 everybody and welcome to a global 2020 conference. I'm Elm Levine. I'm going to try to do a five-minute quick tour of the conference environment. Now I'm logged in. You'll notice on the top hand right there's a icon that represents me. Now I haven't really customized it like some of these other folks. So there's an ability that was mentioned in your sign-up email that will instruct you how to customize your profile to have fewer personal information or social media, etc. Also this is the place where you get notifications of activity where you've been mentioned if you've gotten direct messages. So pay attention to the upper right hand corner of the Connect website. But mainly I want to take you into the lobby and this is the main entrance that shows you all the different areas with activities going on. Now the thing to keep in mind that in this environment every single piece of information is a conversation. So the welcomes from our co-host and the announcements about daily things you can reply and engage in conversations across the entire site. That goes for every presentation as well. I'm going to go into one area just to give you a sense about how they're structured. So meet and greet is kind of the public part of the conference that's open for any kind of conversation. So we've got some topics that are active now that where we've asked people to do some introductions. But if I went into this one from Susan asking what does the conference theme mean to you. Very typical things that you can do here. If I really want to say like this is important I can do a like button. This helps boost certain pieces of content within the system so they show us more interest. I can share in social media or I can copy the link and I can mail it. And then also you can bookmark this if you want to come back. But the main thing is where you have the ability is to reply. And so you can come in here and you can sort of say you know what this conference theme means to you. And you have a web editor where you can compose, you can add links, you can upload pictures etc to make your comment very rich. I'm going to skip that for now. You'll notice also that we've put conference links at the very top of the site for the purpose of what's going on over the next two weeks. So we can get back to the lobby very easily. And we'll notice that we have the main presentation. We've got keynotes. They're organized here in sort of the activity view where each presentation is one of these conversation threads. So like the other area we can for a presentation we get the abstract. As presenters come in here they're going to post resources and videos that are related to the presentation. And this is also the place where again you can engage in conversation with them. But if you really want to organize your time at OEG Connect we suggest using the program link. Now this is where everything is organized chronologically. And so right now I'm listing the full schedule and I can browse them all. The key thing I notice here on the left is the time. This is always in your local time. So you can plan your conference experience around your own time schedule. And also when you're logged in as a conference participant you've got this ability right here to save this and save another presentation to your own personal schedule. So when I filter this by just ones that I've presented I can sort of see the ones that I've already expressed an interest in attending. So you get your own personal schedule in OEG Connect. Very quickly again back into the lobby if you're ever run into trouble we've got a help desk area where you can post a question. If you click on here you'll get more details on how you can get to help. So we're going to be very responsive because this is going to be a very busy conference with everything going on. So the green areas are going to show you again all the different presentations by the mode. We have an area where our sponsors have set up and we really encourage you to spend some time there and visit them. They've got special activities going on during the conference and you can schedule special meetups with them. Open Education Awards are a time to interact with the award winners that have just been announced and then in the Convo and Collaboration area you're going to find a series of activities that have been designed by program planners but it's also a place where you can create your own suggestions and say like wow I'd really like to have a meetup of people who are interested in open ed resources for biology or I'm looking for things in Korean language. So this is just an open space again to say like these are things I'm interested in. Is anybody else interested? So we really encourage you to jump in here explore and be part of the conversations at OE Global 2020.