 You've got to absolutely love online conferences 15 minutes ago myself and Deb baff. We're in British Columbia And now we've gone to Ontario. Which one is the better? Believe that to you, but joking aside. We have some stuff here about from Micro-credential here about improving our skills, which I think we could all do certainly me at the moment So I'm going to hand you over without any forward or due to Stephanie Christian and the inimitable Terry green take it away Okay, I need to look up in nimble to make sure that's not a bad thing. Thank you, Tom Welcome everybody. Hi. My name is Terry green. I'm an e-learning designer at Trent online and I think also making their international conference speaking debuts from their bedrooms and basements is a Christian Metaxas and Stephanie Park. Do you want to say hi? What we're sharing on the screen here is our presentation that we've put into padlet and what we're doing here is basically Okay, most of the other sessions have been where people telling you about something they've done in the past We haven't done anything yet. We're here to tell you about something. We're about to do and we're inviting you to join us and I think the You should there that you've been shared the the padlet. Okay, so Have a look at quickly. We will show you Who we're here with there's Christian e-learning technologist Stephanie e-learning designer What river are you on there, Stephanie? Um, that's in Lake fields. I'm not sure what that That's still part of autonomy Could be We're making it clear I think that Ontario is better than DC those Tom so One for us and there I am Another e-learning designer with Trent online so But more importantly probably is what the heck we're here to talk about and it's It's an upcoming learning extravaganza that we plan to run people through anybody's invited we're inviting everybody from Trent and From anywhere in the world and we currently have about 120 folks signed up to join us for a lowercase M MOOC of the Ontario extend empowered educator program and what I'm sharing there is that is basically the framework So each of those things I think people can see themselves in But also some areas where they could use some improvement. So each of those things is that is one of the modules And I think I'm blathering on a bit too much. So why don't we? Move on to This promo video that Christian made Christian, do you want to give it a any kind of? I'm gonna tee it up I was asked to put together a promotional teaser trailer In a signature style as a team. We agreed that most cool things have trailers. So we I thought heck Let's do it All right. Hi there, my name is Christian and if you're watching this video Congratulations, you've taken the first steps in your Ontario extend MOOC adventure beginning in May You'll be joining several educators from all over the globe to take part in what can only be described as a two-month long E-learning extravaganza it starts here with your computer after connecting to the worldwide web You'll be heading on over to the e-campus extend website where you'll find the six different modules of extent teacher for learning Technologist curator collaborator Experimenter and scholar the plan for the first two weeks is to complete the teacher for learning module as one big group And then split up to tackle the module you are most excited for in the weeks to come No matter which of the remaining five modules you select one of our learning guides will be there to support you on your journey in each Module you'll come across a variety of activities that you can take part in by uploading a contribution to the activity bank After completing all the activities for a module you can send your submission to e-campus and earn that modules Micro-credential or badge our main platform of communication will be e-campus's extend chat a lively spontaneous free-flowing conversation space designed to facilitate the polite interchange of ideas and opinions We'll also be making use of the Trent online blog for what we're calling daily extend stretches Small bite-sized little brainbusters to get you thinking about how we can transform learning for the better And that's all there is to it. No catch. No hidden fees Just some good clean fun brought to you by the fine folks here at Trent online So tell your friends and tell them to tell their friends all about this super exciting professional development opportunity I love that video and all those links you saw will share and you actually have the links in the padlet if you've taken that link Thank you Christian. I love it. Oh, there's already comments in here Excellent. Okay, so just quickly Tell you more about how extend works There you go This is the true heart of it. I think are the activities because they're they're really like authentic They're nondisposable. You do things that help you in your teaching and So that's the true heart of it and there's there's tons of really great ones Also, as mentioned in the video, there are every a daily stretch that is inspired by and developed by the DS 106 daily creates From Alan Levine and and all the folks at DS 106 and in the end you will get as Many as you want of these badges and I don't know if you can see the subtle Hint of the guy that says badges. We don't need no stinking badges in the background. That's my favorite touch of that slide You can pursue any of them with us So Christian over here, would you like to? Share was it Chris or was it you Stephanie? Sorry, sorry Stephanie What we've done so far. We have actually done some preparing. What have we done so far with our blog? Yeah, so we've sort of been documenting our journey through the teacher for learning module and we've had different team members kind of join us and Christian Terry and I are the OG crew so we've been there since the beginning and Yeah, you can kind of check out some of the activities that we've done And then once we've completed the teacher for learning module we all kind of split off and are doing one of the other five modules and and Yeah, that kind of brings you up to the speed Terry's showing you some of our work there and and then with the help of Terry his connections and his expertise with the podcast we've revived the extend radio You'll see just the last two or the most recent two episodes our extend radio 2021 so yeah kind of just fun listening for your pleasure and We hope to post posting more there. Maybe invite some more guests on as we get the move going Awesome, thank you. Yeah, and one thing through the blog as mentioned And we're using the technical term learning journey. Each of us are doing our own Together and apart so Christian you want to tell us about your so far learning journey. I can take it away I saw I saw Jen's question bubble up in for me It's the bottom left hand corner on my screen. I don't know on your screen. Yes, the badges are through pan cred So it's all it's all above board here with our learning journey So I got a few things in my padlet column the the one I want to talk about is the the wacky wire Picture is the the anecdote accompanying my at the beginning of my learning journey Which started a couple years ago in fact at Here in Ontario. We have a a conference. Could we call it a symposium test? It's Anybody use anybody comes through we all get together and read and laugh and learn together And at the end of the conference There's a there's a wine and cheese and crackers and we get to mingle and chat They dim the lights and the theme of the of test They had a bunch of activities and games and things you could play with and get tactile with and one of them was this game I'd never seen it before and now know it's called wacky wires and I Saw people kind of they'd get halfway along the wire And then they go shucks and then they'd hand back the wand and so I approached the booth And I asked the attendant how what do I do and the attendant said all you have to do is get the Wand from one end of the wire to the other and I thought well hell That's easy and I took it and I it immediately made this this this loud annoying buzzing noise and Disregarding the noise. I just kind of dragged the wand along the wire. I was smiling people around me were Physically revolting and cringing and then the attendant took the wand away from me Which I learned was my cue to stop but more importantly at tests We were we were invited to come together and get the experimenter batch I'm messing around with h5p as as Ms. Frizzle of Magic school bus might say make mistakes get messy have fun and I found that the the two Experiences together I think about them a lot and I think what we're trying to do here with the MOOC my own relationship to the learning journey is that it It frees you from the burden of embarrassment where we're all we all exist in in higher ed We're educators were instructors where we're lifelong learners and part of that means that we're often wrapped up in appearing smart and when when we mess up It's kind of the opposite. It kind of runs counter to the brand So being a part of the MOOC with lots of people being given opportunities to get from a to zed your way and take the Long way around or make a few mistakes or get a little dirty on the way That's part of the experience and the journey is unique and I think it's it's so powerful as Terry was saying earlier the authentic opportunities that allow for us to Really get in there and in understand what it takes to not just complete the activities But to flesh out ourselves as empowered educators. So that that's what I wanted to add to the learning journey Thanks Christian Stephanie tell us about your learning journey. Sure. Yeah, so hopefully you've got that link to the padlet It's up top in the comments section if you scroll up and you can kind of check out I've put in some examples of some of the activities that I've completed that We're really fun and kind of more of the visually appealing ones for the padlet But the thing that I like about this journey is because you can have fun. There is that freedom There's lots of choice. It forces you to kind of be creative And it's flexible So this is one thing that I've been that I one of the first activities I created a mind map which Got really messy, but it was also really helpful. So in my blurb about it I said it's helpful, but I mean it was helpful to me to kind of work through this and And that's using Koggle so you can kind of check those out and then if we go back I decided that video because that's Michelle Pekensky-Brock and I'm a really big fan of hers I took some Cornell notes, which was a new experience for me. So I that's not really that exciting to look at but I You don't really need to check out by writing I won't be getting a penmanship award anytime soon But next down is I didn't get on tick tock. Oh, yeah, yeah tick tocker, but I did get on there and created Long so you may want to check it out later, but it was using a sherry spell x Learning nugget and so that was awesome and to put that to some music and video And yeah, she retweeted it which is a cool moment use some h5p Again, lots of fun things are easy. I feel like you know this year has been kind of a challenging one a lot of people are tired and I just want to throw in some examples that Show you that it can be easy and and kind of a fun release From like your daily work and then this padlet at the very end, which it's a padlet within a padlet But if you want a comment on that that'd be awesome share some reflections of this last year There's it's not really just related to higher ed. It's for elementary and secondary to and we've got some great kind of Contributions already and then I'm not sure if there's any it's their last one. Oh, yeah a gift That's my last kind of one. I created a gift and if you're not a blackboard user You won't really get this but hopefully So maybe you won't But yeah, that was another fun thing to to try out. So that's all that was the teacher for learning module at the beginning and then I'm doing the experimenter module right now and just finishing it up So lots of opportunities to be creative and and fun. Okay, so we're right already at Q&A time So please check out the MOOC what we're here for is literally to invite you to join us if you're interested as little Everything counts as participation everything even just lurking So I had Tom. Can you share that one link the second link we shared before? Yep. Yep. Also in the padlet We have a want a stretch for you if you want to check it out to tell us how to do the worst possible job And then we're just gonna do the opposite so First of all You've certainly sold it really well. There's there's the link up there again. How do you actually sign up for what? So that that link we just shared We take your information and then we'll we'll email that's just showing interest and then we will send you more information Perfect. No, that's really good Question from Laura Pascuali. What are you learning about working with folks in all these spaces and places? To engage your audience. So there we have it there Well as mentioned at the start we haven't started yet So we're engaging with ourselves And everybody's going in a million different directions When we're actually working like there's gonna be a space kind of much like discord for this conference They use a thing called rocket chat And this is like that's hosted by eCampus Ontario itself who also will issue the badges We're just like your guides to the the top and then you send off your work to eCampus Ontario to say yay or nay Whether you get the badge You'll you will I'm sure Where was I going with that so so we're really just engaging with each other now but hopefully that rocket chat is the space where people can that that'll be like the the the the sauce that ties everything together and where everybody just Shares where they've been connects Because you see look at you you guys have been having a lot of fun When you actually hoping to pick off things and it's very clever because you've made sure you're gonna get invited back to OER 22 because you're only saying this is what we're going to do and then you'll have to come back next year and tell Us what you did exactly Yeah, that was our plan the whole thing is about getting into OER 22 Fiendishly clever Terry, I know you clever like that. So that's another point for Ontario Yeah, I think so yeah, but I mean you were saying that Stephanie or some of the stuff is easy But I mean don't forget for some people, you know Sending emails is advanced H5P or are you you're kind of whatever people want to do really if it's fairly easy going Yeah, there's lots of options, especially in the experimental module where I created that H5P They've got like I think it's at least 10 different options maybe even more and you only have to do three so you know there's varying levels and You can get as complex or as simple as you are comfortable with and that's why I want like one of us From Trenton line is the kind of the guide for each module We're all together at the start as like full Voltron together like Christian showed us and then we split off So I'll be leading the technologist module Stephanie will do experimenter Christian will do Curator and then a couple other folks from from the team will cover the other ones Yeah, it's gonna be fun Don't be fun. Yeah. Well, I have to say I mean, you know And yeah, you certainly have one person as soon as they finish this and we have happened onto the Google Doc and You know I say because in fairness the boys and BC didn't offer me and you've offered me a hot spring Spring of great fun and CPD and having the crack. So yeah, I think it's tree nothing now Yeah, there's one more minute. We might be able to squeeze one more in but I think Questions, I'll be in the discord Afterwards, yeah, yeah, because I think sometimes yeah, you throw something out and it's only as it will occur to people And obviously you don't have to be in Ontario to get to apply for the badges and Oh, and that's another feature the Lindsay Woodside from e-campus who takes does the the assessment and gives the feedback is the feedback Greatest of all time like it's unbelievable the great feedback you get Now I think at this age 30 Yeah Thank you everybody appreciate it. That was that was fun quick. Yeah Brown applause from everybody here. Can we just get a thumbs up round applause ending here from on the chat there It really does look interesting on people. I think I think actually look to be honest with you This is really what companies are about as well something like that. So I definitely think you're going to get a lot of people Trying to hat into the ring and and having the crack and but remember if there's any take away from this It's that Ontario is better than British Columbia Apologies to any of my friends in BC Yeah Well, you have the NBA champions and stuff there like that Clint is there Real yeah, and he hasn't risen to the base. I see Clinton and hasn't risen to the base. He's yeah, very Maybe that's one for BC. Oh Okay, I think Do we have to bring in the step are we bringing up yet? Continue. Yes, and you're a continue the conversation in this card. Yeah, so see you there. Thank you