not have too much stress of getting the sneaker because people don't like like that oh yeah I like five height these don't like to Jordan fires I get ain't no secret which takes the you know all the attention away from it and then allows you to just walk up in the store and grab the shoe that you need yeah obviously we're 13 14 so it makes a little bit harder sometimes cuz right sometimes mall don't even go I think it's a cop another great shoe right here wow the aqua six is you know let me say six is this is a clean shoe man was fire they can't go wrong with the shoe I think it's a cop like all the way around like you got to have a shoe okay retail 200 bucks so there's a lot of shoes that we're liking on this list unfortunately the question is like what's up like are you going after all this stuff we're like making me go after all this so here's a deal here's a deal the way I see it the people out there will help us find the shoe oh yeah yeah in this size 13 14 we'll be looking for shoes they'll give you a holler and then we'll figure out how we're gonna get the show okay but the other part is cuz I can't go after you know all the people I don't know the people yeah yeah I know you'll be fine you'll be fine no worries you know every person every store okay this is just showing like Jordan brands going hard for the winter they're about they go hard for Christmas that's what I'm saying they're like November and December they've been a killer hitting you what our best like and I feel like they're doing solid no they doing real solid almost every shoe we did look at was like yeah I'll have that and a cherry twos to like that's another one I don't even know if we saw that one on the list but they're like oh we're doing all these are trash trash I'll take it back trash we're talking about are weak those is clean some broke down call these are some broke down chromates like just I know the chromates retroed but like give me the chromates again over these I don't like to make sure materials I don't like the color blocking I think I will wear these one what is that winter I oh okay you were the green ones I'll wear these ones so what they do is this is a winterized air Jordan 8 so what that is kind of like the Gore-Tex how they switch up the materials make it a waterproof da-da-da they do the same thing for this so they make it like more insulated on the inside so it's warmer and then make it more water on the outside you love Jordan 8's it's a dark shoe I get it but the playoff 8's are coming out like literally this weekend like you'll have those you'll be fine I don't know how I'm getting them yet but these I'm like it's just a $210 no way all that's all right cool I'll buy them at the outlets but like okay not buying these for two I don't think good pricing is the two 210 no I think 180 I'll say 170 that's cool but again if they drop down in that 160 it wasn't at all that's I gotta have them pull up on me pull up on me and you know we can't go wrong with these hey these shoes are always so comfortable DMP 11 I can now wait to bust out the review on these bad boys right here the DMP 11's I remember this was like when I was like you know beginning of high school the DMP packages came out was just starting to collect like all the stuff but this is right in the prime of like that I was in the thick of it like right beginner entry level like this is it right here like we had already had a bunch of shoes but like when I was paying my money yeah but you started to buy that way he was like you ain't high school so I remember when these came out and the fat lines and all the stuff I cannot wait to review this shoe I already know without a doubt I'll have multiple pairs of my collection I will be wearing this this is a two pair kind of shoe this is a double up for sure I doubled I quadrupled up on the pack but I only got two left now but great shoe great shoe that's what I said comfort in this shoe for me it was for me it was one of the best hooping shoes I've ever had back in the day yeah cuz it was so comfortable I used to have I used to hoop in the OG space jams yeah and when I was in high school and man well it's so good hooping shoes crazy comfortable so um this is like the Christmas shoe what everybody wants for Christmas it's gonna be a cold Christmas yeah didn't it come out with the red ones last year it was like white red white red yeah for the Christmas every Christmas they do a drop yeah I'm sticking out there cuz I got some of those for Christmas yeah he's like well I remember getting some of those they just showed up oh this is gonna be great they release on December 9th you gotta wait all the way to all you know somebody before that okay so this one similar color blocking different colors it's kind of like I think I'm pretty sure it's like a brownish color on a patent leather not a black and then you got like that pink kind of tone to it and this is the women's release so we talked about this before with Jordan brand what do they do to make more money to hit quota to keep their job make some more releases for the women do one right now like okay let's do a low top let's do a high top let's do a women's release that it is let's add a couple more retros in there but then the women can buy two pair right get the other ones and these yeah so that's what they'll do but honestly though like if they have these in extended sizes like I want these you have these are clean yeah I just like the other ones better for sure for sure but these are better than some of the other 11's that have come out in the past like over the years but I always wonder for me always feel like they don't make the women's shoe design is strengthened durable as the men shoot yeah I can see that but honestly I don't know I have no clue so we'd have to ask somebody on that yeah speaking of that I know the perfect person and I'm gonna have them on my podcast every Sunday what time shall the podcast 10 o'clock 9 a.m. 1 p.m. either way every Sunday probably like 10 new podcast episode oh yeah I mean it's gonna be fire stay tuned okay oh they got it right here cherry twills yeah yo you never had these before I never had those tell me he never had these Friday I didn't ever have those before I wanted those I didn't get these shoes I think it's so that's why I love about sneakers at this point he's got it well over a hundred pairs oh sure easy some good stuff he's got PE samples GRs heat da da da and they're still like that I need this shoe no matter what age but that was a shoe that I didn't get I know that's what's so dope about it and you know it's even crazier you know what's correct you know what's crazy this man don't even got to pay for the shoes put the mic back down this is disrespectful because I'd be seeing all the people in the comment section talking about you know how everybody say when I was older I was able to get the money and then I could buy the shoe and now he like I'm older and my son by the shoe hey that's a perfect game it's a cool game it's a cool game they talk about me they should be pointing the finger at him no no the ones I like was wrong you didn't get your dad those shoes oh real quick last video I showed you you found a shoe which one remember I said I got those shoes already the Aqua 8 yeah and you go no you don't have those I was like I was trying to hook him up with some Aqua 8 he already got two pairs now you got two pairs and they were both clean I'm like you need to beat up one of these at least okay oh this is a cool game man all right that's a clean shoe right there this right here was a shoe that we thought would never come out again yeah these came out back way back when I was in high school time right and now they're retro-ing the shape looks terrible but I don't care because I still want these in my collection I was gonna say don't look bad yeah right look at the toe it's all slim and it's like turnt down right there like the 13 is more bulky or around the middle of the foot like and it's all like then on the tongue and it just don't look that good and it's all turned up on the toe right there you see I'm saying yeah now I see it now but it's okay though but I still like I still a cop though these are fire maybe a wear better the old pair was so nice I missed those oh that's a good shoe you got me those black and white ones which ones oh no Jaren who got me those which ones the 13 he was cleaning up all the black and white Jaren did yeah black and white here we go 14 easy what do you think about these I'll rock them this is who I am it's a clean shoe I can't go away this looks like the Michael family P.E. am I tripping I don't know the Michael family I'm pretty sure this is like the Michael family 14 easy where I gotta do my research you don't even have to do much I'm pretty sure it's very similar when it comes to the color blocking on these this is the old P.E. colorway back in the day used to keep it real simple with the P.E.s on Jordan brand stuff okay so that was it that was all the shoes a hot month two months like that it's like November December hey there's probably 85% of the shoes worth copping yeah so y'all better start saving your money all right now man cuz first off when they drop if you ain't got your money in hand and get that first low price some of these shoes just gonna skyrocket they did you could be like oh I thought I was gonna pay $30 over no yeah be ready so yeah start making those relationships and hitting up those friends because when the time comes and everybody's reaching out especially when you talk about eight nine pairs of shoes oh yeah more than that look I'm no I'm saying that you might want to cop out of that right you know what right what they got 16 pairs okay let's just do a quick recap satin breads reimagine ones yeah fear threes the women's cement three the craft for the Georgetown fives the aqua what is that seven or eight shoes right there you said the winterized eight dmp's let's go the women's 11 the cherries and the wheats and the black okay all the shoes really skip like two of them that's like 92 you know what's funny to us these shoes they came out yet but he still know the name of without reading it don't worry we get it okay I hope you guys enjoyed this I hope this was helpful gave you guys a little bit inside about what we think let us know what you guys think down below in the comment section and give us some video ideas I'm thinking about making a whole another series on the channel where I'm not even in the video at all he's just in it's like his segment it's up to him to figure it out I'll get the editor and do all the stuff but we might do something so give us some channel ideas some video ideas down below in the comment section and oh yeah follow his channel as well what you got you got anything for us I don't know and all I say is again appreciate y'all but right now save your money up because if you don't say your money up you gonna be mad with all these shoes over the next two months we're gonna come out you're not gonna get some of these shoes oh yeah people are like I don't see all these shoes sitting couple pair might sit right but majority of them not sitting right you know so get ready get ready for the Christmas time and remember I wear 14 I was 14 I like nice prices right right okay boy up so anyway we gonna get out of here we do have behind-the-scenes stuff to do we be doing this stuff we might yeah something so yeah I gotta ask him about these these three shoes right here I cannot wait to see what he thinks about these follow his channel we'll get the results on his channel before you go I just launched my sneakerhead Academy where we got everything on the inside I teach you all the stuff that I learned over the past 15 years when it comes to sneakers scaling real estate you name it we talk about all of it in there and there's a eight-week program plus a bunch of monthly giveaways I give away shoes literally way too much honestly but either way I'll see you guys on the inside hit the link down below in my description or pinned in the comment section for DJ sneakerhead Academy and I'll see you guys over there


Helo! My unlucky presentation this morning, and we're going to start with Ann Marie Scott, a piece of illumination enlarged using OER for access and activism in cultural heritage. Thanks. Thanks very much Frances. This is slightly unusual for me. I'm going to talk quite a lot about something I have done personally, rather than something I've done professionally, at least professionally in a university context, so hopefully you will Ond ydy'r cenall, ond there'r cenall ar fy ffroffesionol, a mewn gwneud o ddweud o ddweud o'r f sprin Bryddol, a os ydy i'r cyfnod o'r modd o'r lleol wyir oesio'r meddwl? Yn y ffroff hwn, mae licent ffermwysau yr oedlai, wrth yn cael ei bod yn sempio i'r bwysigol ddweud efallai y rai ffroffwysau yng Nghymru, furio'r gweithio'r ffermwysau oedlai, oherwydd yr gweithio ar y celwadol rhagwchó around openly licenced resources and the third and the one that I think I probably feel most passionate about is that if you invest not just in stuff but in building literacy and in building capability then you actually can teach a broader range of digital citizenship skills through teaching open skills. So as I said my story does start in a university context. I work at the University of Edinburgh I'm the Deputy Director of Learning, Teaching and Web and in 2015 we ran our first edit-a-thon. It was a three day event focused on the story of women in medicine, the story of the Edinburgh Seven and you can look it up on Wikipedia. There's some excellent pages about it. And it was facilitated by the national, well the Wikimedia and Residence at the National Library of Scotland at that point, a lovely lady called Ellie Crockford who's just sitting on the left-hand side of the screen. And it was the start of our journey towards having our own Wikimedia and Residence. But because we're a proper research institution and we think about what we do, we evaluated the work that we did. We asked Alison Little John from the Open University and some of her colleagues to analyse our edit-a-thon activity and to help us understand the impact of it. And there are a number of pieces of research that have come out of this activity and the work that Alison has done and her colleagues. There was a presentation at OAR 16 that some of you might have seen. But there are a couple of points that I really want to draw out of the papers that have been published. And the first was from the first paper that was published which was looking at the formation of networks of practice and social capital through participation in an edit-a-thon. The few points that I think are really important that I want to draw out are firstly that activity didn't stop when the edit-a-thon stopped. We continued to edit and I was one of the people involved in this edit-a-thon so I am kind of research subject in here too. We continued to edit even after the activity had stopped. And we did build a network of practice around our editing activities and we communicate with each other, those of us who are involved in that edit-a-thon still. And we did consider this activity to be part of our professional development. It was really important to us and it wasn't about the topic that we were studying so much as learning the skills around editing Wikipedia that we felt were important. The second thing, and this is a more recent paper, it was published five or six weeks ago now, was looking at the process of becoming an editor in the perceived roles and responsibilities of Wikipedia editors. And the key things I think I want to pull out of that are that the process of being involved in the edit-a-thon really got us into the nuts and bolts of how knowledge is created, curated, represented, debated, discussed online. And that process of taking responsibility for creating knowledge and thinking about that critically did for some people give them the feeling that editing and creating that knowledge was a form of activism. So telling the stories of the first women to matriculate in a university in the UK and telling them accurately and fully was a form of activism. That's then a lesson which I have carried forward. And this is where we turn from the thing I did professionally in work to another activity, which I actually think it's another professional activity. I put two titles for myself on my opening slide. I'm the trustee of a Building Preservation Charity in Edinburgh. And we are the steward custodians of a category A listed building called the Mansfield Traquer Centre. It is an enormous church, a deconsecrated church. And it is absolutely covered in murals by a female artist called Phoebe Anna Traquer. She is really important because she's the first professional women artist in Scotland. She's the first member of the Royal Scottish Academy, who admitted as an honorary fellow. She's incredibly important in her own right. In these murals I've got other cultural significance around the church that they were painted for. They say quite a lot about 19th century thought about religion and they say quite a lot about the arts and crafts movement. But these aren't the first murals that she painted in Edinburgh. She started her career by painting a very, very small chapel in the Royal Hospital for Six Children. The Royal Hospital for Six Children has moved and her murals moved with it. And I'll tell you a little bit more about that in a minute. But these murals were commissioned by Patrick Eddus in the Edinburgh Social Union. And if you know anything about conservation or town planning or interdisciplinary education you may have heard the name Patrick Eddus. If you haven't, go and look him up on Wikipedia. And she was asked to paint what was a converted coal shed, very small space. And the women's committee who asked for this building to be painted were looking for, put the quote there, a suitable place where the bodies can be left reverently and lovingly for the parents before the burials. This is a very private space. This is a very moving and intimate and difficult space. It's a mortuary chapel in a children's hospital. I mentioned the Edinburgh Social Union and the Commission. This was one of about 20 public art commissions in the city of Edinburgh. It's the only one still in existence. It's had quite an interesting story even before we get to this point in time. As I say, it was painted in this very small space in this converted coal shed. And in the early 1890s the hospital moved and Phoebe herself started a petition to move these murals. They were moved into a much larger space. And she repainted and filled out the blanks around them. So they've had a period of at risk already when the hospital has moved. And we find ourselves again today in the same position. The Sick Children's Hospital in Edinburgh has been sold again. It's been sold to private developers. So, as somebody who has a professional and invested interest in these murals and how they relate to the building that I'm a trustee of and how they relate to the history of the city that I live in, we're faced with two issues that we really need to try and solve. One is that this building isn't accessible. It was never designed to be accessible. So it's massively important, artistically, socially, culturally, historically. But you probably shouldn't have access to it. And secondly, it's been sold to a private developer. And I think that puts it at risk. They are not necessarily experts or specialists in this kind of thing. They're a housing development company. And there is a risk that they will lock the door. And nobody will ever see it again. And so myself and a couple of colleagues, a couple of friends who care about this sort of thing, another trustee from the Mansfield Square Trust and a friend from the National Museum of Scotland started thinking about this. And started thinking about how to raise awareness. And these are works of official culture. So if you can't see them, how can we get people to care about them? So we commissioned a friend of my friend from the National Museum to take a series of photographs for us, which we committed to releasing under open licences. That was how we got the permission from NHS Lothian to have access to the building before it was sold, that these photographs would actually be available for them. They could go into Lothian Health Services Archive. They could be used by their artists in residence. They could be used by scholars like my colleague at the museum and my colleague in the Mansfield Square Trust. So we made this upfront commitment to open licences. But it gives us something that we can now use to try and raise awareness. And I'm just going to run through some of the pictures that we took to try and give you an idea of why it's really important to have this record and why it's so impactful. Because there are a few things we really need to document. The first is, this is a panel from the first mortuary chapel that was moved. And this is a panel from the second mortuary chapel, the place where all the murals now are. They're very stylistically different. So this represents a real shift in Phoebe Drucker's own painting at that point in time. And a shift in her thinking. And so it's important that we have that history of the murals documented. It's another one of the early panels. And you can see just how different they are. There are tropes and features that we see in her murals over and again. So if you can see, let's see if I've got a laser pointer, at the back of the mural here in this little vignette is the leaderfoot viaduct in the Borders of Scotland. She paints that viaduct in several classical backgrounds in her paintings. We can see some quite interesting ideas and don't ask me to explain what this means because I really can't about mortality in the 19th century. Floating hands, people sleeping in serpents with skulls heads, angels, tongues of fire, snakes. We can also see things about the condition. This is missing paint, conservation paper, cracks. More conservation paper, more missing paint. And a test cleaning patch which shows you how discoloured the murals are and actually how vibrant and bright they could be. And without these it would be incredibly difficult, I think, to tell the story of these murals, to explain why they're important, to explain what they mean to cultural heritage, what they mean to artistic heritage, what they mean to thinking about religion and death and mortality in the 19th century. So I said that we committed to releasing them under open licences but that's all very well and good but you've got to think about the problem of distribution as well. And the most obvious thing we felt to do, based on my experience in those early editor-thons, was to use the Wiki Commons platform. So we made all of the images available on Wiki Commons. We then used the images to write Wikipedia articles. We inserted the images into existing Wikipedia articles. We used the hospital and Phoebe Dequaire's own page.  And now three of the images are what appear on the front page and the article we wrote is the second ranked article. So anybody who hears about this story, who hears about the private development, who even hears those words is going to be able to type that into Google and find set of resources that will help them better understand why they're important. And we know this is particularly important in Edinburgh because we know that our local newspaper searches Wikipedia Commons, and uses images for it to illustrate its stories. Because this is a turnip, carved by none other than Lorna Campbell sitting in front. It's your turnip, uploaded by our Wikipedia and in residence, randomly picked up by our national newspaper, local newspaper. And they are good at covering the story of this hospital. So I'm trying to put those materials under their nose so that they're really findable. That's a kind of rattle through of a kind of quick case study example. But I really, I hope that I've made the case through kind of sharing my own practice. That if we as institutions invest in the kinds of activities that started this off, the Edithon, and we nurture those kinds of activities, actually they can have benefits that move beyond our borders, move beyond the borders of our institution. And again, I think that came up in two of the key notes yesterday about operationalising the knowledge that we get through participating in Open. And I think I'm probably bang on time, Francis. I'm going to finish there. That was a bit of a speed rattle through it, but I'd be very happy to take any questions. But this is what I want. People see these images and I can tell the story about this place that's at risk. It is nothing without these images because they're really powerful because they're a mortuary chapel and a children's hospital. They have real power. As a last case result, if you're not successful, they're still important. That's our big worry and I know this is being streamed, so there's certain things I won't say. But there are times in commercial developments when perhaps cost judgments come into play and yes, these are category A listed and they would be a very big fine if they were damaged. But, well, how big would that fine be relative to the size of site and profit to be made? Any questions? Yes, Martin. It's all about Lorna's turnip, really. I've been lucky enough actually through some of the web governance work that we've been doing at Edinburgh to have Johnston Press, who are the publishers of the Scotsman, come in and talk about their digital strategy with us as part of helping us frame our digital strategy. I think understanding how print journalism is grappling with the internet and trying to meet them halfway is absolutely what it's about. They all publish their digital strategies online. These are things you can go and look at. They're all trying to work out how to be digital publishers. Johnston Press, I think, are quite enlightened in this space because they have clocked that Wiki Commons is probably quite a good resource of stuff they can use for free. But, yeah, I mean, we can clearly reach out to them and push some of this stuff a little further under their nose as well. Could I ask you? Does that answer it? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think I put the stuff into the WikiMedia project because so many people go there to get their information and because Google privileges it. And it's then a spin-off benefit that I also know a couple of companies or a couple of publishers will do that. Whether they do that because Google makes it easy for them to do it or whether they do it as a more conscious move, I don't know, but, yeah. I could just ask one. You sure can. I'm not an expert in this area, but I went to the DC-DC conference discovering communities, discovering collections or something like that anyway. And I heard a talk about a sort of infrastructure framework that allowed a sort of virtual presentation of resources across different collections. It was, you know, very technical and probably massively hard to implement. But I wondered whether there was any scope for these not just being picked up by the press through Wikipedia, but other digital collections being able to bring them into, you know, in a virtual sense. I think there's a lot of scope for that. There's a lot of services archive, which is actually based in my institution's library. And I would love copies of these to be lodged with them, to sit with the archive of the history of hospitals and the Lothians. They do need to be with that collection. Yes, they almost certainly can be joined with other collections and materials about the arts and crafts. I think there's so many possibilities. What I haven't talked about is Wikidata. I have also been working on Wikidata, and I can start to do some of the linked data stuff that will connect these images with other collections through references to the hospital, through references to the mortuary chapel, to Phoebe Jouquere, Patrick Edison. I'm still working on that. There's quite a lot to do in that space. But putting structured data behind it to give it a bit more power is also part of the plan. Well, thanks very much. It was a really interesting talk. It was a bit of a rattle through, but thank you for having me. Andrew Smith is going to talk to us about Impressions, the impact of teaching by Twitter. Okay. Artistically, I cannot follow that. There is no way, aesthetically, I'm going to follow that either. This is techy. There's charts. It's not exciting. It's not beautiful. I really like that. Actually, thank you. I didn't expect that at all. I'm not selling it at all. You know when the first act is really beating your own act, Martin, and that's pretty much the problem I've got now. Okay. So setting the context. I teach at the Open University. I teach network engineering, cybersecurity, network security.  Okay. And over time, I teach a closed source content on future learn. I teach a closed source content via the Cisco Network and Academy. And the problem you have with closed platforms is they don't leak out. So I've created leaky content that is publicly available to anybody, including our students, that they can engage via Twitter and other social media platforms as well. So I've taken an OER approach to a closed source resource. Okay. We push it out every day. We push it out at particular times. We try and get it when the students or the participants are likely to look at it. So it's an action research process. It's constantly experimenting. We're constantly looking at the best times. So the first Twitter feed I'm dealing with is my OU Cisco Twitter feed. This runs over a nine month duration because that's the norm for Open University modules. It's degree level two. It teaches the Cisco Network engineering. We currently have around 1,300 followers. So it's not as large as you'd think. But then on the other hand, what we find is we actually get greater impact and greater engagement from the followership because they choose to follow it based on its related to their studies. We also have a Future Learn MOOC. It's the cyber security MOOC that our university did with GCNHQ. So different emphasis, lower level in its design for absolute beginners. But it takes them to a point where they're slightly knowledgeable and potentially slightly dangerous when it comes to their understanding of cyber security. And the MOOC has varied over time between 2,000 to 10,000 participants on each presentation of it. We currently have around 2,900 followers on this platform. So a lot of people I follow, a lot of people I engage with, a lot of people I have a conversation with take very much of view. Twitter is all about your followership. Well, actually I don't think it is. It's all about your visits or it's all about your retweets. And my talk is going to be about Twitter impressions. Who actually looks at your content? So any bit of you here follow Barack Obama or Stephen Fry? OK? At least one of them. I'm more of a fan of Stephen Fry, but that's personal preference. They have probably about a 1.3% impression or impact rating with their multi millions of followers. And that's because it's not timed, it's not planned, and most people just follow them because they're a celebrity and it's not about actually doing it as part of some other mission, some other study or some other sort of process and they're like, yeah, they're just people that are cool so they're following it. So what I've taken a view is that this is about pedagogy, this is about teaching and this is about enhancing the learning of the individuals via the social media. So I've been fortunate enough to collect data over three years which means that I've actually got sort of longitudinal view now of what's happening in this space. So, impressions. So any of you tweet? So Martin, a recent tweet to which we won't go into any details. Did you look at the impressions on that? Large, wasn't it? Yeah, 55,000. And that wasn't all your followers as well as all the people that saw that. So I'm picking on something. How many followers do you normally have on your Twitter account? About 9,000. So that was a multiple of your actual followers. You can see it's like dropping a stone in a pond and you get that ripple effect. And that's what's interesting with impressions. It's not that your followers necessarily see it. It's all the others that see it through feeds, through retweets or other embedded content. Therefore, it's much more impactful. So I embed my Twitter content via our module sites. I embed it via other feeds. So people don't necessarily have to be followers to actually see it. Which makes it more interesting as well. And it gives me then a good view of engagement. It gives me a good view of well, are our students or are these community of practice interested in the stuff that we're actually dripping out? I mean, I'm dripping out geeky stuff. How the internet works. Update profiles on the EIGRP routing protocol which will probably send most of you to sleep. But these guys need to know it in order to become successful network engineers. So first, we'll look at this chart. This is the cyber security. Every time there is a spike that is when we actually see the module running. Well, that's kind of obvious, isn't it? So if we've got 2,900 followers well, it started off at around a thousand. This is the laser pointer. So this is early days. This is where it started. This is a presentation. You get different numbers of students. But what we're finding is it's spiking. You can see here, that's when we're doing nothing. There's zero output going on at the bottom at the trough. But we have still got people scrolling back and looking at our content. And this is a big gap where we ran nothing for a while. And now what we're finding is the long tail off of the MOOC. So this was the early adoption of the MOOC that was less interested in it. Now it's natural. People are becoming less interested in it. But what we are realising is where the typical impact of a lot of social media, Twitter outputs is anything between 1.3% to 3% is we're probably getting around 15% to 20% impact for impressions because our followers ship are self selecting and our followers ship were actually putting out content they would like to see. So it's not your marketing tweets. It's not random stuff coming from a corporate brand perspective. Maybe I'm a little bit cynical about that. But it's actual content they want to see because they've chosen to follow it because they have a subject matter interest in it. Next set of data. This is our Cisco module. This is an Open University module. We've managed to collect data over three years. So this is when we sort of started it early on when we had 2-300 followers. This spike at the end was when they were all getting excited about revision. They got very excited about revision that year. That was the following year. You can see it's a bit more stable. Different cohorts still a bit more stable. Now the current cohorts slightly different performance but still quite stable and the followership's growing. What we're also discovering now is ex-students are still following it. Why? To remind themselves of what they have learnt. They're interested in this for their careers. They're interested for this because this helps them do the job that they're doing. So they're maintaining knowledge after they've actually studied the clever thing as well as a reinforcement as an opportunity to engage. This is a little bit more of a self-selecting audience again. So MOOC are aspirational learners. This module is people who are already on a degree programme that are looking for a career in network engineering. So they already kind of know what they're doing and they know where they're going as well. And we're seeing instead of that 1.3 to 3% impact, we're actually looking at around 40-45% of the population are actually engaging with this at some time during the whole output. So we're getting quite a different population performance. Some of you saw some slides on MOOC data yesterday and we talk about 15% being really good on a MOOC. This is high. This is different and this is why I think we're probably chasing the wrong thing with social media. Everybody's about those retweets about the followers and the visits. And I'm here to say actually it is about the impressions and it's actually once you understand the impressions and you're understanding that you're putting out content related to your curriculum, related to your teaching and related to your studies, the followership is typically more engaged and I can actually look at where they're engaged, when they're engaged and actually what tweets and what content works. Five minutes, thank you. So what can we see? Well, I think for me, I cannot prove educational impact. I cannot prove are they going to become more clever because of this? Are they getting better grades? Are they passing the course? But what I am getting from the feedback from the community because I've tweeted them and asked them is they like this kind of thing but because it helps to maintain their understanding, appreciation and awareness of the subject. I.e. they're engaging because they're interested in it. We promote each feed at the start of each course. We promote it at the start of the MOOC. We promote it via the sort of cherry emails as we called them at the Open University. Hi guys, we're starting this module. You might want to have a look at this but what we find is once the people engage with it, I.e. they start looking at it, they maintain that engagement because each of them is actually quite useful and social media being this terrible area of data analytical, you're giving away your life-hardened soul. As you know, they actually like it because we're giving them something that they're finding personally professionally, educationally and potentially academically quite useful and it's helping us move beyond that typical impact view of that 1-3% for social media users. So, I've kept it quite brief. I say it's a lot more techy and a lot less artistic. But the point that I'm trying to make is I think we've probably as educators and open educators slightly misunderstood social media and if we actually start looking at the impressions and start designing learning content based on our courses around social media, we can leak that teaching out there and get an impact on a followership and an engagement from that community of practice. So, thank you. I've been Andrew Smith and any questions? I've got loads. I've stunned them into silence but not Martin.  Okay, I was really fascinated by that. The first thing I wondered was you were sort of counting the overall number of impressions. I wondered and I'm sure it's beyond what you've got at the moment, but the sort of difference between different retweeters and so on. You can get that data. So, again it's it is on a per tweet per output basis and Facebook allows you to trap that back for about a year. Sorry Facebook. I'm doing a lot of work with Facebook at the moment. Twitter allows you to trap that back for free for about a year. And you can actually look at that tweet and what has actually happened to that tweet. And the second thing I was curious about was you've got this growing set of followers that come from one course onto the so you go back to the first course. So there is a cumulative effect. And I wondered how the numbers on the instances of the MOOCs had varied over time. Is that declining? So, the data for the MOOC is obviously we had the early adoption large numbers and it's now stabilised around two to three thousand per MOOC. But because we've got the cumulative effect of the form or community, even though somebody has finished studying the content, it doesn't stop them thinking that they're actually still part of the course. That's great. I'm a final on my own observation. I've been observing what's happened with my interaction with social media on different devices over the last 18 months. So it's not a scientific investigation. It's a sort of observational thing. And I certainly have noticed for myself, particularly using say Twitter on a mobile phone, on a smartphone, is that the Twitter algorithms in case you missed it, etc. Seem to me to be massively interfering with the tweets I see. And you can only make an impression from the ones you actually see. So, Twitter has been doing what Facebook have been doing.  And I cannot see what the others are seeing. But what I am seeing is I'm getting no change in my impressions over time. The big set of data saying this is remaining sort of quite normal, quite stable, quite high. So, I mean I have two or three social media accounts that I manage and every so often my watch vibrates telling me you might want to see so and so from your ever account because you're following them. Of course I'm following it. I've created it. But they are pushing that. Anyone else got any questions? No, I think timing is. We hand over to the next speaker. Thank you very much, Andrew. Thank you everyone. Now, contrary to what it says on the programme Euron is speaking to us but Blanche Fabry is not here and it's Ania Lorenz who's going to be presenting with Euron. Conference is open to all mainstream open education through and bar camps. Thank you. Thank you. What's the second microphone? So, not hard to guess that this is Ania and Neam Euron and Blanche Fabry does all the work and we're presenting it. Say hello to Blanche and the next team maybe. She's already location scouting for the next OER camps and this is what we will talk about and we'll begin with reading out texts from slides. Since OER activities are mostly driven bottom up, there has been a need for sharing questions, experiences and materials between players who have been isolated in their own institutions. This is an analysis on OER activities in Germany. These players found opportunities for sharing in cross sector events and communities, especially the bar camp, unconference format turned out to fit tremendously well developing a strong German OER community. This is what Jan Neumann wrote into a UNESCO report on OER in Germany and this was in 2017 and this is when we, during the OER camps first realized that this is a very German thing and we did not realize that this is something special but we learned about this the last month and so we would like to present this approach to building a community of practitioners and a learning community in OER. We have three impressions we went just to say that we did not invent the bar camp format. It has been there before the OER comes started in 2012 and we ourselves are doing different bar camps. What's your favorite bar camp at the moment? I'd still be baking a bar camp of course by the way I'm organizing it. Sure it is. We have three impressions and each may take five minutes. First, how does it look like? This is really impressions with photos. How does it work? This is what Anja will explain and we can show you some numbers and figures about what we know about our participants. So how does it look like? An unconference does somewhat look like a conference but somewhat not. So this is what people are doing when they are learning. It does not look like Germany but it is a German conference when you are in Hamburg. You have a nice stick to this one. Is this okay for technical reasons? Anything? Is it okay? Yes. The first OER camp took place in Bremen 2012 and there were around 80 participants coming together for three days at the University of Bremen and this is maybe half of them finding together for planning their own sessions. So this is what we will learn from now. How does it work? You are building your own schedule for the whole conference and here we have someone from England who helped to build the OER movement. I don't know if anyone here finds him in the picture and can identify him. Yes, it is Elisa Clark who we invited to present to the German growing OER movement what has already been done in the UK then and it was really, really helpful. This is also what OER camps look like. This is a session with three persons discussing one topic. It can be a huge session with eight participants or even more so there are no fixed numbers and there are still settings for what a session in OER camp is but what you find is that there are less presentation and less panel formats and more discussions and conversations happening on OER camps and sometimes also it's about doing and making and trying out and working together and collaborating on specific questions but we also have presentations. So this is a last slide on how they look like because they are very, very how to say it open when it comes to how to design a session. So we always have a plan with certain rooms where each session will be and there always has to be a column for somewhere else because someone wants to do something somewhere else which for example can be in front of the building. Anya will continue with the 101 on how does a bar camp and an OER camp work? I agree to support you and for the talk because I also organized bar camps and I also have been on four four OER camps I guess and so this is the difference between bar camps and normal conferences and conferences you have participants and speakers so there is distinct roles for both and in conferences you have all our active contributors and in Germany we have the word Teilgeber it's like the normal point participants called Teilnehmer take part in a conversation and Teilgeber is giving something yes it's a little bit word game and also in normal conferences you have the schedule in advance of the conference and you can look where you want to go to but in unconferences you have an empty schedule when you come in and the schedule is made up in the first hour or half an hour also in a conference there are presentations and panels as you are in said and in unconferences there are more discussions, questions, workshops so a session could also start with the questions so I have no idea on this topic but I want to ask people helping me to get a better understanding or to find a solution and also conferences are more formal not here but in some conferences they are wearing skews and say Mr Dr Professor and this is not the case in Germany and as you maybe know in Germany we have two kinds of saying you to a person do and see and in barcams we always say do so in barcams you make the difference you are responsible for interesting schedule, you are responsible for interesting topics and if you leave and say this was not that good it's your fault you don't need to prepare a presentation so making all the slides is not possible, you can also stand in front and ask something, you can hold something up, you can google something in between so it's not demanded for a scheduled plan and there can be as many sessions as there are rooms if someone is suggesting a session and sometimes even more if the weather is nice and you can go outside there are further rules that there is a minimum of two attendances so the speaker and some people else otherwise people can talk with themselves and you can also provide several sessions not at the same time but after after each other and you should give your session now and not tomorrow so the barcams are mostly on two days and you should not wait because maybe there is a question open at the end of the session and you can offer the next session and the next date and the most important rule for me is if you can't contribute the session anymore or it's not the topic that you thought it is about you can go out of a session and it's no it's no sign of disrespect and yes then there is it so many rules by way of 7 after the 10th you do not have a fixed time table but you have fixed time slots so if your session is over it's sort of respect for the people who are coming afterwards to leave the room and do the afterwards discussions outside every session ends after 45 minutes there should be a documentary so most time we have etherpads or Google Docs where you can document a session so people who decide it for another session can look after it that's what it looks like the session making at the UWA was put in last year so the schedule is empty everyone who wants to offer a session comes into a line then they promote their sessions and they already rose the hand up who is interested and they wrote into the session plan so the session plan is empty at the first date at the beginning and there is a link to a future documentation and it is full at the end of the session planning most half or an hour after the start of the session planning and Euron will talk about feedback and evaluation of the OER camps we did one OER camp a year from 2012 to 2016 and in 2017 things changed because we got funding and we had the aim of mainstreaming OER so we could do four OER camps in 2017 and we asked the participants a lot of questions in advance and afterwards for the feedbacks and there were some numbers and figures we have more on the slides that you can read afterwards if you'd like to we just want to point out some things this is the number of participants of sessions and workshops over the years and I've seen them first aggregated in the preparation of this talk so I just learned that we had 1784 participants over the years and we will have the opportunity for four more OER camps in 2018 just to give you some impressions we have pretty equalized participation rates when it comes to gender we ask about form of address so we have about 5% that shows that's not my way of categorizing the world and we have nearly 50% who prefer vegetarian food so this is probably a sign that the people coming to OER camps are not representative of German population what I really like about OER camps which really is helpful for forming a learning community is that they come from very diverse backgrounds at a very diverse level of knowledge so we ask them about their own knowledge and 59% said they are beginners and 27% said they have basic knowledge and you see that 27% also said they have advanced knowledge and some of them even describe themselves as experts but that's not normally what we see when we do a conference normally the beginners and the experts are on the basis to go to this is also describing the diverse field when it comes to participants from OER camps we ask them when did you consciously notice the term open educational resources for the first time and you see that many participants have come to the debate within the last years 2015 but there were also some early adopters that noticed the term in 2010 was really early in Germany they also come from different educational sectors so this is also interesting because we don't have conferences or meetings from certain sectors but they all meet at the OER camps this is what people answered when we asked them about their primary area of activity so most of them said they are into teaching but there are also many people into producing distributing materials this was somewhat somewhat surprising but maybe people thought they should answer that they have a pedagogy background when they ask about their interests in OER so this is by far the most given answers primary interest is pedagogy and didactics and less is about technology and infrastructure but somewhat it is and what may be surprising is that the jurisdiction law questions are really in the background in Germany it would be surprising this is a sign that we are not so inclusive we ask our participants what would you suggest to be the standard OER license and you see that they exclude licenses which exclude non-commercial usage and this probably is because the OER community in Germany is not very inclusive when it comes to not inclusive licensing so there probably are many advocates for NC licensing but they are very much in the background and not as loud at the conferences and meetings of the OER community so one last slide because we have in Germany at least discussion if there are always the same folks running around at OER camps and I know this feeling because I know I've seen them him or her four times in the last year on OER camps but numbers don't show this so we ask them have you attended an OER camp in the last years and 300 out of the participants and this question said no, not before 2017 so you recognise familiar faces but probably this is a bias because you recognise them and you don't look at the faces you're not familiar with this should have been the last slide this is good for reading afterwards okay, thank you thanks that was a really interesting conversation I've never been to a bar camp and it's good to see that even somebody as old as me could fit in that's good any questions please, yes there's a lot to be said for structure top-down structure so if you let the people there do it in a bottom-up way don't you run the risk that the more should we say proactive vociferous people are going to actually put a structure that is not generally interesting to the people, how do you control that? I think the answer is not at all so there are people I have the feeling also not only in the OER camps also in other bar camps that we are presenting every time with their topic and we think it's valid mostly we have enough space to recognise everyone sometimes there are slots open you can introduce other topics maybe we have a little trick there are bar camp rules and the bar camp rules says if you have never been to a bar camp before you have to do a session and this is a little bit of pressure for new people to be engaged to give a session and of course no one is checking it but I think so many people are thinking oh maybe I have to give a session I don't know I think one second answer could be that there are not only bar camps on OER so we also have conferences on OER and in 2017 we introduced to the bar camps pre-planned workshops that are especially addressed to newbies at the scene so we learnt that it's not only important that there are newbie sessions but they don't see if they don't see anything in advance it's only the format they don't know they don't know too much about open education resources they don't trust this conference format and we learnt that they trust the format if there are even only one or two hours of workshops planned and announced in advance my question would be has anyone been to a bar camp? Martin which one? it was actually more of a kind of unconference it was open knowledge in Berlin so it's obviously a German thing you know just my quick reflection I enjoyed some of it but I also found it really frustrating and I came away thinking God I want a power point just someone to tell me something because at one session we were all sitting around in a circle and people started let's start rapping and you know I'm British I'm not going to start rapping at any stage but perhaps that's good perhaps it kind of pushes you out of your comfort zone for my own experience it's also easier to follow a normal conference where you have slides and you can sit down in a cinema as to take part in a bar camp and at the end of a bar camp day I'm always tired because I have to rethink all the very very mixed stuff for myself and implications for my own work so yeah maybe this is one interesting thing from the feedback we got it's bar camp sessions are lucky bags topic descriptions need to be more precise this is always one thing that people argue that they did not get what they were expecting but my impression is that's not always the cases in conferences too is there any issue because sometimes in order for people to attend conferences they need to be to get the funding to attend a conference from a university they need to say they're presenting a paper do you come across any issues that people can't go to a bar camp so not presenting a formal publication on paper for the OER conference camps in the last year we had the luck that there is a funding program not only for the OER camps but also for OER projects and for this is what's no problem to say hey I go to the OER bar camp and from my own institution I'm always safe if I say hey I offer a session but your institution is very progressive yes maybe I'm sure people have this problem people have this problem for a second idea in Germany we have most federal countries the option to have an educational holiday where you can type 5 days in addition to your normal holiday if you are doing some further education stuff so I am hoping that the 2018 bar camps are listed in this options for educational holidays hello to branch was hopefully organising this at the moment so I can go to three bar camps OER camps except of one and I think mostly it's also in further education option for teachers so they have it in their lists any other questions well no right well I had a sort of question and a sort of comment one was I really liked the way you presented it because and what you've said in answer to the questions because it really shows the tensions between structure and agency and you know nobody's going to get that right for everybody anyway but if you're sufficiently reflective then you're going to continue to flex and make it as as sort of available to as many people as possible the second was a question was I was trying to compare it with things that happen in my locality and they tend to be outside of university so there's something called mad lab in Manchester which is a digital lab that has lots of activities Lucy associated with universities but it's run independently and I wondered if there was a certain local feel to it that all people had to do was get on the train to attend it so the costs were not huge for those people I don't know if you had people coming from a far distance I think this is changing now when we have four OER camps in a year in 2017 and 2018 because we could place them in the north west east of Germany but we're always in all of Barcams I know of trying to make it more inclusive by not having any participant fee so it's always only sponsored and the engagement of people who care for this and we had for some Barcams not only the OER camps a budget for if you cannot afford taking part in it so at the edw camp in Neu Halling Asil we had this and we have the edw camps which is like the mother of all educational Barcams in Germany it has now taken place 22 times and we are trying to combine this to be very family friendly so in one place where we have this every second time we have also accommodation there and now we made it to have I think 25% of the participants are younger than 18 years old and they provide their own sessions which is really fascinating Thanks very much for an excellent talk if we could share our appreciation we might still get ahead in the lunch queue ok


Welcome to Pinoy Power Hawaii here on Think Tech Hawaii. My name is Emmie Ortega Anderson, your host for this empowering show. First, we'd like to thank our wonderful staff for allowing us to come to your home every Tuesday at 12 noon to bring you stories of empowerment, our mission we aim to enrich and lighten, educate, entertain and the big word for us, we aim to empower. Today we're going to do just that with our guest. She is very, very empowered and of course very successful in her field entrepreneurship and also a CEO of her own company Fetch Hawaii. Her name is Cynthia Altman. So welcome to our show. Well, thank you so much, Emmie, for having me here today. It's awesome to be in my first stop show actually. It's going to be the first of many. We would like to share your story because you do have a very special story to share, story of empowerment and we titled it, Picking Up the Pieces, but before we go into that let us hear about Cynthia, where you grow up and also your journey to this land of milk and honey, Hawaii. Oh my, well, I was actually, I was born in the Philippines. And where is that? Exactly. That is an Aguilar Pangasinan. Pangasinan. We can talk Ilocano. Ilocano. Ilocano. Ilocano. Ilocano. I'm a little bit rusty there, but it's, yes. So Pangasinan. Pangasinan. So my mom is from Pangasinan, and my dad is from La Oñon. La Oñon, so that's where we share the connection. And I know that I call you my hija because in a way I think I am your auntie if we trace our family tree and roots. That is the possibility, Tita, because there are the Ortigas. The Ortigas family in the La Oñon, yes, and they're very big. So I was actually, I grew up there until I was nine years old.  I play with the caribos and I help my parents with the farm, farming and raising chickens and pigs I guess. And also with our farm we grew a tobacco corn and rice and that's pretty much how my family survived in the Philippines. So you grew up with poverty and hardship. I often tell the story of when it used to rain, the only difference between the cows and all the, you know, it's the bamboo floor and you could look right through the animals they're also trying to shelter themselves from the rain and the flood. Yes, yes, yes. A lot of the houses that you know, your recollection is really good because our flooring was bamboo and of course you can see the water running through under your house and, you know, the animals actually comes underneath so pretty much we share the same roof. Same story. And when it rained, the rain would just come falling through the thatched roof. Yes. Yeah, which wasn't solid. It wasn't solid because it's made of a hala, they call it hala here in Hawaii, so Nipah is in the Philippines, but you know, I love my life because that teaches me being humble in life where I am now, which we're going to cover soon, but you know, I was fortunate enough to have my great-great-great-grandfather who worked the sugar field here, brought my family here. So your great-great-grandfather was your Sakata connection, the one that petitioned for you to come? Okay. Was he a part of the first wave of Sakata? Yes, yes. Please mention his name. His name is Maximo Ocarisa. That's his name, Apple Maximo. He is one of the very first that came here with the boat and they were actually recruited to work the fields with the pineapples. He lived in Kailua for many, many years until he passed away at 94 years old. Wow. And his- So that's why Kailua has been your home? Actually my home, when we came here, I was nine years old, when the time has come for us to be here, we actually live in Palo Alto Valley first for my five years of being here, learning, you know, what American life is all about. So, you know, the government was nice enough at this time to put us in the housing facility. It's called the Palo Alto Valley Housing Facility. And I went to school in Palo Alto Valley, Palo Alto Elementary School, Jarrett Intermediate. I touched Kaiser, and then I went to Kalani High School. However, because pricing of rent and housing was going out, so we had to move to Makakilo. Makakilo, which is further west. Which is further west, and this is in the late 80s. So you still had the sugar fields. Yes, sugar and pineapple was so prominent at that time. Yes. And unlike now, it's all homes. And Makakilo was a place where I lived and finished my high school life. And then I went to Lure Community College. So you're a product of public school? Yes. Yes. I was nine years old when I came to Hawaii. Oh, okay. That's a very interesting. I don't mind to interrupt you. But I wanted to feel how you felt as a foreigner coming and blending as a young little girl. I'm not sure if you experienced the bullying that I experienced or felt being an outcast. Can you tell us about that or was your experience different? Well, I can tell you my experience because we were actually in the housing. So everybody was equal. My mother was smart enough.  She was smart enough to befriend a lot of the Samoan mothers. Okay. So because of that and because of that relationship, I was protected by a lot of my Samoan friends. Wow. Yes. You got the Samoan Tita. Yes, the Toiluma family. Shout out to them. Because they did actually took care of me through my elementary school and my intermediate school. Yeah. You were fortunate. I was very fortunate that I was, when I get bullied, I had someone to take care of. Hey, come on. We'll meet you in the back of the gym. What's the, what are you doing? Hey, that's my sister. No toucher. Uh-huh. So yeah, I was very fortunate enough. And I learned at that time that, you know, in helping them with their homework as well, they were helping me outside the school. So which is okay. I was tutoring them and, you know, we helped with each other doing homework. And then as I walked from school to home, because, you know, I didn't have a car and put out for a car. And I was still young then. But yeah. You had your garden angels in place. Yeah. And I'm still fortunate until today. To have them. To have them. And I have you now. You're having an angel, believe it or not. She's my garden angel now, you know. She's protecting me from many other adversaries out there.  My duty is to protect all of my children. Oh my God.  So when I went to high school, I learned then that, you know, I didn't have my friends anymore from elementary and intermediate. Because you couldn't bring them with you, right? Because I couldn't bring them with me because I was moving. And one of the things that my father had taught me was that if I only joined a lot of the clubs, then I was okay. And those were my parents knew where I was. And then they would pick me up from school. And, you know, I empowered myself by joining a lot of the clubs. National Honor Society, Book Club, photography, anything I could put my hands on in high school. So you became an active participant rather than just watching from the sidelines. Yes, yes. I was very active in order to get myself in a better place. And then I tried for, when I moved to Ames Campbell High School. That's where I actually graduated. Shout out to Savers. Yay, Savers. I actually tried for cheerleading. Cheerleading, okay.  How'd that turn out? Because everybody's a girl's dream. It was everybody's girl's dream. But because they were so close to the military, which is Ericoy. And it was more of a blended school. A lot of the cheerleaders were Caucasian. White? White. That was the preferred look. So that was a preferred look. And I was outcasted, but that did not deter me from doing something else. So I actually joined the band and became a color guard. So for three years I was a color guard for James Campbell High School until I graduated. That was your way of standing out, right? Yes.  You open another door. Yes, yes. I have a similar story. I also tried cheerleading, but because maybe I wasn't good enough or not really what they were looking for. I joined the High Steppers and Jerry Robino was our coach. He taught us the dance and high stepping and all kinds of things to make us stand out. Wow. So like you said, if a wonder is not closest, another one opens because of your desire to do something to make a difference. And I was happy with that. Yeah, me too. You know, like they said, put it out there, put in the universe and manifest it. You know, that's the only way to do it. And of course you have to work for it too. Of course. You know, you can't just say it and not do anything about it because then it's just a word without action. There's nothing, no result, right? That's what will get you there. Action. And I know that a lot of your success comes with following through and of course, we are very successful. We are very good at supporting each other. We are very good at supporting each other. That's why we are successful. And to live, that's the American dream, right? Yeah. I agree with you, Tita. You know, I want to let it go. I want to work. You know, you have to work hard. You have to work hard. That's the result. And you have to work hard. And that is something that we learn from our parents. You know, like they always say, learn from your parents. Sometimes they may not give you everything, but they are giving you and teaching you knowledge. The tools. The tools to get you ready for your future. What is a profound lesson that you learn from your great-grandfather, Ocarisa, Anna DJ? Well. One thing that stands out and I'll share your mind. My great-great-grandfather, Maximo Ocarisa, I think what I learned from him is his determination of bettering the life of his family. He left his family. It's not because he wanted to, but he wanted his family to have more. So, you know, the takeaway on that and my lessons that, you know, the lesson that I learned from that, which I instill in myself. I am a fully Ocarisa, even though I'm married to an Altman. And the Altman family is wonderful, too. And we'll touch on them soon on the second part. But the Ocarisa family is a very loving, caring family. Family is everything to them, really is. And, you know, my grandfather, again, did not leave Philippines. It's because to take care of himself and to create a better life for himself, but for his family. We're going to hang on to that thought, but I'd like to quickly share what my grandfather taught me, what stuck with me. And that has always stuck with me through my grandfather. There are times when we need to be silent and just watch and observe and just ponder on the things that the powerful people do. And perhaps we can emulate. We're going to come back with our conversation with Cynthia Ocarisa Altman and tell you the other half of her success story here on Pinoy Power Hawaii. We'll be right back. Aloha! I'm Gwen Harris, the host here at Think Tech Hawaii, a digital media company serving the people of Hawaii. We provide a video platform for citizen journalists to raise public awareness in Hawaii. We are a Hawaii nonprofit that depends on the generosity of the supporters to keep on going. We'd be grateful if you'd go to thinktechawaii.com and make a donation to support us now. Thanks so much. Aloha! My name is Andrew Lanning. I'm the host of Security Matters Hawaii airing every Wednesday here on Think Tech Hawaii, live from the studios. I'll bring you guests. I'll bring you information about the things in security that matter to keeping you safe, your co-workers safe, your family safe, to keep our community safe. We want to teach you about those things in our industry that may be a little outside of your experience. So please join me because security matters. Aloha! Welcome back to Pinoy Power Hawaii. I am your host, Amy Ortega Anderson, and we come to your home every Tuesday at 12 noon here in the beautiful studios of Think Tech Hawaii. Again, we thank our sponsors, those who make it happen through Think Tech Hawaii with their with your generous donation, we are able to continue to bring empowering shows like my show today. So we want to say mahalo, maraming, salamat bo. We want to continue with our conversation with Cynthia Altman, a story of success and empowerment. So you have just heard her humble story, her beginning, and I can relate to what you're saying. But there is a part of you that have been able to live a life that most of us desire and yet we have yet to discover that. Tell us about your success and how you met the men of your dreams and created this wonderful family. Yes. Oh my goodness. That sure is a fairytale of people. It is. It is. It is a fantastic story that I can tell my kids or my kids actually is living also with me the life that my husband. Can you tell us about your wonderful Altman family? Oh yes. The Altman family are wonderful family. So I was in school to be a dentist. But then I decided maybe high tennis was a better suit for me. So I was going to school to be a high tennis at KCC. And then one night I go out with friends and then I met a Filipino lady with her boyfriend and a third wheeled man, a gentleman with them. I became friends with this lady. This is just Filipina. So we were able to speak in our own tongue. And it was amazing. So that was in the early 90s. And they would invite me as a fourth wheel alongside with my future husband, of course. And we actually were friends dating for a year. And then I think he was, how do you say? Searching. Searching also. Or it's right under my mouth. It was looking. And I was not looking actually because I actually was dating someone else at that time. But it wasn't working out. And I used to tell the lady, my new friend, that I was not very happy. So he didn't face me. So we were all friends. And then he asked me out finally. He did? Yeah, he did after... How did he ask you? Well, he actually says, I'm taking my friends in the boat. I said, okay. And so I called my new girlfriend. I say, are you going for the boat ride? She said, yeah. But I had asked Howard, Howard Altman, was my late husband, to ask you instead of me asking you.  So we went to a sandbar, Cardioje, and we had a great time. And then after that, things just, you know, escalated. Move forward. More forward. And then, you know, it's a long story, but I'll make it short. But it's sweet. Tell us about Howard, because now it's just a name for us. Well, Howard, Howard... Howard grew up in New York. Very, very sweet guy. You know, he comes from a four-member family. It was a mom, the dad, Blanche and Bernard, and his sister, Carol. So, unfortunately, mom passed away in 2008. And then my father-in-law followed a year thereafter. They've been married a long, long time. Their first marriage. And they stayed a long time until their time to go. And then... So my husband was born in New York, moved to LA, California. He worked with Vidal Sassoon. He was actually the right-hand Vidal for many years. So he worked with Hugh Hefner and the ladies. I feel right at home with my pieces of card. Yeah, I'm ready to go to the table mansion and have a party. Well, I'm coordinated with your daughter. Okay. Okay, so Vidal Sassoon empire. So he built that with Vidal. And then, of course, he got married to one of Hugh Hefner's girls this October. A beautiful lady. I'm still friends with her to this day. Her name is Cynthia also. But she's born on my... She's born on Brunette. So don't get done next time. Okay. And they moved to Hawaii because he found another company to bring here to Hawaii, which we did not have. It was a contact lens company. Oh, okay. So he actually opened up Hawaii in Guam. And then they got divorced. But he is a very successful loving husband. He took care... He worked so hard to where... Let me gather myself. He worked so hard to where my kids and I don't have to do anything to where we actually live a life of a fairy tale. Fairy tale. Yes. So my fairy tale started when I met my husband, Howard. He took care of everything. One of those things that I really didn't have to work. However, I'm not a person to just say, and that works. So I asked him what we can do. And I actually became a... I was a designer with no skills or schooling because he trusted my judgment and... He trained you. He trained me. So we used to travel to... That's one of our company. We traveled to Hong Kong and China to get the eyewear. And if you guys go to your eye doctors and you can't afford those designer brands, they're the ones that, you know, again, my heart is to help others. We came up with the inexpensive. Not cheap. Don't say cheap, everybody. It's inexpensive glasses out there. That's affordable for the insurance. So we started that company to help out the ones that need it. And then we actually sold it. Many other businesses also that we owned. We actually owned Hawaiian Blend, which is the sunscreen. You still can see it today at ABC Store in Portland. So that was your baby. Hawaiian Blend. And then the eyewear. The eyewear. What was the brand? No-name brand? Yeah, so it's SPF. SPF is the brand. A lot of the doctors here in Hawaii knows if you say SPF. Not all of them knew who the owner was. So it's one of those things that, you know, you keep to yourself. But Howard and I were the owner of SPF. And then we sold it to the doctors here.  I had everything. Yes, you live a life of lack of luxury. And then one day things came crashing. Yeah. So, you know, my... Like I said, my in-law, my mother-in-law, 2008 passed, 2009, my father-in-law passed. And the unfortunate time came when my husband actually left us October of 2010. So altogether, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Yes. Losing all your family members. Must have been devastating. It's devastating because I love them and they love me like their own. They were very close to me. So it's my sister-in-law is the only one left in that family. We're still in touch, you know, every weekend or so whenever we have time. Or when she has time from all her travels. So... So when Howard passed, what happened to the lifestyle, the fairy tale lifestyle that you've had? The fairy tale lifestyle actually, you know, he was the bread winner of my family. So, because I wasn't working full-time, you know, we went into a loss. Like you're losing a lot. So... Because he was the brain. He was the brain of everything. I didn't even know how to balance my checkbook, you guys. Balancing the checkbook was hard. Trying to figure out things. Thank goodness for my sister-in-law took over everything after he passed. Thank goodness there were things that were in place. So that way I really wasn't as lost as I thought on that part. But in order for me to have the same life as my children did and I didn't need... I didn't want to change anything. I work hard. So you picked up the pieces, which is the title of our show today. And you were able to move on and provide that same quality lifestyle to your three wonderful children as if Howard filled around. All right. My son was in college just graduating. My daughter was in high school. The other one was in private school. All of them were in private school. I just did not want to pull them. So I worked as hard as I could to keep that lifestyle for them. I picked up many different businesses here and there that friends were able to throw at me. With the time that we have remaining, I know you have to come back for another show because I know the 30 minutes that we have today is not enough to tell you the whole story. I know that you are very fond of the organization that you're with, the nonprofit organization to empower women. All those things that you do must be very, very rewarding. It's very rewarding. I started a nonprofit, Fetch Foundation, which is four empowerment team connections. It's a foundation that helps all the orphanage in the Philippines. This is based in Hawaii. However, all the process and funds goes to the orphanage in the Philippines. I do not send money there. I actually go there myself. My team buys a lot of supplies. We have so much in common and our time is up then. We have a lot of stories yet to tell because it's very, very empowering, but we have to invite you for another show. I want to commend you and congratulate you on your journey with continued success and also keeping up with the ultimate tradition and also empowering women. That's what we do. Empower. Empower. We're going to wrap it up here and we want to thank you for spending quality time with us by listening to these empowering stories like the one we shared with Cynthia Altman. We want to invite you again to tune into our show next episodes of Pinoy Power Hawaii. Again, we express our gratitude. We say, mahalo, maraming salamat po.