 We are recording this meeting. I'm so thrilled to be here with all of you and to welcome you to the early show. And right now I'm going to introduce my co-host, Winnie Vane, and our special guests, Lee Miller and Stephanie Pierce, and I'm going to let them tell you a little bit about themselves. Hey everyone, my name is Winnie. I work at Spark as the open education ambassador and I'm happy to also be on the conference team. Hi, I'm Lee Miller. I'm with Barton Community College as the director of innovation in clients and I'm also a part of the steering committee. Hi, I'm Stephanie Pierce. I am a librarian at the University of Arkansas and I'm on the future of Open Ed committee and I also organize the Open Ed Southern Symposium. Welcome. We're so glad to have you here with us, Stephanie and Lee. Today we're going to chat a little bit about our day yesterday. We're going to talk a little bit about some work, virtual life balance, and attending a virtual conference. And we have a couple of other topics. We're going to talk a little bit about reflective leadership. But first we are going to start with our show and tell. So everybody brought a mug today to show. So we're going to put our mugs up for you to see. And then we're going to take turns and tell you a little bit why we picked these mugs. So I don't know if you can see mine clearly. It has quotes from Shakespeare. I have two Shakespearean mugs. I have one with Shakespearean insults which I couldn't locate this morning. So I had to go with the, these are quotes about love from Shakespeare. So here's one. Love is a smoke raised with the fume of size. So I'm an English major. So this is my nod to all you comp and lit faculty and lovers out there. What did you bring today, Winnie? I have my typical dog mug. So I am a dog mom of two. And this actually looks exactly like my dog, my second dog that I got after I got this mug. So this mug did some financial damage to me. And then this is what it says on the back. I work hard so my dog can have a better life. And one of those like annoying dog people. So this is the mug I bought for show and tell. That's perfect. I should just also say there's a fantastic open ed pets channel on Discord that everybody should go check out. That's right. Keep my spirits high. Lee, what mug did you bring? So I brought this one. And to be honest, this is my only fun mug. I mean just transparency. But I brought this one and somebody gave it to me because they thought it looked like me with a mustache. And I was like, okay, you say so. So there we go. How about you, Stephanie? So I brought my NASA mug. It's actually for NASA aims. I brought it because I used to actually intern there in their history office. So people don't never, they're like, oh, cool NASA mug. And they think it's always from Houston. And I'm always like, no, it's the one in California where Google lanes their jets. So I got to see all those rich people take off all the time. And Stephanie, do you have a affinity for science? So no, actually, I was a history major and an anthropology minor. But when I got into librarianship, they were like, hey, do you want to take the sciences on? Actually, you don't really get a choice. So you're going to start being a science librarian. And so it kind of went that way. But I actually really love it now. I can understand those people. And I help them like translate when they're like get to in the weeds. I'm like, whoa, whoa, let's go to some science communication. Let's break it down. Help me understand what you're trying to say. It sounds like you provide an excellent service. Oh, you know, it's some need it some don't, you know, so my job is just to help those that need like a little bit of help, but explaining what it is that they're wanting to say or find. Because sometimes they're just like, give me like the chemistry equation or chemistry breakdown and I'm like, I don't know what that is. I need to, I can pick out silver and I can pick out graphing, but I need to know what the other aspects are. So it really is interesting though. Well, I just want to also remind you all that you can get a fantastic. I'm still working on this whole virtual background camera thing. I hope you can see my open education conference mug with the open ed graphic that we are so proud of. And you too can get your own open ed swag if you visit the online store so if you're missing all of that it's out there for you. So, so be sure to check out the website and and look at look and see there's some great items to for your pet. Yeah, I saw the pet hoodie and I was like, I am, I've got to get that. Yeah, so we have some really exciting social programming today to announce and we have a tea time with Mahabali and Mia Zamora that's right after the keynote so right after the keynote you're going to be able to talk or plenary and you're going to be able to talk with them in the tea time and then there's a V connecting at tea time at 130. So again, using be connecting and then we have Tuesday tea time trivia so you're supposed to come play and you can actually win a prize in trivia. And it'll be open at trivia. And then I'm super excited one of our steering team members Tiffany is going to be doing taco Tuesday so taking a recipe that one of the conference attendees put in the recipes discord channel. Taking one of those taco recipes and making it live tonight from 730pm to 830pm all of those times were Eastern. So if you want to participate you will have to join discord so I will actually post the link to join here. Down here. And you have to join discord. Tiffany will be going live on discord and I believe Tiffany's here if you want to talk a little bit about it Tiffany. We'll actually have a zoom room to and it's in sketch. Oh, great. Yeah, so but yeah I mean share your share your taco recipes your favorite taco recipes and like the ones that you think would be the most fun to watch me make. And the one with the most likes or reactions is the one that's going to get made tonight. So I'm having mystery taco night tonight. And you know another thing is if you're not feeling social today which totally fine. We have a bunch of lightning talks to visit so we have some view anytime sessions about probably about 100 or so in there that you can view all of them are about 10 minutes or so. So plenty of content for you to go through and amazing content might I add, I will go ahead and post a link to that in the chat as well. I noticed when he that that you said shut shut sketch. Oh yeah. So like this has been one of the controversies of the conference. So I'd like everybody to weigh in. Is it sketch. Is it shed. Is it shed. So like what, how do we pronounce this. Oh yeah there there was a whole Twitter poll and everything. Personally I go sketch but this is like the lip guide live guide debate in the library world so what are some of the other controversies. There was a cheeto controversy. Okay there was this conversation. Oh look we've got some sketch for sure. And then judge and then shedge. Oh we have a shedge. Yeah so there was cheeto controversy people were arguing about puffy or crunchy, and they were saying which, which, see crunch I go puffy. I have to do puffy but I don't do regular puffy I do spicy puffy which is different. I don't think it's going to be the spicy version. The jalapeno cheddar crunchy is good but there's nothing that be just a regular crunchy cheeto. Except the puffy. I'm an equal opportunity cheeto eater, I will eat all the cheetos. I don't like the spicy ones as much. The best use for puffy cheetos is for starting fires. Like if you're ever stuck camping and you need to start a fire and you have cheetos. Light them up. They're the best kindling you'll ever find. Crunchy cheetos are for eating. Puffy cheetos are for starting fires. That's an excellent survival tip, David. Make sure you have cheetos when you're out hiking. Just in case. Yeah. Stephanie, do you want to talk to us a little bit about how you're managing attending a virtual conference and are you. Yeah, thanks, Amy. So, I don't know about the rest of you guys but I've been attending quite a few virtual webinars, virtual conferences since, you know, March when everything just kind of went crazy on us. I'm going to find it hard to, and maybe it's just me because I'm like a Virgo and love to be in control of everything, but kind of hard balancing, you know, being physically and mentally in tune to like the virtual conferences and webinars versus being distracted by my email and feeling like I need to just answer people like immediately because you don't want anybody to wait or anything like that. This week, and I was telling Amy and Lee and Winnie earlier that I think, you know, yesterday I did not put an out of office on my email but I think for the rest of the week. So I can be, you know, just completely present and open it because it is, you know, one of my favorite conferences to attend. I'm just going to put that out of office on and just act as if I was in Denver like we originally thought maybe we'd be. But yeah, so it's been interesting and again, I've been tackling this for like months now and I think that, you know, Winnie brought up also a good point that people know where you're at we're not like just out like at a coffee shop working or another office we're at home so they know we are a like in a one specific spot and they're like, Why wouldn't you be answering so I think it's important. You know, to act as if you were actually at a physical conference or in person face to face on this because it's just so easy to miss all the great content that we have on our conference if you're just like okay let me go check my email because if you're like me it's easy to check one email and then it goes to the other he's been 15 minutes checking email and you're like oh I just missed that session that I really wanted to go to. What are others thoughts on this and you know how are, how are others handling. Are you an out of office person, whether you're in face to face or virtual or do you struggle with managing that aspect like I do see struggling I see email beckons email forces my hand Jeff yep. Out of office. Because yep, I see others are definitely. Hey Carrie. Carrie and I were in the open ed. Oh my gosh. Oh we are leadership fellowship program smart. My brain is not working this morning coffee is that which leads in now to but I'm glad you requested that time. How about you do you do you like venture up to the kitchen and get lost in your kitchen sometime. I try really hard not to. By the time I come back I will realize I would have really missed the session I would have wanted, because I forgot you know what time it was this stuff. That's the thing for me is is trying to keep track of schedules because you go from one to the next to the next and you know it's four o'clock it's five o'clock or it is. And I was so thankful I think it was Haley that I was like, she sent out a text remember to eat. So I remember remind everybody because there's not a ton of space in between remember to eat, because that will help. Well and the good thing is that we are going to post the links to the user. The sessions are recorded and we're going to post the links we're getting those up this code. And our plan is to have a record of everything and upload it to a YouTube platform so eventually it will be out there accessible and if you do miss the first 15 minutes you can go back and have a chance to to recap to that session and do that session. So that is one advantage of running this conference in a virtual setting. So, so we do you want to do you want to talk to us a little bit. Lee and I were chatting the other day about reflective leadership and I just thought this was such a wonderful concept so I would love to hear more about it. Yeah, so this actually came up with a conversation that one of one of our deans presented I just thought that'd be something kind of a good point to make here and just remind people because we are so busy and the conference is so full with so much content. I think one of the chat pieces somebody you know said there's an option of being overloaded right, but you still want to be able to take as much as you can from the conference and then when you go back, you have stuff to read to, you know, you know, recharge your memory in terms of what happened and the takeaways that you want to keep and be able to do something with so one of the things in terms of just taking time to reflect specifically so I'm a big note taker so I usually take notes throughout sessions, but then after the session, especially if you'd like just to focus on what you're what you're doing. Take a moment either after the session or at the end of the day to do any of the following just in terms of what you may like. So, you know what ideas were you drawn to specifically. Why do you think you were drawn to the idea and then you know is there any way that you can turn that idea into action is there any application in terms of what you can do for that. So, you know, recognizing your thoughts and takeaways reflect on what happened in that specific presentation, and then are there future actions that you could do with that or applications, are there new new people you want to reach out. Most of the comment or a sessions I've been in, they are almost always ending and even some of the lightning rounds that that I've watched, they, they say you know full free to reach out to them after the session or after the conference. So that's something you're really interested in you know is that something you want to do later and make that make that knows like you know follow up with this person and write down that presenter's name and stuff like that. Highlight strengths and or weaknesses within their presentation, not necessarily so much to share for them because you're coming from a different perspective, but that way you kind of have a place of remembering where your thoughts are when you're in that session, and then where, where can you add to the conversation right where would be something that you can go because open ed is still, you know, growing by leaps and bounds so fast, same things with positive and negatives just in terms of your perspective. And then why do you think those are, you know, one thing I always recommend doing, or that I try to do is perspective shift. If you do that for yourself, you know where would somebody else see that when they say see your strengths as what you put down strengths as you know is there a weakness there from somebody else perspective. Just kind of as a last note. I truly believe that the sharing of ideas and working across disciplinary lines and having meaningful productive conversations can lead to innovation and innovation can lead to change. So kind of take note of where those ideas are that you have from these different sessions, and where can that be it you know innovative work as we keep moving forward. So I just want to ask you guys as thoughts on on what do you guys do during sessions or after sessions. How do you guys kind of make sure that you can take some stuff away after you've gone to a session or even a big conference like this. One thing that I've been doing is I reached out to everybody from my institution who's coming to the conference and we've got one big Google Drive for all of us to take our notes. Each one of us has our own folder and at the end of every day. We can go and check out anybody else's points and do that kind of guide reflecting your talking about on our own stuff but also if there's a session that we really wanted to go to that we couldn't make it. We have that that option if somebody else went to that so that way we can kind of pool our resources and it's, it's like we almost have that that Harry Potter time turner where we can make it to the two sessions at once. Nice. So that's a great idea. Yeah, time turner. We all need a time turner. When you were talking about an exercise that you were participating in. Do you want to chat a little bit about that. Yeah, so we have a different perspective each day, writing a member of our communications team. We kind of just sat down and said, oh we want to do some reaction blogs for each day. And then we realized that every single person in the communications team had a completely different perspective. We had new attendee faculty librarian we had international perspective we had student perspective. So we wanted to hammer out which day would be what, and each day there's a reflection piece written by one member of the communications team that talks about, you know, their experiences in the conference what they learned what sessions they attended with sessions they want to go back and watch. So, you know if you're looking for that reflective piece, they have some reflections from the conference on the website on the news section, and we send it out in the morning emails as well. You can access and read your blog. That's wonderful. We have about four minutes left before we need to send you all off to the plenary session. I think we have some time to hear from a couple of community members. Just to time in on any of the topics that we've been talking about, make some space here. If you want to unmute and join in the conversation. I also really love the synergy. If you attended my house mad tea yesterday. It was a series of reflective questions and it was just it's wonderful to to have you know these these connections right that people were. It was kind of, it was kind of speed networking, but with a twist where we were really reflecting and sharing these these moments and it was lovely, and then to have the connection to to all of to what we was talking about to to to the music experience on the communications team. So it's really fantastic to see the synergy and the connections. Okay, so we have about three minutes. Anybody in the, anybody out there. We were talking, I don't know if y'all have seen this meme about teaching online that it's like a seance. Have you seen this. So when you're joining your room. Is anybody out there. Lee Lee are you joining us today. Give us a sign. That has to part of why I went back to face to face as soon as I could. I really couldn't stand the I got ghosted by students I know I got ghosted by students name plates up, but they're not there Doug. Doug do you need something classes ended. Doug. I've had the exact opposite to though, where I've been like in a class and gotten ghosted by the professor, like we have like 15 students sitting there and then all of a sudden just like nothing. It's the weirdest thing students are never complaining about it though, never complaining about 15 minutes and the main thing that holds all their classes at my institution crashed the first day of school, and actually got an email from one or two students saying thank you for the crash it was really nice it made me have an extra day of summer. And that was one of the most positive emails I've ever received. Yeah, I used to remember when we were doing when when I was in college, there would be students when the professor was late who just be staring at the clock waiting for the 15 minute mark I like right 15 minutes I'm out. I mean, it's from the professor side. We're like, that's a man. That's a man. There's no 15 minute rule. And you better be there. If I'm 15 minutes late. We have just one minute to wrap this up and so I do want to take a minute to thank all of you for being here today with us. We love coming on the early show I know this is only day two but it's something I've been looking forward to through all the planning. So we'll be here tomorrow will be here tomorrow bright and early at 830am central 930am Eastern time. And I hope that you'll all join us for the plenary session starting in six minutes. And don't forget to catch Emily Reagan and Haley Bob for the late show this afternoon. We're going to use Mentimeter to have some audience participation and it's a great opportunity to reflect back on your day and to share the wonderful things that that you experienced and we're we really want to hear from you. So thank you everyone for being here we're going to end recording and we're going to send you off to the plenary. Thank you.