OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Welcome everyone, my name is Katrina Tamura and I am a teacher from Miracosta and Palomar College. I'm presenting today about Canvas. And I know that a lot of us have been using Canvas during the pandemic time, right? We were in the era of Canvas and learning management systems online. And during the pandemic, I had a really great opportunity and that opportunity was to develop three different courses, Canvas courses for other teachers to use with their students. And I did that for my college, for Palomar. And of course, for Miracosta I made my own Canvas courses as well, but the ones I developed for Palomar were to share with other teachers as well. So I wanna share what I did with those Canvas courses today and what I learned through the process of developing them and also at the same time, I was taking a lot of at one courses and I got a certificate in online teaching and design from at one, which is no joke. That course in that program is very effective and it gives you a lot of great information. If you're looking for certification or if you really wanna know more about designing in Canvas. So today we're gonna focus on two things. We're gonna focus on the homepage and the module flow. So today we're gonna learn about student-friendly Canvas courses, what makes it student-friendly and the creating of your home pages and the planning of those modules. So I just wanna just start off to kind of learning a little bit about you. And so in the chat, could you let me know, do you currently use Canvas? What is your class format? Are you synchronous, asynchronous, hybrid, high-flex or in-person? I know that personally I'm teaching five classes this term. I'm synchronous in Zoom, I am asynchronous in Canvas. I'm hybrid, so I do both on-campus and in Zoom, depending on the day of the week and next term I'm gonna be high-flex, which means that the students will be with me in class physically and also some of them can choose to be online at the same time through Zoom and then I'm also in-person. And I have a Canvas page for each of those. So I see Evelyn, you use Canvas with low beginning ESL, students in-person, you use it for CT, okay, we're in-person, and no, you don't use it yet. And so anyone else wanna, I'm waiting for some more. Okay, so you use Canvas for four classes, two distance learning courses, one in-person, and okay, you're like me. You're an eclectic teacher, eclectic formats here. But I think we can agree that whatever, however intensively you're using Canvas courses, they are, the homepage and module flow are really important. So I see Lois, you're using this online, one-on-one in Zoom, no Canvas courses yet, no Canvas course yet, all right? Well, I wanna take a look at some of the things that might be helpful to you. So what's important, what I've learned is really important from building these courses and from taking the certification program at one. We need to pay close attention to the placement of our objectives and consistent placement and easy to locate objectives is really important. So students should be able to go into our Canvas courses and find information about what they're supposed to do and why they're supposed to do it, right? What's the goal? And I didn't mention, but these are guidelines from the OEI rubric, the California initiative, it's online education initiative. And they have a rubric that you can follow that really helps when you're planning your course, when you're designing your course. Is anybody familiar with the OEI design rubric? Has anybody read that or used it? No, okay, so this is really gonna be helpful to you. I'm just going to discuss a few sections of this or one section actually, right now, section A. And that does refer to navigating the course and how we should set it up so students can easily find the information that they need. So, let's see. I will put the, I see you want the link to OEI and afterwards I'll get that for you. And I actually have that on my slide, so I'll share my slides with you. So again, placement of the objectives, clearly written objectives. We should use student-centered language because we're not there in person. When they hit our Canvas page, they should find some language that is speaking to them and about them, right? And they should realize that all of the content in the course is for them and relevant to them. So clearly written objectives with student-centered language. And then the learning objectives should show a clear connection between the content. And so when they go to the page and they see what they're doing, the activities that they're doing, they need something to tell them how it relates to their objectives. So on your pages, you should have that listed and I'm going to show you how to do that. And we have the learning units or modules. They should be consistent structures and sequence to reduce cognitive load. So that means that when you develop the structure of your module, it should be predictable. So module one should look like module two, right? And module three, it should have a consistent pattern. I personally use the WIPIA pattern. Is anybody familiar with WIPIA? It's warm up, right? Introduction, practice, presentation, right? We can do that in Canvas. We can actually make our modules the same way so that they're predictable. And we make sure that we have a sound lesson plan as well, that we're hitting all those really important marks. So we also need clearly labeled tutorial materials. Students should know how to ask for help and how to get help when they're navigating through our course. And we need to front load them with information to help them move smoothly through our courses. Let's see. Okay, let's see. All right, and section D of the OEI design rubric refers to a lot of the... addresses a lot of the accessibility issues too. Like we should have headings that are consistently used to aid in navigation. And links need to be identified with meaningful and unique text. So we shouldn't just... If we have a great website, we want students to visit or link to some sort of resource, we're not going to just copy and paste the link into our page. We need to identify them with meaningful and unique text. And color contrast. We need to pay attention to our color contrast using sufficient color contrast. And the images, we really need to have appropriate alternative text or indicate that it's decorative. So if you put an image in there, we should describe what is in the picture, if it's important for student learning. If it's just something that you put there because it looks pretty, then you can indicate that it's decorative So it's a... When students turn on their, maybe a reader or something to help them read the screen, they know that they're not missing anything. Or for example, sometimes my pages don't load, right? Sometimes that happens, internet connection is slow. So if you have had an image there, the text will appear so that they're not missing that content, even though they can't see the image that we intended them to see. And then we also have video, right? We posting videos with accurate captions. It's really important, right? We need to go back and not... We shouldn't just take the transcripts that are auto-generated because it might not be accurate. It might say something completely different or nonsensical. So going back in, reading through the transcript, adding punctuation, correcting any errors that there might be words that have different spellings or something, but it sounds the same. We need to make sure we catch those. I know Zoom has lots of different ways it's picked up by those auto-transcribing machines. So we need to go back and make sure a human has looked at it and corrected those captions. All right. And so for the home page, you have a lot of different options. There's different styles and everybody's different. I'm going to recommend one way of doing it today, and I'm going to show you one way of doing it. But you should know that there are multiple ways you can create a home page in Canvas. And you can have it... Your home page be the course activity stream. This shows when you post things, when things happen in the course, it comes across on that front page. You can have a content page, which is what I recommend and what I'm going to show you. And this way you can put images there, you can put links, you can put information, a banner, things like that to welcome the student into a course. And the module view. You can have just your modules listed on the home page. I don't like that. Many people do that where you just log into Canvas and then you're going to see just all of the modules right there in front of you. No welcome or anything, just the modules. I don't recommend that, but that is a way you can set up a home page. And then you can have the assignment lists. You can just have a list of what's due, or maybe just posting the syllabus or creating a syllabus page and assigning that as your home page. So there are many different ways. What do you use? Anybody who's using Canvas, what do you use as your home page? What's your preferred home page? Just go ahead and type it into chat. No preferences. All right, well, I'll check it out. Okay, I have one. Yes. I use a content page, but it was difficult for my low beginning ESL students. Okay, so kind of making it student friendly. How can we do that? I'll show you mine. I have a, I don't know what it's called, welcome banner. Okay. Good. Something to greet students. Welcome with buttons and a syllabus and resources and module to resources and modules. Okay. All right, good. All right. So what should you include on your home page? Again, I'm going to be showing you how to make a page, a content page. And it's really important to include instructor content or contact information, right? How can maybe your name, possibly a phone number that they can contact you. And your, your email address, possibly your zoom meetings. If you meet in zoom, you might put that information, what days and times you meet. And maybe if you don't, if you're meeting asynchronously, asynchronously and you have maybe office hours, post your office office hours there or something indicating how students can contact you. Because oftentimes, especially if, you know, you do have some live meetings, it would be really important for them to have that information right when they get into your course. And so they don't have to really look for it, right? And navigation, getting started instructions. A lot of times it's overwhelming to students, especially like I am an ESL teacher. And the courses I developed for were, for high beginning and low intermediate students. And it is a lot of, too much text can be overwhelming. So helping, posting maybe a video that has instructions and talks about how they should use the course and how they can navigate from screen to screen is really helpful. Again, put in those captions, the transcript there and make sure that you have added punctuation and corrected your spelling or corrected spelling. And then links or buttons to course modules. You might, some people just type in module one and then they have a link to module one or they might have buttons, right? You might create buttons. Buttons can be created in all sorts of ways. I like to use Canva. Canva is pretty easy for me to use and I make buttons, little images and then add links to them so students can just click on module one and then visit the page, right? And then also links or buttons to support pages and resources. So being able to contact, maybe if there's certain services your CAP campus offers, tutoring or something like that, library resources, something like that, that would be nice to have on your homepage a link to it or some sort of button that they can click or maybe even on the side have that posted there clearly so they can get the help that they need when they need it. And also in your module, when you're building the module and the individual assignments, having a link or a button to some help when students are completing the assignments is really, really good, especially for beginners. If they can just, they say, I don't know, I don't understand this, how to use this quiz or what to do. They might have to maybe contact the tutor or maybe contact you, right? So just giving them instructions with links or information about seeking support. All right, so here's a couple of examples of what you might find on a homepage that's created using a content page. I have a banner here and I'm using some high contrast colors, right, so they can see when they get into the course like if they're not supposed to be in level four. Okay, maybe I'm in the wrong class. And then I'm using some headings, right? And then giving some course information here, like my name, my contact information, the date that this course starts, and when they're going to log in or when Zoom will start, if I have the synchronous component to my course, what time does this class start, right? If they come to the homepage and they see this information and they see how to connect with me right away, it is very helpful and reduces their stress and increases the chance that they'll actually make it into your Zoom course if you're using Zoom. And then I have instructions, right? Watch this video, okay? Here's a video and it's telling them how to begin the course before anything else, right? This is what you're going to do. This is how you're going to navigate the course. Let's see. This is another way, right? You might have little buttons here, and you have the modules set up here so they can see each module. They might, like week one, they'd click on week one and go to that week one module. You can open these modules at different times in the week and or only as needed, possibly, right? Maybe you open them all at once, but I do think that that's content overload and students, you know, we kind of want them chunking the information, especially for, if you're working with ESL students, I know mine, they get a little overwhelmed if all of the modules are visible from the beginning. So you can post a button each week or you can have the buttons there, but the rest of them, they don't work until the week you want them to work in. And so here's a video. This would be, this is an example of a video that students might find when they land on your home page and they're new to Canvas and they want to know how to navigate the course. So I'm going to share this with you. Welcome to NESL 904. This is Intermediate ESL. I'm going to take you on a tour of our course. This is your home page and this is the start button. Today, oh, sorry, pardon me. I'm not rude. I've turned it off.  The orientation module has a lot of information that will help you as you go through this course this semester. After you review this information, you can get back to the home page by clicking Home. Under the Start button, you'll notice there are different buttons for different modules. Each week, your teacher will post a description of what you're going to be doing next to the module button so that you can click on the button and go to the coursework you need to complete. If I click on module one, now I can visit module one getting to know you and I can go through all the different pages and activities that my teacher has assigned. If I click on the Welcome and Overview page, I'll see a description of what this module is about. If I scroll down, I'll be able to go to the next page and I'll also have some hyperlinks to different activities in this module. If I'm done with an activity, I can always scroll back up to the top of my page and click Home and this will bring me to the Welcome page where all of the different module buttons are located and I can check grades and go to any of the modules I want. I can just click on the module button and it will take me to all of the modules. As you can see, there are so many wonderful activities and lessons planned for you and we hope that you enjoy working through them and if you have any questions, please let your teacher know. Okay, so that's just an example. Again, I was designing for... Oh, how did you add the music? Is this video created through Camtesia? It is... I created that in Movavi, the Movavi editor. And so the best way I've found to create these videos would be to... You're going to go into your Zoom... to your Zoom and go ahead and record and then put that into an editor and then it's kind of easier that way. You get the transcript as well and then put it into an editor and then you can post it online in YouTube. So I use Movavi, but there's lots of different, really wonderful programs that we have out there. I was just most comfortable with Movavi. And it's free music with your program. Let me see here. Thank you. Yeah, Studio. Yeah, there are lots of them and you can play around with what's most comfortable for you. You know, when I started making videos, I started with just like the Microsoft, whatever they had. And then I just kind of started playing with different editors. And the more you do that, the more you find what kind of fits your style, what kind of user you are and what kind of works for you. So don't get restricted to just one kind. Just try a few and if they don't work for you, sign up for some trials, edit a video, and see what works for you. Because in the end, we do need to feel comfortable with what we're using. And that makes it more fun too, right? If it's not a pain to make it. And I like making the videos. It's fun for me. I make a lot of them. All right, so let's see. Let's pause that and we'll go on. Okay. So that is the homepage in a minute. We are going to go into my Canvas courses. I'm going to show you an in-depth look and we're going to take a look at the homepage and we'll look at the modules. Okay, but for right now I want to just to show you what, what I was, I'm thinking about when I'm designing. Again, for the, for the module, I'm thinking about consistency. Each module head should have the same structure or lesson planning. It shouldn't be just kind of like, I don't know, I'm going to put this here this week, right?  And you want to, you want to be varied too, right? You don't want to just have content pages. You need opportunities for assessment, right? So you want to have some, put some quizzes in there. If that your quiz is going to be for practice, you can set it to as a practice quiz. You can use discussion boards for evaluation or to check for understanding. So use different things. You can use the quizzes, the discussions, the pages, the assignments. You want to have a variety of ways that students can interact some of them will do well on the quizzes and some of them won't, but they'll do really well on the discussion board. So having a variety of ways students can participate is really valuable, but you know, keep it consistent, have the same types of things in your, in your modules each week, or maybe if you have a discussion board, maybe put that the first thing that they're going to do each week or the last thing, put it in a consistent spot. And then student centered, make sure it's student centered, right? Using that student centered language. When you're explaining activities and goals. It doesn't, especially for some of our students who, you know, they're learning English and they, they don't, they shouldn't have to go get a dictionary and look up every word you're using. It shouldn't seem like a manual. It should seem like you're talking to them. You're talking to them because it's relevant. What they're doing is relevant to them. And let's see here, another present presenter mentioned something to click on to make sure the site is accessible. What is this? I'm going to show you that when we go into the course, I'll show you that. And let's see here, we have provide an overview, right? The first page of your module should list the objectives and the instructions. Plan ahead. Check your links and content before publishing your module. This is really important, especially if you have, if you're posting videos from a, maybe a website or YouTube channel that you think is amazing and you've curated all these wonderful things to show your students. And then they take down their site, right?   So you can head those issues off and make it more student friendly by checking your content. And especially if you're using somebody else's, for example, if you're sharing, if you get something from an OER site, really make sure you check everything because it's, you know, we share things, but by the time it gets to you, it might not be functioning as well as it originally did. And be clear, include instructions and due dates. So on each of your assignments, on each of your quizzes or your discussion boards, make sure you include the instructions and due dates. Don't just say, okay, I posted an assignment for you and that students get to Canvas and they just find a submit button, right? That's not very helpful to them. And the likelihood that they're going to successfully complete that assignment, you know, it kind of lessens obviously. So include instructions and due dates. All right, so when we look at the module, let's see, we have a student centered, okay, so that homepage, I'm sorry, I was reading in the chat. When we look at the, that overview page in our Canvas course in the module, it should say something like, what will we do? Or, you know, some sort of, some language that tells a student that this is, okay, I'm going to tell you what this whole course is about. And so for example, I have a personal note here. It's nice to see you in class. I look forward to getting to know you this week. You are going to work on introducing and describing yourself to others. There's a lot of ways we could write that, but directing it to the student as if you're having a conversation with them is much better than just kind of finding a landing page and all they get is this kind of, you know, the objectives and it's a list. This is very helpful. And you could even change these objectives to be more student friendly using student friendly language. But I think that these ones right here were simplified. So any of your course objectives, don't just take it from your outline of record, kind of modify it for what your students are going to understand because it's not, the real importance is not listing the objectives, but making sure students understand those objectives, right? So you can change the language and simplify it according to your student group. All right, so student friendly language. Let's see here. So we're going to visit my Canvas course and we're going to view the homepage and we'll view the settings on the homepage. We'll check for accessibility. So I'll go to some pages where I know it's not accessible. We need to change it. And we'll see how the buttons are working. And then we'll review the module structure and flow. Okay. Any questions up to this point before we dive in? All right. Okay, so I'm going to go to my dashboard. If you don't use Canvas, if you haven't used it yet, when you log in, you'll have a list of all of your courses, right? So up here are my published courses or courses I'm taking. And down here are my practice shells, which is always really good. If you can design your course in a practice shell and then move it over. And yeah, I saw that in chat, broken links. And I'll give you some advice on broken links as well and how to avoid them. So here are some courses that I haven't started yet. So if I open them up, it looks like this, right? It says create a new module. And so here you have all of these items that you can choose from over here. This looks really kind of not friendly, right? A student really wouldn't know what to do with this. So what I do, I'm going to show you this one, which was created for other teachers during the pandemic to give them something to start with. I created a home page, right? So I created a page. You can go to pages. And if you want to create a new one, right? You can view all pages and you can add a page. And then you can start creating your page. You'll give it a title. You can insert a banner here. Create it on Canva or whatever site. Buncie has really good banners you can use as well. And so you can insert your banner here. And you can give instructions all right here. Let me leave that. So on this page, I have my welcome video that I showed you. And this is just giving instructions for how to navigate the course. Of course, you can also, this one was not personalized because I was developing it for someone else to use, but you can add information about yourself as well, which is always nice, right? Hi, my name is, I'm from, I've been teaching for maybe show a picture or two to kind of personalize it and humanize it. And then start here, if the students start, click start here, that it'll take them directly to us at an orientation module, right? So let me go back to home and show you that. I'm going to edit right here so we can go into edit mode. And I have my banner here. I'm going to click information image options. So I've added some alternate text, right? Blue and white banner intermediate ESL level one and ESL 904. So I put what it is and what's on it, right? So of course, if this doesn't load, the image doesn't load on someone's phone or on their computer, then that text will pop, will be there still. And they know what's there. And then I'm using, let's see if I click here, you can see there's a heading here. And then I have my video posted. And then I have some buttons. You can see that this is an image that I've posted here. And then I've added a link. Okay, so here's the link options, right? So you can click here. And let's see, I can remove a link. Let's see. I'm going to remove the link. Okay. And now I want to add a link. Okay. So I'm going to go over here, insert. Sorry. Insert a link. And I'm going to put course link. Okay. So when you do that, it shows you all of the pages and everything you've developed. And I'm going to click on module because I want to link this to a module. And it's going to be the start here. Orientation module. Okay. And now my student, when they click on this link. They'll be brought directly to that orientation module. So they don't have to go. So I'm just going to click on module. Alternatively, they would click modules here and then look for the module that they're in, right? Or the module I want them to, to go to. Here I have a module one. And this links to, if you can see it says module one, getting to know you. So my, my button is labeled, right? I have the alternative text. Right. And I'm going to click on module one. So it's telling you the student what it is. And then I can also add more information here to the side if I wanted. This right here is what you'd call a decorative image. So I'm not adding the alternative text there. And then I want to check to make sure everything is okay. So I can go to my accessibility guide. Right. And it'll tell you, oh, your documents and video. And then I'm going to click on that. And then I'm going to click on the options there. Make sure everything is, is what it's supposed to be. Right. Did you add. The text. Is it correct? If I don't have, if I didn't check this prior, it might show me that I didn't label. I didn't add alternative text to my buttons. Or that I didn't use headings or something. So I'm going to click on that. Okay. And Penny. Pearson is saying, you can, can you show the ally accessibility? Okay. So we did that. All right. And so we're going to go to, let me see, let me scroll up. I want to show you here. Do you see all of this? This is a lot of stuff here. And if you just, if you don't change the settings here, you can see all of this. So I'm going to go to settings. And I've added a picture here. It goes along with, it's my banner. But what I'm really interested in is the navigation. So you can add or take away items from. This landing page here. I, I can have this. I don't know what that is. Comet connect. That's a resource. Our accessibility report. Online tutoring. Let's see. So my, my student doesn't really need. Well, the disability support. Ask a library item banks. No. Maybe I'm not going to use collaborations. They don't need to know everybody who's in class. Grades. Yes. Announcements. Yes. So I'm going to leave this, I'm going to leave these items here. And then I'm going to click save. Okay. And then I'm going to go home. I'm going to check right here, student view. What does this look like to my students? Oh, okay. Good. You see, it's a lot less content and it's more usable here. And they can still get to the modules from here. If they click modules. And then they can find all the modules listed here. Right. But they, they're probably going to rely on the buttons. So for example, if they want to go to module two, it'll land on module two. Right. So let me leave that. And let's take a look at the modules. So in, when you're building your Canvas course, you should always have an orientation module. So you don't have to post, you don't have to put everything on your homepage. You can just put the most important things like your name, your phone number, right? Your email address, your zoom time. But this is going to have more in depth information and maybe an icebreaker, right? So you can go to the course. And you can go to the course. And then you can get students started in the course. And if you want to, you can set, set it up where students have to progress through the course. In a certain way. Right. So you can do that. You can add a module here as well. You can add a document or you can create a discussion. And then you're going to add the name. Right. And if you want to indented or not indented, right. The, the levels, how far in should it be. And so you can add things there on the side by adding your little plus here. And then my, my. Content modules where I'm actually teaching a lesson. These are my lessons. I'll label it clearly. And you can even put the date, like maybe the week that you're in. And you can do that by, you know, you edit your, your module and you can add the date. You can add requirements. For example, if you want your students to move through the course, you don't want them to just go willy nilly all over, you don't want them to press whatever you can tell them that they need to, to move through the course and sequential order. So they can view the item and then it's marked as done. Right. You can pick each one, right. The simple lesson again, then simple present tense lesson. And then they need to view the item or market as done. And then they need to move through the course. And then they need to be able to contribute to the page. Okay. So this kind of helps students who get lost in the modules and they're not sure which pages they've completed yet. So here you can see I'm using the wippy a format. The, right. The welcome and the overview. Right. Getting to know you. So if they click on this page, they'll find a banner. And the theme is getting to know you. I have a personalized message to them. And then I'm explaining to them what we're doing, the objectives and the content. What exactly are we doing that's going to help us to reach these goals. And then I have links to the different pages. You can do this or not do this. It's okay. I included this in here. And it lists everything so they can. Visit each page. Just from, from this, or they can navigate through the, the module. I put on here, click the next button to go to the next page. Sometimes if you're new to. Navigating through the course, you might need these indicators right as student might need this. Just make sure that button is, is you've checked for accessibility. So if, when I'm looking at this, I can see this little green thing right here. That tells me that yes, I, I did go ahead and add in the alternative text and it's, everything's okay there. And I can go next. Right. And then I'm going to find, find this practice quiz. Let me preview it. So when I end up on this, my warm up page, right, I'm going. I'm going to do a warm up and then practice and presentation. So this is a warm up activity. You can choose. You know, you can have lots of different things as a warm up, warm up activity. And then I, so I have the goal, what they're doing. And then the instructions. Right. What they should do. And I'm telling them, you can, you can do this activity as many times as you would like. And then of course the teacher would insert the due date here. And I've made sure that this, this video has closed captions on it. And I, each time you need to make sure that they do have close captions. And if not, you can put them through your canvas studio and canvas studio will add them. If you have a link, if you find a video from, from YouTube, you can take that link and add it to, let me show you where you can do that. So I'm going to edit this quiz. Okay. And if I wanted to add something. Right here, canvas studio. I could add a link. Right. So external link or outflow from a computer. And then I would just add my YouTube or Vimeo link. And then you could add your, your captions or your transcripts from there. Let's see. Okay. All right. And here, because this is a practice, I'm going to let students see the correct answers. I'm going to let students see the correct answers. My lesson that is a practice. I'm going to allow multiple attempts. I, I'm going to let students see the correct answers maybe. And then I can set my due dates here. And that will. Then students can see on their homepage. It'll pop up what activities are due. Okay. Let's see here. Okay. And I'm going to do this in. Yeah, let me see here. Go to. See week two again. Okay. And if you can see here, just like module one, right? I have my overview. I have a warm up. Maybe flashcards here. And family tree practice quiz. And then an activity here that students can see what kind of activity it is. Now this one, I really, this one is a link. Okay. And it's. Risky. Risky putting the link in. Because when you just use create a page using a link, it might be broken. It might not. It might not be broken. It might not be broken. It might not be loaded. So you can embed. As opposed to just using. Creating a page using a URL. You could create a page and then insert the link inside that page. And then have students visit it. Yes, Yolanda. You had a question. I just wanted to let you know, you've got about eight minutes to go. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And it's not all create. Is this all create through page? No. The content pages. Yes. But the activities are a variety of things. They're quizzes, discussions. This one was a link. Right. To something else. If this wasn't working. Then the students would arrive at this page and it would be, I would say link is broken. But I would say that is to create a content page and then embed or to. To put the link so they can go to whatever it is that you were, that you wanted them to see. In this case, it's, it's a bungee. I can see that 710 students have, have accessed this page successfully. So yeah. I'm glad that this one isn't broken. But if it were to be broken, it would be a link. I'm glad that they could go directly to that page. Anyways, it's, it's just a link. Right. So you might. Create a page. Give instructions. Right. Tell students what to do with that. Instead of just putting it there. Like that. Okay. So, Julie, you say, I teach a higher level listening and speaking class having captions would compromise the integrity of the class. I think that's a good point. I'm just beginning that many of the videos are purposefully not captioned, but if anyone needs captioning to let me know, I was told that this is okay to do. Yeah. Maybe if there's some sort of listening task, I would. I think that if you're, if it's a teaching video, you do need to have all of the. The captions in there. If it's a practice video. And you can see that it may indicate in there. And maybe like you said, provide transcripts upon request. That is tricky, but any sort of. A lesson that you have. It needs to be you need to have the captions in there. It can't just be, you know, kind of like, you know, you have to have a specific task. If you're going to take out the. The Trent that captions. And let's see here. So you might have let me show you a discussion, so this is a discussion board okay so you're going to have you know this is labeled. Here i've put some teachers choose to put the due date at the top, or you can have the due date at the bottom right, but this is instructions right the prompt here's what what the questions are and then instructions for the activity. And then when, if I want them to be talking to each other right when should I put my first reply. And when should I put the the second reply right to the peers directly so we're having a conversation. And I also here I put in a lot of resources here how to submit an audio file, because it says I did in my instructions I said, include an audio recording of your answers. Right, and that's that's something where you're going to need to go back and and I've given instructions how to submit an audio file. And I also have a link these these ones right here. Technically, this is not good. What's wrong with this, what do you think is wrong with what I did here. Anybody know critique this one. Okay, so I haven't put in the unique text. Right. I'm just posting the link in here. It would be better if I if I changed added words instead and you know and a hyperlink to those words, not just posted this like that. That would be better for our students if we did that. Okay, so I know I only have like a minute left. So do you have any questions for me anything I can answer for you. Anything you want to see. I have a question. Hi. The part that says click on the next button to go to the next page at the bottom before the next that's already in canvas. What is that is that something you made on canva or. Yeah, I did I made that on canva. And then you just inserted it down there at the lower right. I inserted it down there. So, yeah, just to give them. And you can do that throughout the course, or you can do it just on the initial pages until they get the hang of it. Okay, but I found that sometimes people just don't they if they don't know right if they've never used it before, sometimes just some additional instructions might be a very useful. Thank you. All right, anything else I can share with you. Okay. All right well thank you for being here today. And again thank you for letting me share my experience. Again this was collected experiences over the past couple years and developing courses for other teachers so this, I would, my personal courses I would add more of myself into them. This was designed for other students other teachers to kind of take off right to get develop and and and use during this time.


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Hello, you're watching People's Dispatch, and today we're going to be talking about the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where over the past few weeks we have seen both protests, we have seen violence against protesters, we have seen a lot of discussion about the security situation there, an issue we have often talked about on this channel as well. And a lot of this culminating in the president of the country, Felix Cicady, calling for the withdrawal of the UN force, which is called Monusco, in the UN General Assembly session in his speech over there. But of course, there's more to this than meets the eye, and to understand all this we have with us, Kambale Musawili. Kambale, thank you so much for joining us. Kambale, of course, we've had what do you call a very eventful month to say the least, and you actually often talked about this for People's Dispatch as well. And one of the recent incidents was the firing on protesters who were very unhappy with the presence of foreign forces, including the UN peacekeeping force in the regions which are affected by the M23 insurgency. So maybe let's take a look at that first before coming to the politics of the force itself. Could you maybe take us very quickly through what happened at that time? What has been, you know, why were these protesters shot at and killed? What has been the state of the investigation? It's also very important to know where they were shot. They were shot before even the protests started.  There is a group of Congolese in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, specifically in Goma, in the city of Goma, a group called the Wanzalendo, who called for a protest to denounce presence of foreign militaries in the DRC, specifically the United Nations and the East African military force that's in the DRC right now deployed. The reason why they want those forces to live is that they are there for a mission. They are there to bring about peace and stability. And we don't see peace and stability taking place in the DRC, since they've been there. And they call to action. The military actually went to the radio station of the Wanzalendo and killed the Basics people. And afterwards, they went around the city and arresting people and scrutinizing people.  I think the official number was a 65, but every time you speak to people in Goma, they tell you at least 100 people were killed. And when you even see how they were killed, thankfully the people of Goma film are the killing. That's the only way we can know that the numbers are high. You see a lot of bodies in trucks being pulled away from where they were killed. And how did that happen? The soldiers after killing are dragging the bodies and putting them into trucks to go hide the bodies. This is a practice that's been known to the DRC for a very long time. So who killed them? We say in the Congolese Security Forces military. It's not just any force that killed them. This is the Republican Guard. The presidential guard. This is an elite unit trained by the Israelis and who are supposed to be protecting the president of the Congo. And they are also deployed in the eastern part of the country. So one will ask, is this what the Israelis are teaching the Republican Guards to shoot and kill civilians? Of course, when we look at the different military training that Israel has done to foreign countries, we've seen this type of violence, including when we look at in the United States, the NYPD receiving training for Israel. And we see also the actions that they do on the ground and so on. So we know that this type of violence is often connected to militaries who are trained by Israel. You have to say that in a general sense. So the people of the Congo are very frustrated with the killing. And they are calling for accountability. They're calling for commanders who made the order to shoot civilians to be held accountable. It has not been done. The eastern part of Congo, where the killing took place, the province of North Kivu is under martial law, as I call it. They're calling it state of siege. And this means that the governor of the province is a military. The mayor of many of the cities are militaries. So we have soldiers running the city, running the province, and they're not being held accountable. The president of the Congo should be held accountable. He is the one who has tutored the state of siege for over a year to bring about his stability. The consequence of that is that Congolese are dying. So why also beyond just saying that the East African forces or the UN forces must leave. Why also are they calling for withdrawal of the forces? This is also because there is a town called Bunagana in the eastern part of Congo that the Congolese government and the Congolese people do not have access to for over a year now. This town is controlled by rebels. The rebel force called M23 backed, equipped, trained, financed by the Rwandan government, by the Rwandan military, according to the UN group of experts to report showing how the chain of command goes directly to the Rwandan military. And these rebel groups control the city and they have not been removed. There is actually a buffer zone created by the East African forces whereby Congolese cannot even go into the town while these rebels control the town. They are taxing people, they're doing operations. So people are really under occupation and being protected by these forces. This is why the Congolese are protested and unfortunately they're being killed and there is no serious accountability to the military chain of command. Right, Kambali, in this context just talking a bit to go a bit deeper into the question of this UN force which is called Monosco itself. I believe reports say that the UN deployment in the DRC with Monosco and its earlier forces perhaps the longest in the world. So why is it that there's been so much dissatisfaction with the presence of UN forces which at least on the face of it, they're supposed to be neutral. They're supposed to provide security, et cetera, et cetera. When the UN forces have been there for over two decades now or about two decades in the DRC, they've had different mandates while they were there but the general mandate is to bring that peace of stability in the DRC and they have what they call chapter seven. Chapter seven for UN peacekeeping forces means that they have the power to enforce peace which means that they can actually militarily engage not just be neutral, they can actually engage the rebels to remove them from places. Unfortunately, they have not done so. Patrick Cammert who's a former UN commander of the UN forces in the DRC around the year 2009 if I'm not mistaken, said something very interesting in a radio station while it was being interviewed. He said that the UN forces, they can use military pressure but the problem on the common is a political problem and military pressure will not end the conflict. So what does that actually mean? When you have a UN commander saying that and now actually add another element that the UN secretary general himself in an interview on France 24, a TV station of the French government. France 24 during that interview, Antonio Guterres says that the UN forces are ill equipped to actually fight the M23 rebels because the M23 rebels have sophisticated weapon. Now, if the UN secretary general says that and a former UN commander says that we must actually look at another solution. There is not a military solution to the conflict in the Congo. There was a political solution and the political solution found this answer in the UN Security Council. We have two specific members of the UN Security Council who can have an impact in DRC. That's the United States and the United Kingdom. These two countries have supported nations that stabilize in the Congo. London and Uganda, US ally, British allies on the so-called war on terror have been equipped finance with their taxpayers' money and they use the support that they receive to destabilize the DRC in total impunity. So for me, if the United States, the United Kingdom, don't hold to account the allies, the United nation peacekeeping forces will never have the political will to end the conflict because they have enough evidence from the UN themselves. The UN group of experts have documented random support to rebels in DRC, Uganda support to rebels in DRC, yet all we see are condemnations in a statement of press releases. So pressure from them will have an impact. Unfortunately, we know it's not going to come. So it's really up to the people to continue to fight, to liberate themselves from these foreign powers, foreign militaries who are in the country so that they can live in peace and stability in the near future. Absolutely, especially now since Paul Kagame has announced that he's going to seek another term as Rwanda's president, I think that aligns very much likely to continue. And of course, Rwanda has it's also important for the UK for its so-called refugee policy. But coming to elections, also wanted to, you know, ask about Felix Shasekedi himself. He went to the UN, gave the call for the withdrawal of forces just maybe a month after his own forces had fired on people who were asking exactly the same. So, and we also know that he has elections coming up. So how is, has he changed his position on this or what is, what really is his strategy over there? I think it's rhetoric. We know what it means to actually have foreign military force removed from your country. They need to be official notification. It's not press conferences and, you know, speaking on the podium at the UN, that's not what removes. We know that also because we see what has happened in Mali and Niger and Burkina Faso. These countries have asked for France to leave. They had an official notification certified by the government giving them a deadline that are such as such that you need to leave. That's not what we see in DRC. So I'm seeing that more as a political rhetoric from the communist government or from the communist president. He knows what he needs to do. You need to submit an official request to the UN asking for the removal of the forces and giving them a timeline. Until he does that, I do not believe to, I don't believe in what he has actually said. Now, the other way to think about this is the communist president has given so many promises to the DRC. From the moment he was announced as the winner of the presidential elections to the DRC to now. But his actions are not surprising to me. He has always said things and he does something else. For example, he has said, right, that he will move the headquarters of the Congolese military to Goma and that he himself as the president will move to the North Kivu province for peace and stability. We are still waiting for the day we will do that. So that was a political rhetoric that he made in his speech in front of the Congolese people to promise them peace and security and we never saw that happen. So a few things happen at the UN. It's not just the speech of him saying that the UN forces will leave, but on the sideline, he met with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel. And his meeting was quite telling. The president of the Congo announced that now officially the DRC will have its embassy in Jerusalem, right? It's two steps or even more steps from the initial position. When he was invited as one of the African presidents to speak at APEC a few years ago, he did announce that Congo will have its diplomatic mission in Jerusalem, right? He said that he will move the economic section of the Congolese embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. We don't know if it ever happened. No, there has not been clear follow up on that. But his position of even moving today, the Congolese embassy to Jerusalem, is against the African Union, right? And he's a former chairman of the African Union. The African Union is very clear on the issue of Palestine and the issue of Jerusalem that they do not recognize Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel. Very clear on that position. So any African nation or any nation doing so, like the United States and the Donald Trump, is going against the will of the vast majority of citizens of the world because most nations in the world do not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. So when you see that happen, the president of the Congo is strengthening the propaganda by Zionists in Israel, where they are slowly but surely taking over the lands that do not belong to them. We still wait for the day where we will have the official map of Israel because every year the map changes. Every other year it changes. The people of the world want to live in peace. People of Palestine have the right to exist. They have the right to live peacefully on their land, and they should not wake up every other day and see the land taken. And unfortunately, the president of the Congo is playing that card. And as you heard earlier, there is a reason, right? There could be a deal that exists from Israel providing support to the DRC. One that's very obvious is that the presidential guard, right? The Republican guard. The soldiers who killed the Congolese citizens in Goma are trained by the Israelis according to African intelligence. So hearing him say that and seeing his rapprochement to Israel, it's not a shacker to me and he's not had a very clear position. It's up to people of the world to continue to expose what is happening so that people are not confused by the DRC. They're not confused that the Congolese people chose a leader who wants to be close to Netanyahu. We did not do that. In 2018, Congolese went to the poll to elect a leader. The result that was published in December did not reflect the reality of the people. It was announced that she said she won, but mainly all the information that exists today shows us that the elections were rigged and that there was a secret deal between Chisikedi and the former president, Kabila, whereby they chose to place him as the president of the Congo. And that's the deal was signed in front of representative of Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa, published in many publications so far. So we know he was not elected by the Congolese. Now that in December, 2023, it is scheduled to have a presidential election. That's something also to see. We are not sure if the elections will take place, but we'll see in the next three months what would happen. But if the elections take place, we see every indication that the elections will be rigged. How do I know so? All the process of registering voters. Can you imagine that we had a new voter role and people who want to register to vote receive a new electoral card? So they changed the electoral card from the previous election. And anyone who was head in electoral card, a new electoral card today, their face on the card has disappeared. It has actually faded. One, that gives you the quality of the card. And two, that gives you a sense that even the Electoral Commission is not interested in having a fair election when the electoral card, where you cannot even see the face of the individual. So anyone can come to the poll and vote on your behalf because they cannot verify your face from the card. And there are so many other issues from putting opposition leaders in jail, burying them from organizing protests. So one of the leaders, Mattifai Ula, has decided not to participate in the elections. So we're seeing already tension rising. And one opposition leader was just assassinated. Surely, Mero Kende, a former MP now, was assassinated after he was kidnapped in the parking lot of the Congolese constitutional court, where he went to declare his assets. So the tension is palpable as we are coming to the December elections, but Congolese continue to remain vigilant and they will continue to expose the contradiction, the internal contradiction that exists in the country so that the world know that we are not condoning the behavior of the president of the Congo, the actions of the president of the Congo, is rapprochement with Israel, is rapprochement with Morocco and so on. We are still fighting to have a free and liberated Congo. Thank you so much, Kambale, for that very comprehensive update. Like you said, the next couple of months, very vital for the country. And we will be coming back to you to actually track some of these developments as well. Thank you so much. Thank you. That's all we have time for today. Do keep watching People's Dispatch.


Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to Wikimedia Foundation Metrics meeting for March 2017. The theme is Wikimedia for the World. Our agenda for today welcomes theme and production movement update, Wickey women's history on social media, Wickey and Daba update, movement strategy update, questions and discussion and Wickey love. So welcomes requisition hires Gregory Barnum for communications and Sydney for for community engagement. Contractors, interns and volunteers. Jason Sherman joins community engagement anniversaries. Six years Asaf and Lisa. Five years, pal, Dan, Daniel, four years, Ellie, Iran and Adam. Here's Chase, Casey and Anna Stilwell. Two years, Kevin Smith, Michael and Michael. And I apologize. Apologies if I pronounced this incorrectly. One year, Jan Angel, myself and Rita. And next we'll have the movement update for Maria. Hi all. Wow. I'm Maria Cruz. I work in community engagement and I'm here to share some stories with you. So movement update. Wikileves Africa 2016 actually took place December last year to January this year and I was waiting to see if they published the international winners to share this with you but they haven't yet. So I couldn't keep this any longer. Wikileves Africa is the third issue of a contest that focused on music, dance and movement. The previous editions focused on African cuisine and fashion and adornment. And this issue, they were encouraging people to share media. So this means songs, pictures and videos. They had like 8,000 images and there were 10 participating countries and these are some of the images that you would find if you follow the link on the appendix. Yeah, very pretty. So the next story is about languages. What do you think is the role of language in culture? Or how can we better understand what brings us together and what makes us different across languages? Languages are often thought to be the pillar of culture. And with this in mind, Wikimedia España organized intercultural. This is an editing contest that focused on translating content and creating new articles in Spain's 8 spoken languages. And they had 22 participants and 278 articles created. And the next story is about women. So the focus on women's biographies on Wikipedia has a purpose because the gender gap is not only about representation of the ratio or the ratio of women biographies versus male biographies. It is most importantly about how we speak of one or the other. With the goal of engaging Wikimedia communities on editing with a gender perspective, Wikimedia Iberacop opened its traditional contest of Iber-American women to the world. And the women you have never met is a writing contest that is running through April 9 this year, I think. And there are 17 countries participating from seven different regions in the world. And people can create their own local edition of the contest with materials that the organizers have uploaded. And these are some of the women that now have a biography on Wikimedia since March for when the contest started. So some Wikimedia foundation highlights the analytics team finished rebuilding our page view of API for resiliency. There are two items that still need people's feedback for the movement strategy discussion. So please, if you have a minute, revise those two links that we're showing there. And now the Wikimedia foundation has an updated more inclusive non-discrimination policy which you can revise on the third link. And coming up this month, we have Wikistats 2.0 design the second round. And the movement strategy cycle one of discussions will be beginning, I think, at the Wikimedia conference next week. So that's all. And now Wikimedia's history month to Jeff. Hey, I'm Jeff Helder, the social community manager. And don't worry, I'm not going to mansplain the gender gap for you. I represent the problem here. Aubrey is about to ride to the rescue. So we will act this out for you. We have the next slide. So as Rhea talked about, there's the gender gap of editors. There's the gender gap of biographies on Wikimedia. But there's a third. And that is our Facebook community. The executive director actually pointed that out to me during my job interview. And said, what are you going to do about that? And I said, content? And she said, that might not be enough. And it hasn't been. So women's history month in March would apparently be an opportunity for us to address this gap, but we were going the wrong direction. So in March 2015, the gender gap on our Facebook community actually grew by 55,000 people. Men were joining our Facebook age at that rate during that month, 55,000 more men than women that year. And this to me was heartbreaking. This is a really nice post that went up in March of 2015. And people really liked it. 487 people liked it, but it only reached 857. How is that possible? I don't know. But more than half the people who saw it liked it, we just weren't reaching that. That got a lot better last year. We did posts almost every day. And we changed the gap by a great deal, but still it was growing. So almost a thousand more men than women liked our Facebook page last year. And that set the stage for, what are we going to tell you? Hi. So inspiration for the women's history month campaign, this month actually came from last season's fundraising campaign, big English. We, the comms team designed the I heart Wikipedia Facebook frame, which we wanted to promote with others and like get people to use on their own Facebook profile pictures and share with people and who better to promote that frame for us than our Wikipedia of the year, Rosie Stevenson, good night. So we wanted to put her out there. But as Jeff said, you can't really put or you couldn't in that atmosphere put Rosie out and assume that she would not be fed to the wolves. So we put a little bit of money behind her promoted frame to, to do two things to, to one promote the frame and invite other people to use it but also to essentially to protect Rosie because by promoting that frame, we also targeted it to other women in all of our major countries that we are targeting. And by doing that, we did something. We got a result that we didn't exactly expect. We also got 1600 new women fans to the Facebook page. And that we did at four cents per person. So it's extremely low, extremely low price for that. It was kind of an amazing discovery for us. So what we did was we adapted that strategy from last year and we made the we heart women's history campaign for the month. So we took the frame from last time and made it nice recognizable. We heart women's history. And we wanted to showcase every day a new, a new woman that you don't normally hear about Eleanor Roosevelt, like all the, all the, you know, American politicians and wives of politicians, we wanted to do something different. So this, this first one is Wanda Gug. She is, she is responsible for creating the American, American children's book that is over a century old and still in print. It's a Newbury Award, Caldecott Award, Winnering, Winning Children's Book. And she's just a renowned illustrator. We also did Anna Mae Wong, who is the first Asian actress to successfully break through Hollywood's racism barrier. So she was, she was extremely famous in China as well as America. We also took suggestions from the social media hub to this, this is Chimanda Adichie. She is an Nigerian writer and she is coming under fire a lot online right now for her, for her outspoken stance on gender roles and gender issues. So we didn't want to shy away from that. We wanted to put her out there and put her and tell people more about the situation and about like what she stands for. We also wanted to experiment with the I Heart Women's History frame and showcase not just the, not just the woman of the day, but, but also what she actually does rather than just put your face on the internet. You can see, oh, by the way, this, this photographer, this is, this is Tony Fressel. And this photographer actually does photography. So we put a lot of her like her, you know, world famous photos. She did a lot of she's, you might have seen her like Tuskegee Airmen photography. Like she, she was the person who did that. Like that was her. So we did a lot of we're doing these every day. It's a work in progress. And every day we're asking the community for their suggestions and for their help and deciding what the conversation should look like on our Facebook page. And we're going to bring Jeff back up here to explain how that's been going on so far this month. Aubrey's content to drive this campaign has been fantastic. The bios that she's found have been unusual and intriguing and the writing photography that she's found is what has driven us. But as we talked about earlier, content doesn't always do it. So has it worked? Has the $1,000 of donors money gone into places? We didn't want to just target women. We also wanted to target some of the rich nations that Zach and the team have been looking at. So India, Indonesia, Egypt and Nigeria are all in that top six of nations. And what we saw was we were able to gain fans at a penny a piece in all of them. So we were able to pick up women fans in these countries where we really need that audience if we're going to break through to get new readers, new editors, people who are interested in the community. We keep them. They are now part of our family on the Facebook page. And it led to a total of 104,000, almost 105,000 new women fans on Facebook so far this month at a penny a piece. So it changed the conversation. It wasn't just a matter of stockpiling fans. We also wanted to have the atmosphere where those conversations could grow. So you remember March 2015 gender gap grew by 55,000. And last year the gender gap grew by almost 1,000. This year the gender gap shrank by more than 100,000 women. So that did something we didn't expect. It moved the needle on a 5.5 million Facebook fan base. I didn't think these percentage points would tick. They did by three percentage points. But this is what I completely switched the engagement this month. 65% of the comments and activity on our Facebook page has been from women. So during women's history month, we were able to change that conversation and that makes us feel so. So thank you. Next, we'll have a talk on Wiki and Daba. I'm not sure. Is it Felix? Yeah. Okay, great. Just let me know when to change slide. Okay. So hello, my name is Felix and I'm a member of the Wikimedia community in Ghana. So yeah, I'm here today to talk about Wiki and Daba and to share with you this awesome picture that you see and the joy that people are exhibiting in the picture. Next slide. Okay, so Wiki and Daba is a bannered regional conference for African Wikipedians and Wikimedians. It was first started by Wikimedia, South Africa, and it was initiated and held by them in 2014. It was also fully funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, which we are grateful and thankful for. Now I just want to explain a little bit of what in Daba is. So in Daba, as indicated in the name, it's a Zulu word, which means meeting or conference. A word is often used to describe very important meetings, where delegates are chosen to represent communities or groups. We pride ourselves with this name because we believe in the quality of issues described in Daba. And we are hopeful to use this means to contribute to issues that matter in the movement, while addressing those that set barriers for our progress. Next slide. Next slide. No, sorry. Can you go back? Okay, great. So in Daba in 2017 saw 72 applications, which brought 49 participants to the conference, and some 42 who were on scholarship. And among these 42 who were on scholarship, there were 34 people who were on full scholarship. This represented 18 countries spanning three continents. And this was a marginal increase from the previous 2014 edition, and the numbers grew from like 30 to 49 this year. Next slide. So now the big question. Why in Daba? We believe that it is necessary for us to create a united voice to share the problems that are unique to our continent. That pertain to only us and to sort of like bring that forward to the movement and to the foundation to be heard. We also believe that it is necessary that we build capacity for Africans to ensure that we're going sustainable with community communities on the continent and to ensure posterity of the movement in Africa. If you visit our website this year, you realize that the 2017 team was solely based on building sustainable with the media communities for Africa. We also believe that it is an opportunity to forge partnerships to foster continental and diaspora collaborations in the quest of scaling a project and promoting growth of the movement goes in partner regions. We also believe that I think it's an opportunity for us to sort of like come together and sort of create bigger and continental programs just like Wikilabs Africa is doing and just like we did with Wikilabs women, we believe there is strength in unity and there is strength in people coming together to work for a particular cause. Next slide. Now the lessons that we learned from in Daba, the goods and the bads. So the minuses are the bads and the positives are the good. Approvals sometimes take a long time and that affected us in our case a lot but I must say that officials who were in charge of our work did a great job and they helped us, supported us all our way through and I must commend KC for an awesome job that she did with Wikilaba. Passing on of resources from organizing team to another was a problem. We noticed that in Daba in itself was not held or organized by a team from one country. It is a conference that is spanning different regions in Africa and it makes it very difficult to sometimes pass on like usernames for Facebook and Twitter handles and stuff like that. So we saw this problem and we think we are finding ways to address this and one of the ways we are thinking of addressing this issue is to form a group that would be solely responsible for in Daba that would bear the responsibility of the organizations of in Daba in subsequent years and to ensure that the local organizing committees are actually getting the necessary support they need from those who have made organized before and have had the experience to actually make in Daba access. Also we've noticed that there's inconsistency in the logos and brand items for the conference as if you visit the 2014 website you realize there was a logo of a tiger head now there's a logo of the tree and which in Daba we want to find a way to merge these things so that there's a solid brand out there so that when somebody sees a logo he or she will know this is in Daba. We don't have to have so many logos that would not sell the message that we want to send across. Now the good stuff we had very fun we had a lot of fun at Daba and we've learned that it is necessary that we put a lot of fun activities in the conferences that we do because that's when we are regulating the participants and ensuring that they're doing what you expect them to do because when it's all about learning it becomes dull and people don't really contribute. Now we believe that participants must feel a sense of a sense of belonging and the conference shouldn't be like it's a Ghanaian thing and the Ghanians are organizing it but people should all have that ownership and once they do that they would be able to sort of like give up their best to ensure that the conference is a success. Having a solid team and clearly assigning roles we believe that it is also very important that you clearly state what people are supposed to do in the conference and that is what would ensure a successful conference. Don't wait for approvals and plan ahead. One of the things that really helped us was that we began planning week in Daba 2017 way back in 2015 so even when approvals were not coming through we already knew the people we could speak to the people we could go to and once approval came through it was easier for us to just go back to the people we had already spoken to and ensure that in Daba would happen insist on what you want because the status code doesn't work for every country it is very true we notice that sometimes the things that the foundation proposes to a group in terms of doing something based on their experience doesn't really work for everybody because Ghana might not be the same as Congo and Congo might not be the same like Egypt so then there are some things that you will propose that might not work so then I am saying that it is it is positive attitude for organizers to stand their grounds and sometimes say that this is what we work for Ghana and you would I mean the foundation will listen if you you go that way it is never too late to make changes I mean we had cases where vendors gave up on us last minute but it is it is not scary if you want to make a change just go ahead and make that change we both and make that change and it will definitely end up well support from foundation staff was just awesome as I mentioned Casey was just awesome with everything that happened within Daba she was there way through our programs everything picking up people for scholarships and everything and I I must I must commend it for the great work that she's done now we're looking at the next steps next slide please next steps now as we have fashionably put it let that to Catherine all we're trying to say that the letter to Catherine is a letter that we propose to send to Catherine the executive director but in Africa we believe that the head of her family is a representative of the entire family so we send in a letter to Catherine doesn't necessarily mean it's just for Catherine it's to the foundation and it's to the movement and entirety so we one of the things that we propose from in Daba was to come out with the problems that were in there were in Africa and the things that we felt the commission should really or critically look at and we are going to put all these things together and put them through in the letter the letter to Catherine now I'm here to use this opportunity to announce that next week will be when we will present this letter to Catherine at WM corn in Berlin so I'm saying that all of you should look up to that and I hope that the foundation will will support us in all that we do sparking community of editors could believe that the people who have attended in Daba have learned some things new and we believe that these people are rejuvenated to go back to their communities and in fact that necessary change that we need we are counting on them to go back there and join more people because one of the things that came up was that Africa is not able to represent it and it is because we ourselves are not doing the right work we're not doing the things that we need to do in a neighboring community so then we can power people to go back and speak to neighboring communities speak to people in their regions who travel around the world who can speak to people from Congo who can speak to people that were not really represented to actually get people on the boat increased representation from the region in movement roles will be also advocated for people in the movement to actually move into positions in the movement in the movement when Wikipedia advertises Wikimedia Foundation advertises roles they should take up roles and and challenge themselves to do something great for the movement because I believe people we have a lot of resources in Africa and people are there to work but sometimes it's just a mere of motivation that will push people across and we believe Indaba has done great justice to these things so I'm saying that people should expect Africans more Africans moving into movement roles and championing courses for Africa and for the entire movement now we're also looking at increasing participation at the various Wikimedia guidance so Wikimedia, Hackathon and WMCon will believe that there is an avenue to push people more people through because Africa is very novice and Africa is now growing so there is more room for improvement in Africa and we're not relenting on these things to say that I mean we're not there yet we're believing that there's more room for improvement. African Wikimedia and Developers Program this is a program that came out from Indaba and actually it's it's it's it's it's it's myself meeting somebody from Cameroon and we are developing a program that is going to sort of like recruit more developers from Africa because as it stands now there's only one developer from Africa who sort of like volunteers for the Wikimedia Foundation and my attention was drawn to this at Wikimedia in 2016 by Kim Gill and I took it upon myself to really champion this course but then I was waiting for the opportunity to pounce on the very the only person who edits and who volunteers and for the foundation as a developer and I met him at Wikimedia and Wikimdaba and we spoke lengthy now we've come up with ways that we can improve this and make it better so everybody should watch out for our program very soon that would recruit more developers for the African continent. Now growing more African languages on Wikipedia it is very crucial to us we've realized that the African languages are dying and the only way or the only sustainable way to sort of like keep them honest these knowledge and these languages is to create various language Wikipedia's for them and Wikipedia seems to be the suitable option now so we're going to champion this course I mean there were lengthy talks at Wikimdaba that sought to champion this course and we are looking at means and ways to sort of like get get us there. One other thing that we've come to do is to work with the global rich team to form to have quarterly call in's where available African Wikimedians can connect and talk about the challenges talk about their failures share their successes so that the larger community can learn from what they're doing what is good and and also in turn impact in their various communities. So yeah this is a whole sketch of what's happened at Indaba and where we this are the things that we look up to doing and we we are motivated to do something great I'm very sure that in the next two three years you will see that you will see a lot of contributions from Africa and we will know that Wikimdaba is actually doing something great for Africa thank you. Great thank you next we'll have a movement strategy update from April. Right and this is me Nicole I'm Nicole Ever from Wikimedia Deutschland and I'm providing you with an update on movement strategy and I'm trying to share my screen now it should work is it working can someone tell me if it's working? Yes I can see okay perfect okay um so yeah perfect so the the strategy process um and I think you've seen this this slide before it is it is built to reach different audiences we have divided into four different tracks track a are the organized groups and I'm leading this this track then we have the individual contributors track b which are led is led by Jamie and Maggie we have track c for the higher awareness regions from led by Caitlin and Juliet and the lower awareness regions by Adele and it is not only divided into four different tracks it is also divided into three different phases and we are right now in in phase one this is the phase before Wikimedia after Wikimedia there will be the the second phase where we will be discussing movement structure roles and resources and then after 2018 and beyond we will um work on how to integrate these strategy the the results of the strategy process into strategic and annual planning of the movement organizations and as I said we are now in phase one this is again divided into three different cycles and um in in the first in this first phase we are um discussing the overall questions that is that is what do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years and this is really the essence that we want to get out of this process and that we want to like to that we are working on answering together with like all of you within our movement and also with our partners friends and allies um to to get this process not only started but also um guided and to have a have a sounding board along the way of this process we recruited an advisory group um that helps us steadily review and iterate throughout the process and not only are they um supporting and helping us with the with the process but also um working with us in the sense making in the sense making and analysis phases of all the of the different cycles um because we we actually want to want to avoid fires for example towards large european or us organizations and this is why we've recruited people from all over the movement and from all over the world and i'm very happy that they all agreed to to join and um to support us in this endeavor um yes and and we have actually launched the the strategy process now we have launched track a and track b on march 14 so last week we have um sent different messages throughout to throughout the movement by a mailing list um different mailing lists um individually to several representatives of organized groups to the different village pumps of the wiki projects and there are also banners up and running on on all the different wiki project and um in track a we are working together with discussion coordinators we are encouraging people to sign up to be a to become a discussion coordinator for their organized group because we need people that can be the direct points of contact for us that we can reach out to that we can see where is it that they need to support probably or where are they in their process and get feedback on on how it's actually going for them and we already know that the first in-person meetings have actually already taken place and we have already also received some feedback on that and are working on um on including this feedback in the material that in the information material also track b has has kicked off um they are working with 17 strategy coordinators for the language communities and um they have as i said kicked off their conversations in their local and project with you and these two tracks they are really like really closely connected to each other because there's naturally an overlap of organized groups and individual contributors so we are making sure that we um that we sync on the processes but also um these groups sometimes meet a different kind of approach and then we need to be a little bit like careful how we address each of these of these audiences um but and we have had several or we had actually a few in person or in hangout meetings with the discussion coordinators and with the advisory group and received already some feedback um from people who had conversations or who are planning their conversations and we learned that the that we really need to put some more work in the in the information material that we share on matter because we need more more clarity and in some cases and sometimes also simplification so we are currently working on creating a better user experience or user journeys throughout the whole process so that people have an easier entry point and can um can get organized and I have to say or I would like to say a special thanks to the community engagement teams who have really been of huge support for all of this um and of course also to my colleagues from the whole strategy team um for for making all this happen I'm really happy to to be working with all of you on this and um this was now mainly track A and B and track C and B have of course also kicked off and you can get a very good overview of what they are doing in in Catherine's weekly update that she is sharing with with all of us um and I wanted to give you a quick quick insight in what it actually means to be a discussion coordinator and in the first cycle that is happening right now we ask people to create statements and keywords that will then in the end lead to the strategic direction and these are five more or less easy steps first of all sign up to become a discussion coordinator and then organize your groups or communities discussions and there are several ways of organizing them like online or offline on wiki or probably on any other platform in in person meetings and so on and at these meetings we ask people to discuss the future of the movement and generate a list of uh team statements and keywords and I wanted to quickly provide one example for such a statement so that you can get a little bit better inside of what we mean by that um a statement can for example be we should explore new kinds of knowledge spaces embracing innovation or in order to survive and thrive in 2030 so this is a statement and the keywords that you can distill out of it are for example innovation and knowledge and um as a discussion coordinator you can then submit these statements and keywords to meta so that they will be included in the overall discussion and sense making um and you are actually free to create as many statements and keywords as you like so you don't have to agree as an organized group on one only one statement but you can come up with with with more and um bring more diversity to these conversations and then you can also of course have a look at what the others are discussing to be inspired by them um and get more information of what's going on in in the movement to have um to use these insights in in following conversations um I will see many of you next week in Berlin because at the Wikimedia conference there will be a strategy track that is really running throughout the all three days of the main conference we have in total 350 participants coming to Berlin and at least 200 of them will participate participate in the strategy track and this track is mainly built um for for several reasons first of all of course we want to excite and inspire the participants um that come to Berlin to engage in their discussions not only at the conference but also of course after the conference we want to use this to onboard them and to excite them and then of course we will we would like to explore the possibilities for what our movement could look like in in 15 years and um this will be of course also the main question towards the participants of the conference and I'm really curious on what what it is that we will all hear from them one other um big advantage of these real-life meetings of course is the trust and um connection among the participants not only between the strategy teams and the participants but also among them so that they really get this feeling of of um participating in such a huge process and also for us as a strategy team it is really essential to even better understand what moves and motivates people and we hope to get um or actually I'm really sure that we get a lot of insights from this conference um and so I'm also quite sure that this is probably not a surprise for you that the WMS is also considered an organized group and is invited to participate in the strategy conversations in the track A conversation and this is um currently all being set up Susie is working with team practices to arrange conversations and they will happen in April so after the with media conference and um they are planning to offer also different different formats and different types of conversations so um and a discussion on in the in your office wiki is is planned and then in person discussions in the sense of fiscal offices but also for people who work remotely there will be um or there we are planning to to host hangout discussions um to to involve them as well and your board of trustees will will of course also participate and they will meet next next Thursday in Berlin before the conference have their first conversation there and um create the input that they want to provide and then they will of course also as many of you will will also do participate in the wiki media conference and and contribute to the conversations there and this is it from my side um everyone is really invited to join the conversation we hope for for a lot of people contributing to that coming to the the meta pages this is an a redirect so don't worry it's not a new wiki platform it's a redirect to the meta portal where all the strategy conversations are taking place and I hope to hear from as many people as possible about this so thanks a lot thank you to all the presenters today and we open it up for questions and discussion hey there um so first of all question from uh Gabriel and sage in IOC to Jeff and possibly to Dario as well who wants to come off and talk about it around um what we know about the impact of facebook fans in terms of editors or readers or wiki activity in general um it's a great question and um we haven't figured out yet how to put a chip in the ear of all our facebook fans to know when they come on wikipedia um we do know that uh in the biggest fundraiser um six million people saw the isle of wikipedia frame and we put that up there because people around the world said I can't give you money but I want to support you so 18 000 of them put on the isle of your frame which was seen by six million people during our biggest fundraiser so that's not how many articles did people edit but I'm not sure how to get to that we also know that during wikipedia 15 all of those faces on the front page of that website came to us from facebook so that's an anecdotal thing where again people want to take part around the world I saw a little bit of chatter on IOC about the quality of those fans and whether they're bots if if someone is creating a woman bot that lives in Nigeria so they can steal our penny and then um engage on our facebook page they're working really hard um so um that's that's kind of what I know I I know that that thousand dollars in my opinion is very well spent because we are reaching those countries and because we're reaching women um where we want to reach them and I don't think engagement would be happening um if those weren't quality fans yeah a quick follow-up and Daria from research um there were questions that I either see about in general whether social media engagement works for editing wikipedia and I can speak for facebook to never look at that um but the collaborators doing amazing work on activism on social media using bots her name is Saif Savage we started a number of small pilots to understand whether people use bots that basically pitch areas in need of work on social media and connect them to wiki projects such as women in red basically drive our attention towards these areas and the first pilots were super small scale but they indicate there are some early success stories and so if you want to learn more I'll be happy to tell you about uh what's happening in that space hello um this uh there's also a question about the social media stuff and the gender gap there which was great to hear I really like a lot of what I saw um what I was wondering was how much information we have about the geographic breakdown of the uh fans were getting and and also like how whether we've compared that or could compare that to facebook penetration rates in various countries to see if if our fan base reflects those or or differs in different ways it's a great question and Zach has been looking at that um and its travels we know that Nigeria facebook is very popular and yet we had fewer than 19,000 fans there we've been able to raise that um considerably and um in this campaign as well we can see where the fans are coming from gender um some other information so we know that we also know a breakdown of our fan base but chuck you put your finger right on it we know that 90 percent of our social media fans from twitter pulls a ton of questions we've asked on facebook are not great better and yet they like wikipedia enough to like the page there's there's a potential there and that's where our hopes are hi whoa uh Zach air from the communications team I actually want to foreground some research that Dan Foy and the global reach team have done into this topic so what we have found is that in regions where wikipedia is not well known or well used where our traffic is kind of low the unique devices accessing our content is low we've found that facebook has higher awareness by sometimes a factor of three so a place where this would be true would be iraq where we launched our uh partnership with asia cell a telecom and what we found in our survey data there is that about 19 percent is that right Dan of internet users recognize or know the name wikipedia but 75 recognize or know the name facebook so what we believe is that when we go work with these online communities we're finding audiences that don't currently come to wikipedia or know what wikipedia is and for those 19 percent who do who find us on facebook and see the content that Jeff and Aubrey and samir are publishing they have a chance to publish that content to their networks and reach their colleagues and friends who might not know of us yet so I think that the work we do in social media is an opportunity to connect to those new audiences that are immediately adjacent to people who might already know and love wikipedia so that's why I'd like to just say we look into this we're going to keep looking into it but there are big digital communities out there where we can amplify our work and our values okay just oh did you have something okay um I forgot to mention this year in the movement update um we're opening the movement update to be presented by anyone who wants to uh to that I need to document how we do the update which I haven't got a chance to do yet but uh that's coming up so if you're looking into sharing community stories or are interested in that you can probably present probably not next month but maybe the next one but it's coming any other questions let's move on to wiki love live I got a lot of love today for the uh code of conduct team uh yeah matt matt oriel patrick tell me the other angel who else matt matt matt's the king of code of conduct uh chris carner other names what are the other names so I don't forget the a jerk right I just I just want to say that um this has been I've seen the back end of some of what these people did the conversation was long and vapor and it's certainly not perfect but we have a draft and sometimes it really just comes down to a dog in a boat and they were the dogs and they held on to the boat and it's done and I think it's a really beautiful first step just to add a little bit to that Kim's team will be taking over um to recruit committee members so if you're interested or want to nominate someone um to be on the code of conduct committee that's the next big step so I wanted to give some wiki love to the HR team especially Sarah Roth and Liz we're working non-stop to help us find good candidates for the new community health initiative we're trying to fill a lot of roles at once for that and it's really crazy trying to hire people at once and track everybody down to best interview them so thank you guys so much I want to give some wiki love to everyone who works on metrics it's been an evolving format and especially sampling all of our presenters presenters today it's amazing to see people from Germany from Ghana all of us here um and it really reminds us of how global we are so I um just thank you for all of your work goes into this hey on behalf of Aaron uh wiki love for Kelana and Rosie Stepp their awesome work covering is about criminal wikipedia as highlighted recently in our blog awesome work thank you I want to give some wiki love to Felix and the wik comedians in Ghana who hosted wiki and Daba it's fantastic that you could tell us more about that Felix and a lot of great lessons for everyone thanks Zach stole my wiki love now I in addition to feel like I want to give some wiki love to Anna Stilwell who has spoke to 90 different people across the organization as part of understanding needs and concerns and opportunities around our technology and product organization that's a lot of people and she did it well she was real sick like real sick thank you Anna so wiki love is just a beginning it should be a boost to a bunch of people for a couple of weeks but I want to call out uh so uh Sarah and all the people who helped me over us a couple of days or weeks uh sorted out snap food with wiki site again I don't know what's going on here okay uh all all all you awesome people who helped me uh sort out the problem with uh the hygiene dinner I know that zoe was uh responding to email at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. while traveling so appreciate uh all your help guys anyone else love the love give more love share love I don't know if they're here I want to thank everyone that has been working on our food that's coming up really really quickly and a lot of things to decide that one um and can't hear me this thing is oh is that better anyway big thanks to everyone working on the move to make it smooth and beautiful for everyone in a very short period of time anyone else going once going twice oh here we go um some random it's certainly not an absurd wiki love for office it for not only amplifying my voice right now but also coming in and fixing random conference so soon great all righty thank you everyone for attending my tricks let's see