 Yeah, the bumper always is so fun. I love all the different variations we have of them but yeah, well hello and Welcome Marin and Jim we are here together because it is that time of year for OER and We have submitted a presentation to speak on the first day Which I'm very excited about and we just wanted to get together to record just a little bit of what the presentation would look like in Person because unfortunately not all of us will be in person, but I wanted to make sure that we all kind of Made it fun and kind of did a little practice run with the with the presentation itself So I'm very excited for all of that good stuff coming up and that is next week next Thursday Not Thursday Wednesday and Thursday March 27th and 28th in Cork, Ireland, which is It's always so fun to go over to Ireland or even just abroad in general. So Yeah, very excited and some of us are getting ready for travel. Is that true? Yes, we were just joking about that. I'm I'm leaving the day the day that this premieres on Friday To make the trek across the Atlantic to Dublin first and then Cork Well, I'm not far behind you Meredith and although my plane goes across a much smaller channel I'm making the hop from Bristol to Cork directly. I'm really looking forward to it Yeah, absolutely, and I know a lot of us will definitely be there in spirit for sure And all the reclaimers as well. So I'm very excited to represent them too. So I Just wanted to go through the slides We can kind of get started on those and then I'll do like a run-through. So I'll be very formal for a second What the presentation is gonna look like So we're calling this reclaim ed tech for life hashtag ed tech for life in open education very awesome title and I wanted to throw back the The old school record for this one too because I thought it fit very well cool so As we're continuing to navigate to the ever-changing work life especially after the pandemic It's honestly crazy to think about that. It happened four years ago But I've noticed and I don't know if you've noticed this either that work is continually becoming more demanding Especially as educators in those and in those and customer services positions projects become more time-intensive more deliverables need more focus and Customers have increasingly difficult questions And I've even found that I'm constantly moving from task to task on the to-do list And my day is filled with things that I need attention that always need attention or feel like they need attention immediately And I'm focusing way too much on the day-to-day operations of the company to keep my head down and keep working to get them To get that list out of the way. So I don't know if you all feel that way too, but definitely like I definitely like find the day-to-day like one thing after another sort of thing is increasingly more difficult and Project management itself is just one thing But how do you put the intentional time in to explore new tools on the web and even researching? The difficult questions that the clients are asking as you go It can be difficult to find the resources To provide new learning and tool software's products in an easily digestible way from self-paced learning to workshops and events And what's more the resources are often behind a paywall Or only available in the moment live and they're highly technical where you need to learn a new language Essentially it's to learn the product that you're working with So who was time for that in general like it's just never never a good time, but never fear reclaim is here We get it We as a company have a large ed tech background. We know where you're coming from we understand We see you and we are those trusty humans behind the screen Where we love to learn and love to learn those new tools and it's always been a good challenge From there and heck I've even been learning ghost as a new tool that we're working with which we'll talk about in a little bit more to talk through what that the With with ghosts we're working through the newsletter and cloud infrastructure as well. So But I'll talk about a bit more of those as we come in But we do want to focus on some other groups that have come before us to kind of give us that inspiration as we go Yeah, so as Marilyn was saying where do you find the time and where do you find the inspiration an open education? We're really fortunate that there are so much To it learn from and to be inspired by so this is one of the examples We wanted to give a shout out to equity unbound led by Catherine Cronin one of the key notes at OER 24 Mia Zamora and mahab Ali and equity and bound is an emergent Collaborative curriculum which aims to create equity focused open connected intercultural learning experiences and We just wanted to highlight some of the current topics that this group is exploring including artificial intelligence and education and Also, give a shout out to the amazing my fest kind of event that happens It has happened the last few years Where you know, you can both synchronously in Asynchronously engage and for us, you know, this provides a lot of inspiration as an open connected learning Happening all around the world and some of the work that we do in our community is really inspired by groups like this Another example that we wanted to share a little bit about is Obviously, we're here the OER conference So we want to give a shout out to the open education special interest group which was established over 10 years ago in 2012 Mrs. One. I myself I had a lot of involvement with over the years and Which really champions open education in the UK and for members of all and also has a really really strong involvement in the conference over the past 10 years so It's been really exciting to see the group the activities the policy work and particularly the open practice Which is really relevant to us at reclaim and Then our last example and Meredith and Jim, I don't know if you want to jump into this one because this is gonna be a lot of fun to talk about Yeah Yes, when I six Absolutely, I mean who could forget DS1 is six to the other other groups are there I'm not knocking them down for sure because they're they're amazing and it's been so cool to learn about them Throughout this this research of the presentation itself but DS1 is six is definitely the heart of reclaim and Working through some of the open education tools and I think a lot of us get the background and inspiration from The the community as a whole In that in that regard too. Yeah, there's really a fabric right between them Like the way in which that open online course and community worked is kind of the spirit that I think like you said Meredith made this Class possible and it was interesting just looking back on like the OER and the equity unbound like and even COVID which you talked about so well Meredith like we did a community chat at reclaim Just yesterday talking about the you know Narratives of people who started an open education. Obviously, there's old people like me who started like at CUNY and like the 2000s or the 90s with Al Levine and they talked about that But it was also interesting to hear from people at reclaim like pilot who started when COVID started to you know was given like a 15 minute description of demand of one's own it was their job to learn it To your point Meredith and then there was also Amanda who came into ed tech Right as open education was blowing up at the State University of New York And so so much of what you've like mapped already here is so many different entries right well right now Into you know reclaim hosting DS 106 for those at UMW and beyond being a big one for what is educational Technology or what is open education mean in practice right as well as in theory so yeah, it's cool to see all these kind of different inspirations come together here absolutely and With those where does reclaim fit into the open education sphere? So good news is I'm here to tell you about this And over the last couple of years two years in particular We've created the ed tech team educational technology team at reclaim working with educators to develop their institutional capability and capacity Where we're focused on community building first building and teaching as we go and we want to make sure we help you reach Your goals with that with this ed tech team we offer workshops and flex courses community chats and even weekly live streams and Because of that we're able to focus on professional development as a team to help you build capacity for each tool that you're learning Personally working with the ed tech team as a whole Forces me forces me in a good way to continue my professional development To be mindful of putting that on the calendar. And so I can also be prepared to help you out as well We've built a community landing page And one-stop shop for all visitors to get in touch with where claim as a whole See professional development offerings and all the awesome stuff that we have Developed we maintain a discord server for the community as well I have a QR code at the end of this that you can scan to To get access to all of that To so anybody can join in the community and start chatting about different topics And we've organized it so folks can focus on their specific interests topics and even join in the event conversations Continuing on with the professional development. We're offering workshops on WordPress multi site administration and domain of one zone throughout the year We just hosted our spring workshop it back in February on basic administration So if you're a new domain of one zone user administrator or WordPress administrator, you definitely a good opportunity to learn more We run month-long flex courses. So they're weekly sessions that you can join in live or work on at your own pace And through specific topics covering open and publishing ecosystems WordPress ghost and cloud product cloud-based products in particular This month or this next month in April our next one is ghosts. So definitely go check that out From here. So the you can register using that QR code. It starts April 15th Runs once weekly for four weeks. So join in when they're live Watch them back if you need to and work at your own pace from here We've also created our own all-inclusive calendar So you can subscribe to this to put on your Google calendar or whichever calendar you end up using to subscribe to all the events and see what's going on and If you are a fan of written content, we've got you we've got you covered We maintain a blog for any Important announcements security issues we find as it across our infrastructure any fun things that the team is working on Any topics like that? So we are always built around the blog For sure. So we also send out a monthly newsletter reclaim roundup showcasing what the team in the community have been doing over the month So definitely subscribe Before the end of the month because the next session is coming up Both of these blogs are built-in ghost. So going back to our co-host Goonflex course kind of exploring with that one too So with all of this Professional development that we've been doing within the last couple of years It gives us the capacity to start exploring some new things and what reclaim is going to do in the future Yeah, and I like the whole reference to ghost I will get to this slide but like the idea of ghost like is it a blog is it a newsletter? Can it be both right? I think that's what I love about ghost It's a really good newsletter for those who are looking for a new home for their newsletter But it's also a great blog. So we've had fun with ghost and reclaim the blog is definitely Styling on ghost as is reclaim roundup, which No near and dear to me, but that's not it. We're we're forging forward, right? Mm-hmm new new new new So one of the things we're working on right now that I'm really excited about we announced in January And we're still kind of announcing and working with schools is a product called reclaim edu and reclaim adu to give you the kind of very You know 30,000 foot view of it is the ability for us to work with schools to host High availability websites that can't go down like your dot edu So we have a great visual here by Brian matters Which shows that we're actually using two different instances or two different servers that immediately fail over So if there's a problem with one data center It immediately goes to the other and vice versa and we have some extensive caching And DDoS protection that makes this a really good option For folks hosting WordPress who can't have their site go down for whatever reason. So this is exciting I love the art. There's more of it, especially that little dread piece right there Like for those admins at the various schools who are like those I can't go down, right? Offload your dread to reclaim. That's what we're here for. So very excited about that one, but that's not all That's not all right We also have a new product called reclaim press and in many ways It's related to reclaim edu in that it focuses on our strength, which is WordPress But in some ways WordPress for many of the folks hosting at Reclaim if not all of them is run right now through cPanel This product gives folks who have you know a site that is important to them and might be a passion project or Essentially and eventually might be a web empire depending upon how much they blog and how diligent they are over the years But the idea is that you can host your WordPress on reclaim press Where it's just a dedicated WordPress instance that you can decide how many resources they have and how you would run that instance It gives you some of the basic features you'd get from cPanel, which is like a file manager DNS control Custom domain mapping SSL certificates Backups but without some of the overhead that cPanel comes with it's a very new product In that it was announced or will be announced next week or at the time of this presentation But it's not necessarily a secret We're treating it like one which is fun But we have been talking about this on reclaim TV and beyond for months And we have been working and that's a royal we really tailor Jaden has been working very hard To see that this is a product that will work for our community and that will be an alternative for those who need it to cPanel so I really love the idea of Dedicated WordPress hosting. I really love the interface for this dedicated WordPress hosting. It's very elegant And one of the things you don't see here is we're playing around you kind of see it here in that little reclaim press visual there the kind of icon is we're playing with the idea of making records and Kind of producing records and each plan is a different record and they can be silver records Gold records Platinum records depending upon how much resources you need. So it's a fun project again all hail Brian Mathers for his art and yet this is a kind of Additional product to reclaim me to you but in many ways related in that we're doubling down on what we're good at and what we're known for Which is WordPress hosting? Absolutely, and this QR code link is for our beta project So definitely keep an eye out for our official announcement next week and then you can sign up and participate To make reclaim press better before we go we fully go long live So very excited to see how this this goes and very excited for the launch in general If you are joining in person, we will have a little bit of a little swag for you for reclaim reclaim press So definitely kind of a plug to come watch your presentation. So You can get a get a fun piece of time and day is the presentation Meredith We are presenting at 1115 GMT on Tuesday or Wednesday the 27th Don't miss it No, right. It's right after the first opening key night We are in the in the first session of the opening key night and after the coffee break prime time Catbird see CS Absolutely. I'm excited. So With that Because we put the practice in to help with the professional development and learn the tools ourselves We are able to provide the top-notch support that you need to be able to Continue your professional development and help you get where you're going So I've got a little bit of another QR code for you. I've kind of sprinkled those in throughout the presentation But this one links to all of the links that I In pages that we talked about in the previous presentation in a link tree format So definitely scan that so you can save that For to give you the one-stop shop for all of the resources and everything So that is reclaiming the attack mentality