Chat log 040320

Thanks to Olivetree for today's chatlog, which yours truly lost in a copy/paste fiasco...

07:56] PinkSamurai Fairlady is online.

[07:56] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield) is online.

[07:57] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): it's 5 pm

[07:57] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh) is online.

[07:57] Wisdomseeker (Lissena) is online.

[07:57] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): There she is

[07:57] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): yay

[07:57] (You): good morning :)

[07:57] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): So the first 10 minutes is just social time in my Great Plan

[07:57] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): I'm going to do my best to stick around today... but will be a tad distracted

[07:57] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Good morning!

[07:57] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): Hi Olive!

[07:57] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): Great to see you

[07:57] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): @Spiff that's unusual, ㋡

[07:58] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): heheh

[07:58] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): sadly

[07:58] (You): hehehe

[07:58] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): I like this guitar parcel stream

[07:58] (You): if you gentlemen would excuse me I need the 10 minutes to finish something in RL

[07:58] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): I just signed up to do the Play Music on the Porch Aug. 29. ㋡

[07:58] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): All good, O!

[07:58] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): Gentlemen? Us?

[07:59] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): ha

[07:59] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): *grin

[08:08] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Okey dokey, Olive when you see this how about giving it a spin and putting title or url in chat?

[08:10] Rhiannon Chatnoir is online.

[08:10] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): We'll wait a couple min. and I'll do the honors if it takes longer ㋡

[08:11] (You): back

[08:11] (You): ok

[08:11] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield) is offline.

[08:12] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): It's a long spin, lol

[08:13] (You): https://youtu.be/RxsOVK4syxU

[08:14] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): rolled it back, it autostarted lol

[08:14] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): A 3 minute one, ready?

[08:14] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Oh yay, a poetry slam

[08:14] (You): can't see it yet

[08:14] Valibrarian Gregg is online.

[08:15] (You): ok now I can see it

[08:15] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): kk counting down!

[08:15] Wisdomseeker (Lissena) is offline.

[08:15] SL Timer: Timer Ended

[08:17] ThinkererSelby Evans (Thinkerer Melville) is online.

[08:18] (You): lol

[08:18] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): hahaa

[08:18] (You): that was different

[08:19] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Niiiiice

[08:19] (You): hahaha was that a TED?

[08:19] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): That lifted my spirits

[08:19] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Yup

[08:19] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): It may have been just part of one.

[08:19] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Let's do another!

[08:19] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Ladies first

[08:20] (You): ok

[08:21] (You): I don't know any place where teachers are considered better than Engineers, lawyers or whatever else except Germany :)

[08:21] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Finland, right?

[08:21] (You): do you know somewhere else?

[08:21] (You): ah ok I don't know anyone from there

[08:22] (You): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYclUdcsdeo

[08:22] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): I don't either but I've read some about teachers' elevated status there...

[08:22] (You): ah ok

[08:22] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): 1st try didn't work.

[08:23] (You): In Germany my uncle originally was an Engineer , he turned teacher and he says that it was hard to prepare for it..

[08:23] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Wow.

[08:24] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): The Praxis certification exam for teaching is pretty serious but that doesn't earn us more respect or income, lol

[08:24] (You): he says that it's regarded as higher and even pays better

[08:24] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): This one, I think I recall, is about MOOCs

[08:24] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): I'm just glad I have a job here for the moment anyway

[08:24] (You): ok

[08:24] (You): ready

[08:24] TheresaDevine is online.

[08:24] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): countown starting

[08:25] SL Timer: Timer Ended

[08:26] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): My calculus class at Vanderbilt had 360 students in it

[08:26] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): ha

[08:26] Buffy Beale is online.

[08:26] (You): I remember that mooc

[08:27] (You): tried it :)

[08:27] Elli Pinion is online.

[08:27] (You): just to see how it worked

[08:27] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): like folk music

[08:27] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): reverse engineer others' work

[08:28] Wisdomseeker (Lissena) is online.

[08:29] (You): hahaha

[08:29] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): lol re innovation

[08:29] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Did you finish the class?

[08:30] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield) is online.

[08:30] Ubit Umarov is online.

[08:30] (You): wow that's a big number

[08:30] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): A good innovation to have the students communicate since the instructors cannot gie feedback

[08:30] (You): I didn't know how many finished

[08:31] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): hello hello

[08:31] (You): wb Spiff

[08:31] (You): and yes

[08:31] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Hi buddy, we're watching a great one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYclUdcsdeo but it's over now

[08:31] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): Thank you

[08:31] (You): claps

[08:31] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): LOVEd that one

[08:31] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): oh snap

[08:32] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): You have the playlist right?

[08:32] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): That's okay we'll do another.

[08:32] (You): I think both the due date bases and the at you pace are useful for different students and subjects

[08:32] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): It's at http://bitl.y/vented

[08:32] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): they are on the site... right?

[08:32] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): perfect

[08:32] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): thank you

[08:32] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Why don't you spin this wheel

[08:32] (You): I've tried both on edx and coursera

[08:32] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): ok

[08:32] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): and pop title or url into chat

[08:32] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): I'll set it up

[08:33] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): and hit the countdown timer

[08:33] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Olive have you done any Udemy classes?

[08:33] Sheila Yoshikawa is online.

[08:34] (You): no

[08:34] (You): I've done some Cmoocs

[08:34] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): I've toyed with the idea of teaching ukulele or something on it

[08:34] (You): and the Xmoocs were all on edx and coursera

[08:34] (You): ah :)

[08:35] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): the puzzle of motivation

[08:35] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Spiffer? Got video?

[08:35] Allie (AllieVanyar) is online.

[08:35] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): okay im on it

[08:35] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Oh yay Dan Pink

[08:36] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): Hi Keeshay

[08:36] (You): ok ready

[08:36] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Andy you ready?

[08:36] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV5Ox1ZiEkM

[08:36] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Let's let Keeshay open it up and pause and let us know when yr ready. We'll do a 10 countdown

[08:36] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): on the timer down front

[08:37] (You): are you all ready for the countdown?

[08:37] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Keeshay you can do an external browser or use the one up front. We all click play when the timer fireworkses

[08:38] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh) twiddles thumbs smiling

[08:38] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): This will be our last one today and I'm sure it's a good one!

[08:39] (You): ok

[08:39] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Let us know when you're ready Kee

[08:40] (You): Scott your avatar alway reminds me of Richard Branson :)

[08:40] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): hahaha

[08:40] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): I cut my ponytail off at age 30

[08:40] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): But I have one here

[08:41] (You): ah lol

[08:41] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): also much more buff

[08:41] (You): :)

[08:41] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Olive check your IM--I gave you a link that should work for that webinar

[08:41] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Let me know if it doesn't

[08:42] (You): I didn't get an dIM

[08:42] (You): IM

[08:42] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): lol that's because I never hit return after writing it

[08:42] (You): ah thanks

[08:42] (You): now got it

[08:43] (You): thank you so much

[08:43] (You): :)

[08:43] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Okay, y'all. In the interest of respecting everyone's time I'm gonna hit the countdown timer button.

[08:43] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): great

[08:43] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): please do

[08:43] (You): ok

[08:43] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): When it goes off, hit play

[08:43] SL Timer: Timer Ended

[08:43] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): and went full screen

[08:43] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): I love this guy

[08:44] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Keeshay feel free to chat anything here.

[08:44] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): Yes... read his book... very cool

[08:44] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): ha

[08:44] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): so many awesome ideas don't work

[08:45] Keesha Lenroy: hi everyone and sorry was taking a long time to rez

[08:45] Keesha Lenroy: love the motivation talks

[08:45] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): ㋡

[08:45] Lyr Lobo is online.

[08:47] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): claps on "mismatch"

[08:47] Keesha Lenroy: lol when i can see the chat i will be happy to speak more

[08:49] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Wow

[08:49] Keesha Lenroy: as department chair i used these ted talks once a month with my team.... was a great way to address /discuss current ideas and help to change less effective practices

[08:49] Lyr Lobo is offline.

[08:50] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): I'm smiling all over this trifecta

[08:50] Allie (AllieVanyar) is offline.

[08:50] (You): it's not new really :) I've been working with managers and teams since around 97

[08:51] Lyr Lobo is online.

[08:51] (You): helping them to see how real motivation works with practical and hands on activities. it's always an aha moement

[08:51] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): This is a really good one...

[08:51] (You): but some are very resistant

[08:51] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): He is an excellent speaker

[08:51] (You): yes

[08:52] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Well that was one of my faves. Andy didn't he speak at an ISTE a few years ago? or was that a TN conference where I saw him?

[08:52] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): I don't remember seeing him at ISTE

[08:52] iSkye Silverweb is online.

[08:53] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): but I think last year's iste I didn't see any of the keynotes

[08:53] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): it was a world wind tour, hehe

[08:53] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Yeah I'm thinking it was at t thing I attended in Mamphis

[08:53] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): That's the way we say it, "Mamphis."

[08:53] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): hahah

[08:53] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): I met and interviewed Will Richardson at that one for Snacks4theBrain, ha

[08:54] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): well everyone... sadly I have to zap out.... great seeing everyone. Olive thanks so much for attending all these... As a reward you get to be the VEN Leader for next year!

[08:54] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): Kidding.... kidding...

[08:54] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): or Am I?

[08:54] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield): Have a great weekend

[08:54] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): I'll update the site at http://bit.ly/istevented with some pics in the gallery

[08:55] Spiff (Spiff Whitfield) is offline.

[08:55] (You): ok :)

[08:55] (You): thanks again

[08:55] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): and strikethrough these three we watched today. I may, over the weekend, copy the classtools picker and remove those we've watched. Hmmmm.

[08:55] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Hey Olive. one question?

[08:55] (You): I like this hour of video and chat .. good for the brain and for motivation hehehe

[08:55] Keesha Lenroy: thank you for this i had a conflict this morning but hopefully will attend next week

[08:55] Thunder (Thunder Insippo) is online.

[08:56] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Thanks for coming@

[08:56] (You): yes?

[08:56] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Bring friends!

[08:56] Keesha Lenroy: i will and it and it is a really great idea

[08:56] Keesha Lenroy: so don't give up

[08:56] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Is that link you gave me for the vialogue the one I should put on the website to share that with folks?

[08:57] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Thanks!

[08:57] (You): if you can see the videos listed there then yes

[08:57] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): We'll do SL again next week and another platform the following week.

[08:57] (You): you've already posted one comment so I guess it worked

[08:57] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Yup!

[08:57] (You): I'm just thinking that it's better to have one more moderator

[08:57] (You): I can add one of I have the email

[08:58] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): mine/ sure

[08:58] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): scott@scottmerrick.net will get you there.

[08:58] (You): ok thank you :)

[08:59] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): Thank YOU

[08:59] Keesha Lenroy: ok my 'techy' friends have a good day and don't kiss anyone that is coughing .....

[08:59] (You): well have a great day /evening

[08:59] (You): lol

[08:59] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): hahaha

[08:59] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): See you next week if not before. I'll be around inworld some.

[08:59] (You): ok :) see Monday

[08:59] (You): o/

[09:00] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): /wave and spin

[09:00] (You): see you even :)

[09:00] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): /wave

[09:00] OptoMystic (Scottmerrick Oh): byeeeee