 All right, good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast a show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. Central Time, but if you're unable to try this on Wednesday, that's fine. We do record the show as we are doing today and is then posted to our website for our archives. And I will show you at the end of today's show where we have those archives for you. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open for anyone to watch. So please do share, spread the news to anyone you think may be interested in any of the topics we have on the show. The Nebraska Library Commission is a state agency for libraries in Nebraska. So we provide services to all types of libraries in the state. So you will find shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries, public, academic, K-12 schools, museums, corrections, archives, et cetera, et cetera. Our only real criteria is something to do with libraries. Sometimes we do libraries, libraries come on and talk about cool things they're doing in their libraries. We share resources and services here for the Library Commission, and guest speakers, all sorts of things. But the last Wednesday of every month is pretty sweet tech day. Yay. That is when Amanda Sweet, who's with us here today, good morning, Amanda. Good morning. She is our Technology Innovation Librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission and she comes on and does some tech-related presentation. So if you are the tech person of your library or interested in that kind of thing, this is definitely the shows to keep up on at last Wednesday of the month. And today she's going to talk to us about a greatness service we're offering here through the Library Commission. It took a while to get it all up and running and piloted and tested and what we are ready to start doing tech kits through the mail. So I will hand it over to Amanda to take it away and tell us all about it. So it is exactly what it sounds like. We send it through the mail. And so in this session I'll kind of talk about what's available right now, what I have upcoming because I just got a touch more funding to add a few more things. So I'm adding a few more bits and bobs and features. And then I'll talk about some different activities that you can do, some different partnership models that libraries have been using so far so that you can kind of get some ideas of what you might want to try. And then I've also expanded to include more education and classroom resources because a lot of public libraries are partnering with schools, a lot of school libraries wanted to bring stuff into their own library and apparently a lot of libraries are starting to partner with cold schools like code.org, aim code school and different organizations like that. And those organizations tend to want larger quantities so that is what I'm working on. And then I'm going to talk about some like once you've done the activities with the tech kits I'll talk about some different ways that you can start digging deeper into these tools and figure out some other stuff that you might want to try. All right so in the slide show I put in the new kits that I've added that I haven't gotten a chance to add to the full website and once I've run through those I'll shift you over to the regular website so you know where things are going to live from here on out. I'll mention too since you mentioned the slides we're showing them. The slides will be available afterwards along with the recording too so if you ever again want to refer back to them you'll have access to those. All right so and then just as a side note I will be adding a few software subscriptions because it's coming out of it's not coming out of ARPA funding it's coming out of LSTA funding so I'll be able to give you some access to some of the software subscriptions. Unfortunately for now it'll only be for a year then we'll see but it's better a year than nothing and it's also going to help to find out if anyone gets some good use out of it and if people get good use out of it we'll have better reason to see if we need it again next year. Right good old stats so the first one that I'll talk about is the Sphero Bolt this is the newest version of Sphero so if you've used Sphero Mini or one of the previous versions of Sphero this one has added this cool little LED lightboard it has some new features and some new sensors and I've also added the terrain accessory which will give like a little jump ramp and it'll also let you kind of skid some rails in case your kids like skateboarding and there's also a chariot so a chariot's going to turn this little dude into like a little tow station so you can use Legos to kind of attach like a little tow ramp to him and you can also add in like a little marker accessory or do some fun stuff with him and so there is a library of lesson activities that are available for Sphero. Sphero has like a cult following so they there are people that have made their own lesson plans and added them in for free and there's also a lesson library that's included with the made by Sphero education and so that is actually a subscription that I am looking at starting shortly and so the next one on my list is the Finch robot so the Finch robot is made by a company called birdbrain technologies and by the way I love the name birdbrain technologies which is kind of awesome so most of birdbrain stuff it actually works with this micro bit chip and micro bit is made by Microsoft so you know that it has plenty of tech support and it has plenty of different activities and activities and lesson plans but birdbrain technologies has also made their own lesson library and they've also been adopted by a bunch of schools and organizations across the well pretty much across the nation so they've already vetted out all these activities tested them battle tested them and they are good to go and they're also they've added this new feature with this new robot that you can use dry erase markers to kind of draw on its surface and then just kind of wipe them clean when you're done and customizing it or decorating it and from what I've heard like in the previous model kids were trying to draw on the old one so when birdbrain found out about it they're like you know let them and they know and so this one is great for ages five and up and but they have lesson plans for all the way up through high school like K through 12 and so this is kind of a good introduction to robotics and circuitry and the plus sign is that you don't actually have to build them like some other different robotics kits so you can use it in like a single lesson plan instead of having to do two sessions like the first session build them then the second session codom so this one you can focus straight in on just kind of the step by step coding or going rogue and figuring out something fun to do yourself and so this hummingbird bit premium is also made by bird brain technology so I put them side by side on the list here so if you have tried out Arduino or Raspberry Pi or one of those activity kits and we're kind of overwhelmed by it and just didn't know what to do with it this is kind of a circuit alternative that's got what like better introductory guides and everything you need is actually included with the kit which is not always true with Arduino and Raspberry Pi because most of those activities were made just by random people who put them together and even some of the Arduino kits like Arduino made activities they use some extra added on features that aren't always included so this is just kind of like a more controlled environment that has the step by step that actually does legitimately have everything included in the kit and this is the premium kit so that it has more pieces than the non premium kit the and so this one also works with the micro bit and so it has the extended activity options that you can use if you so wanted to and so the block based coding is really good for the beginners because it's kind of like that drag and drop interface that just says move motor one rotation or it's like kind of like that English based just say what you mean and it does it and then and then the text code would be like your Python and JavaScript and like your what you would traditionally think of when you think of coding so it's just like the words on the screen and but you can also pull them up side by side so you can see what this block would look like in code and that is one of the best ways to transition over from block based to text and there are a few other different kits in this in the tech kits of the mail that have this option but this is a great one if raspberry pie made you want to bang your forehead against a window sometimes they do create those and they just assume well you're gonna know oh yeah you get code right that's why you've gotten this device not always right yeah and so that basic you know introduction is going to really grab a lot more people right and then we've got the so taking kind of a right turn from circuits we're going into the DTI tello drone so this little guy is actually made for education but there's also another version of him that is just the DJI tello drone so this one will actually work with the apps for both of them so it'll work with the education apps and the regular DJI tello app so if you google them and start looking it up you can use both of them but this one actually uses a coding system called drone blocks and drone blocks is it's another one of those drag-and-drop coding system so it's just like it has a list of the blocks that are available you drag one over connected into a little program and you'll be able to say fly forward turn right make a u turn and it just has all those plainly labeled blocks that you can tell it what to do and it also this kit that I got also includes the mission mats so it has lesson plans that actually use these little mats to get you to go through obstacles and activities and start landing on different colored dots and find out how the drone can register different objects and symbols and things like that and then it'll also translate into this is how drones are used in agriculture this is how drones are used in construction and good right and so this one has there's also the library of activities that are included with this and in order to extend those activities since the drone block subscription was really reasonably priced I decided to experiment with that one too and again those software subscriptions won't be available until November 1st but if even if you do order one of these today it won't get in the mail to you until probably around that time and that um someone has that I'll grab right now if that's okay yeah go for it might be a question to get out right now before getting to more of the kits um generally how many participants would you recommend per kit do the lesson or the general lessons plan explain how many participants the kit the a particular set or kit can support at one time yeah so the general rule of thumb is to have two participants per kit um if you have more advanced level students you can do one participant per kit the recommendation of two is just so that they can work together to troubleshoot and kind of work things out and it also kind of extends the number of kits that you can use so if you have like a class of 30 students you would only need 15 kits to go across and incidentally there would be actually be a maximum of 15 copies of each of these available and so and so some of them are available right now some of them are still on order because that is actually one of the things okay so this one on my shelf right now I currently have six of them and the remaining nine of them are somewhere in the mail ask UPS everyone knows what the mail is how the mail is doing right now it's very yeah yeah so so you're so are you going to get into later about how to order the kits and how that'll work the circulating okay yeah about that right now then yeah and i'll go over like the policies how long you can keep them checked out like safety and policies and different stuff like that and actually well how many yeah yeah and so well i'm on that note i actually got this kit and i'm sure they designed it this way just because it has these little safety guards for the propellers i do also i have a holy stone drone that didn't originally come with these little guards and i know from experience that these guards are nice to have but i did heal so there is yeah i know it's like even with the holy stone drone it's kind of you kind of use common sense to know where and where not to put your hand it was just like a weird stroke of luck that i had accidentally crashed the drone into a bush and i thought that the propellers had stopped but apparently they haven't so even after your drone has crashed which probably will happen at least once or twice don't grab it right from the side and so that's kind of one of those um safety policies that i added in about that and it just kind of they're an awesome thing to start playing with but it's just a few things to keep in mind to stay safe especially when you have younger kids that are working with it and there's also a guide for if you have extremely young kids you'd actually want to start with just either a demonstration or have an adult present with each different group or subgroup so it's kind of you know your kids and you know that like how well they can follow directions so if you have a generally known group of unruly kids monitor them more and if you have a general group of kids that are you know that they are just really good and that they're going to follow the directions relatively well they're good to go all right so jump over into the next one which is actually for adults and older students because this is recommended for ages 13 and up and this is actually a safety policy that was put together not by me but by oculus themselves and it's because they've already done the testing with this and they found out that if you are younger than 13 years old sometimes your eyes are still kind of growing and adjusting and it can kind of mess with your vision after you've taken it off or kind of and they don't know how it impacts vision in in kids that still have their eyes forming and they're still growing in that way so just because of what they the information they have available right now they recommend 13 and up and so that's why just for liability reasons in the library we're going to follow the safety regulations from the experts and so we put in a so I had to put in a waiver that people would sign before they use this because there's also the risk of disorientation like I've used virtual reality a lot and I've worn these headsets a lot the only time I personally have had a problem was when I tried to go on a virtual roller coaster but I mean yeah but honestly that might have happened in real life too I mean who knows sure yeah I know yeah a lot of people do have trouble with this VR and that's something the editor be aware of that people may be very excited if they've never done it before and suddenly they put on and it does not go well yeah and there have also been instances of like nausea or different things like that so just keep a chair on standby so that they can people can remain seated or just take a seat if they are feeling disoriented or uncomfortable in any way and just give the disclaimer that it is okay to just pull the headset off if you're just putting it on and going nope so it's kind of keep with your comfort level and so that's actually why we include that waiver and other libraries actually use that I adapted it from other libraries so it's kind of based on what people have already run into so that is actually available on the tech kit website you'll get the link of it at the end but if you go to the library commission website and search tech kits the link will pop up and so then I'll flip over to the dash and dot wonder pack which is another robot set that I've added in here this is one that most libraries have either heard about or are already using so I got the wonder pack that has all the extra added on accessories because some libraries have the robot itself but they don't have any of the little attachments or bobs and bits so this is kind of like a good extension activity to do this one uses block based code and it also has another and I think I'm including the curriculum guides with it and the curriculum resources so this is actually something that is still on order right now because it was on back order when I ordered it apparently it's a popular thing to have and so this is coming when it's coming and I'm told that it might actually be included in a digital format instead of printed so we'll see how that goes I might wind up just printing it and including it with the kit we'll see and so these are actually geared toward different age ranges this little dot access this little dot robot is geared toward five and up he kind of just chills there and you can code him to change different colors but there's not this one doesn't have any movement included and these ears are just decorative they're actually a little attachment ears that can be put on either robot but these don't move they're just kind of cute and this one has is for ages eight and up so he'll actually move around or she I didn't ask and so this robot will actually move around there's a little launcher attachment with three little balls included they can kind of aim at different targets these are some different stacking targets that you can use to aim your launcher or navigate around in an obstacle course these are some little brick attachments that can get attached onto the side here and it does work with certain different lego kits to add in different little constructions or projects or things like that and this is the bulldozer attachment so you can actually use this to pretty much put together you can either have set up bowling pins or you can set up confetti or you can set up little if you have any of those little packing peanuts you can also ask get the robot to corral and clean up the packing peanuts and this is a tow hook so this gets popped onto the back end of the robot and you can attach little you can attach like a little cart onto them where you can attach like a little tow station or just kind of pull things around so that's just kind of like a fun attachment that also has some lesson plans that are included with it and so this one also has the lesson library that's available online the lesson library for any make wonder robots is called class connect and dash and dot also has a series of apps that are available so there is a dash playground and there's also a an app that's specifically made for the xylophone and then there is a so this is like the little xylophone the little attachment you would use to hit the xylophone and there are pre-made songs and you can also make your own songs using the xylophone which is just kind of awesome and then we'll go into so the cue is the next stage up from make from the dash and dot so it has the similar model but this one has a blaster and so this one and sorry if I talk over you a couple times I think your volume might be a touch muted and so the blaster I have now so if you order this now the blaster will come with it but the gripper is actually still on order right now and the gripper is basically it kind of looks like a connect set so it's kind of it's got the its instructions so you actually have to build the gripper itself and so I'll actually pull up cue robot gripper so this is actually something that you put together yourself so you can do one activity that's just putting this together and then another that's learning how to code it so you can use this gripper but if you're running short on time or you only have time for one session you might want to focus on coding the robot instead of building it or you might want to focus on just building this and then maybe doing like one or two little movements with it so it's up to you what you want to do with it and I will close this out again and that gripper attachment also has four lesson plans included with it so there'll be a little activity cards that you can use with that gripper and there are also activity cards and target cards that come with this blaster and so let me go into the so that is the last kit that I've added so far now I'm going to jump over into the main tech kit pages and we'll go over some of the remaining kits that are available that already have the resources on the page and I'll go over some of the tech kit policies and things you need to know and while I'm switching over did any other questions pop in? No I don't see anybody if any me excuse me does have any questions about any of the kits or what's available or what you can do with them go ahead and type in the question section and as Amanda mentioned earlier she will get into how everything gets circulated but nothing came in since that first one that I mentioned. All right so I'll go over the remaining kits and kind of what you can do with them so far and I'm also adding in so for this merge cube this is an augmented reality cube so you can hold a device in front of this cube and it will digitally transform into different objects and you can also create your own little merge cube world and that is actually one thing that I'm adding soon is an app called CoSpaces so CoSpaces uses like a little drag and drop system to be able to you can build like a little town on here you can build different rooms you can add in furniture you can basically turn this into your own thing and you can also use it to create different lesson plans or environments and you can also make your own 3d objects in a system called Tinkercad and Tinkercad is a free 3d design software you may have used it or heard about it before but you can design in and I'll actually bring that up here and you can design in Tinkercad and then pull your design into the CoSpaces app and then pop it onto the cube so you can kind of take full control over what you're designing and what you're making and this is actually designed for beginners and or younger users so adults have gotten some great use out of it kids have gotten great use out of it and this is just kind of a both Tinkercad and this augmented reality cube are a great introduction to how you can use this in different industries too so if you want to find out how this technology works and then how you might want to start building a scavenger's hunt in your library or how you might want to start using there are different warehouses and different training facilities that have put up little symbols and markers all over the warehouse so that when you see that symbol or you see that marker you can hold up your phone and you can trigger different information bits or you can trigger a video to pop up or you can trigger a like a training course to pop up so it's kind of and you can also use augmented reality to label different objects in like a car engine or label different objects in a 3d printer that's actually what I'm experimenting with right now is using augmented reality to label the like a 3d printer or label like the parts of a robotic set so hold up your phone and it gives up little labels that show what each little bit in bob is so that it's just less confusing when you're learning how to do it yeah it's great for training and education absolutely right so it's kind of and that's one of those extended activities that you can start to do so you can use this with k through 12 but you can also use it with adults and say if you want a great introduction to how augmented reality works here's a video of how augmented reality is being used in a training facility or in a warehouse or in a insert setting here and then you can say if you want to learn how to make it yourself this is how this is like your introductory experience and you can start building your little town or building a or like triggering different activities and then say now try it out in the world in the wild or warehouse whatever it may be and so that's why I just came in and this is uh Jessica Norfolk I just has not a question but man this is so cool it can't wait to get started yeah love it yeah and that's why I also included in each one of these sections there'll be a real world problem section so it'll be showing what this which kind of technology this is actually demonstrating and you can click through here for different examples of how it's actually being used out in the world so then these are real use cases so when parents or when kids say I mean cool I'm learning this but um what I'm gonna do with it why right yeah so and so this is like all of your answers to the wonderful world of why and so this is just and this is just a fun thing to just kind of read through and kind of sit through you can even bring people together and just start um looking at a practical problem out in the world and start googling and when you start googling pick what you're interested in then grab a tech kit and figure out what you might want to experiment with and each one of these kits will also have a set of activities and resources resources that you can use with each different kit and so it'll send you over to the activity plans that are made by the organization itself first and then it'll it'll branch off into lesson plans that were made just by enthusiasts or educators or just different people who like the kit then you can go rogue and make your own and so let me go back here so this is the drone that got me good and so let me click this one open so and honestly if I hadn't actually picked it up in the wrong way to begin with I wouldn't have had that problem so that was kind of my bad but this one actually has arms that fold in so it's easier to put it into a little case and transport it and this one also comes with a remote control that you can put your cell phone in so that you can actually see a visual of what the drone is seeing and you can also take photos and videos using the drone and so I've actually I've gotten like rooftop photos of like a friend's apartment building and I've gotten like park-wide photos and then you can also start learning about FAA regulations and you can start using this to survey construction sites and you can start using it to survey crop sites or fields or anything like that and there's also the real world problems in here so you can see how and where drones are being used out in the wild and I should also mention that these kits and I'll go back into the home section so I'll go open this cure robotics kit and if you open up the get started section on any one of these kits there is a librarian preparation guide and an introductory lesson plan so if you are not familiar or comfortable with using a lot of these kits you can start with this introductory lesson plans that uses the skills you would learn in the librarian preparation guide so this librarian preparation guide will kind of go through the basics of what's in the kit and it'll also give you a basically like a skills checklist that says learn this stuff before you so you can get comfortable with leading or facilitating a session in the library and if you are partnering with like a local code school like aim code school or another organization like that you might not need to know the ins and out of how to use every little bit and bob of the kid but it does help to have like an introductory understanding of everything so that you can answer questions or refer people to different resources so you can know the different ways that you can start coding this and the different apps that are recommended and just start using this as a starting point so this will just help you gain familiarity and get started with it and i'm still building out some of these guides for and the libraries that have checked these out before they told me that they actually just printed out the preparation guide and printed out their preferred lesson plan and then went from there so whether you want to see it online or you want to print it that is up to you if enough people start printing it i might just print it and include it but we'll see so let me go back in here so and one thing i should note on here is that and something that i should actually add into the site this azebot robot is actually the azebot bit not the azebot evo because i bought it before the evo was a thing and so there will be like a special thing that you'd want to do to start finding lesson plans that are specifically for the bit and it's mainly going into their lesson library and sorting either by date or by usually by date if you sort by date you'll actually get the slightly older lesson plans first and then you'll get the ones that can be used for both bit and evo and then finally the ones that were designed specifically for evo will usually land at the bottom and for the most part if there's a lesson plan that's made for evo you can usually adapt it or use it for both but if you want to get something specifically for the bit you'd actually want to go into their lesson library and sort it and they are using azeblockly and azeblockly is another one of those drag and drop coding systems that and they use something called a flash loading so you would pull up the their only reason i'm not pulling it up right now is because i'm not a hundred percent sure i'm going to remember my password to get into it right now so let me see if it'll just let me open it okay so let me go into devices oh it's not going to let me oh maybe it actually automatically logged me in that's handy so let me go into the dashboard go into blockly and then you'll want to choose the bit in this upper corner so it'll go into the right coding system and then you can start this is what the block system would look like with the bit and this is this is why i say that it just kind of like a clearly labeled system so you just click the blocks together and then it will you would connect the robot to the system or download this program to the robot itself and then it will do it and the fun thing about this one is that this is the system that you would use to connect it to an actual physical robot but azeblockly also has a virtual robot so you can use the azebot simulator when you're doing your training before you even get your robot and you can use this to move your virtual robot to practice before you move your physical robot so this is our virtual simulator on the right hand side then you go into the movement section and you can say move forward about one step going fast and then you can say take a right turn and then we'll just make them go in a square and not actually describing this because i don't want this to be a tutorial just a demonstration otherwise that would be a horrible silent tutorial but then i'll just do run and i'll duplicate it and make them close off the square to make it more obvious i'll actually make them go five steps so you can get a full square reset and run nice yeah and so this is just kind of a good way to have some fun with it and get used to it and then you can also make them change colors the same way that you would with a real robot and so this is something that you can expect with like the drag and drop system with any one of these kits it basically works in the same way you drag a block over snap it together and go and let me go back in here snap circuits is another one that most people have either heard of used or have a smaller version themselves i got the snap circuit extreme so it has more bits and bobs to it and it also has three or four different pre-printed class packs and a curriculum guide that's included directly with the kit and there's also an extension activity so that you can use this uh snap circuit kit connected directly to a computer and start doing coding on the computer and so i've got a little over 10 minutes left so i'm just going to give you a rundown of what's happening with these virtual reality kits just in case you haven't been keeping up with the updates so the oculus go is they are no longer supporting oculus go they have traded it out completely in support of oculus quest so oculus go i believe it's supported up through this year don't quote me on that but i'm pretty sure it's this year and then they're going to stop doing the um security updates stop doing any app updates um you can no longer actually make the apps for the go anymore they only support apps for quest or rift or quest 2 and you can still get apps for go but you just can't they're not making anymore any ones yeah and i haven't added i do have as your you might remember from the slideshow i do have the quest 2 um i'm including the quest 2 but i'm still waiting for a couple more quest 2 to show up in the mail um i'm not sure where they actually landed but they got returned to sender so they have to send them again and so i will be getting more of the quest 2 and i'll be keeping the oculus quest just in case some libraries want to test out the quest instead of quest 2 um the benefit of using quest instead of quest 2 is quest 2 requires you to connect the headset through a facebook account but quest will let you sign up using an oculus account which can be connected over to like a gmail or your regular email account so some people don't want to get involved or require a facebook um usage using the library facebook so they just prefer the quest so i'm keeping both of them as an option and have that requirement now yeah that was something that was holding some people back i know some libraries i mean yeah and i'm hoping that facebook kind of gets the message and starts giving the option to use their oculus app but because i mean they already built it they have it but all right and so the last one i'll touch on is the google nest hub set because some like more people are wanting to experiment with um smart homes so and connected devices like that so this one has the a set of smart bulbs so you can make them change color you can set them on a timer you can um voice activate it so that you can turn on your living room lights or you can voice at it to turn on library lights you can if you forget to turn off the lights in the upstairs room library you can actually use an app on your phone to turn off your lights instead of tracking all the way upstairs you can even do it from home if you had wanted to just using that app and there are also smart plugs that are available so that you can it's basically an on off switch for anything that has a regular plugin so you can use it for a regular lamp that doesn't have a smart bulb um i've used it for my air conditioner so that i can turn on and off my air conditioner before i get home and you can there are security cameras there are and i've also included the smart doorbell um one thing i'd love for library like some libraries to test out if you're curious about it is to keep the smart doorbell on the at the front desk and if you happen to be shelving or helping someone else out on the floor and if you're a solo librarian or just short on staff you can have someone ring the doorbell and then you can answer the doorbell using your smartphone or a different screen just from anywhere in the library and you can either answer the question right from there or just let them know that you're going to be heading on up or to have them meet you at a different part in the library that is slick that is very slick yes for those solo librarian solo staff absolutely right and you can also put the doorbell outside in the traditional sense so if you have like a delivery person coming up but you can have them ring the doorbell and then you can just visually let them know that you're there on the way um this is also great if you have a mobility impairment because sometimes it can take you longer to get to the door than it would normally and sometimes delivery people or visitors leave before you're actually able to get there so the smart doorbell is a good option to be able to notify them that you're on the way but it's going to take you a second or if you're just super busy and stuck in the back or stuck helping someone and can't get to the door yet so and there's also a variety of other different ways that you can use this and you can also use this to introduce the idea of smart home technology smart gadgets smart manufacturing warehouses um automation and I've also got some lesson plans available to help kind of run through the basics of what automation is what it's doing and how you can use it and of course handy dandy real world problems all right so let me pop into the policy section here so and I need to give myself a note to self to change the background color of this because I must do that you can still read it though I'll live so if you want to um a pre like a preview of what the virtual reality waiver looks like that is available on this policy section over here and it's basically just kind of and this is something that is recommended to actually talk people through just so that they acknowledge and understand what they could be getting into and it's also a liability and safety thing for the library so people can't come back and say how can you give me this technology and it made me nauseous and what are you doing to people and how dare you and unfortunately it's happened before that's why it's here yeah and so this is available for you and then there are the policies in here that say how long this is actually going to be checked out you get to check them out for 30 days at a time and there's a a little blurb in here about if you get that like damaged or missing pieces and so it'll talk about the replacement fees and there's a five dollar processing fee for um doing missing pieces um there's also options that you can talk about um replacement pieces and I mean basically there's options there's more than one way to go about this and we're still kind of working it through sure it's just an experiment so yeah um it will work with you on you know okay what happened let's figure it out yeah and basically nine times out of ten it is not the end of the world now you have already I know we're kind of today doing a here's this new program we're doing but you've already been lending some of these out correct I mean this is yeah yeah yeah and actually um there was just a news article about gearing library using some of these kits and I think that was in the star herald if I remember right um let me open it up on May yeah it was in the star herald gearing library host stem project with high ability learners and they gave a shout out to the library commission for the tech kits and so if you want to learn more about what's available in the kits and kind of start accessing the policies find more information about what all these tech kits are representing and how they are being used out in the wide wide world and if you want to find more extended activities of people really want to dig deeper into the technology itself there are also further activities in this high tech section that show I'm curious but in a lot of things I don't have a tech kit but I can still go online or go get my own different app or what have you and start practicing with it myself we have a question about the checking out the kits you had mentioned earlier um that there will I think for each one there will be the ultimate goal is that we'll have 15 kits to loan out of of each everything um how many uh how many kits can someone request do they have to say I want all 15 or do they say I only want to get five do they are they split up how does that work oh you can only get five if you want to so you can get five you can get yeah and I'm still working on like a calendar of availability but so I'm still kind of formatting it in the sheet but eventually when I actually have time on the planet there'll be a calendar of availability that says which kits are available and when oh so people will be able to come to the site and see if something is already out they can't get it yet they need they'll know when it's back and oh another question just because this is just like lending you know internet of things and lending books lending anything are renewals allowed on these like and so that'll depend on whether the kit is already reserved by a different library after it sure so if it and that's kind of the usual policy is if it's on reserve no but if there I mean if no one wants it then yeah and and that'll actually be more it'll be easier to request renewals after that calendar of availability is open which I suppose is something I should add sooner than later but all in good time right now they just put a request in and then you let them know if if it's available yep yeah or when it will be available I guess yeah yeah and so and this in the request kit form it'll just ask you your I mean it's basic library information where are we sending it who who are you and this is only available to Nebraska libraries so I've learned the hard way that I need to specify that and so then we'll go you'll choose the kit that you actually want right now the Oculus Quest 2 is not yet available in this list and that's just because is something weird happened with mailing and return to sender you'll get it when I get it and so that I'll also be updating the quantities as I get the new kits in um some of them so these are the the quantities that are available as of today but these are all going to get boosted up to mostly all of them are going to get boosted up to a quantity of 15 the exception is the Google Nest smart home because these are not traditionally used in K through 12 schools so I didn't see the need of getting 15 of them because I mean unless I can show that 15 of them are probably going to get checked out it's not really worth getting yet but if it gets a ton of use I'll get more we'll see how it goes yeah see how the you know the demand is buying demand and the other exception will be the snap circuit extreme just because it costs more to mail it back and forth because because it is the largest heaviest kit and so if there is a large demand for it and people are willing to do the shipping back and forth because it's free to receive it but you only have to pay return shipping so that's another thing that is a good thing to know for budgeting planning what have you and most of these are actually pretty cheap to send back and forth but the snap circuit yeah and this is just the heaviest bulkiest one that is available right now but the other ones way lighter way cheaper you can get 15 of them and it's way cheaper to send it back and forth so those are my two exceptions and you said these are for Nebraska libraries but you mentioned schools is this for so which type of Nebraska libraries can order these so what are the rules about that so public academic and school libraries can check them out if you are a prison library you actually can check them out but the rules and regulations for prison libraries make it really difficult to bring in any of this type of equipment most prison library and I just found this out during the the NLA conference recently because some prison libraries walked up and said oh cool this would be kind of fun and then they said our policies will never let us do it so I guess nearly any type of library policy permitting and that'll be more your policy and then this one that's on there is not on our side we're happy to send it to any library if you are able to accept it yeah oh cool and so you'll be asked your first choice and second choice when you need it by and you can also add in any notes so you can say I'd like it by this time but if you don't and you can add in a note that says if you don't have it till later just let me know when you can send it and we're good to go and then I'll just shoot you out an email saying when you'll get it and which one you're getting and then ask any questions if I need to and will be good to go that'd be also where you could say I don't want all 15 I just want however many yeah and there should also if there's not already there should be a how many copies do you want um I'll be adding apparently I missed that so I'll be adding in a how many copies do you want so that'll actually just be a little drop down menu that says how many you need that was on the old form but this is the revamped form that's easier to fill out and do we have any questions about kits that are available activities um if anyone wants me to help them customize some makerspace activities to their community um I've been doing that quite a bit and I will put up my email address if you have any questions yeah if anybody does we're a little after 11 o'clock but we started a little bit after 10 so that's no problem um if anybody does have any um anything you want to ask right now get it into the questions section of your go to webinar interface if you want to ask desperately ask Amanda something now but you can always yes reach out to her here um our emails amanda.sweet at nebraska.gov and I am also putting this into the slideshow and I'll put this into the chat but it should also be available on the Encompass Archives website in case you miss it now yes it will and I will put in my email get the link to the slides for myself so that I have them for when I do and I will also put in the link to the actual main page of the tech kits that's also available on the session page for today's show if people looked at the description change the color background will be a sporty purple there we go that is okay I didn't have any other questions I've come in just to thank you for the information um it was great so yeah should hopefully get more requests for the kit coming soon perfect other than that that's all I've got for you and I'm about to go make another cup of coffee all right so I'm gonna pull presenter control back to my screen I can wrap up our show for today thank you so much there it is um and there's the kit obviously um thank you so much Amanda for talking to us about the tech kits today I'm glad we finally have this been a work in progress over the last year or so or more before the world ended before yes pre pandemic is when this was started and it was going to be let's do this and then I'm glad we finally got this um you know I forgot some of the things we're getting out there to everyone so please do get in there once I request these tech kits for your library and I've got as you said I've got the link here to the slides that will be available when I get the recording up as well so um and here is the description for today's show as you can see that there's a link right here that does go to the tech kids page right from there as well so um that we're wrapping up for today um I don't know will the recording will be here this is our main income aside 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that we use so you can look for that elsewhere so that will wrap it up for today's show as you can see i've started getting um shows in here on our calendar for november and december there are some blank dates here i'm still confirming things but they will be filled in and even already gotten into next year oh my gosh um anyway next month our first show of november will be um next week also letters about literature our state reading and writing competition um so please do if you'd like to participate or have the um young people in your library or school participate in this uh sign up to hear all about how to run that program and sign up for any other upcoming shows and keep an eye out for as i add in and fill in all the updates thank you everybody for being here thank you amanda and we will see you back at the end of november do you have any thoughts on what that will be at all or still thinking about it still thinking about a little bit we'll see so keep an eye on that pretty sweet tech november 24th and then we'll be back and we'll see what her topic will be all right thank you so much everyone and we'll see you on a future episode of our cup of life bye bye