 Let's see, and Erin, do I have control over the PowerPoint? Are you pushing the slides or? I can flip them for you, that's probably easier. Oh, okay, if that's what you're having, and I'm gonna wanna go off, I'm gonna do a little demo here and there, so sometimes we'll need to share screen. I'll stop sharing then, and you can share then if that's easier. Yeah, yeah, okay, that sounds good. All right, so for, and how about in the chat, if you don't mind, so it's just getting to know how many people are really familiar with Merlot, that they drink it every night, and then play with it during the day. So I just wanna, because my goal here was to just present a little bit of an overview for those who may not be familiar with all the capabilities that are available for you. So if you don't mind just pop it in the chat, if there's a comments that you have, or yes, I'm familiar, just so I get a little sense from folks here while I'm starting to talk, okay? All right, thank you, Morgan, and Leslie, okay. Okay, so we got vaguely familiar, really familiar, reasonably familiar, pretty familiar, all right. Becoming more familiar, Elaine, that's great. Krista, all right, so much familiar. Okay, Suzanne, wonderful. So now I know kind of a little bit how to pace this. All right, so the first thing, one of the things about openness, open education, you're gonna hear a lot of different lang, terms being throws around, and I think all the things that you need to be successful as an ALS coordinator, and what I wanna begin with, and okay, so Aaron, if you wanna hit the next button there, because there's a little animation on this slide, okay? So the metaphor here is cooking and education, and education is crazy, messy, complex, stuff like that, but we've all done cooking, so leveraging as a metaphor our knowledge about cooking and how we can use that metaphor to understand what we're trying to do here, and the resources that we can help bring to you. So when we cook, we all need ingredients, so hit the next button, and we have stuff we might grow in our garden, we create our own, and stuff we go buy, butter, in the store, right? And this is the thing about when we're in education, the analogy is the next button, open education resources, right? And these are things like Merlot has a place, think of it like your pantry, you can go shopping and find stuff, pull off the shelf, but you also in your own faculty are creating things all the time too as well. And so bringing that mixture of things that faculty create, and you can reuse from other people, all right? Those are the ingredients, but you need more than just the ingredients to prepare a meal, right? Or to deliver an instructional experience, so you need the next button, you need recipes about how to mix and organize and present those ingredients, the know-how, and so hit the next button. So it's what's in your head and your ability to really put these ideas into practice, okay? And so next button, and that is open educational practices. And the faculty showcases that Leslie is asking you to put together is about how your faculty are practicing the uses and the benefits of open education resources. So to prepare that meal and to help scale this up so you get more people using open education resources, they gotta have the ingredients and they have to have in a sense the recipes to make that happen. And with that, then you can say, oh, now I'm already, but next button, recipes and ingredients without a kitchen, you know, the technologies and the tools to enable to bring those practices and implement them to produce the actual outcome. You don't have the kitchen, you're gonna have some problems, right? You won't be able to deliver on all those savings that you can provide your students. So the next button, right? So we have, you know, we got stoves, we got tools to do this, utensils. And next button, so when we refer to those, these are some of the open educational services, the technologies that are available. So what I'm gonna do in the overview of what we have in Merlot, and I'm gonna do a few screenshots here and there, mostly for those who are really familiar to highlight these things. And then also maybe do a little examples, a live demo of some of the resources that we have to highlight these different elements here. Okay, so I hope that was a useful metaphor to help people get the hang of all the different elements that you have to bring together for a good ALS strategy. All right, so next button. Okay, so just a reminder from Merlot, all right, so again, next free and open, CSU has been the leader in this since 1997, okay, next. And we now, we've hit over 100,000 materials that we have in Merlot, and I'm getting noises here. Next, and we also just hit over 200,000 registered members from around Merlot, from around the world. And this is an important element that, and Leslie brought up, an important description of Merlot is a referratory. It's a catalog of resources that are stored on the web around the world. Some of them are stored within Merlot, but most of them are just referred to. And so in a sense, the world is your oyster of the library of online materials, but if you don't have a catalog to discover that for people to write comments on, that's what we really provide for you. And that's something that's growing on a regular basis. Merlot has about three to 400 new materials added to its collection every month. And who does that? It's the members of the community. So it's a communities and a plural S is really possessive. That it's your community that you can build that collection for you. So next, okay, and you can, people often know it's at merlot.org. All right, so next stuff, right? So here's the, for those who are not familiar, here's the homepage and think of it like a Google search, okay, where you can just type in a key point. And let's see, but we got someone in the chat. And how about, Aaron, if you can just interrupt me too about if there's a question in the chat. So is there a thing about quality assurance provided by materials at Merlot? And if so, can you send this information along and point me out where I can find it? Okay, so let's hit the next button, Aaron. Aaron, all right, so I'm trying to guess, I probably typed in DNA into Merlot. And so I get a hit list of materials. And if it's about DNA, so we have 763 materials. Now, see, I can't quite see it by chat who sent the message about quality assurance. So one of the things you can see on those little panels that talk about these resources, Merlot has 24 editorial boards of subject matter experts, faculty in the field that go through a peer review, like we do in our scholarship, a peer review evaluation of materials within the Merlot collection. Now, we also have, you also see on the DNA from the beginning, user ratings. So the community who are members of Merlot also can add their thoughts. And sometimes members of Merlot are just not faculty, but they're also students, they're librarians. They can be instructional designers, content developers. There's all types of people who can share their expertise along what they have found most useful about these things. Okay, so quality assurance, we do it with editorial boards that provide you a review about the first part is, in a sense, qualities around the quality of the academic content, the accuracy, if you wanna put it that way, of the academic content. The next element that's part of the peer review is its pedagogical effectiveness. Has the technology been designed to lead to learning outcomes, okay? So how do you get a resource to be reviewed by the editorial board? The editorial board, Thomas, they actually continuously review the collection, they see what's coming in the editor, the way the process works. Each editorial board has an editor and really decides are these of sufficient quality to get value from a more intensive review process. So there's no payment to make it happen. It's really about the editor and then the editorial board members kind of look at the initial quality. And when things are really good, what they wanna do is highlight that with this additional review of the material. So it is communities of faculty members looking at what's coming in, and then they say, yep, let's put this into our queue for doing a peer review. And peer reviews are done by two faculty on the editorial board, like we often have in our scholarship. And then those reviews are integrated by the editor and then we actually post the reviews itself. So Tom, was that helpful there for you? Yes, thank you. Okay. And whoever asked the other question about quality, did I answer your question there too? You did, thanks, Jerry, it's Elaine. Oh, Elaine, okay, yeah, yeah, okay, great. All right. All right, let's go to next slide. All right. Now one of the things I'll say about Merlot too, so this is an example. So hit the next slide. When you do a search in Merlot, you find out what's in our collection. And I think I put this one is, I put blood pressure in here, right? Now, and when you click on, when then you hit the search, notice on the left-hand side, it gives you all these type of different disciplines in which those materials are found in here. So these are some of the things about the collection on Merlot when you're looking for things that it gives you the disciplinary context for those issues, for those topics, all right? Now certainly, and that can help then you narrow down exactly what you're looking for. Now, one of the things about Merlot is, of course, we don't have it all. We have a hundred thousand, but guess what, there's literally millions of resources around the world that are available to you. Next, hit the next button, right? So here's the, assessing a blood pressure. Next button, and you can see this one has peer reviews and user ratings. And these are all, you can resort all that you're hit list here by what's the newest thing that come out if you wanna look at that, but we also have overall ratings. So you can get the good stuff floating up to the top of the hit list. Now, the other thing we have other libraries, Merlot searches 80 other open libraries that are managed by lots of other organizations. So if you hit the next button, okay. So here's an example where on the left-hand side, where you see kind of the blue bar over the digital public library of America, right? So these are all the libraries that you have there. You can scroll down, you got MIT OpenCourseWare, you have Lumen Learning, Kariki, you got OER Commons, if you're into physics, you got compadre. So you can choose a particular library that you might be looking for and click on this. And bingo, here are the materials about blood pressure that's in the digital public library all available for you to use. And you can click on to get more information or go to the material. So when people talk about I can't find materials, then I try to say politely that you probably haven't looked for materials through Merlot because what we have in the Merlot collection, and we have 80 other open libraries that can provide you access to materials. And then the other aspect, the other little bar that there is on the web. And that's where we actually look at the entire web. We have a custom Google search application that enables you to find educationally related material. And some of you probably heard me say this so I apologize for being redundant. But if you typed in DNA into Google, you'll get 23andMe and the paternity suit from the latest Hollywood star. But if you typed in DNA and hit Merlot's global web application, you'll get research resources from the Cold Spring Harbor National Lab on genetics that has websites that have simulations for over 75 little simulations about genetics. And that's the number one item. So these tools can really help you deal with the I can't find it. What often happened, it's gonna be, wow, there's a lot of stuff here. How do I choose which ones I use? And that's where Merlot's collection because we do reviews, I think can really help get down to the stuff that might be most useful for your faculty. Okay, next slide. All right, next one there, Erin. Okay, great. Also, you know, when COVID hit and I'll say the other aspect around when you need to make materials more engaging and interactive, simulations are an important strategy. And again, simulations of where the students are setting up the circumstances for virtual experiments and then they can discover the outcome when they make choices of ideas or hypotheses they wanna test and sees what happened by these intelligent engines. So Merlot's virtual labs are here and those are all part of the collection that's available. We kinda create a highlight little portal about that. Next, all right. So now we're getting into the issue of practices. You have all this content, right? The ingredients that you have. Now, how do faculty use these things? And as I mentioned before, next slide. This is where your showcases, where your faculty are explaining their courses, their content and their strategies for bringing free and open and low cost materials that make a difference for your students. So this is another resource. Think of this as your recipe book, right? For pedagogical practices that are open and free for you to use, right? So oep.merlot.org and just to give you some, and we have, there's lots of different practices just, you know, in here, we have a whole section about affordable learning, which is using open, free and open and low cost materials, but we also have practices around redesigning courses, flipping the classroom, using supplemental instruction, a whole variety of what using OER, you can do those type of things, as well as other elements, other practices that are out there. And in this whole collection, we probably have over a thousand e-portfolios or showcases of faculty telling their stories. So just wanna make sure the folks know about those two as well. We also have just, this was just recently put in, is a whole section about large scale OER strategies. And that can provide you a lots of, I'll say, guidance about how you on your campus might wanna think of various organizational parameters in your program, not just about the content, the OER and the faculty professional development. How do you build leaderships buy-in? So there's a lot of good information about that stuff. It's called large scale implementation. Okay, next slide. And so here's an example. What we have and in the Cool 4-Ed, you got lots of these and this is what you're building this inventory or library of faculty stories. And so this is something, boss Grammy from Bakersfield. Here's the book. Next slide. And if you click on the blue bar, learn how I used it, then this is an early version of the Cool 4-Ed e-portfolios here, all right? And as Leslie said and Aaron said, these were designed with scaffolding questions where the faculty just have to look at what's in the tool and they just have to answer the questions, fill it in. And if they can create a Word document, they can create a faculty showcase. Okay, let's see, as faculty, Elaine puts in it as a faculty, try to incorporate more OEP into their courses where there'd be a section for student engagement in OEP. Ah, Elaine, that's a great idea, right? So, and just, you know, this is how Merleau functions is the community says, what about da, da, da, da? And so if there are showcases that are gonna focus on student engagement, then it's really easy to me go into a website, say, okay, let's create another page and let's showcase faculty's student engagement section. So, Elaine, you know, and Leslie, you know, this might be something particularly about not only does open education enable affordability, but it also is an important mechanism by having open pedagogies, opening the pedagogy to student engagement, to student participation, to student leadership, and then we can create, you know, a collection of those two as well. All right, excellent, thank you, Elaine. And student equity. Oh, yes, definitely, right? So you can, you know, these are things that why technology is easy. It's easy to build a virtual, another bookshelf in a virtual library versus trying to put a physical one in can be a real pain, but virtual, adding a wing to the virtual library, it's pretty easy, okay? And that's what I'm here to help, continue to help what you're doing here to highlight and showcase the expertise that you're bringing in the change you can make. All right, next, all right. And I'm looking at the time I'm gonna do some real quick, you still need a kitchen. And so next, hit the next button. And so Merlot has some easy to use tools and what I did, maybe just I'll, for you to cook up your open ingredients. So now, Erin, if you don't mind me sharing the screen real quick, thank you. And let me, all right, okay. Let me just make this a little so we can see this only so big, so small. Okay, I got up there, all right. Now, one of the things that's in Merlot, that I talked, we just talked about creating a bookshelf for equity and ALS and student engagement and OER, right? So those are kind of organizational changes that we collectively make as a community, but now what you can do. Hey, Jerry, they can't see the screen. Yep, that's what I'm putting on right now. Okay, gotcha. So when you're a member of Merlot, let me just, all right, let me just go back here for a sec. All right, so when you sign up, all right. You have all these, these are in a sense, your kitchen here of what are the tools that are available for you to use. And one of them is about creating your own personal libraries, your own personal bookshelves. So here are some things where, and these are what you can do in Merlot. You find materials that you like and you can create, and these are bookshelves. And this is one on ICT Literacy that I actually copied from Leslie Farmer, who's a member in your teacher ed program, who is the editor of ICT Literacy. So you can see in my profile, I have these, this collection of ICT Literacy materials that are found in Merlot. And what's really nice about this is you can then share these with your students, right? And they can become members of Merlot. And they can say they can come to this webpage because that's a stable URL. You can just pop that into your LMS. And if they say, oh, I like this stuff, they can just click on this button and then they can make a copy of it and put it into theirs. And then they have it to use and edit to do all the things that they want. So you can create your own personal, curated OER collections, share them with your students. Your students can then curate and add and then share back with you those type of resources that they find most useful. So this is a tool that in a sense is part of your kitchen where you can bring in some ingredients and make some comments about them, but then cook them up to allow other people to use and participate. The other thing that just to highlight real quick because I also wanna get into another collection that we have is Merlot has an authoring tool for you to be able to create open education resources. Now, if you remember the five Rs for OER is I can reuse it and then I can remix it as often the second one. And remixing is about how can I taking a bunch of different ingredients and then put them together in a way, put it in a scope and sequence that's new. So I may not change what other people have done, but I just create a different organization and curation. And what we have in Merlot is a tool that if you can really, in a sense, use a Word document, you can know how to fill out and create your own webpage. And this is how your e-portfolios or your showcases are created. So, and I'm not sure if this is the same one that you're using right now, but you can just, we have different templates for you to create things. You can type it, whatever you wanna name it. And right away, bam, bam, bam, bam, you have some things filled out already kind of templated. And you can see, oh, here's about the course. And it says, briefly describe your course highlight. So I can go in here and I can go, whoop, I cut this out, my course name. I can say, I teach psych 101, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then I can exit it, save it, right? And bingo, I have now created a webpage that's in my portfolio that I can then share and I can make it public. I can do lots of other things. I can do collaborative work with people, make it public, catalog in Merlot, make copies and analytics. There's a whole lot of things that I could do this in. And Barb Beats-Berling knows all about how to use this, but just wanna make sure this is part of your kitchen, part of your open educational services that are available for you. So if people wanna create some homegrown ingredients, this is a simple tool to get started for remixing open education resources. You can then redistribute it, you retain it on your own, reuse it, all those things that are possible there. So I'll stop there on the demo, just to hopefully you get a sense of some of those tools. And in the last few minutes, I just wanna show a few things about another whole resource that you have. So Erin, you wanna just pop back the PowerPoint? The PowerPoint? I think Erin had to leave to go to appointments, but let me see it on my screen, so let me pull it up. Oh, okay. Well, I did have it somewhere. Hang on, keep talking. Okay, so what I'm gonna talk to you next about, there's some Merlot is a referratory pointing to stuff. There's another whole collection that we have, it's called skillscommons.org is the repository. And this was a US Department of Labor project, began in, excuse me, 2010, where they started investing $1.9 billion, that's billion in lower division workforce development and general education courses, all right? And so one of the things that's there is, and one of the things, the requirement of all this work being done is that all the materials created by the community colleges had to be openly licensed, okay? So now those resources, and these are all downloadable files, PowerPoints, they are Word documents, PDFs, but they're also full course packages that have been zipped up that you can move into your canvas, things along those lines. So, and if you can go back one slide, Leslie. So this is the website, skillscommons, all available freely available. So hit the next, so, and then next slide, that's the tax program that was funded. So over eight years and to highlight all these materials, one of the things that our students are looking for is a pathway to employment. Why is education so important? It actually develops those skills in order for you to get those sustainable living, income jobs. So all these materials that have been created through the tax program also had an industry partner. They were evaluated by subject matter experts. So the issue around the quality was to make sure quality was built into it. And then all these folks, these seven people from 700 community colleges around the US had to upload it into skills comments. So next slide. Now, one of the things that we created as part of this, our grant for the US Department of Labor and Rick Lumbadoos who's on the slot is on that call here. We created OER course too as well. So if you wanna know a lot of background on that, here's, and you'll have the PowerPoint here. And so next slide, I'm gonna quickly go through kind of what's in this course that's available. So here is finding, reusing, revising, remixing, open education resources. That's the homepage. And then think about these lessons. It's written in soft chalk. So it's really easy to learn to use this. Okay. Hit the next one. So what's in here is background of what the heck are open education resources. Next slide is around how do you find it? And you might guess we're a little biased about using Merlot. Next. Right. And then we give you examples about how to revise, remix, retain, redistribute open education resources. So next button. So we talk about the five Rs. So this is open available for you to use this. Cause sometimes, you know, and I've been doing this, you know, Merlot started in 97. So there's 26 years and I still get people saying, what's OER and what, how do I do this? So to help them learn, here's a easy to use free open course for learning and sharing about OER. Next slide. Oh, okay. If I, do I have one more minute? Oh, no, I don't. There's just the content that's in there. There's healthcare in there. There's engineering in there. There's agriculture in there. There's IT. There's lots of information that's more focused toward workforce development. And again, I'll just highlight what's important about it is that these are files you can download, reuse, revise, and remix and help you address employment related content.