Mom, you're telling me, that my husband, is your high school sweetheart too? If you like cheating revenge stories, you found the best place for your vengeful needs. This jaw dropping revenge story, goes straight into the brutal part, and will become continuously more brutal as it's told. Before we start, when the like button asks you if it looks fat in its new jeans. Be honest by saying, no, but the fat does. Naturally, viewer discretion is advised. This revenge story, might be disturbing to cheaters. This story is told from the female perspective. I have been with my husband, since we were 15. I got pregnant at 17 and we moved in with my parents. I gave birth to my now 22 year old daughter. We got married at 18 shortly after. I'm 40, he's 39 now. My parents have been married for 43 years. We're a big family. I have six siblings, the three oldest are my sisters. The twins are 20 and another 18 year old brother. My dad's father passed shortly after our wedding and left his ranch style house to my father. My grandparents built a house next door to my parents when they retired. My parents decided to let us live in this house and told us, this would be my inheritance. My husband and I had no issues with this. We went on to have more kids. We have a 20 year old son and two daughters, aged 14 and five. On top of that, I'm pregnant with my last child, a boy, due in April. I thought I had a good marriage. We were intimate more than twice a week. We went on date nights, we bought each other gifts, we didn't fight. My entire world was shattered on New Year's Eve. When I returned early from a girl's trip I had taken with some friends. I walked into my bedroom to find my mom having sexy time with my husband. My mother screamed at me to get out of their bedroom, which really shook me up even more. Unfortunately, my oldest daughter was also home in her bedroom across the house, getting ready for a party. She ran out and witnessed it all. She saw her grandmother, covered in a bed sheet, running out of our house next door to her house and slammed the door. My daughter was devastated and went to my sister's house. I asked her not to say anything until I first talked to my husband. That night, I asked him for the truth. He told me that my mom seduced him when we were 18, while we were living in their house. They'd been having unprotected sexy time at least once a month, for longer than we were married. I ran the math and was horrified, because the timeline meant that my twin brothers and youngest brother could be my husbands. I immediately called my dad and told him to come to my house without my mom. I made my husband confess and my dad was devastated. Apparently, he and my mom were high school sweethearts too. Needless to say, we could hear my mother screaming from her house when he confronted her. I then told my older sister. She and I decided to have her throw a party for the whole extended family and we invited my ex's family as well. At the party, I had my oldest daughter take all the kids to our basement and put on a movie, leaving only the adult children and siblings. Then I told them, exactly what they'd been doing. Most of the family is on my side, except my three youngest siblings, one sister and the ex's entire family. They all say I'm the douche for dropping this publicly. Word got out in my mom's best friend, who is on leadership at my mom's church, which is also my childhood church, called me to verify. My mom has since been let go as the children's pastor there, and she claims I've essentially ruined her reputation and life. My dad kicked her out and she's now living with one of my sisters. Lastly, my dad insisted on a DNA test for the three youngest boys, before he'd consider anything to do with their marriage. Hold tight, because the results were horrific. The twins, are my husband's biological children.  My father and I are discussing for me to move in his much larger house. He wants to sell my grandfather's house and help me by financing a new home, so I can get rid of the memories. My husband is actually appalled and furious at me, because I prove that he is actually becoming a dad for seven kids, instead of the five. Plus, I'm also going to take half of his business away from him. My husband started his own HVAC company a few years back, and for the first five years, I helped him get it set up, ran the office completely, and took time away from my teaching career to help him get this established. In my state, all marital assets, including businesses are split 50-50. Since the house was still in my father's name, my husband will get no money from the sale, neither will my mother, since inherited assets are not subject to be split and divorces. My mother is also likely to not get any alimony, as our state is not a no-fault divorce state. I'm now over a month removed, still extremely bitter and angry at my mother. Especially at her hypocrisy of calling me a skank and shaming my family, when she's the one who did this. I also despise my ex with everything within me now, as he was sexy timing both my mom and me in some instances. Coming to our bed minutes later. Imagine being happy to be pregnant, and even more so when you have a shared a pregnancy with your mother. I found it so cute and fun. But in reality, he got my mother pregnant in less than a week after getting me pregnant. So she was carrying my half-siblings. He has broken all trust I had in man and being faithful. I have already procured a good lawyer, from the firm that helped us in financial matters for both me and my dad, and my dad is helping pay for it. My twin brothers, one of my sisters, and my entire ex's family, have gone no contact with me and my minor children. My children have essentially lost all of their grandparents but my dad, two uncles, and an aunt on my side, and my husband's three brothers. All due to this mess. I've also developed ulcers and digestive issues because of this, so I'm visiting the doctor soon and I've been in therapy since the first week of January. I've offered this for my two adult children, in case they need family therapy with all of us together, but they're doing individual therapy right now. My 14-year-old knows that we're getting divorced and why. She's so angry at her dad that I struggle sending her to his house on the weekends. I feel like she's old enough to make a decision on that, but I don't wanna damage her relationship with her dad. I've told all my kids that it's okay to love their dad, even if he hurt me. But the oldest two are resolute and have cut him off 100%. I won't tell my youngest two until their team. Then I'll let them in on why we got divorced and everyone else has agreed to not spill anything until they're old enough to understand. As for how I had no idea this affair was going on, my husband confirmed to me that they would have sexy time at my mom's office at church. They would do it in their cars, at a motel, and even at the time when we were building the business. They started doing it routinely in his office once I went back to teaching. They also did it in our houses when my father would go away on business trips or I'd be out of town. It was a pure coincidence that I came home a day early from a trip because I was uncomfortable from being nearly seven months pregnant and just wanted my own bed for me to find out. Knowing they'd be carrying on this full blown affair still if I hadn't caught them is what I'm still upset about. The fact that the grandmother and father of my children cared so little about destroying our families is what I can't get past.  To add insult to injury, my husband confirmed in one of our mediated conversations that the affair started when I apparently made him angry. He didn't tell me and instead vented to my mom when they were alone. She comforted him and they had sexy time. He loved it and then pursued her after that. He said he would have divorced me but knew he'd get cut off from her and since he was more into her sexy time wise, he chose to stick it out with me. He told me I was a placeholder of all the betrayal and low blows that statement is what keeps me up at night. I tried hard to go the route of a mediated divorce but my ex told me yesterday through his lawyers that he doesn't believe that the baby I'm carrying is his. Apparently, he wants a DNA test as soon as he's born because he doesn't wanna support a child that isn't his. He also believes I routinely cheated on him through our marriage and that I knew about his ongoing affair and used that as my excuse to have my own affairs. None of that is true but I kind of wish it was because it would make the divorce easier. My lawyer basically told me to get ready for a long, drawn out brutal contested divorce and that my ex is likely going to try every underhanded tactic in the book to make my life even more miserable. I had a phone conversation with my aunt today and she told me there is a family history of cheating in our family on their side of the family. My grandma cheated on my grandpa for years but they reconciled. My aunt herself had multiple emotional affairs but is still married to my uncle. She tried blaming genetics on my mom's affair. I laughed out loud at the absurdity of that attempt to justify her affair and my aunt is now mad at me for not hearing in her goofy explanations for cheating out. I'll add that my mom shared these thoughts. My dad and lawyer both say I should hear her out so I'm still considering doing it but it'll be right before we meet in early March to establish custody. I should mention that while feeling cheeky I asked my aunt to validate that if my mother inherited the skank gene to whom she passed it on too and how did grandma manage to pass it on to her two daughters? So in all transparency it would probably be the reason why she's mad in retrospect. I've honestly lost all sympathy for cheaters after this. So a small recap. My ex accused me of also being unfaithful because he was and once a DNA test when our son is born. My aunt exposed multiple affairs on my mom's side of the family and tried to claim its genetic and hereditary. My dad and my lawyers encouraged us to meet with my mom for evidence and for closure. So I'll go into what her answers were when we did meet. We went in department and talked about her choices. I met with my mom, dad, and our lawyers last evening. Essentially, my mom said that she knew it was wrong but enjoyed the attention. The sexy time was great and she enjoyed the thrill of it. She kept sleeping with my dad because she enjoyed their financial stability and carefree life and wanted to stay married.  She also admitted to enjoying the knowledge that my ex enjoyed sexy time with her more than me. She then said that she is moving in with my ex at his new place and that she invited the boys to live with them. The twins have visited once since the affair went public and told her they don't like my ex and refused to treat him like he's their father. She had the audacity to say that eventually, they'll come around once she's married to my ex and then she'll have her family back. I laughed out loud and told her she was delusional and needed psychiatric help. Then I told her I would be taking out an order of protection against her so she'd have no access to my minor children. She called me a jealous and ungrateful cow for not appreciating that she didn't abort me and let me live. She said I should be happy that they didn't kick me out when I came home knocked up. She even had the nerve to say I should be thankful because she kept my husband happy when I couldn't so he didn't divorce me and leave me a broken and damaged good single mother. She then told my dad that she's the victim because she suffered from postpartum depression after my birth and my dad ignored it. So it made her feel alone and she felt justified in hating me and to have the affair. After hearing that, you'd think that's the last top of this story, but it isn't. It gets worse. She admitted to having multiple affairs from six months after I was born until New Year's Eve. She emphasized that she'd still be doing it if I hadn't ruined everything. So my 38 and 34 year old sisters may not be my dad's either. My dad is even more heartbroken and angry, but we did have both our lawyers present and we got it on record. My dad has already reached out to my siblings, but to nobody's surprise, I guess my 38 year old sister already knew it was a possibility because my mom told her about both affairs when the twins were born. When she heard this, she must have thought that they might not be my dad's too and chose to keep it from us. My dad is devastated by that, even more than losing his relationship with my mom. I'm not sure if their relationship will ever recover. I genuinely have no clue what is wrong with my 38 year old sister. My other sister, who is 34, doesn't want a paternity test and said our dad will always be her dad. My dad is fine with that. I sent a message to my ex through my lawyer, it notified him of an order of protection that I would be filing tomorrow, so that my kids won't have to go to my ex's house if my mother is there. Neither one has even attempted to find new housing either, so I guess she's planning to move into my ex-in-law's house? I really don't want my kids around that mess. He is yet to respond, but at this point I really don't care what he wants. Little side note, I exposed them on social media, talking about what they did openly. My family knows about the social media posts as do the lawyers, but my ex and mom, who I rather call my egg donor, have zero chance of a good outcome in the divorce.  They can stew in their filth and know that not only does our town think they're terrible, so does the world. And I have permission from my younger sister to share what happened. I don't really care what my 38-year-old sister thinks. I gave birth to my son in the beginning of April. He is healthy and I had no health complications. At the end of March, I was able to get temporary full physical and legal custody of my kids. My 14-year-old daughter asked me if I'd be willing to do family therapy with her and her dad. I did not want to do it. I fought it, but eventually I chose to do so, for the sake of my daughter and her need to process everything and hopefully move on. I learned a lot more about the relationship between my ex and my egg donor, due to homework the therapist gave us. My ex did reveal more things, which I believe to be true. My mom had actually tried to seduce him well before we were of age. From my ex's recollection, when my egg donor took over the youth group, I was 15 and he was a few months from turning 15. The grooming began then. She'd counsel him privately because he needed it. They kissed at some point when he was still 14 and that was all they did, meaning they'd make out during these sessions until he turned 18. It was right around the time of the first kiss that my mom convinced him to ask me out and date me so they could keep seeing each other without suspicion. At this revelation, I was both devastated. My entire relationship was built on a lie and my husband never loved me, and also a sense of relief, knowing that I had absolutely nothing to do with air affair. The reason I believe this is true is that when he asked me out, I had to get permission from my parents to date. At the time, the rule was that no one could date before age 16. My mom went to bat for me, or so I thought. We started dating right after he turned 15. The timeline adds up. My dad is currently looking into potential other cases of abuse and manipulation right now, with the help of the church officials. Nothing has turned up, and truthfully, while I hate my mom, I find it hard to believe she'd have the stamina to carry on multiple affairs with other younger boys. I think she seduced him, knowing I liked him and wanted to feel superiority over me. Looking back, all of this makes sense, her treatment of me and my children in relationship to her other grandkids.  My 22-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son are still not speaking to him, which he has come to grips with and understands, they'll likely never reestablish contact with him. The twins and I have reconciled fully. Now for my evil mom, the egg donor. After the last phone call with my aunt, I cut off contact with her and my grandmother. I was tired of my aunt trying to guilt trip me into talking to my egg donor. My grandma is a whole other problem and is beginning to show signs of dementia and senility. She is still harassing my egg donor and calling her a skank of Babylon, which I'm okay with. But the other stuff she's doing and saying is not something I want to add to my life of stress. Two of my good sisters were the ones who helped me with labor and delivery plan. My ex knew what the plans were, but also that I did not want him at the hospital until I had already given birth and was in a better place for him to meet his son. He agreed to this. The day I went into labor, one of my good sisters took my youngest two children to her home while the other stayed with me. Apparently, my 14 year old daughter needed something from the school and reached out to my ex to pick it up. As he was still on the official pick up list, he no longer is and drop it off at my sister's house. My egg donor was with him when he took the call. He refused to let her come along as I did not want my children around my egg donor. She apparently followed him in her car to the store and then all the way to my sister's house. There she threw a temper tantrum on the front lawn of my sister's house. My ex broke up with her and told her she was too much drama and it just wasn't worth it anymore. She flew into a rage and physically attacked him and started destroying things in my sister's yard. The cops were called and my egg donor was arrested for domestic violence. At that point, my ex, my sister and I all took out orders of protection against her due to the instability and the situation. My ex moved into an apartment close to the HVAC company. My 14 year old daughter has decided not to forgive him and told him that she didn't wanna be around him currently. So only the five year old visits my ex. We've established contact through a custody app and we'll be revisiting the custody issue in June. I will be pursuing full legal and physical custody until my ex can prove to me that he's done the necessary therapy and treatment he needs.   Yes, he has met his newborn son. He met him the night I gave birth. I also allowed his in-laws and brothers to meet him as well. His in-laws and I are currently setting up plans for the 14 and five year old to have time with them as well as times they can come visit my newborn. My ex is allowed supervised visitation at this point not a court ordered visitation but my wish is which he is adhering to as he does his therapy and rehab and he gets regular time with a five year old. He does get access to our newborn at least once a week if he comes with his parents, if he wishes. He's seen his son at least six times since I gave birth and three in my presence. We're slowly rebuilding civilized communication. As for the other divorce proceedings he's agreed to a mediated uncontested divorce and I'll be getting half of everything including the business. I'm choosing to sell my shares to one of my ex's workers who'd like to become a partner. The ex is happy with this and I'll be happy to be completely rid of any ties to my ex. My dad was able to sell my old house. It didn't even get listed as our realtor knew a family looking and I have begun looking for houses about 45 minutes away from my dad. As for the egg donor, she has gone into hiding. Once the twins told her unequivocally they'd never live with her and that they wanted nothing to do with her especially after how she got arrested she began a whole lot of guilt tripping and blaming them. She is now contesting the divorce from my dad and only speaking to him through her lawyer. As for my 38 year old sister she got a wake up call from this whole thing when my mother called her and berated her for 45 minutes for not bailing her out of jail. Apparently, this sister has been going through fertility issues. Like I said, I don't talk to her and had no idea and she's been stressed out and anxious and feeling bad about herself which is why she let our egg donor manipulate her because she felt good about herself when she was getting all the positive attention. When she wasn't willing to pay the money to bail her out as she and her partner were saving up for another cycle of IVF she realized that she was being manipulated and reached out to me. We have begun slowly talking again but she is on my side regarding this all. She is also talking to my dad again which for his sake I'm happy that he is able to reconnect with her. Back to the DNA test we did it a few weeks ago and of course he is definitely my exes. Having my son has been a pleasure and joy and he and my other kids my support system of my dad and siblings has gotten me through this and will continue to do so. I am hopeful that at some point I will be able to deal with my ex without anger and bitterness seeing as he is trauma from what my egg donor did to him. I'll be okay. Like I said, this will be my last update on this. So thank you for all the kindness, love and support. You stay till the end which means you're the one I make these episodes for. I wanna take this moment to thank you. I really appreciate you because you bring me a great amount of joy. Subscribe for future uploads and show your vengeful devotion by tickling the like button without mercy. 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Science is fun. It helps you to learn and know what fun it would be. Fascinating, interesting, mysterious, wonderful. But this is only the beginning.  This is called latent fingerprints. By the positive means of personal identification and form an indisputable link in the chain of evidence. It is our responsibility to identify things that are made by the various body fluids. Old-fashioned guesswork is replaced by certainty, saving hours and following useless clues. The facilities we have available for this purpose include the emission spectrograph, the mass spectrograph, fibers attached to the window casing. These pieces of evidence are preserved for laboratory examination. When physical evidence is found, it is immediately photographed. They collect and preserve any type of evidence for laboratory analysis. Here are dual microscopes being used to see if two bullets are of identical make. It's weird science. They may prove innocence as well as guilt.


So I'm talking about Gutenberg GraphQL in government anybody heard of Gutenberg by chance So yeah, who am I? I'm a senior WordPress engineer at Digital First Media in Denver Denver native been there my whole life WordPress developer now for about a decade full-time love WordPress open source in general I created and maintain a WordPress plug-in WP GraphQL, which is part of what I'm talking about today Free and open source if you want to check it out So back in February I worked for about three months February through May on a government project I'm not going to talk about the particular government agency but as a government project that was moving to WordPress and at the time Gutenberg was tentatively going to launch in April of this This year, so we're like let's go all in on Gutenberg. Let's let's build the site on Gutenberg So that they're prepared for the future. So first thing we tackled was the home page And I want to talk a little bit about that So we used Gutenberg has a feature called block templates where you can lock templates So you could build blocks create a template lock it so that users can't drag and drop the blocks It's just fixed to what you want it to be So this example we had like a home page hero block where they could edit in Gutenberg But they couldn't drag it and drop it around it was always the first block Then we had a recent news block where they could curate news or just have it pull recent news from the post And then a leadership block where they could highlight leadership of the government agency So I want to look at just the home page so you could go do this for your own Gutenberg sites if you wanted to So this is an example of a wissy wig, you know in Gutenberg You can edit it looks like what you're what you're working on And here's the code to do that if you wanted to do it So on pH this back in the PHP side of your WordPress theme or plug-in you had a filter allowed block types This tells Gutenberg what block types to allow on the given template So in our case we're gonna filter if the template is home dot PHP Only allowed these few posts are these few block types So in our case we had home page hero curated posts curated staff And then you set this property template lock all and Gutenberg is gonna treat it As if it's locked so the user can't drag and drop around so you can create these fixed templates So I know there's a lot of hesitation on Gutenberg. Well, maybe people have too much control So you can kind of take some of that away if you want to So that's one way to do it. I want to look at one one small block This is just a prototype of a block that I built for a production site for the government site This is just an example of it. It's not the real one So we had this curated post block Where they could either toggle between recent posts and it would just auto pull in three recent posts Or they could search for specific posts curate them in There's a hundred ways to do it. This is one approach So over on the on the right side, you'll notice the block inspector has three fields So here we'll go ahead and add the curated post block on the right side I can search for posts select one and in real time You'll see it updates so I can preview what what this post is going to be So I just want to walk through how to build a block like this And one approach that I took for it So this first part we have the this called an inspector in Gutenberg. You have these inspector controls and What's happening behind the scenes you have a block that has these attributes. It's a JavaScript block This block is going to make an HTTP request to talk to WordPress to get some sort of information in our case We're searching for posts and in response we want Posts to populate the list of potential posts to select in my case. I'm using plug-in graph WP graph QL So the block makes a graph QL request to WordPress Says hey, I want a list of results of posts matching the keyword that I typed in so that I can populate this select box Graph QL is obviously our WP graph QL is a WordPress plug-in. So it's PHP uses PHP to execute against my sequel All right, get to your data sends it back up to your block And then Gutenberg has a concept on the block level called set attributes so I can take the IDs of these posts that I'm selecting in the post picker and set the IDs on my block and then in real-time my block can Rerender those results. So this is an example of a graph QL query to search posts if you're using WP graph QL so I can Nice thing about graph QL is it's very declarative.  That's a string That's what I'm going to expect as the user types as they're typing I send this request that uses what they've typed as that variable and then in response I want the ID of the post the title of the post and the date of the post You can see as I'm typing in the preview what I what is being rendered is the title and the date So those are the attributes I need back so I can specify with graph QL the specific attributes I want back I get it and then I can render it in my component This is a tool called graphic whole that you can use to You know debug things with graph QL. You could test your queries test mutations things like that So graph QL similar to rest in that you get you send a HTTP request to wordpress and you get a JSON response back Big difference is you you specify very explicitly up front what you want to have returned It's not implicit where you just hit an endpoint and get something back So this is an example of that in action So I can take this query that specifies what I want for my component I can go to this tool test it make sure it's behaving the way I want it and then I can go implement it So then we have another query to render The as my content is changing from the post that I pick. I have another query that takes those post IDs queries data back from wordpress that I can render my blocks. So this query here Takes those IDs that I set for my post picker Tells graph QL. I want these as my variables these three IDs or however many IDs are selected I want to search for posts and in this case I can set arguments in graph QL I say I want exactly three posts returned and then I can filter my graph QL request I want post where it matches these IDs that I passed and I want it ordered by those IDs in ascending order And in response, I'm going to get that data and I can render those posts You'll see this is this dot dot dot post fields. That's called the fragment of a query in React or view or component-based development This allows you to write fragments of data that you want from the API and couple it with your component itself So in this case, we have a post card a card component that renders the post We have a couple pieces of data We need to render to that component such as the featured image source URL the title of the post the excerpt and the link of the post and So when we're building our component we can specify our data dependencies at the same level as our markup that renders the data So you don't have to have this like spaghetti code of like trying to figure out in one part of your application How to get the data how to wire it up together and then prepare it for your component you can specify right at the component level Here's what I want and then as your application grows Let's say we added a new field that we wanted you can just add it right here to your graph QL fragment And then you don't have to like search your app and figure out where all this logic to fetch data lives So we can take a look if we're building this component with a fragment We need the source URL for a featured image. So now we can render it because we have that data We need the title in the excerpt and then we need the link So graph QL is going to respond with just that set of data. It's not going to send us the whole post object It's not going to send us the whole media item object. It's just going to send us these fields that we asked for If you have multiple of the same block or even multiple different blocks graph QL is this concept of query batching so Where with rest you're going to hit End point and end point and end point you can't really hit like seven end points with one request Easily that I know of at least With graph QL you can send an array of requests and get one each make one HTTP request and get one HT Response as an array back. So in this case, I have two blocks that say hey I want to get these curated posts so I can render them and if we look at the actual request. It's one HTTP request one response two different queries and then my client my react application to take that data and render it I Think I'm about out of time. So I've got some links to resources WP graph QL website the tool WP graphical I used a client tool called Apollo client, which is a client that talks to graph QL Graph QL.org is the main graph QL spec website graph kills a spec that's been implemented in PHP Java Scala JavaScript like anything you can think of pretty much and then for my examples I use create good and block I'll also tweet out later. I'll put a repo for the actual block Plug-in on github under my name Jason ball Thank you


Francisco for VMworld 2015. This is Silicon Angle. It's theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the civil noise. Day one of three and a half days of wall to wall coverage. I'm John Furrier, my co-host Dave Vellante. Our next guest is Mark Lewis, who's the CEO of Formation Data. Two years in stealth startup. Welcome back to theCUBE. Great to see you. Guys, great to be here. This is the best show ever, so. Industry Vet now entrepreneur. Congratulations on your launch. I'll be emceeing your launch event at St. Regis shortly and looking forward to that. So I got to ask you right straight up what is going on with this ecosystem? A lot of change happening. You've been developing for two years. You've been keeping your eye on the marketplace, building a company. What's the big trend? What are you guys tapping into? What are you water skiing behind in terms of the mega trend? It's amazing. To us, the mega trend is really this great amount of agility that I think the public cloud and DevOps models and whatever you want to call it, data as a service models are really aspiring to. But what we see is enterprise IT is stuck. They're stuck because they're stuck in the old legacy models. And you have all of these new things. You see the growth of AWS and Amazon, 81% growth last quarter. Just incredible growth, but enterprise IT is stuck. And I think they're all coming to shows like this, trying to figure out how to get unstuck. So that's what Formation was really built around, was how do we give basically enterprise IT a lever to get into hyperscale systems, to get into real data as a service, API connected storage, and even things like microservices. I tweeted last night to come up in the VM world and I said, cloud has changed the game. Architecture to achieve hybrid cloud needs to look at the same architecture on-prem and on-prem or private cloud. Explosion of containers in Kubernetes points to a new model of development where under the hood has to be lightweight, agile, and high performance. How does that relate to what you guys do? Because that seems to be the hot trend. I got to get hybrid cloud up and running in the environment, but I also got to power developers. Right. And the problem we saw was that to be very blunt, public cloud was a change of the model. It was an as-a-service model. If I wanted storage from Amazon, I'd put in my credit card and I have storage in two minutes. We created this term called private cloud, but it isn't the private version of that same thing. It was all the same old stuff relabeled in marketing terms. So we, everybody got stuck and then trying to hybridize those two things was kind of incongruous. So now what we have to do is we have to build real private clouds, that might use OpenStack, that might use Kubernetes, that start to use Docker, that start to do the real things that clouds need to do, which is to be user-driven, on-demand, dynamic, instant provisioning, all of those things. With tooling, by the way, that works across, right? Exactly. Once you do that, then start talking hybrid clouds. Right now, all the clouds are including Amazon and what VMware does is they're just gateways to move data from one to the other. It's like a hybrid cloud between AT&T and Verizon on my cell network. Each has import tools. Nobody has export tools. So that's the challenge and that's what we're seeing in the marketing. But now the developers inherit the baggage as well. So now, the people who are powering the environment in DevOps, for instance, have to enable developers. That also is table stakes now. How do you guys solve that problem for an IT manager or a corporation where, hey, they have a mandate. I want cloud-native development. I got to roll these stuff out fast. We just heard Sanjay Poonan saying, hey, business mobility is now a key thing. Secure our consumerization. That experience is a must-have. How do you guys help that? Yeah, we talked to a lot of customers and we actually found we had two problems. We started out to solve the problem of giving folks a real modern infrastructure on which they could build their new applications. The problem was the timing was such that they didn't know exactly if and how much and when they were going to build it. So investing too much in brand new infrastructure was kind of hit and miss. So what we said was, well, you don't want to keep buying the old infrastructure. So what if we made the new infrastructure compatible? We'll do NFS connectors and block connectors. So we'll give you a bridge to the old so you don't have to keep buying all of the legacy gear. And then we'll also support the new modern foundation for on-demand data services, API-connected storage. So that's how we are trying to bridge that gap now by building what I call data center modernization solutions that lets you start where you are but gives you all the tools to basically move into a DevOps app. Okay, so let me take the enterprise storage disruption equation one step further. And I want you to comment on these two points. All flash arrays on SLAs will drive the quality in tier one legacy environments. And two, distributed scale out storage architectures will ease the public cloud adoption. Do you agree with those? I agree on both. Their legacy is always something that is a very, very long tail. You just not go away. And there's this high end of the enterprise that is just like mainframes have been for 30 years, very entrenched, very important in the business side. And the best way to kind of services is to kind of, to me, make the underpinning as good as you can. And so that means, yeah, that classic enterprise model moves to flash and the best stuff it can. And that's kind of the best you can do within that framework. And it stays there for a long, long time. Everything else is where this big candidate is for real modernization to happen very, very quickly. And if you think about client server computing, it started at the bottom. It didn't start at tier one. It started at the bottom. So that's the same thing. I always joke, I say, you know, give us your crapplications because that's where we all start. And that's where VMware started when it was in test and dev. That's where all of the big companies start. You start with Sadie. So a great entrepreneur, what he solves the problem, makes a lot of money and then creates a new problem and then goes and solves that. Enterprise storage sucks, right? And you help perpetuate the problem. And I perpetuated a lot of it. So congratulations. And you know, you solve some problems, right?  So, and when you talked to me two years ago about what you were doing, you essentially described that we're going to encapsulate the legacy apps, bring them to the new world and drive cloud essentially into the data center. And I said, wow, okay. Everybody's going to get there within two years, but it almost seems as like we've gone backwards. Why? I mean, I'm actually thrilled for you. I'm not going to speak ill of the competition directly or by name, but it's amazing to me to see all of these new companies in storage. And for the most part, I don't see anybody solving the real problem. And to me, you have to have table stakes. You have to build enterprise storage. It has to be protect data. It has to have snapshots and all of those things. But what we were trying to do was to affect the agility of business. And the agility problem right now is who's kind of in control of provisioning and doing all the work. And even with hyper-converged systems and whatnot, in VMware, you have VMware administrators kind of being overloaded by having to do all of this work. We think the software should do that work. Software should do the provisioning. So when we get asked about integrating with vCenter, we're like, well, we will integrate some fault management, but it's not really that important to us because the user is going to provision storage. The app dev guy is going to provision storage. So it's just kind of irrelevant. And I think that too many folks get caught up when you're trying to innovate in, and I'll say this very carefully, listening too much to current customer problems and not trying to see their way to solving. Well, but it's true. It's a great path for making continuous profits, but it's incrementalism and it's safe. But it's not disruptive and innovative. One of the things you see on the website is 10X. If you're going to be a startup, you damn well better be 10X better.  So to be 10X better, you can't just solve that incremental problem. Do you agree? Totally. And I would also say, I always cite the difference between evolution and revolution in storage. And I say the way you know revolution from evolution is the leader's change. So the last time the leader's change was when we went from monolithic storage to network storage, right? We had DEC, IBM, Sun, all the platform guys. And then we had EMC and NetApp. That was a revolution a year ago they changed. Now think about public clouds. Why that, I believe, has been disruptive is because a bookseller is your major player in public cloud. Must be revolutionary. I mean, you can almost assume it because there would be no right to play for a bookseller if they didn't really have something that was really profound. And so that's where I think people should look at this. And yes, the evolutionary steps are great. You embrace them. It's your kind of good, but it's not what's going to make a change for you. So no storage company since NetApp has really achieved escape velocity. True escape velocity. I mean Dave Scott would tell us that 3-part did, but no, it didn't. They didn't have the sales notice but they were inquired from me. I look at, what's the logo today? HP. HP. Right, exactly. So Amazon. Clearly this. Data domain was a great company. CMC. Right, so Amazon has achieved escape velocity. From an exit standpoint though, nothing was over 2 billion. 2.1 billion. But pure storage is a 4 billion dollar value. 90% of startups today are R&D for large storage companies. So will that continue? Maybe 99%. Five. Will we see another company achieve that level of critical mass in your view? Besides, Amazon is there. You will see formation. Really, you're predicting, that's your goal. We are the only one. That is our goal. We did not, I didn't set out to do something small. I didn't set out to be another one of the chain. AccuHires. Yeah, AccuHire. I love that. Nothing wrong with that chain. Hey, a billion dollar AccuHires. It's not bad. It wasn't what we said. I wouldn't have gone to all this trouble though to do that. I really honestly believe that 30 years of network storage is enough. And I honestly believe that while Google and Amazon, a lot of these guys got it right with cloud storage, they didn't give Enterprise IT a bridge. So Enterprise IT is still stuck. And they need this kind of bridge. They need more on-premise solutions. They need more control for their IT. They need data governance. They need things that are legitimate. And they'd still like to be in a cloud model. And Amazon doesn't want to give them a bridge. Amazon's saying, we've got a cool island. You've got to figure out how to get here. They want to import you to the island. Sweet, great. So this M&A thing about storage companies becoming an M&A path for the big companies is interesting. We've seen that track where you want to be different. So I did a little homework preparing for your event tonight. I said, okay, software defined storage. How does that relate to the trends that we follow? We care about the ones that are relevant. Like what developers are working on, what customers want. So I looked at the sales motions of the big companies and their acquisitions. Then I looked at Visa V, potentially your opportunity. So I want you to comment on this. Red Hat bought Ink Tank for the SEF purposes for $175 million. They had a lot of downloads, over 100,000 downloads, big developer traction, object plus file plus block, but poor performance. EMC plus scale I offer $200 million has for the enterprise, 10,000 plus downloads is really good. They have traction with developers, block only. You guys could replace both those products. Yet they don't, the way they sell them, it's like add onto their existing stuff. So are you targeting essentially that kind of opportunity because you could almost argue that, hey, I don't care where they go. I'm going to, I don't care how you slice and dice at EMC or Red Hat. When I started out in talking to customers. Is that an opportunity for you? Or you haven't thought about it yet? It is, and it isn't. SEF is one of our biggest opportunities in the sense that people get the idea that SEF can solve their problem, jump into SEF, realize they can't solve the problem and then they come to us. So it's a great feed-in for a rich drug. But let me explain why- No, but there's traction on the developers. They want that product. They do. But here's this two struggles that those companies have not really, or products haven't achieved, that I believe. There's a lot of guys, I can cite four or five and they'll probably be 10 by next year that can do block, file, and object. It's cool, but that's not game-changing anymore. Everybody's going to have snapshots. Everybody has all those features. It's, do you really have a DevOps model? Can you dynamically provision that stuff by the user? Or does it take basically, like with SEF, a 20-person team writing code around it? So we think the agility comes from, if you look at why people go to Amazon, it's not for cost. And it's honestly not for performance. It's because they can do things quickly and easily. And I think that's where people have missed. They're too focused on block, file, object and not enough focus on agility. I just got a direct message. Thanks from the crowd. Did anyone want to go public? Customers are choosing new vendors and open to change. It seems to be the thread. In theory, vSAN and EVO Rails should be winning the market. But other CI products are doing well. Newtonic, SimpliVity. So the market either doesn't want all VMware or there's a massive opportunity for others. How do you react to that comment? In the focus, I can think back to the day when I was at EMC and there was a worry about Microsoft getting into network attach storage and Microsoft had a lot of cred in the market, obviously. But sometimes you kind of gotta do what you're good at. And it may be a fear of, like you said, too much in one place. But it's also, I look at D-Rog, Newtonics. They have intense focus. They really are focused on a particular solution, a particular set of problems. In a jump ball situation, I think they've got a really good shot and I think they execute well. And I hope we can do the same thing. Scalows, a good product. But I don't think EMC will mature that to where it needs to be as quickly as we can take formation. Even with all those engineers. Well, this is the opportunity that you guys see. Right. Okay, so give us the take on the cloud. So Wikibon just put out research that 50% of the market for the cloud is fragmented. The number one vendor in public cloud is the other category. So what does that mean for you guys? What does that mean for the marketplace? It means that Amazon's doing really well and nobody has found the formula yet. But you guys talked about this in one of your sessions and I commented on it where we're, what inning are we in the cloud? Yeah, so you're a high post. And I said it's, what you got to think of is a double header. Here's two distinct curve. Cloud natives are in the cloud and the non-cloud natives are not. And so you really have these two curves going on where Amazon is the winner in cloud game one. Blew it away. It's 10 to one, everybody's done. 10 run rule. Yeah. Yeah, now we're in the end of it. But now you have game two. It's kind of a new game. Amazon has not won this game because there's some different rules in this game. There's the rules that enterprise IT needs a little bit more control, imagined or not. They want to govern their own data. They want a solution for their own infrastructure. They want a real hybrid cloud. So I think we're just playing the national anthem. I love it. And you saw that interview, we were all over the place. I was like, there's no way. That's why I'm coming. So again, this is the spectrum. There are the cloud natives and then we had VMware on here earlier. So that's cool. So give us the update. You got the event tonight. What's the thing on your thing? Oh yeah, so I do. Get a goat.  So we are a revolutionary storage company and I don't know about you guys, but I get tired of coming to big shows and getting another mouse pad or a selfie stick. So we decided if we're going to be revolutionary, we're also going to be revolutionary in our marketing. So one of the things I loved was sustainability in charity. And so what we do is that if you come and you sign on to formation anytime, you get a demo from us. We will donate a goat in your name to a third world family that needs it. Fully sustainable. They use it for milk and fertilizer. And it's a sustainable thing where they can actually build on it.  Is there a cap on the goats? How much VC funding do you have? We are not goat cap. I mean, we are not goat cap. I mean, you can get, I mean, we saw it, you can see the charity water was a home run. I mean, this is a really great opportunity. I think it's good if we can, you know, have fun, get the job done and kind of try to focus on a little bit about more charity in corporate life. I think it's good. So how many goats have you guys donated so far? Do you have any, share some numbers? I can't share the goat numbers yet because we're just, I mean, the program literally started yesterday with the thing. So no goat numbers yet, but I will tell you, it looks like it could be a pretty sizable. I'm going to get the bulk goat discount from the charity. As we say, we're the sports analogy. Someone of those vendors that don't make the transformation could be the goat of the industry, Dave. So we can always play on that later. Mark, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate you spending the time and sharing some insight and commentary in the marketplace. Congratulations on formation and we'll see you tonight. This is theCUBE live in San Francisco. We'll be back with more live coverage for three and a half days of wall-to-wall coverage to theCUBE. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. We'll be right back.


Welcome back everyone to lecture 47. We're talking about the Funnel of Theorem of Calculus part two. And as we saw previously, note that the Funnel of Theorem of Calculus part two tells us that if we take the definite integral from a to b of a function f of x dx, this will equal f of x evaluated at a and b where capital f of x is some anti-derivative, any anti-derivative of the function little f right here. So what we wanna do is do some calculations of these definite integrals using the Funnel of Theorem of Calculus. And so what this is gonna do is it's gonna require that we look for an anti-derivative of the various functions. Let's start with this one right here, e to the x. To find an anti-derivative capital f of x, we need to find a function whose derivative is e to the x. Well, since e to the x is its own derivative, it also serves as its own anti-derivative. Now the general anti-derivative would be e to the x plus c, but as we've talked about before, when it comes to definite integrals, you don't need the plus c because it just subtracts itself out anyways. So by the Funnel of Theorem of Calculus, the integral from one to three of e to the x dx, this is equal to e to the x evaluated at one and three, which this notation means we take e cubed minus e to the first, which really gets e cubed minus e. And as an exact answer, this is what we get, we get approximate if we want to, but exact answers will be sufficient for us. The area under this curve would be e cubed minus e. For the next example here, let us integrate from three to six, the function dx over x. Now sometimes, I mean, because this dx right here, this differential, is actually this, it's a factor that shows up in this definite integral. The dx is the limit as delta x. What that's like, when it comes to this dx, it's important to remember that the dx right here is the limit of the delta x as the number of rectangles is approaching infinity right here. And so this measures the width, the width of our rectangles. We don't want to forget about it. It's important in terms of our calculations. And again, especially as we go more and more into calculus two and applications of the integral, it's important that we keep track of that dx because it is a physical quantity that's measuring the width of these rectangles and things associated to rectangles. Again, we'll see all of this in the future. And so because of the length times width formula of rectangles at x multiplicatively, and so oftentimes we write dx over x would really mean one over x dx like so. And so to continue with this calculation, if we want to use the fundamental theorem of calculus, we want to find an anti-derivative of our function. And so this we could write as the integral right of one over x dx. And we've seen in the past that there is a function whose derivative is one over x and it's gonna be the natural log of the absolute value of x plus a constant. You want to remember to put absolute values on your natural log. That gives you the most correct anti-derivative. But again, we just need to have an anti-derivative. It doesn't matter exactly which one it is. So the plus c is okay to remove and that's what we're gonna do. So by the fundamental theorem of calculus part two, an anti-derivative of one over x, we can use the natural log of the absolute value of x as we go from three to six. We're gonna plug in six and three. So we get the natural log of six minus the natural log of three. You'll notice that both six and three are positive numbers.  I mean, you would have been right for the wrong reason and I guess I can live with that, right? So we get the natural log of six minus the natural log of three. By logarithmic properties, you can combine that together to get you the natural log of six over three. The difference of a log of logs is equal to a log of a quotient and that then simplifies to be the natural log of two as the area of the curve. And again, exact answers are okay right here. We don't need to worry about a decimal approximations. Probably anyone in their duck could plug that into a calculator. Looking at some other examples right here, let's look at the integral from one to two of four T cubed DT. Because we have to do these anti-derivatives, we don't usually like to segregate, oh, I did it, indefinite integral right here and then indefinite integral right here. When it comes to these calculations using the fundamental theorem, we usually just do them in line. So I first kind of think of this as I'm going to do a definite integral and I essentially sort of like nor, kind of ignore these bounds right here. If I was looking for the definite integral, right, we would be doing by the power rule, we get four over four T to the fourth. But since it's not actually a definite, it's not an indefinite integral, we do have to page into these bounds. We're going to get this one to two right here. Simplifying four divided by four of course is a one, so that goes away. And so we end up with two to the fourth minus one to the fourth. And this provides us the most difficult part of a lot of these anti-derivatives. It's called arithmetic, right? The scourge of many, many children, right? Learning how to do five digit multiplication. It can be a challenge right here. Feel free to use a calculator, these type of, these type of step, this step right here with the arithmetic. This one's not so bad here. Two to the fourth of course is 16. One to the fourth, well one to anything is going to be one. And 16 take away one is 15. So we've, and remember these calculations, we are calculating the area under the curve. So we're looking at the area under the curve, y equals four t cubed as we go from one to two. That area is gonna be equal to 15. And for this last example here, if we wanna integrate from two to five, the polynomial, six x squared minus three x plus five, by properties of integrals, we can actually break this up into three different integrals. We can take the integral from two to five of six x squared dx minus the, minus the integral from two to five of three x dx, and then plus the integral from two to five of five dx. We can do that. And each and every one of these coefficients, the six x we can bring out, the three x we can bring out, and the five x we can bring out. And so we can treat these as three separate integrals. But honestly, when people work through these things, that's not exactly how we consider this. What we kinda do is we just do our anti-derivative in line, is do these all together. So think it of the anti-derivative, all right? Anti-derivative of six x squared, we're gonna get six x cubed over three by the power rule, minus three x squared over two plus five x. We just kinda handle this all together and then write your limits right there, two and five. Simplify your expression if you can, three does go into six, two times, three halves, we're just kinda stuck with that one. And so now we're in a situation where we're gonna plug in, plug in the five into each of these places, plug in the two into each of these places. And so this one will show you a little bit more why the arithmetic will often be considered the most tedious part of this exercise right here. So we're gonna first do the case where we have five. So we're gonna get two times five cubed minus three over two times five squared plus five times five, five times five. That's the first expression. And then subtract from that, we're gonna get two times two cubed minus three over two times two squared plus five times two. Try to simplify these things the best we can. So notice what can we say about this? Well, one thing that can be helpful when you look at these type of calculations with these indefinite girls with the arithmetic part of it is you're gonna notice that because you're plugging in the same numbers in different locations, sorry that is you're gonna plug in different numbers in essentially the same location in the polynomial. There are some like coefficients you could use to try to simplify the arithmetic.  So you could write that as two times five cubed which is 125 minus two cubed, which is eight.  We already did eight there. And then lastly, you're gonna get plus five minus two. And this, if you break up the terms in this way, it can make things a little bit easier in terms of this arithmetic, right? So you're gonna get going on right here. You're gonna get 125 take away eight. That is gonna be 117. Next, you get 25 take away four, which is 21. And then lastly, five take away two, which is a three. And if we perform these, these multiplications, two times seven of 117 will give us 234, right? Two doesn't go into 21 evenly but we can take three times 21 to get 63 over two and then five times three is 15. We can add those together. And then we have to subtract 63 over two, right? I mean, that's really what's left to do. If we add the 15 and the 234 together, we get 249 minus 63 over two. And so in order to add these together, of course, you're gonna get two over two here. And again, I honestly wanna bore anyone with the arithmetic. It's the tedious part, but this is the part we probably know quite well. There's no calculus going on here. In the end, we'll end up with 435 over two as a fraction or you can write this as a decimal as well. Be patient with yourself when it comes to the arithmetic here. But again, this is, the power roll part was pretty straightforward with this because of the anti-dread was we've done before. Be very careful with the arithmetic. Feel free to use a calculator to help you at this stage because again, this is probably our most tedious part of the whole calculation. We'll do some more examples in the next video. Stay tuned. I'll see you then.


In line with its reputation for sensitivity to nature, Japan has a number of indoor spaces that actively include the movements of the weather. Designers such as Kengo Kuma and Toshito Yokuchi, for example, have produced stunning indoor environments animated by the natural movements of the sun, wind and rain. Here we see indoor sunlight passing through a wind-disturbed roof pond. Here, the indoor experience of rain on the same glass roof pond. In this example, wind-animated foliage silhouettes are being cast on a translucent screen. Designing all buildings this way would clearly not only take a great deal of money, but also a long time. There are, however, simple ways to create this kind of natural indoor animation in your own home right now and at minimal cost. All of the following examples were created in my own house for less than $50. Placing an inset screen and a net curtain in an existing window, for example, would generate monorail patterns that change as the wind outside varies. This works even on overcast days, but in direct sun the monorail patterns are also cast as moving shadows on indoor surfaces. If you have a deck or balcony that receives direct sun, the wind-generated movements of foliage can either be back-projected onto shades or directly projected onto interior surfaces. If sunlight passes through small enough openings, between leaves, for example, wind-animated indoor images of the sun can also be generated indoors. Placing a shallow tray of water on a sun-facing balcony or deck can project wind-animated water reflections, either directly onto interior surfaces or onto the back of a translucent shade. Here we see the effect produced at night by directing a security light onto an external water surface. At night, the same external light and tray of water can also project ripples caused by raindrops onto an interior ceiling or shade. Because they are so familiar, these natural movements can keep us alert without being distracting. Best of all, however, like an old friend, they help to calm us.


My name is Ms. Shayna and I'm a librarian here at the Long Beach Public Library. Today I'm gonna be reading you stories about dinosaurs. And if you haven't signed up for summer reading yet, make sure you go to longbeach.beanstack.org to sign up and start earning prizes for some of the reading that you're already doing this summer. And if you've already signed up, don't forget to get credit for joining us today by entering the code dinosaur into your Activities tab on your Beanstack account. Today's story is called Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp. It's written by Carol Diggory Shields, illustrated by Scott Nash. And I'm reading this to you today with permission from Candlewick Press. Thanks guys. Word went out across the prehistoric slime. Hey dinosaurs, it's rock and roll time. Slick back your scales and get ready to romp on Saturday night at the Dinosaur Stomp by the lava beds and the tar pit shore on the mountain top and the rainforest floor. Dinosaurs scrubbed their necks and nails. They brushed their teeth and curled their tails. Can you show me your dinosaur claws? Those are some big teeth to clean. I wonder how long it takes them. Then, ready set go, they trampled and tromped making dinosaur tracks for the dinosaur stomp. Will you stomp with me? Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, plesiosaurus paddled up with a splash. A pterodactyl family flew in for the bash. Can you fly like a pterodactyl? Proud of Sarah Tops brought along her eggs. Diplodocus.  A batch of bouncing babies followed Mama Myosaur. The last time she counted, she had 24. That's a lot of dinosaurs to look after, huh? The old ones gathered in a gossiping bunch sitting and sipping their sweet swamp water punch. Dinosaurs giggled and shuffled and stared, ready to party, but a little bit scared. Ever felt a little bit scared or nervous about going to a new place or to a party with a lot of people? Turns out dinosaurs feel kinda nervous and scared too before big parties. Then a guanodon shouted, one, two, three. Started up the band by waving a tree. Brachio, super and ultrosaurus saying doo-bop, loobop, and a chorus. Ankylosaurus drummed on his hard-shelled back. Boom-a-lack-a-boom-a-lack-a-wack-wack-wack. A boom-a-lack-a-boom-a-lack-a-wack-wack-wack. Penta-Sara Tops stood up to perform and blasted a tune on his favorite horn. They played in rhythm, they sang in rhyme, dinosaur music in dinosaur time. Duckbill thought he'd take a chance, asked Allosaurus if she'd like to dance. Tarkia winked at a stegosaurus she liked. They danced together, spike to spike. The triassic twist and the brontosaurus bump, the raptor rap and the Jurassic jump. Can you jump? Tyrannosaurus rec flat a conga line. There he is. Carnosaurus capered close behind. They rocked and rolled, they twirled and trumped. There never was a party like the dinosaur stomp. Let's stomp again. Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp. The nighttime sky began to glow. Volcanoes put on a fireworks show. The ground was rocking, it started to shake.  The party went on, it was so outrageous. They stayed up well past the late Cretaceous. Have you ever stayed up late at night one time? Did you feel really tired? When I'm at a party, I usually don't get very tired. When the Cenozoic dawns, they were tired and beat.  And they're still asleep, snoring deep in the swamp. But they'll be back next dinosaur stomp, the end. Today we're gonna be doing a rhyme called Five Enormous Dinosaurs, which you can do along at home with me. If you have dinosaur toys, you can pick out your five favorite ones. I picked out a, forgive me if I mispronounce this one, Parasolophilus. I got a Tyrannosaurus rex, my favorite, Brachiosaurus. Which one's this called? You know this one, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops. All right, if you don't have five dinosaur toys at home, you can count with me using just your hand. Five Enormous Dinosaurs letting out a roar, rah! One stomped away, and then there were four. Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, two, three, four dinosaurs. Four Enormous Dinosaurs knocking down a tree, clunk. One stomped away, and then there were three. Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp. One, two, three dinosaurs, here we go. Three Enormous Dinosaurs eating tiger stew. Ew! One stomped away, and then there were two. Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp. Now we just have one, two. Two Enormous Dinosaurs sitting in the sun. One stomped away, and then there was one. Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp. One Enormous Dinosaur left all alone. She stomped away, and then there were none. Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp. An action song called Five Dinosaurs Riding in Cars. So let's go ahead and get in our cars, close the door, put on our seatbelt, check our mirrors, key and ignition, really good time. They said step on the gas and we'll go really fast and they did until one got a flat. Step on the gas and we'll go really fast. Step on the gas and we'll know what I'll do. Don't forget to sign up for summer reading at LawRG and don't forget to earn credit for watching today by entering dinosaur into your activities tab.


Hi, CSAH teachers, thanks for joining in today. This webinar is all about assessments that reach all learners. We are honored that you are taking time out of your busy schedules to tune in. I'm Angela, I lead the community team here at CSAH. I was a kindergarten teacher for 15 years. Love those little buggers. And now I lead the community team because I wanna help you get going with CSAH as well and give you fresh ideas to try in your classroom. Of course, you can connect with me on Twitter, at Mrs. Gaggy. Maybe you're in your PJs already, I'm not sure. It would be a cozy time to do that. But does completing individual assessments make you feel like this? I think this was an actual photograph of me a few days ago in my own classroom. Or maybe like this, right? So we know that this is a really busy, busy time of year for most teachers in most classrooms. I feel like every day is. But we are gonna change your perspective today, dealing all related to assessments. So we're gonna talk a little bit about formative assessments. We're gonna talk about maybe some summative assessments that you do in your classroom that CSAH could play a role in as well. But we're gonna go through lots of classroom examples. We're going to actually try things out here as a student today. And we're gonna take time at the end for your question. So if you don't have a second device in your possession at this time, see if you can grab one and have it close by. We're not gonna jump in as a student yet, but we will have that opportunity because we like to give you a chance to play around here.  As a reminder, any time if you're live, you can type in questions. We're gonna focus the majority of our time at the end to answering your questions. So starting off, why I love CSAH for assessment. Now, when I started using CSAH, that wasn't the first thing in my mind of like, oh my goodness, I'm gonna use this as an assessment tool. But what I realized is so much of the content that my students were adding to CSAH were amazing formative assessments for me. I was allowed and able to hear all of my students' voice. It was providing them with choice and ownership. That thinking was visible. It was super powerful yet very simple. And as a teacher, it saved me lots of instructional time. And specifically regarding assessments, they are organized, documented, easy to show growth. And I wanna pause there for a moment because what I also like because we are, we have this portfolio feature is that students can easily go back and see their growth over time as well. So if you're adding work to specific folders, they could go in the writing folder, for example, and say, oh, wow, my writing looked like this four months ago, wow, I have grown a lot. And of course, builds strong communication with families as well. So those are my personal why I loves related to assessment specifically, but I'm gonna jump into some classroom examples now. Let's just get going, right? Now I wanna just, I wanna take a moment before we go into the classroom examples to state that we probably have teachers that are watching this webinar that teach various grade levels. And I have examples throughout various grade levels, but I hope what you're going to do in this session is really see some examples and then think about your own classroom and think about those assessments that are coming up, right? Like you might have a little piece of paper right now and just for 10 seconds, write down some of those upcoming assessments that you know you are going to complete with either all of your students in your class or maybe a small group of students. Maybe these are assessments that are required but I would encourage you just quickly right now jot down some of those assessments because I want you to have those in your brain because when I show you some examples here, I want you to be able to easily say, oh, this is not the exact same thing that I need to do but I can see how I can use this to support what I need to do in my own classroom. So that's what I hope for you and let's just jump right in. So as I talked about, one of the things I really love is the choice and ownership that using CISA provides your students specifically when you're asking them in an assessment related task, even a formative assessment related task to do something sometimes very specific. So in this example, just by using the photo tool alone, you could do things like a quick math check with photos. So in this example here, I had to do, I had done a patterning assessment with my students and I wanted them, I basically gave them the introduction of, hey, I need to know that you can create a pattern. Go choose materials in our classroom. I don't care what materials you use, choose what you want to create a pattern, right? So they have choice right there. They have ownership because not only are they choosing how the materials they're going to use, but in this example, it was pretty open-ended. I said that they had, in these examples, they had to use at least two colors, okay? And what I love is that it also enabled students to go as far as they could. So typically pre-CISA, maybe this is something that you're experienced with in your classroom, typically this assessment might take place on a piece of paper, right? And it was very structured, but this is a simple way to give some more choice and ownership for your students. Another example, just using photo with drawing layer on top of it. So on the left here, you see this example from a high school chemistry teacher, Jenny, who shared this with me. She's using this kind of as an exit ticket type situation where students are sharing their takeaways from what they were exploring that day. And on the right, you see a very, maybe familiar baseline assessment check with students regarding letter names or letter sounds. However, layered in this, because you're using CISA, a student is reflecting and they're also noting, oh, I'm not so sure about this one. I'm gonna circle this one so I can come back and continue to work on it or explore further. Another example I want to share here is just using the photo tool with drawing and labeling on the top. Again, I think the ability to add extra layers on top of your students having the ability to do this gives insight into what your students are thinking. You really have locks there thinking and shares that with you quite crisply. So here you can see, again, students are given choice in terms of how they are showing what they know about, in this case, fractions. You see a variety of ways that they're building it, how are they annotating it. And again, by looking at these various examples, you as a teacher have a great idea of where to go next. So I wanna play this example as well because this is photo, drawing, and recording voice. And again, in this example, what the teacher was trying to do was get a sense of what the students knew about rounding numbers, okay? So again, student choice, they are choosing their materials. In this case, they chose to do a photo in CISA. They had the opportunity to use any of CISA's tools. It could have been a note. They could have drawn something. They could have, I don't know, done a video, right? And they're explaining. So I'm gonna click on this example so you can hear it. And here we go. I have 13 levels and I'm gonna show you how to round a number. I like to think of it as a mountain and five is here, zero is here. And the number is below five, round to zero. And the number is above five, round to 10. And with my number 13, I would just add a 10 to everyone. And then, since 13 is closer to 10 and 20, I would say the rounding to 10 is 10. All right, so again, when we start adding voice, we have as a teacher the ability to even hear more and hear more in the sense that it's clear what your next step could be or where you might need to revisit with this student. I love this example from Amy Taylor. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share this in this webinar. So this literally just came out, I think, on Monday when I was looking on Twitter, I saw this example. Now, Amy teaches sixth grade science and she just said I'm blown away with the way these chemical reaction assessments on CESA turned out. Their creativity and excitement during this lesson has me wondering why I ever use paper and pencil assessments. This one used sat motion animation app and was uploaded to CESA. So I'm gonna play this example because again, I think it lends into all the things that we're talking about today regarding assessment. So I don't know why that link didn't let me go there. Here we go, keeping you in suspense. This is the observing and invisible gas experiment. We put the base with soda in the rocket base and the vinegar in the rocket and then we put the rocket on the base. It causes chemical reaction and the rocket shoots up in the air and lands. But how does all this happen? Well, the two reactants, baking soda and vinegar in the base and the rocket, when they combine endothermic, a cold reaction that produces three products. Now, if you mind, this is having carbon dioxide. Now let's focus on the carbon dioxide. The rocket fills out the carbon dioxide causing it to shoot off its base. So that makes anyone... Wow, right? Pretty much speechless when I saw that. I loved that example for so many reasons. But as a teacher, when I was viewing that example, I was also checking off all of the pieces of content and information that they truly learned and could not only learn but teach others about it, which is a much higher level of thinking and application of course. So Amy, thanks so much for your willingness to share that example. I think it's just a great example of what students can do when they're given that opportunity to create and share with various tools. So you might be thinking, Angela, this just sounds wonderful, but I have very specific assessments that I need to do with students to the point that we have to use the exact number and they have to respond. So one of my teacher friends, Cindy Vance, who is a kindergarten teacher, you also might be wondering, how do I do this if I only have shared devices? Well, Cindy has shared devices and I think a great solution is to set up a station. So this is a very, it's a scripted exercise in the sense that they have to show specific numbers but they have the choice of what materials they're going to use. So in this example, this is set up as a counting station. The students can go over there and add the correct number of objects to the tub. Student uses C set to take a photo and then the teacher has that evidence of that student performance just simply in this photo. Again, when you think back to that list of assessments that I asked you to kind of jot down quickly, maybe you're starting to think, oh, that makes sense for this one or this is one that I have to do in my class. This is an example from my class from a few years ago and this was an assessment that we actually do district wide and we have to use specific numbers and the materials and everything are all standardized. So typically this would be a one-on-one assessment that students would come back to me and be given a set of numbers and need to put them in order. But we brought in CSA here not only to in this very structured, structured task give them back a little bit of that ownership in the sense that they're going to get to explain it on their own. So in this example, the student has had to put the numbers in order, take in a photo of it and let's just take it, listen. I, the little ones, go in the front. The medium ones go in the middle and the biggest ones go in the middle. Right, so I don't know if you heard this but there was also a little commotion in the background. You probably heard me working with another small group of students but that's just another thing to point out as well. When I talked about at the beginning this ability to almost clone yourself and save that instructional time because students are able to, in this example, pretty much do this independently, I was able to continue working with other students instead of spending maybe 30 minutes pulling a student back one-on-one to do this particular assessment. And of course as a teacher, you need to make a judgment call in terms of what works best in this scenario. Do I need to be sitting physically with the student to pick up on other behaviors and cues that they might be using? You have to kind of think through that as you're approaching what works best to bring this layer in. So I've given you some classroom examples and now you're going to get to experience CSOT as a student. Now I know a lot of you are all over the gamut in terms of your experience level. So you might be a pro, you might be brand new, you may have used it a little bit but for today, we're actually all going to play around as a student. So you can really take this time to explore. So get ready, here we go. Make sure you have CSOT on your device and we are going to be using of course the CSOT class app. And if you tap on that and you are already signed in as a teacher, I'm going to show you right now how you sign out because we are going to be a student today. So in the upper left, go ahead and tap your profile icon. Then you'll tap the gear icon and sign out. So then we are all starting at the same point within CSOT. Again, you can also go to app.csot.me on a web browser to join as well, to participate as a student. So I'm going to pause just for a moment so everybody gets in the spot. So again, tap on a student and in a moment you're going to be scanning a text, a QR code to get into our class as a student. You'll see this QR reader pop up and I just want to let you know after you scan the QR code for our class today, you're actually going to choose the journal that matches the first letter of your first name. So go ahead and scan this class code right now. I will give you a moment to get that, to get signed in as a student. All right, if you're having any issues with that, you can type in the questions but I'm going to keep moving here again. Choose the first letter of your first name. That's the portfolio you're going to use today. And we're going to explore first with photo. We talked a lot about even the power of taking a photo of work to support an assessment that you are doing. So what we're going to do is actually find an object somewhere in your surroundings with a right angle. So what you're going to do is actually tap the green add button, take a photo of a right angle in your environment and then you can use the drawing tools to draw on that photo to show the right angle or further explain your thinking. And then go ahead and tap the green check and add that to Seesaw. So I'm going to give you a moment to play around and do that. Are we doing? Let's check in with our class live. I am going to jump into the Seesaw class that you are joining right now. Yay, we have some posts there, awesome. If you are watching the recording, keep in mind you can participate and scan that QR code as well. It will work for you. It'll just be amazing. So as you notice, I've got some things to approve here. Nice, wonderful. These wonderful right angles that we're seeing. I love it, great poster, right? Look at this, right? So just with these photos, I am getting a great sense of what you know about right angles, very good. I'm going to approve all of those right now. And if you don't have yours in yet, oh, nice, nice, see? Everybody's participating, love it. Of course, we're also sharing portfolios today. So you might see yours pop up with, someone else might be in yours as well. Looking great, so that was pretty easy, right? So in your Seesaw class, and you just experienced as a student, you can tap that green add button and go right to all those creative tools. And starting even with the photo, super simple, right? So what I want to do next is actually introduce you to your friends, your new friend activities. And a lot of you probably are already using Seesaw activities, but I want to give a little bit of a layer of assessment context here. And if you're not yet familiar with activities, teachers can share activities with students in their Seesaw class. Students then respond using Seesaw's creative tools and the teacher approves those student responses before they go anywhere. Now, how do activities help with assessment you might be thinking? Well, I've used activities, but what do you mean they can support my assessment? So number one, it's a really easy way to differentiate for your students. So maybe you don't need to do a quick assessment check with every one of your students. You can send an activity to certain students. You can also see all of those responses in one place. So here on the left is just a little screenshot of what it looks like. When you look in an activity, you can actually see all of the student responses right there. You can also see who hasn't completed it yet. So if you're thinking like, oh my gosh, I got to check site words with 24 kids right now, you'll know who you need to work with or have do the activity. And also you can tag activities with skills and folders, which we will go into that as well. So we're gonna try it. So if we go into that activity tab in the class that you are currently in as a student, tap that activities tab and then you are going to in a moment see a very similar activity that we just talked about. Okay, so I'm gonna talk through this a second because we're not actually going to do this activity. But when I created that activity that we just did as a student, if I share this as an activity, it's also adding a layer of support for my students. It's adding a picture queue. It's adding these icons that they can follow. It's adding voice instructions. So think of your friends in your class that maybe you do a mini lesson or you introduce an assessment task that they're going to participate in and then off they go and they're like, what am I supposed to do, right? Or we have learners all over the board in terms of their needs. So I think one aspect of using the activities is really to support all students as well. So this is just that same activity we did in the same exercise we just did in the form of an activity. So when I go into our class right now and I go into the activities tab, you're not gonna see anything there because I have another activity that I'm gonna have you do. And this is just a quick, quick one. I am going to, if you've never done activities or shared them before, I'm gonna show you this flow as a teacher. I'm signed into the same class as a teacher right now. I'm gonna tap the green add button, choose create or share activity. And I have already created this activity, lowercase letter identification assessment. I am going to share this with you. You are all in assessments for all learners. If I wanted to, I could tap right here and I could edit the students and only share it with certain students. I could choose folders that I want it to go into. Maybe I wanna keep this private. So only I see this as a teacher. That's available in C-cell plus and C-cell for schools which we'll talk about later. Maybe I wanna tag specific skills with that activity before I send it out. We'll talk about that more later as well. So back to students, I'm gonna share this with all of you today. So go ahead and share that activity. I'm gonna go back into our class but I want you to find this and actually do this activity. Try out playing the instructions as a student as well.  You can model this as a sample student in front of your students. What I love about up here as well is if students have looked at those instructions and then they're like, oh, I need them back again. They can always tap up here to view the instructions again and if they wanna have all those picture cues, they can also listen to the audio instructions for this as well. So I'm gonna have you go ahead and do this activity right now. I'll give you a moment to complete that and then we will continue on. All right, I know maybe that all of you are done or participating in this activity but I wanna just let you know that I'm gonna tap here on the bottom to review, okay? So what I love about this is because I share this as an activity, if I tap this gray bar right here at the top, this is going to take me to, like I said, that view where I can see all of my student responses in one spot and I'm like, ooh, I've gotta catch up with students C and D and E or whatever. I'm gonna go ahead and approve all of these. Of course, you are going to, you would of course as a teacher, listen to all of these, right? So this is an example of, of course, not a really creative student ownership example. However, there are also some assessments that we need to do, right? In our classrooms that if you can add a layer of CSAH to give a little bit of that ownership back, boy, let's try to do that when we can. All right, we are gonna explore CSAH plus right now and if you're not familiar with CSAH plus, we're gonna talk about some of these features right now. So we of course have free CSAH which is free, free forever. You could also use CSAH plus, which is a subscription for a teacher, which is 120 dollars per year per teacher. And there are additional tools for assessment which we're gonna talk about. CSAH plus, if you use CSAH for schools is also included in CSAH for schools. So these features that I'm gonna talk about now, it are also included there. Okay, so first thing, private folder, which we peeked at just for a moment briefly. You can use this if you are using one of our paid options of CSAH. This is a folder only for teachers. No one else can see this content. So if you're doing an assessment and you don't want it to be going home that family see it, you can put it in this private teacher only folder. Students still submit it to CSAH with their name and you can put it in the private folder. You can take it in and out of that folder at any moment as well. Also we have private notes. So private notes are really handy in the sense that you're getting student work submitted and you want to type a little note or you wanna voice report a little note. And these are just for you in the sense that you're trying, I need to work with Ali on the spelling or I'm gonna regroup when we're gonna do a mini lesson or redirect on a specific strategy. So I'm speaking for myself. My system used to be lots of post-it notes. So this might be more organized flow for you. And then the third component of CSAH Plus that we're gonna talk about today is our skills feature. So skills allows teachers to get real-time insight into how students are progressing. So you're able to create skills and when students are submitting their pieces to CSAH, you can tag them with specific skills or as I just described, before you share an activity, you can tag it with a specific skill as well, which I'm gonna demonstrate in just a moment. And of course, if you're thinking, Angela, I don't have that. You can try it out for free for 60 days. So you just tap on skills, get skills, follow these buttons to get started and there's no how we got you. You're signed up forever. We're gonna bill you. There's none of that happening. So truly at the end of 60 days, nothing, you know, we don't take things out of your class in terms of if you posted work. At that time, that's all still there. It just will turn off your ability to add, you know, edit your private notes or edit your private folder or add skills. So keep that in mind. My goodness. Look, I just jumped right to the end of the session, but we're actually gonna go in and demonstrate and play a little bit. So what I'm gonna do is go back in as a teacher right now. I'm gonna refresh. I love that so many of you are still playing along. Love it. I'm gonna go to the green add button and I'm actually going to go to create or share activity. So I have another activity coming your way. It's one that I created regarding coins, okay? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and tap on the three dots on the bottom right of this activity and edit it because I forgot that I wanted to go here under more options and I wanted to, I don't wanna add any teacher notes even though I think those are very helpful. I'm gonna edit the skills. So I'm gonna call the, I'm gonna choose the skill coin identification that is going to be tagged with this activity.  So I have saved it. Now this activity, when you get it, let me just go back in an edit mode because I wanna show you something. You'll notice that I have this image attached but I forgot to add this image as a template. So I'm gonna do a little trick right here and screen grab this because I wanna have that template there for you to actually draw right on right now. Oh my goodness. Let's see if I can find the screenshot. That might take the rest of the session. There we go. Now it's gonna be kind of blurry and I may not look that great because I just did a weird screenshot there but yours would look more amazing of course. So when I share this to you, you are going to have it as a template. So you're actually just going to be able to draw right on it and let me know what you know about these coins and their values using the drawing tools and the mic. So I'm gonna share this to you in our class right now and I want you to go ahead and respond because I wanna show you some of the things on the teacher side that you can do when you have students submitting their work and responding how you can use skills to do some fanziness. So give it a go. These four responses here. So I'm gonna go ahead and review these responses and I'm gonna tap this one right here because I can then right away because I have tagged this with a skill I can go ahead and give this a rating right now. Looks like Penny, okay, okay. I'm just gonna, we'll do three stars on this one, right? I'm gonna go to approve. Now I can tap the arrow to the right and it's gonna, oh, student B hasn't responded yet, right? So I have a lot of students that haven't responded yet but I'm gonna go to this student. Ooh, wow. Not only do we have the names, we have the values. I'm gonna give five, four stars there. I'm gonna approve that. We're gonna go to the next one. All right, of course, we're just playing around. I'm not trying to be mean. I'm gonna give three stars here. Of course, you would have your own regret for how you are looking at these responses. I'm gonna give it two here just because I wanna show various ratings when we do a sort here in just a moment. All right, so we'll do another three. How about that? Now, I'm gonna get out of here for a second because I'm gonna go into the skills tab and you'll notice that when I go here, I am able to sort actually by students. So I could tap here on student and I could say, hey, I only wanna see student A's work related to various skills. And of course, I have this one skill in, right? For this example, I could also sort by subject or a specific skill, which we only have one in here right now. But you can see that there are color coded according to the color coding on the rating scale. The number one signifies how many posts in Seesaw are tagged with that specific skill. So this is great if you are pulling a small group and you're differentiating, you'd be like, oh, who do I need to work with coin identification, right? Checking the skills, you have all your information right here that you need, you're good to go. So that's just a quick demo of that aspect. I wanna go back to the journal right now because I also wanna show you, so you'll notice from the journal view, it's in response to this activity coin. So again, if I tapped here, I could get back to see all of my responses. I could also tap this, it looks like a little comment, with a T in it, that's the private teacher notes that are only visible to teachers, okay? So I could record a note, I could type a note, I can also, if I tap on this folder, I could also put it in this private teacher only folder. This is just giving a warning that, no one else is going to see this. So really, really choose how you're going to use that. You would never want to put all of the stream work in a private folder, but then you can just simply untag that folder as well when you are kind of going through some of your various assessments. So we are almost at the end of our time here. So I want to make sure that you know about our community and how to connect and share ideas, share questions. And of course, I wanna thank you for being here today as well.


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