 First of all, I did not come up with the title, so I'll get into that in a second, and it's not a great title for this hour of the day, the last talk, the obviously parallel session, so I decided to, that's a mouthful, okay, so I decided, you know what, let's forget about the title, let's talk about the learning outcomes that we want from this talk, so I just really want you to go away with three things. The first of all, I suppose I'd like you to know who is this guy and why is he talking to me? The second question I'd like you to understand when you leave this talk is what is the GA and what's so important about them, and the third is so what does all this have to do with Moodle, so okay, so I'm going to first of all start with who is this guy, okay. So, during the moves, I've noticed that when people introduce themselves, they tell them their name, where they're from, you know, qualification, blah, blah, blah, blah, so, but one thing always stands out that people prick their ears up, and it's the what version of Moodle did you first use, and for me, that was Moodle 1.4 back in 2004, and it was in DCU actually, when we started looking at how we could move a database's course into Moodle for the first time. And as you can see, it's come a long way, it has a certain geo cities look, hopefully I'm not aging myself here, but it's saying that, when I found this, I was actually going, wow, there's a lot of stuff that's still the same, it's incredible, and it really has stood the test of time. There was a lot of things there that, you know, was quite future looking, and you know, has longevity right to today. Now, some of those icons were a little hit and miss, I think my favourite one was the forms where it looks like two faces are about to face off each other, but yeah, no. And the second thing that a lot of presenters do, and this is really just to generate a mode of response from you, to really kind of feel that I'm a human being up here, and to go easy on me is to say that I have a dog, and this is my dog, it's Barley, it's a golden retriever, and the most important of it, today is his birthday, and he's nine years old, and instead of being with him, I'm here with you, so just so you know. Okay, and then obviously I have to do the whole obligatory, I'm a middle of the partner from Elevation, we're a middle of the partner, we're also 27001, we love security, we love data, we're also a Microsoft partner, you've probably used our plugins if you've used any sort of integration with Microsoft Teams or Office 365 or Azure, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, you get that stuff, okay, so now you know who I am, okay, now onto the more interesting stuff. So what is the GAA? Anyone know what the GAA, have you ever heard of the GAA? Okay Rob, anybody else? No, okay. So the GAA is the largest sporting organisation in Ireland, okay, and that's saying something, because you know, we're in a rugby world cup at the moment, and Ireland is the number one team in the world at the moment, we'll see how that goes, but it's not the biggest sport in Ireland, and in a country of four and a half million in the Republic, and then about five and a half million overall in the United Kingdom. In the island of the whole, the GAA is the largest sporting organisation in Ireland, and it's two principal sports, there are orders, but the two principal sports are hurling here, which when I tell Americans, I have to explain, it's not a game made up of people competitively vomiting, it's actually a game on a field with sticks and balls, there's balls a bit of the size of a slitter, it's a bit of the size of a tennis ball, we're basically there, it's a field game where they're hitting over the bar. And then we have gaelic football, which is basically like Australian rules football, but with a circular ball. And we have 2,200 clubs around the country, and around the world, so every single village town in Ireland has a club, and they're integral to those towns. They're not just about sports, but they're also about Irish society generally. If there is any sort of big birthdays, funerals, things like that, a lot of the events go back to the GAA club, they're integral to Irish society, and the whole calendar in the GAA revolves around the championship, which happens in the summer, where the 32 counties around the island of Ireland compete to become the All-Ireland champion. And that happens in this stadium here called Croke Park, which basically holds 82,000 people. My team is Calder, so last time we were in the final was 1998, but I still think about it. But it's 82,000 people, and to put that in context, some of the counties have just over 100,000 people in them. So if you're a burglar, and your county makes it a file, that is the date to hit that county, because there's nobody home, okay? So anyway, so I want to just kind of set the context of the GAA, and I've done this by ripping off a video from the national broadcaster, which is basically advertising the GAA. So this is a short video that I'll give you an idea of. So it gives you an idea of the kind of operation of the GAAs, but when you take all that, you take the athletes that you saw on the field there, those athletes are probably training six days a week, they are training as much as soccer players, rugby players, but the one thing to say is it's all amateur. Every single person that's involved in the GAA, except for those that kind of do the management layer, do upper management, they're all volunteers, they're all amateurs, none of those players get paid, they all go do that in front of 82,000 people, and then afterwards they're your police men, they're your police women, they're your farmers, they're your engineers, they're your teachers in many cases, and they just go back to their job after being a hero, or a villain depending on how it goes, and go back to their normal day. And it's also one thing to say about it, it's very much a grassroots organisation, so the club is basically the most important thing, trying to get coaches and players all working together. This is basically my club, I know it's really bad to use the pixelay now, but that's the leaks of GAA, this is what's known as buntus, and it's really important because basically this is kids that are between two and six years old, and it's kids of all backgrounds. It's one thing that we haven't had really ever, it's immigration, because we have a lot of new Irish coming in, so to get those people assimilated into Irish society, the GAA does a lot of work to bring those people in, and it's not, you know, while the kids work together that's fine. What's really important is actually the parents, parents coming up, learning about the GAA, and working with their community as volunteers with volunteers working together. Now, you have 800,000 members, and what does, I suppose, the next question you have, okay, you've got a brief idea of GAA, what does all this have to do with Moodle? Okay, so back to the actual point to the conference, okay. So the first thing to say is that for the GAA to work, education is key. You have to have a way to educate these coaches, these players, these parents, all about what their role in the GAA is, what their responsibilities are, and what they need to do in order to fulfill their role within the GAA system, I suppose. And the second thing is that for the GAA to work, compliance is key. Most of the GAA is made up of children, okay. So in order for the GAA to work, we have a lot of adults coaching children, we need to make sure that we have children safeguarding in place. We need to make sure that all the coaches are vetted by the police, that their background checks are done, that that's done on a continuous basis, and that the clubs know who has been vetted and who hasn't been vetted. So there needs to be a lot of safeguarding put in place. So how do we do that? So we have put a platform in place in October with the GAA, which is basically a mixture of a few different technologies, which is a combination of a Drupal Moodle and Maharasite to allow the GAA to basically fulfill its role. Now I'm going to do something that probably is ill advised, but anyway I'm going to do it, and I'm going to try and do a very, very short demo of what that looks like, okay. And with the magic of, no, I'm not going to work, okay, now. If I just bring this and make that smaller and bring this over here, and actually that did work. But now I have to look up there. Okay, so this is the site, and everything is looking good, okay. So basically the first thing that's at the site is that it's very important, I should probably look on the mic. It's very important that when people get on the site, they get what they need really quickly. You know, they don't want to be messing around with courses. They have a very clear reason for being here. They're a coach or a fee, or they're a player, and they just want to get in to what they need quickly so they can get on with their life, because they're not being paid to do this. For example, if they're a coach, they're coming in to coach education, and they want to understand, you know, what does it mean to be a coach? Well, this kind of gives you details of, you know, the various different coaching accreditation, what's involved, what's required to be a coach. Most of it will be around badging around safeguarding, children's safeguarding, but as you go into the kind of more formal aspect of coaching, then there's coaching badges that need to be there. And then for the coach, they can track all that using their dashboard here, and then go into my achievements here. So, there's two on. Of course it doesn't work. Okay, there we go. Okay, so they can track all this, and this is basically, it's all track-through Moodle. So Dick, all the kind of gamification, obviously it's a games-based organisation, we use a lot of gamification. All the gamification is using Level Up. It's using the paid-for version of Level Up that we're pulling into the Drupal site. And then we have all the different accreditations around police vetting and things like that. All that, and the courses are basically completions of courses and things like that. They're basically pulled back into this dashboard. And then in order for, so what's really key to this is so that they can see what they need to know quickly. But then if they're going into a structured course, well, of course we're going into Moodle in that case. So there's a seamless integration between Moodle and Drupal to bring the user back and forth into the Moodle environment. And it's gone incredibly slow, but anyway, we're using a TOS-based environment. What basically I'm trying to say here is when there is structured learning, we're using Moodle. When we're not using structured learning, we're generally using Drupal. So for, as a last final example, a lot of stuff that happens in the GA around coaching is around just in time or point of need learning. So this is where, so I'll give you an example, very quick example. My wife coaches my daughters under 7s team. She has never done anything in the GA in her life. But really important for her to be there because for girls to see women coaching, it's incredibly important. And it's incredibly hard to get mothers into coaching. So she decided to do that. But in order for her to understand what she needs to be able to do, the actual coaches send the helpers details of what the drills are. And this is basically what she looks at before the actual session. So these are basically the drills that they're going to do. And there's probably a little video here showing the drill. And this gets them prepared. This exercise is the progression on the role and pickup exercise. And then they can kind of move on to more harder kind of stuff, which is like things like the solar run and hurling. And what's great about this is that we have coaches now on the field. This is a modified game. Developing players ability to solar run in a game situation. Exact drill. And they are able to do it a point of need. Point of need learning is really important. Mark out a playing area, 40 meters long and... There we go. Easy. Point of need is really important to be able to understand, to bring a tablet onto the table or even a phone to do that. But obviously the more structured learning has to go through a moodle platform. And also all the compliance goes through a moodle platform because it has that tracking and allows for that to happen. So that's pretty much it. That's all I want to say. I hope I've achieved the three questions. Did everybody know who the JR is now? Everybody know why we use moodle? And everybody know who I am? No, that's probably you forgot all that. All right, that's it. Thank you very much. We have a question. Hi. Thanks for the talk. You said you used mohara, but then you haven't shown anything about mohara. Very good. I thought you would. So in the schools, there's a year where they do a lot of practical experience. So it's called transition year. It's basically between the two major exams. And what they do there is with the GAA... With the GAA? Sorry. With the GAA is that they do coaching, basically badges through it. And those badges then go onto their mohari portfolio. Because they can then use that to show other sporting organisations like rugby. Which we'll see how that goes. Or the soccer associations. You know what coaching they've done. So it can be transferable in that way. It just gives them also a kind of sense of achievement. Because they're second level students that need to kind of understand achievement. And have a build a portfolio of what they've done as part of that program. Oh, yeah. Or just keep straight in the camera. All right. I think we're good? Well done, you all made it. Thank you.