 OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. So first of all, let me just tell you a little about me and why I am here and then I'd like to hear what you're hoping to get because I have a presentation set, but if there's something else that you came for that's not in that, then we'll change and we'll cover that. My name is Peggy Romlendy. I'm an English teacher by trade. That's how I started out. Way back when, 1987, and I was both a comprehensive high school principal as well as adult school principal in two different stints, and so I thought I was the principal for about 10 years. And I would say that with OTAN, they were a godsend for me, especially when I first started at adult school because I had been in the high school for so long. And so I learned so much from them and just what was happening that I always said, well, whenever I have something that I think works, I'll share it. I am actually a retired educator. I'm now part-time as the director of the North Santa Clara County Consortium, and I will actually be retiring fully in June. So that's part of the reason why I'm sharing now, because we found something that really works and so I wanted to share that with you. So that's me. If I could have you, since we're, oh, thanks, Veronica, if we're a small group, so instead of putting it in the chat, if you want, just unmute yourself and let me know, you know, what are you hoping to get here? What's your action verb for coming to this session? Anybody? I just want to learn about Wakelet. Okay. We're going to do that. Yeah, we're hoping to get our school, all of our teachers, on Wakelet. So, and also we're doing Blask, so we have a lot of documents to sort. Oh, this is going to be Heaven for Blask. Yay. Yeah. Yeah, I also want to learn more about Wakelet, but also how to organize materials and shared materials. Yeah. Okay, great. Anything else beyond that? Those are all things we're covering. So that's good. All right. Well, let me go ahead and share my screen, and let's get started. Let me reduce the faces here. Not that I don't want to see you guys. All right. So first of all, just to let you know, I'm really relaxed with technology. I think when you're using technology, it's kind of a wonderful chaos. So I also started out teaching freshman English, so and freshman can be a little bit bouncy and squirrely and I'll talk at the same time and I can hear them all. So if you have any questions as I'm going through things, just unmute, feel free, unmute, won't bother me, be happy to clarify or do whatever. So we're going to be talking about, I'm going to be sharing with you kind of organizing and accessing your consortium documents, could be WASC documents, could be ESL teacher team documents, staff development documents, whatever with Wakelet. Okay. That's kind of what the whole point of this is. And when you leave here, you will have kind of engaged with Wakelet and its features. If you didn't create an account ahead of time, you'll have time to do that and to begin creating something. And you will also, when you leave here, identify how you might use it in the future. So you may have an idea coming in, but for example, if you want all your teachers on Wakelet, maybe you'll figure out a way to begin that process. You know, how do you kind of, what do you begin with them? How do you, how do you get them to buy in? So we can talk a little bit about that as we're going through. And then you're going to explore at least one model of Wakelet in action and that's our consortium Wakelet. So those are the things that we're going to do. Now I will tell you that we probably will go through about an hour and then we'll just be playing with Wakelet. So you know, maybe for half an hour. And so if at any point you say, got it. I'm done. No problem. Just pop it in the chat and say, you know, I'm heading out and you won't hurt my feelings, but please do the evaluation. I'd appreciate that. So I did more time so that people who needed more time could work on it. Okay. So pretty, pretty easy going here. So what is Wakelet? It curates, it organizes, it shares content. And you can do all kinds of things. You can put in images, you can put in text, you can reorder it however you want to. It also does tweets, videos, it links to Padlet. It does all kinds of things. So basically what it does is it helps you to collect and organize things. And that's really nice. You can do it on a private level where you're collecting and organizing just for yourself and you set it to private and no one can see it. Or it could be for others that you're working with and then you make it public. So lots of options in terms of layers of sharing and layers of things you can do with Wakelet. So why did I go for it? So I am not a Wakelet expert by any means. Susan Gehr was giving a presentation, I have mad respect for her. And I thought, you know, maybe that's the thing I need. So I went there. Melinda was the tech at the time and I said, hey, can you, can you link, you know, Google Docs? Can you do this? And they're like, yeah, I think you can. And so anyway, she went through lots and lots of details that I don't even know that I've touched all the things that Wakelet can do. So I'm no expert by any means. But this is why I went for it. I got all these questions. See if you can relate this. Can you send me that link again? Or I don't think I was ever invited to the Google Doc. Can you invite me again? Or I tried looking for the training, but it just wasn't there. Can you send me a link to the website so I can sign up? Oh, wait, where can I find our group strategy timeline again? Or wait, where can I find the notes from our WASC subgroup? Or how about, it's just, you know, it's too confusing. There's so much stuff and I can't find it on the website. I just, I don't know. I'm sorry. I just, I don't know. I'll come to the meeting, but I, yeah, I don't know. Okay. Anybody can relate to that, I think. Right. So that's why. And so when I went to Wakelet, I found that. Wow. I could solve all those questions, all those problems. Have a lot less headaches for myself, as well as the individuals that were asking the questions, because that's kind of embarrassing when you have to say, sorry, I can't find it. Can you send it to me again? Right. So it eases a lot of things. All right. So what is this picture? This is after a home run. Josh Reddick many years ago hit it out of the park. I'm a huge baseball fan and the Oaktown boys are my boys. So I thought, I'll show you how Wakelet hit it out of the park for our consortium. So let's go to our website here. I call the website, but our weekly. All right. So first things first. I don't, at the time when I was on the session, I didn't know how to sign up and have it be just under the consortium. It seemed like it would only go under a name. It may be that you can do it under a name that is your school or your consortium, but mine just has my name. So we got to sort that before I leave so that somebody else can take this over. But it allows you on the Wakelet to basically, you know, put pictures and then it gives you these creations where you can put anything you want into these. And that's how I started. I started with basically our work groups. Who kept trying to find the documents or didn't know where things were or, you know, it's hard. I don't know if you guys have problems in Google, but I do. It's like on the drive, even in the most recent, some of the most recent things end up at the very bottom under like 150 other things. And so it's not the easiest way to use it. So what I wanted to do is have one location where staff could go to, they could access their work group documents. And they could also access staff development. One of the things I noticed was that, well, first of all, they wanted a lot of things about online learning, right? And how can I get better at this? And that's what was happening in the fall. And so trying to put in some opportunities for them. Well, if you send out an email, people sometimes go, okay, I'll look at it later and it gets buried or they look at it and they say, oh, yeah, I don't know. I don't know where to go sign up. And then, you know, the other thing that happened is our kind of grassroots movement over the justice pandemic, I guess that's the way I'd call it. And people who were trying to really understand what could, what can I do after George Floyd was murdered? What can I do? Besides say their names, what can I do? How can I help? And so people really wanted to learn more and that was fantastic. So I started curating some of those things that they could go to. And then, you know, just things like if you're working with pathways and workforce skills, a lot of times those staff development opportunities are kind of buried. And so basically what happens is you go here. Now, mind you, I haven't put in the spring things yet. So the spring collection. But what you do is you click on it. And then it is here. And you can just click on it and it will take you to where you sign up. So here's one that's coming up in April and May. If I click on this, it takes me right to where I need to register. Okay. So what I'm doing is I'm curating OTAN, CalPro, CAPE, sometimes co-aid, different things that just come across my desk that that are my desktop, I guess I should say. So I'm going to do that and allow people to get more training. I've also posted one, I took a session with OTAN about, you know, how to create a PowerPoint and do a voiceover, make it into a movie. So I did a little zoom recording of that for people and I put it here. It's also on our website. But it's very simple for them to go in and look at what's happening. So here's one of our work groups. And this holds all the annual plan strategies and what we're working on. And so right now, one of the groups that is working on curriculum alignment, sometimes people come and go from that group. And so what that does is it gives us, here's our timeline, here's our, you know, our overall goals, the backward planning, the, you know, how will we know we accomplish this strategy? And so like before last week's meeting, I said, hey guys, you know, go to the Wakelet and just review the timeline so you can see what we're doing. You'll see the agenda matches that. But just remind yourself of what you're supposed to bring. And so it was very simple. And so that works out well. We also were doing pathway maps. And so this, people couldn't find it in Google because it had a weird name. First of all, so. I just put the pathway map on here. These are turning into. Graphics that will be handed out at the adult school. And the colleges and also posted online, but you can see all the things down here. Mapping for the ESL. So all of these things, they can just go and access. Okay. So that's really, you know, why I wanted to do Wakelet. Because it just curates things put some in one spot for you guys. I just put in here, I put the ebook that tells you kind of things you can do with Wakelet. And we're going to look at this video in a few minutes. And then there's another one on collaboration. And I like this guy right here. First of all, I like his accent. I think he's adorable, but he's very articulate and explains things very well, even though he says he's not a teacher, he, he should be. So anyway, so this will help you if you're trying to get your teachers to use it. So we'll give you a link for this in the chat. In fact, let me do that now. Okay. And Peggy, Peggy, while you're doing that, we also have a question. Can you share that folder about online learning? Someone asks, can you share that folder about online learning? The, the what? Folder. Yeah, the folder on online learning. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Okay. Yes. The collection is right here. Again, there's not this, the spring isn't in here. And so. Yeah, it's everything from, you know, workforce ready. Some things like this will go in the, in the career pathways, online learning, as well as here. Sometimes I'll duplicate it. So if they go to one, as you call it folder or collection, wakelit calls it collection. It will go here as well as another one. And so these are all things that just like this is OTAN, this is OTAN, this is cow pro. Okay. OTAN, OTAN, OTAN, OTAN rocks. And some of these come out of certain divisions. So the little adult at office career and college transition. And then here what I put in this one is in the spring of 2020, I kind of took what Veronica and Neil were doing. They were doing kind of Friday sessions and they, they were doing the same thing. They were doing the same thing. And then they were doing the same thing. Where we could just ask questions, share that kind of thing, why this isn't working. I'm not sure. But basically it, this has links to these office hours. So I did the same thing they were doing with my consortium. And we did office hours and we basically did whatever people wanted to do. They came. They said, this is what we want to learn about. Sometimes I bring something like, you know, something like that. That's a former high school student of mine, Lisa, who was in Contra Costa and I'm not sure where she is now. I got to call her, but anyway, she had it some really neat stuff. And so she shared it with me over email. And so put that on there. And so this basically is just taking. Us to the webpage. That is on our. On our website. And so that's what's neat too, is that if you have something where you, you know, have things on the website and you just want to pull them there. And maybe it's a, a WASC page or something like that. You can just make the link. Okay. Let's see the chat here. Okay. Is it public? Yes. Everything is public. And yes, I can absolutely. Share everything with you. And here's how I can share it. Is. You just come to at Peggy Ron Lindy, which you may not remember how to spell my name and that's okay. So we'll put that in the chat. And if you go there, you can actually just. Follow or just bookmark it, whatever you want to do. And all this stuff is free. And one of the things that I've done with this too, is that with like the online learning, when I, when I put these things together, I shared it with my two consortia on each side. And so, hey, feel free to send this out. Feel free to, to grab and go. And so I'm going to curate a bunch of stuff. I'm going to do this weekend for the spring staff development. So if, if you want to come back here and you want to go to the links, copy it and put it on your own. Wakelet feel free to grab and go, right? That's a, that's what good teachers do grab and go. So the other thing is, is that we have a. Process for accessing data. We have a consortium. I'll show you that real quick. Our consortium has. Our own data dashboard. And this is the number of enrollments. We have headcount and we have enrollments, but the number of enrollments of adult school students in our two colleges. From 2016 to the present. So they've taken almost 20,000 classes. And we can go in and we can search for all kinds of things. We can go through all kinds of things we need to know. The number of doors. It's current through fall of 2020. 2020. And we load the data two times a year because we just felt like we needed to come up with something because. The data was always in a rear. So if we wanted to follow a cohort and survey them. We needed to be able to know who the cohort was. So we can come up, we can drill down into what grades. They got and all kinds of things. But basically what we're doing now is we've finally gotten to the point where people can actually get access to the data dashboard and start looking at data. And we have a whole process and so here's an example of how you can tie to padlet, where I did a padlet that just put kind of the process you have to do this and then you do this and then you do this and then you do this and it's all about, you know, getting your data checked before it goes public and they have to do a user agreement where they just sign up Google Doc that says, yeah, I promise to get it checked, you know, so I don't put out air and data or something. And so this allows us to they can just come right here so they can sign up for a training. And that goes to another spreadsheet and they can sign up for a level one training or a level two training. And then after that they can explore the data and when they get the results they fill out kind of a results template it's just a little Google survey and that will allow me and then the subgroup to verify their data. And this is where they when I do the training they just do the user agreement and I just give them a minute and they, they go to this and they read it and they sign it and so it's really nice for me because here I am doing the training and I can just come to this page, and then I can just do everything in order right and go okay here's this and I need to do this and I need to do this okay now let's go play with the data, right and so that's really nice in terms of presenting having it just be right there and and easy to access. Okay. So, you just heard a bunch of stuff. I'm going to stop sharing for a second. I'm pretty soon we're going to play. Okay so don't worry we're going to play soon, but you just heard a bunch. I want to hear from you what. What are you thinking now, like, can you see yourself using this. If you're going to use it what would you first, what would you start with. If you're going to have a coffee and you're going to talk, and I have great white wait time. Okay, because I was an English teacher we did socratic seminars and let me tell you, great wait time. We started one for turn off adult school I haven't been using it for quite some time because I haven't had a chance, but we're hoping to in the fall have all of our teachers hooked up to it. I love the professional development folder idea because those emails are so hard to keep track of. Yeah, it really isn't Stacy I think you can, I think you can see you can pretty much do anything right so where you're having your most trouble. I would say, that's where you want to be right. So. All right who else. Oh there's Jodi I see you Jodi. Good to see you too. So this, this looks really interesting. And what I'm thinking we do many of the same things in our consortium, but it's not, but it's all on a website, and we organize it on a website this looks much more efficient. The emails are a little bit more but we're able to accomplish the same kind of thing. And I was just sitting here thinking about how would, what would be the advantage of shifting obviously to be a huge project but what would be the advantage of shifting to wake it, as opposed to say, having everything on your website. Yeah, so we've actually talked about that as a consortium and the leadership board really felt like, you know, we needed to keep kind of static things and calendar items on the website so the front page you know where you can really see. Here's upcoming agendas. Here's the meetings and the meeting links all the zoom you know we have a calendar of everything. So where people could just go there and they know I can get that. So the transition advisors and the counselors of the college felt like, you know, we still need a page that's just for us for counseling that has our agreements on there and what we plan to do and any flyers that we can share and it's working for us so we want to keep that one. And then the archiving of documents so we archive all our minutes of course I'm sure everybody does that you know. And so to be able to those static items, you know, to have them there, kind of in perpetuity is a good thing. But for the most part, what's happening is exactly what you're talking about Jodi which is, you know, we're pretty much using the wakelet for kind of the groundwork so everybody that's working on the strategies everybody that's doing and anything that's in action right now. That's in the wakelet. So I don't think you have to abandon your website I think it does serve a purpose but it kind of depends on, you know, what you want to do and so for us we decided to do both and so that seems to be working. It looks like it's more active. The wakelet is more interactive. It's more collaborative. It's more. I see what you mean by the static, as opposed to the purpose is really different. Very much so yeah and, and, you know, again, this is just my example and I've only been doing it for whatever it's been six months or something. I think it was less than the last spring. I don't know. Anyway, it hasn't been very long. And, you know, for me it's, I wanted to do it to solve the problem of I don't know where to go why don't I didn't I didn't read the minutes because I didn't know this and I didn't know that and I didn't have the link and you guys never sent that out and it's like over and over and over again and everybody was complaining about it. So it completely solved that like they just know it's like go to the wakelet. And it's like, use my name, go to the wakelet book market, go to the wakelet. And so now people, they actually are doing better at that they could never remember the name of our website. So this somehow they remember so. Okay, a lot better. And is there a cost to it. Okay, completely free. And you can use it without my love. This is the thing that went ding ding ding for me to is that yes, so yeah I'll get to you next. The, you don't have to sign up for a wakelet account, you can go there so anybody can jump on my wakelet and look at all the stuff. You only create an account if you want to create a wakelet, right. So that's beautiful, because, you know, I could say this because I'm an old dog learning new tricks some old dogs don't want to learn new tricks. And so it's good but they can click, and it's great. They go there they get it right. All right, Sonya I think you had a question yeah. Oh sorry I did not have a question I was just fixing my glasses, but I, but I think for you know I'm paying attention to you. Um, I, yeah everything you're sharing in the beginning just about all the Google folders like where is it. Did I get shared on it. That's exactly what happens with our teachers and they've been. Yes, I think the uploading of it is going to take a lot of work but I think once it's set then people can just add things and especially things that are not static thing through if people are working on a unit together then all the materials things that people are creating. Yes, it would be nice to just have it on a website versus like here's the Google folder for this. Yeah, a lot of it gets lost a lot of it gets messy. Just organize quickly. Yeah, and the nice part is you can create the links and for us we put the most recent links. So doesn't mean we have everything listed on there but you know you could list everything on there or you could put a folder that says, here's the archive stuff. There's all the Google archive stuff and have links there so it really does curate really nicely. Thank you. Yes. Hi this is Marcy with Corona Norco. I don't know how to raise my hand. So, even though my okay in my picture my hand is perpetually raised all the time but I have a question. I'm curious. I noticed your wakelit linked to a padlet. And I understand the importance of having a repository. Everybody meets for all the documents or everything here on this one site. So the options are really like padlet, a Google site or a wakelit. Can you talk for a minute about like why you're on wakelit versus padlet or a Google site. Yeah, so I think for me what was appealing about wakelit is that because I was also looking at it as a tool for the teachers and their online learning and what I realized was that it could include all of those things. So you could link to a padlet, but students for a class let's say it's you know beginning literacy or English and high school diploma, they could go to one location, and it would link to the padlet to the Google items, and it would all be in one place and I think that's the advantage is that it curates from everywhere it curates YouTube videos it curates Twitter posts it does all kinds of things and so basically what you can do is, you can have everything there so let me share my screen real quick. And I'm going to show you, I'll show you let's go to showcase here. And you'll see that let's find one that's a teacher. I know that, excuse me that we have several teachers that keep information for students on a website or notes padlet but then one just swears by wakelit and she's just like it's so much easier but I haven't really experienced the differences. Yeah, I'm trying to find one now for some reason what they have on the showcases. So broad topics and not this might be something let's take a look Steve Isaac so I assume he's a teacher. Oh, no this supports educator so it's all kinds of things. Okay, well, I don't want to spend a lot of time jumping through this but you can see that there are things on here that you can find this is just the showcase, but you also can. There are places you can go and there are links that take you to certain teachers pages and some of them are really phenomenal. I saw a kindergarten teacher who had just so many things and things for the parents to do with the kids and very much about what needed to be done, you know that week in reading and other things and so, you know, lots of really good stuff there. And in fact let's go ahead and jump over to. We talked a little bit about that. Let's go ahead and do this video let me make sure yeah share sound is still on. Hello everybody, my name is Misba and today I'm going to give you a quick tour around Wakelet. So what is Wakelet some of you may have heard about it before it's really simple. Wakelet is a platform that allows you to quickly save any kind of mixed media content you find on the web, arrange it into visual engaging collections, add your own content to these collections and then share them with your students, your teachers and your learning community. You can also invite your students to these collections so they can contribute their own ideas and work together to create some really amazing things. One platform, one simple concept, unlimited possibilities and this last part is really important. Wakelet is 100% free to use and 100% unlimited. How awesome is that? Now there are three important areas where Wakelet can really help you. The first one is organize your learning resources quickly and easily. The second one is sharing those resources in a more engaging and visual way. And the third one is to boost collaborative skills within your learning communities. So real quick let me show you a few awesome examples of how educators just like you are using Wakelet to achieve some incredible things in their schools, their classrooms and their professional lives. So first of all, we're going to head to Brandy Reans' collection. Now Brandy is a kindergarten teacher in North Carolina and she uses Wakelet in so many different ways. But one of the best ways that she uses is to actually curate these amazing interactive visual newsletters that she shares with her school community. So in this collection right here you can see one of Brandy's collections, one of Brandy's newsletters. She's got a Flipgrid video here. She's got the week's goals. So this is really awesome when it comes to instructing the parents on what's happening in the class and for the students to understand where they are. And again, another Flipgrid video, a YouTube video of the kids doing the lion dance. And then all of these little resources here, so a PDF and a website, and she's organized them in an incredible way. And as you can see, all of a sudden, rather than just having hyperlinks one after the other, this is a really, really engaging newsletter. And it's simply done by just copying and pasting links, and I'll show you that in just a few moments. So here we go, sharing newsletters, creating an amazing newsletter that you can share with whoever you want. So next up we have this amazing collection created by a teacher called Edward van der Sample. And he wanted to teach his students a little bit more about the civil rights movements in the United States and get his students to think a little bit more deeper into what that meant. So he created a Wakelet collection as a lesson plan, and here you can see he's got some text here. This is instruction. He's added some YouTube videos. He's also directly uploaded a, or recorded a Flipgrid video directly into the collection. I'll show you how to do that in just a few moments. Again, a PDF and then more instruction. Now this link here actually posts to a student response Wakelet. So he shared a unique code with his students. They've gone to that code and then being able to add their own responses and their own thoughts and complete this particular assignment in their own particular way. So I really love this collection. I think it's an amazing example of a lesson plan and another really good example of pulling lots of different resources together using that mixed media effect to create an amazing lesson plan. Lastly, we've got Julie Parsons. Now Julie Parsons, what you're looking at right now is a Wakelet profile. Julie Parsons is one of our amazing student ambassadors and she's created a digital portfolio on Wakelet. So what she's been able to do here is turn her profile page into this amazing interactive portfolio where she's able to showcase all of the best things that she's done during her academic career and also spilling out into her own personal life as well. So you can look here. This is a digital portfolio. She's got her resume, videos, graphics, the student ambassador program that she did, the SWOT group that she's a member of. So a special extracurricular activities there. And then also this is really cool. She's got the opportunity to share things like her own passions and her own business, which in this particular case is a bakery called Madden Pastry. And of course she's the school mascot. So she gets to share some really cool videos there as well. So when it comes to sharing resources, Wakelet is super, super easy. I'm going to show you really quickly how to create your first Wakelet collection and then share it with whoever you want. So I'm in my home area here on Wakelet. And if you go to wakelet.com and sign up, you can go get to this home area, sign up and you'll obviously this area will be empty but you'll be able to create your collections and get that filled up in no time. I'm going to click create a new collection. And let's say that I'm an educator and I want to create a collection on climate change for my students, right? I want to create a collection which kind of brings together a whole bunch of resources to share with them so that they get a better grasp and a better understanding of what climate change actually is. Super simple. I give my collection a title. I'm going to call it climate change. Write a quick description being a bit lazy there. And then I can go ahead and add a cover image so I can either upload an image from my own computer or I can choose from a free library of images that we've got. So if I search climate change into this, gosh, my spelling's bad, you'll be able to see that there's lots of these amazing high definition images which I can use. I'm going to grab this one here and that's going to become the cover image for this collection. And I can also go and click on this little gear icon at the top. Click add a background image and I'll do the same here. Let's just pick the first one there. So what I'm doing now is I'm making the collection really engaging just by adding pictures, just by making it look good. The alternative to this would be a, let's say a dock or a hyper dock even where it's just the white background with links. I'm going to show you some really amazing things right now. This right here is where the magic starts. This little plus button, this is a magic way clip plus button. When I click it, you can see all of the different kinds of content which I can add into this way clip collection. So I'm going to start by just finding this BBC article here about climate change. I'm going to go to the top, right click, copy the URL, go back to the way clip collection and check this out. I paste it in and like magic that item appears here with an image and with a description. And the really cool thing is I can actually go ahead and contextualize this collection, this piece of content as well. So rather than just keeping it as it is, I can go right in, click the edit button and change this to read this first and add that context to the lesson or to the particular activity that I want my students to be engaged with. That's just one kind of piece of content which you can add to way clip. I'm going to click the plus button again and let's see on SoundCloud this is a really cool podcast about climate change. Let's just copy that again, right click, copy, go back to way clip, right click, paste it in and that SoundCloud podcast will embed into the way clip collection which means that the students aren't going to have to go off to SoundCloud.com. They're going to be able to listen to it there and then within this particular environment, within this collection. And of course the same thing applies to YouTube videos as well. So let me just go ahead, copy this and I'm sure by now you're probably getting the idea. You're taking this mixed media content, you're pulling it all together into one place and you're creating this awesome, engaging, interactive environment for your students to learn from. The same thing applies to social media posts as well. So check this out, I'm on a tweet here from the UN. I've clicked on the tweet once again, right click, copy, back to way clip, plus button, right click, paste it in and this will become second behavior for you. This will become, sorry not second, it will become second nature and alert behavior for you because you can just copy and paste things really quickly and add them on. We've also got an extension across all the browsers that you'll be able to do this even quicker. Okay, and now lastly I'm going to show you how to add text. You just literally click this little text button here and then just write whatever you want. Many teachers use this text element as a way to kind of share instruction and add a bit more context to the resources which they're sharing. Let's just finish that. I've also can make it a header, make it bigger, underline it, very nice. And then I can rearrange things so I can click on easy reorder mode and I can rearrange these items as I want. And the really cool part is there's four different layouts that you can choose depending on the type of content that you want to get across to your students. This one here, I'm in the media view which means that all of this will play in line and it's embedded. I've got a compact view which is just for the links really. I've got a grid view which is amazing when you want to compare resources. A mood board where you can just drag and drop things around. It's a bit of organized chaos. You can have a lot of fun with this with your students especially when you're collaborating with them because it's real time so there's all these amazing resources flying in at once. Okay, so let's say I've created this collection and I want to share it with my students. Up here in the top right, we've got three different privacy settings public, unlisted and private. Private means only you can see it unlisted means only people that you share that link with can see it and then public means that everybody can see it and it appears on your WayClip profile. Let's just make this unlisted for now. In the top left hand corner, I can click invite and actually invite my students to this collection where they can contribute their own thoughts and their own ideas to it by using the QR code or a copy code or just a copy link. You can discover how to do this by just going to our YouTube channel or Help Center you'll be able to find out really easily how to collaborate with your students on WayClip. So I'm going to click done here because I've finished this collection and I'm going to click the share button because I want to share this with my students or with my learning community. We've got loads of different options here. Google Classrooms, we've got teams, we've got Twitter or you can just simply copy and paste this link share it with whoever you want and when they visit it they don't need a WayClip account they're able to just view it exactly as though it's a web page. I can also export this as a PDF and I can embed. So the really cool part is I can actually embed this WayClip collection into my LMS, into my learning management system or I can embed it into my blog or my page. And that's it. That's the WayClip platform in a nutshell. Now, just bear in mind that I've only shown you just a few examples of the amazing things that educators can do on WayClip. I've shown you digital portfolios, classroom newsletters and lesson plans but there's so much more we're talking about learning. Alright, so I'm gonna go ahead and stop it there. So I think you can see it's pretty easy with lots of possibilities in terms of what you can do and that's why it was like I'll just take you there and show you because he says it way better and there are tons of videos out there like he said you could search it on YouTube as well but in the meantime why don't we play a little bit. If you have created a WayClip account why don't you go to your WayClip account. If you have not created a WayClip account and you would like to then go ahead and go to WayClip.com and create a quick account and let's see. Participant can share at a time. I think Veronica can they share their screen as they're doing things or do I have to click? Yes all participants or excuse me all attendees have access to share their screen. Fantastic, okay. So while you're doing that what I'm going to do is I will share my screen again and I will go to my WayClip and get ready and we will why is this not reducing? Hold on why is this not working? There it goes. All right so let me get my WayClip up and then what we can do is we can start putting some things together and you guys can follow along a little bit and then eventually if you want to share you can share and we'll do that. So to create account you just go to WayClip.com and I'm sure it says create an account I don't remember now at this point but once you do or if you have your account there's two places to go one place is kind of the home and this is where you kind of can create new creations and then this is the view whatever you choose for a profile picture will go there I just chose this because it kind of matched colors and this is what they will see when they go to your site. So home is where you actually create new collections and so one of the things that I might do for example is I might create a new collection as I said I'm going to be fully retiring in June and so I might create a new collection for the new director coming in and so I might create something that you know has lots of different links so it's a quick place to go maybe it's set up by months and so these are the big things happening in this month, this month, this month and kind of put everything there and that's nice because while there will be a whole Google Drive there's a ton of stuff in the Google Drive right but if you can time stamp it by this is when it's relevant to you in your life you know in July and August and September that would make sense to do that or I might do something else because for example one of the things that I am doing now is a lot of when you add a cover image you can choose from the library anyway one of the things that I'm doing is a lot of word working my grandfather who came from Denmark one of them the other from Greece he was a cabinet and furniture maker and my dad did a lot of that and so I am actually creating a lot of things now and it's kind of giving them away maybe selling them I don't know so I'm thinking about I could sell them so so maybe I use Wakelet to help people come here and see what's available for sale and also YouTube videos if I create any of those I'm not doing it now but I'm just saying like I could see myself doing that right so I don't get bored with life and keep teaching right so I might put in here a place to find videos recommendations items for sale and maybe here I decide that I want to go to one of my favorite YouTubers let's see which one I'm on here so I have two Google accounts okay this is the right one so let's do let's go to DIY and let's see maybe I want to do like the only two power tools if you're just starting out what you really need and here's alright and so maybe I want to take this little and these are things that people could just see click on I could do the same if I have my own videos again just to show you you can change the layout where you maybe do a grid view so as he said comparing things are great or what you saw on my other one was the mood board where when you add things they just kind of go in whatever order but then you can drag and drop them you know wherever you want if I want to do something else it was woodworking a little bit of carving that happens make nice furniture by carving old school you know and then maybe I write a description about this and whatever so you can see basically how easy it is if I was going to be doing Instagram Twitter all that I could I don't know if it does Instagram but I could do definitely do Twitter yeah just does just does Twitter for now my guess is they'll be adding it and they'll probably add TikTok as well so then with this it just ends up on my page so I can have this with all the others and if I make this private then oops I didn't do that ahead of time sorry if I make it private or I make it you know you have to have the link you know unless public unlisted private you have to have the link then I could have multiple things at one time right so now that I have it you have to have the link when somebody comes here they don't see it they just see what you saw before right and if you have the link you could go to it and of course I could see it on my creation page right so that's the nice part or you make it private so let's say your teachers are creating lessons they may have notes for themselves and other things well they take a creation or maybe it's student work that they're using pieces of to demonstrate you know how to achieve excellent work satisfactory or just approaching maybe they do something like that and they could keep that in their own and keep it private and just show it when they chose to show it so pretty simple yeah do you guys think it's simple feel free to unmute you guys can only unmute if you want yeah and what I'd like to see is somebody creating something now I just I created a page this is Evelyn Gonzalez but I haven't seen anything on it okay well let's you're the one who just volunteered tag you're it so why don't you go ahead and share your screen and I'm actually on my tablet we'll hear you know let me see let me try to open it on my tablet yeah let's see if it works let me go to the website really quick and then I'll share okay anybody else doing creating anything I've created something but it's pretty basic but I mean it's pretty simple how to do it it's okay it seems simple yeah we were playing around with it and just started yeah just trying to figure out how to add things in and how much how easy awesome yeah okay good so let's see if let's see if Evelyn can can show us from her iPad I don't know if it's should be able to can I ask you about when you sign up if you're wanting to you said something about you had to put it under your name now as when when you leave in June and congratulations on that how when you're signing up what should we consider naming it or how do you do it so that it's not tied to just one person yeah so that I don't know yet but because I I'm probably gonna have to you know get in touch with Wakelet because I haven't found it anywhere so I want to see about that and how someone could do that right now the only thing I can tell us that it has to be tied to a person so it could be that what happens is the new person that comes in creates their Wakelet and names it North Santa Clara County Consortium and then we just have to recreate it and cut and paste which wouldn't take a whole I mean you see how fast it is so it's not like it would be terrible but what would be great is if it could just get transferred I don't think I'm going to be able to do that but hopefully we can create it under just the consortium and then transfer that eventually again I don't know that that's possible so that's something I'm trying to figure out okay thanks yeah and I don't know if you guys want an answer on that if I find the answer if you just put your email in the chat I'll save the chat and then I can email you you know when and if I find it out yeah alright Evelyn how we doing let's see if it'll work okay go for it green what is this I don't know though so you should be able to go just somewhere either the bottom or the top and look for that share screen and it'll be in green oh look at you is it working yeah look at you we see it beautiful look at that you got your photo up you got a little background photo there awesome now what are you planning to do with this so I'm actually an educational advisor for the marina valley college and we are launching we're launching engagement centers our different schools so I'll be overseeing two different schools like school of public safety and school of humanities education and social behavioral sciences having student success teams so I'll be working like collaborating with our counselors with our faculty and other clerical staff so I was just trying to think of a way to that's why I wanted to learn more about it like organize information that we're all we are teams but like you said people don't have the link or they weren't given the right access to log in and then they just can never find it so this I'm just trying to figure out a way to be able to post flyers of events that were organizing workshops and just leave it on one space yeah I think this would work really well for you and and you could actually do you know a collection that is I forget one was policing and one was something else so you could do a collection for each of those and then maybe you have a joint collection for educators in both right or office staff in both you know hey here's what we need to do for all students in both programs so you could definitely you could definitely do something about how about we go to let's see was it Marcy you had something right so can you pop your screen up and thanks Evelyn for being the so willing to be tagged yes I can it's not anything let's see it's okay don't you guys don't feel weird about you know I don't really have much there it's like the point is is that we see different ways that people think of things and and how they're doing things you know so can you see my second screen can you see yes here yeah fantastic this is where I can practice I'm just really trying to I'm really comfortable with padlet but to be honest padlet to me doesn't look as professional as wakelet I think I like the aesthetic wakelet looks a little bit more official padlet looks like a padlet is a bulletin board like a virtual bulletin board and so I'm just still kind of deciding if this is what I want to use I I create a lot of like curriculum under certain topics like el civics curriculum so it would be cool to have a wakelet instead of how I'm doing it now on padlet so and I pay for padlet because padlet is expensive if you go over a certain amount and I'm noticing wakelet is completely free like it doesn't look like after 20 you have to start paying no it's completely free and and it's wonderful that way now with padlet you know certainly you could create boards and you could link those boards here but you also you know and you just you just use the URL right and and pop it in and that'll take that like I have the one padlet thing but yeah padlet is you know it's okay I think it's really good when you know if you want to do it for people answering questions and putting up ideas and your brainstorming together that's pretty cool and so I see that or like I used it for that process it was just a little to it rather than just doing it in some kind of you know document or Excel spreadsheet or something else so I definitely you know has its place here so but you could just link it here so again the idea that it's all in one place is really neat so yeah like the green and gold up there by the way it is right there kind of cute okay so I just put so see I just put my pharmacy padlet like right here and so what you'll need to do with that is if you click edit then what you can do is edit the image exactly and if you go to the free images choose from library then just put pharmacy up there in the search bar there you go maybe you can find something there very cool there you go boom look at that I mean yeah so this is how I move my stuff over oh yeah yeah this is good can you click on your padlet for us so we can just see which padlet looks like am I still in edit mode oh you have to go up and push done so it all saves up in the top right oh it's under my little zoom thing there we go no thanks okay now click on it there you go boom look at that beautiful yeah that's great look how easy that is see don't you love that I love anything that's easy yeah we're busy people right very good all right Marcy let me uh Jody Jody and company what do you guys got not my Jody I don't I don't know your person with you this is autumn hi autumn we're joined at the hip you know we don't do anything alone all right awesome so show us what you got all right we'll see what we can there it is nope there we go there we go okay that's as far as we got we haven't even got a title on it yet that's fantastic what you are demonstrating here is remember how he showed you you can do the kind of first picture there and then you can do a background so you have the I don't know if that's the Yosemite area or where that is but I don't know we just like that door it's beautiful yeah looking for a cool picture so yeah yeah so and then so yeah and can you show them how where you went to get that background picture you want to just go up to the settings up in the top left hand where it has appearance change background image and right there you can upload or pick one and click on it and pick one okay and there we go now we have sand on sand I love it yeah and on that just to let people know you know when you do the upload image that's where you can upload images of your students or you can upload things in action or maybe even you know a picture of somebody using a certain tool like if it's farm tech for example maybe it's a certain tool so that'd be great Allison has her hand up so Allison you got a question just jump in guys you know I might not see your hand raised so just jump in not a question so much as a comment on I I work for state center adult education consortium I'm the administrative assistant over there and so I take care of all of our emails so I made a new gmail account for us that was just wakelit at statecenter.com and rather than signing up for a wakelit account like through Google or Facebook or anything like that then that allowed me to just make an account that says state center adult education consortium and then the state center adult education consortium at SCAEC so it doesn't have anybody's name on it rockstar are our work information basically our consortium information you're awesome got your rockstar okay Jody there you go there's your answer buddy all right fantastic thank you Allison so did everybody understand that how to if you didn't if you have a question can you set up a gmail right well yeah ours all of our we're all at at statecenter.com but it's technically a gmail account so I think you could use any kind of gmail account that you want but I just made another one that has our at statecenter.com got it okay and what was that again Allison you put was it your team or something at statecenter yeah when you it'll ask you for your name when you sign up yeah and I just put in as my name I just put in state center adult education consortium and then when you go to the next step it asks you to pick a wakelet at and then you can it gives you one but you can you can change it at that point fantastic you're awesome thank you so much you're great all right who else has something to share you guys just got time time to do some to play a little bit so maybe some boy power Jonathan Noel I think came in maybe partway through I'm not sure he looks a little beat up there Noel yeah hi hi so I did create one and actually about creating a Gmail for for your school that's actually a good idea I've been doing that for years what I actually have been doing is if I needed to link iPads together and I want to be able to to do the find my iPhone what I would do is I would actually create a school account and then connect all the iPads there and now you're able to actually see all the iPads awesome let me see if I can share my screen great there you go you guys all see it so basically I created one just just for like a road trip because we haven't you know we haven't gone out and like about a year now and we yeah and my family and I we we usually love to go long distance driving and the last one that we actually had was we drove to Mount Rushmore on the Prius and with three kids and my wife was pregnant oh boy you're a brave man yeah and know that the Prius does not have a spare tire oh boy yeah but yeah so these are probably the other places that we have been into and I think it's a great program Wakelet what I usually use at school is Google sites so I have one specifically for teachers because I'm an advisor I'm the technology advisor so what I do is I created a site specifically for teachers with all the links that they'll ever need so no students allowed because there's nothing really there that they'll need but I think they're way more interactive and I like the way that you can put a background you know so you can't you can't really do that on Google sites plus it's challenging to actually put in all these links and have them pop up with like a picture on Google sites you might have to create one yourself yeah so but yeah so these are this is what I've been working on for the past I don't know like five five minutes I guess that's awesome I love it and that kind of thing makes you feel better too right it's like hey yeah someday I'm gonna get to go there exactly that's a page of hope right there I love it that's awesome right yeah very good very good all right thank you okay so anybody else want to share I can share I don't I don't have a lot of time for you Sonya I've seen you kind of moving in the background I knew you were doing stuff all right let's see it let me just get on the right one so I just based off one of the units our teachers are working on I mean they're working on a lot of units but can you see my screen yes okay and so this one is on digital digital literacy and so one of our instructors had created a Google Drive folder with tech lessons everything she's added to it I just copy the folder here and then another instructor she has been making these how-to videos on a playlist on YouTube and I just added it here that's great that way like Jackie who's working on this one she can keep adding to YouTube but she doesn't have now that the main link is here she doesn't have to like go this page and go to YouTube she just keeps doing what she's doing then it's already here and accessible for our other teachers and same with this Google Drive we haven't yet seen a video can you click on that video for us just so we can see how that comes up yeah oh look at that yeah so there's all kinds of them there look how beautiful that is yeah and so for teaching you could even say go to number eight or something like you could put a thing up top this week it's number eight so back on your waitlist page or whatever that's very cool yeah yeah that's all I've doubled with that's great that's great yeah I'm pretty easy right again this it looks good and it's easy so alright so you know we started talking about you know thoughts about how this would work anybody else want to share any ideas about gosh now all of a sudden you're going I think I might use it like this then I think we maybe tackled all of that um any questions we've got about 10 minutes left we could end early we could if we're done we'll end but are there more questions this was really helpful thank you I appreciate it I was really used on what I've heard the hype but I like to see it in practice so thank you I appreciate the help yeah I'm so glad it was helpful it was a godsend for me so it's like I said I thought I should share I steal so much from OTAN I should share back right we all should this was a good one Peggy one of the best sessions we're Autumn and I are going to just start playing away and see what we can come up with awesome awesome great all right well I think Veronica is going to pop an evaluation in the chat somewhere so if you guys could do that that would be great and I will also in the chat I'm putting in my email there it is so director nscc or if you want to call me let me put that into have a quick question not that I'll have the answer but I'd be glad to try and help you think through it so anyway if you want to email me or give me a haul or text me or whatever it's probably better with text than with email because it's a part time but yeah so I'm really glad you guys were here thanks so much for coming and taking the time I know you have lots of choices and so I'm really glad this was helpful that was my goal is to have somebody else feel the same way I did when Susan showed me how to do it so