 While Jerry's getting set up, I will slip URLs into the chat as he goes through it, so it'll be kind of in order and then you can just download the chat and you'll have them. Great. Thank you, Maria. All right, so. So here's the homepage of Merleau. And, and I'll just kind of give you just a little bit of background around it so. Merleau became live in 1997. So this really was when the, the initiation of more extensive use of the internet education and, and, and its purpose started in the California State University we have 23 campuses right now and we serve a half a million students. And the issue what back then was, people are developing this technology but no one was, no one knew what everyone else was doing. So you had redundancy duplication and efficiencies. So that's when, as a whole system we decided to create this library of multimedia educational resources for learning and online teaching. And as a higher education institution we realized that, well, how is this going to happen. How do we actually create libraries and rather than saying well let's just have librarians do it when it comes to instructional materials, you say who knows best about quality instructional materials well those are the faculty members. So that's when we really what's fundamental about how Merleau works is that the materials in the collection are really materials that have been contributed by its community members. So, so what what I'm going to again first I'll just go through a little bit so you can see what's in the homepage a little bit. There's an additional search box and you can go find stuff there put in your keywords. There's over almost 100,000 materials in Merleau. Merleau is an open community and this is one thing that I know anyone who wants to participate in contributing into the material they have to register as a member it's free to do. It's going to be easy and I can, you know, kind of walk you through that too as well. And, and it's associated. All the members are often are part of institutions around the world of over 4000 and just you know as an active community. So in the last 30 days, over 853 materials, people comments, etc have been added into the Merleau library so we have a community of people who are very active in various ways. We also organized by academic disciplines. These are some of the things that libraries we try to do is people have, I'll say, focused interest right. And so, if you do have a focus interest, we organize by various disciplines. So if I'm in computer science or health sciences, math, physics, right. So we can create little portals around those specific interest areas so just to give you a sense of Merleau is not just one big massive library. It really is how do you create different windows into a collection of materials. And, and some of those, I think are not just about academic disciplines, but we also highlight other aspects whether it's about that cross disciplines faculty development or ICT literacy. One that's often in, you know, our STEM majors, STEM faculty really interested in is, you know, especially when COVID hit is, how can I find virtual labs to help me teach things right. So, what I'm just giving you a sense here is, and what's important for the, for the lead bio program is that we can, we will create this a website that will be your window to bring everyone who has a focus. on diversity, equity, inclusiveness and professional organizations to their section of the library. And, and this is I think a very important aspect about how Merleau works is by understanding a community's need, and then customize those services for that community. And then finally just just so you know where we have people members around the world, you know you can just roll over, you know the states and say okay we have 91,000 in the US. We have 1200 in Brazil, 7,000 in Chile, we go into Africa. We've been, we have colleagues in Senegal that we're working with Ethiopia, Kenya, and they say oh, you know who who is in Kenya. Right. And then here are the 211 members in Merleau, who are who have affiliated with a an institution in Kenya. So, so just to give you a little sense of the membership are literally all around the world. And, and when we think about our disciplines. We have people all around the world teaching disciplines in various ways so just wanted to give you a little flavor of the community and the way we focus in on different disciplinary needs as well as pedagogical needs to as well. And, and we have various tools that that I can cover later one of them is called content builder, and that's what we're going to use to create your portal and, and, and I think Ashanti and Veronica, can already look at how you can build this and it's pretty easy. I'm a psychologist by training just so you know, and it's, and it's, it's easy, even easy for me to use. All right, it's like creating a website with the word document there. So, so, so that's just I wanted to give you a little bit of sense of the kind of how, how we're low, a little bit of history about it and how it, how it lays out and I'll just, before I stop and ask questions, see if you have questions. I'm just I just typed in DNA. As an example if I'm looking for instructional content. The first thing to know is that you can find different ways to sort materials. And, and if you want to look at how materials are sorted I'll call it by quality rating where we have editorial boards where people write comments. So you can reach sort things for, and I'll think you know so you get the best of the materials at at the top. And, and the reason I'm bringing this up is because this can be an important role that your community plays is when you add materials into the library, when the lead bio can add kind of comments and reviews, it helps those materials float up to the top so people can find them more frequently. And so you can see here I'm showing you materials. So DNA from the beginning it's got peer reviews and as user ratings, things along those lines, and, and you can search for materials and again this is, you know, and what if there's a 765 materials that you have here. And, and the other aspect as we go through there are many different types of materials, animations case studies, you can even have, you know, materials for a course an online course, a textbook presentations tutorials, workshop training materials. So what you're collecting for your lead bio project can have a number of different formats that can then serve different purposes. So yes Veronica. You can click through the different bends and get to the lead bio space, or where it would be, it might not be populated yet but I think it might help us develop an idea of where our stuff will be thanks. Correct. No, no problem. So, so just seeing where everything is and so now what what I can, I can show you so and here. In in in Merleau and maybe what I'll start off is how does all this stuff so I can show you how it gets in there. So let's say in Merleau you want to now start adding materials into the lead bio collection here. One of the things that that I've done is I just grabbed. So if you have a website that you would like to add, you can just add it to the URL there, or you can upload a file. One of the things that I've done is I've, I looked at, I just grabbed an example of a, and so now I'm going through, you know, my, my files here, and, and I, and so let's say some organization. I created a document a policy document for how do you elect officers and to ensure you had an inclusive process. And, and so there's a document there so I found this achieving diversity in organizations by by a forum you say you know what I want to add this to the collection that that I have said okay I like this one I want to add that. And then upload the file, just to show you how this works. And then I can just put a title in here, you type it in achieving diversity. And you can put, you know, whatever you'd like here you can see that it's just filling it in. And now here, Veronica, this is where I'm going to show you where, where is our all your materials organized. And this is when you have a discipline this is the library. And if you think about a physical library, you can think of each one of these categories is like a floor in a eight story library so your work is in academic support services. When you're looking at academic support services that's a whole range of materials, different type of topics. And within academic support services you see diversity, equity and inclusiveness. Right, you can also see there's faculty development accreditation issues. So you can see these topics go across a variety of disciplines. And so then I can say, oh, I want to add this into the diversity, equity and inclusiveness. All right. Now, so now I've gone I'm going to put it on the first floor and now diversity equity inclusiveness is like, you know, one of the rows and the stacks that I have but maybe now I want to decide where what actually shelf I want to put it in. And so now here we go. Oh, here is we're working about in diversity equity inclusiveness in professional organizations. So think of that as now that's the kind of the section of the shelves that that you're in so I can click on that. Notice again, there's still other sub disciplines and this is where your specific category so so we went into Merlot and said okay we have to build the shelves for your digital resources in diversity equity inclusiveness and professional organizations. And here's the shelf on community standards and recommendations, research coordination network development, professional development and training and thought leadership papers. And so I might say, well, this article is probably a thought leadership paper. So I can click on that. So now, hopefully, and I'll stop here just to see can you see how, if you have materials, you can then become, in a sense the librarian cataloging it and deciding where you want to put this material in the broad library. So, anybody that uses Merlot could potentially add materials into our lead bio if they know where to click and all of that. Would that be the case. Looks like Jerry might be frozen. That's correct. You can do. Oh, am I back. Yes. Yeah, but now you're back. Okay. All right. So, so now what now what the lead bio community member I showed you how you can reorder materials based on their overall rating or what the editorial boards you as a community can then go through the collection and you can curate those things you can say you know, but these are the really good ones that we want to recommend. You can write comments you can write reviews, etc. And if you find to that there's materials that was that were put in there that are inappropriate. You as a community can also, you know, basically, they call it de select or delete those materials from the from that collection to as well. Thank you. Thanks. Okay. And this is one of the things that we can help you with to as well is when you when you are managing a collection, you need to have a rubric and evaluation set of criteria to say what's good. What belongs and what doesn't belong. And, and we have some general policies that we've developed in Merlot over over time and again we have 25 other editorial boards that have been curating their collections for many years so a lot of that process and history. You can take advantage of. Okay. So who uses the rubric as to review and make sure that our whatever products meets your guidance or you review our products using that rubric to make sure that it's in compliance. So you are the people who manage your own and curate your own collection. What Merlot provides, we provide the call it you know the technical infrastructure for you to to build your collection. Right. We're not the gatekeepers and and and here. So this is often the way that we recommend communities working is when you develop this these rubrics. That a critical element is how do you share that rubric with all the members of the community so they understand the guidelines that you are using to build that collection that's of high quality. So, so the process of developing your guidelines, your rubrics, and then sharing that with your community members. So they can, if they are developing materials, they can follow the rubric and develop materials to those criteria, or if there's already existing materials, then they can, you know, evaluate whether the existing materials meet up with the rubric. Right. And, and then what you can then do is, when you contribute the materials, you can also add comments to say this material, you know, meets the lead bio quality standard and so then when someone comes in to look for things, they can see that this is a lead bio approved resource, and they say, Oh, I'm going to trust this, and, and, and I can feel confident in using it. Okay, was that helpful there. Yes, thank you. You're welcome. All right. So, so so the next process. And again just to remind you you can upload a document a PDF word Excel PowerPoint, or just point to a URL. You can scroll over how you want to title it. And this section here. Again, I'm not going to go into detail around these but the your writing up of the description becomes a very important element here. And, and so this is where, when you write up what's in the content of the resource. You can emphasize what's the, the purpose behind it and might be also say this is a reference paper that outlines policy standards that professional societies may want to adopt whatever it might be. So, and we have some guidelines to help you write the best descriptions for users deciding whether they want to explore this material some more. You have, you can add in keywords in images. We provide some standard type images. So that they're little thumbnails or you can upload your own. So, so this is where, if you have people in as part of the lead bio group, they you can in a sense, tag your materials with the lead bio image and and all you can do is, you know, upload that image. So one can use it and so then all the lead bio materials will have that image with it. Okay. So, so I'm trying to show you ways that that your community has the tools to help identify your recommended materials as much as possible. And what type of material it is so the reef reference the material that that I put up was probably a reference material. I'm just just showing your example. And I can say, this might the audiences might be good for professional graduate school and maybe someone who's teaching upper division where they're trying to get students involved with research. Again, I'm just giving me examples. So we have Merlot is written in a technical language called utf eight. So, we basically can accept languages in any format, any that meet an ISO standard so if you want it in, you know, Spanish. You can put it in Spanish, you can put it in any language you want. Okay, just, just so you know you have that capability there. So here's all the languages that that we have here. Then you also next thing you do is, you're right okay, who's authoring this material. So in this case it was an association publish and I can just put as much information that I have about that about the author. I can say, you know, this is a PDF that I uploaded. And usually there's not any technical requirements for uploading for using a PDF. You might even have mobile apps. That could be a particular application. And then, and then here's other information about and we're coming to the end of contributing and you can say, if it's source, if it's software code. Is the is it open source yes or no. Is there any costs and I'd say no. Here, this is just a PDF and it's not open source. The other thing is around accessibility. Just you know I was the person responsible for the accessible technology initiative and the cal state system. One of the things you want to look at is, it are the materials available for students with disabilities as well and so you can say, is this an accessible PDF. And that's where you have to go back and look at these things is there any information available, and you can say yes or no and then it can say does it have a creative Commons license on it. And, you know, and, and that's where you as the person who's, if you're creating it. You put a creative common license on it or you can say you can look at the materials and say, is it does is just say copyright, or does it, or it doesn't have a creative comments license. And so you can check the buttons. Right, what whatever they are. And then you submit the material. So, so just filling out a form is what what I just wanted to show you is. This is how the lead bio community can build that collection that's within Merlot. And, and, and what I'll before I go to show you so I put two materials in the collection already so you can see just an example. But any question about how you add materials into the collection and how you can make sure you can identify it as a lead bio contribution. I think for me it's very humbling when I think about the perspective of what we've done you know like through our project we've essentially added like additional categories under this professional organizations and the I think that's really cool. So yeah, I thought I would share that thanks. So thank you for your help. You're very welcome and, and one of the things that, you know, let's say you start building materials, and you might say oh there's another category that we want to add stuff to right and whatever it might be right. And so you just let me know. I'm the master librarian in that and so I can, as you can see right on my screen is, I can find out and, and, and it's possible for me to add other materials that in fact, you can cross reference materials let's let me give you this example. Let's say the article I put up was about biology, right. And so I can say yes this is about DEI, but maybe I also want to put this as part of So the biology community knows about it and they might want to find it. And so here now I'm adding biology, and then it might be something specific about, you know, organization and botany. Right. So so then I can then catalog that that material in my specific area of diversity equity inclusiveness and professional organizations, but then I can also have it show up in in other, in other disciplines where they might in a sense bump into it. Okay. So what was that helpful. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. Alright, so, so now. So I showed you how to add materials so so here if you want to add materials you again just click on this button. Now, what one of the things that's going to be important for you to anyone to add material, you have to become a member in Merlot. So, before I show you that I'm just going to show it let's let's go back to the home page, and I'll say, Alright, let me now browse through materials here, just to show you where the layout all this so when I, and let me increase the size this a little bit so you can see a little bit better. Alright. So, in Merlot again, think of it like a multi story library, and we're in academic support services and you want to just browse the, you know, the library so I can click on academic support services. There's almost 9000 materials in that general category. And then as I scroll down, I can go down to diversity equity and inclusiveness, and I can click on that category so I've gone to the first floor, and now I want to go to this particular shelf. And now, so now there's 522 materials in the general area of diversity equity inclusiveness. And just so you know you can see right up the top here. See this, they call it the breadcrumb. So it's this is like telling you I started at all materials now I've gone to academic support. And now I'm down the shelf of diversity equity inclusiveness. And here are all the other categories, right. So we have, you know, people, you know, di has been important in education and technology in the workplace there's some policies out there. And so here's your, your, your section of your shelf in professional organizations. So, so I put in two materials these are just examples here I just to illustrate it. And so here are the two materials. And one of them is in community standards and recommendations so one of them is in the general topic area of professional organizations. And the other one is in a particular area so if I just want to see which one is in that. So here's, here's that one so what I what I just try to walk you through is one is browsing through the library. Here we have DEI in professional organizations. So this is your section there. Okay, right. And any questions about just walking you through that process. Yeah, it's very straightforward but can use if you I by when I just went to search and typed. What was it the one before in professional societies can they bring me here or I have to go through all the steps. Okay, so, so there are different ways that you can do it so if you typed in. Let me just put a plus sign in here just so. So, so here's see the thing is professional societies, you can see covers a lot of different topic areas where in, you know, epidemiology and health care and things along those lines. Now if you just so so those are in the disciplines. So then if you say oh I typed in professional societies. And if I just clicked on oh I only want the ones in my discipline. All right, then you have a chance to getting to diversity equity inclusiveness and it can, you know, narrow narrow things down for you. All right. Yeah, thank you. But here, what I think would serve your interest best. Okay, is, and let me just show you is, instead of having say, let me just say to contribute your materials into Merlot, you got to go through the Merlot. Go to the Merlot website here and, and use and you go to add materials and you have to go through the process. But if you want to make it easy for people to find your materials, right, going to the big library is a way that they can get lost right. And that's where what we can help you do is create a portal, right, a community. And here I'll just show you this example of here. We have 80 academic partners who create their own particular websites for their interest area so if you want about employment equity women in sustainable employment. Here's here's that one. I'm going to show you just just to get and so you can see each one has their own branding. Here we're working with a lot of HBC use so, so they have their own branded institutions and what I'm going to show you one example here of that that, you know, could be helpful. I'll just call it to to to illustrate. Let me just let me just think. Well, maybe I'll choose, I'll choose one of these. I'll just, I'll just choose between Cookman. So, here's a website. Cookman, and, and this helps them go through there, what they specifically wanted they wanted just to help them move online. Here's teaching resources, and then they just identified the specific things that that that they wanted. And they said they wanted something about virtual labs. So instead of kind of finding out where virtual labs is people just click on that and go to it. So, so that's one example of how we can create the lead bio portal you can put your logo here we, you know, can retype all this other stuff here. And I'll just show you another example. We've done something with. Let me just see where it is. Let me just try to remember. Oh, here we go. Sorry to interrupt you. It looks like Veronica has put the, the URL for their, their content builder. Oh, started a draft, but of course I'm not done with it so I haven't published it so I don't know if people will be able to access. I'm not going to, I can't get into it because it's not published yet but maybe run period at some point you can just pass it over and let her show it off. Great. Here. Let me show you one and then I'll pass it over. So here's another example of we're working in India with people looking at cancer education. And so what I'm showing you here is, so here are what what they said is, let me take the materials that are like three or four levels down and then we're low taxonomy, and they put it right on the home page. So if I want to know about cancer in the elderly or cancer diagnosis. I just click on that and hear the materials that pop right up so I think I forget who asked the question about how do you have to go down to have to go down through these steps all the way. By having your own portal, you can kind of get down to your stuff right away. And then what I'll do now is, Veronica, I'll stop sharing so then you can share what your, the template that you started making. So, so Theresa, what was that helpful just to, because I think you asked the question about how do you get down to the stuff that you really want. That was mercy. Okay. Yeah, it was helpful. Okay. Let me see I can. Here you go. So I think you can see my screen now and so I'm logged into my Merleau account and so I can, I have a profile, and I also have access to my content builder. And this is essentially the draft that I had started for our project. I'll just have to finish it. But I just wanted to show you what it looks like. And I think, unless I publish it. I can't see it yet, or it's not available for the public, but it's really easy to use everything I can essentially click and change the text I can change the logo, the text, have sections, remove them. It's very plug and play, so to speak. And this is terrific. I think you're showing how, you know, you can brand it so you know that that logo that you have there that that can be connected with all the materials in your collection if you want, right. So that's when someone sees that little thumbnail that image, they say, Oh, that's, you know, the lead bio, you know, funded project and that means it's good stuff. Right. And, and then in your website there, we can put, you know, explore the lead bio collection, diversity, equity, inclusiveness and professional societies. And then you can put the links to those four categories. And so, mercy that then you just click on a button and you go right to the stuff right away. Yeah, alright, so maybe one of the things that I can do is finish up the design for discussion in our next meeting and then people can suggest edits and all of that. So is there a way to give like a subset of members access to my content builders so that they can, if they wanted in their own time, navigate here and see what I've done so far, or it would have to be kind of like me sharing out like this. Alright, no, no, you can. So, here we go. Exit this. Okay. All right. And now, now on your site, right where see those three dots at the bottom there. Yes. Click on those three dots. Right. And so if you do collaboration. Right. So this is where you can type in people's names. All right. Now they have to be more low members. So mercy and Cherise, you know, Theresa, you have to be a below member. And then Veronica can say you can help edit this at the same time. So that's one thing that to do right. And the other thing you can do to is so if you go back to the three dots. Right. So you can that copy, you can send a copy, then they can create their own version right so in all your professional you know you're a consortium of professional societies. What they can do at some point is, if they want to create their own version of it, they can do that. Or if you hit duplicate, right. Let's say you want to create a new version. And you want everyone to. So so it made a copy, and then people can play around on that. And then then you can just use that to copy the good stuff that you want into the into the live one. So so there's lots of options that you have in how to share working I use the collaborate a lot when when you want, you know, people will say oh I'll take care of this section I'll take care of that section. And then they just added into the website. If I'm finishing up the design and people suggest provisions and we incorporate those. If we hit like a sticky point can we email you for help with that as we link at links to the library. Thanks. A couple of little tips that I learned along the way is that Jerry mentioned that you need to exit out of the site when you're done with it. If you don't exit out of the site others cannot get into it they can't access it to edit. So, don't let that hang you up. Okay. So right now I'm excited or both because I haven't clicked on any of them. Correct. And one more. When you are linking to another page, you can do so by opening the view. And then you copy that URL from the page to be able to reference it in another page in your website. Don't go to the preview to do that you go to the view site to do that. Okay. So when you get to that point if you start to stumble a bit just holler and we'll walk you through that part again. Okay, I just want you to be aware so you don't frustrate over. Okay, and then this view essentially opens up the site on a new tab. And this is essentially the address of the correct site for a visitor. And then you can change that URL, you know, buy another URL at some point when you're ready if you decide you want to do that and it'll still point to the Merlot category. Got it. Right. Thank you. I think that's all I have to share anything else that I can click on or anything you all want to. Well, here, one of the things. Well, while you're here, Veronica, if you. Well, I'll say one of the things that Merlot also has that individuals can create their own bookshelves right that if you want to find materials that you want to organize let's say mercy you, you know, you want to create your own personal collection. Merlot allows you to do that too so. And actually, maybe Veronica stop sharing and then and then I'll show you what how, how, how I can do that too. Yeah, sounds good because I said we're almost out of time to sorry. You got it. Yep. And I'll just say here. So you know I've been around a while so I've collected a bunch of stuff. So I have what we call bookmark collections. And so if I want to, here's something in software engineering. So I've created my own little collection of software engineering materials that are available. And, and so your members can of the can take the materials out of the collection of the lead bio collection and create their own. And if you like it you can copy it right members in Merlot can copy each other's collection there. So, so just that this was kind of the overview of what you can do in Merlot for what for this project. And so I hope that was useful and I started 10 o'clock so I'll stop there. What we'll be getting into in the next training just out of curiosity. Well, the next one what I would like to do is have have all of you be members in Merlot already and have you actually add materials to the process. So, instead of just watching you actually do it, because guess what you're going to bump up to say oh what about this oh I didn't think about that. So, so when you're done with that, you'll be ready to go and just start, you know, putting stuff in the collection. So I'm here to bring some items to upload to have those finalized. Thank you. Curiosity. Veronica, because you just showed your page. That's not the page that you are using, I guess, because now I'm getting a little bit confused. What will we be creating an actual like lead bio logo and theme and not access because I think that's like that's confusing for me and I'm a part of a project. Right, right, I would have to I would, I would use the same design that I did for but I would replace it with the lead bio logo. Okay. But you can just copy that. Right. Make a copy replace the logos and you're ready to go. You're ready to start adding materials. Yeah. Okay, I know we're a minute over. I hope this was helpful. And we'll see you in a few weeks. And I'll send you know what you need to do to get prepared for the next one just a little reminders okay. And if you have questions in between. We're here. Yep. Sounds good. Thank you. Thank you guys. Bye bye.