 Good morning, and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host over here on the end, Krista Burns here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly online event where we cover anything that may be of interest to librarians across the state and across the country. Actually, we have people logged in from all over the country for today's. We do these sessions every Wednesday morning live at 10 a.m. central time, but they are recorded, so if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. You can always log in, go into our website, and see all of our archive recordings. We're on our fourth year now of Encompass Live. So there's a lot of stuff out there that you can watch. And we do all sorts of things, presentations, book reviews, Q&A sessions, whatever we can think of that might be of interest to librarians. Today we have a new thing, what we call our tech rodeo roundup. Last week, just last week, the Nebraska Library Commission hosted some, and we'll get more explanation about this from everyone else here, some library school scholarship students and librarians at an event called our tech rodeo, you can see the website right there, where they learned how to use a lot of cool technology. And we're going to talk about that, talk about the event, how it happened, and we've got some attendees that were there who are going to talk about their experiences at it, and see how that all goes, see how that all, okay. And I'm going to do, I'm going to let everyone introduce themselves, since we've got a large group here, so we'll just do it as they all talk and everything. So I'm going to first hand over to Catherine Brockmeyer, who is in charge of our scholarship program. Yes, yes. So I'll pass on things to you, however you guys want to do it. All right, good morning. I am Catherine Brockmeyer here at the Nebraska Library Commission. I am the grant coordinator for the IMLS 21st century librarian program. And with the funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, we have been able to provide scholarships to Nebraskans who are pursuing a degree, endorsement or certificate in library science, who plan to work in the Nebraska library. In addition to that, we offer a stipend amount, which provides them the opportunity to purchase a laptop, attend a conference, and join an association. The grant also provides funding to public libraries to hire interns. And this is one of our ways to recruit to the profession and to recruit to library science education. Of course, I want to go back and talk a little bit about the library science education. It is for individuals pursuing their master's in library and information services or science, whether they're interested in working in a public library, academic library. Any kind of library that you can think of, and then also for those who are pursuing a degree in education, a master's degree or an undergraduate degree, and then looking for an endorsement in whatever the popular phrase of the day is. Sometimes it's media, school media, and there are other, there are technology, there are various names for these endorsements. And so this is also at the associates level, the undergraduate level on the master's level. And I just want to set the stage a little bit for the tech rodeo. One of the other aspects of this scholarship, we called it a value added scholarship. We wanted to provide opportunities for our scholarship students to beef up their 21st century skills. Because we want them to be able to transfer those to their patrons, to their customers, to their students, as that is the end goal is for our library users to increase their 21st century skills. And so we require that they participate in three trainings and report on those, and those, a lot of them are recorded one hour webinars, for example, or if they're attending some conference or training, they can use that. The other part was that we wanted to conduct a two day seminar in improving our, and introducing various technology aspects, which Michael and Laura will talk about, and also beef up various 21st century skills, so that when the librarians and the students are prepared, when it's time to work with the public or their students, they're able to help them out as well. And so I wanted just to introduce you to the now hiring at your library page. This is where you can find information about jobs and careers that are available, learning opportunities in terms of formal education available, especially here in Nebraska. Here's the scholarship section, internship section, and several other scholarships sections. And here in the scholarship section is where we talk about that enhanced learning opportunities, such as the 21st century skills seminar, which became the tech rodeo webinar, space to face training and online social networking. And so I just wanted to introduce you a little bit to the online social networking that we provided, that we have provided, and it is through Nebraska librarians learning together here on Facebook. And it's facebook.com slash Nebraska librarians. And even if you're not from Nebraska, it's been a great way. We post updates, technology related updates, hot topics that are going on in library world for our librarians and students. One aspect that I am hoping will come of this is that library students will find perhaps a librarian who has posted that they may want to connect with them later date and perhaps be mentored. So great updates. And here are the photos from the tech rodeo. Lots of great photos here from the tech rodeo. And we will refer back to that as we introduce a couple of the individuals who are speaking with us today. And I think that's my spiel. The next scholarship application deadline is November 1st. It is available right now at the associates and bachelor's levels. Sad to say, our funding from the grant at the master's level did run out so popular, unbelievably popular. We have a lot of wonderful Nebraskans who are pursuing an education in library science at the master's level. And the money that was allotted to us through our grant has run out. It's a good kind of money. But joining this Facebook community and getting involved with that is a great way to connect with other students and librarians. And always finding out about various trainings that are available through continuing education and that sort of thing that's going on at the commission. Everyone's always welcome to jump on board. Now, really, that's my spiel. I'm really, really done. And we're on to Laura. Hi, I'm Laura Johnson, the continuing education coordinator here at the Nebraska Library Commission. When we wrote the idea into the grant, you know how it is. You do these things. And then later, you think, oh, golly, guess we're going to have to plan that. When we started planning, we had a huge list of things we wanted to cover. We wanted to cover, techno, this thing and that thing and a new program. And well, it obviously, we couldn't cover it all. But we did choose some that we thought were important, that would work well together. And we were really interested in helping people with the technology, but using the technology to improve, again, the 21st century skills. You can kind of think about them as the four C's, which are collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking. These are the things we feel that, well, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services feels are important for librarians and for our citizens moving forward in the 21st century. So with that in mind, we tried to put together something that would be interesting, that would be fun, that would convey these skills. So we tried to work on several levels. We tried to work with technology, but also with subjects we thought people would be interested in, include some basics that we weren't sure people got. And one of the big things was to include enough information that they really became a basis for learning, because we do believe in continuing education and the idea that librarianship, I suppose every place is, that librarianship is especially involved in continuous learning. You're never going to stop learning. You're never going to stop moving on to new things. And so we thought it's important then to have a good basis for that learning. So we tried to put this together. Then the idea was, well, where should we do this? How should we do it? We came to Doan College kind of thinking, well, maybe that would be a good place. And we went there and we were so pleased with it. We thought it was charming, and they were so nice. And it looked like it would be ideal for our preferences. So we did. And we had a great time. The weather even cooperated. The one whole day we were there, the weather wasn't even quite as hot as it had been. So we have just been really pleased with how it worked out. And I hope everybody knows those two. And I'm going to pass this on now. And I'll take my notes, too. Michael. Right in the middle. I just want to say that the tech rodeo was all expenses paid for our scholarship students, whether they were current or former, even if they had graduated and received their degree or their funding had run out. That was also written into the budget for the grant, was that this was all expenses paid for them. So there you go. So this is Michael Sowers in the Technology Innovation Librarian here. And so one of the things I had to do with Laura was figure out, OK, exactly how are we going to teach these five Cs? How are we going to pull it all together? So what I want to talk about is a little bit about what the actual plan was and what we had the attendees do. So there's a couple pages on our website you might be interested in taking a look at. The first one is the Resources page. And we had them doing some projects. So we did a couple of things. One we picked, we're going to have eight teams. So we picked eight topics, talk about what some of those topics were in a moment, and sent each of the teams of four to five attendees a packet of information about their topic. And we said, start thinking about this topic. So that way, when you're on site, you don't have to be thinking as much about the topic. You can do a little planning ahead. And then what we had each team come up with was a two to three minute oral presentation, which falls under communication. Not really technology-oriented, but the idea was is, your team needs to come up with a project in your topic. And you're going to have to ask somebody for some money to pay for your project. So we needed kind of a two to three minute oral presentation to a funding agency. Those were not recorded. We're not safe for posterity. But oral presentations are really useful skills. Yes, yes. Because oral presentation, definitely. We had Pat Leitz, the director of Lincoln City Libraries come and give a talk about public speaking. And that was wonderful. Then each team had to create a screencast of three to five minutes, which was designed to be a little more instructional about their project, how you would do that or an example of that. So for example, one of the teams was working on an oral history project. So they did a little bit of oral history. They recorded each other telling stories about how they became a librarian. And then the third thing they had to do was come up with a three to five minute promotional video. As to what's, you know, if you're going to then tell the public about your program. And one of those scenes was creativity. And you were saying earlier, we had a lot of creativity. We're going to show you one of those videos in a moment. And it was picked at random. It's just the first one alphabetically. So we're not saying anyone was any better than anybody else's. The software and the hardware that was used, we used Screencast-O-Matic, which is a free online and downloadable piece of software that you can do to do screen recording. For editing, most of us used Windows Live Movie Maker, if for no other reason, then it's free. And we're a window shop here at the commission, so we didn't have a lot of Macs available to us. But for the people who did bring Macs, they were able to use iMovie if they wanted to do that instead. Then we also had a bunch of flip cams available, one for each team. So that's how they were actually doing the actual video recording. And then some folks used some additional resources we talked about for music sourcing, things like that. And then we did also talk kind of at the end about some additional software if people really got into the video creation that they might want to use in advance. So we've linked to all that there if you wanted to do a similar project with this. We'll show the example projects in just a moment. But one of the other things we did was there was a lot of basic technology skills we wanted to cover in the session. So there was a series of what we called TechBLAST, which were 30-minute presentations on five different topics, networking or networks, computer hardware, I posted computer hardware twice. There we go. OK, I'll have to fix that. Troubleshooting and the other one was security. So there should be a security post. I'll get that fixed later this afternoon. And then, yes, we also had one last TechBLAST, which was a live demo of the TechAtlas inventory tool and event tracker. There's no actual presentation that we showed that live. So these presentations are there. They were meant to be 30 minutes. So if you think we're covering everything you need to know about computer networks in 30 minutes, dream on. It is the basics. But even the folks in their evaluations who said I knew a lot about it, everybody got something out of each one. So that was really kind of the coverage there. So the projects is what the teams came up with in the end. Each team we have their group photo up there so you can see who was involved. And then we have, excuse me, my scroll isn't working very well there. Their screencast is available as a video and then their actual video that they created as the promotion. I'm going to show this one video. And then I'm going to kind of give you my reaction to the whole thing before we talk to the attendees. So you're going to have to shoot me. I'm going to have to move the microphone a little bit here. We're going to hope this all works really, really well. So let's go ahead. This was team civic engagement. So we should say that these were learning experiences. These were people who had never done this before. Yes. And they had a limited amount of time to do it. Yeah. So we thought the results were absolutely fantastic. Yes. These are not real life projects and they are not representing their libraries or speaking on behalf of their library. So please keep that in mind too as you watch these. So I'm going to go ahead and hit play on this one and let's take a look. It's about four and a half minutes, I believe. And I'm Dana. And today we're going to show you how to use your public library to access your community. What's in a library? Nice to meet you. And what is your name? Did you know, Mom, that we have a lot of programs here for children, right? Oh, really, absolutely right. Well, Sarah, would you like to be a 21st century beater? We can teach you lots of other names. We can play on the computers and we can come to summer reading clubs and lots of other kids and we can play with popcorn and we can see you there, Mom. That's great. This way, ladies, let me show you the room we have available that you can use for your next meeting. Oh, yeah, this looks good. It can work very good. You can arrange chairs back over here. You can have your tables set up over here. This will work really good for a meeting. This will be fantastic. We've been looking for a meeting place. Is there a charge? No, there is no charge. As long as the meeting room is open to the public, you need to must give it to all patrons. Oh, right, it's a good deal. Well, we're hoping to go to the library. So this is a good way to do it. What a way to use our library. It is. Oh, ma'am, can you help me get this thing to work? What is going on? Is there something I can help you with, ma'am? Oh, they told me that I could access the government website, so I can get this thing to work. Oh, sure, I can help you with that. That's really easy. Go to our home page. OK, then from right here, you see all these links. This one right here. Oh, OK. And then you see that all of these links to all sorts of helpful websites. Oh, I just have so easy to keep you so much. Welcome. And now we are going to hold through the credits here on this one because they did a blooper reel. So easy to keep you so much. You're welcome. I've got to say, people were joking that after we demoed all these, or we showed all these to the group on Saturday morning that I was speechless. And I was, and I still kind of am. You plan something like this. You give people about 36 hours to work in teams that maybe they haven't met before, and some equipment they've never used, and software they've never used, and said, here, go create something. And everybody did. And everybody pulled it off amazingly well. And some people were fearless in their videos. We encourage you to watch all eight of them. They're all just 45 minutes apiece. But four to five minutes apiece. Sorry, between four to five minutes. In fact, one team was like, ours is longer. Can we keep it longer? And we're like, well, if you could cut it down, that would be great. But they were joking they're gonna create the director's cut and put the missing footage back in. I don't know if they'll really do that. But like I said, I was so impressed by all the participants and what they created, and trains in the background. But they had two and a half hours to come up with a script and go film something. So I'm still impressed and still recovering from the event. So that's my spiel. Type on a screen. There we go. Yeah, there we go. We're sound back. We're going. Okay. Sorry about that. Type yes if you can hear us. Type Y in the chat box. Come through here. Excellent. Michael, for being the technology innovation librarian, he unplugged our microphone. But he knew how to plug it back in. Okay. Okay. So now we're gonna have some of the attendees who are at this speak. And we didn't tell them this, but just out of a way to do it, we're gonna go alphabetical by last name, which means that Jessica Chamberlain, who's on the line with us, will be our first person to talk about her experience. Surprise. Jessica, you should be unmuted now. All right. And you can do your introduce yourself and everything and how you got involved in it and whatever. Okay. I'm Jessica Chamberlain. I'm the director of the Northeast Library System. And got an invitation from Laura, I believe to attend this tech rodeo and all the other system administrators were invited to participate as well. And so, you know, this was a brand new thing and we didn't really know what to think about it or really what to expect when we got there. But it was really, the atmosphere that they created was really a lot of fun. It was very lighthearted. And the tech blasts were very informational but I'm glad they were only 30 minutes long because after that, my brain was full. But I think one of the, I just wanted to share probably one of the best things that I learned and all of it I think was a valuable experience watching everyone's videos was the funniest and best part of the whole thing I think. But what I really took away from it was something that Michael said and it's one of those just aha moments for me. And he was talking to one of his tech blasts about you don't have to be a techie to troubleshoot computer problems. You know, as a reference librarian, you answer questions every day that you don't know anything about. And I thought, well, duh, yeah, we do. And that's our job is not to say, oh yes, I know everything about that and now let me give you my knowledge. That our job is to say, gosh, I don't know the answer to that. Let me help you find a way to fix it. Let me help you find the answer to that. And I think for a lot of us, there's just this block with technology or computers that when we come across a problem that we feel like, oh, I can't do that. But really, this is no different than someone coming to you with a medical question or a legal question that you don't know anything about, but you go and you help them find the answer. So for me, I think that was my biggest, oh, I'm gonna remember that forever. So I don't want to steal, I'm not sure how much everyone else wanted to say, I don't want to say, since I'm the first one, I don't want to give away all the good stuff. That's great, Jessica, thank you very much. I'll meet you again now. If anyone has any questions or anything you want to ask of Jessica or any of the speakers, feel free to type them in and we'll pass them on. But just it is one at a time, I'll meet Jessica. And actually the next person alphabetically would be Angie, who's right here in the room with us. You can introduce yourself. Oh yeah, I'll take the microphone down. All right, good. Thank you. I'm Angie Krachey and I am a lucky recipient of one of the scholarships for undergrad students. This is a different career that I'm going into. I currently attend UNO, getting a K through sixth grade endorsement and then library endorsement as well in that process. So this was a great opportunity for me to learn. I'm a paraprofessional with Louisville Public Schools in the middle school library. So I walked away with a lot of things that I can use right away with my students as far as some of the technology that they use that I hope when they come in they feel like they can ask and I can help them. I've never made a movie before in anything. And I've always wanted to, and that was probably the most fun part of the whole project. I'm also on the library board at our local public library that has needed and been growing and changing for quite some time. We serve 1,500 towns people and are working to get more patrons in. But the tech blasts, I think probably, while I have a very strong technical background, I didn't, I walked away from there with a lot of things that I felt that I could do right away for our library as well and things that we needed to look at and encouraging, we've always sort of had this mantra well we don't have a technical expert and that too was a big piece that I took away that the people on our board, the volunteers that we have come in, it's the problem solving techniques were really good. So I hope to share. The project itself, we had under eight hours to do. So it was a lot of work, but it was a wonderful way to get to know some people very well as if you watch some of the videos. Some of the things that they did. They had a good time with it. And what I liked the best about the project that it wasn't about the content. So often we get ourselves wrapped up in the content and this was about the task of doing. The getting up and presenting. Like in our team, one of the team members, she doesn't get a chance very often to get up and talk in front of people. And this gave her a venue in front of peers where there wasn't anything really at stake. No one was going to fire her, maybe someone would hire her, I don't know. But she felt like she had a safe environment to learn that skill. And I so appreciated getting to hear Pat Leach and her experiences, her tips because public speaking isn't just about our official things. It's about the unofficial things being prepared all the time. And in the end, I just really enjoyed getting to work with the pieces and I learned something from everything that we did. I can use something from everything that we did. We did not ask them in advance what they were gonna say about attending, so. They gave us no past direction to be prepared. You couldn't be prepared because they wouldn't give you anything. Okay, I'll roll with it. Okay, thank you. Next alphabetically would be Angela who's on the line with us. Angela, you should be unmuted. Hello, yes. There you are. Hi, introduce yourself. I'll talk about you. Got a second. Sorry. Go ahead. Yeah. Yes. Got a second what Angie said that the video turned out to be the most fun part when I looked at the blocks of time we had to work on the three projects, the video, the screencast and the presentation all together. The number of hours that were actually allotted that weren't allocated to other things. I didn't think we could do it, but every group managed to pull something together and for all three of those projects. And as intimidated as I was at the beginning because of the time constraints, the video turned out to be just tremendously fun. As it happened, the actual idea generation, the brainstorming and script writing are the hardest parts. The actual video production and editing turned out to be much easier than I ever imagined they could be. So that was really good. The screencast, I wasn't necessarily as pleased with how our screencast came out because it was too short and we didn't have much of a conclusion, but within the time constraints. But I think about it this way, the actual learning objective of the exercise was to learn how to do a screencast and now I feel like I could do that. If anything I need to do for work or any other purpose where I need to generate a screencast, I feel very confident that I could produce something good from that. So the learning objectives were definitely met. And Michael Sauer's tech blasts I thought were perfect. Very, very densely packed information in those half hours. I don't think he wasted a single word. Learned so much from all of them. Took lots of notes. They're just really excellent and informative sessions and I'll probably be referring back to his PowerPoints to refresh my memory on some of them. But the whole experience, every part of it, I don't think a single minute of the entire, whatever it was, 48 hours we were at Done College, I don't think a single minute of that was wasted. It was just absolutely fantastic and I think the best part was getting to know my teammates for my project and for the people that weren't necessarily my teammates but everybody I got to interact with just learned something from everybody, all kinds of exciting things, not just about libraries and technology, but any topic that came up turned out to be highly useful and informative. I feel like I'm blathering. That's it Angela. If you introduce yourself a little bit and just say where you're from and how you got into the scholarship program. Oh, I'm sorry. That's okay. I'm sorry, I should have started with that and I'm just scatterbrained. I'm Angela Crager. I am a cataloger at the Chris Library at UNO. I've been here 17 years and finally decided I needed to get the master's degree so I could advance my career. So I am one of the very fortunate scholarship recipients and so I'm very grateful to NLC for that and that's how I got interested in the Tech Rodeo as the email from Catherine Brockmeyer to all those fellowship recipients saying, hey, we're doing this thing. Why don't you join us? I thought that sounds like a fantastic event. Great, thank you Angela. Yeah. Next up we have here in the room with us, Annette. Go ahead and introduce yourself. Annette. I'm Annette Partey. I am a scholarship recipient as well in the master's program at the University of Nebraska-Omahaw and well, I'm really a Mizzou student so that takes classes at UNO. So there's several of us NEMOs that are familiar with that situation. I found out about the Tech Rodeo because of the email from Catherine. It was one of the first ones after I got the scholarship and kind of jumped on the opportunity because I thought it would be a fun way to learn some new technology and I appreciated the effort from the Nebraska Library Commission to make it all free or open source technology that we were using because there are so many great programs out there that cost and costs a lot and they can do some wonderful things. There's no doubt about it but very rarely do a lot of us have the budgets to be able to actually use that and so I appreciated the availability of the programs and that all of us can continue to use them. There aren't free trials or anything. These were all programs we can use years from now hopefully that they're still going. So yeah, give them support. I think in addition to that some of the tech blasts and as several people mentioned those were incredibly helpful and it was fun actually getting to touch the interior components of a computer. Something that I've always wanted to do but will not take my computer apart to do it because I like my computer as it is. And then also the team dynamics were so much fun and several of the group members that I was on, I was on team curation. We talked about that we hadn't laughed this much in a professional setting in that a lot of us was ever. We couldn't remember the last time that we had this much fun and still got the task done. It wasn't, we still enjoyed ourselves but still did what we were supposed to and I think that was also one of the best ways to do it because we all were very happy with what turned out but also we enjoyed it, had fun with it and so it had a different level of pride and appreciation for the task that I think we wouldn't have had if we would have been strict and serious the whole time. Our video that we did had, I thought a wonderfully written script by one of our group members and very serious information and the entire video though was very hilarious or very funny and so that was the idea as doing the straight man idea with the comedy on top of it. So I think it was fun to have that dynamic and I think also one of the favorite ones was the security tech blast because I know that's one I took home right away and started changing passwords. I mean all kinds of things and it wasn't because it was overly paranoid but I now had a better way to do it that I could actually remember all of them and I think that was, and it was also very poignant because I had just listened to the NPR interview with some of the Black Cat members from the Las Vegas Hacker Conference so it seemed to be very timely and interesting. Thank you Annette. Yeah, thank you. But what you said about having fun with it, that's something that we kind of go into and it's hard to learn a lot of this technology but play and experimentation is a way to do it. Our Nebraska Learns 2.0 program that we have the library commission here where we do a new lesson, a new thing every month is all about play, experiment and just do it for fun and then you'll learn something and find something that maybe you can use. Is that supposed to be a picture of me? Yeah. Yeah. No, this is a picture of you, Chris. Yeah. There's Chris. So I was talking about the fun part of it. The humor of the weekend. That wasn't supposed to be here. Actually, I do want to bring, we want to move on to the next speaker but this became the theme of the entire rodeo because Michael had brought up a phrase and then happened to be walking around on campus because he's a photographer and takes amazing photos and found this but perhaps you want to give a quick context. I don't want to take away from our other speakers. Sure, yeah. Challenge expect. During the security talk, Richard Miller from here on campus, from the staff here, kind of asked me to maybe delve into the psychology of people who break into computers which I was kind of hesitant to do but one of the things I talked, one of my slides had a master lock on it and I told them I said just to some people, criminal or not, you see a lock, other people see a lock and say challenge accepted. It is something to do and then later that afternoon I was walking around campus and I saw this sign about the lake on campus and no swimming and somebody had pasted, challenge accepted underneath it and I don't think I could have planned that if I tried so I literally worked that into my next presentation just for Richard saying that in some cases and even tying it back to troubleshooting. In fact, I think it was the troubleshooting tech blast that I did next was sometimes you just have to look at it as challenge accepted and go for it and that's why some of us do references because it is that challenge. It's not the same every day. Once you get past the where's the bathroom question, it becomes a challenge. So yeah, thank you for bringing that up. That was just, that just kind of fell into place during the event. Yes, one of the people online who's one of our attendees watching says, yes criminals have brains, I'm just underpaid. Yeah. Okay, and our last speaker we have as attendee is on the line with us, Skye. You should be unmuted Skye, can you say hello? Hello. There you go. All right, go ahead. Right there? Okay, good. My name is Skye Siri. Do we have a photo of you? Did you see a photo of you in the gallery? Yes, I didn't, I haven't tagged it yet. I'm with Tina Walker. We're holding our sign upside down. Oh, there you go. You know, we survived barely. Yeah, that one, got it. There you go. In the band, with the, you're the bandit? Bandit, yes. Okay, go ahead. Okay. Again, I'm Skye Siri. I'm from North Plot Community College. I'm also a scholarship student and working on my associate's degree through Central Community College. So, it's been an incredible opportunity, not only for the scholarship, but for the training opportunities as well, because it's like, it's a whole other world out there that I don't think people realize. And this, the tech rodeo was really, really incredible. And now that I've had a couple of days to process everything, because I'm one of those people I have to go home and then really think about it. And it made me step outside of my box a little bit. And so, that was really good. And I know I need to do that more often because I'm really comfortable here at the college with the students and the faculty, but maybe not in front of like a big group of librarians. And so, I'm getting there. And the tech rodeo, you know, provided all of the information regarding the tech blasts and it was fun using the software, lots of fun. Can you talk about your project, your content for just a moment? What was- I was on the same team as Annette and we were team curation. So, Mary who came up with the script was amazing because it was, she had that insight and she could see and I think all of us just made it come to life. And we laughed, we, you know, it was just, and curation I thought was a difficult subject maybe because there's so many different aspects of it. And we've put it on so many ways that I'm really pleased with our end product. And, you know, as it turns out, it's not just a curation isn't just cut and dry. It's huge. Did you have questions you're really going to discuss? Right, okay. One of the parts of my job on this grant is to show to I am a less and the world to prove to the world that I am a less is funding was well spent. And my running theme throughout the entire event, the entire tech rodeos I would stand up and say, okay, in the next couple of hours we're going to throw a ton of information at you. And I understood that it was exhausting. There was information overload, sensory overload, a whole bunch of overload, but I was asking everyone to kind of keep in mind three things that they would take away with them. And so that was part of my task for them over the period of time. The other thing that we did ask on the evaluation was that if something had incubated for them, is that the right word perhaps? Something that had started to roll around in their head or perhaps they came to this rodeo with something a project in mind. And if there was any part of this event that they thought there might be a project in and perhaps they've already thought of a screencast or they thought of a promotional video or something to that. And so I don't know, I don't want to put anyone in the hot seat among the five speaking today, but if there are any of you who had a small kernel of an idea that you would possibly like to pursue in the next two months or in the next year if they wanted to share that. The sky's still unmuted if you have anything to. Let me, the one thing I want to take away is I love the public speaking aspect of it. And so I want to improve. I want to get better. Okay, good. And for the people that are here in the room, they can speak if Jessica or if Jessica, if you have anything you want to add or Angela, you can just type in the check. Well actually I just unmuted both of you guys. So all three of you on the line, Skye, Jessica and Angela, you're all unmuted. So feel free to speak whenever you like, but it looks like Annette wants to say something. I think the one thing I'm excited to take away was the screencast using that and coming up with something. Really, if you have a webcam built into your laptop, how easy it really is to use. And I had used Camtasia in a practicum before and that's fantastic, but that's kind of expensive software. It's not horrible, but for somebody who would only do it a few times a year, it's probably, for me it wasn't worth getting the whole package, but I'm excited that I'll be able to use this, the screencast sematic, the free software and because there's some things that I'd like to put up for the job I work with and work with history day students and how to have them navigate our website research, where to find things and how to register for things that have been confusing in the past, trying to type it out and I wanted to be able to show people. The one thing I wanted to say about screencastomatic is that it shows your screen, but it shows the motions that you're doing on your computer. And at the same time you can, did I learn something, Michael? Is that exactly what you're doing? That's what I like, yes. And then you can also use a video camera that will give you a little box in the corner if you want to use it. But what it does is it captures what you're doing on your computer live. So you can do tutorials or you can give a tour and that sort of thing. And so that's what's really nice about screencasting is it shows the motions that you're going through and that's part of the learning process for the person and who is viewing it. Yay, I learned what exactly I was doing. So Catherine gets her three things. The three big things I took away from this were the public speaking. I think people think of public speaking always as just I have to get up in front of a group. I'm going to present to a board. But I think Pat did a really good job of demonstrating how even when you're out, she said when you're out, you're always a librarian. You always are in your role. And to be prepared for the questions, I won't bring up the questions she was talking about. Everybody here knows what they were, but that you need to be prepared. And as professionals to understand that, I thought that was very important. The second part was security. And Michael did a great job of relating it when we think of our home and our own personal use, which that helps you to understand what you're doing. But those same things work in your office environment, in your library environment, wherever you are, there's something for you to understand. And they're hugely important in today's day and age when we're working. And then the third thing was a screencast. There are so many tools out there that we never come into contact with. And they may be just the very thing that you need. And I have two projects in the line already set up for that. I can think of a lot of things at our public library that would just be easy for people that don't have technical experience to have a nice personable way to have a thing for them to click and to be able to get the instructions that they need. And it's simple, it took five minutes, very easy to use. The second piece for schools is I have been tasked with improving students being able to use research tools that are out there. And I could make a bulletin board or a flyer or a poster or a million different things, but the screencast I think would be an excellent tool for that to be used in the classroom or just when they come into the research station that we're planning to set up because there is so much out there. And that's our job is we're, I look at librarians, medias, but whatever you wanna call it. But to me it's a different form of information management. And I've been in information management for a long time and I'm so excited about what the Nebraska Library Commission has brought to us and the opportunities that we got this weekend and to come. So I hope you take advantage of them. I hear one thing that I would like to reflect upon that Angie just said. And that is that she talked about learning personally about security and passwords. That's a 21st century skill that then perhaps if you have students that you want to talk with them about safety on the internet or you have patrons that have never set up an email account before, you can say here are some guidelines to choosing the perfect password for you. So it's something that you use personally and something that you could apply to your work passwords. But it's also a skill that you can now transfer to another human being, whether it is a coworker for their own personal use or to your students or your customers for their own personal use. And so you hit the nail on the head. You gave a 21st century skill personally that has enabled you then to share that personal skill with another individual. So that's exactly what we're hoping to do. You just need to take this and send it to IMLS and that's your report. I'll just send you to Washington. How does that work? It gets better every day. This is Laura. I have to say we've been thrilled with how this turned out. These were not paid announcements. And so we really were pleased with how this turned out because when you try something new you're never quite sure how it's gonna turn out. And so now we have been talking about how do we keep this ball rolling? What things can we do? What have this shown us that we need to take further? So we would love to hear from people if there are things that you would like to hear more about things you've heard about today that you'd like to know more about. If there are other kinds of programs this program was grant funded and we do think it was worthwhile but we might not, we don't know if we are going to be able to replicate it because we don't know if we can get funds for it. But there might be other ways to do similar things. So if you have some good ideas we'd love to hear about them. We hope that we can extend this and bring some of the knowledge and the atmosphere that we had there to people. And thank you to everybody. We do have one question on here and I also wanna see if Angela is just giving you a say but question that someone typed in my attendees. Will we have access to the tech blast presentations? I think Michael you have a mouse you can switch over. Right here. They are on the website. Now it's not necessarily recording them but it's just the PowerPoint. Yeah it is the PowerPoints but and I'll get that one fixed later today but somebody please remain. The slides are mostly self-explanatory. There are like the security one it's a shorter version of the talk that Wayne Harvard did on Encompass Live a few weeks ago. So there are other, if my slides aren't enough then we've got other resources on the commission website where you can pick that stuff up. So. And Jessica and Angela your votes on the line still do you have anything to answer and answers to what Catherine had to your questions? I'd be happy to share kind of my big three as well. At the beginning I told you this is Jessica by the way. That the biggest takeaway for me was the troubleshooting computer problems but the other two things that were really helpful were Michael's tips on passwords and how to customize them so that they're all different but you can still remember them all because that's always been a challenge for me that oh but if I make them all different I'm never gonna remember them all and he kind of gave us a trick to make that work in our daily lives and again something you can transfer from your daily life into your work life and the other most helpful thing was Pat Leach's talk on public speaking because we are called on so often to speak up and advocate for our libraries and I think a lot of us don't spend a lot of time working on our public speaking and trying to make that better and she really made it clear gave us some great tips and some great things to get started on but really showed us that that's a skill that we need to continually work on just like all of our other skills and an idea that we came up with the other regional system directors I believe it was Sharon Osanga from the Meridian library system she was really inspired by the oral histories project and how they kind of took just an oral history a very quick one of the librarians in their group but there was really some of their stories in very short amounts of time we're very moving and very interesting and it really demonstrated how we all have stories to tell but in a very quick way how they documented those and that could be done in a thousand different ways in a thousand different communities but that was one that we were really excited about maybe starting a project like that in our own regional areas where we could maybe document some of our librarians in our areas so that was a very inspiring project for us Great, thanks Jessica Angela, we just translated Yeah, we have... I've already posted three things to Facebook so I'm going to give a different three things that I took away one is just in support of Catherine's idea that this is personal learning that can also be transferred to patrons she was talking about that in the context of just one piece of learning but I think it actually just about all of these things I mean you never know when a patron's going to come to the library and say I need to make a video for work and I don't know how well now I can actually help them fairly effectively all of these projects we did can be transferred to the library users who come in and that's one of the best things that every single piece of this is valuable not only on the personal level but also on the helping people level I can imagine using the screencast the screencast on Matic we're in the process of changing ILSs at our library and so I can actually imagine using that in the not too far future possibly to make staff training videos so that's got some very practical and possibly immediate applications and my third takeaway which was just a kind of a side discussion but we were talking about at the rodeo about technology failures and how use your technology but don't always trust it always have a backup plan because every piece of technology has a failure point the internet goes down or this happens or power outages and so a lot of that was the idea of making backup plans and how to cope with technology failures more smoothly is also a very useful skill during the middle of this webinar I had a power bump and lost my connection and instead of freaking out I just very quickly rolled back in much more quickly than I would normally have recovered from a technology failure so it's given me more confidence in recovering from glitches and things so thank you to everybody who was involved in putting on the tech rodeo everybody on NLC staff who worked on this did such a fantastic job oh yeah we got to give props to Laura and Michael because I'm sure everybody can only imagine that the blood sweat and tears that went into this and then also the word tears, yes yeah well and then in terms of actually there was blood something else got hurt but it was but in terms of working together for us as a team you know we were trying to say okay everybody else you got to figure out how to work on it as a team but we had to figure out how to work as a team and we used that as an example during the sessions so they married beautifully a few of the objectives of the grant and then came up with some amazing other ideas and molded it into this fantastic retreat I'm always about kind of adding the sappiness of it but at the end of all of these demonstrations there are actually some tears I mean I think that some people were laughing so hard they cried and maybe that was the majority of it but it was also kind of like going away to camp where you meet some amazing people and you may have had a transformational experience and that it was amazing enough for you that you feel invigorated and inspired to go back to your daily life and that you feel like you have 41 other people who are standing behind you to feel courageous enough to try something and so I think a lot of people we gave out belt buckles to everyone since it was a rodeo theme and they were nice and big, big belt buckles but I think that was important to close with a sense of achievement and again props to Laura and Michael props to Debra, Richard, Mary Jo, Diane for really pulling this thing off it was quite the amazing experience we won't be able to replicate it because no two tech rodeos would be the same anyway but there is a hope that even if we can take parts of this and I will plug the end compass live because Chris is constantly looking for ideas for presentations and if anybody wanted to what they learned if they wanted to come on and say here's how I learned how to use a screencast and give their own demonstration or anything like that or you can think of an expert in the field that you might know personally that they could present for end compass live that's definitely something that Chris is always looking for more work for you, Chris. No, this is my job. No, absolutely. If you have learned something here that you want to share you do all these ideas you guys have had and you go back and you actually do the project or whatever and then want to share it with your colleagues call me, we can put you on the show it's only an hour long and you can just talk about what you did and how you did it you all talked, lots of you talked about practicing your public speaking this is a great way to practice that you're speaking but there's not a bunch of people staring at you if that's your fear you can practice your speaking and you're presenting without the audience looking at you first and then move on to that do the same thing at conference next year and then you've got your audience it's a way to work up to it but we want to share what our librarians are doing with the world and like I said there are people on the line right now just so you guys all know who are not from Nebraska we've got out of all over the country that come and watch these so you'll be sharing out with librarians everywhere but you can't hire any of our scholarship students because they have to stay in Nebraska to work that's part of the stipulation the other stipulation don't steal our people the other stipulation was that we ask that our scholarship students disseminate what they learned and part of it was for them to practice writing up what they learned or speaking about what they learned but also that's something we wrote into the grant is that we need to disseminate and spread the love I just wanted to say a few more things that I thought of as everybody else was talking I want to say I was describing these projects to my wife and I was like this was gorilla filmmaking I mean it really was and at yeah at one point you watch one of the videos and then you watch a later one and in the later one in behind what they're filming is another team filming their video so you know that's the crunch time you know that they were the filming was almost overlapping in some cases two I want to say special thanks to the directors the local public library which is where that first one was mostly filmed they went off campus and into town the public library several of the videos were filmed at the dome college library and their director was basically giving them the run of the library from the looks of it to be able to film what they wanted to film and she actually participated in some of them so I think it's the summer too I think she was looking for a little excitement to happen in her library because college library is in the summer kind of quiet and the one thing I learned this is the one thing I got and I got it from Pat Leach she was she was sharing an anecdote about a family member of hers saying to her once that what is it, dumber people than you have done this well yeah you know yeah some of the things I do if I'm now just going to remind myself when something's really hard that probably dumber people than me have done this well so that means I probably can too and I think that's she wasn't sure how she thought it was a compliment and I'm pretty sure it is you have to think about it but I think I'm going to use that at least in my own head that the next time I hit a project that I'm not sure how the heck I'm going to pull it off know that I can it was nice to know that Michael was also fallible he ran into a couple of snags too so I mean it's all it's a learning process for all of us we're all at different stages but it was interesting actually to see his thought process he ran into a snag and we were able to witness his decision making and thought process of how he was going to overcome that little you know get over that wall or get around that wall whatever I can't remember during one of the sessions is like oh let's see and then he couldn't find something in Tech Atlas yes right he couldn't find something and so you know just to see that all of us are at different tech-savvy stages and actually it was someone at the end in their evaluations that I'm becoming a tech geek oh no oh no so people you know you're spreading your wings you're jumping out of your comfort zone but this weekend was all about having the opportunity in a safe environment to gain the confidence to move forward and jump into new waters so that was half of it was just the practice of doing it and I see we have a director's cut we're not going to play it now but somebody has actually posted a director's cut go to the we have included the as we do a recording strength of this live we include links to everything and I've included the link already in our delicious account to the Nebraska Live Brands Learn Together Facebook page so go there and watch the video the director's cut and that is the team who I kind of forced them to kind of down to five minutes so they could actually put out a director's cut I want to bring it I don't want to be interested in you tell it well yeah so anyway okay okay great and I'm going to move the mouse to do my wrap up here okay well thank you everyone for attending we as I said we had people from they told me online from Texas and from Arkansas we're on watching us today so yes thank you everyone kind of for attending and thank you to all of our speakers here of course Michael Laura and Catherine but then on the line Jessica Angela and Skye thank you very much for being here and joining us remotely and Angie and I for coming into here today this is great we got to learn a lot about what's going on at Tech Radio like I said all of this information is up there they've got their tech blasts the recordings of their videos the resources they use the things that they learned about so take a look at them and play with them and learn about them yourself so thank you everyone and that will wrap us up for today and I hope you will join us here on Encompass Live next week when our topic will be library box something you may not know what the heck it is a mobile DIY library is the title um Jason Griffey who is at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga has come up with a library box which is a small little thing in a book he's going to explain it next week a router a flash drive and a battery pack you can have a little portable self-contained library of digital resources e-books whatever it is you want to be sharing and he will be with us next week online to demo and show us this library box of his so you can see what it's all about so definitely sign up for next week's Encompass Live and join us then and also we do have as well a Facebook page where you can follow anything that we're doing at Encompass Live um here that's what Krista really looks like she's not a frog she's not a frog she's a swan so if you're a Facebook you can follow us on there and see um be notified of every time we have a new session coming up or recording is posted or anything has been scheduled so follow us on Facebook as well so thank you everyone for attending and I hope we'll see you next week bye bye