 first fence, fallen at the first fence, because my collaborators' names are hidden behind the titles. So I'm just going to have to point out that this session, which would have been a hands-on practical session in the main, was going to be done by myself and Suzanne Hardy, Sheila McNeill and Mia Zamora. And we should have all been sitting in the same room with Sheila in charge of the paint table of the art table and here we are in a webinar. So obviously I've planned something a bit different. So I'm just going to explain to you in a minute what we're going to do. So thanks to my co-presenters. But like Debbie said, I want to say thank you to each and every one of the over 100, well over 100 people who contributed fabric, found objects, words, and most importantly quilt squares to the quilt. And we would have had the completed quilts at the workshop had it been in London at OER 20. And that hasn't happened. And that's something that I actually think is quite important. I reached a point a few weeks ago where I could have really revved up and pushed on to have the whole set of quilts completed for today, regardless of it being an online virtual conference. And to me, that just seemed wrong because we aren't in the world that we were in, even just a month ago. Times has moved on and things move on every day. So what I'm doing today is concentrating on the process of getting the quilt. And this has become a process which is not quite complete. And so bear with me. So in a few minutes, I'm going to ask you to watch a video. And I've taken the advice of Theresa McKinnon, who knows all that is to be known about how to do things in webinars. And she told me it'd be better for you to watch the video separately. And then for us to come back. So what will happen is I'll speak for a couple of minutes. Then I'll give you the link to the YouTube video, give you five minutes to watch it. It's a four minute 41 second video. And then we'll come back into the chat and talk about that when you've seen the video to see what thoughts it stimulates for you. So I hope that's okay. Could I have the next slide, please? Or can I do it? I can do it, can I? Yeah. Right. Well, I looked back at our session description and what we originally promised for the workshop. And it said the Quilt project offers engagement in a material form. Well, I don't know is what we're doing now in a material form, not quite as much as it would have been in, if we'd all been in a room in London. But we also mentioned the potential for activism. And I want you to keep that in your mind. What potential does the Quilt have for activism to promote change in line with Femme EdTech values? And the question that we set is one that I think we can think about, albeit in a different way, is how can that Femme EdTech Quilt make a difference to care and justice in open education? And we can't help but think about the change situation that we're in now. And as far as COVID-19 is concerned, we hear a lot every day about care because our healthcare workers are delivering care in very dangerous situations. I think we're going to need a lot longer to think about justice in open education and elsewhere, because I think that's going to become an issue for the future. But I'm not asking us to solve all those problems today. Right. Okay. So this is a YouTube video made by myself, so not exactly a slick piece of work. And what I'm going to ask you to do now, and I will put my timer on, is ask you to watch that video. The link is in the chat. And I'd like you to, I'll give you five minutes to watch it starting from now. And of course, my phone has switched itself off. Right. So I'm starting a five-minute timer now. Okay. I make that five minutes up. Is there anybody still watching the video, or can we go back to where we were? Is that okay? Right. Well, it's lovely to see your reactions in the quilt. If anybody's got, I have got some other things to look at. But if anybody's got any questions to ask that were raised by the video and, or anything else, just ask them in the chat or put your hand up. I'd love to answer them. I think everybody is just needing tissues, Francis. Yes. Yeah. There've been a few tears shed over this quilt. I think really, I'm not sure I've done this in the right order, because I'm just about to ask you some difficult questions. And you're probably all feeling a bit stunned, but it really is a thing of beauty. And what was so amazing was that so many people of such different types and levels of skills contributed to the quilt. And, you know, some of them were beautiful in one way, but every single square is beautiful in its own way. So let's think about that. Right. Okay. So it was a year-long process. So we didn't actually start it before OER 19. So I have got a few, few weeks left to get the four quilts all together. And they are nearly there. I'm sitting in the summer house, and we've got one quilt, which needs, no, that's the one in the house. No, we've got one quilt that needs quilting. Or have we? Have I finished? No, I think I've quilted all of the quilts now. And I've just got to bind them and put the fastenings on them. And then we can make that. We can finish them then. But I don't actually like to put a time to this at the moment, because I don't know about anybody else. But what took me two hours a month ago now takes me four hours. And I don't know if any of the rest of you are the same. I didn't expect to get emotional about this. But we're all here together. And I hope that maybe Mia or Sheila would like to join in as well and make their voices heard. Francis, I'm emotional too. Yeah, maybe just sorry Mia, but I know you're emotional. So I am slightly less emotional because I knew what was coming. I just want to see a huge thank you to Francis. And I can see why you're emotional. There is so much emotion in this chat and in this room. And I know we're all really disappointed that we can be there in person. But oh my God, I don't think I could have gone up to where we're all there in person. It's just been wonderful to see. And I think it just the words that you used in that video just summed out how everyone is feeling right now and how we can all come together and collectively create something so wonderful with every piece having something unique and beautiful to see and to share. So a huge thank you. I feel a total fraud because I was just waiting for the online here for the face-to-face session to actually be more involved in this. And I think Suzanne Hardy might be in here as well. But if Mia wants to take a mic, but Francis, it's just been amazing. And I feel so fortunate to be a tiny, tiny part of this. It's been amazing. And to everyone that's in the room who contributed a square total respect to you all, it's just been fantastic. And I love the idea that this is not finished, that this is going to go on. And that really gives us a lot more hope for the future as well, which I think is what we all need right now too. Sheila, so well said. I think that Quilt will have a long and beautiful life and have many debuts that matter. But I think I was struck in the video by what you said about the trust that goes into collaborating and working together creatively. And it really hit home in terms of the presentation of the work. I think when we come together to participate in something where we all bring a little part of ourselves, but then it becomes a mosaic of what is beyond just us and becomes something broader that we can see the beauty in that. And that metaphor, that kind of creativity around to a participatory act is such a beautiful reference point. I'm so sad that we can't see it in person, but I'm so happy that we've had this moment to share some part of the process. Again, love the emphasis on the fact that it's a collective process. I think we have Lorna with us as well. Hi Lorna. Hi there. I just wanted to say a huge thank you to Frances for all the hard work and creativity that she's put into this project. I had a little preview of the video last night or a couple of nights ago, so I was kind of prepared for what was coming, but it's deeply moving to you. And I think one of the things that really struck me about this project was not just the creativity and the ingenuity and the honesty of the people who shared all the quilts squares and the people who brought it together, but also the stories that are linked to all these quilts squares. And yet, thanks to Catherine for putting the link in the chat there. If you haven't read the stories behind some of these quilts squares, I can highly recommend going and visiting this block because there's some really deeply personal, very, very moving stories that go along with these squares. So just a huge thank you once again to Frances for making all this happen. It was a collaborative project, but it wouldn't have happened without Frances, so thank you again. Well, one of the funny things was I got so caught up in the, in sort of putting the quilt squares together already for this stitching day, getting everything organized, that I realized the only quilt squares I'd actually done myself were the sort of demo ones, which were to be showing people how to do it without sewing and that sort of thing. And I'd had an idea for a square. And I'm actually just trying to look for it now. I'm not sure I can find it. I'd had an idea for a square that was, no, I can't find it. I can't do two things at once. Hang on. Oh, hang on. Let me just see. No, just a minute. No, I'll scrap that. I've had an idea for a square. And I had the design in my head. And I realized I got to the afternoon before the stitching day. And I hadn't actually done this square. So I just made myself stop everything else that I was doing and get on with the square that was my favorite story. And I haven't even put it in as a story yet, but you can watch out for it in the next few days. And I think there's a moral in that for all of us. I perhaps should say all of you really, because I'm a bystander looking at what's happening in education at the minute. And you've got a lot of competing priorities. And I certainly wouldn't like to tell anybody what they should do. But if you are in a position where you're having pressure put on you to do something, don't, don't forget to think about yourself and about your family and prioritize things. Don't just do things because that's what you'd always have done. I think that's my piece of advice to the rest of you. And it's a device I've tried to follow myself as well. Anyway, this is a big question, isn't it? How can the FEMED Tech Quilt make a difference to care and justice in open education? And I think the answer is we don't actually know all the ways that it can do that at the moment. But if you have got any ideas, please grab the mic, put them in the chat. And then after a little while, we'll go on and I'll show you two other things that I've got that you can contribute to if you've got the time and the energy at the moment. So how do you think it can make a difference to care and justice in open education? And I think care is probably easier at the moment than justice. Well, people are thinking, I mean, I just put that in the chat. I think Francis, that it's really important, and I think this is coming through in the chat as well, that it's a physical thing and it's showing care in quite a wide sense of the notions of useful. But I'll let Juliana go. Yes, I just wanted to say it was an incredible work. I followed. I couldn't participate because I felt a little bit shy. And I don't have the skills to work on such a type of work. And I really was amazing to see all these collaborations. But what this triggered into my mind was the fact that sometimes we, in a time where there is a lot of pressure to work on science and technologies, because they are all, for example, in Europe, most financial efforts are done in the field of research and education to push towards science, the development of science and technology skills. Whereas the humanities and social science sometimes are left behind. And the value of this type of approach where there is no product better process and emotions attached to this process, I think is of enormous importance. Even to think about the way we work under the pressure of being financed by, for example, external bodies in our universities, not undertaking this type of collaborative actions for our wellness, for our well-being, the well-being of our students, and a sense of belonging. There must be space for that. But I can't imagine how that these issues could enter into an institutional agenda and national and international agenda. Those that have the power. Well, my inspiration for the quilt was from a campaign that went on in the UK for a family member who died in a health institution. And they were campaigning for justice for five years. It took them five years to get justice for their late family member. And they had a quilt which was part of it. And that quilt travelled around the country and was shown at different places. And one of the great things about people being so generous and making what would have been one quilt huge and just impossible to deal with is that we now have, we will now have four quilts, so they don't all have to travel together. And they can be fastened together as in a long row, a horizontal row, or a vertical row, or in a square, a two by two. So, you know, there are lots of possibilities for these quilts when they're actually finally completed. And then the other thing that I wanted to say was that Marin, not Marin Deepwell, Marin Wolston, I think, asked about possibly opening up the call for contributions again. And I can give you a very definite no for that one, but I do have something to offer you, which is that we've collected, what I'd like you to think of is is the quilt project as an open educational resource. We've collected a lot of ideas, a lot of writings, a way of registering the contributions with a Google form. And then I've got the biggest spreadsheet in the world, which I can't possibly show you, because it's full of personal data, but we've learned a lot from doing it. And whilst I know that I will never do a quilt like this again, and the one thing that I have learned from it, and this will all be written down in due course, but not at the moment, is that it's something to learn about collaboration. The weak point in the collaboration was that I was at the center. Had I been working in a university and had a team of people with me, that would have been different. So I would say one of the things to learn is don't get into that position again. I had the Macclesfield 7 to help me stitch it all together, but there are different ways of doing it. For example, if any quilters are listening, if we'd done quilts as you go, which is quilting each square as you make it, then there would have been a lot less work at the end. It would just be stitching it together. So there are things that we can learn, and people can go on and do their own quilt projects. Each of the squares will be about 46 inches square, and they clip together with a standard plastic clip, which is like what you would have on your backpack, and I can give the reference number for those. So any other quilts that were made in the future could clip in different combinations to any that have been made in the past. So that's a possibility, but I won't be starting or taking any more. We have got a few blank squares, and that's something we could think about what to do with them. My thoughts were that we might even think a bit further down the line about commemorating the fact that we hit the COVID pandemic as the quilt was being completed, and so we might reference that on the blank squares that we've got left. And we can also think about where it's going to be launched in the future, and we certainly aren't at the time where we can think about that now. We've got to get on with life, I think, before we can do that. So anyway, the next thing is, the next slide, is that I've left you a Google Doc called, and I'll put that in here, which is bits.ly slash quilt futures, where you can find all the bits and pieces. It's a sort of document for the session futures. I hope that's right. So there's a document where you can add your ideas. What I'd like you to do is not to make concrete plans, but really let your imaginations run wild, and think about some ways in which you could imagine the quilt being used in the future. So just use your imagination. Don't be stuck with what's sensible. Just let your imagination run riot. And then the other thing that I want to tell you about, and I didn't put this in the here, but I'll put it in now, is that on FEMED Tech, we have a little project going on, which some of you might be interested in, and it's using our splots. And this isn't something that everybody would do this week, but we've got a resource for you to tell stories. And they can be spoken stories recorded. They can be just very short, an image with a few words or a longer story. And we also have the possibility for you to remain anonymous. You just have to comply with our Code of Conduct. And there might be some times when you want to tell a story that you don't want to attach your name to, and just remember that it's there, and that's something that you might like to do. Anyway, I think I've said enough. Well, Francis, I'm not often speechless, but I am speechless. And that was just unbelievable. And as a participant in the quilt gathering, a direct participant in the quilt gathering, I have kind of seen a lot of this stuff in terms of the artifacts that were produced, but the way that you told that was just unbelievable. And it really spoke from the heart. And obviously, I'm sure when you get a chance to have a look at lots more of the chat messages, you will be crying once more because there are some amazing responses in there. And again, we could stay here all day, I know, and talk about these things. And I'm sure I've just seen Theresa's note where she said that's a first step. But yeah, I think the chat is recorded, Kathy. So I'm sure that people will be able to kind of really look at it. And I know I certainly will be looking at that video yet again. But thank you so much. Thank you to everybody for coming along to this session and everybody for contributing. And thank you so much, Francis, and everybody that has helped towards making this quilt. I'm sure it will definitely won't forget for an awful long time to come. Okay, well, that just just leaves me to say thank you again. And I'm going to stop the recording. And we shall see you on the other side. Take care, everybody.