Yes, it bends, it bends, it bends. This is not a bendable TV, this is a bendable OLED gaming monitor from LG. Hey guys, Thundie E here, and welcome to our very first video of 2023. Today we're taking a look at the LG OLED flex. This is the industry's first bendable OLED TV. And what's interesting about this is not just the fact that it bends, it's what actually brings to the table. Now I'll start off with the price point first off. It costs $24.99, so $2,500. Yes, it is pricey, but if you think about it compared to other OLED gaming monitors at this size and price point, it's actually not bad. Now when you look at the OLED flex, first off, it looks like a TV because it's 42 inches. And it comes with of course an OLED panel. And what I like is that this is the same panel that you'll find on the LG C2 OLED TV, which is a great panel. So which means this panel also supports 120 hertz in terms of refresh rate, that's really nice. Now the overall build is also unique and different. It's got a very sturdy base stand to it, really wide, so it takes up a lot more space than you'd expect in your desk. So if you're looking to get something like this, make sure you have a larger desk area for this. Now the one thing I do like, but also kind of plays a little bit negatively to this is the fact that it comes as one unit. You don't have to install a stand or anything. You pull it out of the box and you drop it down and it's one single piece. So it makes it look a little bit stuffy, but because it's an abendable OLED, it's very flexible. Now in terms of connectors and ports, you do have four HDMI 2.1 ports, supports VRR, and all the gaming features that you look for, Dolby Vision, HDR gaming, all that fun stuff is built into this gaming monitor. So let's talk about the monitor itself and that bendable capability. This is achieved quite easily with some really cool technology that I don't know how to explain, but what I do know that this is also an automated bending monitor, which means all you have to do is use your LG remote control, which I have here, and hit and hold the game button. That brings up the quick menu that allows you to change the curvature up to 20 different positions, or if you use the preset where it curves up to 50% or curves up to 100%. Now at 100%, that's a 900R curved radius, and the next question I know you're gonna ask is, Thundie, why do I care if it bends? Hear me out. This is where I think it's really important for a monitor this size. A 42-inch gaming monitor is large. If you're playing any game, it's gonna feel like everything is far away from your eyesight. Now, having the ability to bend it in brings the gameplay experience closer to you and much more tight in it. So you can make it as close as you want or as far as you want, and I like that experience here, and it works pretty well. So hitting the button, you can swap between 50 or 100, and it's a fairly smooth experience, and it doesn't stop your gaming experience while you're using it. So whatever you're doing will continue as you're doing that as well, which is nice. Now, in terms of gaming, this is what you would expect from an LG OLED. It is smooth, fast response time, very, very solid. Whether you're playing on your PC, it's games like Doom Eternal, some Warzone, things like that. They look really nice, very vibrant, or even switching over to your PlayStation 5. Again, remember, you've got HDMI 2.1 ports, playing some God of War Ragnarok. Everything looks vibrant. It looks sharp, it looks vivid, and that really comes out with this. The colors are rich. You've got, of course, that Dolby Vision gaming in there as well. So everything comes out very, very nice. Now, the other thing that really adds an extra element to this monitor is the sound. A lot of monitors have speakers built-in, and especially at 42 inches, you'd expect better speakers. Now, LG, of course, is known for giving good audio, but I want you guys to really listen to the audio of this as I game, because it takes it to a very different level. It feels like there's a mini sound bar that's got 240-watt speakers built-in, so there's richer sound as you game. Yeah, all right. Somewhere only giants were meant to see. These shrines tell their stories to the world, but it turns out the real stories, the secret stories, those they kept here, inside. Yeah, it is a solid gaming experience on the audio side of things. Now, because this is a blend of LG's monitor technology as well as LG's TV technology, you have a couple of features built into this. So if you tap the game button again on your remote control, that brings up this new game hub, which allows you to quickly access certain things like your different consoles or your PC that's connected, as well as also quick access to things like YouTube and Twitch. Now, when you're connected with a console, like, say, your Xbox Series X, or you can hit the menu button, you can go into the game center, which gives you a full game hub that shows you your current stats. So if you're in the Xbox Series X, you see it's 60 frames per second, so you're playing a game, you can change some of the settings there, and you can have specific game presets, or while on my PC, you can see it's doing 119 in terms of refresh rate. So you have that built into it to give you a much more in-depth experience. Now, the question is, do I actually like this? My answer, yes, is yes. Not just because of the novelty that it bends, but it's because that when it bends, I use that mostly while I'm gaming. And it gives a very fun, enriching experience, especially when I'm PC gaming. I'm playing Call of Duty, I'm playing Warzone, those kind of games that I really wanna get into and stay focused in and I like that. Now you do have an option to also reframe the size of your screen, so you have a small screen size for gamers who want to play as a 27 inch, even though you have a 42 inch gaming monitor here, but you have that built into it. Now, the combination of all that plus the audio, I think this is a stellar monitor and also a great first offering for one of the world's first bendable OLEDs. Now, is this for everyone? No, because it's expensive and it's really not necessary, but what LG has brought to the table really works well. And I like to see this improve where the design is much slimmer in the future and also it gets a bit more affordable or even we have that at a smaller screen size to see how that works for gamers in toes. And then appendix, you do have some great WebOS functionality built into this as well. Because of that marriage of LG TV and LG monitors, you have quick access to all your streaming services that you have on WebOS from Netflix, Disney plus, HBO Max, the works because it's built in there. And of course, it's a fun, great experience to have both your gaming monitor and your TV and your game consoles all together as one. So let me know what you think guys. If you have any questions or any comments, don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment.


When the narcissist finally hovers you when the narcissist finally comes back to you They are expecting you to be hopeful They are expecting you to have a feeling of expectation or desire For a particular thing to happen They are expecting you to be hopeful that they might help or save you They want you to think that there is something for you to hold on to They do this to direct a great deal of your attention, interest or activity towards them They want you to be attentive They want you to be focusing on them. They might refuse to take notice of you Refuse to acknowledge you Disregard you initially It makes them feel as though they are something significant and powerful. It makes them feel special and important Desirable and attractive But once these feelings begin to fade away And the effects of this are no longer as potent as they initially were The narcissist begins to feel small again. They begin to feel worthless and insignificant and important undesirable and attractive Because they are no longer receiving any attention from you You are no longer attending to them. This is when they know that they need to re-engage They need to attract your attention or involvement again They need to get you to participate or become involved with them again This is when the narcissist finally hoovers you. They might say sweet or kind things to you These are all intended to re-establish the emotional connection that you have you once had with them They want you to think that they are still interested in you But it's just another tactic It's just an action or strategy Carefully plan to achieve a specific end They want to keep you interested in them keep you hoping Keep you expecting and desiring That maybe they do have the capacity to develop something in the future Maybe they do have the developed qualities and abilities To lead to future success or usefulness Because they already know exactly how you expect and desire them to be How you want them to behave with you But they are not going to act in any way that you would like They are always going to do the opposite of whatever you expect or desire from them Because they are trying to control you They are trying to influence and direct your behavior and the course of events That doesn't mean that they don't share the same or similar desires or interests But for them to be able to control you They will have to restrict certain activities They will have to restrain their own emotions or actions This is necessary for them to maintain influence and authority over you When the narcissist finally hoovies you It is to get you to break no contact with them It is to get you to abandon everything you were standing for and give into your desire or impulse It is designed to get you to renounce your practice of no contact The narcissist might give you some time to yourself Especially if you appear to be angry towards them They might wait until you are more relaxed and then they will come back They will say sweet or kind things to you Bring you flowers or chocolates To make it seem like they care or that they are sorry Different narcissists will do different things Depending on what has worked for them in the past And depending on what you like or prefer It's emotional manipulation And it is designed to change your behavior and perception Through indirect, deceptive or underhanded tactics The narcissist advances their interests at your expense In a way that might be considered exploitative or devious They want to see if you are still interested in them They want to see how much they are able to control you How much they are able to affect you Emotionally detach or disconnect from the narcissist Take away the hope of desiring or expecting anything from them They are dependent on your feelings of hope to be able to emotionally manipulate you To pull you back into their world They are dependent on your emotional reactions of wanting and needing them If you don't respond positively to them They will punish you They will use passive aggression Expressing their negative feelings, resentment and aggression In an unassertive way They will ignore you and give you the silent treatment This is meant to confuse you and make you feel as though you have done something wrong Or you need to respond differently to them Regardless of how they have treated you They will act as though they are no longer interested in you And they will refrain from being around you as a form of punishment But then they will come back And it's supposed to send a message to you That if you do not respond positively to them next time Or in the way that they would like They will make it longer and make you suffer The disinterest is meant to punish you for not validating their false self For not seeing them as the powerful, significant, desirable and attractive person that they believe they are But of course this is only on the surface Their false self was created as a way of coping and defending Against their feelings of worthlessness and insignificance The narcissist needs you to validate their false self at all times Or else they feel small They feel as though they don't exist As though they're not important or significant They feel like they are dying Like they are fading away If you don't validate them They will blame you They will become hateful and resentful towards you In their minds you have done something to make them feel that way So they will act disinterested towards you Until you finally give in and validate their false selves And that is what their Hoover attempt is designed to do It is designed to bait you in And trick you into validating their false self and making them feel as though they exist Thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the video description Coaching enquiries you can email me at narksforumcoaching at gmail.com Check out the immersion dice in the narksforumstore Where you can purchase your own narksforum t-shirt, tank top or mug The link is in the video description Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


Wax melts are an easier alternative to candle making as they're less messy, less expensive to make, and you can create customised scents, shapes and sizes with them to suit your preferences. These melts are similar to my beeswax candle recipe, just on a smaller scale and with no whip. If you're not familiar with wax melts or how they are used, they are essentially blocks of scented wax that are heated on a wax warmer to diffuse different scents around the home. One of the benefits of using wax melts is that they last longer than standard candles, so are more affordable in the long run. Wax melts also don't give off any of the sort that burning wicks can, if not sourced carefully. This makes these melts a cleaner way to enjoy the aromatherapy benefits that essential oils can provide. Most of the popular wax melts, or candles for that matter, are made using paraffin wax. Paraffin wax is a petroleum based wax that, when burned, can emit toxins and chemicals like soot, toluene or benzene into the air which have been found to be harmful to our health when inhaled. But what's more, store bought wax melts and candles also contain other toxic ingredients in the form of artificial fragrances and colorants. Since these fragrances and colorants don't have to be disclosed, you don't know what you're burning or how it could be impacting your health. Most chemical fragrances, for example, contain chemicals like phthalates to help prolong the life of the scent, and the long-term health implications of phthalates alone include cancer, human reproductive and developmental toxicity, endocrine disruption, birth defects and respiratory problems. While soy wax is a step up from paraffin wax, it too isn't always the best option to use. This is because vendors may add a little paraffin wax to the soy wax blend to help with burning, and the vast majority of anything made with soy is made using genetically modified soybeans that have been treated with pesticides, herbicides and so on. If you can find a completely clean soy wax that came from organic, non-GMO soybeans that were not treated with any chemicals, then go for it. For the base of this recipe, I'll be using beeswax, a wax that is much easier to source clean from trusted supplies. Plus, beeswax can help to purify the air in your home as it burns. To scent the wax melts, I'll be using essential oils. You will need a candle warmer to place the wax melts in. You can make your own if you prefer using a mason jar and tea light candle or a desk lamp and a heat resistant ceramic dish, but if you don't want to DIY it, there are many great candle warmers available online to choose from, such as ones that plug straight into the wall, which are perfect for small spaces. Candle warmers simply warm the wax to help release the scents from the essential oils. This recipe also calls for a silicon mold to set the melts in, but you can substitute it with an ice cube tray if you don't have any molds on hand. To make these homemade DIY wax melts, start by adding some water to a small saucepan and set it over medium heat. Place a heat proof bowl over the top of the saucepan to create a double boiler, then add in 1 cup of beeswax and a quarter cup of coconut oil. Melt the mixture over medium to high heat, stirring continuously until the wax is completely melted. Once melted, remove the bowl from the heat and allow the mixture to cool slightly before adding in 100 drops of essential oils of your choosing. You can use an essential oil blend or a single essential oil. I love to make lavender wax melts personally, but the options are endless. From there, pour the wax into the silicon molds or designated ice cube tray, then let the melt set overnight to completely harden. Gently remove them from the molds and store them in an airtight container one set. To use these melts, place 1 to 3 homemade wax melts into your candle warmer, depending on the size of the warmer and the room you are trying to diffuse the scents in. They can melt and remelt several times before losing their scent. When the fragrance has weakened, wipe the candle warmer out and add in new wax melts or add in a few drops of essential oils to the top of the melted wax to give it one last run before cleaning it out. Thank you so much for watching this video tutorial, I hope you found it helpful. Please let me know if you do try this recipe out yourself and what you think. I'd love to know. I wish you a wonderful day and I'll see you soon again.


Hello everyone, I'm Dr. Vipin Kavarappa. I'm the Consultant Ethnologist and Transnap Physician at Manipal Hospital Mysore. Every year the second Thursday of March we celebrate as work in a day. Not only in India, it's celebrated across the world across all the continents. Now why do we need to celebrate work in a day? If you look at the latest statistics, you realize that across the globe, one in every 10 adults suffer from a form of kidney disease called as chronic kidney disease. CKD or chronic kidney disease is an irreversible form of kidney disease and it's imperative that we create awareness among the general public about this particular disease and prevent them from getting this disease. We impart knowledge regarding the kidneys, its health and various ways how we can prevent these kidneys from getting affected from various diseases. Now one of the most common questions which I get during my general practice and these questions not only come from the patients, it comes from everyone from all departments is that how do you prevent yourself from kidney diseases? There are few golden rules which we say needs to be followed if you want to prevent yourself from kidney disease. These are one of course keep yourself fit, be active. Normally we say you have to do about 30 minutes of exercise every day or some sort of activity every day but I would say push it up a little more. Dedicate one hour a day for your health that will go a long way. Heat, healthy, make sure your dietary habits are very well kept. Avoid sugars as much as possible. Avoid excess of salt intake. Make sure you don't eat outside especially the junk food and stick to home cooked meals as much as possible. If you are a diabetic make sure you check yourself regularly and take your medications regularly. Sugar should be under control. If you are hypertensive make sure your blood pressure is under control. If not visit a physician so that your drugs can be modified and your blood pressure is under control. Avoid smoking. If you are a smoker quit smoking. Drink adequate amount of water. Hydrate yourself adequately. Now this is a tricky question and a tricky answer because if you already suffer from kidney disease then we advise them water restriction not hydration. But you're looking at preventing yourself from some sort of a kidney problem then we say you hydrate yourself correctly. Make sure you don't take any sort of over the counter medications. Most commonly we have a habit of taking painkillers unnecessarily. Painkillers sometimes can't be avoided because if there is extreme pain you need to take them but make sure you consult a physician or a doctor and only if the doctor advises those medications only then you take them and even if you take them don't take them regularly on a daily basis. If you're suffering from any sort of a high-risk disease for example if somebody is suffering from diabetes or somebody suffering from hypertension or somebody has a family stress kidney disease then make sure you check your kidney functions regularly. These steps go a long way in preventing yourself from developing kidney disease not only kidney disease in fact if you follow these steps you can predict yourself from cardiac diseases, diabetes, hypertension and various life and life diseases. Thank you.


Hey, what's up coaches welcome back to the channel today? I want to share a success story with a coach that is inside of our accelerator coaching program Her name is Antonella. She is a private soccer trainer based in Miami, Florida Watch her story here She shares about how our program has helped her and if you are on the fence of joining our program Send me a text message at this number right here I would love to talk with you see if our program is a good fit for you if you want to scale your business This is for you Hey, this is coach Antonella from CA Training Academy where we provide one-on-one and small group training for Soccer players here in Miami And I want to take the time to talk about Ben's program and how much it has helped grow my academy So before I joined his program. I had no structure I had no system. My schedule was all over the place I was constantly texting parents asking them like hey is your child available to train Thursday at four or Texting them, which is I hated this part texting them all the time reminding them to complete the payment For practice since I was getting paid after session I had no contract at all So since joining his program now my income is more predictable I have more stability I know what my schedule looks like for the next three months because I applied three month contract and Right now. I'm working on adding a six-month contract to attract even more committed clients My income has increased Just last month I had two players that joined my program for $760 a month and that's because I increased the value that I provide and I have more confidence in selling and believing that what I provide really Transform players that are looking to seriously develop their game So if you are debating if you want to join Ben's program or not, this is your sign to do so right now. I Took a little bit too long ever since seeing his YouTube videos and all his stuff online and If I would have joined earlier my academy Well, I've been in a whole different level right now if you're looking for Higher income predictable schedule higher committed clients do so right now. He is amazing He's been through it all and I want to take the time to thank Ben Right now for all his help and I can now wait to continue working with you to help grow my program Thank you so much Hey coach, do you want to make more money in your sports training business first? Make sure hit that subscribe button on YouTube so you can stay updated with all the newest videos that we have Second I want you to text me at this number right here that puts you in contact with me I can jump on a quick zoom call with you learn more about your business and show you how to scale your company That's it. See you soon


Hi everyone, I'm Stephen Downs. Welcome to this presentation. I'll just begin by giving you the sound of a train going by. Because of course. It's a pleasure to be here. I'm going to present using slides. So I will share the screen. But before I'll do that, you can also obtain the slides from this link that I'm placing in the chat. As I do the presentation.  Well, it's not that large at the moment. Many more people registered than showed up. I guess that's the norm for online conferences. So, given that please feel free either to post questions or comments in the chat. I will be watching it as we proceed as well. I have, well, 17 people now. If you want to jump in and talk, please feel free to jump in and talk. I know it's hard when somebody's presenting full steam ahead. But I do want you to feel free to do that. We're up to 19 now. Okay. The Here we go. And I'm looking for my presentation to share the screen. Where did it go. Now it's gone. Oh, there it is. All right. So here we go. And I need to remember to face the camera. So I'll just move the chat over here so I can see it a bit better. And I am screen sharing. Whoops. All right. So, where I want to begin is with a question and the question that I have for for us today is how open is open learning. When we access an open learning environment, say, Moodle or MOOCs or whatever future to learn. This is what we're usually presented with a sign in screen. And to me, this represents right away a barrier to people accessing online learning resources. And, you know, I mean, it's usernames to remember passwords to remember information to give all of that. And it bothers me. And so this presentation is a reflection on what I think about that. And what I'm doing about that and it kind of breaks naturally into those two parts. What do they want? Well, they want a little bit of everything. I looked at a whole bunch of registration forms, both from traditional institutions. Mood providers, open online courses, etc. And it seems like gathering registration information is just universal among education providers. It's universal indeed, almost among all publishers or presenters of learning content. There are very few places where they don't want this information. What do they want? They want your name, first name, last name, middle name in this case. This is an example from the Canadian College International Student Registration Form. They want your address, the city, province, postal code, country, your phone number, your email. They don't want your passport number and nationality. They want your gender date of birth, first language, where you heard about it, your photo. Now, not everybody wants all of this information. But not everybody wants only this information. I've seen requests for just about everything you can think of. What do they want it? Well, we know the answer to this, right? For evidence, for admissions, to provide billing information, yes, even for open online learning. For course communication, for marketing, which is a very common purpose of open online learning and upselling, so they can sell you extra things like credentials or whatever. Identity verification if they're doing proctoring or online assignments. Certification, it says credentialism, I meant credentials, like, well, degrees, certificate badges, whatever for and for their own reporting and their own statistics. And my question that I asked myself is in open online learning, do we need any of this? And for me, the answer is mostly no, we don't. Now, I know there are other barriers to accessing online learning. Funding, need for teacher classroom materials, the barriers facing the disabled, the barriers facing people based on gender, conflict, war, distance technology, even hunger and nutrition. And this is another one. I know it's not the most important one, but this is the one that I can do something about from where I sit here in my home office. I will point out that the requirement for all of this information makes many of these worse. Take someone who's a refugee and homeless, for example, how are they going to put in their address information. Take, for example, somebody who's disabled being required to provide all of this information. Take somebody who's at risk, where even studying is against the law, providing this information exposes them to more risk. Take somebody who just wants to casually learn something on the fly, the requirement to provide all of this minimally inserts a five minute barrier before they access it. I know it doesn't seem serious. But to me it is serious. And even more to the point. During this conference and other conferences like this, there's been a lot of discussion of open educational practices and the role that we play as educators providing open learning. When the first thing you see when you're signing up for a course is a demand for registration information. It sends to me a very clear message to the student, it says, we the provider are in charge. Our access is conditional and subject to our needs and interests. It also says we are watching you. This is the beginning of a surveillance kind of environment, and very often, not always but very often, it sends a clear message, you will be monetized one way or another, you will be monetized. We refer marketing will use you in our application process for federal funding. We will use you as a potential future fee paying student at our institution, one way or another, we will monetize this. And to me that sends the wrong message. Turning into something that's transactional and turns the student into a commodity. Some people argue that open access is all about licensing. And that institutions might choose a less open license and non commercial license specifically to prevent potential competitors from reusing their content. But I'm not so sure about that. I think that most providers don't want to be doing a commercial transaction when they're offering open learning or open education or resources. That I think is why the majority, the significant majority of licenses used by educators and authors. Stipulates a non commercial condition. And I think personally that requiring and monetizing students goes against the wishes of the people who are attaching non commercial labels to their content or courses. We could argue about this but that's for a different form. I think we still need to design for open regardless of licensing. I don't think that licensing gets us off the hook. It's about democratizing knowledge. It's about creating socially inclusive instructional design, including accessibility inclusive language. Activeness. It's about increasing social inclusion and providing opportunities for people to be not just consumers or receivers of a service, but actual participate participants in the creation of their own knowledge. This comes from even ironically. The article was open, but it was published in a PDF that was protected such that I could not copy the text from the PDF and so I had to provide a screenshot here. Bad eating bad. I want to go beyond the provider consumer mods model. An example of going beyond this is the open syllabus. And it invites students course leaders whomever to provide domain specific examples of course syllabi. Thus, making it clear what their what the courses are teaching what references they use, etc. Now, it's not so much the content of the syllabi that interest me here, but rather the mechanism that's being employed to create this capacity in the community. You have a way for people to contribute to the knowledge base. And you have an easy way via the open syllabus explorer and I checked and there's no login required for that. You can go in and explore the syllabi. And you can see the results of this, the graph kind of representation of all of this knowledge that just publishing this information just posting or allowing people to contribute this information provides. And I think that's a pretty good model generally. I think it's a model about working toward open and everyday practice. You know, things like and educating students about the benefits of openness, allowing them to contribute through open educational practices supporting and empowering students as public scholars. And this attitude that we take right off the bat. Instead of treating them like clients who must subscribe to our service. We're treating them as colleagues or collaborators in a wider social endeavor, and that is the model of education that I think more typifies what we ought to be thinking about when we're thinking about open learning. Now you're free to disagree with this assessment. But I think we have a point of discussion here right. I think we have a point where we need to bring out the arguments and the evidence for or against one way of thinking about open learning. And I think that this model, rather than a provider consumer model is probably a better more open model argument could be made. We only have 40 minutes and it's a lifetime kind of argument. We look at the trends that are happening in learning. And this is one that I saw in an article. Learning anytime personalized learning choices of how to learn project based learning less so but data interpretations, different ways of assessing student ownership of the curriculum. Some of these are still pretty prescriptive when you're saying you know you should take project based learning, you should do hands on learning. That's pretty prescriptive giving or allowing the option or don't even like the word allowing. Maybe how about enabling or supporting the option for project based or hands on learning are more in line with an open learning approach. Certainly things like learning anytime, everywhere, anywhere, things like student ownership of curriculum, etc. These are things that we support with open learning, and that begins with removing the registration requirement. Another example, the same sort of thing, learning circles, free facilitated study groups for people who want to learn. They have a peer to peer university, who while they have learning circles you'll notice down there in the lower left hand corner on the slide, they have, yes, registration. Why do we need that, even things like looking at assessments and statistics and of course that's one of the big reasons for requiring registration. Suppose we didn't look at grades and test scores. Suppose we didn't look at attendance graduation rates. Suppose we looked at what people actually did where they did it instead. The requirement of registration and tracking commits us almost to and is part of the commitment to things like grades, test scores, attendance, etc. So, I tweeted the other day and I don't have the slide of that tweet, unfortunately, but I tweeted the other day. I tweeted that I have worked with my online courses to remove all possibility of tracking things like grades, test scores, attendance, etc. Every way that I could think of to block my ability to know who's in the course. I've done that. I've been in a slide and it's not there so I'll just say this now. What has the result of that been. First of all, kind of an existential crisis in the sense that now it feels like nobody's taking the course. Which I know isn't true. I'm sure people are taking the course it's just I have no sign of them. I have no problem with reporting because I work for a research agency and anytime I tell them I'm offering a course the first question they ask is all great. How many people took it. And I have to answer them, I don't know, which makes them wonder whether they should continue funding me at all, but they trust me by now so they're not. That's a big problem and you know that's kind of the nice kind of relationship you want to have with your employer. The big thing I think is lacking a mechanism to actually improve the course. But it's not like people have no way of contacting me I've made some avenues available and we'll talk about those. So, but you know I should I assume that silence means everything's okay I guess this way I have to. So these are some costs to me of doing this. I don't think that these costs are onerous. And I think it's better that I bear these costs than imposing the requirement of registration subscription tracking etc. That's exactly right. Mark Wilson saying registration is for the allocation of resources. Some of us are self funded and do not need to be tracked. Again, exactly. So, this is my imperative. Open learning I say should enable enrollment without the requirement that information be provided, hence enabling legitimate peripheral participation with the with the option of greater engagement entirely at the discretion of the learner. With the option of greater engagement entirely at the discretion of the learner. The web used to be like. In a sense that's what the world used to be like and you know I'm not trying to say, you know, let's all go back to burning wood and cooking over open fires. I still think that this is a value that maybe we should be getting back to. And I think that within the open open learning community we should certainly be asking the question, why are we having people enrolling in these courses, registering applying. So, this is the second part of the talk. My MOOCs and currently my ongoing MOOC code ethics analytics and the duty of care is an ongoing experiment in open where I am deliberately trying to resist every possibility of tracking and knowledge collection and commodification of the participants. This is the home page for the course notes, although I provide a mechanism to allow people to sign up for email notifications. This is completely optional. And I am disappointed to say, although there's a lot that can be said about this, I use MailChimp for my notifications. That's terrible. Yeah, it is terrible. Email has been, if I may say, wrecked by both the spammers, but even more significantly by the anti spammers, such that if you're using email notifications, if you don't go through one of these providers, you're flagged as a spammer, which is a problem. But anyhow, it's there, it's optional, but I also immediately after provide an alternative. RSS, which is a syndication format, people can use what are called feed readers in order to access this. They can either use a web based feed reader, they'll have to sign up the web based feed reader provider where they'll be monetized, or they can use a feed reader that they just download and install on their desktop. Either way, they can access the entire contents of the course from this feed ethics.mooc.ca slash feed. And so they can keep up with the course without requiring email, and I consider that a win. I've also shared the process of setting up this mooc. So I issue a public apology for the number of hours of video have produced, but there is a playlist that I've created called Making a Mooc. That's the link to it there in the slide. And I talk about all of these issues that I'm covering over the next few slides in much more detail. These are stream of consciousness videos. I'm record actually recording them as I'm building these courses, and I'm going through the decisions that I've made and why I've made all of these decisions about how to create open access. For example, I have one slide where I talk about setting up zoom. Well, first of all, why I had to create my own zoom account in order to access the admin options and then I go through every option in the zoom setup, explaining why I chose this option rather than that option. So there's much more. I have a free RSS reader to install. Yeah, and I have that on my desktop and it works like a charm. I love it. And, you know, I have anonymous access basically to any RSS feed I want. So, grasshopper and I see Alex anchorly linked to grasshopper. This is my own application. Now, before you ask, it's not a commercial application it is open source the code is available and Docker Docker containers are available so that you can run this on your own, but this isn't a product. This is my research lab. And it's important to understand that because, you know, it's if you use it it has bugs, and it has bugs because I'm constantly tweaking the code to try this that and the other thing and even with this course. As you'll see if you look at my videos, every once in a while I stop and say well I got to stop here go make some changes to the grasshopper code, and then we'll come back and I'll continue. And that's what I've been doing for a number of years. So in grasshopper. There are different types of data. One of the types of data is a course module. Here are the modules in the ethics course. And so I make each of these modules available as a separate page or as a separate piece of data. The modules, in turn, are linked to other course components, they might be linked to individual posts, they might be linked to, well they're linked to the course as a whole, they're linked to things like presentations. And as I as I talked about these modules and course structures. I want you to think about what do we mean by an open education resource because here I consider each one of these modules to be an open educational resource. Each one of them has a specific location on the web. Each one of them has content, and each one of them has links to other resources. So you could access the ethical practices and learning analytics module. But you're going to get some content, but you're also going to get some links to other resources and that's in the central part of thinking of that module as an open educational resource. So that's not the model of what we are so we have where each of them is a standalone thing, and you assemble them like bricks. This is different. This is a different way of thinking about it. And that's how I build the courses in Grasshopper. There are three different ways of looking at the assembly, or the linking of course components. Each of these each box represents a different standalone type of thing, an institution, for example, is a separate object and author is a separate object, each of the modules is a separate object. The modules link up to things like activities, which are live events, resources, which might be media or whatever tasks, etc. They link back to things that might be skills or I could take you back into competency definitions, etc. I'm building here not like, not like a textbook, but these interrelated connections of modules and you might say well, why does this have anything to do with not needing registration. Well, I make this entire structure available to students so that they can access any or all of it without any barriers. So, the other thing I do is to support syndication. So, this is this is one of the major requirements for registration I should have put that back on that second slide one of the reasons why people require registration, and the reason is, if you want to add any content to the course.  The second thing of UNESCO definition says Alex anchor Lee, it does sound like core structure could qualify as a we are. It's not just about granularity. Absolutely. Um, so, I don't think I should set up a course like a discussion board or like a social media site where everyone comes to me and put content on my website which I will then lock down and make disappear at the end of the course that just seems to be wrong. The way my MOOCs are set up the way they've always been set up, you use your own website, or your own application to create content. If you want, you can share that content with us. It's not required by any means. But if you want you can share that content with us just tell us where it is. So that we can go and get it. So, and that's what this supports. I do syndication through a two step process. First of all, I ask people to provide their. I'm trying to click on something here on a forum of course it's not a form it's a slide provide your RSS feed Adam or Jason feed link so that we know where your content is. And then the course harvests it and presents or stores a list of feeds and then the contents of these. You know, these are all blogs provided by individuals. They use a course tag, in this case, hashtag ethics 21 which believe it or not when I searched on Twitter was not being used by anyone so bonus. So people just do their, they write their blog post, they use the tag ethics 21 my harvester harvests it brings their content into the course or more accurately brings a link to their content into the course and makes that link available to everyone else. Of course, shouldn't have to depend on the course for that list of links. So you can download the list of feeds in a format called OPM L load them into your own RSS reader. And now you're reading everybody else's contributions to the course without ever accessing the course. And that's a no registration mechanism. Similarly, the course newsletter takes all of these different course elements modules presentations, videos, the links that are provided by people that have been harvested, put some off together here is a HTML version of the newsletter. Not only that, but also I provide an RSS version of the newsletter and even a JSON version but nobody uses the JSON version, just too early for that. So that people can access this again with zero registration. Activities and events. I've integrated with calendar options. I've tried to keep activities and events as non connected to the course as possible so the course provides access to these but we use things like zoom or whatever, but I've set up a mechanism so that you can go to what I call the activity center. That's the thing in the middle, and watch the activity and even participate in the activity through comments without actually registering anything at all. And the list of activities can be harvested and put into your own calendar, either one by one, or as a whole set and I use a thing called the calendar ICS format for that. And then adding and sharing media. This is what I call a presentation page and honestly, I don't know why every conference, and every, every individual making presentations doesn't provide this thank you Lisa. This is my, these are my slides I was using slide share but then it was sold and now they throw up a great big barrier, asking you to subscribe to other things that they offer. I was using Microsoft, but for various reasons that was horrible. Now I simply use a plugin offered by Mozilla that allows me to put in my presentation as a PDF. This is a video embedded in YouTube, not ideal, but I'm still working on that activities and looks wrong way. Mechanisms to upload and share media to support this presentation page so I'm making these original format documents widely available so that you don't have to subscribe to get at them. This is a podcast and transcript same sort of thing I record audio of all of these presentations I recorded the transcript. This is the Google recorder that records the transcript, again, making these accessible without login, so that you have a variety of ways of accessing the course. I can talk for a whole hour about how I change the flow so that you can choose how you go through the course rather than having it prescribed for you. Publishing. This is the way to break the sign in barrier. Publishing is just the place where I work on the course and create and organize the content, but then I send it out to the world. And ideally in the long run, it eventually lands in your personal learning environment. For importing imagine this flow reversed where you can contribute to the course through any of these mechanisms, and by that way, add your content to the course content. Next phase and this is what I'm experimenting with this course is to actually take the content types and making them elements in the same way so for example, we have a module called applications analytics so an application is a data type. Each application becomes an individual piece of data with its own address with its own acts free and open access with its own participation in this network of linked data. And the entire structure of the course contents can be organized into Jason distributed and ultimately once people have these things imported into their own PLE. The, that's what I'm trying to build a grasshopper it's not all there yet, but that's the vision that I'm working toward. That's the talk the presentation and I do still have some time for questions. And I'd be happy to take them. I know it felt a bit rushed but I actually finished with two minutes left in my time so comments, questions, I'd love to hear them, and the audience has been stunned into silence. Either that or they're fleeing. Well, okay. Thanks everyone I hope you found this interesting. You can still join the course. Am I affiliated with the UNESCO open education project. I'm not know, but I'm certainly supportive of it. Thanks everyone. It's been a pleasure having you here. I'll stay on after the session and session recording ends in case anyone wants to talk a little bit more formally or chat in the chat.