 Hi, my name is Jennifer Galardi. I teach at Milpitas Adult School and I would like to talk about some citizenship resources online This was our Year that we had planned out. We had national census day income tax was coming up All sorts of things were going to happen politically. So I'm calling this timeline before COVID-19 now, this is caught timeline after COVID-19 in mid-March. We got all our shelter in place Orders Sent as so our classes started migrating online and a lot of people were not prepared It was a real shock to the system a lot of things have been delayed including income tax which is set in stone in fact we think of it as a It's a question on the the for citizenship Delayed is the pilot program for the US CIS 100 questions The pilot program was supposed to start in April. It's been delayed because US CIS is currently in their own shelter in place orders the the census follow-up has been delayed and Also We're coming up against on the other hand. We're coming up against some really hard deadlines We're having the California real ID is coming into play in October the 1st We're having the presidential election on the 3rd and the census will be delivered December the 1st Which talks about apportionment and later on I am going to refer to apportionment I don't know how you felt when you saw this red banner across US CIS.gov. I was absolutely sick to my stomach They temporarily they initially closed Excuse me initially announced that they were going to close some local US CIS offices, but then the order came down that they're going to call close all the public public services Because they wanted to protect their own workforce and they wanted to protect the people that they served so US CIS made that very brave decision to Shelter in place. However, that left a lot of our students in a lurch because they were ready to go to their citizenship Citizenship interviews and their oath Their oath ceremonies, so those have automatically been delayed and we're waiting for letters to call us back for their appointments USCIS as just posted a video maybe about two or three days ago about the benefits of filing online So USCIS is still doing case management only they are doing it They're not doing it to with the public. They're doing things In their own offices They have some videos in Spanish and in English about how to create a US CIS online account And they still have their very very fine US CIS civics playlist too So even though the offices are shut to the public US CIS is still on the job And one of the really great things to show that US CIS is still on the job is Gonzalez Adult school was originally going to have one of the US CIS officers come into their classroom To do a presentation about becoming a US citizen. Well, instead, they're actually going to be broadcasting this on Facebook I believe it's tomorrow. So join them live and then they will be locking that Interview so if you could go to the Gonzalez adult school Facebook page Check out their services how they're basically Writing their citizenship program during this time and their adult education programs That would be really great. So good job adult Gonzalez adult school I'm going to talk a little bit about my US my citizenship class My students I created this website US citizen pod.com for my students Maybe in 2007 with the podcast and some videos Since then I've been posting every day and I have over 4,000 blog posts about Preparing for citizenship or I have things related to civics So but during this time we are our last day that we taught in Milpitas, I believe I think it was March the 13th So our classes meet for six hours a week a three-hour session each time So it would be Tuesday and Thursday nights all the sudden we no longer had access to each other personally So what I tried to do is post full-blown citizenship lessons on my website and It's one thing to meet in class in person. It's a totally a different experience of meeting Going to online of Website and trying to figure out what do I do next? So I've tried to be very specific online Talking about do this and then do that and do that However, there's still some confusion So I've been basically posting videos that summarize what people should be doing or studying during that day So here's an example of a video. I'm going to give a very short Overview of what I do during the video and I wanted to check what's in the question and answer One question, do you know how long oath ceremonies and interviews will be delayed? I think you know that but if you could Well, okay there the offices are closed till May currently closed till May the third So they're supposed to open again May the fourth However, Washington DC and Virginia went into lockdown much later than California So there's still no information yet about when this offices will be Will be reopened so that Would you recommend that people just watch the websites to find out or how do they get the information? Okay? Absolutely watch the websites and anytime I constantly I'm checking that website myself Whenever I see a alert like that. I immediately post something to my blog and to also to my YouTube channel YouTube channel I do want to say that US CIS is very very good when it comes to an Online social media presence. So use this opportunity to subscribe to their Twitter feed Also, their Facebook page and Instagram page But for my money the Twitter feed is the best and they have that in English and in Spanish and they also send out summary You sorry summary email Every day about what they posted so that's another good way to stay on top of that kind of Information because if you're depending on somebody else for your news, you're that much further removed for your news So doing direct contact to US CIS through Social media is really going to be helpful and it also gets people used to Accessing the government as a direct resource for example People were spreading the news that a rumor that IRS was going to delay the taxes But they had said it was going to be much later But when I went to check the IRS website, there was no news about that and eventually it did come out and they had a The deadline was in July the 15th so it's better to go and take a look directly at the Government websites for that kind of critical information Please confirm that that information is up there. So when I am posting my videos and my resources, I'm using PDFs from my mix and match citizenship interviews, which are about 20 leveled interviews and 40 quizzes I have the translation in Spanish and I'm also getting information from preparing the oath transcripts Now preparing the oath is really great Because they have one video for each one of the 100 questions However, they use it in flash and a lot of our students live and die by their cell phones So they can't access the website on their cell phones. So what I've been doing is going in in I took the transcripts and I made PDFs of the questions or the civic content of the day and I was developing citizenship videos from that in material So let's continue So this is a video that I this is a typical lesson I'm saying that we're going to take a look at a specific lesson B5 and I Do a direct link just to that page. I'm not doing it to the entire PDF of 64 pages. It's a Direct link to that specific page. There's the Spanish Spanish translation There's the transcripts from si.edu from in English and in Spanish. I also Do less direct links to the US CIS lesson plans and the US CIS lesson plans I'm not referring to them in my videos right now However, when I do a series of videos on the next series of videos, I will be using that material. I also have integration quizzes where I'm matching 10 questions from the from the N400 and 10 questions from the civic content and I always have some extra credit One of the examples of the extra credit is the videos from listen and read along. So they're taking Do a News content and they basically put up the transcript and as the word is spoken The word is highlighted. So it's really good to help reading and listening fluency So the American history series was originally published. I think maybe in 2010 as part of a radio program They've put this up and so the sound quality isn't that great on this However, they've reposted this on VOA learning English Not these videos that highlight the the the words But they've reposted them with better audio quality and with some really nice reading articles which you can basically use to create More level appropriate content. So please take a look at this this information here So here we are back in American history s I edu citizenship again They have one video for each one of the 100 questions. They put them together in Themes up here. I want to talk about a little bit more about the what they have available They have lessons plans available for the teachers. They have word lists. So they basically have a word list not Exactly of not only civic content, but also ESL content or supporting language content and that's those kind of those kind of Dictionaries or glossary is very helpful for the students and they have the transcript So for every one of the civics videos, they have a transcript that will go along with it So what I've been doing is taking the video The the transcripts and slicing them up into smaller place pieces for each one of the lessons Another thing that I want to point out to the teacher on the teacher is They have Very early in the page. They have something that talks about the list of links So you cannot Download these videos. However, they have a list of the direct links to the videos Again when the student accesses Accesses it through a video link They're gonna be asked if they can use or they can accept flash content. So That is one so if they're if you're on canvas or if you're using Google Classroom You can pull out those direct links and put that embed that into your classroom or your learning management systems And that's gonna be really helpful Jennifer, I'm sorry. We have a quick question the slide before that one actually now two slides back. Okay. Let me go back Okay, please the one before the right there. Yeah, so someone is asking The website for this previous slide. So this is the one So this one is on us citizen pod.com. I posted it on March the 27th This one here if you're talking about the video, which is a really cool video This is on and it's the the the channel is called listen and read along really good playlist about History so take a look at their take a look at their playlist and you'll be able to find the American history series Also goal of go ahead and that's a link. I should have posted. I'm sorry. I don't have it in my presentation But I will add it a little bit later voice of America has more modern Editing of the content and I will post that When I put this up on OTAN's website, okay Okay, so here's an example of the civics transcripts. I've Tried to put short links with this The short links have been changing because I wanted to get something consistent But for instance when I have the English one, I said, okay, this is 10 dash US citizen and this one's 10 dash Spanish citizen I realized that was kind of like hey, that's not appropriate. We want to focus on English language versus Spanish language not US Citizen versus work both the US citizens. So I hope I Did do the Spanish translation mostly through Google translate and I'm able to read enough Spanish to see if it's appropriate or not I would love to do the same thing in English. I'm sorry in Vietnamese and Chinese However, I have not been the the translation that comes out is not satisfactory According to my students If somebody else would like to take that on and do it for Spanish and Chinese and Korean I think that would be really wonderful Here's an example of some of the civics content. So we've resued viewed the civics content now. I'm using the the The text from a the from preparing the oath They have the questions always on the top I have a picture and I have the the content from the From the the PDF and then I always try to try to put my sources Now when you're looking at the video on preparing the oath, they have some wonderful wonderful graphics There's movement. This is kind of static, but this is the best that I can do Hopefully my video schools will get a little bit better as they go on I Always have something from the citizenship interview. So here's Example of a one of the The citizenship Questions so all week they've been reviewing the citizenship interview. They've been gaining more vocabulary on Friday I deliver a quiz where they're having they're being asked about information appropriate to the citizenship interview and Initially the first week I didn't I wasn't giving people homework I was assuming that they would be going to the website. I go, hmm, you know, I think I need to be more explicit in my in my Instruction so what I've been doing is trying to add more things more explicit instruction to my videos So I've been saying look, don't forget about your reading and writing. I do a summary of where people could access the resources. I Always give them extra credit because I won't the best way to prepare for the interview is actually to speak English with an With another person. So yes, I assume that they're practicing the citizenship interview But I also want them to just discuss More content. So for instance, who is the father or mother of your country? So looking at those kind of Thinking about those kind of questions and doing a compare and contrast is going to be appropriate. I summarized the videos Extra credit videos that they could be looking at and I also wanted to show you this one Series of VOA learning English, it's America's President's playlist And so these videos are one minute summary of each one of the presidents They go really fast, but they're really good at delivering content and I'll show how I use those in a little bit Finally, I you know, I don't know. Maybe I this is how I'm ending my videos I take something random from my house that's appropriate or maybe I referred to during our presentations I love to do puzzles. So I have a lot of civics puzzles Usually a cup of coffee Something to share from my own home because I'm in my own home Making these videos and I Some of the students say hey, we really like this because we were getting a glimpse into people's lives You could also use something like this For warm-up. So for instance, if you started your zoom session, you may share a picture like this and you say, okay Well, let's try to remember what the questions are. So for instance, this one's easy Who was the first president? But then you see this one. This is Jefferson. Well, what was the question about Jefferson? Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? You may talk about the 50 stars all sorts of questions So I've had students when I've run my zoom sessions. They've annotated this. They've spoken their answer All sorts of things. So You could basically use this as a summary or you can use it as a warm-up for your for your classes And I like to drink coffee. So everybody has a coffee mug from Washington, D.C. And I always end my videos with stay home stay healthy stay strong. I know you will be a great American citizen So giving them affirmations. So acknowledging that we're all in this together And that we need to stay strong for each other. I think is very appropriate So I take those videos and I've put them put them into a playlist and I've done another So there's a series of 10 lessons right now. I also put in a video I originally made this from my ESL students about What's a what's a activity you can do in your house? You're not studying citizenship, but you're basically creating more content to read More Content to remember what you're supposed to be learning. So here I was talking about jigsaw puzzles and there's a lot of free online jigsaw puzzles and Then I show off a couple of ones that I've done too So making things fun and sharing things from people's personal experience is going to be really helpful. I Want to talk about more civics and ESL resources before I continue. Are there any questions? Yes, there is How are your students responding to the deal the distance learning format in terms of attendance and interest? Okay, that's a really really good a good question up. We do try to have zoom meetings on the the times For our classes. However, my class started at 545 people are eating at 545 So we've been meeting at 7 o'clock and usually meet for about an hour However, the thing is is that what they find the most satisfying is personal phone calls or zoom meetings or FaceTime meetings The reason why is that it's one thing to receive civics content in a group But the whole point of citizenship is practicing Practicing your your interview skills together So they get a little bit of that when they when I do breakout rooms However, invariably somebody forgets their citizenship Interview or what they're supposed to be talking about so when I check in on them, they're not speaking in English And they're not talking about citizenship So I really think that I know a lot of teachers are still doing it the personal touch But I wanted to show one group that is doing their entire class on lines I know some students especially in the San Diego has a really good series of citizenship classes They're very practiced on using Canvas. So Contacting the citizenship and ESL in their in the non-credit program of the San Diego Community colleges would be really helpful Because they're really good at doing with Canvas and citizenship there I know there is a Moodle course On the OTAN's website for citizenship I think that is a little bit outdated, but it could be good I personally like I've always done the on the delivering content by my daily blog That's really good, and I'm not familiar with anybody who's doing it on Google Classroom. So And I know that there's several teachers that do use Edmodo to deliver content. Is there another question? Yes What would you recommend for a class that used to meet Tuesday and Thursdays for two and a half hours weekly? All my students only have phone low digital literacy skills. Okay, and most do not have emails Okay, I would initially contact them through faith if they if they have Face time because doing things on the phone and doing nobody people rarely do Well, I take that back I know I had job interviews on the phone But people really need especially low literacy need facial clues to respond and plus people are glad to see you Okay, they really are so I would initially use face time to contact my students And I would ask them to to commit to maybe 10 to 15 minute Session once a week because you're going to get some real intensive work And then they can you can give them practice outside of that classroom But that one-on-one contact is going to be really appropriate and that's been more helpful That's what my lower level students have really appreciated now. I'm going to show you another Class that has been doing things on face Facebook and that's going to be really helpful, too Also, we tried WeChat With my Chinese students they had a great time But there was I couldn't understand really what was happening because there was too much back and forth in The original language so we had to I had to be in a session where there was a little bit more control Is there another question and is that a satisfactory answer? I Think you got it. We do have a couple of suggestions from some folks That their students use WhatsApp and you can make video calls using that too. What's app is very good. Yes Okay Um, if you need to stay on track with ideas about civics content and especially if you're trying to deliver Information them to them daily or if you're trying to fill out a canvas course Take a look at the civics calendar from the National Constitution Center They basically talk about they celebrate the different amendments and the big theme this year is women And the right to vote So that's going to be very appropriate as we're coming up on the presidential election ESL library is a want wonderful system They have a lot of other lessons that you can share online with with multiple level students One of the best or One of the best things that VOA voice of America news Has done is that they have a special section about press freedom so they basically Take a look at what's going on in different countries and even the United States So what's happening with press freedom, which is very appropriate appropriate especially during the presidential elections and talking about various news sources VOA learning English did a series on news literacy So this is again a way to fill out your your canvas your canvas courses and other or getting access to daily information for your students because News literacy is critical, especially learning about health what's appropriate to do and what's not appropriate to do Learning about what's happening with the presidential elections, etc We're still in even though the census April 1st has passed There's still people who have not filled out the census and some people I don't know what's happening with the what's happening with EL civics, but Division of adults career education from Los Angeles still maintains are really really great resources about the census 2020 resources and a lot of them Take a look at government Information so taking a look at those and thinking about how can I use this to teach my students more about? The inner workings of the government is going to be really helpful plus We got it now more than ever We need to make sure that those those weeks or that we fill out the census I civics so a lot of people are home, but they love to play games so I civics is a is a Program from Think it was who's the first woman's Supreme Court? Sandra Day O'Connor Connor basically they've developed a whole series of civics courses or civics games teaching people about voting rights or news literacy or Getting access to legal legal Counsel It's very very helpful now. This is going to be more appropriate for your higher level students However, sometimes I get my higher level students to play these games And then they come back and report to the students what they did what they learned during the games So they make their own little presentation and say look I learned this and that and the other thing So taking a look at I civics org and especially taking a look at their blogs because they develop games And they have activities according to different monthly things so Speaking of news resources Newzilla has basically Announced that a lot of their free con and their content is free There was a debate between my co-workers whether or not you can you can create classes on Newzilla But again, this is a good way to get our students to learn how to access good critical content for That they need Elizabeth Claire has also basically released free their issues free on the internet So please take a look at Elizabeth Claire easy English Change agent from the New England Literacy Resource Center is really great and new readers press again has some really great content Want to go back to Elizabeth Claire? She's reading her her her feature stories and putting them on YouTube on her YouTube Channel so that's a really good way to get us the students to dig a little bit deeper into the news and learn more information about what's going on in That's related to civics. I know this is not specifically Citizenship stuff. However, we speak new you we NYC is a great series that came out in 2009 and then was re-upped in 2018 and it's a it's focused in on low literacy Students and they go through Different ways to learn about money to learn about online life to learn about workers rights So they have a lot of great supporting PDFs. So taking a look at these resources and They're high interest stories and they're really really great. So again, this is another way to basically pursue Appropriate content or that's tangential to citizenship resources Of course, we have USA learns and you can put your classes on here You can create classes. You need to go to the teacher link down here And you have the citizenship content up here the cars is divided into four sections There's one about legal resources. There's the part about The N400 there's a section in there about citizen these civics questions And then there's another section in there about Let me see about what happens after the interview One problem with USA learns citizenship. There is so much Content the students can really get way down. So you really need to keep on top of them especially at the very beginning of the of the course Because there's a lot of legal content on there and they're just like, hey I just want to learn about the N400 or I want to learn about civics so making sure that they get over that hump and into the more interesting speaking and listening of Sections where they're talking about I just have a little bit of a rest. Okay, not too much of an arrest I had a very interesting love life. Okay, and the the complications that comes from Filling out your N400 application from that Making sure that they continue on and get through that is really important. I see that there's two questions. Do you are? Yes Let's start with USA learns one first. Do you know how long the USA learns citizenship course takes? I would say the at the very at the lowest and 30 hours at the high s and 60 hours So it it it could be very appropriate For somebody who needs to do distance learning However, you you do have speaking practice in there So that's really really good and you have listening content practice and you can go back and review some information However, I still think that you need to make sure that you're checking in with the teacher at least once a week and Practice what they should be What they should they just learn so basically setting a goal like you need to get through this amount of work You need to do these assignments and then creating your own oral check with your students So maybe you're you're talking to them 10 or 15 minutes a week Make sure you basically touch on some of the stuff that they learned I think that would be the best way to learn USA learns So it's just throwing anybody on the computer is a recipe for disaster. Okay It's much better to basically Get make sure that they're there have some teacher supervision and Basically that they know that there's other students doing this as well So if they have a question, they don't always have to contact the teacher maybe they can contact one of their friends and practice some of that information on there and Getting this the students to report back on that would be really good. I believe Gonzales adult school is using this and Perhaps you can Kind of act connect with the teachers to talk to them about that later. Is there another question? Do you use remind does anybody use remind? Low-level yeah, I I Initially use remind for my low-level students and they were not responding to them the messages unless I translated them and A lot of them miss them simply because they didn't know That they were supposed to be they were supposed to basically opt in so If you're in a classroom and you put everybody you teach everybody how to get on to remind when they're in the classroom That's the best way Trying to get them on remind outside the classroom is really really difficult. The best way is I've used What's up? What what's that? Yeah, or Facebook and that's because they're already on there So going to where your students already are is really the best way to get that stuff happening and There's a comment. I'm gonna address this It looks like teachers can keep track of the amount of hours students spend in this program if teachers create a classroom in U.s. Lead learns and then they invite their students. Yes, they can To an extent and we're going to be doing a USA learns webinar in the future So look for that on the OTAN website and you'll get more information there Jennifer which online resource is best for students to practice part 12? Questions from the N 400 citizenship application Um, I would say USA learns but I have a lot of content myself on part 12 stuff, too so Yeah, and we also have requests about I'm gonna save this to the end if we have time Jennifer can address how she uses Facebook, but let's let her continue with the the presentation Okay, I'm gonna go back to that. I'm gonna go back to part 12. Okay. Okay So part so as with the mix and match citizenship interviews as Continue through the series. I basically stop asking so many personal questions and start asking more part 12 questions about the vocabulary That series is going to be finished probably next week so the neck the week after that I'm going to be going through my 30 30 I so I have an N 400 PDF and it's basically I cut that into 30 different pieces So predominantly my focus is on the part 12 stuff So I take like almost every one of the part 12 questions and I associate it with some sort of Graphic and then I have a definition on that that's probably going to be the very best practice that I've seen I've seen some really really super great practice on Quizlet that is probably the best way to practice part 12 specific information and then quiz Q you I quizzes Q you Izzy Izzy or something like that. Those are again really good, but again Coming up with the different scenarios, and I think that's what USA learns is really good That enables people to practice that information and I think as adult education teachers We have to think about ourselves. How can we come up with different? scenarios or stories because our students love stories about how to employ some of that that part 12 information would be really helpful so Anyway, I'm going to continue and I want to talk a little bit about using videos so here's a really This is BP SOS West from what's with Minster and they're basically Doing all their classes on Facebook are Yeah, most I've mostly seen them on Facebook They're recording them and so you can do it through Facebook live and then they're posting them to their website So this website this are there this YouTube channel Excuse me this YouTube channel is about two or three weeks old. Okay, so this is very fresh content And what's really helpful is that there is a teacher there who? who basically when she teaches she teaches she Says things in English and then she'll say them again in Vietnamese You have so we so you have some really good teachers there who are sharing their Information and some of their citizenship resources So taking a look and talking to them about how they're doing their their classes on Facebook and on Zoom and then basically posting their their classes is going to be really really helpful Please go ahead and take a look at their YouTube channel and then also their channel on Facebook One of the things that I really like to use VOA VOA news videos to talk about different aspects of civics. Here's Information about a woman who's basically joined the military so she can basically become a US citizen So what I basically did initially in 2018 I would take a video like this. I would embed it in my blog and then I would also be asking a couple Citizenship questions so something very very basic But you can do better You can take short videos So for instance, I took a whole bunch of videos from the census and I embedded them in Google Forms I also found a really good So when you embed them in Google Forms, they play for about 30 seconds or one minute However, along you would like and then the student can basically respond and you get there you get their results. I found another interesting citizenship Site that I'm going to be interested in taking videos from them. It's called George Washington's Mount Vernon and he has some they have longer lectures there from some of their From some of their professors, but they also have very short minute videos about Different aspects of George Washington's life So I thought hey those would be really great for the students to simply watch those for about a minute and answer some questions So starting to I'm starting to look around for those kind of mini videos that could be really help illustrate What's happening with citizenship? I also have used Ed puzzles and so I took the series from VOA learning English Presidents and basically the the video will stop or it will play and then stop at the appropriate place and Prompt the student for a citizenship question. However in this this minute video I asked about 10 questions and that is really inappropriate So it's kind of like you just said a sentence and now I have to answer the question So what would be more helpful if you have a very very short video about a minute? maybe ask like two or three questions at the max and But this is helpful again because the student you're checking for understanding with the student and this is helpful you can also use this with Paradeck and nearpod and all these have really great Professional development websites that you can learn more about their apps So you can take content that you already have whether it's videos or PowerPoints and you can import it into these Into these apps to basically create something more interactive and to use the four assessments There's a couple of questions. Yeah, and we're gonna save the Facebook for later. Is family involvement good while you are teaching? How do you include or exclude family involvement while you are teaching online? Distractions kids help or help too much Well, the lock up so one of the ways, you know It's always good to use sugar instead of a stick and one of the things is that I always acknowledge the kids that pop their heads into the face and Sometimes they actually are they sit down and they'll sit with their parents during that another way is that's one of the reasons why I posted the The the video of doing puzzles together because puzzles are a really good family activity I'm going to be posting more videos about family friendly activities related to citizenship So I would say that Family that kids are welcome Be because a lot of people are doing citizenship So they can provide for a more secure future for their family a lot of people came here So they can get a better opportunity for their family. So it's really super important to acknowledge the kids Oh, I forgot one very very Important app that I did not put in this this Presentation it's called get epic G-e-t-e-p-i-c Com and what it is as an online digital library for kids So you can create playlist or basically reading lists about For different levels on different civics or citizenship topics So there are online kids books about going to an oath ceremony There are online kids books about geography. There are online kids books about the presidents So creating those kind of reading lists and then sharing them with your you're with your with your adults So the kids could be something similar to what the parents are learning about this can be really really super helpful So again, I can't recommend get epic calm enough And Yes for those taking Spanish only interview what can instructors give to students to practice their n400 apart from the paper So there is so I do have the mix and match citizenship interview Those are in doubt that is in Spanish I do have a copy of a translation of the n400 in Spanish and I was talking about the 30 interviews based on the n400 Those are currently being translated into Spanish now, and I hope to have those really soon So if the person could leave their name so I they could get a preview of the of those Those interviews that would be really helpful so I can get some feedback on if the Spanish is good or not Because during the especially the n400 part there's going to be information in there about n400 vocabulary for the part 12 section I want to know if those those are appropriate translations of my definitions So if that person could If people are interested in the Spanish section, I would really appreciate that kind of we we got her okay great anybody and what's the next question Um, well It's asking you to talk more about how you use Facebook, and if you want to table this until the end It's up to you. I'm I personally don't use Facebook. I use FaceTime or I chat with my students on Facebook Because they already have Facebook. I have not conducted classes on Facebook The people who do conduct conduct classes on Facebook or there are BP SOS Westminster and I know that Gonzales Adult school has a presence on Facebook. They're not doing it their class on there But they're probably one of the better schools that really has leveraged Facebook to get information out to their students I know there's a couple Schools back east who also are doing the same thing If the person could say what kind of context of what they were thinking about doing with Facebook that would be helpful And what other questions are there? Actually some comments We have Gail Hall who said she had a student not lower level who decided to have her interview in Spanish Although that wasn't necessary. She didn't pass the 100 questions because we had practiced them in English She had her second interview in English and passed with flying colors. That's really interesting Thank you for sharing that so this is this is an old video about how How will we use census information to sign? Represents representation to different to different states I cannot think of a drier more geeky subject Okay, and if you even saying this even saying that sentence one I wanted to go to sleep however What can you do to get this information out? I would say create a transcript and then do a closed exercise So I'm going to talk about how you can create a transcript. What do you do? This is the video down here. There's the three little dots dot dot dot It's basically steps towards getting more information You click you do a right click you open the transcript and so here you're seeing the transcript You can talk if you see the dot dot dot up here the snowman You can toggle it and get rid of all the timestamps now. Oh, you simply Basically copy this so so use just scroll down you and you highlight it and you copy it and put it into to put it into a a word word or a Note file or whatever the case may be and you can basically Fix the fix the transcript of the way it should be You can make sure that the trans the transcripts you're getting is English or there's the automatic English version Um That some the English version has been cleaned up So there's the periods in the right places if you have the automatic or automatic captions They're not going to have all the punctuation in there It's been really interesting that I used to give that to my Higher level students and they would basically test their grammar by cleaning up this the information But this is a way to take snippets of probably the more different difficult parts of Some of these very important videos and basically giving allowing them to have a transcript perhaps even Transling the transcript via Google Google translate or whatever the case might be you can turn it into lessening listening lessons. You can turn it into Basically Google Forms so learning how to get that transcript Getting that information and basically using and manipulating that information for our students to make it more level appropriate It's really going to help that level play playing field that will Eventually guarantee success for our students. I Can share some more resources online, but does anybody else have any questions? You have tools that target the end 400 interview questions such as focus on the cat vocabulary Also, how do you practice with students in the invent the interviewer ask a student? What a term means following a response to a previous question Okay, so a lot of times I address that on some of my YouTube My YouTube videos so if you go to take a look at some of the YouTube videos that I have So one of the things that I've been finding is that some people have been sharing What do I want to say? Content so they're showing their textbooks, and I don't know if that's appropriate or not Because a lot of that let's see go to share screen now Because a lot of that is our Copywriting so that could that could pose some problems for people. This is my website and Let me bring it down a little bit Do you see the website that I'm do you see my website? Yes. Okay, great So this is again the mix of match citizenship interviews and so when you click this one this is the whole bunch of Interviews that I put together that are basically leveling up So especially down here. There's gonna be more practice for the part 12 And as you continue along in the series of interviews, you're gonna get further further Information about practicing the part 12 information and again Probably if you want to see some flashcards about that check take a look at what's going on or do a search for them on Quizlet this one was what I was talking about of the 30 interviews And this is being translated into Spanish right now. So here we're going on to maybe Talking about acts of violence so we have We have pictures, but then we have the The definitions about this so some people are used are have created videos about this But if this can be also printed out or shared Interview interviewed by interview excuse me page by page. So today we're gonna practice question 14 and tomorrow We're gonna practice question 15 and then we're gonna go on to the whole section about the prison and detention center So I know it's a lot to put up the entire PDF at once So what I've done if you go to the end 400 PDFs Here you're gonna have a whole bunch of different levels of PDFs and on the bottom Here we have the 30 section practice interviews and you can basically Click on the individual ones and share them with with your students So these are the these are the interviews that are being Translated right now Yeah, I have a question Jennifer if we post one of your videos of a practice interview in The Google classroom on a Google site. Is that okay? And what what you need to do is simply get the link. Do you want me to show you? No, no, no, no, she knows how to do that. She's just asking if it's okay If she gives you credit this was created by Jennifer from Milpitas. Is that okay? Can she use the video on her site or her classroom? I don't see what the problem is but the he's asking for permission Say yes or no No, yes The reason the reason okay, I'm gonna say yes, okay because okay this is extraordinary times Okay, the the only thing is is that when if you basically download it and then upload it to your site Instead of using the link. I don't get credit for that So when you embed the link into your Google classroom, I get credit for it Okay, use the embed code. It's better to use the embed code or use the link However, right now it's much more important because there's security issues and people are still working out the whole online activity of the whole online line sharing of resources That's more important to me personally right now than me getting credit from YouTube The only problem is is that I know that people are also sharing the videos For sale on in China and Vietnam and that I don't like So I'm glad people are making money, but I think it's an inappropriate It's theft of material exactly, so just to reiterate if If they go to your site and use your site No problem because you're gonna be getting the credit that way or that the link hits is what we're looking for Or if they hit the embed code if they get the embed code from the video that rocks That's good too. No problem. However, I acknowledge that there are some people that have so much security on their On the different school districts that sometimes they have to download Download that video and upload it to their Google to their own Google site I acknowledge that and like I said, it's extraordinary times. So if that is the case I'm just gonna jump in here real quick. If that is the case they can email OTAN support at otan.us ask for the Google person and we have a workaround on that. Mm-hmm So Contact us and we can we can help you out Jennifer is your website a Google site Yes, it's it's actually its blogger which was purchased by Google Okay, only students taking the English civics Test get asked vocab questions question mark No, I don't think so. I mean, I've known my Spanish students who've asked been asked, you know, define something in Spanish So I don't see how they could possibly not ask that but then again people they don't it's not a vocabulary test It's an interview They're only asking the questions to make sure that the person understands what they're agreeing to legally Okay, so maybe they'll get one or two questions just so the interviewer can be assured That the person knows what they're agreeing to because this is a legal they're undertaking legal obligations here so Don't frighten them about the vocabulary. Simply prepare them And I'm interested in some kind of glossary of terms Spanish for instructions on how to explain online learning to students to get them Started with zoom Google classroom, etc. I would love that. I'm sorry. I don't look like you're interested Yeah Okay, I've been interested. I've been interested to see I mean how effective have people So my default Is basically I run things through Google translate and then I checked check the translation But I'm not a native speaker. Have people been able to do that with some online instruction and hasn't been successful Have people been able to do that with Vietnamese and Brandon I I opened that question to you Um, I've posted your website Jennifer. It's HTTPS colon slash slash US citizen pod calm okay, and when I shared this when I share the Slides for this I'm going to add get epic and the further information from voa learning English about the updated history content