Would you rather pay $650 or $66 for a smart phone? Simple.  Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. The coronavirus pandemic continues to push Kentucky's medical system closer to the brink. Hospitalizations continue to be near record levels and the number of patients in intensive care or on ventilators is at an all-time high. Governor Andy Bushier says the state is very close to seeing a true crisis in its hospitals. So yesterday, hospitals dipped a little bit from the day before. We'll see. I mean, that was the first day and I think 44, 45, that that had happened. We'll see. But the ICU has set a new record and we've set a new record after record after record. Intensive care unit has called that for a reason. You're in trouble when you're in there. You've got great people there willing to help you out. But again, there is a limit on ICU beds in the state right now. We fluctuate anywhere from about 115 adult ICU beds left in the state to about 145. But if you can see it, that growth, we have three bad days. We have three bad outbreaks and we're in trouble. And remember, those are statewide. And a lot of those are in Louisville or Lexington where there is additional capacity. You talk to the regional hospitals, they might not even have an ICU, but they're treating those patients. They got people on a ventilator in the emergency room that they can't stabilize to ultimately move. And those that do, they are full. And while the lack of beds is a concern, the state is also beginning to see widespread shortages of staff as well. Our information today says we've set a new record for hospitals that are at the critical staffing shortage. This is, you can call it out of space or out of people, this is out of health care capacity. 62 of 96, we've reached two thirds of our hospitals at critical staffing shortage. I mean, it wasn't two weeks ago that we were at a third and then we almost immediately went to 50%. These numbers are growing every day. The governor's remarks come the same day that Appalachian Regional Health Care announced that its morgue at Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center is full. ARH said in a statement that the only reason the hospital has not had to call for mobile morgue units is that a local funeral home has donated space for more bodies. Both ARH and Governor Bashir repeated calls for Kentuckians to get vaccinated and to continue following guidelines regarding face masks and social distancing.


I'm here with Kino Moe here at E-Find, who are you? And I am Art Savankar, co-founder of Kino Moe. And this product is here called Hypervision. This is the new holograms of the future of retail display. Small device, you can attach anywhere you want, plug it in and have a hologram right over there. There's many on the wall right now. What's going on? There's one over there and nine synchronized in here. Nine? No, it's one and this is nine and this is also one. One nine one? Yep. And you can even have more that you didn't activate? Um, no. They're all active right now? It's like some, they don't, they seem to have the... No, no, it's just decoration. All right. So, do you already have this deployed? If I go in here, like, for example, right here, you have some bars and what is this? Like, so you just have a flying burger at the burger restaurant? You have a flying everything. Since when do you do this technology? Since 2012, we've been developing it, but we launched it earlier this year, so it's a brand new product. And does it give the illusion of kind of like a hologram? Yes, that's exactly precisely how you describe it. Illusion of a hologram. And it's like it's floating? Exactly, that's what holograms do. And people think it's magic because they don't see where it works, right? Yes. Cool. Do you have like patterns on this kind of stuff? Yes. The only ones who can do this in the whole world? And do you have many shipped already or is it very small? Well, it's a brand new product. We shipped quite a lot in over 15 countries. And, yeah. Where's the projector? There's no projector. There's the thing that's spinning. That's emissive light, yeah. It's just making light in real time. Yeah. It knows how fast it's spinning, so it doesn't go out of the shape and everything. Oh, that's awesome. How long is the thing that spins? How long? Yeah, how long is the thread? Is it the thread? 5600 meters. 60? 56. 56. Oh, that's really cool. Is there a price for this kind of installation? Our, well, one unit is up to $3,000.  Exactly. That's really cool. And it's easy to program any content you want into it? Yeah. So do you need, is it like a limited storage space in a unit, how much it can do or? Three gig. Three gigabytes? More than you need. Lots and lots of, it's not a very HD resolution, right? Is it what kind of resolution? It's almost HD. It's quite precise. You'll see it in a few other images. Very cool. That's awesome. So in the future, you'll be all over the world with this stuff. Yeah. Of course. Fingers crossed.


Hi, I'm Ariel. I've been a PM at Dropbox for four years. When I was just starting out, I had all these preconceptions, these myths about what being a PM would be like. So today I'd like to share with you how my experiences taught me which of these myths are fact or fiction. We're going to go over seven myths today, but if you have additional questions, please leave a comment below. So myth number one, when you look at a PM's calendar, it's usually booked nine to five meetings. So that must be all a PM does, right? Drive meetings, attend meetings. This myth is actually fiction. A PM's job is all about delivering results. And sometimes meetings are helpful to delivering results, but you can get your job done with as many or a few meetings as you would like. In fact, at Dropbox, since we've moved to a virtual first world, we've been practicing an async first mentality to accommodate all of our coworkers in different time zones. And I would say I feel even more productive. In an async first world, I found it super helpful to be judicious about what does or doesn't need a meeting. For me, I found meetings most helpful when we need to discuss, for example, when my engineering and design counterparts are jamming with me on how to solve a user problem. When we need to decide, for example, when we have a really good idea for a project and we need to get stakeholder buy-in to move forward. Or when feelings are involved. For example, when a project doesn't go well, and we want to retrospect on how we can do better next time. But for things that don't need meetings, I've been moving them to Slack and email so that I can have a lot more heads down time and really focus and think on solving the hard problems. Next one. Well, if a PM's job is to deliver results, then obviously they need to ship, right? This one I've learned is fiction. Results doesn't always mean ship that shiny new thing. In fact, sometimes results mean don't do anything or even take something away. And initially that feels a little counterintuitive. But if you zoom out and think about the big picture, the company has limited resources. So any resources that they're spending on this low impact thing are resources they can't be spending on the higher impact project. In fact, at Dropbox, I've had two projects where there's a lot of internal excitement about it. But when I started interviewing users and quantifying the opportunity, I realized that no one really wanted this. So despite it being the unpopular opinion, I had to push back on doing the project. Thankfully at Dropbox, we value focusing our resources on the highest impact thing. So I felt confident in moving forward and pushing for the right decision. So assuming you're working on a project where you decided shipping is the right thing. Your job is done once it's out the door, right? In my experience, this one is fiction. For an experience, obviously the goal is to learn. So getting it in users' hands is just the first step. The fun part comes when the learnings come in and you can iterate on your hypotheses and continue learning. But even for GA, a PM's job isn't done once the feature is out the door. Because our job is to deliver results, we need to make sure that we move those metrics that measure that we delivered results. So once the feature goes out the door, I make sure that the metrics move so that we actually measure that we deliver those results. I make sure the feature doesn't adversely impact someone else's important guardrail metrics. And I make sure that over time, the feature doesn't just stop delivering results, maybe because it's broken. Next up, a PM doesn't need to know how to code, right? In my experience, this one is a fact. And at Dropbox, you definitely do not need a technical background in order to be a successful PM. In fact, I know many successful PMs that came from non-technical majors like physics or even history. Through my experience, I've done a few more technical projects like search, machine learning, integrations. And the most technical I've ever had to get is understanding how all the services connect together in a technical architecture diagram. Of course, I found understanding under the hood helps me make trade-offs and make the right decision. But I lean on a strong technical lead partner to be able to do this. My TL partner will go look through the code and understand what the limitations are and come back to me so that I have contacts to make the right decision. So please do not let the lack of a CS degree deter you from pursuing product management. Switching gears a bit. So if people look to PMs for the decisions, then is it a PM's job to make all the decisions? This one is fiction. I was a bit unfair in this one because I think phrasing is key. Yes, a PM's job is to make sure a decision is made so the project can continue moving forward. But a PM does not need to single-handedly make all of those decisions. At Dropbox, we use a daisy framework to streamline decision-making. D stands for driver. This person is in charge of making sure a decision is made and often involves laying out all the options, analyzing the trade-offs and making a recommendation. A stands for approver. So this person is accountable for the project's outcome. So they often need to be cool with the decision that's made. C stands for contributors. These people help provide context to evaluate options for the decision. And then I stands for informed. So these people are updated once the decision is made. Let's walk through an example where I was not the one who made the decision. Recently, we had to make a decision about how to display image thumbnails. I considered myself the approver as the PM because I was accountable for the results that this feature delivered. But I didn't feel like I had all the right context to make the call here. So I asked the driver, the designer, to drive this decision. And I told them what I cared about, which was meeting user needs and not accruing a lot of unnecessary engineering costs. The designer then jammed with the contributors, the engineers, on the solutions and kind of the trade-offs and came with a recommendation. And then I was called the recommendation. So we informed the rest of the team. Because of our clear roles, we were able to make a decision quickly and keep the project moving forward without getting caught up in differing opinions. Next up, when everyone's looking to you, obviously a PM should have all the answers, right? So there's two ways to interpret this myth. And both are actually fiction. First interpretation, let's say someone asks you a question during the meeting. You don't know the answer. Moment of panic, what do you do? In my experience, I've actually learned it's totally fine. You can just follow up afterwards and be like, hey, this is the answer to your question.  The second interpretation is let's say you have identified a user problem, but you don't know how to solve it. Is that a personal failure? Again, no. Because the whole point of hypothesis-driven development is that you take your best guess, your hypothesis, and then you put it out and you learn and you iterate. And even if you were right or wrong in your hypothesis, you've learned something, and now you're one step closer to giving the right solutions to users. Next up. Is it helpful for a PM to have a network? I found this one is a fact. It's pretty obvious. In my opinion, it's always helpful to have a network to lean on. And at Dropbox, I try to maintain a network of peers and mentors that have different strengths and are in different areas of the company. My area has a working session of most PMs every week where we bring early ideas and jam on them to build our craft. And in addition to that, I try to maintain a network outside of my immediate peers to hear their different perspectives and understand how the company is operating as a whole to make my decisions better. I end with this one because it's really hard to maintain a network as a PM. Before all this remote-first stuff, it was already hard because you only have a handful of PMs in a particular area. And then now with this remote work situation, it's even harder because you can't just run into people in the hallway.  So while it's hard, please don't be discouraged from building your network because that support system is so helpful for our personal growth as PMs. So that is all of our myths today. I want to thank you so much for watching this webinar, and I had a lot of fun making this, and I really hope my experience can help you in your career.


Let's look at an example of how we use this assignment method to assign tasks to different resources. This can, let's say, first printing incorporated company wants to find the minimum total cost assignment of three jobs to three typesetters, three resources. This data is given in it. R34 job is 66, T50, and resources are ABC and their relative cost, we have provided the data of the cost. Now, the method of this is basically, as I told you, step one is to subtract the minimum cost value from the total value of the row. Similarly, if you want to do it in a row, then we have this figure. If we subtract it, then we have a zero here and a zero is here. Now, in the next step, we have to look at column-wise to see which values are column-wise minimum. In column A, this is minimum, zero. In column B, this two is minimum. And in column C, zero is again minimum. So now we have to subtract the lowest value from which we have to subtract the rest of the values. So if we subtract zero from zero and two from five, then the value will remain the same. Similarly, column C will remain the same because there are two zeros and we will subtract zero from three. But in column B, the lowest is two. So when we use and subtract this, then if we subtract it from eight, then it will be six. If we subtract it from two, then it will be zero. And if we subtract it from five, then it will be three. So the new matrix that we have, that will be, now this is the new matrix. It has changed the value of six zero three. Now the second step is that we have to draw the minimum number of lines that cover the zeros. So what is this? One line comes, the other line comes. So basically we have two lines coming here. So we are covering two lines whereas we have three columns and three rows. At least three lines should come to cover zeros. So in this, we will go to basically the third step. So in this, the second step is that we have drawn these lines. And as I said, because these are two lines, then we will go to the next step, number three. In this, this is intersection. So this is important. Here our value is this three. So in this third step, the uncovered numbers are four. We have to subtract it from these smallest numbers. So instead of two it will be zero, instead of three it will be one, instead of six it will be four, and instead of five it will be three. But another step is that the number on the intersection is three, we will add this two to it. So what do we have now? Three, zero, zero. Because two minus two is zero. So that is four. If two comes out of six, then four is zero one. And that is zero. If two is added in three, then that is zero. Five is zero. So we have reached this level. Now we have to see how many lines we can cover if we cover these zeroes. So if we can see, it takes minimum three lines to cover these zeroes. And in this we have a line here, we have covered the second zeroes and we have covered the third zeroes. Basically even if you go by column wise, there should be three lines because this will cover three, the second line, the third line. If we go daily, then we don't need three. So now we have to assign tasks to different resources. We have three tasks and three resources. We have to assign them here. So the way is that let's say we go row wise and we see which row has only one place, location is zero. R34 has only one zero. And zero, as I said, is part of the optimum solution. That is, this location will be in the optimum solution. That says that this task should be provided to C. We will give C this task. So on that basis, this is our assignment. Because this task cannot be assigned to anyone else because there is no other zero. So we cross out rows and columns which intersect with zero. So we have crossed it. Now we have seen that we have three zeroes. Again, we will look at uncovered locations and in T50 there is only one zero location and below B there is one. So that means we can assign A to B because there is no competition. Whereas in S66, A is zero and B is zero. There will be competition in which to assign. So it is better to assign the competition first and the solution will come out. So we have assigned A to T50 and this will also come out. And then this will also come out. So we have only B to be left. So in the second step, we have assigned T50 to A and now what we have left is one task and one resource. So we have assigned S66 to B. So this will give us the minimum cost task assignments which these workers will perform. And if we look at our original table, cost table, then on that basis A cost was $9. B cost $10 and C cost $6. And that gives us the minimum lowest cost of $25 by assigning these tasks to these resources.


Tell me what what you saw tonight, what your takeaway is? Well, I think we had a great crowd tonight and I just am so proud of the community engagement, participation that was here. I'm very pleased with the turnout. And some of the takeaways, one that the constituents and the residents here very happy to give their opinion, which I'm very proud of. And some things that were really creative that they were talking about, merging the city and the county projects and really streamlining, consolidating them. And then also talking about the one thing, message that I heard loud and clear was about the tax abatements and tax incentives. I think that was out of the majority of the tables that people also discussed brought up as something that needed to be cut. Really important. And one of the takeaways is here is that this is a very engaged community and they want to have their voice heard. And I'm very proud to be a part of that and to be held accountable by them too. So yes. And the main things that are on their minds were, their concerns about the libraries and the library hours being cut and the roles at the library and the parks play in the community. Hearing just now that people are concerned that their neighborhood, their community center, the Bodie Center is on the chopping block right now. They don't want to see that happen and neither do I. So we need to look and see and make those tough, challenging decisions. And like I shared with them, I'm not the only one making the decisions. I need to go to them and get their input most definitely. And it was a really crowd filled with good humor and creativity. Yes, absolutely. Creativity and a very good humor. So I think that's what makes San Antonio just so unique and you could feel kind of the family atmosphere too in here and also having Girl Scouts represented and making sure that public safety and that you know domestic and family violence is an issue for a lot of people too. Lots of good stuff tonight. Lots of good stuff and I'm glad to see just an engaged community. You're very welcome. Thank you for being here.


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Stop using more words to tell a story than is necessary. And by the way, this won't just be advice for new writers, because it's a bad habit that I see in established SCP writers as well. I mean, heck, I do it myself more often than I'd like. Also, rather than let this introduction become incredibly ironic, let's stop here and talk about how you can be a better writer by writing less. Part 1. Show. Don't tell. The first thing we need to talk about is literally using more words than is necessary in a single sentence or paragraph. This is related to the incredibly common and also very good advice, show. Don't tell. Oftentimes experienced writers will say this to new writers as though it's somehow entirely self-evident what it means. And there is something appropriate to that attitude when you're dealing with a piece of advice such as that. But let's be real here. Plenty of people need more details to understand what it means, so let's start with an example sentence. Joanna was scared. So scared, in fact, that her hands shook and her knees began to buckle as the beast approached. So first of all, you can probably immediately detect a problem with that sentence. Technically, it does both show and tell what's happening, but you don't need to tell us what's happening if you've already showed us. The first sentence, Joanna was scared, is completely unnecessary. You can eliminate it, modify the second sentence, and get the exact same amount of information across the audience. Like this. Joanna was so scared that her hands shook and her knees began to buckle as the beast approached. Now this is better, but it's actually still pretty bad. The sentence, in and of itself, is pretty unwieldy, and it tells the audience that Joanna is scared. A better revision might be, Joanna's hands shook and her knees began to buckle as the beast approached. With that version, we've, without having dimension fear at all, put the idea of fear into the reader's head anyway. Some people get into writing and may even be successful at it with the thought that their ideas tell the audience exactly what people are feeling or what events are occurring, but the mark of a good writer is in what's left unsaid. You want the reader to know your protagonist is scared, of course, but you don't want to accomplish that by saying she was scared. That's just bad writing. And a lot of this can be avoided by just not saying things that are blaringly obvious.  That's an incredibly good example of this particular mistake, and almost invariably acts as a little more than filler. It's like saying the book had pages made of paper. We all already know what books look like and what they're made of. And you might even be thinking things like, well, if the book has three plastic pages, then I have to mention the rest of the book is normal, right? But no, not really. You could say the book has 246 pages, and that three of them are composed of plastic. Give your audience some credit and assume they understand how the world works. In fact, most of these problems in fiction writing come from not being able to trust that the audience understands what you've written down. But if you do have to say something like, Joanna is scared, then you've probably just failed to write a good sentence in the first place, and you need to work on that. Always look for ways to cut down your word count in individual sentences and paragraphs. You'll find your story is significantly more exciting to the reader if you do. And remember, your job is to create something for them to discover in their minds, not to demand that they see exactly what you're seeing. Part two, use less adverbs. So this is another piece of basic writing advice, but it still comes up quite often with experienced writers. You want to try to reduce the usage of adverbs in your writing.  And an adverb to modify those would be something like quietly talked or walked slowly or ate quickly. But the problem with using adverbs is that there's almost invariably a single word that covers what you want to say and does it better than a verb adverb combination. You don't quietly talk, you whisper. Walked slowly allows you to characterize the person doing the walking depending on the word you actually use. So if you say he creeped as an alternative, that means something completely different than meander. But they both can be characterized as walking slowly. Obviously, one makes your character seem weird and the other one just makes your character seem lazy. Again, this is always about communicating things to the audience without having to come out and say them. And finally, the word you choose in place of a verb and adverb can speak to the context and circumstances of your story. And it can be far stronger than the verb adverb combination. Ate his food quickly doesn't say very much, but devoured his food means something substantial for your character and the events surrounding the incident being described. Now adverbs do have their place and they can never be eliminated completely, especially when it comes to dialogue. But ultimately, don't use a verb adverb combination as an excuse not to use a much better word that fleshes out your character, the context of the scene, or the story itself. And in some cases, that you don't even need the adverb in the first place and can just use the verb.  No matter how anxious you get about your writing, there will come a time when something you wrote will make you very, very happy. And it might even be a single sentence or a paragraph or a whole work, but it will be something and no one else will care about it. Or worse, everyone else who reads that part of the story will hate it. There's a ton of different ways to speak to this advice because writers have been doing it for literally thousands of years, but kill your darlings is a fairly common way to put it. That is to say, learn to recognize when getting rid of that part you're so satisfied with will actually improve your work. But often it's about more than just that. Sometimes you have a brilliant ending, but you start to think it's not good enough so you just keep going. And then the finished work stops being great somewhere along the line and slides down into just good enough. When it comes to writing, it's always better to end early than it is to end late. But despite this, one of the most common pieces of critique I see bandied about by bad writers is, this needs to be longer. Which, alright so sometimes that is good advice, it's rare but it does happen. The vast majority of the time it's not just bad advice, it's actively harmful advice. Let me explain why. Imagine you have an SCP with three different story threads going. Maybe there's a couple of characters and then a primary plot. By the ending of the work, you've got a resolution for one of the characters and you've got a resolution for the plot, but say a secondary character is sort of left hanging. Now a lot of people will see this and they will tell you to keep going and finish that character's arc. It's a natural urge and instinct to suggest that, but that would weaken the story else wise because you've already got what is essentially a finished product. But how do you solve that problem if you've got a character's story that is left unresolved? The best solution is actually to remove the unresolved element from the story completely.  Don't add an unnecessary epilogue when you could shore up the pacing of the work by trimming it down instead. That's ultimately the goal of this, improve your pacing, because words aren't inherently entertaining. You have to work to keep it that way and part of that work is going to be cutting out unnecessary bits that drag your story down. So let's do a quick review. First, show don't tell. Don't spend time telling me your character is scared or that the room is hazy when you can describe a character is shaking or that the room is filled with steam. Two, limit your usage of adverbs in non-dialogue text. Use verbs with heft and meaning to characterize both situations and people in your stories. And three, fixing a problem in a finished work is often a matter of deleting things rather than adding more. Get comfortable condensing the work down when you spot an issue. And that's it really. A lot of writers will find they can take a work that's 20 pages long and end up with just one brilliant page by taking out all the extraneous bits. And others might struggle just to get one page done, but regardless, everything you write is not going to be good. Let your first instinct be to eliminate excess words, characters, or even entire plot points, not to add more. Anyway, if you liked the video, be sure to hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're alerted when I upload new content. And if you really want to help make sure this content keeps getting made, head on over to patreon.com forward slash decimarion and pledge like Jason Graham just did. He pledged 20 bucks and joined the patrons you see on the screen right now as supporters of the channel. These patrons help me to make sure I can keep making this content for you. And let me know that I'm not alone out here. Anyway, that's it. I'll see you on Thursday.


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I'm the forum's creator I'm the co-host over the host and the cat herder for the Next hour and I'm really really looking forward to our celebration today To begin with let me just help introduce the forum to those of you who haven't been here for a bit or who are new here But also I want to just use this moment to quickly reflect back on everybody what we've done what we've accomplished and what you've all done together Now just to take your minds back five years ago to this day february 11th 2016 We had our first forum You have to remember that at that point we really weren't universally committed to videoconferencing Not everybody was hip deep in zoom Or shindig or teams or anything else video conferencing was a kind of nice to have extra And we decided to create something unusual we decided to create a A venue for people to discuss the future of higher education over video And we did this Launched in vermont or we had terrible bandwidth And we did this using a startup technology shindig and we've been going ever since It's just remarkable to think about how many people have been here What a variety of people have been here You know just how many faculty Researchers librarians technologists students presidents All from within higher education and beyond higher education government officials political candidates non-profit head startup funders and founders We've had critics. We've had boosters We've had all kinds of folks from literally from around the world And I'm just it's just astonishing to think about in fact here. I'm gonna go a little further still Right now The total number of guests that we've hosted is close to 300 Over time and the number of participants I'm actually having a hard time calculating it, but it's in the tens of thousands right now Which is truly amazing We have as of this morning 241 recordings on youtube So each of those is free and open for anybody to play with And on our email announcement list, we have nearly 8 000 people And those are all people who decided to be there They could all leave at any moment and we have that many there right now actively participating in what we do together I mean if if you look ahead and we're gonna do that today To where we're going next just think about the variety of sessions that we've all been Co-creating together and we have a session next week on e-learning with one of the world's Great scholars in the subject. We have a session on how to support equity and diversity in higher education We have two different University presidents one from the east coast and one from the west each talking about their very different ways of reinventing public higher education We have a guest who's going to be from mit talking about the science of learning And there's really it's an extraordinary glimpse of where high rate could be going in just these four sessions Now we've worked with supporters over the past five years to help make this happen And I want to thank a couple of them because they are stalwarts If you think about nizer in that in new york state One of the great things is they kind of offer us a model in that they were a distributed network They're a group that runs across that pretty large state working with a wide range of higher education They do also wide range professional development research And research that's a nice kind of model for that distributed network community that we're doing right now And we're grateful to them for their support And we've also been using shindig and we have shindig's founder and ceo on the call Steve Gottlieb and we'll bring him up in a bit But shindig has been terrific as a great partner helping us Really grow over the years and we've been pleased to watch them grow and develop as they move from strength to strength too Again, just for today if if you haven't been to the forum for a while or if you're new to the shindig technology Just to give you a quick primer where I am right now. 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Just mashed to lose my slides. We were bringing it right back And yes, um and frenzy points out boy. Have things changed indeed I wanted to make sure that we could recognize today the unusual achievement of where we are Now that videoconferencing is mandatory for most of the world now that we live thanks to the pandemic In this virtual environment or deeply than ever before I think what we've all done together through the forum gives us Something to be especially proud of we have a warm thoughtful Welcoming provocative community that lets us collaboratively explore the future of higher education I don't think there's anything like it in the world. I'm delighted to be there with you all Now today I had a few plans for things I'd like to do. I'd like to give away a few books My most recent book academia next I'd like to give away some t-shirts and by the way I don't know if you can tell this is a t-shirt here Logo created by rocks in look at that I'd like to have a chance for us to reflect on what we've done and a brainstorm the next five years So one of the themes of today is forward to 2026 Which is a long time to think about but not for you all because you were all already This great at being this forward-looking And we had her had a question that just popped up. I want to bring this up on the stage so everyone can see it This is from Ann Fensey at University of Maine. Hello Ann. Now the video chat is a normal But many of us have been advocating this for years What else have we been advocating for that will finally make it into the mainstream? Oh great question Ann great question I would love to hear from everybody else if you'd like to join her by answering this just You know press the teal button right here or throw some more questions up in the chat I'll just say that I mean online learning as a whole is something that's obviously really really taken off And hopefully doing it deeply and more effectively is something that will also take off What a great question. I hope you're staying warm with all that snow there as well Bob I can't get you a t-shirt or the beard, but I'm thinking about making some of these beards Myron as you know as a as a costume Accessory myron william says something really sweet. I just want to make sure you guys all can hear this This forum has been a great help to me as I move into leadership and distance learning Many of the people here have been great help off light as well and make my work more effective. Thank you Myron. Thank you. That's great to hear I think it's one of the benefits of a community like this is that we get to work together And really learn from each other. It's a fantastic networking environment Ryan I can see aha. There you are Ryan But I see your photo, but I don't see a video is your camera working I'm not getting any audio either Uh, tell you what ryan, uh, what let me just take you down off the podium for a second And why don't you just reload this page and then try again? Sometimes that really clears things up Oh, no problem ryan. Just reload the page. See how it goes. Joe. Why don't you join us appear on stage? We'd like to hear from you Martha adds One answer to the things that we've been talking about for years that have now gone mainstream is working remotely And that's definitely true Joe murphy. Hello ryan. Hello, uh, thank you and congratulations on Five years of something which I will again say I'm I am a I am a better webinar facilitator for watching how you do it and how many of your guests have done it So so thank you So in terms of This is kind of both a what else is going to go mainstream and maybe It's a suggestion. What else should the ftte community be Practicing so that we're more informed and more ready um Since since we're never gonna have to tell anyone ever again that video conferencing is a thing I wonder to what extent the answer might be Thinking about going back toward the written word um, and you know, I I think about the terrific work that you do with the uh with the future trends report um And I don't know exactly what this looks like for this community, but I wonder if there's Some way that we might be able to hone our skills on kind of report outs and Turns out forum discussion is not you know written forum discussion is not that easy and maybe Those are areas where as professionals we might want to think about Venues where we can practice that skill So we're a little more ready to Teach and apply it elsewhere But I was interested in the question about you know, what's to the extent that we've benefited from Practicing this skill. I wonder what the benefits of practicing what the what the next skill we should be practicing is Well, do you think it might be the uh Bringing new light to how to Manage and facilitate text-based discussions online Discussion boards. Thank you. That sums it up exactly. Yeah And I just mentioned discussion boards. I'm thinking of my class tonight But but also to think about blogging to think about other sources including discord Yeah Oh, this is a great idea Thank you. And don't go away. Let's stick around. Uh after all you have a great beard. So No, we should we should be inclusive of all levels of uh for the hilarity I think so We have a question from bob Klein He says I would hope that we would better understand and support the fact that people's lives don't go away while they work Things happen in the background now with remote communications and etc. Our lives are really happening in the background That's a great point Well, but and it makes me think of some of the fantastic people that we've hosted like sarah golder rad for example We've really drawn attention to the changing social dynamics of so many students And for the past year from both covet and black lives matter how we've really paid a lot more attention to equity And and how that works. Let me just put up another podium so people can join us as they like Julie pollard Notes as well another video meeting the more accessible geography is less of a challenge When it comes to international collaboration Will we see more internationalization of curriculums through global partnerships? Julie, that's a fantastic idea If you've seen any examples or hints of this, please Let us know if you want to join us either uh say more in chatter Especially join us up here on stage would be uh glad to hear that And tom hams recommends paradigm shifting All right now the thing about tom is that he tries to avoid being called on every time And what happens is I call on him every time and then I bring him up on stage And then I talk about his clothing and I talk about his background and then he says something actually very deep and thoughtful Tom good to see you. Good to see you Oh, I just want to show up something now that you're here check this out See this is a new feature of uh a new feature They have it as it right here. Well, you just ruin a complaint. No, this Is right. Uh, I like this a lot. It feels like a It gives people a picture if you You remember when tv went to hd and and and how many? Uh, you know newscasters and tv stars suddenly discovered that they weren't built for hd Same thing's happening here, right? Oh, no, no, I think uh, I think it's nice to see for you. That's good to see um So, uh, did you had did you want me to elaborate or what what? Yeah, what are you putting me on the spot for here, brian? Well, just in general purpose, but also you're talking about shifting. I'm going to go to fold that well, I mean, you know one of the things that I think is and I've said this before in the um Uh in in other conversations and other contacts here on the forum is that uh The you know, the pandemic has really forced us into Using time and space and tools in new and interesting ways Um, but I think a lot of times this paradigm is being you know, this is an unusual But the paradigm that we operate under is slow to adapt And in terms of things like thinking about what does it mean to be in class or not in class? What does it mean to be on when it comes to learning versus not on when it comes to learning? Um, you know, what does what do class sizes mean? What do sections mean? These are all You know questions that have become Let's say interesting to ponder I mean, I've always found them interesting to ponder but um That we don't just sort of shift back into the old normal Which honestly in many ways does not work well In a digital environment, you know, for instance to cite something really banal Um, you know, there's a lot of data that says you can't talk for more than 30 or 40 minutes in an online environment without, you know, completely losing attention You can't make videos for more than 10 minutes or so And yet we continue to have hour and a half long classes Or scheduled classes or or or even worse three hour scheduled classes And you really have to ask yourself as a teacher Where's the utility in that time? And and is there a better way to spread it out because you have more control over Time in a digital environment Then you do in a in in a physical environment in a physical environment You're limited by the facilities manager who says Tom has to be in this room at this time. It has 30 desks in it. That's his section size, right? And that's the thing that dictates everything else at that point And everything sort of cascades from that. Yeah, and that we've blown that up We really haven't in some ways We still have a lot of really dumb Thinking about some of these things the other thing about remote And melanie was i'm sorry martha was talking about being there, you know You know remote makes That a different kind of challenge than if you're sitting in a room with other people And again, it's a it's a time and space kind of thing Where, you know, you have to put a special attention toward You know reaching out and and connecting with your students in a way that was a little more Instinctual in a classroom environment, right? Um and and again that messes with okay, so Is it better for me to meet with a lot of students individually? Is it better for me to be in a in a zoom room with 20 or 30 students? I mean, which How What's the utility of that, right? So I've done two things in my classes. I've split them in half time wise and I've split them in half student wise So I have smaller groups of students who are only supposed who are only required to be there for You know half of the class time the rest of it's done on on a asynchronous online thing Um and that has two advantages and again That's much more difficult to pull off in a physical environment because you're being driven by constraints that have nothing to do with teaching and learning This is a great idea and this is something for us to explore So I was just going to say you reminded me of once I hosted the floor from Helsinki at a university Talked about physical constraints and the security closed the building I was in at the end of the hour So I was picking up my laptop and walking through the building and you could see the lights going off behind me as I was going out so Okay security first I was meant to be here, but But let's let's take a look at your time question. Um Kathy Pittman has a question and then uh, um that relies right It goes right to this She asks do you think this extra lines and technology makes it harder to unplug at the end of the day? I think we need to rethink what that means. I mean, I think you know the What I find is I break up my day into smaller chunks So I'll work really hard for a few hours in the morning and do a lot of the email and Asynchronous kind of stuff and updating sites and that sort of thing and then I do exercise I go out take a walk I you know, I I break the routine and then I come back and I teach and then I have lunch and then I teach again and then I you know, then I but I and then I it's Again, why why do I need to worry about a schedule of a building unless I have to meet people Yeah, you know come into a point where everybody's in the same place at the same time at the rest of the time I should work around what I need to do Right. Thank you and it requires a mindset of being able to turn it off. I mean to say, okay I'm gonna go do something else It's you know, and it a lot of times that's really helpful if I get stuck writing or something like that Taking a walk is the best thing to do You're good at that and you have a great eye for doing that Thank you. Thank you, Tom. Joe. Do you want I know you have some ideas about this about our overlays in technology How about this unplugging part? I will admit that one of the things that I struggle with is the degree to which Yeah, I think I think the degree to which Reliance on literally the same devices Creates a blurring between Between recreation and work and I think that is a problem Because I do not have the mental discipline That tom's referring to it's hard for me to Say I'm I am not at work and I'm not going to check my work email And I am not going to feel bad about the fact that I am Watching netflix and not doing work One of the biggest benefits that I personally have had has been returning to a regular phone call with my closest friends in the world We talk on the phone every monday night And one of the benefits of that I mean one of the benefits is I don't have to look at myself I'm not on zoom my eyes can look across the the room and probably get some much needed rest But Yeah, I think that there is and some of this is specific to our current moment I think there are some real problems in the ways that You know, I we we might need more Different devices to tell us This is this is where I am At work or at home, it's a problem that right now I'm sitting at my dining room table and that's that has messed up my meal planning because My dining room has somehow also become my office So so yeah, I think these are Very real problems and and now we're into you know architectural constraints, right? Who has a room that they can be in their office in Is Is another whole big problem someone was just on twitter saying having A private quiet space to do school work in Is an immense privilege That's why I have these I make my own private space, right? Yeah, I mean I I work in a fairly public you can sort of see behind me a little bit here You know, that's that's the rest of the house there And most of the time it's not an issue. You know, my wife is working downstairs We chose not to try to cram into the study together because it's just too tight So I I set up in the game room our kids don't really game very much anymore. They're getting too old for that Um, but if somebody's running the tv downstairs, it's a bit of an issue Which usually isn't an issue except in the evenings if I'm doing an evening thing Um, but I mean I can I if I need to shut out I mean I I had the same problem when I used to work in an office with an open floor plan. I mean, you know, and You have to put out headphones, right? We had a couple of good good comments about this in the chat Mark Corbett Wilson says recently overheard. We're not working from home. We're now living in an office Yeah, and then Martha Snyder says I'm in my closet, which is a closet slash office Uh This is this is a lot of fun.  I mean how much actual productive time, right versus and then of course you factor in the amount of time You spend driving to and from said office and for some people that's considerable, right? And and all of that doesn't you know And I make that into productive time when I was driving because I would listen to podcasts and books and stuff like that and that that was that was useful but You know, of course I'm I'm way behind on all of that stuff now I put less than 7000 miles on my car last year I'm I'm literally thinking of going into my office and just assuming that any piece of paper that is still on a surface Since last march really needs to go into a hefty bag Can't be any way that's relevant to me doing my work anymore It can't or I was gonna say set them on the fire, but but the um, but I I wanted I wanted to bring Kate Montgomery into the conversation because we were talking about space before we mentioned international Dynamics to this and already in the chat one person said that I think the cloth this idea came from the prime minister of turkey You mentioned something great you were doing you were talking about um your SMU doing International curriculum. Can you say a bit more about that? Yeah, absolutely. Uh, can you hear me? Okay? perfectly, okay, perfect so We actually I work in a graduate liberal studies program We have doctors and master students And we do a lot of self-designed coursework and a lot of curricular innovation all the time so We usually offer study abroad Every summer this summer we're grounded And one of the courses i'm designing has to do with organizational culture and a virtual immersion that is Hopefully setting the standard for traveling next summer But then going forward I see that the pre immersion for a study abroad next summer may have a virtual immersion component before going study abroad so the days of Packing up studying abroad and these are shorter trips for an adult learner So that that's the audience that we serve we go for short bursts of time And I think that it's going to be a combination going forward where we're using some virtual immersion To augment and enhance the in-person experience. So that's something that I could see us working on Of course, we're knee deep right now. I just hung up with our study abroad offices Today actually to find out when the the bands the travel bands will be lifted for a university And that's part of the trick too You have to plan out so far And yet you you can't do it last minute But that that's part of the trick too We talk about we're not sure if the world going forward will ever Make us 200 comfortable not to have a lot of flexibility And contingency in place should we you know need to do whatever might happen And one thing that did happen last uh spring too I was supposed to go to England and scotland and I had some work in person with oxford And that got scrapped because of coveted but we were able to do A rework and do a lot of collaboration With zoom and that kind of thing and try to build out the work To the best we could virtually speaking Well, that's I'm sorry that you didn't get to go to The country that used to be part of the european union you were planning But um, I'm I'm delighted that uh, you you're describing this new phase this kind of virtual bridge Hey, uh, stay stay right there for a second tom. Do you want to come back to you a bit? um, but there's a whole bunch of people who just um just popped in to To say more about this dynamic and I want to make sure that we that we uh hold on to that because this is some rich stuff um Hope window from the syni system At the coil center. I wanted to talk about the syni project here. Can you can you say a few words about that? Sure. Can you hear me? Okay Okay, great. So What you were just talking about is and actually they were just celebrating it at a big meeting with ampe And mentioned actually your collaboration. I think We've been doing a virtual exchange with coil since 2006 and So, you know when the pandemic hit this Working together and having international student teams Collaborating on un sustainable development projects and problems and Having students work together and learn how culture sort of interacts with Working together has been actually an amazing retention tool for Um professors and for classes and for students and for them to Feel a little bit closer in the world right now because of the pandemic and you know We had a group in cancun who had a hurricane this fall And they were connecting with students from rochester who were dealing with police brutality And they came together and really had this incredible Opportunity of cultural empathy and humility for each other and and also working on a problem together and so I think that reimagining the space is is big and is happening and Um students, you know, if we just sort of get out of their way, they're already doing it and I think These kind of international opportunities are really where we need to go honestly just to make a Someone prepared to work in the 21st century. It's really all about being able to talk to your parts person in China or wherever they are and So doing this kind of work is also so much fun Connecting with people in other places. I know patrice who's also on the call She used to be a part of this too. So No, thank you so much for saying that I absolutely agree. I absolutely agree All right. Hang on while I have the two of you here speaking of fun Speaking of fun. You can't escape the idea of fun. So what I wanted to do now Is I wanted to actually just quickly pick one of you um to give A surprise present to And so I'm just randomly going through You know Everybody's here and let me see is kyle tuck here. Do we have kyle? I think we do Let's see if we can bring up kyle Hey kyle, would you like the free t-shirt or the free copy of academia next your choice my friend? Dizzy dizzy moment they could go either way you go either way Well, here it comes it comes to you kyle Absolutely after our call we will set this up and do a socially different distance mail procedure so that you can have The copy of the book. I'll follow up with you kyle to get the info about where you live and all kinds of other privacy violations Thank you kyle. See That's part of this is that this is fun, you know, this is we should be having fun That's a key principle of this and some of these webinars was dead dead dead dead Anti-fun pits into the discussion, but we have much more fun. Um, we also have more questions Kate this one's this one's from you or for you This is from uh, martha snider at the nova southeastern. He says when you're talking about virtual immersion Are you suggesting some sort of AR VR MR pre-experience? That's a great question and that's on the table and not necessarily we do have We have Reality like virtual reality labs at SMU that we could certainly take into account But at a very basic level it's it's recreating a little bit of a study abroad experience. It could be many tours it could be Um Conversations with folks at different organizational and educational settings say at Trinity College in Dublin or you know, wherever we might be Maybe getting into the big libraries of different parts of the world So it's not necessarily virtual reality, but it is virtual. Um, that that's not off the table though. I would say Thank you for the answer and that's a great question I'd love to see how these how these all blur and in just a few minutes We we shifted from talking about how to unplug and what not to use to how to use this to make the world together Uh, I think all of these are are really on the table right now There was a great comment from some a student recently or I'm maybe it was a professor saying, you know, it got to the point where They didn't even think of themselves as being working virtually And that was pretty amazing to That they just felt like they were working together whether it was getting to know each other in world of warcraft or working on their project in slack together or a google doc or whatever it was But they were just working. It wasn't thinking about it in terms of you know One dimension versus another There is this blending that is happening Hope you make a great Point there and and one of the challenges I'll have in delivering this Virtual immersion course in the summer is that it will be taught from a hybrid perspective. So I'll be in person Some students will be in person and then there will be some simulcast via zoom and so One of the tricks I think we all you know talk about zoom fatigue and that kind of thing One of the tricks is going to be to make sure that zoom and the simulcasting is conducted in a way The modality is very engaging and it has that experiential component As best as can be done with the limits of a hybrid scenario Or a simulcast hybrid scenario, so to speak Well, I think though that um one thing to that students are figuring out how to That they don't necessarily have to be on zoom to connect to each other and to work as a team and I sometimes we have a crutch of needing to be synchronous to make it all work but and sometimes the synchronous um Event or the time to meet is is to to get that trust going and then being able to do asynchronous and The fluidity of going from one to another Is is something that seems to The more people seem to be able to work together. They can sort of have that Fluid and I think what I see professors doing is that they're coaching their students how to do that and that's sort of like be this way in which We're all learning how to work in this more fluid realm So that you know when if you're working with somebody from India or Wherever even though the time difference is huge that there is There is ways in which that you can keep the flow going so Yeah, that's a good point In the in the in the chat reya kelly mentions that she had Her daughter is using computer gaming to socialize And that's an interesting example of flow as well I wanted to bring up One of the best writers and interviewers in higher ed period. I wanted to bring up jeff young From ed surge and partly I saw that could discover. He's growing a beard. My gosh The future trends ahead of the curve I had to I've learned so much from you brian Not not as much as I should have about the beard though You know because I've got some some distance to go there Hey, congratulations on five years. That's wonderful and You have Have been an inspiration to you know To me for sure as a moderator And as you know and as some of the people here in this group know you actually inspired me to copy you Which I am With all you know with with all respect from the beginning as we ran ed surge live as a monthly video forum and We actually are just kind of right now. We're sort of in a little bit of a break on that So we'd love to hear your ideas and hear hear some ideas about whether and how to continue that but but frankly you've You win you you got a great community here and you have You have gotten so many incredible guests and I will also just say you are Just a teacher and and someone who can just facilitate these conversations in a way that I think kind of sees everyone and includes so many people And I think you know, I think people appreciate that more and more with all the strife that we've been through this past year But you've been doing it before that so I don't know Um, I would I I guess though. I think you asked me that want me to ask you questions Which I always am happy to ask Well, first of all, thank you for the kind words. I really love being on your programs And and I really really enjoyed it and I thought you did great So I'm I'm glad to see that and I'm deeply deeply flattered You'll learn Jeff one of the great things about a beard is my blushes kind of disappear That's that's handy. Yeah, that's good. Thank you. Thank you. Um, can I just that kate? Hope you want to stay on the stage for a bit more Okay, whatever is easy Okay, okay. We'll go ahead. Go ahead Jeff. Just throw some questions our way Uh, sure. So yeah, and those who don't know me I'm at the at Ed Ed surge covering higher education and change and all kinds of of the kinds of issues you all debate here and and explore and we um, I'm curious brian And of course my first guest first question was going to be, you know, other than me who was your favorite guest But since so many of your guests are here I'm not going to put you on the spot like that. Um but I I do, um, I I am curious about What how your thoughts on what it is you're doing here have changed in the five years if at all because You know, my guess is that by doing it this often a you must have had moments where you're like, do I want to keep going? but you did And you probably did because it wasn't the exact same thing you did last year or last month And so what is it that it's changed about the way you think about what it is that this is about? Um I think a few things change One is that we perform more and more immediate As as events have happened. We we had for example one session right after charlottesville I don't know if it's now or for this with march slash fiasco And that shook people up. They really wanted to respond to that We had the new media consortium well down and people really wanted to respond to that and during this past year we've had This I think the forum served as a good venue for people to Talk about what was happening with the pandemic and then what was happening with racism and anti-racism And and so we you know, we're looking ahead And to do that we have to grapple with the present And I think that the present became a lot more immediate And and we we kind of became a sounding board kind of a reflexive membrane for people to To bounce off of and to project on to during events. I've actually been thinking about reserving one session a quarter just for live events like that And we may just do that Depending but that's that's one of the big changes I guess a second change is That on the one hand we spend more and more time immersed in more and more video both video conferencing as well as taking You know television and youtube and so on But our standards seem to get higher and higher and we we get get served a lot of terrible content I was just on a webinar yesterday and I won't name the source of it But participants weren't allowed to see each other you weren't allowed to talk to each other We couldn't see the number of people who were there and people called questions We couldn't see those questions And it was kind of like it was like being in restraints. It was it was like Being logged and not in a good way. It felt It was Frustrating and I think people see a lot of that And they want things to get better and our demands are higher because Then our needs are so much higher I mean, so I think I think those are two changes and that that keeps me hopping to make sure that the form of experience Does that make sense jeff? It does. It's really thoughtful. I love that membrane metaphor As a as a way of of kind of releasing pressure slash Kind of being part of a Of a system that that holds people together That's that's really that's really an interesting an interesting metaphor Yeah I'm curious hope. I mean you're you're in an unusual position Because it's uni system Isn't it never quite gotten to the system nests that the previous chancellor wanted it to It's still it still has the enormous collaborative Capacity and some parts of the syne system do a really good job of that like oil That's what 63 65 campuses for 64 camp racketed it. I was pretty good, right? I That's an incredible variety in research universe of these community colleges technical skills And they're just all over a pretty hefty distance, especially in winter Yeah, can I ask a version of just question deal? What what's changed for you in the past five years for that? I mean, has it been a greater need for that kind of network behavior? Or has there been any other transformation in that collaborative working process? I I also just wanted to comment when someone was talking about just you were talking about the that Event that you were at yesterday It kind of reminded me the way that we've put students into lms's and so they can't initiate anything They can't collaborate They can't oftentimes do all those things that we want to be able to do when we're in these kind of realms and I think with SUNY It's 400,000 students And right now I Sort of we're trying to at least with coil. We're trying to sort of Rethink how you think about international collaboration and not As part of sort of an education abroad and sort of that privileged Very few people that get to travel, but thinking more of it as something that is about Diversity equity and inclusion and how we all need to learn how to work together And however that would look on any of those different campuses and having the diversity officers of those various of our various campuses Recognize this kind of work and and and see it as sort of a first step of Of sort of thinking about the larger context of the world and how I think the pandemic and also what's happened with looking at systemic racism has Made people sort of you can take what's happening in the world and sort of open that up And then you also get to pull in all of these things that we're dealing with locally and See what's happening, you know with police brutality in the Dominican Republic and then how it Can be can be reflected back to us in Rochester, New York And for our students to see that they are part of this larger Landscape than just their county or their backyard Seems to make a huge impact and difference to them whether or not they travel at all or anyway But in terms of I think, you know, they the SUNY people think of themselves as a federation because Everybody is sort of has their own fiefdom and But right now it's really tough because Enrollments down everywhere and so people are scratching their heads how how do we keep enrollment going and what does that look like and How do we make it very vital and one of the big things we did with coil this past summer We had this thing called the learning commons the coil global learning commons Where students got to learn about storytelling and then they applied it to a UN sustainable development goal and learned about that with the lens on history or economics And then they took that and they worked with an NGO and They developed a product for the particular NGO that they needed and So the students were they had the responsibility of making either of a film a short video for Ghana to use now nationally to share accessibility or They they did plays so that for street theater to explain concepts and or all these different things so to me The students actually one of the things we heard back from the students was they were really excited to find out about You know all these things happening in the world, but also across the state of new york and finding out about students from different parts of their whole system that they didn't know about and Pause just a second. Um, because this is fantastic. I'm thinking why haven't I had you as a guest on the program before? What you've just done is you brought together so many so many strands and you've brought together this The sense of immediacy and urgency that people use video live video to talk about something that is happening to them right now So if it's in the dr or rochester new york police brutality for example or questions of diversity and equity And you've tied that nicely to to these questions of how we can actually use this well and make it work And then connected to the international aspect all at once. I I think that's I would say it's like Jeff she's talking about something It feels like she's outlining something that's emerging now that we don't have a name for but that in a few years We'll all expect It's funny because actually one of the one of our collab our coil coordinators sali mom meado from Portland state said in a way what coil does and doing virtual exchange is sort of like a invitation from the future to To have this kind of work and to be doing it in a fluid way Um, hang on. I need to pause you because speaking of the future. We have two directions here one of them is I need to find out who let's see Uh, we have kelvin kelvin bentley. I'm gonna have to get kelvin a shirt before we run out of shirts completely And he's gonna need that because he is something he was really good with fashion and we can you know, we can do that But the other I I mean if I could put to all of you this question Hopefully just turn this around and I want to ask all of you Uh, jeff if you could take the first whack at this, this would be great, but I want to hear from everybody How do we how do we make this? Um, what we're doing here. How do we make this more international? Transnational in a way we we've we've had guests. We've had participants from From parts of europe and from africa. We've had some from australia and uh, And nation but the form remains very very u.s. Centric and north america center How how do we globalize this how do we make this really more? more international Yeah, I that's a really interesting question 10 seconds to couple of purposes I mean you could try doing a couple different You could move the time a couple times and maybe have it kind of featuring, you know, like try to move it to accommodate some folks in different time zones, although people there's People will stay up if they or or get up earlier or whichever way To join you if they really need to I think people people here have probably done that for to be in collaboration So it's not absolute But I as one idea and to theme it so that you're trying to to actually Take your show on the road But just by moving the time zone you might get to china or korea or some other places We're really interesting things are going on I that was more than 10 seconds, but I'll stop talking I might have to disappear in a couple minutes to get to another meeting, but um, this has been so awesome. Thank you for having me Thank you, jeff. Thank you so much for coming I'm with rest of you all. What do you think? Oh in the chat people, uh, martha studders asking for more Connections and collaborations to invite people Hope wants us to talk with the coil coordinators. Let's do that. I'd be glad to do this Tom cautions us that we might be more insular mature things we should be sessions in other languages But thinking about that mature wondering What which language are really good? I want to do chinese We don't have any traction No, I think about um, I participate in an international interdisciplinary think tank and The road show idea that he was just talking about is interesting because in this particular sense um, when I participate and say if you've heard of the pie, um, the Basically the media of higher education and innovation. That's based in the uk Some of the topics that are interesting to those in say europe versus asia may look different than what our agenda items are here Or it might be a different framing of issues that are interesting here To maybe get some perspective from Folks in different parts of the world as to topics they would want to hear more about so if you have some um People that attend here maybe have some kind of a A researching of interest areas for them That could also be helpful, but for the uk it's like because they're six hours ahead It may be that you're looking at some events that happen at different times of the day and of course asia is You know in a different time zone as well, of course, so those are some ideas These are great ideas. Thank you. Thank you. Great. Thank you I've I've hauled you as teacher for a long time. Let me give you a rest so you can get a chance to uh Relax a bit. Um, that adds that we should caption a foreign language Let me let me see what I can do about that. Um, we're thinking about captioning which is tricky Let me see what we can add Thank you. Thank you Elena. Yeah, esperanto. It's it's it's true. Um, it's Fine people, but it's just it hasn't scaled If you all want to really check into a great cultural artifact You want to find there's a horror movie from the early 60s starting William Shatner, which is filmed entirely in esperanto which is ASL Elena I've been thinking about doing this About doing a session with me. Good job. Is it wood outlet? What are you the? ASL campus in dc Gallaudet. Thank you. Thank you. It's in a french name in america. I'm always afraid for where it's been Maybe that would be something we should know Thank you I I have to think we're somehow this party A sign of the good part is they go really fast Um, and we are going really really quickly. We've covered a lot of ground We've uh touched a whole series of topics Before we go, let me just ask What else should we be thinking about for the next five years? Because I'm a futurist the future transform is about the future and we've got to look ahead Gotta look ahead further. So what does this look like in 2026? And I had a few ideas just to toss it to you one was the idea of Having a k through 12 version another idea was having an international version which we've been talking about Another idea is talking about us getting Some more sponsors and some more partnerships Oh, what else? What else do you think we should be doing? What else should we look like in in the next five years? if you want to join the Join me up here. You know how comfortable it is. Just press that button Tom tells us that everything's on the table. Well, yes, that's true Margie mentions newer technologies. So we're always looking for that always looking for that Oh, Elena brilliant brilliant brilliant brilliant the biggest growing population in the us it's Uh, uh, uh, Hispanic and latino's population. So maybe we should have one that is in Spanish Thank you Martha has this great broad vision. She wants us to humanize education and partner in global education organizations If you have any contact you'd like us to pursue, please let me know I'd like to see that but a few ideas right now Ken and by the way, Ken and I really appreciate your point before about um, globalism and its shadow of Cloning was I really appreciate I didn't want to miss that But thank you and the partnerships. Yes Well, let me uh Or a vr session Sam you're you're ahead of me. This is something I've been thinking about Would be great to do this uh as as a vr event And there are a few different tools to to play with and to explore about that multiple realms Indeed Of global panels. We've done a couple of these in SM and I really should do more really should do more I like the sound of that All right. Well, we have time for one one more giveaway one more thing to hand out to folks and let's see Do we have david ron here? Is david the bus Let's take a look if you have david Hello, david I think what you get There's a copy of academia next shift right to your Ohio I'll contact you so I could figure out where exactly you live in Ohio and uh, and Get this to you ASAP Kate mentions a really important point I keep thinking about the large gap between how people like us use tech and how for most faculty technology Is still alien and scary This is true. This is true. It is a large gap. It's something that we really really need to bear in mind I'm wondering if we should do something like a intro to Good video work and maybe welcoming folks who are still new to it And try and show them some good techniques as good practices Tom mentions a student who is afraid of copy and paste Well, that's the thing about community college And good at higher education to get to educate everybody Friends, this has been fantastic.  Thank you very much for each of you taking all this time with us But more importantly for helping make all of this happen Together we've created something Extraordinary something unique something very very special something that helps a lot of people Thank you all for Participating this two-week award for co-creating with us Please enjoy the rest of the day Above all stay safe Take care of yourselves and we'll see you for another great five years. Thanks everyone. Bye. Bye


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