 There are people there. Good morning. Hello there, OE Global. We are live from the conference floor here on OEG Live. Thank you for joining us. Getting set up. You can see down the hallway, getting set up for your main session. Down in the bedroom. I'm Alan Levine. And as you can see, there's a lot of activity here going on. I see three people out there listening in. So hello. This may be a little bit ad hoc. And we don't know what's going to happen here during opening time. People are just checking in. We have a lovely, lovely day of weather here in Edmonton. Hello, NRG. I see people from Nepal are in here with us. We have Nepal, Marcella. You say hello. Wave hello. Hello, everyone. There's Marcella Morales. How are you doing? Welcome. And thank you, Alan. Yeah, and Judith is out there. Oh, hello, Judith. So excited. Thank you for joining us, Judith. I wish you could be here. Excellent. It's really exciting. And so we hope to bring you some little snippets here. I am live with the OE Global Group here on a spare camera around to show what's going on. And we will just be trying to during the conference. We'll bring you some, hope some people will come up and get a chance to talk to them and ask some questions. And we just thought we would try to bring some little snippets of the live conference event. Thanks to everybody who might be joining us. We also will have many of the sessions, all the sessions streamed starting at the opening ceremony that's in about 20 minutes. There's an opening drum ceremony. And then following that, we have some announcements, of course, and welcome. And morning keynote is happening with Darren Latenda from Northwest College. And then we just hope to be able to share as much as possible the excitement here. We hope to follow us along and OE Connect. We're live on the internet with people from different colleges. And you can see down the hall some of the other sessions getting ready here in Edmonton. And we're just, yeah, like Judith says, we're learning to go. I will make sure I get some links into the chat here, because I think probably the best way to be part of this is to see the, be able to tap into the live stream sessions. So we have everything set up. So everything happening in the two main conferences will be live streamed. Yeah. Excuse me. I'm like setting up three things at once here. This is when you go live on the internet and don't practice everything exactly. But from OE Connect and also within the conference schedule, you can access the live stream. So everything in what we call Bear. We kind of had this idea to rename some of the main rooms. I hope everybody can hear me. It's obviously starting to get a little noisy here. So everything happening is going to be available there as a stream. You can watch in OE Connect and we even have a little chat channel. Greetings. I'll say hello to Noel Orange. Hey, we're streaming. We're on OEG Live. It's a little bit of a... Okay, I just recruited Michael. He's a colleague that works at University of Alberta. Anyways, he's doing a project about 3D hearts and it's openly licensed. Let's try to say, you know, tell the people from Nepal watching. Oh, really? Yeah. Hello everyone. So my name is Michael McNally and I'm an associate professor just over the river at the University of Alberta. And I'm doing a project with some pediatric cardiologist colleagues. And we're working on making 3D models for pediatric congenital heart defects. So we have a range of different models that we're able to print. And the idea is we make openly licensed instructional videos that explain the kind of surgical procedures that correct the defects over time. Usually it's a series of procedures. And then to accompany those, we have 3D interactive models and principal models of hearts with, in this case, sometimes a normal. This is a normal heart. And in other cases, models that show kind of post-surgery what the corrective procedures are. And so the videos walk people through and show them how the heart is basically... In fact, you can touch it. Yeah, that's it. And so there's high-end kind of $400 prints that are properly colored and very fancy looking. And they're used in clinical offices. But the idea with these models is you can print them at a local library. And then that's something the family or others could have and explain and understand. Because it is, I think, for families, of course, overwhelming when they get that news that the child has a heartbeat. That's fabulous. Thank you, Michael. Oh, you're welcome. I'm glad you just wandered by and I'm going to step on the car. Thank you, buddy. All right. Have a great conference. Thank you. There you go. So you can see that there's lots of people now coming in. Hey, Robert. Right. Want to join the live stream? Oh, yeah. If you can give me how... Instructions how I get it under the internet here. Oh, okay. It's the network name is Encore. Yes. And the password is OE Global, capital O-E-G. Capital O-E-G and then logo with small case. Yeah, that's all. Yeah. Thank you. Okay, then I'll join. Hi. Robert, sure. Yes? Yeah. Yeah. Where are you from? I'm from the Netherlands. Yeah. Since Wednesday I'm here already. Yeah. And so what did you say about the conference today? I'm exciting, of course. I'm really looking forward to what I can learn here. I still have to make a choice from the program, which is really give you some stress because there's so much you can see and you can visit and to know and to learn about I have to make some choices. Yeah, excellent. Hang on, I got some music playing here. Is it good music? I'm not too sure where I got music coming from, but it's playing. You're in the show. Oh, okay. I don't know if anybody else is hearing music, but I'm hearing some jazz music going in the background. Oh, Paul. Paul's over there. Good morning. Hi Paul. Oh, Paul's at the table. Yes, Paul Stacey. Good morning, Alan. Exciting to be here. Yeah. So what's in here? Yesterday I was at the Indigenous Experience event, and I'm here this morning looking forward to the opening event and to Darian Lutongra's keynote speech and to the dance and drumming. Yeah. Yeah. And as if you're gonna breathe, yeah. It's always a treat, Alan. It's an opportunity to meet people like Robert, talk to people like you. I know. Yeah. It's so wonderful. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. All right, everyone. Have a good day. Thank you. Good to see you, Robert. Thank you. Well, you can see it's getting very active. Yes, Judith. Mariam's there. Mariam, come say hello. Hello, Alan. Hello, everyone. We got some people out from Nepal. So I don't know. Can you still hear us out there? It's pretty exciting. Oh, okay. I'm in charge of this. Alan, I finally found you. Not in Musia, but in Edmonton. Hey, we're live on the Internet, oh, that's great. We're doing OED livestreams on the conference floor. I'm so glad to be here, and Alan, you're going to have a laugh when you hear this. Okay. When this conference was touted as sustainability, I thought I would find a hundred people that were doing what I'm doing around curriculum courses, OERs related to climate change, and it's the sustainability word is used in many ways. Obviously, it's about much more than that. But anyway, I'll find a few of my peeps. You're ahead of the curve, Vivian. Okay. Well, always, always. It's so good to see you. We'll catch up later. We have to, because I have to tell you about my trip to Saskatchewan. Okay. Take care. Vivian Forceman from British Columbia, who's very much into sustainability. Where is it? What are you having? We have swag. Oh, okay. Oh, you should get one of those to Del Mar, because you didn't get a trophy. And look at this. You get a sneak peek at one of the OE awards for excellence trophies, where we have that session coming up at 11 o'clock. That'll be live stream. Do you want me to hold them up? Can you hold them up for that session? Oh, you're just going to take it out. So this is the trophy that's given out to the individual award winners. Tell us about the trophy. Well, it's a pretty printed trophy. It's printed on the Fablat in Costa Rica. The UNED Fablat. So it has also a case down in wood and acrylic. It has some LED lights. It has some really cool lights. So again, this is going to be the trophy. Hello. Hi, guys. How are you? Should I go and catch people? We're on LED light, ma'am. That's watching. Hello. Yes, you, ma'am. We're like neighbors. We have to come back and meet each other. Exactly. We're on each other's way back. So it's wonderful. We're just young. Yeah, well, that predated her. We're so good at being together. It should be giving me to see my old friends. Meeting these folks, you know, sharing the importance of open education globally. With everyone, I've been doing it on the plane on the way over here. Three different planes. Right. People just look at me like I two heads, but you know, it's all fine. Thank you. Yeah, a couple of presentations I'm doing. So that should happen there. We love the theme, the indigenous idea of creating ideas and community together. Like Marilyn said, like being able to see old friends, big new friends, building that community, I think is really, it's an highest priority. Yeah. Yeah. I'm very excited for that. And the day that we met yesterday, I hope this is the indigenous people's traditions. We got to Oh, I missed that. Well, observe and experience scraping back off of those scenes and keeping a fire going. Hello out there. Some new people join us live. I'm glad you could join us. I didn't know exactly what to do here. I just thought we should try and see what can happen to students on the conference. We'll have some campfire sessions. I'll do another one this afternoon. And we will do some as well during the morning afternoon. My colleague Isla is going to rope some more people in. It's about nine minutes out from the opening session. Hello. That's fine. I think it's still stuck. Say hi to everybody. Judith is out there. Hello, Judith. Oh, good morning, Judith. I brought swag from past conferences. A lovely book from Nelon on Caffeine Creek Open Sleep Repeat, which I am giving away. Are we going to raffle these later? We can, yes. This is not swag. I've got socks from OER Arizona. Oh, wow. Going once, going twice. Oh, there you go, folks. Real swag. Okay. Hello, good morning. We're doing OED live. Good morning. Who's out there? Judith, and we have someone watching. Stephanie, hi. So good to see y'all. Happy you're joining us in Nepal. Yeah. Fantastic. So what are you most excited? What's your top thing that you're looking forward to today? Today, I'm really looking forward to the keynote and the drum ceremony. I think that's going to be really a unique experience. It's just a few minutes away. I know. How about you, Stephanie? What are you most excited about? Me, too. There's just so many wonderful sessions. I just can't make up my mind. I don't know what I'm going to do. That's the conference dilemma. Where are you from, Stephanie? Oh, okay. That's fine. Yes. He's a fellow Maricopin, tri-chair of our American, or American Provinces. Alan worked at MCLI, and he is... He's the pre-Cambrian era. He is actually a geologist. He's a geologist. At least he gets my geology. I do. And he also has been instrumental. And he'll go like, oh, no, thanks, guys. So good to see you all. Good morning. Enjoy. Good. Thanks for saying hi. Thanks for joining us. That's great. Yes. And she did send it to me. So I'll agree. This has been fun to do this. We'll be back in a couple hours. It's Mala Coopies. We're on OEG Live. I have a question. No. Good to see you. And I'm going to wrap this up right now, because it's time for me. Oh, I got to get a hug over here. Good to see you. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? We're... Hello. Hello. I'm alright. The conference can now start, because our board chairs are here. Bonjour. Okay, everybody. Thank you very much. You can get a sense of excitement. We'll be back a little bit later. And take care. And tune in on social media. Thank you very much. Thank you. Bye.