I am Lori Beth Larson from Central Lakes College here in the middle of Minnesota. And today we have four fabulous panelists helping us understand how they've overcome some of the challenges, transforming workforce programs with OER and open practices. Our agenda today is a little bit of a CCC OER overview. If this is the first time you're joining us, we'll hear from our panelists. Our panelists today are Jessica Currin and Whitney Hyans from Salt Lake Community College, Sharon Samson from Grossmont College, Jim Begatka from Moraine Park Technical College, and Tarek Morris from Lynn Benton Community College. As we finish, we'll have some time for questions. This is being recorded, as you know, right now, so that you can share it. We have a few upcoming events to tell you about and how you can stay in the loop. We do have a survey to quickly complete before you take off today. You are more than welcome if you haven't already to join CCC OER in completing our mission to expand awareness and access to high-quality OER. We support faculty choice and development, foster regional OER leadership, improved student equity, and success. We have about 108 members from 36 states. All four of our panelists today are from our members of CCC OER. Since this is our last live meeting before Open Education Week, we wanted to tell you a little bit about those events or how to get involved. Luna, do you want to tell us a little about that? Certainly, Laurie, Beth. Yeah, so the Open Ed Week is usually the first full week of March, and so it will be March 7th through 11th this year, and it's a global open education celebration, so people from around the world will be participating in this. There's opportunities for you to contribute, events or projects that you work on at your institution or organization, and those will be posted on the OER Week website. And if you're currently not in a place where you're ready to contribute, there's still a lot of opportunities to participate in the events of that week and to share those with folks on your campus. So we hope you can join us and enjoy that week. Thank you, Laurie, Beth. So let's go ahead and get started with our first panelist. Welcome to Jessica Curran and Whitney Himes from Salt Lake Community College. I'm going to stop sharing now so that you can share. Sorry, I think we're unmuted now. Hello. Thanks for having us today. So I am Jessica Curran and this is Whitney King Himes, and we work at Salt Lake Community College. We teach graphic communications and photography courses within the Visual Art and Design CTE program. We are quite passionate about OER and we use it in almost every single one of our own courses. In today's presentation, we would like to focus on one specific project we've worked on together. It's an OER textbook called Image Manipulation for Graphic Artists that we use in our Art1280 Photoshop software course. And hi, I'm Whitney. I'll start with this first slide, Motivation. Textbooks really don't exist. I know it's surprising to say that there really are no textbooks for us to use for this class. When we started out, we were using a text that was like Adobe Photoshop's classroom in a book, which seems to be a similar format compared to other books out there. But this book just wasn't a good fit for us for a lot of reasons. A key reason is our class is designed to be a foundation for several disciplines in the arts. In our department, we have graphic communications, graphic design, illustration, photography, website design, animation, and multimedia. Books tend to be designed more towards just one of these disciplines and not all. And we want to have students make the connection between concepts and skills. With students coming from these differing specialized areas, our job is to make sure we include the ways various artists use Photoshop. We need to make sure that students not only have the skill sets needed, but can make the connection as to how these skill sets are utilized. I think we all experienced this next Motivator on the list. Technology changes rapidly. Software is updated just about monthly. And with that, books become out of date and irrelevant very fast. When updates happen, all the time spent on building curriculum around a book needs to be changed along with the text. And there just isn't enough time or money for that. Because of how we decided to create this text, which Jessica will talk about more in depth in a minute, we're able to make changes to our text and push these updates out directly to our instructors and students anytime we need to. So in Photoshop updates, we're able to go in and update the text to reflect the updates immediately, which is really nice. Lastly, books are expensive and students, particularly community college students, really need help in this area. Creating our own textbook saves students money and ensures that all students have access. We would actually like to talk about some of the many lessons that we've learned throughout our OER process first before we start talking about our process for developing and implementing our OER textbook. We did a lot, a lot wrong along the way. But by trying and experimenting and learning from our mistakes, we have been able to create something that we are truly proud of. The first and most important lesson we learned is that you don't have to be everything to everyone. We started our journey by trying to produce every aspect of a course that someone might need, including the text slides that you might use during class, thousands of quiz questions, projects with rubrics, discussions, worksheets and more. You name it and we tried to make it and publish it for others to use. It became an overwhelming process that was not helping to support our goals because in reality, nobody wants you to hand them 100% of everything that they're going to teach. But we found that if we made a textbook with clearly defined chapters and learning objectives, it would allow other instructors to pick and choose which chapters to use and in which order. We also learned really quickly that we needed to take into consideration that the subject matter we teach becomes out of date very quickly. The way that we create and share our content needed to be flexible enough to be able to be updated on the fly as quickly as a software that we're using changes. We went through many iterations of how we present content in this course. We don't have time to talk about all of them, but one really, really big mistake we made was recording comprehensive lecture playlists on YouTube. We actually made the mistake twice. Whitney and I reported informal lectures for every chapter in the book and then had to rerecord them a year later when they became out of date. And we didn't learn our lesson because we did it again and we made another 100 plus videos that also quickly became out of date. After the second round of videos, we took a step back and we said we needed to focus on functionality being our top priority. It is exhausting when everything that you create becomes out of date so quickly because an option within the software program is updated. Every decision that we've made from that point forward has been about functionality and what's best for our students, even if that means that we don't fall into the typical path of what most OER users look like. I personally have felt that I have imposter syndrome because I care so passionately about OER, but I don't feel like I'm part of the cool kids club that has tons of resources online that I can grab and modify. We work with truly wonderful people at Salt Lake Community College who are always trying to help us find OER for our area. They'll go and they'll search and they'll find resources for us to use, but we can't use them because the content that they're finding is either out of date or it's limited in its scope. Most of the popular OER websites, they don't even have a section for the subjects that we teach. So at a certain point, we just had to accept that it's okay that we don't fit it into the conventional OER mold and that small impacts are important too. If we look at it from a student's perspective, the impact of using OER for one student in our class is no less impactful than a single student in a chemistry class that's using an OER textbook. That textbook may be used by a million students across the country, but to a single student in our class, they're getting the same benefit as a single student in any other class that's using an OER textbook. So as far as our process goes, we spent literally years learning what not to do the hard way, which then allowed our actual process for developing the OER text to be relatively straightforward. For a long time, we tried to fit into the mold of other OER textbooks. Our school, for example, likes to use press books, so we tried to make that work, but we ultimately went with Google Slides to present our text. We understand that there are pros and cons to using Google Slides. Accessibility, for example, is not great, but it checked many of the boxes we needed. The slides could be embedded directly into a canvas course. We can update the parent slide, and then the changes will flow directly into all the embedded copies and more. The longest part of our process was actually mapping out the chapters for the book. There's a lot of foundational content in our book that you could argue should be taught first, but you can't teach everything all at once, so we had two group chapters together that we felt scaffolded learning for someone reading the text. We were also thinking about this in terms of being part of a course, so we wanted to make sure that there were natural breaks for creative projects or where exams could be taken. We then divided and conquered. We each wrote chapters individually and then proved each other's chapters. We asked our colleagues to review chapters as we finished them, and I think the most important thing we did was we had people that know absolutely nothing about our subject read and prove the book for us. They had some really great insights that we didn't see because we understand the content that's being presented. Once we were happy with the first draft of the book, we embedded it into our own courses in Canvas. We ran those classes for about a year to see how things were working before we ultimately published the text on our own website, which is opengraphicarts.org, where it is now available in what we're calling version 1.0. We know that we still have work to do, but the text is in a place where it can be used and it can be shared with others as needed. Student benefits. As teachers, we all want students to be successful, and the great thing about the design of this textbook is that it's easily embedded directly into the course. Each unit in our class or module has its corresponding chapter embedded right on the unit's page. Students can view the textbook as a slideshow. Students also have the option to print out the slides as a PDF, so it's more like a traditionally printed textbook. As a bonus, we also have included open-source videos to supplement the text and have created our own videos demonstrating more specific skills in the assignments, and just a few videos this time. Doing this not only helps our students out, but it also helps out our other faculty and adjuncts that are teaching the class. All of the content is there to help guide their teaching, not prescribing how they teach and not limiting their autonomy. Our college is really supportive of OER, which Jessica mentioned, and that's great. With this support, both Jessica and I personally are pushing to be OER in all of our classes. I know Jessica purchases a lot of supplies for students out of our visual art and design funds, buying pens, markers, color swatches, paper for students for their projects. I teach mostly photography classes, buying a camera can be a huge expense, so what I've done over the years is collected cameras and gear so students can check out these things rather than buying them, especially if it's not in their budget. Students pay so much money and tuition that they really shouldn't have to pay more for a great successful education experience. To wrap things up, if you'd like to check out the textbook for Art1280 Photoshop software, here's a link on these slides to Open Graphic Arts, and that's an OER website that Jessica has created where we post our work. The text is called Image Manipulation for Graphic Artists. Take a look and let us know what you think, and thanks so much for having us. Thank you. Thanks. A great overview. Thank you so much for being willing to share your process as well as the mistakes. The mistakes make it very relatable, I think was one of the comments. Thank you. And I would like to introduce Sharon Sampson. Sharon comes from Grossmont College and will be sharing about OER and Open Pedagogy. Thank you, Sharon. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Sharon Sampson. I thanks for the introduction. I am a CTE, Faculty Administration of Justice, so I wanted to talk about my journey in OER and using Open Pedagogy and Administration of Justice. So my lens is from a parent of a student who's at a community college and the cost that I actually have to invest in textbook every semester, and I could give you an accurate ledger on the amount of money I spend every semester on his textbooks. I am also a student myself, and I have a detail ledger of the amount of investment I have to spend in that area, and I would prefer I would like to see some movement in all of these spaces where faculty and professors are really looking at the added costs to students. As an Administration of Justice faculty, we understand that some of our students transition from our system directly in the industry, and some do have the option of transferring to a four-year institution. So this is a journey. It's an iterative process. I first started off in OER for selfish reasons, personal reasons as a parent. And of course, like I said, I'm a student and understanding the costs. Now as I've evolved and moved further into this journey, I understand that it's kind of hard to pivot really quickly when things happen, especially with Admission of Justice, Criminal Justice feel with the community questioning our training, our curriculum, and what we're doing instead of our classrooms when it comes to our students being trained in law enforcement, being trained in EMT, being trained to do security detail, or any other law enforcement because many do start in our system in the California Community College system here. So how do you pivot? How do you then allow the voices of the community to be reflective in your classrooms if you are confined to just textbooks, traditional textbooks? The information is going to be outdated based on what's happening in the community, and you need to be able to be flexible. So based on this new lens, I now have the opportunity to include my students' voices in this journey and to expand my community. Like I said, this is an interim process. It's not something that you can do alone. It's not something that you can take on independently because you are working so closely with other people, and it's a helpful process. Can you go through the next slide, please? So this is just an overview. My agenda is fluid. I wanted to start off with a high level overview talking about the California Community College Chancellor, Chancellor Oakley, who did a call to action subsequent to the murder of George Floyd. My journey in AOJ to include anti-racist pedagogy with OER, looking at an inclusive curriculum and design, and commitment to action and strategies, and hopefully there'll be an opportunity for Q&A. Can you go to the next slide, please? So what was the call to action? Subsequent to the murder of George Floyd and all of the community questioning what we're doing in our classrooms, what we're doing in our system, our Chancellor wanted us to step up and really take a pause and reflect on what we were doing to move our pedagogy, to improve how we're training, how we are sending our students into industry from the classroom into criminal justice fields. So that I always question myself, am I doing enough? As a faculty of color, I feel sometimes the burden because I fall into both sides, being in law enforcement, being a faculty of color, being questioned by the community, like what are you doing to move the needle, to make sure that our students are prepared to deal with our diverse workforce, to deal with the diversity in the community, and to address some of the wrongs. So the burden is heavy and part of this journey, like I said, I'm going to continue to repeat that it's a journey, it's not something that's going to be done overnight, is to step up and respond to that call to action. So Chancellor Oakley specifically asked for us to take a deeper dive into our practices, and to come up with some specific strategies to improve what we're doing moving forward. So inviting everyone into this space included the voices of all of us collectively on our campus, not just AOJ faculty, can go to the next slide please. So how does OER provide a roadmap to respond to this call of action? And how what is the opportunity? So I saw this, not just as a challenge, but as an opportunity to really move and to quickly respond to some of the changes that could be immediately done. If you are confined to a traditional textbook that shapes norms, that shapes policy and procedure, that really structures how you design your classroom, because that's how I started in as a professor. I was stuck on my textbook. And my course was designed based on how that textbook was designed. So chapter by chapter I followed the model of that textbook. This does not give you that opportunity to respond to a call to action, whereas OER provides that space and that opportunity to involve and to really pivot and to make those needed changes as you move forward in your courses. You can go to the next slide please. So this is what I did. And I'm going to just be open to any feedback and comments. I reviewed my own curriculum collectively as a department at Grossmont. All of the faculty got together to look at some strategic strategies that we could implement in our campus. I'm also part of a statewide CTE committee that we're looking at this as well. We reviewed the content analysis of our syllabi and our instructional material. And I put an and with a period with a little space to let you know that this is a journey and that we're continuing to look at the process. If you go to the next slide please. All right. I'm going to have you skip to the next one. Thank you so much. So this is a tool that I was provided as I took a course to look at a roadmap. And the information will be sent to you if you want to look at there's an actual booklet that goes with this open pedagogy project roadmap to understand what is your scope when you're starting off in OER? What kind of support do you need to make sure that you are on track, that you don't get frustrated and stressed because it's a huge undertaking and to consider your student voices and then how do you share and sustain the information? So my personal scope like I said in AOJ is to really look at all of the courses that I facilitate to make sure there's a social justice component in all of the courses. I know that I was never doing enough. I still feel that I'm not doing enough in that area and there is room for growth and improvement. So my scope is to make sure that my students have a comprehensive that they understand that their role in this field should include a social justice lens. I don't try to force my students into participating in this roadmap and this project but I do want to provide them with the opportunity for them to have their voices be heard because many of our traditional textbook and I'm just going to be very frank, the ones that have used in the past, many of the offenders that are represented who are arrested in handcuffs are people of color. How do I expose my students in this field to say hey, there are people of color who are professionals. They're not just criminals that are represented in this textbook. They're people who are professionals who are judges who are probation officers who are in all different areas of law enforcement and some of our textbook that I've used are one-sided. Pretty much every picture in the textbook shows many of the offenders in handcuffs as people of color. How do you then change that narrative so our students whom some of them are students of color see themselves reflected positively and for those who are not who are from the dominant culture see positive images, positive case studies, positive things about other diverse individuals in a different lens so they're not exposed to it in their household. They weren't exposed to it in elementary high school and now they're in their system. How do you then change the narrative if we're relying on textbook that gives you firm definitive narratives about other ethnicities other cultures then it's up to us in this process to change that. So here's what I decided to do and this is something that I'm still working on curated lesson plans and making sure that my assignments are renewable. I decided subsequent to the call to action look at all of the lesson plans, objectives, look at all of my assignments to make sure that my students are able to contribute and participate. Like I said as I'm moving forward I've evolved a lot more because initially in this process some of my students were not very comfortable in having their work be open licensed and I realized that I was not laying a clear foundation I was not preparing them enough for them to understand that they have the opportunity to teach the next generation to be proud of how they're contributing to the process. So I think I've grown in this process as well to understanding and reflecting what am I doing for those who are not comfortable in engaging in this project who are unaware. So this semester or the previous semester I would say I had about a hundred percent of my students who were interested in having their work be open licensed for them to continue the process to have their work be shared with this class. So it is amazing I feel they feel good about it. There is going to be a follow-up to for those students who are sharing their work to see how it's improving and impacting the ones who just started last week because I promise to provide them with an update and they do have access to all of the database to go in and see how their work is being improved upon by this current semester enrolled students. You can go to the next slide please. So this is a guide to making textbook with students. I just wanted to provide this as a source of support. It's available as open licensed. You can also do other things instead of doing a textbook. For me that was a huge undertaking. I adopted some of the information that was previously in different databases versus trying to start with a textbook. I'm just being very transparent when I tried that process and teaching during the semester and being a student and trying to mentor my own son who has special needs. I found it overwhelming so I started with the curated lessons first and now I'm at a space where I can work collectively and collaborate with a colleague on working on a textbook. So if you are depending on where you are in this journey don't my advice is to you not to start at the deep end start at the shallow end and I thought I could be able to do it over a summer. It was epic failure. I felt overwhelmed and I felt isolated in this process. I'm open collectively with my colleagues. We are working together on this so I feel a lot better in terms of where we are in this process. So please don't feel that you need to start off in this work at the deep end. Start at the shallow end where your comfort level is. So my first process was let's start off with some curated lessons. My students were given a project for all of my classes where they had to really engage in looking at some of the policies and procedures from a normal tech traditional textbook. Figuring out how in today's day where is the missing social justice aspect of the information the traditional textbook and how would they like to see that move forward. It was impressive to know that our students come with their own lived experiences and when they feel that their voices are heard the level of involvement and commitment to this work really transformed a lot of the ways some of them are moving forward in the field of law enforcement. Some never considered those options if the policy or the law says for example a no knock warrant in a traditional textbook it just gives you the law it tells you what it is but if you take a deeper dive how was that policy develop how was that voted into law who was involved. My students are now at a level where they're questioning and they're rewriting the script so it can be a lot more comprehensive and I can do that with all you are with an open pedagogical framework. Spingles next slide please. So our students we talk about or at least I know through my own lens that our students come with a level of experience of students transitioning from the military who were military officers military police people in our community students who are transitioning are changing careers and we understand that our students come with diverse backgrounds but how do we elevate our students lived experiences in our classroom are we just facilitating classes and having them engage in the assignments through what we're giving them how do they then engage at a different level. So then I had to do my own reflective survey and practice to see how am I involving my students in this work and how do I do that with an equitable lens that I'm not just expecting students to do a curated lesson and just have it be a part of their project for the course. How can I then make sure that it's equitable that I'm not abusing my students who have this experience and for those who don't how do I want to create that balance so it was other practices that have done some research to figure out their ways that you can involve your students without overwhelming them want to elevate their voices and not necessarily just use it as a project for them to be able to earn a grade. So moving forward I've considered I've applied for a grant to provide financial support services for those students who have done a very thorough job how could I support students who are parents who are in school who are working a job and in our community college system and then how do I balance that without overwhelming them once again it's not equitable. Initially when I started off it was just curated lessons it was part of their project so they can see the social justice lens now that I've moved forward in this work I'm looking at other ways to make sure that those that need to be compensated are because I've had students who have done a comprehensive job on taking on this work and they're going to then transfer those skills directly in the industry as students right now who are going through the background process for their law enforcement select the career and this is going to carry through their career trajectory as they move forward. So I am in a different space and I just want to share that aspect of my journey can go to the next slide for me please thank you. So I wanted to read this quote because this resonates with me this is something that I put in my classrooms that despite attempts to attend to racial problems United States higher education has not come very far in addressing systems of white dominance and this quote is a quote that was selected by one of my students in this iterative process because and this is coming from a student who comes from a dominant culture didn't come from a student of color they've included this quote in their curated lesson to say their eyes are open they understand that the work that needs to be done and they want to be a part of the process to make sure that when they are in the field that they change what's happening in our field in criminal justice. So I just wanted to share that quote that was selected by one of my students. Give me one more slide for me please thank you all right thank you. Laurie I really appreciate the time and I'm my family from the islands I just came back from the island so my my dialect comes back and forth to that fast dialect so I'd not probably zoom right through just coming back from from Boothie so thank you. Thank you so much Sharon I know we'll have time for questions at the end and I so much appreciate what you have to say and your honesty about your your process here thank you. I'd like to turn it over now to Jim and you have your own slides to share thank you. Okay well hello and thank you and especially thank you to the community college consortium of OERs and Open Education Global for sponsoring this event today and inviting Rain Park Technical College I'm an instructor of business management and small business entrepreneurship and 100% of my assignment really is dedicated to serving the incarcerated population so part of the journey that I've had which is only about two years now specifically with OERs and in serving this as population involves just we're all kind of taking through just some of the considerations I had in terms of I think a common theme that we're hearing is how well the OER options that might be out there align with our curriculum and so certainly that was you know a big factor but then once we decided to adopt specific OERs then we had to work out a number of different things you know like well students still kind of preferring print so I'll share a number of things there our learnings through this program. So part of the so we could kind of grow some legs if you will or develop some momentum in adopting OERs we really needed to at Marine Park Technical College begin with aligning first of all with our strategic plan so you kind of see on this slide that and we have some communication here to our employee base in terms of you know what our strategic plan is but then when it comes to you know the goal of increasing enrollments that is specifically where we looked at adopting OERs in part due to again a common theme that we're hearing is in reducing that cost of education through adoption of OERs so it's about a three-year journey we're right we're right in the in the in the middle of that two to three-year transition and I'll just share a few things in terms of how our journey went. First and foremost though with this population as an instructor as an educator look knowing about OERs but never really worked with working with them in the past what was really tempting and what tempted me to really give far more consideration to OERs was as I learned about if you can follow the cursor there as I learned about OERs and you know the different types of licensure and how we can use as is or reuse or mix you know just a lot of flexibility there that immediately just grabbed my attention and then specifically with this population that we are serving now we have in our district area we have five different state run department of correction facilities and so these facilities we work with each of them individually to make an arrangement for our students to participate through a modified canvas platform in in our associate degree programs. It was kind of counter-intuitive in terms of the modified canvas platform because I think we all learn that when we teach online we want to take advantage of all the bells and whistles and everything that online learning and the tools within our platform within our LMS platforms can offer but in serving this particular population the incarcerated population there's a big rule we had to comply with and that is that students cannot converse or dialogue communicate with other students and so the communication is just between myself and them and vice versa and and even in the in as far as multimedia and embedding you know that into our learning plans and into the you know the courses we were severely limited there so the first time in all honesty I looked at some OERs different ones had you know I should say that there was some some factors with the recency of the information there was also you know looking at graphics and images and how robust and engaging were some of the books that I first looked at so let's just say that you know my first view of OERs you know really didn't inspire me a lot until I really started looking more at this is a need and then what is prevailing is the need to serve this population and reduce their costs because as a state as an incarcerated individual in the state facilities there really is no income and there really unless the college we're hoping that in 2023 we'll we'll reach this milestone but unless there is the second chance Pell grant our students who are who are incarcerated in state prisons are paying for this themselves many have family members that are that are sponsors they help us that way but when we look at the overall impact of education whether it's OER adopted or not but just the impact of education it's so so extreme and profound you know we can look at on typically 2.1 million individuals incarcerated per year about 95 percent will be released 67 percent will re-offend within first within five years and then we can look at we skip on down here if there's any amount of education we can reduce that rate of recidivism studies out of the Bureau of Justice have indicated that based on their research and their follow-up studies that after five years and 10 years so time is definitely a major factor after release in terms of their recidivism rates but just the amount of education also we can see by the statistics that I'm sharing here 14 percent recidivism rate for those with an associate degree five point five point six percent for a bachelor's and then those that have the opportunity to pursue a master's degree while incarcerated and there are those opportunities the statistics have shown was the follow-up studies that zero recidivism rate can occur so that information alone you know also coupled again with you know we are in our the district or within our district and in the institutions that we serve being state funded these individuals have no source of income so they don't even have if you will you know this measly amount if I might add that value judgment there of income that they might earn through different jobs so they really this you know reducing the cost for students really is significant and that was a prevailing you know thought that took me through and kept me looking at OERs I don't know how standard this process is for everybody but it seems that with my colleagues here that are co-presenting this this graphic that we have on the side here is pretty standard and we have to take time aside once there's something that's kind of piqued our curiosity in our interest we have to set time aside to look and look at our current text look at those that are out there in the OER world if you will so you know learning about all the different repositories and I'm finding that it seems like almost monthly there's there's either an individual educator that might open up resources and share or there's more formalized entities that will share but I definitely went through steps one through five and got to this point in step five where I was looking at okay for marketing principles as an example that course in their business management and small business entrepreneur programs we had I had a decent set of textbooks that were OERs that I could use but then that step in looking at how well do they align with the curriculum really getting down into you know the competencies and the learning objectives and how we break that down you know was necessary so that I could determine is this a book that I might want to use from a supplemental standpoint or is this a full adoption so that then you know after we kind of got into you know examining different books and then sharing that as a team and making some decisions as to which book was you know probably the best option we also formulated a plan to plug the gap and there tended to be gaps in terms of you know maybe there wasn't an exact alignment in content with our learning outcomes or maybe there was some information that was a bit dated and we needed to you know update but we needed to kind of come up with the plan that was kind of just to stand by accepting that yep even if we go with the full adoption there still need there still is a need to kind of look at at plugging some gaps in whatever wherever that might be so very definitely then the the licensure was key I found that as I was modifying as the licensure allowed modifying some of the textbooks we adopted just simple things and I kind of laughed when we were doing some of our rehearsals with Jessica Whitney saying please sign me up for your first classes because I could certainly use some some skill sets in adobe and things like that just in repaginating you know the book or changing the table of contents adding appendices and other resources so that we could address plugging the gap there but once we adopted and again considering this this population a lot of the feedback that we were getting was they really appreciated our efforts to save cost however they really also appreciated the time to spend with their resources and the classrooms that our students had to go to only had certain hours and with the pandemic those hours were you know just profoundly cut even more so they they didn't even have the luxury of 10 hours in the classroom you know maybe it was two to three hours so time you know to spend with their materials you know reading really became you know a factor so we embedded PDF files of the textbooks into the learner management system but then looked at adopting clear books and clear books are a laptop that is literally clear so that if there was any attempt to hide contraband you know that would be seen but the adoption of the of the OERs with the clear books was that was just a catalyst for moving forward considerably and but then the next step was for those students that still preferred something to have in their hands and bring back to their you know to their housing unit with them they still preferred print so how was it that we would get printed versions and so at about this time last year we were we knew that we were going to be changing vendors for a bookstore and that wasn't going to be an option anymore so in this next slide you know I can kind of share I went through the you know the process of just identifying OS for open stacks or OER commons open stacks was a real good solution for us because they do include the service for providing printed copies when we adopted a resource from the OER commons and we didn't have that option but we were able to work with e-campus our newest bookstore vendor to to provide printed copies which is that's that's kind of a we'll just call it a mandate voice to us what our customers are our students so there was still was the distribution how were we going to get OERs thankfully e-campus as a bookstore vendor was very amenable to to adopting our OERs something that they really wouldn't make a profit margin off of and also providing print services so that really helped with the distribution process but then we had some other things such as okay so here's Jim teaching this class let's just say it's business law and where are we keeping the latest and greatest version of business law that we've adopted for this particular population so saving you know figuring out a game plan to get everyone on board you know all the all the players on board with where we're going to hold the master copies and taking care of print all that was a you know was a major we just kind of took it for granted to be honest so we we had to kind of work through that one as a oh there's an afterthought we never thought about that so we will continue as with this program we will continue to adopt OERs they are a solution for us and for this population you know we are looking at I'm going to try my hand even in doing a little bit of authoring in in taking a couple different resources that I've written in the past and those OERs that are out there and just see if we can't come up with the you know book that we can adopt and contribute to the open education community of course so but in the future you know we we will continue to expand looking at more courses as more become available small business entrepreneurship in general seems to be a an area where we could use more we could use more resources so that will certainly be an option as as more and more resource resources are added so I guess with that I just want to definitely give time to Tarik and I appreciate the opportunity here thank you thank you so much Jim so many interesting things we'll have a short time for questions and answers after that but let's turn now to Derek please welcome and thank you for being willing to share what you're going to share sorry about that zoom problems I'm muted so I am going to talk about well first off when I was preparing this presentation I kind of figured I might be short on the end so when I did a run through I recorded it and I just posted into the chat a recording of my presentation it's about 18 minutes so if you're interested in anything that's maybe goes into a little more depth than I'm what I'm going to go in today feel free to jump into that resource right there you can also follow this link once we send out the slides which have an outline of my presentation as well as that recording so my name is Derek Morris I'm a teacher at Lin Ben Community College and what I'm going to talk about today is an OER sprint that I did in the winter of 2020 OER sprint you get one week to redesign a course to use OER and I chose my material science text class material science is a really fun class we go over basic I'm sorry I'm a little nervous here just a second we go over the identification classifying structure of materials like most CTE programs we have a really wide range of students so we start out with some basic chemistry and when I took over the course four years ago my text my curriculum was a millifold or full of handouts and a really experienced teacher who was retiring so I've been looking for a textbook to ever since it's really hard to find a textbook for a material science class because anything titled material science is going to be engineering level college and any basic chemistry text say at the high school level is going to be way too broad and I can't make my students buy a chemistry textbook that we're only going to use the first three chapters of so I've been looking for some sort of text and in the sprint I looked at these resources OER commons and skills commons which have a ton of resources available Libre text and CK 12 are also databases of resources but they also allow you to remix and customize existing OERs to create your own custom textbook so right away I focused on Libre text and CK 12 to try and create a textbook for my class quick comparison of the two CK 12 is easier and quicker to use focuses on the high school level but that was really good for my class because I was really teaching some basic chemistry at the beginning of the course Libre text is a much more expansive database it has a lot more college level stuff it has a workforce section which would be really great and more applicable for most CTE programs downside of Libre text is the more powerful but complicated interface you create a remix map sort of browse all the materials and pick what you want to do pull it into a textbook and then you can edit it so both of these looked really good to me but I ended up going with CK 12 mostly with a one week OER sprint that I had the one week ahead of time I had available I liked the easier interface and really the high school level was more appropriate for the basic chemistry that I was teaching my students so I created this material science textbook there's a link on the previous slide I was pretty happy with it it was a huge improvement over the previous year my ability assigned students reading for classes they missed or if they had trouble following lectures was great it was good material for teaching myself on some of these topics that I was rusty on but soon after I completed it I will COVID hit and we went to be pivoted to remote teaching and time that I was really planning on spending continuing to customize the text went to other things converting all my courses to online etc so the textbook that I have now that I created it's not really ideal and I kept looking for something better so one of the topics in my class it's really hard to find material on is the crystal structure of metals most chemistry texts really focus on liquid chemistry and the like and we do a lot with metals and stuff in my class so I've always been searching for new material on that just basically on a random Google search I came on came up with found this site from the Iowa State University as their non-destructive testing department and I'm going to really quickly show you this site because it is really amazing I like the structure of it it's licensed creative commons so I can cut and paste out of here I can remix it I can put it in handouts I can assign reading this section is one of my favorite sections here but they have atomic theory here really great background information and I've used this extensively now in my curriculum to the point where it's replaced the textbook that I created through CK 12 I didn't find it in the OER commons or skills commons it may be there but the search interface on those can be problematic to find your resources so I wanted to talk about another type of material that I use in my class and use this to transfer into a quick little demo if I have time I used to be a in software development and we would talk about free software and we talk about free is in speech or free is in beer and free in speech is the OER stuff it's everything I've been covering so far that's the stuff that you can use it how you want remix it how you want find out how it's made all that free beer software it's free to use but you don't get any control of it it could disappear at any point you don't get to modify the recipe or anything like that free free speech software is best but free beer is pretty good too so I incorporate things like materials from sandwich cormorant some non-free e-learning stuff by companies I also include enthusiast videos that are really good all of this when I'm teaching it I I'd like to use it as a lesson in digital literacy obviously these people are advertising to you these people are entertaining to you you can't take it for that phase value but it's still really useful and it especially appeals to some of my younger students it kicks them off doing research on their own so in this whole process where I really had some trouble finding resources for my classes I came up with this thing called the ct online research project and I've received a fellowship from Lynn Benton this year to work on it it's definitely a work in progress it's not designed to replace oer commons or skills commons by any stretch but what it is it's an idea of crowdsourcing an online database of these resources and let me give you a quick demo of it so with this online database it's built on top of wordpress which is a open source blog engine used on almost 50% of the websites around so I could come here and look and if I want something on say micrometers if I could spell it right and I immediately can see all the resources I have on my crometers and I it's tagged and linked by creator so if I oh let's see what they have on inspection really quickly I can see everything on inspection and then I can click on the resource and look at the resource and realize oh that's part of the Wisconsin online collection so I can look at the Wisconsin online collection and I can see what they have if I see a creator that I like I can click on the creator see everything that that creator produces and once again click on the resource and go to the resource so it's a pretty quick and easy way to find resources that are available online each resource can have a common thread so instructors can discuss how they've used the resource or what is useful to them about it and then because and I'm not logged in at the moment because it's built on top of wordpress you get all the back end stuff where you can reclassify and manage your resources so that is the ct online resource project that I wanted to give a quick demo of it's a work in progress it's not quite there yet but if you're interested in checking it out it's up on the demo site and if you'd like to help if you have graphic design skills web design skills wordpress skills or you just want to learn and you're interested and you think it's a good project I would love help with it as they say with every project the last 20 percent takes 80 percent of the time and I'm about 50 percent of the way through so um that's what I have for you once again if you have any if any more interested in it you can contact me or anything I've talked or you could watch the slightly longer video that I posted to the chat such excellent excellent resources and I would like to thank all of our presenters today again for being willing to share your process your stuff your mistakes and yeah everything that you shared with us thank you I wanted to encourage you and I wanted to tell you too that Liz will be sending out recording and information on how to contact any of our presenters today for extra questions I only saw a few questions to the where are your resources and so I believe you've all included your email addresses and information so people can contact you any any I would like to get us out of here in time so let me share our upcoming 2022 spring webinars we have in during open education week a few webinars centered on leadership in April on sustainable OER course design and in May institutional policies and practices so that's a few of our websites of upcoming webinars now of course if you want to stay in the loop please do we have a pretty active CCC OER community email it's one of the most active emails I've ever seen and our please check out our EDI blog posts and student OER impact stories and I'm also watching the chat here questions if you have any if you wouldn't mind taking a few minutes to provide some feedback on our survey on the webinar we'd like to make these webinars meet your needs so the survey link Liz has put the survey link in the chat and again if you'd like to contact CCC OER staff or Una or Liz their emails are in there and we'll stay on for just a couple minutes if you'd like if you have any questions but I wanted to make sure we you had information before we finished I'm going to stop sharing and I hope our presenters can see what's happening here in the chat very well done thanks so much for all the information great information and then questions as we let's see Joanna says I'm a librarian I have faculty switching to OER who missed the question banks any tips on replacing or creating those well I'll jump in if nobody else wants to there's been some very interesting approaches to that some faculty have actually asked their students to help out with generating a test bank for them obviously under you know faculty encouragement and assessment but that that is one way of doing it and obviously you can also work with other faculty within your discipline to work together on that definitely I've moved away from tests in my OER move to journal responses instead and it's a little easier I have to come up with one question Tarek did you have a thought on question banks here um I don't think I did but I was actually just off looking at I think Libre, Text and CK12 have different types of resources that um you can create questions questions and quizzes and stuff like that and share them over that I don't know how much they've been used but that would be another resource certainly if you're creating your resource through either of those services I think you can include quizzes and texts tests along with it and I think both Sharon and Whitney and Jessica you you've moved into a little bit more of open pedagogy where students are creating projects right instead of the quiz testing quiz quiz banks we use both still so we test kind of baseline knowledge to make sure everyone understands it through quizzes and we're happy to share those quizzes if anyone needs them so if you were on our website and you were reading like how to use the text there is a little word that says we have additional resources that can be shared through like a canvas commons but most of our assessment is done through projects and hands-on activities and likewise I do have project based but for the quizzes I have my students create their own quiz questions which I think I find to be a little bit more challenging for some so I'm definitely going to continue that practice because it gives them that opportunity to really really reflect on the materials that they're learning versus me just doing a bank set of questions that they can google when they're creating their own it's kind of it's a little bit more reflective for them thanks thank you everybody and if you have had a few minutes to take the survey we appreciate your attendance and hopefully we'll see you again in March


Hello everyone, welcome to Options with Doug, streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30 pm Eastern Time. Before I go any further, I need to go through the Disclosures. General Disclosure. All Bookmap, Limit, and Materials information and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. This Disclosure, creating futures, equities, and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. As a reminder, the focus of my presentation and the focus of the options-doug chat channel in Discord is options, order flow, the impact of options markets on stocks and futures, and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two-step process for trading, and the first is planning, and I use positional analysis, and I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market, and how those positions change from day to day to develop a thesis regarding implied volatility or implied volatility and expected trading range for the day, as well as a directional bias. And the second step of my process is execution. And I look at real-time order flow in Bookmap and real-time market maker hedging flow in SpotGamma Hero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. So planning and execution, and three main components to that. Positional analysis, real-time order flow, and real-time market maker hedging flow. And questions and comments are welcome, and I will be watching the options-doug chat channel and Discord and the chat and YouTube for questions and comments. And notice here I say on-topic questions and comments. So I want to just spend just a moment talking about this, first of all, about my process and why I want to keep this on topic. So I have found that I have, I found the greatest success and clarity and lack of confusion by keeping things simple and boiling down my process to really these three elements. Positional analysis, real-time order flow, and market maker hedging flow. And I have eliminated thinking about and looking at everything else. And this is just me. There are plenty of other traders that have used other forms of analysis, moving averages, chart patterns, volume profile, market profile. This is what I have found gives me the greatest success. And that is why I want to keep my presentation and this chat channel and Discord clear lack of confusion. So focus just on those things. Options order flow and the impact of options markets on stocks and futures. So again, this is where I have found the least confusion, the most clarity and the most success. So I want to keep my presentation and the chat and the questions and comments focused on these topics. Okay, so let's get started. And what I want to talk about today, first of all, I'm going to go through my agenda for today. First of all, talk about news, economic data events and earnings. And of course, we have a big event coming up in just a little over 20 minutes, the FOMC meeting minutes. And then we'll talk about our positional analysis and setups as we have time. And then at 2 p.m., when the FOMC minutes come out, we'll watch the S&P 500 futures. And we'll continue as long as that looks interesting. Okay, so the news, again today, FOMC minutes at 2 p.m. And then after the close today, NVIDIA earnings. And then tomorrow, the GDP report at 8.30 a.m. Eastern time. And then Moderna and Block also report earnings. And then Friday, the PCE data that comes out at 8.30 a.m. Eastern time. And then consumer sentiment at 10 a.m. So the FOMC minutes today might provide some relief, some drop in volatility, but you might not expect much movement after the, I guess, some relief up or down, depending on how the market interprets the FOMC, given the additional data that's coming out for the rest of the week. All right, so that's the news. Now let's take a look at, look at our charts. So this is the S&P 500 futures in Bookmap. And before we dig into this, let's take a look at a larger time frame. So this is the SPX. And I'm looking at a 20-day one-hour chart in Thinkorswim. And I'm just showing price and levels. And these levels are Spot Gamma levels. They're provided to Spot Gamma subscribers every day in a ThinkScript for Thinkorswim. And you have to manually copy and paste that in every day. It just takes a couple of minutes. And it's showing the, again, just price and levels for SPX. Let me just point out quickly the couple of key levels. And here's the put wall at 3,900. And the key gamma strike at 4,000. And then the call wall way up there at 4,200. And then this shows the other levels in play, the volatility trigger, the zero gamma level. Let's clean that up. So the thing to notice is that SPX was trending up, broke that trend, traded in a consolidation area for most of last week, and then broke lower. And then now appears to have found support around the 4,000 level. All right. So that is the, that's a 20-day chart. Let's take a look at a closer time frame. And we'll just take a look at today in a one-minute chart, and again, just showing the key level. So this is a SPX, one-minute chart showing the levels that are in play. And so the, let me just actually scroll down on this and we'll see what's up above. So up above, actually there's no level shown here. There's the, here's the 40-50 level, look down here, 40-50. And spot gamma expected that level to act as resistance today. And it's not shown here, but that, that is the expected resistance for the day. All right. So that is the, the simple charts, SPX, the levels that are in play. Now let's go to book map, and we can see the levels on this chart as well. This is the column of, my column of spot gamma cloud notes. These are provided to spot gamma subscribers, and they're updated automatically. Right now, spot gamma is using a 10-point difference between SPX and SPI to paste these at the equivalent levels. That 10-point difference is a little bit high. The last time I looked, it was about seven and a half points. So this is showing the key SPX levels, like this L24000, that is the, that's the key gamma strike. And then this combo L4 level, which is a combination of SPX and SPI. And then I have another column of notes right here, these C levels. These are my cloud notes. And I'm showing things like the big round numbers for ES, that's ES4000. And then this is the, let me just zoom in so we can see this. This is the SPI 400 level, and that is the put wall and the key gamma strike. And then this other, this purple line, that's the lower edge of the expected move for the week. And that's based on the options market, and that's for the week. All right, so, you know, as this chart shows, the ES, SPX has been trading earlier in the day below the expected move for the week. All right, so that is the levels that are in play for today. And now let's talk about shifts in levels. There were a few. For first of all, the SPX and SPI volatility triggers both dropped SPX from 4055 to 4025. And then SPI just a minor drop from 406 to 405. And then more significantly, the SPI key gamma strike dropped down from 410 yesterday to 400 today. And then the QQQ, the volatility trigger, dropped. And also the put wall dropped from 298 to 285. And very strangely, you know, kind of a head scratcher. The call wall for QQQ increased from 310 to 360. And we'll look at the gamma level charts in just a minute. And we can see that, but it's, I guess, somewhat puzzling for the call wall to be up that high in out-of-play. All right, so let's take a look at the gamma charts now. And these are the absolute gamma charts. I'm going to scroll down. Okay, so this is the absolute gamma levels for SPX. And then we'll look at SPI. And what this is showing, this is the zero line, this horizontal line. And this is showing positive gamma or call gamma with the black lines above the zero line. And put gamma or negative gamma below. And so this is clearly showing the most gamma, both positive and negative, at the 4,000 level. And that's the absolute gamma strike or the key gamma strike, the strike with the largest absolute gamma. And then for SPX, the put wall is down below at 3,900. And that's the strike with the largest net negative gamma. And that can be expected to act as support. And then the call wall is way up here at 4,200. And we saw that on the thinkorswim chart. And that is the strike with the largest net positive gamma. And that can be expected to act as resistance. So I think the thing to note here is the diminished call gamma above the 4,000 level. And somewhat of a build of put gamma below. And what spot gamma was calling for today, they were calling for this 4,000 level to be a pivot. And if this level holds, then looking for SPX to move up potentially to 40, 50 today. And then because, again, the data coming out later on the week, that may be the upper end until the rest of the data comes out this week. So that's SPX, the key gamma levels or absolute gamma levels. Let's take a look at SPI, zoom in on this. So again, remember the key gamma strike now has dropped down to 400. And that's pretty obvious. The strike with the largest absolute gamma. And that is also the put wall, the strike with the largest net negative gamma. And again, that's pretty obvious. And the thing to note here. Again, the diminished call gamma above that level. And the build input gamma below. And let me just show one other thing. This pop out, spot gamma, this is part of the spot gamma subscription. And I use this every day to fill out my. I, for my cloud levels, that sea levels column, I look at. I look at this information for SPI, for example. And I fill out this information on my spreadsheet. And that appears on my SPI chart and book map. And the interesting thing to note here was the shift in levels from yesterday to day. Now I don't have the pop out or screenshot from the pop out yesterday. But I had to delete a bunch of levels in my spreadsheet above this level and then fill out these levels below. And this is a really big shift from yesterday is all the build of put gamma below. And I'll talk about the consequence of that in just a minute. All right. One other thing to point out is the this chart of open interest and volume. And it may be a little bit difficult to see. And this is put data and we'll just stick with that. And this is SPX. The black bars are volume and the small teal bars here. You can barely see it are the open interest change. So the volume is the options that were traded during the day and open interest. That would be options that are held overnight. So that would be longer than zero DTE options. And this shows the, you know, the vast difference in volume. So just pointing out that price action yesterday was largely driven by these zero DTE options. And let's take a look at spy and it should be a bit, it's a little bit easier to see here. And this is noting, notes shows also the amount of volume traded at 400 for spy. And again, the volume dwarfs the open interest. So spy 400. That is the center, the focus of the volume for zero DTE option yesterday. And then for SPX, 4,000. All right, I'm going to skip over the NASDAQ charts and let's go straight to the. Well, we'll take a quick look. So here's the, here's the QQQ, QQQ, the key gamma strike at 300 put wall. And that's pretty obvious at 285. So it's dropped down from 290 to 285. And again, that's the strike with the largest net negative gamma. And then there's that 360 call wall oddity. So that is the QQQ. And again, I think the notable thing here is the build of put gamma below the 300 level. All right, let's take a look at the VANA charts. And this is just a graphical illustration of actually, but before we do that, let's look at data. And then we'll, we'll take a look at the VANA charts. So the data that I normally focus on is the gamma notional. And this is market makers position on the gamma curve. And SPX is shown on the left column, spy in the middle column and QQQ in the far right column. So SPX, gamma notional, this is market makers position on the gamma curve. Just looking at SPX is negative 636. So that means that traders are long puts, market makers are short puts, and they have to sell futures as price decreases to hedge their delta exposure. And as price increases and implied volatility drops, they can buy back their short hedges. And spy the same thing minus 2057. So that's getting into a pretty significant negative gamma. So again, market makers are long, traders are long puts, market makers are short puts, and they will be trading in the direction of price to hedge their delta exposure in a negative gamma environment. And this tends to increase volatility. So these levels did shift from yesterday and became more negative. So gamma notional yesterday for SPX was minus 82. Today, again, it's minus 637. Yesterday, gamma notional for spy was minus 1304. And today, again, it's minus 2057. And then strangely, more odd data for QQQ. Yesterday, gamma notional was minus 377. And it became less negative today to minus 988. So I focused primarily on the S&P 500 anyway. So that is the data for gamma notional. So we know that there is a significant amount of gamma notional, negative gamma notional for SPX and spy. So while we have a couple of minutes left before the data, the minutes come out, let's take a look at the vantage arts. So this is SPX and this illustrates what I was just talking about. This vertical axis is showing market makers delta notional and the horizontal axis is showing strike price. And this is showing that as price decreases, market makers delta notional increases. And that means, again, they have to sell futures as price decreases to hedge their delta exposure. And the green curve is showing how that delta notional changes with, again, as price changes as well as changes in implied volatility. And that is the VANA effect, the change in delta with a change in implied volatility. And we can see how that has changed from day to day. So this is last Friday, yesterday and today. Notice the sharp increase in the slope of this line here. Now let's take a look at spy and that, again, remember, gamma notional is minus over minus 2,000. So that is a very steep, steep line here. All right, so that's spy SPX. And so, last thing that I want to take a look at, this is my key gamma strike list for today. And I cracked the key gamma strike for the previous day and the current day and color code them green or red, indicating whether the key gamma strike increased or decreased. And notice today there was not much of a change. The only significant change really was in spy here from 410 to 400. So that was the only significant drop in key gamma strike. So given all this, my thesis for the day was to wait for data, to watch. The key is to watch implied volatility, order flow, and hedging flow. So for setups this morning, I was just watching order flow and hedging flow. And there were some good short and long setups this morning. And depending on what the S&P 500 does, if we have time, if it's a nothing burger, then we'll go look at some setups. I probably will anyway. I'm not going to spend 30 minutes watching ES. So anyway, the key for today after the data comes out is to watch for the change in implied volatility and watch fix. That's an easy way to do that. So remember this negative gamma, the Vanna chart, that line works two ways. So if the market interprets the FOMC minutes as dovish or not as bad as expected or better than expected, however they interpret, if price increases and volatility decreases, then that will help fuel a Vanna rally. And that could, given the large amount of SPX by negative gamma, that could help to fuel a rally higher up to potentially 40-50 before the market starts to take into consideration the additional data coming out this week. And then on the other hand, if price drops implied volatility increases, this could create what spot gamma calls a negative gamma Vanna loop, where all that put, we saw all that put gamma down below. As those puts gain value, they get closer to end the money. Market makers will need to aggressively sell futures to hedge their delta exposure. Remember the market makers are short puts, that's a positive delta position. All right, so I've got minutes coming out right now, and there's a question in YouTube, does that mean that huge market pullback is coming? I'm not quite sure what exactly that is referring to, but I just talked about my thesis for today. It all depends on the data today and how the market interprets that data, and then also how we'll look at changes that implied volatility, price action, and make a determination from there. So I've kind of laid out the the thesis for today with what spot gamma was calling an upper bound at about 40, 50, and 4,000 being the pivot level. So this is the 4,000 level being the pivot level. And much below that level, that could kick off that negative gamma Vanna loop is those puts. And we saw all the puts down below, how they could, again, all those puts down below spy 400, SPX 4,000, they'll quickly gain value as implied volatility increases and price drops, and market makers will have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure. So again, remember that negative gamma works both ways. So just want to point out one thing, the so the FOMC minutes come out three weeks after the meeting, the announcement, the meeting. And since then, there has been quite a bit of data that has come out. First of all, the employment situation for January, that was first Friday and in February. And so that came out after the the announcement in the meeting. So, you know, again, these minutes were created on February 1st. And then so the employment situation came out after that. The CPI report on the 14th after that retail sales after that, PPI after that. So there again, there's been a quite a bit of data that has come out after after that announcement, or the the FOMC meeting again, where these minutes were created. Let's just take a look at VIX and see what VIX is doing. So initially, we'll see what options traders are doing. We'll go take a look at hero. And I'm going to go take a list and just take a look at this SPX plus SPI combined signal. And first of all, let's take a look at the total signal. So this combined SPI and SPX put and call transactions. And it looks like overall traders were taking negative delta positions starting around 11 am up into as price was increasing up to the time of the meeting. And let's see what they were doing. So they were buying puts and buying calls. And this has happened quite a bit recently. Let's change this. Let's go back to the total signal and change to a smaller a shorter look back period change from the looking at the full day of data to just the last 30 minutes of data. We'll zoom in on this. So this is pretty choppy, but overall, it looks like a bullish reaction to the data traders taking positive delta positions, at least so far, going into the data. Let's go back to book map. Okay. What is what does everybody want to do? Do you want to look at setups from this morning or continue to watch the S&P 500? You know, just let me have some feedback and discord in YouTube. Okay, JC says check back in on the SPI after some setups. So that's a that's a good idea. And what I want to talk about that there were there were some good good setups this morning, both long and short. And I'm going to go through a couple that I were I was watching. And then we will go come back check on the S&P 500. And then we'll go through the rest of the setups. So first of all, what I was watching this morning, I was watching Tesla. And I've got a couple of screenshots here. And I was I first of all, I came in a little bit late, I had a meeting this morning. So my preparation was running a little bit late. So I was watching Tesla this morning, looking for a short looking at this trend break here. And looking for a short setup. And then I saw this jump in in hero, the purple line there that jump up and then it then hero leveled off made, you know, slightly lower highs. But as price was dropping, and that, you know, I thought that was a little bit confusing. And yeah, JC says he has a question. Yeah, I saw that. And I'll we'll talk about Tesla and more detail. Yeah, we'll look at Tesla closer. So anyway, this is what I saw this morning. It wasn't a strong you know, if the hero line had continued down. For me, it would have been easy short. But looking at the total line, this jump in the total line, you know, I didn't like what I saw. So I quickly started looking through my watch list. And give remember, my thesis for this morning was just to look at order flow and price action and make a decision based on the on the data that I saw. So yeah, that was, I don't know if it was hype, but just kind of a false signal. But anyway, I didn't see the clarity that I was looking for in Tesla. So I went and looked at at Amazon and saw much more clarity here. Saw this very clear divergence between hero and price action. And so that is the, you know, to me, that was a much more, much more clear trade. All right, so let's go take a look at book map. Now we'll look at Amazon and then we'll go to Tesla and dig in on Tesla. So that was the, that was Amazon. And you know, the matter, so the way I treat this, once I see this divergence, then I go to book map and let's go to Amazon. And I look for signals and order flow of a reversal. So I'm going to zoom in just on this area just the just the morning. And so this is what I saw in Amazon. So again, remember the the divergence, bearish divergence in hero, this absorption price sweep and absorption, right at the 97 liquidity, then the trend break. And price starts to move lower, a couple of entry points at the trend break or around this 9650 level. And then a couple of actually three targets, but a little a little bit of liquidity at the 96 level, and then clear liquidity target at the 9550 level. And then the final liquidity target at the 95 hedgewall level. And also the bearish order flow here. And especially all these pink dots, whoops, right in this area. So I saw that. And so that was my setup. And then when I got back to Tesla, it already moved too far. I didn't want to chase it. So anyway, that's what I saw this morning. Now let's go take a look at Tesla. All right, so there are some questions. All right, so JTT in YouTube is JEC, is that correct? Same person? Okay. All right, so I'll get to Tesla. There is a question. When I see a setup in Amazon, I do I trade stock or options. And I trade stock, I trade shares. That doesn't mean that that's what's what's best for you, or that's just me. And I was I was trained as a an option premium seller. And I just find it nearly impossible to buy an option. Again, that's just me. So I, you know, I just prefer to trade shares, I can be more precise with my entries.  But anyway, I so far I have been trading shares. All right, so here's Tesla. And let's take a look at at hero. All right, so now it looks like SPX by ES is moving lower. Let's go take a look at Tesla. And I believe the question from JEC was from early this morning 945 to 10am. And looking at I'm going to zoom in more. So looking at traders buying puts and buying calls. So let me just go. All right, so what this tells me is, you know, just that that traders were buying calls and buying puts. And, you know, just seeing this, that's, you know, definitely a conflict in data. And it, you know, clearly turns out that the puts were driving driving price action. And like I said this morning, I was running late. And I was just looking at the total signal and saw this, I think this is that, that little bump up that I was looking at in the total signal. And notice here that, you know, watching this a little bit further out, this call signal levels off and starts to drop after that bump up.  And notice that this time, you know, if we've zoomed out to about 1015, that this number, this notional value 64 is almost twice the notional value minus 64, twice the notional value of positive 35. Okay, I hope that answers your question.  Let's go back and let's take a look at book map. And let me just see if I can find something a chart from Tesla from yesterday. This is Tesla yesterday. This was just a clear short. Look at all of the, look at all the pink dots, the aggressive sellers coming in here at, you know, from just like 945 on and the falling CVD all day clear target at the, at this 200 T gamma strike level. And again, all the pink dots in here that, you know, some green dots and the quick run up to 209. And then the reversal lower, you know, definitely confirmed by order flow. So that is yesterday. And you know, just a huge confirmation from order flow of a bearish setup. But today that clarity was not there. You know, this is, let me do that over again. I'm just going to zoom in, zoom in with this tool. So notice here, the CVD was just slightly, slightly bearish, nothing like the clarity yesterday that's straight line down all day and not a clear shift from green dots to pink dots. So today, you know, again, I moved on. I didn't see the clarity that I was looking for in Tesla. So I moved on to Amazon and saw you know, saw more clarity, especially with the hero divergence. So let's go back and look at Amazon. And then we'll go back and check on the S&P 500. So Amazon, let's zoom back. And this was, again, more clear to me, the absorption at the 97 level and slightly more negative CVD, especially from this level on clear targets below. So I just thought this was more clear. This is one I saw. So this is what I took when I didn't see the clarity that I was looking for in Tesla. So that's why I have all these different stocks up here, you know, two futures contracts, all these stocks, you know, I can just I'm not stuck, not married to one, one symbol, I'm looking for the, you know, the easiest, most clear setup that I can find. So I hope that answers your question. All right, so let's go back and take a look at the S&P 500 now, and more chop. Looks like price is making, making lower highs, now making lower lows, but still around that spy 400 SPX 4000 pivot level. So yeah, we'll see if this, we'll see if this 4000 level holds. And it looks like the volume is really concentrated about the spy 4000 level, and then a little bit below the SPX 4000 level, which really is about actually the the SPX 4000 level is probably about 4000, 4,007, 4008. So that you know, this concentration of volume here could be just around the SPX 4000 level. All right, so Panamette, Panamette asks, what is your settings on the bubbles? So I assume you mean the volume dots, and there's really not, I just have the default. So I have the 3d bubbles volume, so this is delta volume delta, so by minus cell, and the size I change as, as required, with the slider up here, smart clustering. So again, this is pretty close to, pretty close to the defaults. The only thing that I've done really is change the colors. And I just picked something that I thought provided more clarity for the cell circles. This pink, I think stands out visually more than the default kind of orangeish red, brownish, you know, whatever the color default color is, this stands out more clearly from the heat map. So that's why I changed the color of the cell dots. All right, I've got a couple minutes left. Let's take a look at some other setups. I'm just going to run through this really quickly. There's Apple. That was a short and long confirmation. Let's go back and look at Hero, Apple, and really more of a long confirmation here, somewhat of a divergence, around 1015, 1031, everything else started to move up. AMD, divergence long and short. Let's zoom in on that. There's the divergence short, and then Hero starts to rise, and price restorns later. And Google, short, divergence, and long. Notice Hero dropping here as price chops, then moves lower, and then Hero moves up and price responds. And let's go take a look, let's take a look at that in book map. And not a lot of range in Google. There usually is not much range. And notice the, this reversal was pretty clearly shown in with order flow. First of all, this is the 91, whoops, let me get my pen tool, that'll be better. So this reversal was at the 91 hedge wall. And you'll notice the buy sweep, these small, bright green dots, and then the larger green dots, the buyers coming in at that 91 hedge wall. And then a quick move higher up to 92. So nice long set up there in Google. And let's take a look at Meta. And in Meta, I saw a divergence long and short, I believe. Let's go take a look at Hero for Meta. You can see that Hero's trending down, price responds a few minutes later, then Hero starts to move up, and price responds a few minutes later. So divergence long and short set up. And Microsoft, there was a divergence long, with Hero trending up, pretty much from the open. And then price responds a little bit later. We'll go take a look at Bookmap. So there's Meta. And I think this reversal was a little bit sloppy, but you could just tell and wait for it in Bookmap. See the buy sweep, the sell sweep, buy sweep again, and then price finally moves higher. And you have the confirmation again of a rising Hero traders taking positive, positive Delta positions. Here's Microsoft. And again, remember that divergence long, not a lot of range. Take a look at Nvidia. Let's go take a look at at Hero for Nvidia. And remember, Nvidia reports earnings after the close today. So this, we'll just zoom in here. This was the best set up in Nvidia. This confirmation short. Let's just see what traders were doing. So you can see that they were buying puts from the open, and then they started selling calls and price moved lower. And let's go take a look at Bookmap again. So there's Nvidia. There's the short set up with pretty clear liquidity targets at 207 and then the prime target at 205. And that is the 205 hedgewall. All right, let's do a final check on the S&P 500. And then we'll we'll call it a day. All right, so now the S&P 500 has broken below the spy 400 put wall key gamma strike, as well as the SPX 4000 level. Let's just take a look at this longer timeframe chart and think or swim. So the next level down below is the 3950 level. We'll take a look at the one minute chart. So it looks like the low of the day is around 3983. So that's what the S&P 500 is doing right now. Let's just do a final check with the VIX. And now VIX is rising. Looks like it's making higher highs. All right, so I'm going to wrap it up with that. Call it a day. Again, remember that we've got more data coming out this week. The GDP tomorrow and then the PCE on Friday and also consumer sentiment and Nvidia reports after the close today. So thank you very much. For watching. Thanks for your questions and comments. And I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks again. Bye.


What's up everybody Jason here for jazby's case breaks dot com We just sold out twenty twenty one peony prism football hobby six box half case break packaging number four and remember all card ship Here we go guys So this is the second half of the case guys remember we had six boxes remaining And if you have a little character sign at the end of your name that means you want that from a pack filler or Bought a trade-off team random spot So there you go Again, I did put fours all across these boxes so you can know that they're from the same case Let's get a big hit on this side guys. We had some nice cards in the first half, but So like some of the cases we've had in previous pick your team slash random teams There should be something nice hiding on this side. I remember I think we also didn't pull any Potential catch autograph case sits in this first house, so there should be some in here So that should be something to look out for don't you fall on me Advises and Jefferson and cook that's what you want Matt saying there's a one-on-one coming tonight. That'd be nice It's a little black finite or something Let's do one of those. All right, there's our first patch patch all right there. Oh nice. That's awesome wasn't a good Wasn't a good 2015 Rose Bowl game versus my ducks for Dalvin and for James, but I mean you guys still won a national championship So I guess it doesn't really matter right here. We go First box. Yeah, we'll got Rex Ryan Rex Ryan rookie.  I didn't realize he was a rookie Scary Terry McLauren is in 25. That's for the Washington commanders going to Greg Coral and Sun Silver. Oh nice. Really. That's awesome dude. That's sick Curtis Martin on a nice Zach Wilson for the Jets going to Grant It's a little blue wave 77 out of 199 little Lockdown sorry more than Humphrey Alvin Kamara to 49 feels rookie Jaylin waddle Very nice purple eyes nicely center card to Center looks pretty nice right there back is a little off the front. It's nice 139 out of 225 that is for the Dolphins going to EA. I think the egg of the Dolphins and almost all the bigger teams Play for the majority though. All right, we go looks like we have a camel coming up Derek car camel For the raiders And that's 17 out of 15 Raiders going to Simon Pat Tillman Very nice orange and again great centering in here in the front Actually overall great centering to 249 That's for the Arizona car. No Zandra song from prestige pack filler and how about Another Cardinal this time a blue camel Kyler Murray sensational signatures Very solid here right there That is 10 out of 25 back-to-back Cardinal sits another Derek Carr this time of the 249 nodgy rookie and Mary Smith Marseille and Tylen Wallace for the Ravens going to Aaron Billsley. That's three color patch It's a 99 You got one of the patch autographs in the case here Marseille to 60 That's a Minnesota Vikings going to Timothy So now what you wanted their wolf pack, but it's still a little nice start there for your vikings Michael vick Lana Falvin's edition handy with that one to 149 Rashad Evans or Rashan Evans. I should say the 125 and D'Amy Brown's true silver Next box. Just get the rainbow of Derek Carr ready. That's like three different Derek Carr color cards to 225 We have a Jibril peppers to 199 John the neighbor Raiders having a good break for color right now. Alan Maugh, and we got a Darnell Mooney With a two of silver Ruby Redway. That's to 149 Vontae Smith and Nick Bolton We got Dayo Little blue to 199 Russell Wilson silver Donald and Taylor and Kenny game. Well purple power For my eagles going to Barry David So I'm really looking for some Devontae Smith color not too much Kenneth Daniel. I love the dude, but More into Devontae right now. Well, I think Kenny could be a really good Bible Michael Pittman to 199 Whoa We have gold Gold Wow, look at that Jeremy Shockey gold sensational signatures and That is for the G-man Giants Simon that's two out of ten Blast from the past right there Tram and Kitty that is to 49 Drew sample to 175. I Know they have they have some really like random Players from like the 2000s in here Bo Jackson to 125 Rashawn Slater Ridge Ganon was stuck behind Justin Fields to 75 Raiders again monster color break Seth Williams and Miles Garrett. I know right. This is definitely a Raiders half I don't remember if there was a lot of raider hits in the first half though, but Lot of raider color that is for sure This is like the perfect ideal break that anybody wants for their team just like so much color Like it at this money matters. What is just color? All right, so after this box will be halfway through Again guys if you guys want to run back more prison, we can do a random teams break. That's a fresh case for number five or like I said we could Finish off pick a team number five and six from a fresh master case We're down to ten left straight up in number five. It's all our camel Which one original camera or the blue camel the blue camel is beautiful. I want I'm with a man I want to see a black finite Give me like a gold vinyl at least out of five. I'll do that. Did you really? Well, they'll be multiple one-to-ones, but it'd be nice to pull a true finite though Levi For the lines of 225 Randall Cobb till we're 249 top hits We have a Grady Jarrett Wow what a throwback franchise legends drew blood so We want number 12 not number 11 And that is out of 49 six out of 49 Michael. What's going on man? It's a little bit of a teaser Patriots of shamanic Jabrule peppers Darius Leonard Charles Woodson. Oh, very nice Brock Lesnar. That's a purple color match cracked ice Look at that Look at that Timothy out of 225 the legend Brock Lesnar Gina waddle Elendor Austin Hooper 249 Levante David Number two 225 Chris Evans out of 249 Darius Slayton Debo Debo Jalen waddle with a Greg Newsom rookie autograph To 149 that's gonna go to the Browns and Anthony And then Jalen waddle is EA with the Dolphins Corey Littleton for the Raiders Next box Excuse me. We got gold. I'll leave that pack separate We got a snake skin coming up as well. Let's leave these two packs separate actually Since those are kind of like short-turned it slash case hits leave that one up there Let's go through the box first Laramie Tunsel It's a 60 We got a rechance later Drew Sample to 249 Antonio Gibson to 225. Oh, we got points. So remember usually points Means a bigger autograph slash case hit. So that's probably why we have a snake skin Super short-turned card Sharper and and we got a color match Kallen mom 37 out of 125 Not bad centering through the front right there, man, even the 400 points is cut wrong Come on man quality control on that card too. Jesus Look at dude like it's cut off wrong Definitely not a great little points for sure. Those might be the big ones Derrick Brown Panthers, it's gonna Jeremy Port Randy Moss and a Mari Cooper to 175 Tram and kitty Derrick Barnett's is 60 Also two guys. I mean, there's no autograph in here. I mean this one could be an autograph then that means that gold Is autographed or it's one of those two cards? Looks at the autographs right here spoiler Kevin Byer And a Travis Eatian Ruby wave nice one right there to 149 for the Jags Jesse Garcia bottom straight up And of course Kevin Byer right there Tennessee time to Greg. All right, let's go with the snakeskin first. All right, this is the gold Let's go the snakeskin first and see what we got here. Maybe it's a big time rookie. Nope, not a rookie But it is Corey Littleton and what a Raiders color break snakeskin Let's hope that gold is a rookie to or at least a bigger player. Here we go guys. Good luck last pack of this box There's a gold in this It is a rookie It's a rookie gold. It is Tylen Wallace rookie gold out of ten For the Baltimore Ravens Aaron Billingsley ten of ten Nice, I'll take a rookie gold. Yeah, it's entering is a little off well show All right, two more boxes guys two more boxes So good guys if you guys want to run back the next one We can if not we can do a hobby edition random teams. That's still a little ways to go at 27, but I Think Pikachu number five is more doable with six today. I'm ready for the charges Riccardo 289 Montez sweats Washington football or Washington commanders, I should say and Thurman Thomas Silver James Harrison for the Pittsburgh Steelers gonna mind you Luigi per Warner and a Oh Little color match to 125 Devon white lockdown and DJ chart The color match there for the Jaguars tonight and I'm Trevor Lawrence Noji Travis ETN Or sorry, this is Travis Fulham. I should say night and Kaderis Tony green scope For the Giants going this time to 75 Chad Johnson JC Horn Carolina 249 and we have a Kenny on Drake for the right is Sensational signatures tonight, you know Again very nice Raiders break to Sean Watson LaVon Tate David to 75 trade Nixon Chase Evans Chas rat to 175 for the Minnesota Vikings And we have a Nick Chubb Here we go guys last box mojo Last box mojo like I got hit by a train. Here we go But almost every pack has a color minus like one. Oh, we got another gold gold. Let's say that last Gold and it looks like we might have a patch autograph or not. Maybe this is just extra cards Follow a thicker pack his camel coming up as well. All right, lots of us guys just have some fun. Here we go good luck Michael Parsons Jalen Darden who starts off for the Bucks. That's going to Anthony Phillips to 175 Wait for any for the Colts lockdown insert Brandon Ayuk Ruby wave It's 149. We're brought to 249 chase Chase Chase Chase Emmett Smith AJ Dylan doing well in Tanya Henderson. Oh, sorry, Robert Woods Double check to it. I think I left it To good knots the last stack over here There we go Brandon Ike again Niners, it's going to Steve have a camo Oh For the Baltimore Ravens to 15 Devon Bush, I think we have a purple power autograph behind recent McMath Dazz Newsom For the Chicago Bears Bears that is going to Steve Birch and raising McMath of the Titans is Greg All right, last little pack here We'll fuller and then we'll have ended off with the gold The gold Dawson ounce. We go guys Last stack here. There's another gold. We got like three golds in the second half actually pretty solid case autograph for the Patriots That's going to Shawn Matic. Here we go guys. Good luck.  So appreciate you guys That was break number four again. If you guys want to run back some more Number five is on the website. Nick hasn't put them up in a team right on me I'm gonna message him right now and see if you guys want to do that But if not buy your team straight up only 10 left. Appreciate it guys. Jasper's case breaks.com Well, actually, sorry, hold on There's a point to the giveaway. Actually just remembered Couple points couple points. I believe it's just one 400 points points All right, so what we'll do here guys is we'll get the teams Customer or sorry team at number one after 11 times six and a five get that randomizer for points one two three four five six Seven eight nine ten eleven times Chicago Bears at the top which is gonna go to Steve Birch Appreciate it guys Jasper's case breaks