All right. Good morning or good afternoon, depending on where you are. This is Una Daly from the Community College Consortium for OER. And welcome to our first fall webinar in our Back to Basic series. And we're really thrilled to have Karen and Bill here today to talk about the OER projects that they're working on at their colleges. Both of their projects are in the one to two year span. So this is a wonderful opportunity to hear from folks who are leading successful projects that aren't five to 10 years old. Which we love to hear about those as well, but it's wonderful to hear about the ones that have gotten started recently. We hope that that's really helpful for those of you out there who are starting initiatives of your own. Our agenda today will meet Karen and Bill here in just a moment. And then I'll give you a very brief overview of the Community College Consortium for OER. And then we'll jump right into the presentations. Bill Hemig will be speaking about the initiative at Fox County and Karen Picula will be speaking about OER learning circles at Central Lakes. All right, let's go ahead and meet our presenters here. And Karen, I'm going to start with you. She is a psychology instructor at Central Lakes College and she's also the Minnesota State OER coordinator. Hi, nice to meet all of you. Yes, as Luna said, I am a psychology teacher at Central Lakes College. I also am the OER coordinator for Minnesota State. And I'm an OER coordinator for a separate NGAPA grant that we have here at Central Lakes College as well to work with our school college and the school partners in adopting OER resources. So nice to meet you. And so nice to be here today. Thank you, Karen. And next I'd like to turn it over to Bill Hemig, excuse me, who is the Dean of Learning Resources and Online Learning at Bucks County Community College in Pennsylvania. Bill, I think you might still be on mute. Let me. Sorry, forgot to unmute there for a second. Hi everybody. Yes, as, as Luna said, Bucks County is in southeastern Pennsylvania just north of Philadelphia. The college's FTE is about in somewhere in the six thousands right now, I think we have three physical campus asses and a very robust virtual campus. Bucks County has a lot of resources, which is the department I head consists of the library, Bucks Online, the academic success center across disciplinary multimedia lab and also the college's center for personal and professional development. So we're pretty much one stop shopping for academic support for students and faculty. So I once again want to thank Bill and Karen, who as you can hear are very busy people running not only projects within their college but also doing some statewide work. And once again, I believe I introduced myself but I'm in a daily the director of the Community College Consortium for OER and we're part of the, the global international organization the open ed consortium. All right. Just quickly, the Community College Consortium for OER our mission is to expand awareness and access to high quality OER we were founded just about 10 years ago. So we're just about to celebrate our decade of existence and our mission really remains very similar to when we were started although of course things have changed a great deal in the open education space in the last 10 years. Different technology, different techniques, different emerging trends. But we're all about supporting faculty choice and development and that's what these webinars are about is providing faculty and other staff at the colleges with information about what are best practices and what are the emerging trends that they should be looking for in open education. And ultimately at the heart of it all it's about proving improving student success and making sure that our students have access to the materials that they need and that they can progress through their studies in a timely manner. We are in 25 states. Yeah, we have members official members in 25 states in the US and also up in British Columbia. I realize many of you may be from states besides the ones on here, and we welcome you. Our webinars are open to all open educators and those who are interested in it. And I have to say our newest members are in Colorado that's front range Community College and I need to add a little flag for them. I didn't get a chance to do that before today's webinar and the other colleges Mercer College in New Jersey which is also another new state for us. So we're very excited to have those new members. Hi, this is Annie Fox. I'm from Front Range and I'm glad to be here. Well, wonderful. Welcome, Annie. That's great. So at this point, I just want to mention a few things you might be thinking about as as you're listening to our expert speakers talk about their initiatives. And this is just kind of an overview but in talking with Bill and Karen a few days ago. I was just reminded of the importance of identifying all the stakeholders at your college and getting them involved in OER and this is, you know, of course faculty but it involves librarians instructional designers, students, student counselors, accessibility experts. Establishing best practices for usability accessibility and open licensing at the beginning is very helpful so that you go in with the right set of best practices and don't have to go back and revisit those which which can mean some rework if it isn't done up front. Karen is going to speak about her learning circles at at Central Lakes, which is a wonderful way to engage faculty. And then of course course review by other faculty as faculty are developing their OER courses having other faculty review it is so important to the long term adoption by by additional faculty so that this OER can really spread throughout your college. And finally student feedback and Bill is going to share with us a wonderful survey that he did with his students this last spring, who've been participating in OER courses, getting that feedback from them and making those changes as needed to continue to make successful progress forward. So, without further ado, I'm going to turn it over to the experts and starting with Bill Hemig. Okay, just take control of the controls here. Okay, you should have control now Bill. Excellent. So I do. Okay. Hello again. As I'm going to say this is going to be pretty much an administrator's eye view of the OER initiative at Bucks. Bucks has an annual program in which special projects we call them strategic initiatives that further the mission of the college are proposed by faculty and staff and selected for funding by either the college itself or by the college foundation. The OER strategic initiative proposal was created by our director of Bucks online in collaboration with our instructional designer who is a faculty member. I volunteered to be the project manager. The proposal was endorsed by the deans and provost and was accepted by the college for two years of funding. And I should add when we refer to open educational resources we stretch the definition to include electronic library resources which obviously cost us a fortune but are free to our students. The project was to include the project managers, two faculty developers per course, an instructional design consultant, a universal design for learning consultant, and one librarian per course. Our focus was on recreating the entire course, not just on extracting the commercial textbook and replacing it with a free one. Open means accessible in all its meanings and so we set out to rebuild the course templates with constant consideration of best practices and instructional design, information and media literacy, and universal design for learning. All of our full-time library faculty have liaison responsibilities to the academic departments and so those relationships were already in place. The librarians only had to familiarize themselves with the OER landscape. The total budget was $50,000, 80% of it for personnel costs. The first phase began in August of 2016, but there was some behind-the-scenes work done before then including the hiring of the two consultants, faculty participant selection, and the planning of a day-long OER universal design and quality-matters kickoff workshop for the Phase 1 participants, which was then repeated for the Phase 2 participants. Here's our original timeline. The entire project will take two years. Ten courses were ultimately to be transitioned to OER. We would work in stages beginning with three courses and only the online sections of those courses. I should interject here that we use Canvas as our LMS that will become important shortly. Those sections would run this past spring and while they're running, the teams would work on adapting those sections to face-to-face and hybrid modalities and on transitioning the Phase 2 courses. Per the year 2 timeline, the Phase 2 online course sections would be running this current fall semester and at the same time would be adapted to the other modalities. An important aspect not outlined here was a requirement that the faculty course developers would present drafts of their templates to their department or area colleagues and solicit feedback, thereby getting them comfortable with the project and entertaining the possibility of later adapting the templates themselves. Ultimately, all of the course templates will be available in Canvas Commons, which is basically a big OER repository for other faculty to adapt for their own use if they choose to, but only if they choose to. No one will be required to give up their textbook. So here are the Phase 1 courses which created their templates last fall and ran their recreated sections this past spring. Phase 2 courses which worked on their templates this past spring and are running their sections now. Anybody with attention for detail will notice that we planned for 7 courses in Phase 2 and ended up with 5, more on that in a minute. As with any project, we needed to adapt to unforeseen situations. As we recruited faculty for Phase 2, some of them were insistent on not partnering with another course instructor, so we allowed that. So we do have a few teams that only have one course developer rather than two. Another thing do mostly to scheduling necessities. Some of the faculty could not be assigned to online sections for the semester when they were to first run their revised courses, and so they had to think about face-to-face from the beginning. We found that reconceiving an e-learning template for face-to-face wasn't nearly as big a deal as we anticipated, but it was still wise to start with e-learning because it put everything right in there. Thirdly, we only managed to recruit faculty for 5 additional courses in time to start Phase 2, but some other faculty came forward shortly thereafter as the result of a professional development offering that we did in January that got some people jazzed up. And so we formed an unintended Phase 3 that's creating their templates now to run in spring of 18, which is still within our 2-year budget. And because some of the Phase 2 and 3 teams have only one course developer, we were actually able to add an 11th course and stay within our budget. So we're still on track to finish on time, but the timeline got tweaked in several places as timelines will. A few big questions that arose as things progressed that we didn't necessarily work into our original proposal. One, how will the course templates be shared with other interested faculty? We devised a procedure through which the faculty would upload their completed templates to Canvas Commons with a Creative Commons license and with information to make them easy to search for. Secondly, how will OER sections be identified? We're not fully satisfied with our solution to this one yet, but right now we are running reports on which course sections did not place textbook orders with the bookstore. And then for those sections, putting a note in the student information system that displays the text, no textbook purchase required. We're thinking of ways to raise awareness of the note in students and advisors. We were actually hoping to get the Z inserted into the section number, but we were told that we'd run out of characters in our section numbers and couldn't do it. Thirdly, how will the course templates be maintained and updated? That is still an open question. Should it be the area coordinators? Should the template creators be responsible for passing the torch when the time comes? Should we find funding to pay faculty to revise them on a set schedule? We're tossing around ideas and I'm open to yours if you have any. At the end of the last spring semester, we surveyed the students in the Phase 1 sections and were quite encouraged by the responses, which I will summarize. The vast majority of students accessed the OER on a standard computer rather than on a tablet or a phone, less than a quarter of them printed it out. More than half said that they used the OER more than they used a commercial textbook, which probably stems from the fact that not all the students would have bought the commercial textbook in the first place, but more on that in a little bit. Almost everyone found the material to be presented on their level and the quality to be the same or better than the text in their other classes. Three-quarters of them claimed that they would try to register for sections with no textbook costs in the future. About 45% found the OER easier to use in class, 65% found them easier for reading and studying, and 55% found them easier to use in preparing for tests and speeches. 57% found them easier for taking notes, but just 48% found them easier for highlighting. And here's some qualitative data. We also asked for comments. I was really impressed with the number of students who remarked on the resources accessibility and versatility in addition to the cost savings. And I think that spoke very positively to the way we structured the project in the first place because accessibility and versatility was very important to us. And of course, free, free, free. Lastly, we attempted to determine the cost savings of the 17 transition course sections that ran last spring. I came at this figure by averaging the bookstore price and the typical price for a used copy and multiplied that figure by the number of students. What I didn't consider was the number of students who would not have purchased the textbook in the first place. As we were preparing the strategic initiative proposal, we conducted a student survey that revealed that about 50% of our students don't buy the textbook. So taking that into account drops the estimate by half. We've been going with the higher figure, but it's really a judgment call, which of the two is more realistic. And that in a nutshell is our project. I think there's going to be time for questions and you can also email me separately. Thanks. Thank you so much, Bill. What an amazing set of resources and plans for our audience out here. And I think we're going to take a look at the chat window and see if we have some questions. All right. So let's start at the top here. So Kelvin is asking, Bill, can you share your sustainability plan, including your estimated year to year budget? Oh, wow, this is a tough one. It is a tough one. Well, we're only funded for this two year project after that. We have looked into maybe getting some grant funding if we want to go for example into doing, you know, a complete OER program, which might be the next step for us. But the sustainability plan at this point is just our course developers staying in contact with their colleagues in their departments and their discipline areas and getting them on board, which has already happened of the three courses that ran last spring. And at least two of them have recruited additional faculty and they're running more sections with more faculty with those templates this semester. But that's kind of where we're headed at this point is just kind of spreading the word. Yeah, so good questions, Kelvin. You might be just jumping a little bit ahead, but let's see, we've got one more from Kelvin here. The original content content our faculty building for the project compared to curated content. Excellent question. So far for us, none. It's all curated content at this point. Wonderful. Thanks for that bill. I'm having a little bit of trouble with my button here. I think if you want to go ahead and give me control back that would that would help. I did. Okay, thanks. Um, I had three people ask about the recording and the PowerPoint and yes, these all do get posted back on our website. And we will be sending out to the list of attendees where you can find that if you don't know where to go on our website to get the archives. They're on our homepage, but just in case we'll send those directly. All right, we had another question from Kelvin. Will courses be 100% OER based and not include access codes to publisher LMS content such as Pearson's my math lab? Um, In my personal view, I certainly hope so, but that that depends on on the faculty, I think. This, especially for some courses there are faculty who are at least at this point are are not going to give up their, their, you know, their commercial textbooks. Okay, and we had a question from Shagun. Has there been a shift in your enrollment in these sections, these OER sections vis-a-vis the traditional ones? There's something that we should be keeping an eye on this semester and we probably will very shortly because we we sort of settle in after three weeks and we're about at that point now. So I think we'll start, we'll just start looking at that for the earliest courses. Right. And we have a question here that two people want the answer to is, were there any incentives for faculty to develop the OER courses stipends or release time? The faculty in these projects, yes, each, each faculty course developer got a stipend of $1,000 for, for about one year's work. Okay. All right, we have another question here from Shagun. How many faculty with a discipline that now has an OER course have, have then adopted their colleagues shell? She's asking about OER adoption. Yeah, I, and as I said, that's happened. I, I know for a fact with a couple of the phase one course is the effective speaking class. I know there are at least two other faculty member who are not part of the project who adopted the template and are running their sections with the template this semester. And I believe for our intro to site class, there are a couple full time faculty, again, not part of the original project who have adopted the template. And I actually, and I think they're also making the template an option for adjunct faculty. Okay, wonderful. Glad to, glad to hear that adoptions are growing. We had a question. How did you coordinate the various contributors on the team to support each course? Well, I mean, we started one of the most difficult things about this is getting a whole bunch of people, you know, faculty with busy schedules, face to face for meetings on a regular basis. So we did most of it virtually. We had a project canvas space in the LMS where they were able to communicate with each other and look at the templates and all of that. I found that the the opening day lawful day workshop was good for getting everybody together. The, the universe, the instructional design consultant was a former instructional designer here so she was already familiar with all the faculty and the project the universal design for learning consultant was from outside the, the, the institution, but we were lucky enough to get her in for the opening workshop and that that really sort of made it, it was very important for making a team out of everybody from the very beginning. After that, it was mostly virtual communication. Great. Thank you for sharing that that's really important. And we had a question here from Chris, how are librarians compensated for their involvement, or were the extra activities assumed as part of their regular job duties. It was assumed as part of their regular job duties because they already have liaison responsibilities to the, to the academic areas. Okay. And we had another question here from Kelvin faculty who are should faculty receive the same stipend the $1,000 for curating content. I'm not sure I understand the question. Yeah, I'm not absolutely sure what Kelvin meant here either, but I know that Karen is going to talk to us about sort of different pathways, you know, reviewing OER, then actually adopting it into your course, and then finally creating it and that there tend to be different pathways and so sometimes colleges recognize that with a different stipend structure. I mean, if it helps at all, we did have built into the budget some funding in case faculty couldn't find the resources that they needed and had to create their own but that so far that hasn't happened and we haven't used funding for that purpose. Okay, thank you. And this is going to be our last question for now before we switch to Karen we'll have some more time at the end. And the final one is from Shagun again, were the courses peer reviewed or tested by others within the discipline. Yes, partially because we wanted the the the instructor the course designers to get feedback from their peers and also because we wanted to get the peers on board with the project. We made it a part of the timeline of the project for the course designers to present their template drafts to their colleagues in a department or area meeting at a specific point in the process. So they could both talk up the project and and get some very important feedback from their peers and it did affect the final outcome of the template designs. That is such a key area. It's such a key point is to get other faculty involved. So, thanks for the question and the answer. And now I'm going to go ahead and switch this over to Karen Picula, who is going to talk to us about the learning circle support that she runs at Central Lakes College. And let me give you a control, Karen. Karen, we're not hearing you. You might be on mute. Can you hear me now? We can hear you now. Okay, I'm going to actually take my video away while I show my slides so that you can concentrate on that. And then I will be back visually for a question and answer session. Okay. Perfect. I want to start with telling you a little bit about Central Lakes College. We have two campuses. One of our campuses is located at Brainerd, Minnesota, and one is located in Staples, Minnesota. Our Brainerd campus houses most of our liberal arts courses for our AA degree, and our Staples campus is the home to most of our tech programs for our AAS degrees and our diplomas and our certificates. Central Lakes College serves about 6,000 students annually, and many of our students are really struggling financially, which is what prompted this part of the reason for our OER initiative, with about 35% of those 6,000 students being Pell Grant eligible. I think what I'll do is I'll start with just a little bit of a history of how we started our initiative at Central Lakes College. In January of 2014, our then dean of technology and our librarian, Dave Bissonette, invited David Ernst from the University of Minnesota, who's the creator and manager of the Open Textbook Library, and Todd Digby, who was then the OER representative from our system office, and Gary Hunter, he's our system legal advisor, to give a presentation to our faculty on OERs for our duty day. This presentation and the support from administration and the drive from our librarian led to the creation of our OER committee. And as a result of this presentation, many of our faculty came very interested in the concept of OERs. And then as a result, participated in a system-wide offered textbook review, where faculty were given a $200 stipend to review a textbook from the Open Text Library, that's how it's at the University of Minnesota. Some of our faculty have adopted OERs as a result of those reviews. But what we also discovered was that many of our faculty were already using free or self-created materials for their courses. So we decided to move ahead as an institution and we formalized an OER adoption initiative at Central Lakes College. What we really needed though was money. Money to pay our faculty and a way to support our faculty in OER adoption. We decided to apply for one of the $25,000 grants that our system office was offering for OER adoption. And a huge part of that application process was the creation of faculty-facilitated OER learning circles. We applied for the grant. We were awarded the grant. And in 2016, the spring of 2016, we implemented our first learning circles at Central Lakes College. One critical piece of successfully launching an OER initiative is the creation of a campus OER committee. It has to be a committee that represents all of the stakeholders involved in an OER initiative. The Central Lakes OER committee members include our librarian, many of our faculty, bookstore and IT representation, administration, and more recently, we've added student representation. Two of our principal reasons for initiating an OER review were to save our students money, save our college money, save our college and the school's partners money. And then we had two other reasons that were not economically driven necessarily, but to increase our student success rates and to also nurture academic freedom. The learning circle process really has its roots in the things that I learned from novice teachers when I was interviewing them for my dissertation for my doctoral degree. I learned from them that there were four main things that were, that the teachers in training programs did not allow for that ended up actually becoming barriers to these teachers for their success as new teachers. And those four things were that they did not have enough time to learn or do their work. They didn't have enough time to apply what they were learning at the time that they were learning it. They had no time to collaborate with other learners, mentors or experts in their fields. And they didn't have enough support services, support from administration, from peers, or help with organization, pedagogy, or time saving measures. So I was determined to create learning circles based on the experiential learning model and provide those needed components that had served as barriers to teachers and learners and their success. And this is the basic structure of all three pathways for our learning circles. Faculty attend at least 80% of the scheduled learning circle meetings, and these have been face to face meetings. Faculty create, submit, and update weekly work plans and journals. And this is in a D2L course room that I've created as a support course room for the faculty. Faculty present their final work results to college at a final showcase learning circle where they showcase their work. Most importantly, faculty were paid stipends. For the OER textbook reviews, if they did them through the system office, they received a $200 stipend. If they did them through our learning circles, they received a $500 stipend. And then for both course redesign and the authoring pathway, our faculty received a $1,500 stipend. This was for attending the 10 learning circles consecutive weeks and for either creating and redesigning a new course in a D2L course shell or with a hard copy portfolio or for authoring new works. And we also created an application process as an avenue for selecting faculty for participating in our learning circles. These are the criteria that we came up with to screen our applicants and select our participants. So we looked at courses with high PSEO and CIS enrollment. We looked for courses that we needed to complete a Z degree. We looked for courses that were scheduled to be taught in the next academic year. We looked for courses with high enrollment. We focused on faculty that were new to our OER learning circles. We looked at applications that were sustaining current OER courses. This applied when we had our second, third, and fourth learning circles. If we had faculty who had already designed a course and needed to make changes or update materials, we want to also be able to sustain those things that we are working on. And then we looked also at the potential money saved in the next academic school year for both our students for our high schools and for our own college. In the spring of 2016, we held our first learning circles. We have held two semester long learning circles, which run for 10 consecutive weeks, meeting for three hours, the same day and time each week. We've run two summer sessions, which run for five consecutive weeks, ending just before the 4th of July, which is very important to our faculty. Using the same day and time format with each learning circle as we use for our 10-week sessions, they meet three face-to-face hours, and then they commit to at least one hour of independent work outside of the learning circles. And for their weekly plans that they have to edit and submit each week, they have to include their plan for that hour of independent work. And you can see here that we've had pretty good participation. I want to really highlight the fact that these are collaborative learning circles, and this is based on what I learned from interviewing those new teachers as well. The importance of being of the collaboration between departments and disciplines. Our faculty really enjoy these learning circles and learning about how other content areas teach and design courses, learning about the challenges they face, their successes. I have to say that our learning circles have really built new bridges of communication and collaboration across disciplines, content areas, and departments. Our learning circles are designed to cover three pathways. They're designed to cover OER review, course redesign, and OER authoring. All three of these pathways require faculty to meet the same weekly work objectives, but each of them has different end outcomes. The end outcome for the review pathway is to have reviewed OER resources and to select an OER resource or resources to use in their course or courses. The end outcome for the redesign pathway is to have created a D2L course room that contains specified components and to share that course room with faculty in their department and license that course to Central Lakes College. We also have backup plans for faculty who want to redesign a hybrid course or a face-to-face course. At our college, every instructor has to have a D2L course room to display their grades, so most faculty have a course room already that they can house these materials in. But we also accept hard copy portfolios of work or coursework for those face-to-face classes. And then the authoring pathway, the end outcome for the authoring pathway is to have created an OER resource for their course. It may be a textbook, ancillary materials to a company. An existing OER resource that currently does not have those materials or to create test banks, portfolios of PowerPoints, portfolios of worksheets, etc. And to share those resources with the faculty in their department and to license that resource to Central Lakes College. Our course rooms and all authored resources at this point are licensed to Central Lakes College. Gary Hunter, our legal representative at the system level has created a form for us for our faculty to license them to the college. And the reason for that is because at this point in time, we haven't really found an effective way to share those course rooms as Creative Commons license, but I think that's coming along with all the work that is being done nationally and globally. I also created a D2L faculty support course room where learning circle participants interact weekly by submitting their work plans and participating in optional discussion forums where they share a pearl for the week. The learning circles in this course room also offer faculty those support services that faculty need to succeed in their work. Resources, time saving templates for organization of materials, collaboration, faculty and librarian support, a chance to use what they are learning while they are learning it, and time to do all of this plus administrative support in the form of learning circles and stipends that show faculty that their extra work is truly valued. I don't have time today to show you, give you a tour of that D2L course room, but I would be happy to do that at another time if anyone is interested in looking how I have that structured. I have it structured in a QM format and also have sections in their guides for authoring for ADA compliance and QM for QM certification if they should want to have that course go through a review. We then applied for a second grant for the same reasons that we applied for our first grant, plus a desire to create a Z degree and create a print on demand process for our faculty and students to enable them to have copies of OER materials printed very inexpensively, which we have now done. We now have an OER ZAA degree at Central Lakes College. This just happened this week, and we also have created a great print on demand option for our students and faculty through the Graphics Arts Department. We actually have organized that in such a fashion that we are able to handle any system-wide requests from faculty in any of our colleges or universities or our high schools that would wish to have OER materials printed very inexpensively. In addition to that, we've also received this other grant that I told you I was the coordinator for, and this grant was secured by our Dean of Enrollment and Student Services, Paul Primesberger. It's a grant to promote the adoption of OER by our CIS high school teacher partners. We decided to implement the same learning circles with these folks, and so we have learning circles with the high school faculty and Central Lakes College faculty collaborators together. We have successfully run one set of five learning circles with these participants, and this fall we are running all of our Central Lakes College learning circles and our CIS learning circles together as one large group. As you can see in the last slide and in this slide, our course objectives for these learning circles were very much the same as the CLC learning circles. And Una would ask if I would just briefly give you an overview of what we're doing also at the system level, because we're actually ramping this whole learning circle process up from an institutional level to the system level. This fall we are offering campus grant opportunities across our system for individual faculty to design their courses for the use of OERs in those courses. We are also offering grants to faculty from different institutions to collaborate in teams of four to author OER textbooks for their disciplines in the four completed guided pathways that we have now in our system. We also have a consortia who received in achieving the dream grant that they are working on. We are hosting coffee with Karen sessions for community conversations across the state on OERs and suggest the topics of interest. For these sessions we usually have a guest speaker and then open discussions for the last part of the session. For example, this fall we're having David Bisson at our librarian for our first one to talk about the role of librarians and OER initiatives. The next coffee with Karen will be Gary Hunter talking about Creative Commons and copyright issues and the legal issues involved in your OER initiatives. And then for the November session, my guests will be Becky Groucham, our bookstore person who will talk about the bookstores role in initiating smooth OER initiatives on your campus. And of course we have our enhanced communications, our Lister website and Twitter. And now I have time for questions. Wonderful. Thank you so much Karen. It was really interesting to hear about how you're reaching out also to K-12 and working with them as well. Very interesting and of course so many other interesting things you shared with us today and the work that you do statewide. I think there was an early question on which I'm just going to answer real quickly and then we'll switch back to questions on Karen's. It was about grants. So there was some information in the chat window about CCCOER. We do not generally offer grants. It's been a while since we did. We offered some grants quite a number of years ago. Small development grants. But generally what we do is we make available any information about grants that's at a national level or perhaps offered through a private foundation. As Karen mentioned, her grants have come from both I think her system and her statewide system. And I think that's where we're seeing a lot of the OER grants coming right now is at the statewide level or at the institutional district level. Not seen any nationally at this time. All right. There were, Karen I'm not sure if you're in the chat window there. Calvin had a few comments about your course redesign pathway. I don't think there was any questions there. He said it's interesting if faculty use the new course across the discipline for scale. The course can be a Lego base plate on top of which content is added by faculty. Exactly. Great. Amy asks, have you have you had any challenges to transfer ability with OER supported courses? We have not had. And I think that that kind of goes with the guided pathways that our system is working on now. And so that's one number, another reason why for our system wide grants, we're focusing this first round of grants on those guided pathways that have already been approved at our system level with our four year universities. I think it's pretty typical that almost all of my courses are OER. And if there is a question for transfer, usually they ask for my syllabus and also oftentimes I will make contact with the person, even giving them a tour of my course room or whatever is needed to reassure them that what we're using our quality products. I think that some of that is going away as education about OER is becoming more prevalent and administrators and faculty are beginning to understand that the OER resources are really, for the most part, high quality. And I think they're beginning to have more faith in their instructors in terms of the fact that they've trusted them to this point to select content for their students and that their expertise doesn't go away just because they're looking at OER materials. Thank you for that, Karen. Excellent answer. And we had one of our audience members share also I think a good point that we've used as well, which is it should not transfer ability should not be an issue of the content. It's the focus is on the course learning outcomes. Right. And I think he knows so wonderful. There is interest in, in, in getting access to your templates Karen and bills and bill answered in the chat window because his are in are actually in Canvas Commons so they can be downloaded directly. I don't know Karen if if there's at this point are, are you willing to share course templates or is that a little bit in the future. Well actually I'm trying to get my course designed for the system level. But I am, I'm willing to share those templates are just very simple things I've created just through a lot of blood sweat and tears of doing OER reviews. And, and so they're just they're very simple but they can be adapted. And I'm more than happy to share those. I would, I'm just really trying to get this up to the system level but I'm also giving the same presentation out at Anaheim. And at that point I know that people are going to want some of those templates so I have to just figure out how to best share them out. But if any of you are interested and you'd like to email me I would be more than happy to share any of those with you. And you mentioned that you're working on the licensing because I think with sharing the templates you definitely would want to have that license in place. Yep, and I have not been I haven't done that and that's kind of part of this process of moving it up to the system level. So it's kind of a little bit of a learning curve for me, also in terms of this sharing thing of it and getting those licensed. Okay, thank you for that Karen. And we have a comment here from Paige when a question to so congratulations on getting the Z degree up and running so I that's running this fall. Very exciting. And her question is, is it only OER classes or do you also include classes that are no cost, but not open materials. Yes, as long as they are no cost to our students. They have to be no cost like we can we, we have several faculty who have created materials that they have charges, the students like $10 for whatever. And if there's a charge to the student we won't include that in our Z degree. But we do include materials that are not Creative Commons licensed as well as what Bill mentioned. If faculty are using materials that our system or library is paying a membership fee for, but they're free to our students. Those are courses that we also can include in our Z degree or we do include in our Z degree, but they have to be free to students. Karen, can I just clarify something that this Z degree is this at Central Lakes. This is at Central Lakes College. They can, they can earn an AA degree here with zero cost. Wonderful and what's what is the discipline for that is that a. It's just a liberal arts AA degree. Yep. Wonderful. Thank you for, yeah for sharing that. We have a question here from Shagun is faculty recruitment easier for authoring pathways than redesigned pathways. I think one of the things with the learning circles that I was very, very strong about both at our institutional level and at the state level is the key to this is meeting faculty where they are. So our learning circles are designed to be very much facilitated by me and Dave our librarian, but they are very much faculty driven. So we meet them where they are if they are wanting to author works and that's where we meet them. If they are doing reviews, that's where we meet them. They've never designed a D2L course room and they need help with that. That's where we meet them. I don't know if that answers your question, but her second question was do some of the authoring faculty then migrate to redesign pathways. Yes, and that's one of the things that we found that one of the reasons you have to be so flexible in how you create your learning circles and that D2L support room because you'll have you'll have faculty coming in thinking they're doing a review and all of a sudden they they find something and they have 10 weeks left and they want to move to a redesigned phase. Well, they didn't sign up for a redesigned phase so the stipend is different 500 to 1500. But we try to keep above her zone there so we can work with faculty because it's it's just you don't know where they're going to end up they can transfer very quickly they can start as authoring. And then decide no they want to do a redesign or they can start as a redesign and they can find out they need to first author materials. We're pretty flexible and letting them move between those pathways and then just working with them. Okay, wonderful. And so here's an interesting question with your OER statewide hat on. Are there any plans to do an OER two plus two degree pathway with one of your for your institutions. I'm not sure that I understand the language two plus two. Well, I'm I think he simply means doing a pathway that would be for a full bachelor's degree with one of the four year institutions. Well actually for our four pathways that we're doing right now biology psychology. I'm trying to think what the other two are, but for those pathways our system has already those are completed. We have all of our universities on board with accepting our a degrees from our four year colleges and then like if we have a psychology. We have a psychology pathway we just completed at Central Lakes College so now we have our that was approved by the system office so now at Central Lake College our path college path or psychology pathways automatically accepted into all of our universities as with that are in our system as their first two years and they start yes as a junior. So that the I think the the the second piece of that is are any of your four year institutions planning to give those students who came in with the two years of OER lower division to do a two years completion of bachelors that's OER. Yes, all of them in those four pathways and we're working on all of our other content we have four more pathways going forward this year they'll be completed at the end of the year in our system for four other pathways and for the content areas. Okay, so that's a system wide collaboration that's really not it's been long and coming. Wow, that's exciting. And let's see we have a follow up question from page here is the OER review pathway, simply reviewing and selecting existing OER. Do they do this on their own or do they work with librarians. They actually work in our learning circles. And it is for just review and at every learning circle Dave and I are there. That's our librarian and I am the faculty facilitator for the learning circles. So it's very much faculty and librarian driven. And they work with us for those three hours every week, and then independently on their own. All right, excellent. I'm going to just move on here for just a moment we'll come back to Q&A. I wanted to let you know that in two weeks we are going to have our second webinar for the fall series and it's going to be about faculty and librarians working together. On selecting OER and as you can see we have some folks who are going to join us from the Michigan system. Tina Ulrich at Northwestern Michigan Community College and and one of her faculty and also professor from Lansing Community College so we hope to see you at that one as well and I wanted to mention staying in the loop. I think many of you are going to open ed the open ed conference I should say, which is coming up here in October in Anaheim Karen mentioned that both she and Bill are presenting there so you, you got a special preview here today so thanks again Karen and Bill for sharing that what you'll, some of what you'll be sharing at open ed as well. And for those of you who aren't on our email list and would like to be added to that please use the URL there. It's on our website community email and you can hear about these upcoming webinars and also we share the archives out through that as well. They're also posted on our website but just to make it a little more convenient for you if you'd like that. And I want to just say once again thanks to our amazing presenters here this morning. Bill and Karen and thank you to all of our audience members who joined us and engaged with us on these. This really important topic of launching an OER initiative and we were just about on the hour we have about two more minutes so we'll just stay here for another couple minutes some. If you have questions please type those in the chat or you can even grab the microphone if you'd like at this point and unmute yourself. While we're waiting for any final questions, Bill or Karen do you have any final comments you'd like to make? I would just like to thank everybody for taking time from their day to attend this. It was really a privilege to be here and so thank you so much and if there's anything I can help you with please email me and I'd be happy to do that. Same here. I enjoyed the opportunity to speak with you all and please shoot me an email if you have any questions. Wonderful. Thank you both and Kelvin got one last one in here. Thanks Kelvin. One last question. Any efforts to create OER based adaptive learning courses? I would just like to say that the efforts that we're doing at the system level this fall, the grants that we're offering, those are giving priority to those pathways, those four pathways and any developmental ed. That's one of our priorities for those grants. Wonderful. I'm really excited to hear that because developmental ed is an area that doesn't have as much OER as it should and so wonderful to hear that you're working on that. Well, at this point I'm going to go ahead and stop the recording and thank you all for coming and I hope to see you.


I have in front of me a few different firewalls that I've done reviews on. I've done reviews on the NETGATE PF Sense firewalls, both the software and the hardware directly from NETGATE. I've done reviews on the EdgeRouter X. I've done reviews on the USG by Unify. I've done reviews on the protect teleboxes, such as this one here, which can run a lot of different firewall software. And a lot of people ask me always, comes down to which firewall should I buy or how do we know which one to choose for a client? Well, we're going to start with this one right here, the EdgeRouter X. Not really a popular choice in terms of for our clients, but it does have its use cases. This is a nice mini powerhouse of a firewall that you can pick up in the $50 range US, which is really reasonable for any firewall that's above consumer grade. It actually has fast routing capabilities. It has a ton of features once you get into the command line on it, so it's very diverse. It has all kinds of different things you can do. But, but this is the big downside, one of them is, people ask me, what about intrusion detection systems and intrusion prevention systems and things like that? And I'm kind of cross-eyed a little bit when I hear that because I'm like, okay, those take a lot of horsepower to run and I'm sorry, these are going to fail at that. You could probably find some hacky way to get more things running on this than it comes with, but the fact of it is, and I'm even holding the adapter right here to show you, this thing's only a couple of watts and that's it. It's so low-powered, it just doesn't have the horsepower to do a lot of advanced things. Now, the other downside that the edge router line suffers from, maybe benefits from, is it is advanced as you can go with it. It's also very difficult to do. So, if you look at any of the tutorials, a lot of people say, wow, that's a really long tutorial on to how to accomplish this or that. And I'm like, yeah, they are a lot of times, advanced features, it does require editing a config file and handwriting some of the rules and things like that. So, that is a disadvantage with these as powerful as they are and inexpensive as you can get, especially this model for. They have their use cases. The wizards in them are nice to get kind of basic things set up, but for advanced use, get prepared to get advanced with it and break out the command line to really get some, you know, very specific configurations. But from a low wattage standpoint, and sometimes when you just have to net something over a point-to-point in a small area, we've used them for that. And that is sometimes a client use case for them. No real advanced routing needed, just a basic net, low-powered in a small, especially when we've done some of these outdoor setups. They just need to get some devices online behind a net in a site-to-site. This combines really nice. Now, it does have, I will mention, I have not done any testing with it. This will connect into the UNMS dashboard by Unify. I've not done a lot of testing with that, but you can, you can dig up some information on there, but like I said, not really done much with that. The next one people ask me about is the Unify USG line. Now, I like these. These are nice, but they have back to specific use cases. They have beautiful dashboards to integrate with all the other Unify equipment. So, if you're putting in really nice Unify wireless and all the different range of those in the Unify switches, which we love and we love their wireless, and then you put this at the head end of it all, you just get a great dashboard that gives you a good overview of what's going on. And from an MSP standpoint, we manage a lot of clients using these, and they're great for those small businesses. Some of the advantages you have with this is that integrated dashboard with all the clients, the downside you run into with this, and this is where things get unfortunate. I really wish, I really want to love it. I really wish I could love it. The thing I dislike about it, and this, this is where it starts to fall off, is when people need advanced routing options, and they need VPNs, or they have one of these that's double-naded, you're back to editing files on this. You can't use the user interface through the web interface to make it do some of the things that you want it to do. If both of these, you have two of these at two sites that are on public networks, they have essentially a one click VPN set up, and it's super easy.  One of these behind a NAT, well, you instantly have problems. And they're just not as configurable unless you once again break out the command line on them. And if you break out the command line, you can do quite a bit. These do offer as well the intrusion detections and intrusion prevention systems, but they're not very customizable. And once again, you're going back under the hood if you really want to start tweaking with it, you just don't have a ton of rule sets and a ton of options that you can do. It's kind of a basic filtering, basic bandwidth management. Everything's very basic on these, or break out the command line to do anything there, including as of right now, if you just want to have a second IP address where a range of IPs put on the WAN side, that's still a command line feature.  And they're great for them. I mean, they're simplistic. They get the job done. But yeah, if you have a client that has a lot of firewall rules, a lot of routing, they just don't feel as robust and are a little bit more difficult to work with. I'll cover here the neck gate. Now, I've seen people complain about this SG 3100 and saying, well, it's an armed device and armed devices should be super cheap like these and inexpensive. This isn't just your average armed device. This has a lot of power, good VPN speeds, can route gigabit and it's outstanding. Now, this is, you know, a really nice box from the makers of PF Sense. This is the neck gate box. We love putting these in because when you're doing remote updates, you're going to have problems with occasionally some of these type of boxes when you build it yourself. Doesn't mean you will have a problem, but occasionally there can be a problem because the folks at PF Sense test their software specifically on their hardware. So we know whenever we hit update and we're remote updates should go perfectly smooth. When you're running any type of white box hardware, there's always a possible chance of risk. And we actually ran into this with one of the other boxes. There was a parameter with one of the white boxes we had that had to be passed on to the through grub. And if you didn't know about prior to the update, you couldn't do it remotely, you would have to get in there and add the parameter or it wouldn't boot. So having extra boot parameter, fixed problem. But one of those things, if you didn't stop and check before you just pushed update in your remote, you may be visiting that client on site. So we when we deploy these majority of our clients have one of the genuine neck gates, this one or one of the more powerful ones at their office that we've set up. Now, the last thing I'll talk about in terms of the hardware here is these protect teleboxes. This particular one is still a great box. These come in a little bit of different varieties. They're reasonably priced. And I know someone's going to point out that you can find these from Alibaba for cheaper not under protect telegram, I believe just to save that person writing a comment. I believe they're a market under QOTOM on the Alibaba. So if you have time to wait for something to come from China, you can find these for less money. That's not a secret. I'll leave a link in Amazon where you can find these though on Amazon if you're looking for a US seller that has it in stock and get it to you faster. Now, the difference between when you get these from and it varies because Alibaba is kind of a random marketplace. It seems sometimes I can tell you when things are available and then they'll have another brand but it looks like the other brand and they'll have a lot of them. The one one thing nice about protect tele I've actually talked with the people there and they seem to do a good job of putting these together because you can order them with the hard drive already installed and everything else. They give you a bundle price. They're not cheap but they're also really fast and really diverse. I mean this has all Intel Nix on it. Um labeled when land and when opt one, opt two, opt three, opt four. Uh we've tested this with untangle. We've tested this with PF Sense. Uh these boxes work really well for them. They are a nice solution if you're looking for something small, compact, powerful, um out there. Uh like I said for most of our clients, we do prefer this but this is an option as well. Both of these devices here and kind of these will all route at gigabit but there is exceptions. If you're using some of the IDS features on here that limits it. So if you turn on the intrusion prevention system, you're going to get slower speeds out of this. I know they're tweaking it so I'm not going to state the exact speed but you can Google it. I know it's round the 100 meg. So if you have a faster than 100 meg internet connection, you're right away going to have a bottleneck if you use those features. Uh this one, you have to turn on hardware offloading but that also eliminates I think some of I can't read exactly which feature. I have it in my video though. Uh so you'll have some issues if you try to get this but you know at what point do you expect a $49 product to fully perform at full gigabit and it's not quite gigabit. I believe actual performance varies on these because it can only hold so many state tables. So you may be able to get a single stream but you know for heavy use cases when you have a lot of devices behind it which means a lot of state tables that's another factor you have to think about. So if you're connecting a few hundred devices not just one or two computers in your home you can run into problems with this because it just it doesn't have the horsepower to handle all those simultaneous connections and the same thing you can run into here. If you have a larger office maybe you don't have as fast of internet but you just have a lot of connections. Well the more connections you have the more streams that you have going across the more states that are you're going to have hardware problems limitations with well it's a $99 box. When you get into these these handle lots of devices. We've got these deployed specifically this SG-3100 and like I said this is not your average arm based device and we've got several hundred computers behind it no problem. We've actually put this in at some of the locations like I I did the family fund center. We put one of this in it handles their entire guest network. You know tons of people on phones the entire building no problem at all. It's not even breaking a sweat. It does handle just a lot of connections at once. It's also one of my favorites in terms of PF Sense because PF Sense is really the Swiss Army of Firewalls. It's open source it has absolutely amazing top-to-bottom features and tools for diagnosing your network. It's one of the reasons I've done so many in-depth videos on PF Sense and this is going to lead into the software choices. So as much as I do love the unify line the software is a little lacking unless you break out the command line. For those of you that are not willing to dive into the command line and learn how some of that works in our tutorials on how some of those things work well this is where you're going to have some shortcomings with these. PF Sense on the other hand does do really really well for just you have some crazy configuration and I have clients with some odd configuration requests um this can handle it. You have we've connected these to other firewalls because they have things in the data center that they're running that they have to specifically connect to with certain IPsec VPNs. We've had good luck getting PF Sense to connect to those because PF Sense exposes pretty much through a web interface all the options you need to really get this thing going in whenever weird configuration you want. We even had some client that used some weird DHCP relaying and that's actually built into here as well. I've run into some odd configurations because they want to replace some legacy things that people come up with and PF Sense hands down whether you run it on the net gate or you run it on your own hardware and build it yourself is a great choice. Now this box like I said at 349 it's a pretty good value but back to the last piece and kind of the software related part untangles another firewall are reviewed now I think I kind of hinted towards its open source and not it's kind of a hybrid approach. Now the way they are the firewall itself is open source but they have closed source modules and subscriptions that give you feeds for filtering and untangles the firewall that I've been starting with a little bit newer we've seen it out in the field a handful of times I have friends that work in IT one of them said he's deployed about several thousand of these over the years and he's one of their premier partners and loves the firewall he says never let him down. My testing with it has been wow it's great I really have no complaints on it. Now the thing about untangle they do have a wonderful if you're a home user a 50 dollar a year subscription that's really gives you amazing features for 50 bucks for the home user edition. They have licensing that goes for business users and with the business class ones you get that really nice filtering a lot of people really want good filtering and that's what you're really paying for when you pay for untangle is you pay for that extra filtering that they offer so they offer that you know I want to filter this website and the way this works that is something you can do the other nice thing that I've noticed with untangle is for example people who asked me about policy based routing I've done videos about it on pfSense I've also done how to use like piavpn with pfSense and it's a much longer instruction than it is for example with and I have to have untangle loaded on this is why keep holding this one when you have untangle it's just a couple clicks you can use Nordvpn piavpn and a couple others they're built in you just drop in your username password and the vpn profile and you're done in a few seconds it will then create a tunnel network so you can tunnel all your traffic over vpn and then you can even select specific devices with just the web interface and a checkbox yes you can do that on pfSense no it's not going to be as easy because you have to write policies and routing and have multiple gateways and decide which gateway you want traffic to go out based on the conditions and rules untangle is just kind of one click so when it comes to some of that software features these are really nice advanced features supported by both pfSense and untangle and I won't lie untangle makes a little bit easier and back to that filtering yes I know you can add some third party add-ons and it's been a long time since I tested it but I know one of them is a DNS thingy has a plug-in for pfSense that's also a paid service that allows you to add filtering features to pfSense but once again it's going above and beyond those the filtering really comes down to a lot of times you got to pay for those type of subscriptions if you want really good filtering features now both untangle and pfSense do have not just sericada built in but they give you a lot of options with it much more so than the sericada that you get with the USG I mean I love the unify interface in terms of ease of use but once we start talking sericada tunnel VPNs everything else they're not impossible to do on these but they're basically command line and if you find a difficult and pfSense you'll probably find it even more difficult over on the unify and edge router lines versus untangle one click put your username and password in for piavpn I've tested it myself because I have a pia account and it just works so these are kind of the choices you have and these are some of the reasons we buy them so if you have those advanced use cases and you really like that swiss army knife and you want some firewall for 349 I won't lie neck eight still my go-to still one of my favorites it's what I have at my office here it's what we use to manage our network and you know a project I was working on and we're going to be finishing soon I'll be doing some videos about this is in a complete captive portal free radius along with a signed SSL cert for doing the captive portal enhancements well pfSense has all those plugins running in one place oh by the way it also has Zavix monitoring and other extensible plugins that really make pfSense a like I said I'm still really happy with it and still generally my go-to firewall for most solutions but I won't lie for those of you looking for just an easy way to point and click your way through some simple setups including like that tunnel network untangle the filtering and everything else for their home users that want just basic filtering that $50 a year really hard to beat it at the price but I think they're both really good firewalls are both great products and they're both products I recommend so once again it depends on your use case and if you really need those so hopefully this was helpful in deciding which firewall to buy I guess in all of them have their merits but once you start getting into advanced things pfSense and untangle are really the the two I like pfSense still being my favorite just I love all the bell's whistles and features and that's a reason there's so many pfSense videos I have on my channel here if you have other thoughts on there and I know there's going to be at least a couple people who mentioned the micro tick routers they come over to the edge router category they seem to be really nice I've not done much testing with them we really don't run into a much in the field they seem to be a good value for their money but they also have a more complicated interface and I've talked about the security they had left some default insecure settings which is kind of scary and when a lot of home users deploy I think everything should default to secure and you open it up and their original policies apparently allowed you to create insecure settings and then you had to close them I think they've changed the policies but it's still one of those things anytime a firewall companies like that and I yeah I'm not done a lot of testing on the micro tick ones I guess they're okay if you're looking for really good budget but if you're looking for the power houses PF sensor and untangle are still there for the all the advanced uses lots of flexibility and all the belt you know just that real advanced power set along with filtering and things like that intrusion detection and everything else all right hopefully this is helpful and thanks thanks for watching if you like this video go ahead and click the thumbs up leave us some feedback below to let us know any details what you like and didn't like as well because we love hearing the feedback or if you just want to say thanks leave a comment if you want to be notified of new videos as they come out go ahead and subscribe and the bell icon that lets YouTube know that you're interested notifications hopefully they send them as we've learned 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The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Police has arrested 23 suspected criminals for various crimes bordering on kidnapping, ritual killing, armed robbery, internet fraud, among other criminal acts. The State Commissioner of Police, Paul O'Dammer, further noted that those involved in the kidnap of one Magistrate, Jumoke Bamiboye, wife of a former military administrator of Oshun and Bauti State's Theophilus Bamiboye, early last year, were among the 23 arrested armed gangs. The investigation into the case revealed that Abu Bakashiho, alias Dogo, and his gun were the kidnappers behind the kidnap of one Alhaji, Madaki Shaibu, at Aigun Flanikamp, sometimes in January 2023, where the son of Alhaji, of this very Alhaji, was killed. It was also revealed that Dogo was part of the gun that kidnapped Magistrate Bamiboye, also in that same month, January 2022. The command said the suspects were arrested at Aikourin and Bannin Forests within the state in conjunction with local vigilante groups following intelligence reports. Other suspects were arrested for cultism, ritual killings, and internet fraud-related crimes. On 11th April 2023, the above mentioned suspects were arrested based on actionable intelligence to the effect that some suspected ritualists are seen gathered at an isolated hotel in Malete, Muroh, local government area of Qwara State. The anti-cultism operatives were despised to the area by the Commissioner of Police, P. Paul O'Dhamma, S. P. S. Hidaga, where the suspects were rounded up with all the above items recovered.


Let's understand our first scenario that is related to screen flow. So I'm going to create the screen flow, which will be creating a related contact on account record. And I will be debugging the flow. So jumping to the flow builder. So I'm just going to delete these elements which are already available. So I'm going to create net new resources, elements, everything from the beginning, right? So let me just close this as well so that I can launch net new flow. So from here, you just search for flows. So this list will be available. You can just click on new flow. From this list, you will be selecting screen flow and then create. So first of all, I'm going to create a variable named as record ID because I will be creating a contact record and I need to link that contact record to particular account. So I need to have the account record ID. So I'm just going to create a resource as a variable. API name is record ID. You need to remember like in this record ID, I will be capital and everything will be in small then data type is text. And you need to enable this checkbox that is available for input and click on done. So this record ID variable is created here. Now I'm going to add a screen where I can receive some input from the user. So here you can see on the screen. I need to provide the label. So I'm providing the label as contact information. API name is populated automatically contact underscore information. This header and footer you can configure as per the requirement. So if you want to show header show help text so you can enable if you want to configure the footer. So these options are available. These are related to these buttons. If you want to hide particular button you can if you want to change the label of the button. So that is also possible. Right. So I'm not touching this part as of now. Now here I'm going to have some components. So I'm placing text as first component because I want to receive first name so that I can store it into contact record. So it's label is first name API is first underscore name. I'm making it required from here. If you want to set default value you can if you want to set the component visibility so you can set that as well. Right. So here you can provide the condition. So right now I'm not touching this part because I just need to show you like how you can create your complete screen flow. So I'm just dragging and dropping it here again. And this time it's label is last name. And it is also required. Right. So these two text components are available on the screen. And now I'm going to click on done. So this way this contact information will be received from the screen. Now after this screen I just need to have one more element that is related to data. So I'm selecting create records element or maybe create contact only. So here I need to create only one record so I'm selecting one. Then I will be providing the values from separate resources and literal values. So I'm selecting the second option from here I'm choosing the object as contact. Then field as first name. So this is the field that is available on contact object. And now here I need to search for the screen component that is also having API as first underscore name. Then I'm adding one more field. So this time I need to have last name. And here also I need to provide last name. Then if I want to relate this contact with the account. So I need to populate the account ID lookup with the account record ID. So I already created this variable in the beginning. So this record ID variable will be having the account ID that I am passing into this account ID lookup that is available on the contact object. If you want to make sure so what you can do. You can just go to object manager. And here you can search for contact object inside contact object in the fields and relationships, you will find this lookup to account. So if you populate this with account record ID so your contact will be automatically related to that account. So that is what we did here. Right. And after creation of this contact record if you want to show the record ID or if you want to store the record ID into a variable. So you can just enable this checkbox and you can store the newly created contact ID into variable. So I will be using this option later in another scenario. So I'm just clicking on done. So this way this flow is implemented. Now I'm just going to save it. So I'm labeling it as create related contact on account and clicking on save. Now, so the first part is completed like I just created the screen flow. Now second part is I just need to debug it so that I can verify whether account is having a related contact created or not. So I'm just clicking on debug. So here you can see I just need to pass a record ID. So I am moving here. Okay, I just need to open. Okay, it is already opened here. So here I'm going to open one account record and I'm selecting this one. And here you can see related contact is zero. So I am copying this record ID. And I'm pasting it here. So I'm just clicking on run. So you can see it is asking for first name and last name. So I'm providing my first name and last name and clicking on next. So now you can see this, this is the screen debug. So I provided first name as Sanjay last name as Gupta. So these are available in this screen component. Here this create record element work, which is having account ID, which I passed in the record ID variable. Then first name is equals to Sanjay last name is equals to Gupta and you can see in the result or record is ready to be created. When the next screen pause or local action is executed, or when the interview finishes. So this record is created. So this flow interview is finished and this ID is available. So through this ID, you can verify your record is created or not. Otherwise what you can do just go to your account record and do a refresh. And you will see your related record as contact. So you can see here, if you want to open this so you will be. Now you can copy this ID. This is for contact record and here you can see this contact record is having this account ID lookup is populated. If I go here and if I control F and paste so you can see it is matching. So this way I created a screen flow and I showed you how you can debug your screen flow so that you can verify whether it is working fine or not. So before activating your screen flow, you just first need to debug so that you make sure the flow which you implemented is working fine or not.


Good afternoon Pastor David. How you doing John? I'm doing well. Thank you welcome everybody to unfiltered a random moment with Pastor David and as you guys know as on Tuesdays we talk more about current events that are going on in our nation or worldwide and on Thursdays we like to tease out your message for Sundays and so today as we look at some of the headlines or some of the things that are going on around us I wanted to ask you a question and get your feedback on this the sense that our government our our leadership is committed to chaos and and so I wanted to ask has our failing leadership weakened America on the international stage? You know I I don't know that the government per se you know beginning we'll say with the with the president you know the executive branch with the president and all I don't know that that he could actually be committed towards chaos I don't know that he is I frankly wouldn't judge his heart in such a way but is the path he's taking creating chaos I'd say absolutely because instead of being a unifier he has become a divider he campaigned under the the what would it be wasn't really a slogan so much but under the the belief that he was going to unify the nation that that Trump had he had thought divided so he he basically tried to unify people by saying that he was going to counter the things that created the problems etc and we all know that I'm just saying that which people already know so I wouldn't think that he with intent is causing chaos I would say the fruit of what he does is chaotic and that's because instead of uniting us he has taken positions that even constituents those of the Democratic Party and even those who classify themselves as independent are incapable of actually following or agreeing with so he has by taking the the more liberal positions that his his party holds he has successfully on his own created that kind of confusion which always will lead to chaos and so under his inability I would say to to to compromise under his incapacity to see somebody else's position he's created what I would say is the the dissatisfaction of the general American I mean poll after poll points out that people don't trust his leadership they don't trust his his ability to make decisions they don't they don't agree with his vice president in her positions and all and so yeah the great uniter has become the great divider well you know as we had tried this once before and we were speaking of of the disconnect with the American people and some of the ways in such of the ways as gas prices or going to the store and and how does as an American we view that as a president who's saying I'm doing the best for the country you know we see our vice president even in a podium she's asked a question and she has to refer it to a foreign leader and I just see this disconnect between the people of the United States and our and the well there is an absolute disconnect John president Biden doesn't have to worry about the cost of gas and even if you were not the president having other people fill up vehicles that he doesn't own even if he was filling his own vehicle one he probably wouldn't be the one who was putting gas into his own car he's a multi-multi-millionaire but millions that he has made in political office over 40 plus years when one wonders how you can be so rich have so many homes when you're supposed to be a public servant but that's I guess for another broadcast right but he wouldn't understand he wouldn't understand the cost of gas because it doesn't affect him we the taxpayer are paying to fill up his tank he wouldn't understand waiting in line at a grocery store because he doesn't have to do that the only time he's ever in line is when he's getting ice cream and that's usually for a photo op the same is true with the vice president and that goes on both sides of the aisle I mean Republican presidents wouldn't know that anymore than a Democrat I mean that's just the political life right and so you just can't tell me that you're a scrappy guy from Scranton and understand because you don't you don't pay for your own meals you don't pay for the upkeep of the house you're living in we do you don't pay for your own gas you don't pay for your own medical costs you don't pay for anything it's all paid for you plus you're taking the president's salary every year you could live very well on even if we you weren't the president if you were making four hundred thousand dollars a year you can live very comfortably you can do that obviously so when he tries to say when any political official like that a president I don't care again if it's Republican or not when they say I feel your pain that may be a nice thing to say politically but that's just not true practically see so people my age people who have lived for some time and have seen many presidents come and go I don't listen to their rhetoric I don't listen to their supposed compassion they don't pay medical costs they don't have to wait in line to to finally see a doctor they have a private doctor they don't live in our world John and that's why I think the the only thing that matters with these people is whether or not they're leading according to the will of the people and this this president is not this president doesn't believe apparently doesn't believe in the greatness of the United States our vice president is is an apologist for other countries she doesn't she doesn't have a grasp of what's going on either that poor I feel sorry for her in many ways because she hasn't the capacity to actually answer the questions that are asked of her and it's not because she's not intelligent and it's not because she hasn't been disciplined she received her her law degree this is an educated woman who who is in the midst of the leaders the world shakers she just she's not up for the task and neither is he I don't think he ever has been up for the task and so we're only reaping what the political voters sowed that's what we're reaping right now we've got supply chain problems we got border problems we are paying Russia have been had been paying Russia for oil and I thought Russia was a great enemy I thought I thought this was the conspiracy how are we how do we do that give them a billion dollars basically a day how do you do that when you've been telling us that that there are such enemies and they're they're colluding with Trump and this and that I don't know why people don't see it but they they're they're just spiritually blind John because this is what they voted for and a great number of people are kind of awakening to it because the polls seem to point that over 70 percent of Americans are disagreeing with the direction of that this country is going in well you know it's uh it's crazy to even see that uh our administration reaching out to the Middle East for for makes no sense for fuel when we had so it just all these things and and you know and I think pastor that sometimes even as us Christians we hopefully that this is a wake-up call for us to to vote our conscience problem is John millions of Christians don't vote here in California we we we're good at complaining but when it comes to casting our vote millions do not vote and that's that's the problem millions of of of those who call on the name of Jesus as their savior don't even take their time to do that so we end up with the government that was voting in by those who are willing to to to cast a vote that's where our problem is there's too many too many polls that have been taken that that show that evangelical Christians are not even voting so again they have no right to complain about the government none at all they allowed that government to be voted in you know and so you reap what you sow that's how it works you know pastor in in in your experience and throughout your lifetime have you ever seen anything like you see now with our administration I've never seen such an incompetent and inept administration again I'm no political pundit what do I know about politics but in a long life and and seen presidents all the way from Eisenhower to Biden I can say I have never seen anything as bad as what we have today when it comes to leadership never a man who stumbles over the most simple statements a man who apparently lives in the past wanting us to know how tough he was when he was a young man this is a man 80 years old I don't want to hear about this frail fragile man's fighting prowess I don't want to hear it I would like to see some dignity I would like to see some wisdom I don't see that with this man and I certainly don't see it with the vice president there's absolutely none of that in these people and then when you begin to look at the the the others that are with the loudest voices the the Ocasio Cortez's and and their posse it is ridiculous and and I could go on about that I won't but I will say that we really are in a world of of hurts and the church needs to wake up and we certainly need to be praying for our our leaders more fervently than we ever have and because uh as Jesus tells us in Matthew 24 deception is going to be the greatest sign of of his return it's not going to be the wars rumors of wars and we start to see it you know we talked about this before as the Dracula that came to your your parents house as a little kid because your dad had the best candy right yeah a little boy came over and my mom gave him the candy that my dad brought home because my dad was a truck driver so they would give him a box of candy and they were they were not the inexpensive ones during that time they were mounds bars and um and joys and they were nice you know they weren't penny candy they were the candy that caused a little bit more and yeah a little boy came over and he was dressed like Dracula and he knocked on the door three different times um the first time he looked regular the second time he was hiding his face with his cape the third time he was holding his hands up like they were claws and my mother was busting up over this kid because he thought that if he tried to make himself look different that my mom would be fooled and I see that as being kind of like what we see in politics today people who are pretending that there's something they're not in order to get the treat that they desire no doubt yes and the exciting thing is about this if there's a silver lining there is a silver lining that we are to keep our eyes on christ so the bottom line is is if you don't you're going to just be in despair we have to keep our eyes on jesus he has our blessed hope and uh you know that's why we say come quickly Lord Jesus but until then we're going to occupy until he comes so we don't have a president we have a king well we will always have a king we will always have a savior we always will have that one whom we trust and look to but until that day we do we do the best that we can to elect the officials that would represent us and I I don't believe in giving up I don't believe in not having something to do with in this fight so if a christian wants to be a board member for a school if he or she wants to run for mayor or senator or whatever governor if that's a call they have in their life I fully support that and encourage them to do that amen pastor thank you so much for your time in sharing your thoughts on this I do want to invite us invite church family to our Wednesday evening service uh as pastor you're taking us to read Ephesians chapter four chapter four verses one through six we're going to look at the walk that is worthy and then communion communion so church family it's a great opportunity to invite your friends to come join us to be in God's word to worship and to celebrate community together so thank you pastor thank you guys for tuning in God bless you we'll see you soon


If you're struggling with recurring panic attacks, you probably just want to feel better. And nobody would blame you for that, including me. I mean, heck, if I had a way to make you feel better right now, I would 100% give that to you. But since we don't have a magic silver bullet that fixes your panic attacks instantly, we often default to finding our panic attack triggers and then avoiding them at all costs. And at face value, that seems to make some sort of sense because it steers us clear of anxiety and fear and uncertainty and discomfort and all the things that we hate. But in the end, developing avoidant responses to panic attacks and trying to avoid triggers at all costs can and often does backfire. What seems to make sense in a moment actually makes things worse in the long run. So this week on episode 284 of the anxious truth podcast, we're talking about why avoiding panic triggers seems like a good idea, but it kind of isn't. So check it out. You can watch or listen anywhere you like. I hope you find it helpful. See you next time.