 Yes. Cool. Hey, my name is Dr. Anthony with Tennessee State University. I am the director of HBC you oh we are with the graduate and professional development of smart innovative technology. We also house the Tiger smart podcast, as well as eSports alumni engagement. And I'm going to go ahead and pass it to. Dr Bartley to go ahead and choose herself. Dr Bartley with Tennessee State University. I am the director of. You hear me. Can you hear me, Dr. Okay, I'm the director of alumni relation. I also work with OER and eSports with Dr. Epidoo and supervisor Dr. Debra Chisholm. And I'm excited to be here. Thank you. Dr Hassel would you like to go next. Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Dr. Robert Hassel. I am the HBC you OER student coordinator. I'm so excited to meet each and every one of you and look forward to dialogue with you about this great wonderful world of OER and how it services our faculty and students. Yes, thank you so much Dr. Hassel. And then we have. Mike, would you like to go next. Hi, everyone. This is my. I'm a graduate assistant with the School of graduate and professional studies. And I'm also a full time students in the department of computer science master's student department of computer science. Thank you. Thank you. And then we're going to go ahead and last but not least, the amazing Makayla Wiley, which I can introduce yourself. Hello, my name is Makayla Wiley. I'm also a graduate assistant in the School of graduate and professional studies. I work with Dr. And I'm also a full time student and imagine as a public health program at T issue. Yes, thank you so much. And for the people who are here, like Dr. Smith, and Dr. Golden and Dr. Yosef, would you guys like to introduce yourself so we know who we're speaking with today. I'm Dr. Golden, a professor of philosophy and religion between Cookman University. Good evening everyone. I am Dr. Kitas Yusef on the department chair for justice and political studies at Bethune Cookman University. I'm a professor of criminal justice. Everybody doing my name Dr. Smith. I work with Simmons College. Professor critical thinking and decision making, and happy to be here. Great. Great. Very nice to meet you guys. So I'm going to go ahead and share my screen. It doesn't want to. And then any questions, please put them in a chat. It will be more than happy to get to them. Or actually, it's a small group, you just, you know, just let me know. I'll be more than happy to stop and answer your answer your question. So I know you guys are you know about Merlot and how great it is well sometimes we don't have time to really go in depth in regards to what it really has to offer. And I won't go ahead and log in real quick. So one of the benefits of Merlot, of course, you can definitely add materials that you find a feel like it's useful and you'll like to share with the Merlot community. But you can also create materials with content builder, and you can also create course e portfolios and those two are absolutely amazing. Very easy to use. So we are going to go ahead and click on and create a create a course with a portfolio. And so let's say if one of one of you guys wanted to go ahead and create a course on Merlot. And have your students go ahead and click on and click on it. One thing that you can do into the course title. Let's say if it was. I think one of the ones was religion. Yes, we could do. Religion. Okay, you can pick the course description. The intro to philosophy. And then pre recs if there are pre any pre pre recs, but since it's an intro class we're going to put none. The pedagogy of the of the class, the pedagogy of the class, and the pedagogy of the pedagogical approach that you guys are going to use. So let's say if you guys want to use the social sorry, the taxonomy approach, and then learning outcomes what what exactly you want. The students to learn so you'll put your learning outcomes right here. You will also go ahead and put in the assessment methodology that you guys will use. How will you guys be assessing the students, will it be all quiz or would they be writing and typing papers. Just, you know, will they be creating videos. Just pick whatever how you're going to assess the student right there, and then other information that's that's needed, and that you'd like the students to know. If you already have a bookmark collection. This part is important as well, but just in case you don't it's totally okay. But if you click here, you'll be able to go through your bookmark collection to say okay this one sits. I'm for this class or, or, or, or whatever other one. But for right now I'm going to go ahead and select that know we don't have a bookmark collection. Okay, you go ahead and select that I am not a robot, and then select submit. And then, hold on. Oh, I have to get something here learning outcomes. Advance, we'll get to advance in religious studies. All the quizzes. So as you see it will pull you back. Hopefully, and say hey you didn't do this area, please fill in. All right, great. So now you have your intro to religion class, right here on Merlot. And so, let's say if you want to find a learning materials last and you don't want to find it up front for the class you just want to create the e, the e portfolio. One thing you can do is then now go to the search box and type in. Maybe not in public schools, type in religion. I think it's still typed in religion and public schools. People doing that. It keeps on auto filling it. Okay, great. Now, as you guys can see there's 455 different type of resources that are out here on religion. So on the left hand side you can see all the filters. And in regards to the filters, you can see that you can filter it by discipline, you can filter it by material type, and then also filter it by your audience. And I know since you guys are well in depth when it comes to all we are. That you can that you already know that you can filter it so let's say if you could filter by like online courses. Welcome to review online course, while you are in your religious course so only have to do with select bookmark. And then you can scroll down. Actually, let me create the bookmark. And it's always good to put the intro to religion information right here. And then like if there's a course number so you guys have a course number. If you teach more than one intro to religion class is good to go ahead and put the description right here so you guys won't get confused on what bookmark is for what. Okay, great. So, if I want to go back to my course e portfolio, I can see the religion one right here, I can go to it. And then when it comes to the resources, I can add in the bookmark collection that I just made. And then also if you just want just bookmark collections that you can give your students links to. You can say hey you know I there's a wealth of resources that I want you guys to look over and that will be using during the course of the semester, and then you can just click on it, and then take the link. So let's say if I click right here. I could take the link to this bookmark collection and copy and paste it into my syllabus, I can copy and paste it into. Well, we use e learn which is what is also called D2L you can copy and paste it inside there as well so they're never confused on. Oh my gosh what's next and you know then things like that. But one thing also that is amazing about the creating a portfolio. Let me see if I wanted to edit and then scroll back down. Sorry, not at this part. If I actually wanted to edit and implement. Okay, sorry, add a resource was not what is totally okay we'll just go back right here. So let's say for the e sports one that I created or earlier. So for the courses, for the course resources, you can put in any resources that you want the students to review, and then you can actually put in notes, so the student will know what the assignment is. So for the e sports education playbook like this is a dynamic book. It's amazing you guys are going to learn this and that just please read it in the picture notes right here so they're not you so do the first week of class. I want a two page paper, or why it's important to have a playbook for e sports. And then I wrote or you can create a five minute video instead. So these are certain things that you can implement into the classroom to make it a little bit easier. When you're creating your courses throughout the year. Did you guys have any questions yet. And so you can take the link that you copy and add it here too. So you can add external. Yes, you just okay just click. Let's say add an external link. So there is one you just click right here. And then at the title the URL the notes. So it doesn't have to be exactly from from Merle Merle will pull it pull it over and implemented into your course e portfolio. And then also like let's say if you have all these resources and they're in they're in the wrong order, like oh my gosh I wanted them to do this last. Just click these little arrows. And we'll move it down for you. So as you can see is down here now, or we can say oh I don't want this one anymore. We don't have time for you can easily just delete it from the portfolio. So it's not a, and then just update the students and let them know that hey it has changed in regards to what resources I want you to read for class. But when you delete it doesn't delete from the bookmark. No it does not. Because when you're creating the e portfolio was actually creating its own collection within the portfolio. Yes. And then of course, just in case you have someone who speaks a different language, you also have the opportunity to change the language for the, for the student, and you see all these amazing 186 languages that you can translate and it's ready for you just know that let me translate to something I won't get lost in. Let's do French. So you can easily as you can see how quickly it happened, you can easily trans translate this into French, so that whoever the French person in your class can can understand the materials that you're handing out, you know then their own language without any without any barriers. So yes. So did anybody else have any additional questions on how to create a e portfolio. So I know Dr golden asked about the student helper is that now Dr. Praise the Lord. Dr hassle. Is that Dr hassle should reach out to him okay. Dr hassle. Okay. And then we also have like office hours that you guys can come to. If you're having any issues. So we can send you the link for that. And we can answer any questions that you have. And good afternoon, Dr West white and the patron cookman family. How are you all. Well, how are you. Hey, life is good. Just want to share with you a couple of updates since we are all here together. Again, you should have received the surveys. We need for your pilot faculty members to complete and for their students to complete faculty member survey takes no more than four minutes. The student survey, no more than three minutes, but we must have those surveys. So if you could push them to get those done for us. And again, I will have a full to resend them. So that they're fresh right up on the top. Again, we're asking the pilot faculty members, Dr West white and your affiliate. Complete that that's number one. Number two, we're coming to the end of the semester. I don't know about the food and cook man. But for TSU, our graduation is. November, the 20th. Oh, yeah, we wrap, look, we wrap in this baby up. So we want to make sure that we have things in place. Now for your affiliate faculty members. Some of them might be starting in the spring because you're just getting around to them. And that's good too. So for all of those who are interested, just have them to complete the survey. Okay. And then I know on behalf of aerial. We sent money. Or the contract over to put them cook man for you all to. So good news. Hopefully. If. Life is good in the spring. You all will be traveling. Um, for the OLC conference. I think it's in Texas this time. But if not. Hopefully. In the summer, our plans is to bring all of you to Nashville. You want Nashville. Oh, you, you, we going to do it in Nashville. Oh, yes. So we will be paying for you and two of your faculty members to come to Nashville for a couple of days for a live conference. And if you have any of your faculty members ready to present. And again, no stress. We just want to know how are you using OER or share with us lessons learned. We would love to highlight you all in November. And again, we're talking about 30 minutes and it could be one, two or three. But we just want to hear what's going on. And you using OER in which we will take care of Dr. West white all of the arrangements. All. Mm hmm. Okay. I'll create some kind of gamification of these tasks to these two faculty members who will travel with me to. Nashville next summer. We may do a, what I can't think of the name of the show where they try to jump from thing to thing and the things pop out. Oh, are you talking about the red balls? Oh, you all know, come on. Where's, you know, like the teams. And gladiator wipe out or wipe out wipe out. I don't think anybody's ready for gladiators or American Ninja Warrior. I remember those. But the rest of us on wipe out. Yes. Okay. Yeah, no, I'm not ready for gladiator. I'm gonna figure out some way, some way. Yes. I don't want to hold you. We just want to be able to share our updates because again, we have Dr. Robert Hassel. Who is bringing up the student part. And at this time, a lot of students are unaware that we have all of these resources that they can tap in on. So we'll be having a student come together with OER. And I just want to let you know. Our VP signed that contract and I emailed it back today. Okay, good. So you get your money. Life is good. Holidays coming. I know. They felt like, yeah, yeah, yeah, she keep telling us, she keep telling us we getting some swag bags. Yeah. The money's been there, but they all know the bureaucracy. Oh, they know. To you all. They know, they understand they're not, they're not stressed. Money's in the bank. They know one day at a pop up and you go, well, right. And what's the saying. When it comes, it's because you were in need right there. Absolutely. Yeah. All right. Any other questions regarding OER, where are we going? And I'm here to share on behalf of the state of Tennessee, our whole state higher education is moving towards OER. Oh, wow. I got one question. That's me from Simmons. You might have already spoke on this earlier, but what are your platform conflict with Canvas elements at all? No, it integrates right in, whether it's Canvas, Blackboard, D2L, Desire to Learn, or if you're not using anything. When I'm using, I'm teaching three classes right now. So I just take links and just put it in my modules where the students just can link. There are places that have integrated OER right into the platform, but the links works great. Perfect. Thanks. Yes. And we did a webinar on how to implement it also into Canvas. If you want to go that route as well. So I'm about to put a link in the chat. So you can take a look at that webinar. Dr. Golden, Bethune Cookman. I've been employing the links into the modules as well, but I've been trying to learn how to compile the book for a particular class. And I haven't been able to figure that one out. Okay. So you want to take like a whole e-book. Right, no, articles out of a book and splice a book together. You said that that was possible. Yes. OER platform that we would be before a particular class if we wanted an article, if we wanted to compile articles into one document. Yes, you could do that in Content Builder and Merlo. Yes, let me. I can share. Okay, good. Okay. And then I'm going to put the link is when you go, she's going to Merlo. Okay. And she's going right there, create materials with Content Builder. Okay. So let's say if I had an e-sports class. I'm saying that because I already created a creative one for this class. So let's say if I wanted to go ahead and embed links into this platform, I can easily do so. I could put it in the title. I could type in a description of whatever I'm asking them to do. And then I could put the link as well as the work assignment. And then you can add on more pages if you like. You can add and do different ways to set up the page as well. And then you can make it a live website for your students or a live page that your students can go to. But you can house literally everything in here and type out the description of what exactly you want the students to do. And then to, you know, take the actual directions and then go ahead and pin in the links that you're requesting about or talking about. And then when they get done in the directions, you can say after you click on this link, review it and then please do this assignment below. And then you can write the assignment below the link. And then you can move on to the next link. And I'm going to share my screen. And I'm sharing my screen and I'm going to share exactly what he's asking and what you just highlighted. I went to create materials and content builder. And you will see I, oh, hold on everyone. Let me go back. So you can see I did a couple of courses. Okay, here's one right here. And then I want to take you to my, I did one on early childhood technology tools. I'm going to go ahead and view it. And I created this whole course and pulling out different sites, pulling out different videos, taking a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and created an entire course for students to follow with assignments. And you see how, and again, this was an early childhood course that I, again, Dr. Golden, I just pulled articles like here's one article. Here's a video. And you'll see, all together she had 20 something up 20. Artifacts. Okay. And I just did that. And it's, and I use, they give you a template and Merlo. And it was just cut and paste like PowerPoint, cut and paste, click here, bring this video in. And you see exactly even my YouTube video. And it didn't take you away from the page, which is really nice as well. Okay. So again, we're here to share with you. We're not just trying to like, you know, we're actually using this and trying out different tools. And in terms of time and effort, what you viewed a few minutes ago, that entire platform where I was pulling and whatever, putting it together was easy. It was just, I had to go and get sources here, sources there, but the actual hands on and putting it together. It was like a PowerPoint presentation. But we'll teach you that too. We'll walk you through. Okay, good. Yeah, up to this point I've been using the bookmarks and just copying the links of the assignments are the material that I wanted to expose the student to and in the module. And I was wondering if it was as, as you explained a page with semester of assignments with links and other information for the student that I want to expose the student to. And again, I don't know if you can see my right. The plus you just put the plus and. Yes. Okay. Yep. And that's what the plus means like, okay, you see, when I hit the plus, right. You see, you want to bring in a header, you want to bring in a website, you want to bring in whatever, whatever. Even bringing Merlo materials. And when I click that, it gives me and then I just click on what I want. Okay. I'll experiment with that. Okay, but we'll remember we, life is good. And then I'm going to show you my preview. You just hit preview. Okay. I'll remember that. Okay. Excuse my house is checked out with all sorts of robots and stuff. That's why you saw me look around because I'm the only one here. But you heard this up other things going off. So again, you see how easy it was. You see upload this accessibility. Lean care. So that's how we were able to do that. One of the things I shared with Dr. We were able to do that. And one of the things that we were able to do today during the OER minute was if he found a book that he liked somewhere. We downloaded it and opened it in Adobe. Cause we all, we have the acrobat. And so we were able to extract, or at least we, in theory, we know how to do it. Extract just the chapter he wanted from the whole, you know, that document and then bring it. And then we were able to do this and say, read pages 20 to 30, although, you know, it's a free book is there. Making it as simple as possible. Seems to help everybody. So yes. Just an extra step. Yes. And that's again, that's the purpose of OER. Is to bring together things that we want. And then we're going to be able to do that. And then we're going to be able to do the creative commons license that we can do. So other questions. If not. Dr. West white. Just know as Dr. Do know that we have even office hours, you know, or just give us an email and say, you know what, I really want you all to walk me through how to pull from here and there. Remember, if you don't find it in Merlot, it could be within the 250. Oh, we are organizations in higher ed. Remember, we go out and we help search for you. So Dr. Patel, if you have something that you could like, you know, I don't have time to search and see if they have, we had the people who will do that. And they will send it to you like, this is what we found. And then you decide if you want to use it. Okay. So life is good. And I'll make sure I share those hours. Yes, we want to make this as painless as possible. But the goal is reducing the numb the cost for textbook. Well, did you share with them that slide that you pulled regarding our current, how much we saved in one class? No, ma'am, I have not, but I can. Would you like to do the honor? No, I want you to do the honor. Okay. We have been able to save our students this fall with 31 faculty members just being able to use 31 faculty members and them having to implement OER in their classroom. We have been able to save our students $81,000 this fall semester, just with 31 faculty members saying that yes, they'll do OER. So we have been so excited knowing that we just that small percentage of faculty members that large of a difference in their lives. And last but not least, and last but not least, we have Dr. Quenetta Perkley. And we're going to push OER with our alumni. They're not even in school, but guess what? They are lifelong learners. And with that, they need to know that it's part of all of the work that they're doing. And if they too can go into OER and pick up information and new, and new data regarding their career areas. So we're pushing, and that's the word, and promoting skills, comments. So, and where's Quenetta? I'm here. She's our new director and looking at alumni. So here's a good alumni strategy, Dr. West White. We are now saying to our alumni that you are also part of OER. And whatever you're doing, we have OER workforce and careers. That's free. And Dr. Ampadou, if you would bring up skills, comments and share your screen. So now that they are out in the workforce, they can go to this site, which is OER workforce, everyone. And let's type in nursing. Okay. Again, they can go right here and find the latest information in the industry in their career area. Not only that, if you scroll down, they now can find syllabi, presentations, publication, simulation, case studies, online courses, offline courses, on credential type. And if you click on the first one over on the right, just to give them an example, this top one. Yes. Transition to nursing. Let's say they're in a nursing field. They're able to go in, click. And now they have a full course syllabi. And again, Dr. Golden, you see how we even have it broken up. Where if you go back up a few minutes, they can just download the syllabus or just this chapter or that chapter. And that's a wonderful value for the alumni. And we're bringing our alumni into OER, saying as part of the institution, you too, at any time can access these materials. Yes, it's definitely important to reskill and retool our alumni. So they are the best in their fields. And they're able to reach that site. I will put that in the chat for you. I love you, Dr. Golden. I love you too. So this is a part of Merlo. Yes. And this is also part of the Department of Labor, the Department of Labor contacted Merlo and said, you know, we're going to be a OER workforce and careers portal. And that's what they did. So it's called skills commons. Or yes. But can I reach this site through Merlo account? Excellent. Yes. Go back to Merlo because I had shared with Jerry, we needed to do that. And there it is right there on the top. Yay, Jerry. It's on the menu. You see where you say hi, Dr. Fua. Yes. On that line. Go. Yes, right here. Yeah. There you go. Right there. Life is good. So we will end by sharing with you. That and Dr. and my team is not aware of this. Dr. Chisholm and I met this morning this morning, because we are going to reach out to the community. And when I say community, I'm talking about organizations that support our HBCU institution. We're starting with the first NAACP. I want you to know that there is a national letter, a letter that went to the national office to let the NAACP know about our open education resources. We are also a Fua, Quenetta, Mikaela, I, Robert, team. On behalf of Debra and Robbie Melton, we're going to the Nashville NAACP and scheduling a meeting to let them know of open education resources. We want to empower our community. Thank you. Question, what kind of kickback or what kind of discussion about what OER is doing to the bookstores as a financial resource for our schools? You know I can answer that. Oh, there's kickback. It's coming down to just like a little kick now. Before it was a major pushback and let me share with you why. That's something that we didn't know until we got into it. Many institutions receive a commission off the bookstores. In other words, the more books students buy, the more of a commission that will go back to that institution. That's a real money here. So with OER coming in and talking about free textbook, even the institutions were kind of fighting us until we conducted a study on behalf of the state of California and found out, you know, at the bookstore, they're not really selling books. Those students are going to Amazon and other places. They're selling our little preclips. You know, like little t-shirts. And they were making more money off of t-shirts, Oreo cookies, all of the little things in a bookstore versus books. So after we share, you're not going to lose a lot. And the companies, Dr. Golden started fighting us. Well, after states like California, Wyoming, Oregon, and Colorado went and got a mandate from their legislatures to say, you all will use OER first, or we're going to cut funding. Then the publishers start coming out with OER. So they're going to have to do a lot of work. And they're going to be able to get those books. You have to have the student guide, the person, McGraw Hill, even Elsevier, if you look at their books now, they'll say, our books are open. But you have to buy the student guide, the lab, and the supplementary. So you see how they're getting around? But last Sage. What about Sage publication? a lot of free, but I'm going to tell you what, okay, the straw that with the camel, MIT. When MIT, eight years ago said to the world, all of our content free. That's when everyone went, okay, we got to do a chain. And I'll end with on November the 5th, tentatively you'll get an email like maybe tomorrow, MIT is going to partner with the HBCU OER initiative in presenting all of their content to us. The whole thing, not just part, the whole MIT. Because they want our content too, don't think it's a one-way street. Don't think we don't have anything to give. They heard that we had a cultural collection and MIT contacted us to say, can we partner? That's a plus, okay? You're doing a good job. Let us highlight some of the work that you all are doing. Any last questions, comments? Well, you all must be hungry. Just remember, the day the world opens up again, Nashville is the place, we have the food. Yes, we do. And I also went ahead and picked the link for the HBCU cultural collection inside the chat. I was about to ask, thank you. No problem at all. Okay, you all take care, just know life is good. COVID is still out there, share with everyone. And again, I hope to see you all in Nashville, Tennessee. We can do it. Okay, thanks TSU team. Thank you, thank you, take care. Okay, take care. Thank you. Good to see each of you.