 We are recording the session. We haven't quite decided if we're gonna put up all the early shows, but just so you know, we're recording the session, just so you know that that is happening. So hello everyone, welcome to the early show. My name is Amy Tan, I'm on the steering committee and I'm just so happy to welcome you to our fourth day of Open Ed 20. I'm here with my co-host, Winnie Zhang, and my two special guests today, Tiffany Reardon and Daniel Hyatt. And I'm gonna let them introduce themselves. Go ahead, Winnie. Okay, hi, I'm Tiffany. I am part of the steering committee. I'm the person who has been wrangling captions the whole conference. And let's see, I'm in Athens, Georgia. I work for affordable learning Georgia. But yeah, that's me. My name's Winnie. I am co-hosting with Amy and also similar to Tiffany running around in opening rooms. So if you're a session host or your speaker, you've seen me coming in and out of the rooms. Hello everyone, this is Daniel Hyatt. So I'm here in Pakistan. So it's night over here, although it's morning on your side. So basically I work as manager industrial linkages and technology transfer with the academic sector in Pakistan. I'm also part of the steering committee, the open education conference. So I'm really excited to be talking to you guys soon in this session. Thank you. Wonderful and welcome to all of you. Thanks again for pinning us on your schedule and joining us in some parts of the world. I know it's really early in the morning. So today we're gonna talk a little bit about things that are happening on the social calendar. We're gonna play around with Zoom a little bit and Danielle's gonna lead us in an engaging game. But to start with, we all brought a mug to share with all of you. And so we're gonna show you our mugs. I'm learning how to do the camera. So, okay, so here's all our mugs. And so we're gonna take a minute to tell you a little bit about why we chose these mugs. So I'll start. I hope you can see mine is a, it's blue with stars on it. And this is my lone star state mug. And I'll tell you that when I got this mug, it was my honeymoon. And I went, we went to San Antonio and we were on the river walk eating at a restaurant called the Republic of Texas. And they had these mugs for sale. And so we bought this mug and I've had it ever since. And it just, it makes me really happy to think about that time in my life. So, which mug did you bring, Winnie? I brought a little mug with mustache on it. It's so interesting to hear your stories, Amy, because we live in the same city and we met through this conference. So when she's saying river walk and stuff, I'm thinking all of the memories I've had at the river walk growing up and with my partner. So yeah, so my mug is a mustache mug. And then on the back, it actually says Winifred. I don't know if you can see that, Winifred. That is not my full name, but that was my nickname in high school by my friends. So this was a Christmas present by one of my friends. They actually made it for me and had this little Winifred and I've kept it ever since. They made it in high school. So it gives me great memories from back then. Tiffany? Okay, Tiffany, yeah, you go ahead. Okay, I was gonna say you can go if you want, but okay, so this mug is from the last institution that I taught at Kennesaw State University. They have a student organization called the Mudslingers and they make ceramics and then they sell them twice a year. And so I used to always look for them so that I could buy a mug and I finally found them once when I had money and I bought this mug. So it's handmade by students. Okay, so this is my mug. It's a blue in color with the reddish liner over here. This was gifted to me by my granddad because it was made by his company. He's not with us anymore, but he gifted to me. I have a very personal touch with him because he gifted to me with a note which said in the local language, which is in the local language. So it's a Pashto sentence which translates somewhat to may love, find you even in a place where you least expected. So I still have it with me. So that's my story with this mug. Well, that's really beautiful. The mugs today, we're all really meaningful. So that's perfect for our Thursday. And it's gonna be a meaningful day for all of us, I hope at the conference talking more about social justice as our theme. And Winnie's gonna tell us a few things, a few fun things that we're gonna be doing today. Yes, so our first tea time at 11.30 is just a tea time for you to stretch, practice some self-care, grab a snack. Zoom fatigue is definitely real. So go and do that. And at 1.30, we will have an opportunity for you to take a tea time or be connecting at tea time where you'll be able to join the conversation with Daniel, Spencer, MJ Bishop, and Terry. And then during the next tea time, we are bringing back yoga today. If you missed the first Monday yoga session, this is our last yoga session. It was wonderful last time, so definitely give it a check at 3.30, check it out. And then that'll be our plenary will happen and after our plenary, we'll have a tea time with the plenary members. And so you'll be able to have a conversation right after. And what I'm most excited about is karaoke, which is a open ed 20 trend. It is something that happens every single year. We almost thought it wouldn't happen this year, but Jeff Galant made it work. And so we will be having karaoke virtual version. Very excited for that. And that, I believe, starts at 7.30. Fantastic, I myself cannot wait for karaoke. Everybody has to figure out how to say that. So Tiffany's gonna tell us a little bit about her adventures with Taco Tuesday. Yeah, so Monday and Tuesday, we had a little bit of a competition on Discord where people shared their favorite taco recipes. And the idea was that the winner, I would make their stuff on live Zoom on Tuesday night for dinner. And so we had this competition and the winners ended up not being tacos. So we had our first place winners were actually Margaritas. And I had, I also need to eat. So we added a second place winner. And it ended up being enchiladas. And they were like the best enchiladas ever, let me tell you. So we made the enchiladas were like black bean and cheese. They were supposed to have veggies in them, but I'm weird and picky. So I just did black beans and cheese. And then, but the sauce was amazing. The whole thing was amazing. The sauce was amazing though. And then the, and then we also did the Margaritas, which I ended up swapping out the alcohol in, but the, they were both first for me. So it was really fun. And we just sat and we chatted for like an hour and a half, just like watching me cook, it was great. So yeah, it was entertaining. There's pictures in Discord if you're interested in how good these enchiladas looked. But yeah, that was our adventure. It was super entertaining to watch. And I thought you were very brave, Tiffany. I was very impressed with your two camera setup and everything. Something else that you should know about Tiffany is that she has been a strong advocate to foster accessibility at the conference. And she's been working very hard behind the scenes to make sure that we have captioning. And we've had some, we've had some hiccups with the machine captioning, but she's been back there trying to solve all the problems. So I, Tiffany, do you want to say a couple things about that or? Sure. I mean, we, so we, we had planned, we have both human and machine captioning at the conference, depending on your session. So like right now we have a human captioner who is doing fantastic keeping up with us. Then we also have our machine captioning. Machine captioning has been giving us some technology glitches though. And so I've actually only, aside from ones where I'm actually presenting or hosting, I have only attended one session, the entire conference. Because I've been just like Winnie, we have been jumping around to every session before they start to make sure that everything is doing what it's supposed to. I think that we've only had about four or five sessions total that have missed their captions though, which I think is pretty good given the technology issues we're having. So. And I think Tiffany, we're also like, if we miss it, we're also uploading, when we upload the video, we'll manually go in and add captions. Yeah, so for sure, if it was machine, we haven't had any problems with the human captioning, like none of the technology has failed us there. So, but for the machine ones, if it missed, if we weren't able to get yours working in that session, the recording will get the YouTube machine captioning, which is just about the same quality. And so yeah, we'll have something. But it just, if there is an issue with the live captioning, then you'll always be able to catch it on the recording. We also invite conference attendees to send us suggestions for how we can improve. And if there are any issues about any accessibility issues that we want to hear about those and do what we can to create accessibility. So now I want to recognize Daniel and ask him to tell us a little something about himself. Okay, so I'll briefly tell you guys about my journey with open education. So from student life, I was involved in advocacy about the involvement of the young people in policy making, because here in Pakistan, we have 65% of the population of Pakistan is young people. So we have always been reason wise to include these young people in the policy making because they are the future of this country. So with this, I was also advocating for education. And I learned about open education from one of my friends who was working with IFMSA, International Federation of Medical Students Association. So I learned about it from them in 2017, I guess, yes. And I applied for open con back then. So although I did not get visa to participate in that conference but I was engaged by the community who were organizing the open con conference. And since then, I believe that I'm a really lucky person that I have been mentored along the way. I have learned a lot from this community. I have been engaged in different capacities as a participant, as a speaker, as part of the organizing committee, as an advisor for the Open Access Week. So and throughout, I believe that being a person from a developing country like Pakistan and being able to learn from all the gurus of open education in a conference like this and being able to contribute in my local community, it's a great honor for me. It's a great pleasure for me. So this was my journey with open education here in Pakistan. And one last thing that I would like to mention that because of my advocacy, since I have a circle of young leaders with me. So the government recognized our contributions and they started a program, the Prime Minister Office of Pakistan, they started a program in which they started distributing 1 million laptops to the young people, the young researchers, young scholars. With that, they also started providing online courses with that and access to internet because these are the basic principles which paves your way to the concepts of open education. So that was kind of a revolutionary thing that I see that because of mine and the colleagues with me who are working with me because of our efforts, the government took a start on that. So yeah, that's what I wanted to share with all of you. So thank you. That is amazing, Daniela. I mean, I'm really thrilled to hear about the work that you're doing and the progress. I mean, it's incredible. And we're just so glad to have you as part of this hearing committee. And I see we have a student from IFMSA here in the audience. So maybe, I hope I say your name correctly, Beza Witt. Maybe Beza Witt can help us kick off our game, Daniela. OK, I'm ready. Hi, guys. So shall we go ahead with our game? So I think that's the special guests and the organizers have talked enough. Now we want to hear from all of you. So the game is basically it's called 15 Seconds Blah Blah Blah. So in 15 seconds, not all of you, but whoever is interested, they should talk about what are they expecting from today or what have they learned from this conference so far? Have they met anybody with whom they would like to collaborate in the future or they have already started a sort of collaboration? So your impressions, your reflections on this conference so far and expectation, please, does that with you? OK, should I start now? Yeah, you're sure. OK, so yeah, this is my first conference. And being in a room full of professors, librarians, I thought it was going to be scary, but it was actually nice. I got to meet and interact with a lot of people. That's all for him. Awesome, brilliant. So that was a good reflection. You got to learn from new people. And anyone else would like to take a lead and share their impressions and reflections? Wake up, guys. It's morning. Come on, I'm on the part of the world where it's night. So I'm supposed to be the sleepy one. You guys have to wake up. Come on, share your stories. All right, I'm awake at start that time. What I really liked about this, because I've learned a computer lab, it's been really easy to find things. Like there's just a link and I go and I'm in the room and I'm always five minutes late because it, you know, but it's just been so easy to get to things. Also, cool. Anyone else? FYA, by the way, it's also very late here, so I can read it. Yeah, I'll say something. I learned about IFMSA and I keep hearing that a group of letters and I finally wrote it down. Wonderful people, glad you're here. Yay, thank you. Yeah, IFMSA is a brilliant organization, very active organization of young leaders. So they have inspired me a lot. And that's the organization from whom I learned about the education. So anyone else would like to take a lead here? Looks like Anita has a hand up. Sure. I wasn't sure if it was hand up or just jump in. Yeah, sure. Hang on, I'm trying to get the timer to start. Come on, or do you start it? Oh, there it goes. OK, so I'm at Salt Lake Community College in Utah and this is my first time at the conference. And I'm really impressed and thrilled at how you've integrated the video with the social media. I'm loving Discord and that's it. Great. OK, so do we have anyone else who would like to show the impressions? Hi. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah, I always thought that OER was just about affordability and I'm pleased to learn that it's more than that. It's about culture and diversity and equity. Altogether, it's all just affordability. So I learned that much. Thanks. Awesome. Yeah, affordability. Cool. So I think there are more women who are participating and less men. So come on, guys. Come on, man. Let's balance it. Let's talk about how we can balance the gender over here. So we need some gender balance over here as well. We need more male speakers. Come on. Hello. How's it going? Yeah, Jeff. You would like to speak more? Sorry. Yeah, yeah, sure. Let's go. So every single time I go to OpenEd, I learn more and more about social justice. I've heard about all the experiences from people of color and women that just really helps me bring back a newer vision of equity to Georgia. Awesome. Great. So Winnie, are these enough of the games and the impression or can we take more impressions as well? It's up to you. Do you want to do the other games? OK, so let me think which game can we... OK, guys, let's do a little bit of physical activity because I think maybe you guys like it. OK, so there is another game that I have for all of you. It's a combination between your brain and your hands. So what all of us are supposed to do, can I request if it's convenient for all of you to turn on your cameras because it's something that we are supposed to do on the camera? Awesome. OK, we are getting some cameras on. So the game is like this that I'll have to ask all of you to draw a shape on the screen. So it can be like a circle. So we are supposed to do it in a synchronized manner. We can do it like a triangle like this. OK, so let's start. And then later on, I'll be turning, making it more difficult by using two hands. So let's start with the one hand. I want all of you to show your index finger like this. Now let's draw a circle. Yeah, nice and slow like this. And now let's make a triangle here like this. Great. So now shall we increase the difficulty level over here? Who is ready to increase the difficulty? Show your hands if you want me to. OK, great. Let's use two hands. OK, I want you guys to use this index finger to draw a circle and simultaneously with this one a triangle. So let's try. OK. OK, I was good at this one. But let's try. I lost the track. OK, let's make. I intended I was tracing one. It almost worked. I'm like, it's good one. OK, let's make it a little bit simple. Let's make a square with both the hands. OK, so like this, this, this. This one is comparatively easy than the previous one. We're going to have to cut this part out of the recording. So definitely doing the same at the same time is easier. I can't do the off. Like, man, you've got to have some really amazing synapses in your brain to make your hands do opposite shape. But Danielle, Danielle, that was lovely. Thank you so much for leading us in some morning energizing games to get us ready for our sessions. We've about two minutes left. And in our show, and I realize that we completely forgot one of our segments. And we may have lost Tiffany. Where did she go? There she is. OK, she just moved around on my screen. So one more thing that we hope you'll find engaging. If you downloaded the latest Zoom software, we have discovered that there are filters in Zoom now. So if you don't have teenage children or children, small children with smartphones to show you about Snapchat, then you might not know what filters are. But filters are, they actually put the image on your video or your photo image. So if you go to your start video and you click on the up arrow, there's a menu there. And you can see that they're under Choose Virtual Background. You can choose video filters. So oh, Danielle turned himself upside down. So we've been playing around with these. So we invite you to pick your favorite filter and join in the fun. This one makes me feel like Freda Callow. This is this is interesting. What am I? Alien? I think you're supposed to be like an ogre or a cyclops or something. A minute and then I saw my ears. And I was like, that's not a minion. I like this one where it looks like you have a bite. The bite is like I'm eating the lollipop. This is me this morning. All right, well, we need to we need to wrap it up because people need to get to their concurrent sessions. I just want to remind you all that we do have concurrent sessions beginning in five minutes. The plenary today, I hope you'll all be able to join us, will be titled Applications of Open Education and Social Justice, Inclusion and Anti-Racism with our speakers, Jesse Lawyer, Jacqueline Mechelmaia and our moderator, Jasmine Roberts. And that will be at 3 p.m. central and 4 p.m. eastern. Also, don't forget to join Emily Reagan and Hailey Bab for the late show this afternoon with very special guest, Daniel Williamson and Nicole Allen, who will do a virtual wine tasting for us. So again, thank you so much for joining us and we look forward to running into you the rest of the day at various conference events. So have a great day. And guys, just a quick question. Where can I find the recording of the videos of the sessions? So we're posting them on Shad as soon as we can.