 Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. central time. But if you're unable to join us on Wednesdays, that's fine. We record the show as we are doing today and it will be available for you to watch later in our show archives for you to watch at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where all the show archives are. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch. So please do share with your friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, anyone you might think might be interested in any of the topics we have on Encompass Live. For those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries so similar to your state library. And so we provide services and training and resources and grants to all sorts of libraries in the state. So you will find shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries. Public, academic, K-12, corrections, museums, archives really are only criteria that's something to do with libraries. We have book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts of things. We sometimes bring in guest speakers on the show from outside of the commission, but we also have commission staff that do presentations for us. And that is what we have today. And today is, I can't believe I'm going to say it, it's the last Wednesday of the month. It's also the last Wednesday of 2023. Whoa. So, is everybody ready for 2024? Okay, we got this. But it is the last Wednesday of a month. So that means we have, it's pretty sweet tech day. Every last Wednesday of the month throughout the year, Amanda Sweet, who's our technology innovation librarian here at the Library Commission. Good morning, Amanda. She comes on and talks, shares with us something tech related. We do have tech shows other times during the month too, sometimes, but you can always depend on last Wednesday of the month will be Amanda in her pre-sweet tech session. And she's going to talk about a real cool service. She started up here at the commission. I don't even know how long ago, a couple years maybe. I think it's been a few years now, yeah. Kids through the mail program. So I'm just going to hand it over to you, Amanda, to tell us all about what's going on with that. New thing. And I guess now that I think about it, it actually started shortly before COVID, but then the world kind of paused for a while. And then it kind of jumped back up. It paused. Yeah. It kind of shut down for a little bit. So this is all about the tech kids through the mail. And I think this has started right around 2019-ish, but we don't speak of that time. The before times. Right. But these are the after time. And so in this one, I'm going to talk about how this service kind of works, how it got started, how it's being used. I get some really cool pictures about how people having fun with robots and stuff. So I wish I had actually added those to the slideshow now that I say that out loud. But I didn't. So next time. And I just added some, I'll talk about the kits that are available right now. Then I'll mention the new kits that I just recently added. Some of them actually still need bar codes, but that doesn't take that long. And then I'll talk about how these kits can be used to kind of introduce new and different careers, some of the extra resources that I put together. And just some fun different ways that you can use it. I've been adding stuff. So just a like a brief overview of what the tech kits are. It's basically, you get to check out any, we have robotics kits, drone kits, virtual reality headsets. We've got a ton of stuff. It's actually easier to just open up the page that has the listing of everything. Because I didn't memorize all of them, even though I picked them. Well, there's a lot. Yeah. While we're, you know, popping between your slides and the website here. The slides will be available to everyone. We'll have a link to those when the show archive goes up as well. So if you want to, you want that for your own reference, we'll have a link to those slides for you. And there is a link to this main page and the page. This is also the page to request a kit. So I used to just have these little tiles that have the links to the resources. But people requested just a full on list right at the top just so they know what they're working with. Everything that's available right off the bat. And to be fair, it is probably easier that way. So I did add it up there. Probably the next question that I usually get is which ones are the most popular kits that go out? And the answer randomly is that it's seasonal. And I think it's mostly like different kits get used during the school year and the drones get more used during the summer and fall than they do in the cold winter months. Sure. That makes sense. But overall, the Oculus quest to the during the summer, the DJI tell us the Azobot evos. I need to change the Azobot bit to the evil because they're no longer make the they're no longer making them bit, which is the original version. They switched over to the evil. So I've already replaced everything in the collection with the evil. But apparently I didn't change that one word. So what are you going to do. But it's correct when you get in there. It's true. Yeah, order something sure for sure. And the snap circuit extreme is a big honking kit that comes in this giant black case. But in hindsight, after I got that one, it costs a lot to shift. So that kit has gotten a lot of use because not kids are amazing. They're awesome. They're popular. But I just recently added the snap kids green energy kit just because it's smaller is lightweight. And it's cheaper to shift back and forth. And I'll probably add other snap circuits just because the extreme is indeed extreme. And it gives you like a lot of activity options. But it weighs like 20 plus pounds. Wow. Yeah, a little bit. And randomly enough, the kids that get the least circulation right now are the Google smart home devices. And that's mostly just because they don't come with pre packaged activities that you can do with them. They're geared more toward libraries that want to experiment with different smart tech like smart bulbs and the display screen. One way that libraries have started using that is that they'll put the like a doorbell over by their front desk so that if you're a solo librarian and you have to be out in the library helping someone else. You can put the doorbell up front to keep the monitor with you or even the app on your phone. And when someone rings the doorbell at the front, you can pull out your phone and talk to them from anywhere in the library. Nice. And that's the way that libraries can experiment with that and see how it actually works. So that's more for those solo librarians that we have in so many libraries across the state. There's a ton of them. I mean they're everywhere. Oh yeah. So that's more for and you can also use it with patrons to do workshops that show how smart bulbs work and if people were confused about how they how to program routine. There's also smart plugs in there so you can plug a lamp into a smart plug and then plug a smart bulb into a different lamp and show the difference of how that works. And then you can also create room so that like in the over Christmas. My dad actually set up his Christmas lights so that he just tells Alexa turn on Christmas lights turn off Christmas lights. And we're all too lazy to just go go get up and do it. We have I have a little remote for a power thing outside but I do have to stand up and go to the window and go click. I don't even do that. So even lazier awesome. Go laziness. And so if you have serving energy let's be positive about this. We're lazily conserving energy that's the best kind. So that does the lights on the tree and the lights outside. So it's all just in one thing. So if you do have like Christmas lights or even just any plug in device you can find out how that works and find out how to program it. And usually when people try that using this free service and kind of get a feel for how it works. They're more comfortable with actually putting the money out to get their own thing. So that's great for both libraries and for customer and for library patrons that were kind of hesitant about smart tech and trying to the ones who didn't want to actually buy it before they could have to hold it in their hands. And so that is a list of what's there. I'm not adding the green circuits onto this main list until they're all fully barcoded. I've already barcoded to them and they've already been shipped out because someone requested them. But I'll get to the rest of them. And so these are all shipped to you through the library commission using the USPS or UPS depending on how many of them there are and if you need them right away. Bruce in the mailroom kind of works with magic to figure out how that all works because he's got a system. I let him do his thing. If you're close by to Lincoln. You can also pick them up. So a lot of the local libraries that are within maybe an hour or so. They'll actually just pick them up and drop them off. Or if you have relatives in the area or you're frequently over here. A lot of people say I'm shipping just by dropping them off in person. And I was kind of amazed the number of people who make regular circuits to Lincoln Omaha. But yeah. We see people a lot like a pop in here. Yeah. And then some people wanted to know what happens if I horribly horrifically destroy a kid. Luckily that has not happened. The worst that's happened so far is that I've lost some tellers on drones and some darts and some. The Q robot blaster he shoots dark out of his little attachment. So I was expecting to lose dark or dark get bent even in my niece and nephew's nurse gun. So that's just going to happen. And propellers only last for so long. So I do have like a case of propellers just for replacement. So this is the tech kit lending agreement. So if you want to know what happens if you horribly horrifically destroy your main robot, which I recommend maybe not. But it happens. So I've heard about in other. Yeah. Right. You know, so like this is here I believe we landed on. More than 30% of the kit is missing that the bar the borough will be charged for the cost of the entire kit. And again, so far this hasn't happened. So knock on wood. And so you are welcome to and if you are another state that's looking at putting together a tech kit program like this, I would actually recommend looking through this. Lending agreement, because even if it never happens, it's like an insurance policy for like liability against the library commission and for the individual library itself. This is geared more toward liability and safety for the state library. And then it's recommended that for more complex equipment that the individual library also might not want their own policies. So where that's actually come into play is the oculus quest. So let me go to the policies and virtual reality waiver. This virtual reality waiver is actually available for use by school, public academic, any library that is using a virtual reality headset. And this is mostly in play just because sometimes people get nauseous. And even though the, even though there is built in technology so that inside the oculus quest to headset so that people won't run into different things. Sometimes it happens. People can get discombobulated, especially if they've never used virtual reality before, or if they've accidentally mislaid their boundary line where they so they don't run into stuff. It sometimes happens. It's rare, but it happens. So this is something that's in play to protect the individual library, and then by extension the state library who distributed the equipment in the first place, because we live in kind of the lawsuit heavy society now. Sometimes it's warranted sometimes, maybe not so much, but it's easier and safer to have this in place than not. And right now I think we landed on this is not required for each individual use, but if that if something happens, we may have to change that. And some individual libraries use this just because their library board won't let them use the equipment unless they have something like this in place. So it's come up. Yeah. And there's also infographics that I put together that will, that you can hand out at the start of every virtual reality sessions that just make people aware of what could possibly go wrong. So that you can know that you have proof that you actually showed that they were aware of what could potentially go wrong. I hate having to actually go through all the liability stuff. There's a reason I'm not a lawyer. And I think libraries have been doing things liability type. Yeah. And to do with all sorts of any sort of program or anything with people coming into the library to attend. So similar. Even the book challenges, no one wants to write the policies but you still have to. Better to be prepared than have to scramble if something happens. Absolutely. Yeah. So now you know. So now I'm going to talk about the kids that were just very recently added along with some of the fun pool accessories. So this is the Tonys box. And this is something that I actually came across at it was either computers and libraries or internet librarians. Normally I choose kids based on their ability to introduce people to like industry 4.0 technology and like new careers and community impact and stuff. But I also got a lot of requests from libraries that were looking for tech gadgets for younger users. So this is actually a you put one of these little Tonys on top of that box and it automatically reads stories or plays songs. And it's tactile. So if you tilt it to the side to the left to the right, shake it, it does different actions. You'll remember what each of one of those actions are right now. Not even a little bit. But that is why they Tony's house is really cool how it works tutorial. And this is probably the quickest and easiest kit that you can actually start using. I maybe recommend not putting up crumbled up cookies all over the box, but it is still a cool picture. So you can see how this is the Tony box itself. This little cookie monster dude, this figurine is called a Tony. And when you stick it on top, there's a magnet at the bottom of this Tony that magnet. It communicates with the box that there's now a Tony sitting on there. And it will also by QR code, let it know which Tony it is. So the box knows which file to play. And then it's in like the little sensors inside the box will let the kid be able to tilt it to change songs and stuff. And they have like a each one of the kids that go through the tech of the mail, they'll come with five different Tony's and then one creative Tony. And the creative Tony is pretty awesome because it actually lets you record your own stuff. So you can record a story you can record like people have used it for like Tony's genealogy so that grandparents can record their own like stories from the past or stories from the community. Right now. And now you're passing stories down through the generations and you're like sharing community impact stories or sharing like genealogy stories and you can actually report that and just keep it on that Tony. And I thought that was pretty cool. And of course we don't have every single Tony because they keep coming out with different ones that I went by theme. So there's a Disney princess pack. There is a cars planes and trains pack. There's classic stories. There's some stories that are based on books. So you can also pair this and do like a story hour with the actual book and then pass around the Tony box that actually has the Tony from the book that they just read. And some cool stuff. So that is the one that's for younger users. And then we jump over to this is the green energy one that is already. I'm still bar coding it as I mentioned to a bro coded they're already out. But there are up to 15 copies available of this one. And there's up to 15 copies available of each one of the different kids. So if you I'm sure that a lot of you have already used not circuits, but they actually have a. Books that's available in here that will also guide you through all these specific activities. And in the slideshow you can also preview the manual and willing to bet that people accidentally lose the manual to this a lot. So you can also print and download your own. And you can also preview all the available activities to see if which to kind of pre plan which ones you actually want to do. And then you can get the most use out of the 30 days that you have to get over there. And it also introduces like different green energy and clean energy. Careers and helps people understand how they work. So these have actually been the original snap circuit extreme kit has been used for all age ranges. Like they've been used for a K through 12 classrooms, but they've also been used by adults. They've been used in retirement homes. They've been used in developmental disability facilities. They've been used in just a variety of different places. So even helping adults get a feel for the new green energy careers that are out there is pretty awesome. And I also like the tiny little window. Cute. Yes. And so let me close these tabs so that they're not all over. And so the Finch has been in the collection for a little bit, but I added some new stuff to it. So they have some 3D printable accessories that are made for the pinch. So I actually worked with do space to get all like a whole bunch of stuff just 3D printed. And do space is like a technology library that's in base out of Omaha. And they just have they started a new service where you can actually send in a print file and they like do space staff will print it for you. And then you can pick it up and pay for it. And that's way easier than trying to block off like the 10 to 15 hours that it would have taken to print all the stuff that I wanted to print it. And it came in handy. So when a lot of people don't know about 3D printing that it is takes a long time. Yeah, I'm just gonna pop in and print this off and like a piece of paper. No, no, no. Five hours later. And fun fact, we were actually the first one to use do spaces 3D print service because they made it the day before I asked them about it. And then they said you want to be the first one to use it and I was like, let's do this thing. Yes. So one of the first things that was printed was this phone holder. So this phone holder actually gets mounted and it might be easier to see it if I blow it up a little. So the base robot is down here. There's a little hole that normally you would put a marker in this hole that's in the middle and then the marker would draw lines on the mat. But they replaced it so that there's now a little hole that goes down into the middle of robot. And it secures the phone carrier. So when you mount your phone to the phone holder, you can now make like a roving robot that can take a video. So if you were to open up a zoom session on your phone, and then send your robot out and about, then it's like a spy bot. And you can also build like, if you were to imagine a robot that's going out into a mine shaft or going out into like a rescue robot, you're sending the robot ahead to take video data and then report back what it finds. So you can start marking off safe zones that are where humans are able to go. And you can also find like any people, animals, things that need to be rescued and repaired. So one of the activities that I actually started writing out was it's basically like a rescue mission. So you just get a whole bunch of different Barbies and then you get some Lego rubble. And then you have to cover like a Barbie with the Lego rubble. And then you have to send the robot in to count the number of Barbies that need to be rescued. And then you have to jot down like the type of rescue that they need. Are they covered in rocks? Are they like stuck under a like stuck in a tree? What do we actually need to be able to save these Barbies? And now we're sending the robot in ahead of time to collect the information and send it back to the humans that are going to come in and rescue and do like a Barbie rescue. Plus I have fun covering Barbies and Lego rubble. And let me about this back down. So the same people who make the pinch 2.0 robot, burglaring technologies, they also make the hummingbird bit. And this is one thing that I did not print all of the different items that are able to be printed because most of them are replacement parts for things that were in the box. But one thing that I'm looking to add to the collection is this hummingbird rover. So the base model of the hummingbird bit kit, it just uses this little board that's the computer that's going to be telling all the different parts what to do. And then it includes all these different sensors, like a distance sensor, temperature sensor and all this different cool stuff. And it also has this little collection of motors and some different things that you can use to attach the motor to different things. This was actually designed so that you could use cardboard and different found materials to create different projects. So you can create like a living play or you can create a motorized parade float exhibit. There are some activities in there to create like motorized dinosaur heads or you can make like a Halloween display so that it jerks and turns as soon as someone walks by and you can break people out. So there's a bunch of different ways that you can use it. But what hummingbird bit is trying to get across is that you don't just have to use the cardboard that's written in the instructions. You can also start 3D printing and designing your own accessories. So if your library has access to a 3D printer, you can also create your own stuff. And if you don't have access to a 3D printer, the first thing I recommend is looking local. You might have your own do space equivalent or you might have a local place that has a 3D printer that's available to the public. Or if you don't, there's also a 3D printing service that's online. So, and I'm going to make sure that this is the right one here. I have a new and there's also about a million places on Etsy that let you send in like a 3D print file. But they also have new services that get this one craft cloud. So this craft cloud service is actually run by all 3DP, which is like the one of the biggest 3D printing organizations that is out there. And what they do is they actually gather quotes from a whole bunch of different 3D print services and comparing and build like a big table. So you upload the file that you want to be printed and it generates the price quote from like all the different 3D print services that are available. And then you send the print in and they mail it over to you. So if you don't have any local access to a 3D printer, you can go through craft cloud. And there are too many services that have cloud in the title. It seems to be quite yeah popular doesn't it. Yeah, a little bit. And so that's like the it's just cool. And so let me close a bunch of these. I also want to learn more about the Finch robot and hummingbird bit. If you want to know where their activities are, they're actually just on the bird grain website. So you can go into the teach tab. And then you can go into like through the start teaching process. And it will help you get started with setting up either the pinch or the hummingbird bit. And it runs you through learning how to do basic programming, making the robot go forward, making the robot turn, making the robot use sensors, making the robot use a marker. And it will give you step by step tutorials based on your chosen device and programming language. And this one actually uses the. So the pinch blocks and the bird blocks are the powder. They're sort of like the scratch style drag and drop block system that is used specifically by bird brain. But then they also use make code, which is made through Microsoft. So if you want to transition from using block based over to the text based. You can shift over into the make code. So you can see side by side what the block code looks like versus what the text code would look like. It's so helpful for creature learning it and understanding it I think having both of those. It's totally. And then if you are already comfortable with text space, you can just go straight into Python, or into Java. And Python is like, it's applicable to nearly everything now. So, let me go up here. Most libraries actually choose their programming language based on the device that is available to them. So most of the small to midsize libraries say that they don't have enough devices or tablets to be able to use the robots themselves in their library. So I also circulate the Chromebook duet duo the Chrome back the Chromebook duet, which is it has a keyboard that's on the bottom and it has a tablet on top, but the tablet is detachable. So if you just want to be able to use the tablet part for any of these kids you can do that or you can connect it over to a keyboard to type in different commands and stuff. It's pretty adaptable and you can check them out as a tech kids. So if you don't have the devices available in your own community, you can check out both tablet and robot and use them together. And in which case you would select Chromebook, and it will automatically gray out the languages that aren't compatible with that device, and you can choose your programming language based on the device that you have available. So this is handy. Bird brain technologies is not a bird brain at all because they're kind of a game. And I'll close that. So this Oculus Quest headset is not new, but I have some new updates about it. The Oculus Quest 2. When I first started this up, it actually required a Facebook account to be able to set up and use Oculus Quest 2 headset. If no longer the Oculus Quest 2, a lot of you probably know it's the meta quest now, but most of their instructions and tutorials, they'll call it either the Oculus or the meta because transitions are messy. So I've been calling it Oculus just because that's what most people knew it by. And sometimes they get confused if I say meta. So I use both. And but now with the new update and the transition over to meta, a Facebook account is no longer required. So there were some school libraries that weren't actually able to use this because they're the school system automatically blocked Facebook. So they weren't able to use the headset because their system blocked Facebook. But now that's no longer a problem because they bypass the Facebook setup. And now it just goes through a meta app. So these headsets are all registered now through the meta app instead of routing through Facebook. Sometimes there are still a few little troubles with that, but it's a whole thing now. And I also wanted to reiterate that Oculus Quest slash meta quest, they do have their own written guides that they have their safety guidelines that say that only ages 13 and up can use this. So I had to write in that Oculus Quest policy that the library can only circulate it to ages 13 and up. And a lot of parents and a lot of individuals actually use the headset with younger users. Like I know there are a bunch of people that use it with like 9, 10, 11, 12 years old, 12 year olds. But as a library just for liability purposes. I'm trying not to do that. What happens in the individual library I have no control over. But in the waiver itself, I just have to say 13 and up. And the only reason that Oculus does that is because the human eye isn't fully developed yet at the age of 13. And they're not fully aware of how short and long term use of the Oculus headset will impact the development of the eye and younger kids. Yeah, in younger kids, like in adults, the eye is fully developed and it's not going to impact the development at all. That's interesting. I never would have known about that, that that would be something to think about, but yeah. And the other. Yeah. And like the other big factor that goes into it is that younger users don't yet have a perfect grasp of what the real world is supposed to look like. And they have trouble differentiating between the real and the virtual world. So when they take off the virtual reality headset, the transition back into the real world is jarring, or they will believe that what's in the headset is actually real. And so it's caused like nightmare that's caused disorient like long term disorientation. It's caused like weird phobias because kids think that what they just saw was real. And or they'll think that they'll see like little phantoms of what they experienced in virtual reality. So it's not just the development of the eye and the impact of like the develop like physical development. It's also that kids just don't know real from fake yet and they aren't able to process some different experiences yet. So that was the other big reason that Oculus said 13 and up. And I don't know how they landed on the magic number of 13 and not 12 or something. But every kid is talking to like medical professionals. I mean, I am. There's been. And so they, they say 13 so we say 13. And I can't control what happens if a library checks it out for like a younger age middle school. Sometimes they don't tell me. And they wind up using it for middle school audiences. So this slide is here again. And they were signing off on a waiver when you do borrow this and rain. Yeah. Yeah. Remember that. And that way if kids why if parents let their kids use the virtual reality headset regardless of what the library says. And then the kids freaks out and experiences nightmares or some adverse reaction. Then the library is safe and saying that you were aware and warned that this is only supposed to be used by 13 and up and it was your own personal choice that you use this with your nine year old child. And now the effects of what happened are your liability and not the library's liability. And again, I hate phrasing it in that lawyer ease. But we kind of have to. Yeah. I never wanted to learn lawyer ease. Yeah. It's a necessary thing. So now the next thing is once you. So this is kind of like the biggest set of like the new stuff that's out there. And I'm sure there'll be more new stuff. But the next big question that I get is that. Okay, cool. If we introduce our all these kids and adults and all these people to virtual reality, robotics, artificial intelligence and all this stuff that these tech kids are supposed to represent. What is the end goal of this. Why should we take our library time and resources. Yeah. And what's the point. So I started asking this question. If you train 20 virtual reality developers, where would they work in your community across the state around the world. Because most people are working remotely now. So it doesn't matter if you're in a rural community in the middle of Nebraska, it doesn't matter if you're in a small town that doesn't have like a bunch of different virtual reality jobs. You can still learn this stuff and get a job remotely. If you were to train, if you were to expose these people to virtual reality technology, they decide that they want a career in it. Where would they go. So, and I also wanted to reiterate that even though I say virtual reality, it could be anything. So these kids are actually designed to introduce the simulation is like the virtual reality and augmented reality. So it introduces the internet of things. It's, oh, this puts augmented reality separately in the slide. Cool. Additive manufacturing is like, when you use the 3D printed technology to build out a robot. So you're reducing the cost of prototyping technology like designing and prototyping technology that would be used in like manufacturing I got a crown on my tooth and they actually use 3D printing technology to build a temporary crown. While they were 3D printing the real one. So 3D printing is everywhere. But most people don't think about where this technology actually is and what the end goal is. So this is, yeah. And I'm glad they made my tooth. I had no idea they were doing things like that with it, but sure. Like, and I didn't either until I was actually in the chair and they said, let me just go real quick 3D print your tooth. And I was like, all right, and they took all these different scans to kind of like scans in my mouth and scans of the original tooth. They got the sizing of it and then they took those measurements and made the temporary and then they sent the files off to a better like 3D printing technology that uses better more permanent material. And then like a week later they had made the real tooth based on the scans that were in from my head. And I was like, that's cool. Where people should know that they do that. So this slide is just like an example of the actual things that you were introducing to people using these tech kits of the mail. So you can start making the next step that says, once we know what we need to be teaching these are the technologies that are shaping the future of work. They're shaping the future of how we are recreationally working with each other, how we communicate, how we talk, how we live everyday life. It's baked into our smart phones, baked into our computers, baked into everything. But now practically we look at the library itself and say, who are we actually trying to reach and how are they going to be using practically using these technologies. And most of it is career exploration for K through 12 and career changers. A lot of it is entrepreneurship because most of the jobs that are using these technologies don't exist yet. So if you want your community to thrive, you need to introduce them to these technologies and show them how they can change the jobs and improve the jobs that are there now. And then show how they can create new businesses by leveraging these technologies. And you can also use it for things like community impact. One of my favorite ones is that when people learn about the internet and the things and smart technology and sensors, they can learn how to build a community garden. When you build a community garden, you can also increase food access. Like in the state of Nebraska, there's a lot of food deserts because it's hard to get fresh food shipped into a lot of the different rural communities across the state. So they actually have a map of just these large food deserts. But when you learn how to build a greenhouse and build a smart garden, you can have fresh produce almost all year round. And one of the biggest barriers to building a community garden is that you can't always get volunteers to staff it. But if you only have one or two volunteers and you build a smart garden, that smart garden is going to tell you exactly when everything needs to be watered. It'll tell you if the soil needs new nutrients. It'll tell you which nutrients need to be applied. Sometimes you can automate the application of the nutrients. Or if you don't have that access to that type of tech, you can send an alert to the volunteer or to the coordinator of the program. So you only need one volunteer to go on demand to water or change nutrients. And it's easier to maintain like that community garden that you wouldn't have been able to have unless you had that smart deck. So cool. And all it takes is a hummingbird bit premium kit or another robot to show how the sensors work. You can even use micro bit. And so let me jump over here. Because one thing that was pointed out to me was that it's great that you know all that. But we don't know that all this necessarily as a librarian. So that's why I started putting together these different guides. So this will top one here is to help people generally learn about industry 4.0 technologies. It's a collection of resources. So when you click on this one more, it'll actually give explainers for like introductory level explainers for what this technology is. And it also gives additional resources. And what one really cool thing is that I actually just got an email from a local girls code club. So that they use this resource and then they actually recommended the addition of the ultimate generative AI glossary of terms, because one of the old links have been was broken. So, thanks. I add in your resource. That's good. There's always new things being updated because, you know, like you're getting new new things for the tech kids there's always changes and updates and things having in the whole. Right. In the whole techie world, I guess I'll say I'll be very broad. So libraries can use this to understand themselves how all this technology is the vine made and put together. So it talks about the teams that are necessary to actually build an AI system inside of an organization. It talks about a lot of the different. And this also talks about the careers that AI is generating in order to be able to integrate AI into different services. And then it shows different examples about how this is being used across different, like those snapshots of how this is being used. I'm reformatting it so it actually just goes by industry so there's little tabs, but it'll look like so instead it goes by industry use cases with little tabs. So people said it was more helpful to go by industry and then find all the different examples in one spot. They're not wrong. I love that you're listening to people telling hey I wish I knew more about it from the stress side or for that side. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I hate our offerings here. Yeah, I think this is important is to figure out what this is all like you said earlier a little before. You don't just go for these things because there's a new cool shiny thing. You know, right. Know what you're going to then follow up with and why why are you having the kids or the adults who ever come in and use these things you need to have that kind of like, there's got to be something beyond just ooh that was fun. Now I just. Yeah. Another thing that library said is that after they introduced this tech to their community, whether it's to K through 12 high school adult or career changers. They get a lot of people that want to learn more about it, but as librarians, we don't have all that information. We're not experts in AI we're not experts in robotics are in and of the things. So I scraped together these learning communities. So that people can actually, these are communities that people can go online and actually talk to and interact and interact with different experts in that field. So even if you don't have a local source where people can go like most definitely look at like start local find out if there's a university that actually has like a public arm where people can go in and ask questions. Find out if you have a like a local robotics club or a local anything and refer people local first, but if you don't have that, then you can go to the online learning communities. And you'll probably find out that a lot of your local members are also part of the same communities. So there's overlap anyway. And you can also follow curated blogs, podcasts and associations. So a lot of times when people get interested and they want to find out if this is going to be a career or a pathway for them, they want to find out what's the latest greatest ongoing trends. So these are the blogs and websites and podcasts that have all that latest and greatest. So you can as a library you can say you just learned about artificial intelligence you just learned about robotics and automation. If you want to keep track of all this stuff you can subscribe to these newsletters or podcasts and get into like get connected to the community in that way, and get reliable information instead of the fear mongering or just potentially unreliable resources. And there's also So one of the other things that libraries asked is that it's awesome that you know all this stuff about tech and about the tech kids that you're able to choose activities that will help introduce different specific larger groups of technology. So I started putting together this database so that libraries can make the connection between the smaller activities that they're already used to doing. The fashion dot robot has this light wave activity. And when you trace it across to the other side of the chart. I put in video like the YouTube videos about how that same technology is being used in real world businesses. So in this case it's to open water and it also opens up career pathways and medical research entrepreneurship and all that. And if you go down through this chart, you can see how you can use the simple activity to introduce the bigger technology, like using the the fashion dot the dispersal activities that geared toward beginners for the second and third grade and translate it over to how to build a tree rover tree planting robot. And then show how this is kind of connecting over to the bigger picture and how the little things they just learned translates over into something much bigger than they ever thought it was. And in that same vein. I started reformatting all the different preparation guides. So, so far I'll say most of the kids have these library and preparation guides put together. The most libraries have no idea how to get started with this they like the technology is unfamiliar the kids are unfamiliar and just going to the website isn't always helpful. So these guys are just explainers about what the technology is in this case this is. Kai's plan. So Kai's plan is the fun little robot that has little rippers that kind of open and close. And it comes with the math, the this one here is for the Mars rover, but you also have an automated we also have an automated warehouse math. And this is actually geared specifically to introduce industry 4.0 technologies. Like robotics AI I out. But if the library or the school doesn't actually understand industry 4.0 tech or how tech applies to all this different stuff. The kit activity kind of gets lost in translation. You can do an activity where you move a box from one side over to the other so that you're supposed to be moving the box. To a different part of the warehouse, but that doesn't necessarily translate into jobs or into how this can be practically applied. So this walks you through general setup. So this is like the general set up is pretty much an every setup guide and every startup guide ever. And it links over to different resources through Kai's plan to be able to show how that works. But then it also digs into steps to actually learn the new technology as well as a library or school or local organization. If you're working with like a local org. And I'm going to actually use the PDF because I fixed the layout. My color blocking format is better on the PDF. But I'll skip down to the learning pathways and teach tech. So this actually shows so the learn new tech is all the curated links to resources that will be helpful for that specific technology. And then there are different baked in activities that you can use to understand how that technology is impacting jobs. And in this case, I use the example of the smart grocery warehouse. Then there is I put together this infographic for exploring related careers that are relevant to that specific technology. And then if you scroll down here, I put in little cheat sheets with robotics resources and career infographics. And these career graphics are all stuff that I made. So if it's like the images are fine. Most people ask about copyright and like all that stuff. So these are printable that you can hand out during activities. That show careers that are relevant to robotics. And with the two arc codes, people can scan to learn more about it. So this is like the quick easy way that people that are unfamiliar with robotics careers can use to introduce robotics careers. And this is a way that you can use to translate this on the left hand side. Is an example of how robots are being used in restaurants to be able to serve food to tables. The center panel is a an example of a feature of this larger robot. For example, it is a self driving robot that has a return to home capability. And on the right hand side is a tech kit that you can use to introduce that specific feature. So if you want to show how self driving works, use the zoomie. If you want to show how robots talk to each other and synchronize, you can use the DJI telos form. And there's a bunch of stuff. And we're running just after 11 o'clock. So I don't want to mention if you were talking about the Kai robots. Amanda did do in previous and compass live. Pretty sweet tech with the people for their August 30 that's in our just looking up the exact minute we actually was August 30 and the archive recording is in our show archives you want to know more detail about that specific product. And I guess the last thing I'll say about that one is that there's the career graphics. And there's also a cheat sheet table that you can basically just read off of to introduce the technology. And that is down here. If you go to the learning pathway section, there is a three column, the tech concept that you were introducing the specific activity that you would go through in Kai's clan. And a tech explanation that you can basically read off of to show how this quick and easy activity is relating over to real world technology. So you can do the activity and then start a discussion using this explainer and show how the progression of skills actually relates to progressively more complex technology. And it goes from beginner to intermediate to advanced. So this is the format that I'm converting most of the other library and preparation guides over to so that these charts are available. Because most librarians didn't have any idea about how to translate the simple thing over to the bigger technology because who in the world has time to go track down all the big technology. And you can also kind of click through these other resources if you want recommendations of other gadgets to introduce different industry 4.0 tech. So there's just tables for free to load a mid range to expensive technologies that you can get in your own library or experiment with. Or some of them are available in the tech gets the mail so you can try it before you buy it or just check it out and use it as an activity for that service. And if you want the career packs that have all those infographics that slide has all those. I recommend just clicking through it so you can get a feel for what's all available in the career exploration stuff. It shows how the technologies designed and made the careers that are available through it. The little charts that show how to take complicated technology and break it down into little component parts and then use technology activities to introduce those little components. And. It's fun. And then this is a link to the page where you would go to check out the tech kit. If you are from out of the state and you want to find out how to. If you want to specifically find out how to replicate the service from scratch. This session was mostly about the updated activities and the new resources. I'll be doing a session at computers and libraries in March. I'm talking about how to replicate the system as a whole. So if you happen to be going to that conference, then you can find out there. If you're not in email me. There's my info. So we ran for computers and libraries look on our if you're in if you're in Nebraska, keep an eye on our blog and websites and what and mailing lists we usually have a offer for discounted registration. You go through us. If you're here in Nebraska to to attend. And I'll be doing two sessions on a workshop. So, it'll be fun. Or just email me is as I if anyone has watched this show before when I'm here talking with a man about things. Highly recommend computers and libraries. I've been to it many, many times over the years. It's great smaller conference for anyone who is into the techie side of libraries was just interested about it. I suspect if you go to the show a lot you probably are. So, you know, and there's a what I call a companion conference internet librarian which is done in the fall, which is the online version, I kind of think of it as they used to have in person East Coast, West Coast computers and libraries East Coast Internet Librarian West Coast. And now the Internet Librarian one has been transitioned into just being an online event only. And, and they're doing different sessions now for each one of them, like I'm not doing the same session. Yeah. Yeah. But we also offer a discount to that one as well if you want to attend the online version of the online Internet Librarian in the fall. So look for that mixture, but computers and libraries coming up first. Yeah. Yeah. So that's abbreviated version of what I got. I have other sessions that actually dig deeper into like how to assess community needs assess like local career needs, and then select tech kids that will be able to introduce those. But that's not what this one was about. So, there we go. Yeah. All right, thank you. Does anybody have any questions comments thoughts you want to relate to Amanda, you can type into the questions section of your go to web interface. I'm monitoring that here. We are a little after 11 o'clock but if you do have any questions or anything you want to know about the tech kids about how to use them about anything that Amanda talked about any ideas of things you've used ways you use them in your library. I'll share with this we can stick around as long as people do have things to say. But as you know this is a great session you know this is a great service I'm glad that we have this. This is something that the library commission has always done in some way shape or form if libraries to buy all the stuff and testing out for themselves. And they're really going to be able to use it or an understanding and have the time even to navigate figure out what is all this stuff. Years ago we we did it with gaming equipment. You know things like dance dance revolution and a guitar hero and we's when that first started in libraries and before you know where it became more commonplace. So you don't know how to do this you're not sure and you have the time here we figured out for you here's the thing you can you can do a test run of it, and then decide if it's something for your library or not. So I'm glad that we're still doing that. Now years and years later so with the whatever is the newest things yeah. And it's not that spectacularly different from the book club kits because you can basically check out a book club kit and use it for your book club. Yeah, you can check out like a STEM team kit and use it for your code club. Yeah, I mean it doesn't have to just you testing out how this thing is but actually using it for an event a program yeah. Because there's up to 15 copies of each one of these available, so you can also use it for your own programming. Right. And I hesitate to use the word programming because you say program a robot or you can do library programming. Yeah, I'm also glad that for the people that aren't in Nebraska they can still get all the resources that are on the website even though you can't borrow the actual physical items because that's only in Nebraska. All of those help guides and resources are open and available for anybody. All right I don't see any questions coming through just some thank yous thank yous and happy new year yes happy new year to everyone that is coming up. Awesome. Alright, so I am going to pull presenter control back to my screen to do my little wrap up here. Amanda send me your link to your slides, and we will get those included when we do put the archive show archive up, which should be up by the end of the day tomorrow. So today's show. I'm going to go to our encompass live main page main website here. If you just use your search engine of choice and type in encompass live. Or the only thing on the internet called that no one else is allowed to use it. And you will find either a link to our main page or link to our archive page. Here's our main page for upcoming shows for January and February of next year. But if you click down here it goes to our archives, which actually up here. All our most recent ones. Today's will be at the top of the list. This should be done by the end of the day tomorrow at the latest as long as YouTube and go to webinar cooperate with me. Everyone attended today's show and registered for today's show will get an email from me letting you know when it's ready. We've reached out to our various social media as well. If you notice on our main page we have links to, we have a Facebook page over here. She liked to use Facebook, give us a like, and you'll get notifications who's your reminder of today's show meet the presenter. And then here we go announcing when the recording of the previous session show is available. 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So you'll know when it was originally done some many of our shows will stand shows will stand the test of time still be good useful information but many of them will become old and outdated resources may have changed drastically might not no longer exist anymore and links may be broken. We do not have the time for the staff to go back and check years and years worth of these so we don't always get that updated. People may work at a different library or somewhere totally different than when they first presented for us so just pay attention to that original broadcast dates when you do watch any of our show archives. But this is something libraries do we keep things for historical purposes often and as long as we have a place to host them which right now is the library commissions YouTube channel, we will always have them up there for you. So that wraps up for today's show, starting next year. January 3 is our, as I said yes happy new year to everyone our next show. And you see we've got a pair of sessions called meet the nlc part one and part two. And these are sessions we did these same type of things when the show first premiered in 2009 as I said, and we're redoing that again for the first time. 2023 is the 15th year of encompass live. Wow. So we have been doing the show for 15 years. I have no intention of stopping it at all as you can see shows coming up, but to in honor of that, we're doing new meet the nlc sessions which is basically what is the library commission who are we. We have to be there because we do so much it does have to be split up into two shows. So, next week, part one you'll talk, you'll just meet our large agency director a lot Rod Weigner, Vern and computer services Lisa information services and Mary in government information services librarian. And then the second half of it part two will be me talking about my department library development. Tessa who's our communications coordinator gave through talking at the talking book and Braille service and Debra, who's our technology and access services director. So if you want to know more about the library commission and kind of things we do they're here. Please do sign up for those two shows. And that will be the beginning of our 16th year of the show. Epic. Epic. It's a little, it's a lot. Yeah, I'm a little stunned but hey, I keep doing it and getting all this information and helping librarians keep doing their jobs and learning new and wonderful things to do at their library. And so you see there's other other shows coming for January and February. Got some of the February shows scheduled to and Amanda Lee back as usual on January 31. That's the last Wednesday in January. So that's the way to get the little like party popper animation to go during that show. So just like does a celebration popper. Oh, for the next week. I'll have to see I'll put it together presentation the slides for everyone so we'll see what kind of animated celebratory things will will do. So, I know the questions from everybody so thank you everyone for being here today. Thank you Amanda. Thank you all for 15 years of Encompass live getting a little overwhelmed here but we'll see you all and I'm going to I'm going to do the cliche joke because you kind of have to see all next year. I got the dad jokes. Don't have to be an actual dad to have dad jokes. We'll see you. See you all next year on Encompass live. Thanks. Bye bye.