 Okay. Hello everyone, my name is Tiffany. Welcome to the June community meeting. We do expect this to be a small meeting because many of our usual attendees are actually busy with summer stuff as I'm sure you guys are too. But on behalf of the steering committee who many of us are here today. We are so so excited that you guys are able to join us for today's meeting. Let's talk about agenda. So for today's agenda, we're going to start with some mentee setup. We'll talk through how to get you guys set up in the mentee so that you can give us feedback and participate in the meeting. And then we will go through some organizing process updates so we do have some updates on the planning process for the conference for you guys. And then we'll have some questions for feedback from you guys. So to get us started that here's how we set up mentee so if you've never been to a meeting before or if you have and just need the steps to get set up again. The first thing that's important to know is just it's mentee works a lot better if you use a separate browser or use your phone or your tablet to open it up. That way you're not having to flip back and forth between browser windows. So you have a couple of options you can go to mentee calm and enter the code 5477378. And that will get you into our mentee and ready to provide feedback, or Nicole has put a direct link in the chat for you guys you can also click on that and that will get you in. There's also a mobile app if you have if you have the mobile app or feel like downloading it the. You can use the same code there. You can afford. To get into the mentee. Tell us where you're joining from so give us your US state your Canadian province or your country if you're not in the US or Canada, and wherever you're from welcome to the meeting we're really excited to have you here. So I see we have Rhode Island, Quebec, Tennessee, New York, Colorado. I don't know where that is. Where's bow. USA, Colorado dirty say that California, New York is the biggest that means we have multiple people from New York. Georgia, Alberta, I'm in Georgia too. That's where I'm from. Well, that's actually where I live it's not where I'm from. Okay I think we're ready to move forward I don't see any more movement. So we'd love to know what you're doing this summer so we are into summer it's June, and I'm sure you guys are doing either really exciting stuff really busy stuff, or just like relaxing because that's what summer is for. So I'd love to know what you guys are doing this summer. For me, I'll tell you I am taking a class and and relaxing a little bit working of course. And I'll be teaching in the second half of summer to we are and I love that. We should all we are for summer. Working, enjoying the backyard air conditioning. Catching up. Outdoor movies, being a dog dad. These are so fun. Teaching, camping outreach. Oh of course the dog that is Jeff leash training my cat that's awesome I wish I could leave leash train my cats. Instead, I put them in a stroller to take them for walks because they just won't walk on the leash. I'm using bird feeders. Something new came up but I missed where it went so reading, I think that's it. This is awesome it sounds like we have very relaxing and also productive summers ahead of us. So I am going to go ahead and hand this off to Spencer for an operations update. Awesome. Thank you Tiffany and I want to know the secret sauce that it takes to leaf train a cat because that sounds incredibly difficult. Hey everybody my name Spencer I'm in Colorado. I work at the Colorado Department of Higher Ed, and I am here to give you some updates on the organizing process, especially for those of you who may be joining us for the first time or maybe you've heard our recap here, just wanted to give you a quick overview of how the conference is organized and how it is a very community oriented process. So the 2021 operating structure, you can see here we're entering our second year of this commitment among kind of four different partner organizations and many many volunteers. Our organizations are listed there open stacks as kind of our fiscal manager spark with our operational and logistical leads, and then the university system of Maryland and the Colorado Department of Higher Education, also supporting the conference to bring these past two years to fruition. It was a great time last year and again building that that vision for this, the second year through the two year commitment. And that includes all things from running the conference to strategic planning and the work with various committees, including the steering committee and many community driven processes, one of which includes this type of meeting that we hold regularly and it's great to see kind of repeat, repeat colleagues and new faces every time we do it. With regard to the committee work that's happening, like I said many many volunteers help this conference to, to take place and to, to be executed and it takes various, various committees to make that happen so you have listed here, some of the committees in the conference so we have a program committee which is in charge of the call for proposal process diversity equity and inclusion committee, always bringing a lens and really spirit of diversity, equity and inclusion to all dimensions of the conference. So there's a lot of committees focus on that but this committee is specifically charged with that that responsibility we have a communications committee who's done a fantastic job with branding outreach and marketing, and then we have a strategic planning committee thinking about now and the future of this conference. So there are more committees going to be formed this summer there are ongoing volunteer opportunities if you are interested or people you know are interested please please get involved. So I am now going to hand it off to Winnie to tell us a little bit more about conference 2021 Winnie. So, of course, registration is open for the Open Medication 2021 conference. We sent out a save the date last month on October for October 18 20 to the 22nd of 2021. So the conference will be then and it will be a virtual conference. The rates are open and the rates are the exact same as last year the standard is $75 and the student is $25 and of course scholarships are available we don't want finances to be a barrier to your attendance at the conference so if you would like scholarship applications are due on August 13 for priority consideration, and we'll go ahead and post a link to the scholarship application in the chat. The next is the call for proposals. The call for proposals has been out for a while now and the submissions are due June 21 so right around the corner about 10 days at 1159pm. We encourage everyone to read the call for proposals and its entirety before submitting any proposal it'll tell you everything you need to know guidelines or requirements. If you want to submit a proposal that you do after you've been accepted. We want to especially encourage students K through 12 and international submission so if you fall under one of those categories please please apply or submit a proposal and if you know colleagues or friends who are in the open field who would be great proposal would submit an excellent proposal please encourage them to apply to the conference. I'm going to go ahead and hand it over to Nicole. Well, thanks so much, Winnie and everybody. And yes, thank you Wendy for for answering that in the chat about the due date for the call for proposals. So, we, at these meetings it's very important to us to just create opportunities to gather feedback from community members using Mentimeter as a tool to bring additional voices into the planning process. And specifically today we have a couple of questions that we'd like to ask that are relevant to the long term strategic planning process that's been going on Spencer Spencer mentioned it earlier. And this process started in March and April, it's run by one of our committees. The goal process is to figure out sort of what comes next for the conference once the two year period that the organizations that Spencer mentioned, hand off the conference at the end of the year. And the strategic planning process is developing, you know, goals mission vision and governance structure to carry the conference forward. And the process has spent a lot of time thinking through things. In terms of possibilities, you know the possibilities are really endless, given the open education field and how much it's grown and how much potential there is. And just all of the great ideas that have come up at last year's conferences and this this year's meeting, or these this year's meetings about what the conference could be. In the process, in order to sort of start getting down to brass tacks and narrowing things down to what is really the crux of the open education conference. The strategic planning committee has sort of flipped those questions had a little bit and is trying to really get at, you know what is what is it about the open education conference that makes it what it is and makes it sort of the, you know, perhaps that is an important piece of the community that it is. So we're going to ask you two questions through Mentimeter if you're not already in Mentimeter, you should be able to join through the link in the chat. And the first. So these questions are meant to be provocative. So, I guess, take that with a grain of salt. So the first question is, what do you get out of attending an ad conference that you don't get anywhere else. So this is, you know, maybe for people who've attended before you may not have an answer to this question. And that's okay. But if you do, we'd really love to hear what what you have to say. So what are you out of attending the open ed conference that you don't get anywhere else hope to attend having yet. Awesome. So glad that you're here. Wonderful. Alright, so legitimately interesting. Certainly, you know, being able to present at a central conference, we hear that a lot from people that that's helpful. Excitement for student engagement. Absolutely. We're really working hard on that this year. Opportunity to connect with people, new ideas, support from others, dealing with OER. Chance to discuss open ed research. Just to a specific part of the open education world, absolutely. It's not the only open education conference or the only space to connect, but it is, it is one. Support for advocacy. It's not working. And you should be able to enter multiple if you wish to. Pause this real quick. So I'm seeing a lot of like networking practice using OER resources. Support from others sharing the work. Absolutely. And for those who don't know what that means, the debate over whether crunchy or puffy Cheetos is better was a giant inside joke at last year's conference and I think is certain to continue this year. Wonderful. Well, thanks for all of these answers. This is very helpful. In addition to seeing your responses here and reacting to them. So I'm excited to be invited to the strategic planning committee as additional input for the process. So we're going to move on to our next question, which is meant to be provocative. So we're asking the question this way, what is lost if the open education conference does not continue past 2021 so if we were to stop planning anything right now and just hold the 21 21 conference and that's it. What would you want that you couldn't have next year, if it weren't to happen and again this is completely hypothetical and meant to provoke, you know, answers. So, momentum, pedagogical heritage. That's such an interesting way of looking at it. Thank you for submitting that shared implicit knowledge. The opportunity to work with such fantastic people. I agree with that one. Progress toward national narrative standards community. A welcoming and recruiting space for new we are educators and advocates. Professional development and network new leaders will not have a focused conference for we are conversations on the state of the field. This is just a proprietary educational resources, pause this in a little bit to make sure we get everything a conference to validate and give people credibility and their work. That theme has come up a couple of times. Collaboration leading to progress sense of belonging. These are all really great. Thank you. I think we just have one other one that I'm trying to get at before and do feel free to put your notes in the chat. If you didn't get a chance to submit it to mentor. So affordable professional development was the last one. I think and I haven't seen one submitted in a while. So I think maybe we can go ahead and wrap up but if there's anything anybody would like to submit, we do it now. Thanks for people of all different backgrounds to advance professionally I love that unity. All right. Well thank you for submitting this again these will be shared with the strategic planning committee for consideration. And I'm going to pass it over to David for one last opportunity to share and put before we wrap up. So this is a bit more of an open ended one. What's what's going on everybody's lives what's what are you curious about with the conference or is there anything that's fun that's happened for you recently that you'd love to share with everybody. Kind of a bit of a toast yourself moment if there's something cool that you've done you want to share, or have any questions for anybody. I'm going to fold them out. I know it's a gorgeous day out here so I know I'd love to share that it's a nice day and I'm excited for the weekend for the first time a while because it's been really, really rainy here for a little bit. H5P is becoming a thing in OER. Cool. I don't fully know what H5P is but that sounds like it's a cool thing that's becoming a thing in OER so that's cool to hear. So we are a professional development series at your college. Nice. That's actually really cool. That's always a fun way to like get colleagues involved and really build a lot of skills there. Glad that we're in a better place than 2020. Same, honestly, like it, it is starting to feel really good. I know the vaccination timelines here where I'm at is getting kind of pushed up a little bit so I'm actually thinking I might be able to get my second dose relatively soon and there's a thing coming closer to the end for me. So H5P, Harry Potter 5, a thing in OER. Harry Potter 5, okay. That's not what I expected but you know what, open sourced wizarding novels could always be a really interesting idea. H5P.org is an alternative to SCORM packages and such. Oh, interesting. Lots of planning for new open education projects. Nice. Regional conferences was great. We connect them to the international or in the national level. That's an interesting one. Reading some good books that scene that it seems like. Virtual learning and how is virtual learning change and advanced OER. That is a really interesting question. I know it's at my institution here in Alberta, there's definitely been an increased awareness of OER and a general knowledge base of it's just been increasing. I think that might be evidence of a bit of a larger trend with the move to online conversations of OER have been really pushed broader to the forefront and people are kind of acknowledging that they do have a really important space in our, in our learning. I read the, the, I'm reading the infinity game by Simon Sinek and my brain automatically auto corrected that to Shrek. So, if there's anybody else who's rewatching the Shrek movies I think that is a very fun thing to do over the summer, I would highly suggest. Did anyone get to Alex's question above both the proposal review process and whether or not it's double blind. I believe you don't get a notification of the name of the author of the proposals when you're reviewing it. So you will get the information of what's in the proposal but not the actual author name themselves. My time to showcase my cats in her fabulous open ed 2020 hoodie. It is actually new and refurbished a bit of the backing came off so we just finished in brooding it again. So it's a one of the kind self hand embroidered open ed sweater. And she absolutely loves it. This is Lucy. She loves the developments, press books need to generate support from administrative leadership because there's been a lot of movement in provost presidents. That's a really interesting concept. Yeah, does anybody have ideas for how to engage a lot more academic leadership and stuff like this conference seems like a hot, like higher has a lot of stimulus money. What will we do with all of it. Learning experience design. Now I want Cheetos lots of stuff on everybody's mind it's really good to see that that everybody's engaging with everything and people are getting excited for for what's to come lots of good questions in here to does look like the new answers are slowing down a little bit. What's the next food debate. How can we make discord spicier. My go to is maybe some like some cayenne pepper is my go to for making things spicier, but I do have some very nice hot sauce. So I could just pour that on my keyboard before I type anything in discord if that'll help out. I think, oh, a hot sauce showcase that could be good, we could do I know we had a cooking competition competition last year, we could always do a, an open at a hot sauce challenge we're almost like the caught ones or something. I don't think Texas know it isn't in a lot of different ways. Yeah, peeps, not sure if that's peeps is in people or peeps is in those like marshmallow candies. I've never once been able to actually like eat a peep I'm not sure if they're actually meant to be edible. But I do know they hold a cultural importance to some parts of the United States so I will not, I will refrain from my critique of those. So I think that that is something that I think is also super awesome. That could be happening I've been really looking at like co constructing, like texts as a, as actually a form of assessments for courses I know I actually saw a really cool panel last year at open at talking about using a course to co create the resource for the presentation of that course, which I thought was a really, really cool idea. It's looking like there's a pineapple on pizza debate that that could get a little bit too intense I know there's some, some very very strong opinions on that one. Fun fact pineapple and pizza and Hawaiian pizza was actually invented in Canada. I believe there's really much connection to Hawaii other than the fact that it has pineapple on it because I believe there was Greek immigrants in Toronto that invented pineapple and pizza as a concept. So, really just an interesting roundabout way to get on to there. So we are Q&A and analytics. I know that that could be an interesting concept just like a general Q&A about how to get involved in OER or how to create a winner. Oh we are that could be interesting. Oh quality assurance my immediate thought was question and answer. But how do how to kind of set quality assurance and measure analytics earlier that could be a very interesting topic to delve in. Yeah. I think there's slowing down a little bit so I will pass it off to Aisha for kind of a bit of information but what's going to go on for the next meeting and and what to expect. Hi everyone. Thank you all for coming out to our monthly community meeting don't forget to follow the conference on social media. The app is Hey open ed, and you can follow it on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and make sure whenever you tweet about the conference. This is the official hashtag open ed 21. Our next meeting will be taking place July 9 from 1 to 2pm Eastern and we look forward to seeing me all there. Thank you all for coming out today and giving amazing feedback, and we appreciate it all, and we hope to see you all there.