 here's and I hope you can hear loose and we haven't we haven't rehearsed this so you're going to get a double act I haven't rehearsed but normally we're quite a good double act so I'm I'm you know then tell them that we've rehearsed this tons this is going to be very professional well here here we go what I'm going to do is this is very much for an international audience we work in a large further education college which is like a community college in in the states or a TAFE college in in in Australia we do a lot of further and higher education and what we're going to tell you really is a is a tale of a great development we did and we won we actually won from a one-in competition with a whole lot of universities and things and we really took quite a simple approach and we're just going to show you that and give you a walk around the website and the resources and things that we built as a link there you can go you'll get that later and that just that's just giving you some more background about about about about me so in December last in 2018 we won we won a government tender from Skills Development Scotland in the Scottish Government and that was to create a skills portable portal for the National Manufacturing Institute of Scotland and I'll show you a bit about that later it's meant to be a distributed centre to train people in higher education and colleges and we want the bid on the basis we're going to take a very different approach we'll build a website or we'll use our VLE or we'll do all of the things that would have made it hard to sustain at the end of the project so we took an approach that wasn't about server space it wasn't about lots of development time it wasn't about ongoing hosting charges and all of the other traditional charges all the other traditional challenges okay and we really did this because we had a conversation with Google and we had a conversation with Google that went along the lines of if we were a big educational institution you would give us Google education for free wouldn't you and the answer was yes so if we were a partnership if we were a partnership of educational institutions that wanted to share things would you give us a Google education account for that partnership and the answer was yes and that got us really going so we could use Google sites unlimited band unlimited storage space behind it all of the Google tools and it gave us a sharing platform that was out with the baliwick of a single institution and it also means at the end with a bit of careful jiggery pokery on how we set the domain up and how we communicate with the people that have joined the community that we can we can hand the community over as we're going to do to the National Manufacturing Institute for Scotland at the end of the project and they get a whole lot of resources and they get an on they get a ready built community so that's what we did behind the scenes but what we did to justify what we were doing was we wrote a paper that identified we wrote a paper that identified the digital skill frameworks for colleges and for universities and for work-based learning what what had been identified is they could build a centre but lectures in universities and colleges and in the workplace don't have the digital skills to share things so this was all about building building digital skills to share stuff we identified five interventions we already had we already had a professional development award in the college so we took these materials and we repurposed them and we made them open materials we pushed them out the way and we delivered it all through a series of webinars and teach me so webinars and face-to-face and importantly we used technology that everybody could access so we used zoom meeting google google slides all the tools that were open and flexible so that not only were we giving things away we were also creating a model that was sustainable that other people could pick up no matter where they were the deliverables we delivered them all 50 ambassadors 200 staff engaged across scotland we actually blew the lid off that five strategic interventions a library of assets to support digital skills and with that focus around stem and manufacturing 4.0 and we delivered a program of 50 webinars and free face-to-face events to engage staff the progress was quite steady we identified all stakeholders we delivered it all in time there was a bit of an extension because while we were doing this the the further education colleges in scotland went on strike so we were meant to have it all delivered by september and we stretched the delivery up to december 2019 so there was a week there was a wee hiatus because we couldn't do teach meets or run webinars when everybody was on on on strike so that was that was the original timeline and eventually it was stretched out to december 2019 what i'm going to do this this really tells that story again about the initial paper and what we agreed to do i'm going to show you in a minute what we've done we're now handing over to stratclyde university and the aimis team now it's all been formed and what we're doing in the background what we're doing in the background is we're repurposing the assets because all the assets are open we know that other colleagues across the further education sector particularly now that we've all gone to working remotely when you see the assets you'll see why they're relevant they're all busy repurposing these assets so they can use them within their own within their own training or within their own colleges okay and in the background that's been really useful and i think we also can incur we've really done a lot of learning about how to use zoom how to deliver webinars and how to actually almost more importantly than doing a zoom webinar how to curate them because what we discovered is that lots of people don't come into the webinar but they do pick up they do pick up some of the videos and some of the assets later and on the back of this this model that we've used we're actually getting lots and lots of other contracts with lots of other organizations in the public sector educational partnerships that actually want to take this approach to they want they want a quick and easy google site and they also want that bit at the back end where they can store they can store and share lots of assets and and they can collaborate round a round round a round a google site now i'm going to disappear luce can you share your screen or will i share my screen i'll help do it for mine i should hope that this should work i just need to start my entire share hopefully this should be sharing now if i go whoa let's get rid of that infinite there you want to talk to the site yeah so it was all kind of built resources in google sites as the kind of front page to store the materials present with people that most of the materials are actually sat as either google slides or videos so they're all kind of transportable so as this happened in the last week or so nma s has started to gear up to move things to their own website so we used to have a lovely url up here so ignore this ugly site url which was nmis-skills.org so that now redirects to their site as they get ready to move things over but we'll share this url so you can see this and get access to it but basically we've got blurbs about what the actual project is this was all mandated to us by effectively the scottish government of what that has to be on this front page but we've got lots of useful things the main core of what we were kind of offering people was our program of study effectively which is split into several different sessions and topics so digital learning design we established as one of the early topics we wanted to cover because you can't really do digital learning unless you know about the kind of background knowledge behind that how you should be actually designing your learning to act you can't just port your lectures into a webinar and you're done um so there's some theory that needs to go in there um online assessment which is a big hot topic at the moment obviously as everyone's trying to figure out how they can assess their students have that in there as well collaboration so using collaborative documents again i don't know how good your institutions are on that but a lot of the people in our institutions and other ones in scotland just aren't used to doing any of this kind of online collaboration they're so used to saving the word document sending someone an email they edit it and then send it back so really covering some of those fundamentals there for people of how to use a collaborative document such as a google doc or office 365 webinars and screencasting pretty self-explanatory using youtube again a lot of people aren't familiar with the fact that you can just grab some youtube videos or if any video site and use that in your learning by turning them to interactive videos with other tools a lot of people think of video is that i'm going to have to go out there make my own videos um you know record it edit it we wanted to kind of get rid of it i don't get rid of but move away from that idea and show people no there's tons of video content out there you just need to find it and use it and we also did a lot on um digital well-being as well which is another topic that's coming up more and more um of so the kind of ideas of the the attention economy uh having those notifications all the time and distracting you so kind of give people information on that so a different to digital learning design i can show you what our actual resources look like so we have recordings of our webinar that links through to our youtube channel which i'll just open to show you quite briefly and then hit pause before i annoy everyone so we put it all on youtube so it's all easily available for whoops so it's all easily available for everyone we also have got obviously hard copies of all these videos so that we can move them across to other sites as well when required we've got a slide deck which is what our videos are presented from these are all just saved as google slides because it's nice and easy for people to access them they can download them they can look through them uh they're all kind of a very clean and crisp design um so that's easy for people to to use we also baked in things to them like these teaching challenges which is one of our ideas so instead of just presenting people information we want to give them a little challenges to get them to go out there and just try something so in this case it was to try and get people to go and use a tool called learning designer where they can um create their lesson designs and see uh how that figures compared to um the abc learning design which might be something probably don't have real time to go into that right now but um we'd also created um forums which was just using a google group they didn't get as much traction as we had hoped uh joe can talk to me or a bit about that in a second once i've finished doing this tour um with helping our community to build and helping them to give so much talk but that didn't really happen in that particular instance we also uh created playlists of videos from youtube on the topic so again this idea of not reinventing the wheel grabbing what's out there and highlighting it to people so they can reuse it and then we'd have a selection of resources based on the topic so again linking people out to other places where they can find information so things like the mit open course where a great resource that a lot of people aren't aware of at a lecturing level um and then further resources where we really go down into the nitty gritty and you can find what they want and all this is then backed up by we've got uh full academic references as well for people who wanted to kind of uh dig into some of the things where we've got some like our learning design pedagogy from and all like this um one of the other key parts of it was getting people to sign up to our community in the form of ambassadors which we just created a very simple um form for them to sign up they we would then create an account on our g-suite for them so they could then um share stuff between each other and more securely Joe do you want to talk more about the ambassador side of things yeah yeah of course so again back to i told you about that industrial action and that slowed the the whole process so we're at the stage now with ambassadors we're moving that bit forward with straggling university and NMIS so we've got a we've got a we've got more money which is great to extend our work uh the idea with the ambassadors we were going to reach out a very large number of staff which which which we did mainly stem and engineering staff across across all of the colleges and the universities but the ambassadors were going to have a special VIP offer and that special that special VIP offer i'll jump over and i'll share the screen now as well that that that VIP offer was to give them access to the back end of the the google site so that they could they could upload and they could share resources and we haven't quite got to that but we've got lots of people who are keen to do it but nobody quite done it yet so we're just at that stage where we've engaged the audience and we're just about to start doing that last bit and i'll just i'll just try and share what what we've got at the back end give me a second well joe's getting that up we also organise quite a lot of uh teach meets in three different cities in in scotland edinburgh glasgo and avardine which we had quite a lot of um uptake for and people were really keen to get involved and meet people from different institutions and find a way of collaborating because it's just it's not an easy thing for them to do because they're all stuck in their own institutional version of moodle or you know office 365 where a lot of them are locked down and they can't share even a simple document with each other if it's you know bigger than their email sizes you want me to share or do you have any trouble there hold on yeah i think i'm having trouble i'm not getting into the back end just now sorry i thought i had a women application window hold on no i'm not loose can you have a quick go at it yeah i'll share it i'll talk you through so the original intention was that we were going to make all of the resources open and we were and again this is just quite interesting we worked in partnership with ember with a university as well around giving people a high level slide deck around the changes that are happening with industry 4.0 so we've got all of that and we've got that as an offer for the ambassadors and the ambassadors have been downloading it but not uploading things but ember university did ember university although their champions have opened they were worried about making the slides open and i'm guessing i'm guessing because you know again it's that bit of teaching and learning there are some images and some things that using your teaching and learning that you can't really put in the open web so i'm guessing there's some bits and pieces in here some diagrams some other other stuff that's okay for the educational community but can't go on the open open web but what we're encouraging people to do is to do is we've done a and check all your images and all your all your resources so you can put them out in the open web you know as as luce is sweeping through that i'm guessing perhaps that map and some of the other things might might not be on the on the open on the open web so that's why they're they're kind of restricted to that educational community you know we have also set up so that's really sorry joe go ahead no i'm just gonna say so these are all done through just shared drives in google where basically when someone signs up as an ambassador we give them an account on our g-suite so it's kind of a walled garden you can kind of think of it as and then i add them to an ambassadors group and then we can share these drives with all of the ambassadors we do have a file sharing area i won't go into that because i don't know if there's anything there the ambassadors only want to share with each other and don't want shown to a wider community so i just want to open that up just for data security reasons but you know these are kind of resources that i could show easily so they do have an area where they can upload files and try and share them through that way and it's kind of it's almost like that idea of baby steps really we're dealing with people who haven't really done any full online collaboration before and we're trying to make it as simple and easy for them to work cross-institutionally and be able to share anything at all really so it's kind of yeah one step at a time trying to take it slow with them so we are hoping to have well we were going to be having more teach meets and stuff before this whole crisis hit where we do more in-person things with them so we can get them used to it and then introduce these tools to them and get them working more online but again it is uh dealing with skill a very very varied skill level of um ambassadors yeah i mean again we're coming up to a few minutes left joe okay just last bit i mean again just to reiterate we're we're dealing we're dealing with with colleagues who aren't that confident about you know if you look at the kind of the the main interventions in nmis about doing digital assessment or or webinars and put things online all of these things they're just not often with these kind of things and where they do share things they they say things like oh i shared it i put it into our vle and you're thinking well that's only sharing with your institution so we're giving them skills and we're also giving them a platform giving them a place where they can really share things with the community and they can share things in the open space uh or if you're worried about sharing the open space they can become an ambassador and just share it with their peers in the in that closed space and and that's really the story of any any nmis uh and the the big centre is actually being built just now as we speak out near Glasgow airport but the ambition is well it's a physical space it's this distributed learning space and that's what we've been supporting and what we're fortunate in is we've got more money to continue supporting it and and this model that we've created a model that other other educational bodies has been interested in adopting too so we're likely to do some other projects we've got one just now that luce and i are working on with the construction industry that's following quite quite a similar model and thank you luce do you want to say anything else no just thanks for coming along oh that's that was really great thanks guys sorry i hate having to do this