Unknown Speaker 0:00 Good Now, and we're gonna go live on Facebook. Great. Unknown Speaker 0:07 That's something else that Unknown Speaker 0:09 we know when we're ago. Unknown Speaker 0:13 One second, let me make sure we're streaming to the right event. Unknown Speaker 0:18 It's called Unknown Speaker 0:27 Las Cruces, New Mexico. Another place I'd like to be hiking right now. Unknown Speaker 0:31 Right? It's preparing our livestream. Unknown Speaker 0:33 Outstanding. And Unknown Speaker 0:35 All right, we're in. Unknown Speaker 0:37 Yay, great. Welcome Facebook community as well. We've got two communities of online folks joining us from all around the country and the world, which is so awesome. And we're all here for a shared a shared interest, which is extra exciting, which is trying to convert these wonderful events that we may have planned for libraries or for our local communities so that everyone can still enjoy them even though there are remote. I'm going to start sharing my screen now. If you're joining us on zoom, you'll be able to choose you'll be able to see that share it happen pretty quickly and they'll be really visible but you'll also still be able to see the panelists. We do that now. Unknown Speaker 1:21 And facebookers, you're absolutely Welcome to comment and question and share in the community. Oops, wrong button. Unknown Speaker 1:30 It even within Facebook. It's kind of an interesting thing we're doing so if you're participating in Facebook Live, also welcome. If you're participating in zoom, awesome, welcome. comments and questions in the chat and both of those locations would be totally rad. So here we are making the most of social distancing, live streaming citizen science to the rescue. I hope that we can provide some really awesome advice and insights and I hope that we're gonna you know like I think the expertise that we have even Just in our participants, we now have over 199 participants, 200 participants, and the expertise that is housed within 200. participants who are all facilitators of citizen science is extraordinary and absolutely exceeds the content of these slides. So I hope that you guys share with each other your expertise as we move forward. Unknown Speaker 2:21 And Unknown Speaker 2:23 so we've already started doing this. But if you're just joining us, tell us about yourself. Tell us about your name, or organization you represent any citizen science event or project you can do that in the chat. If you look at the bottom of your screen, you'll see a little chat icon you can type out if you're in zoom. If you're in Facebook Live, you can do that right and Facebook, and also share with us your zip code so you know where you're joining us from that would be a huge help. And while you do that, we're going to introduce ourselves. My name is Ariel Zych. I'm the education director in science Friday. Unknown Speaker 2:56 I'll go next. I'm Caroline Nickerson. I am the Program Manager. straighter and I am so excited to be here. Unknown Speaker 3:03 And I am Xochitl Garcia. I am K- 12, Program Manager at science Friday, and I'm losing my voice. Unknown Speaker 3:14 Xochi's gonna model nonverbal participation and hosting, which as it turns out, that's one of the coolest things about doing live streams. And so she'll be helping us a lot. And you'll see her in the chat. She'll also she also does have contributions to make even in her broken voice. We're so happy. We're all here. And so we're going to start this with a conversation starter. And this is going to go really quickly in that chat with 200 people. So feel free to sit back and watch and or participate, but we're kind of interested in knowing how you're feeling about live streaming. Because this is a feeling question we are asking you to do it in the chat. Anything and also if there's anything that you want to make sure that we discuss, like if you're like, actually I totally have this under control, but I what I really need is you to talk about this, are you too Talk about that now is the time. And I see a lot of introductions still going on, which is awesome. Keep going everyone think you know the bar. Oh, I love Peggy Notebart. I love that Museum, those gardens. Yeah. So the we're seeing folks from all around the country, which is really extraordinary. I think you'll find, we see a lot of like, okay, interested Laura is interested in the platform for live streaming. Absolutely. We are going to be talking about platforms a lot. Unknown Speaker 4:32 And I will make sure we make time for that. Unknown Speaker 4:38 So a lot of wonderful working on developing a digital citizen science platform for school children. Cool. That's so exciting. We have some I know that Carolina's like full of examples of really great examples of that that are already doing that, or sale turn it is and how to make online activities engaging. We're definitely going to talk about that today. Citizen Science is a really powerful tool for doing that. connects people to nature, given The restrictions on Park access. That's a really interesting one that's absolutely key. And I think will be really important to a lot of our groups, folks who use Facebook Live, but our instructors are offering a certification curriculum. Okay. Mm hmm. And so what I think if I could describe our like, our like, encouragement interest in older adults, citizen scientists, folks without tech access, we're going to address that. If I had anything reassuring to say to you right now, it's that right now is probably going to be the best time to do live streaming in any of our lives, or maybe at least in the next decade. No, seriously, this is actually the best time we could possibly imagine to set foot into this space. So if you're new to live streaming, like Lisa's thank you for sharing, Lisa. This is a good time to get started because you're going to be more successful now than you would have been if you have done it even four weeks ago. So live streaming is a really important thing to to a really important tool right now, everyone went to Greece, all of the tech companies are like, are reeling. They're soaking up users right now, interest in the internet is huge right now, because we're all second side, there's nothing else to do. But also live streaming is one of the few ways that we can connect with each other. Every single event that existed until now, including like symphonies, live concerts, lecture series, and even things that used to happen on campuses, they're all going live. They're all happening on live stream. And what it does is it means that as a whole audience, every person that you had intended to interact with in the next four weeks, those people are all being taught how to move into live streaming, and how to go how to go there as an audience. So your audience is going to be more literate, and live streaming now than they've ever been before. And I see a lot of interest in questions about privacy issues on platform standalone mic versus built in mic. If you're hearing me right now. I'm using the built in mic. If you listen to science Friday on public radio on public radio this Friday, you'll hear the other version of that that kind of extreme other end of the continuum. But we will. technical issues aside, I think that's a really good question too. Why live stream I'm putting this here not because you don't all have to live stream. Now. It's sounding like from the chat, that a lot of you are like, well, I'm live streaming because I have to because I lost, we lost the opportunity to do this event in person. But there's actually really good reasons to live stream. The first is accessibility, live stream and a lot of ways is actually more accessible than an in person event or a person to person facilitated event, especially in situations where you're sharing information. And that's because it can be viewed, heard and hosted anywhere. So it's geographically accessible, sure, but it also can be recorded. It can be slowed down, it can be translated and captioned and just as an example of that, I will actually start our live captioning in this platform really quickly. Unknown Speaker 7:59 I make sure that I have That option. Unknown Speaker 8:05 And I can actually show you guys what live captioning looks like while I'm talking about things like accessibility. Unknown Speaker 8:12 interactivity, good live streams feel like conversations. So you guys are in a really, really big live stream right now. But if you're willing and able and brave, you can host conversations that are actually a lot more interactive. And we're going to show you some ways to make conversations interactive, even if you can't. participation from hosts, guests, regardless of geography, we talked about that. But there are also a lot of the platforms that we're going to share with you today are free, you can get an insane amount of work done, even in a free platform. And so even if you're willing to spend just a little bit more money, there's also opportunities to do really, really big stuff with the platform. So we're going to talk about so yeah, so there's really good reasons to live stream, even if you don't have to. Unknown Speaker 8:58 We're going to launch our first poll Unknown Speaker 9:01 Which is a asking what is your current level of streaming is? Are you a never seen a live stream person before and this is your first time even coming to them? Have you only watched live streams I've never participated. You should see a quick poll pop up. If you don't see it should be flashing at the bottom of your screen right now. If you've hosted live streams before your fancy, that's great. But maybe you're here because you want to go a little bit further. I'm trying to get better. If you're a total boss of live streaming. You're just trying to see how bossy we are at live streaming. Welcome. Welcome, boss. I hope you participate in the chat and provide support to everyone else. So please vote. We will see that vote soon. Unknown Speaker 9:43 Yeah, we have 175 of 247 have Unknown Speaker 9:47 voted so far. That's a pretty high response rate. I'm very happy about that, though. Yeah, if you're just joining us, the transcription is coming from Google Slides. It does require an internet connection to work but you're Live Streaming that also requires an internet connection. So you're probably going to be in that boat anyway. The chat comments, are they going to be accessible? And when the conversation is recorded? Unknown Speaker 10:11 Yes, they will be accessible. Okay, cool. Unknown Speaker 10:14 Yeah. And we'll be trying to also use those to take notes on other things that have been requested other resources, links and things like that to in the documentation that will share with you all, both in the posts and also in the subsequent blog posts that will feature the recording of this presentation. All right, I think we can probably close. close the poll at this point. Oh, good tip. Jason says that Microsoft live in teams also generates closed captioning. All right. So let's look at this. How are we doing? Most of you guys have actually have at least seen or watched live streams before. A whole lot of you have participated in a live stream before and chat calls Moji claps camera discussion. Awesome. That's about half of you. And then we do have a couple of super users. Welcome. Unknown Speaker 11:00 Google Slides works well with Google Slides as a replacement for PowerPoint. I'm just I'm sorry. I'm like doing two things at once. I should slow down. Unknown Speaker 11:10 And I will show you guys again, how to set up the captioning we're using during our open for at the end, I think. Unknown Speaker 11:17 All right. All right. So again, sorry, go for it. Carolyn, did you wanna? Unknown Speaker 11:23 Yeah, I just stopped sharing results. So like about 50% of you where it has some comfort, but are here to learn just great. Unknown Speaker 11:31 Yes, welcome. And the polling function that we're using is via zoom. So different, different in different platforms were using, we're not we're going to be modeling zoom today, and also the Google Slides captioning, which play really nicely together. But basically everything we're doing, we're going to show you how to do and if we don't make sure that you bug us for it. So that was an example of zoom pulling. If you're feeling like a raccoon dog right now where you're adorable and categorically confused because you are in fact, neither a dog nor raccoon or in fact, are an expert in person facilitator being forced to exist in live stream. And maybe you're feeling a bit shy. I just want you to know that's okay. Also, you're allowed to do things in your sessions, like put raccoon dogs for absolutely no reason in your slides or in your presentation. That's totally okay. I relearned about raccoon dogs like last night, and I decided to put it in my slides. Because guess what, we're all trapped inside. And it's kind of cool to think about weird animals from Japan. Unknown Speaker 12:27 You're here, we're stoked. Unknown Speaker 12:30 This is a great opportunity to share. So this is a learning and collaboration space. We've already gotten Intel and insights from folks in the chat. And we're going to keep surfacing those as we go. I guess to new Thank you, Haley. Um, but as we go and work through this, fear, not the chat, please ask questions in there. We're all collaborators right now, especially in this work. And also it's a weird time and it's harder than normal. That's okay. We're all doing our best. So If you're feeling really stressed out and overwhelmed, and like, you're gonna do this thing and perfectly, that's okay. That's how we're all feeling. And you're if you do your best, you're still providing our service to your community. And so that's like a pretty keen, like, key thing to take with you. Be cheerleaders, if you hear good ideas from each other, like, cheer, so yeah, whoo, that's awesome. I like that too. And again, all of your chat spaces are a great opportunity for doing that. We're all going to learn. So like in the next month, every single person in this session, including all of your panelists, and some of those super users are going to learn a lot about live streaming, the whole entire community of education, outreach science, we're all learning about live streaming right now. And that's rad. So I think we're going to see a big change. So just put on your learning hat and get ready to go. Let's make this fun. Unknown Speaker 13:50 Can I take it away? Unknown Speaker 13:51 All right, so everyone, for those who just joined I am Caroline Nickerson, I'm from the SciStarter team, putting all of your panels for you. Hold on. Sorry, I accidentally opened us up in Facebook Live and I'm hearing an echo of Ariel. Okay, there we go. Sorry about that, everybody. So I'm Carolyn Nickerson. I'm the Sci Starter team. So I know a lot of you know what citizen sciences but just in case. It's basically anything that a member of the public is involved with to contribute to real science. So it could be data collection that citizen science, you're supporting real scientific research. It could be you doing some analysis on an online project, like stock entries, which we'll get to later in this presentation. It's just anything where a member of the public someone without a formal scientific background, or maybe just someone who has a formal scientific background, but wants to volunteer helps a project that needs starters, a connector of citizen scientists or projects that need their help. And so that ends there are over 3000 projects and events that you can explore on site starter starter, which you can find at SciSTarter.org also runs and helps with a number of programs. So we have a girl scouts journey, where Girl Scouts go through and experience and are able to explore different projects that may be focused on the natural world. We have school programs that we help facilitate, where students are able to access a list curated citizen science projects and go through educational experience, their lifelong learning programs, one that I think is really cool. That's on side starters, with OSHA at Arizona State University, where it's people over the age of 55. Were able to explore projects that were hand picked for them about issues they care about. There's a tools database that you can search to find differences and science tools that you can use to contribute to different projects, their corporate volunteer program. So different companies have come beside starter and said, Hey, have projects that are affiliated with y'all are that work with you all? What do you think would be a good experience for our employees to volunteer to so that's part of it too. So and citizen science month is another program OSI starters and a big reason why we're here. If you go citizen science month org, you can see another resources we developed and, of course, things are changing very rapidly right now with evolving public health concerns. But um, but we're encouraging everyone to pivot the in person events. They were planning for citizen science month to celebrate citizen science to online. We're all in this together. I know that I'm currently in self quarantine, I'm in my apartment. I love these virtual events because they keep me connected to something bigger than myself. I'm able to do citizen science and feel, turned my curiosity into impact, so to speak. So you're here because you maybe are planning an event are seeking to engage your community online. And we're here to give you those tools and different projects to spotlight. So if you go to citizen science month dot org, you'll be pointed to a number of resources, many of which have been recently developed specifically for virtual events, as well as featured projects including those selected by our one of our big supporters, National Library of Medicine, as well as resources prepared by Arizona State University like an intern. traduction the citizen science module. So that was a long where I spoke a lot. But that's everything in short. Unknown Speaker 17:08 That was great. And there's so much information we can't emphasize enough. I know a lot of you here through our have like come through science starter, but keep getting into the site and do more on it because the information there is incredible. Xochitl and I are from science Friday, we're an independent 501 c three nonprofit, for a nonprofit media organization. We make public radio, videos, articles, lessons, activities, we do live events. We have a whole bunch of really great things that we do and it's all in the service of increasing the public's access to science and scientific information. We've used citizen science is like one of the key like power tools for doing that. So we every time that we turn folks on to citizen science we see this incredible any member of our audience, whether their radio or online newsletter. They are totally they're totally love they love citizen science, they can't help themselves and I just, you know, that's kind of the beginning of our partnership with Sai starter. But one of the things that we found in our work too. And this is these are all of the ways that we do our work is that live streaming has been has turned out to be a powerful tool for moving, some of this work into other communities that we haven't reached before that whether that's whether we're talking about sharing our videos and activities, whether we're training educators how to be better communicators of their practice, whether we're live streaming, mega events that happen around the country, or even if you're just you know, producing a live radio show, that live component and all of those, like different interactions that we have with our audience in this other space has been incredibly useful. And so when we started seeing these changes coming down the pike for citizen science month, we figured this was a good time to share that experience and try to kind of build a community and practice around live streaming. So I'm also seeing so much science Friday love in the feed. Thank you all for, for listening. Jeff, we're really stoked that you're all here too. And we've got a lot of really excellent resources being shared already. Thank you so too, for putting those in there. And again, for those of you who are joining late, so she is is kind of half silent. She's losing her voice, but for like she's an absolute machine when it comes to chat moderation and resources. Okay. All right. So, to the meat of the work, okay, the main thesis we have for all of you. I mean thing, like if we had to instill upon you one notion that is going to appease you and help you step forward. And with purpose, it's that live stream planning should feel like normal planning. Leave nothing out, make no excuses. If you really wanted to get people out to the beach, to look at plastics on the shore and you are really bad that you can't do that. We need to get you as close to that as possible with live streaming. And it's okay you don't have to leave any money. at the door, the main ways that you plan an event, the three things you think about the content. So what you're going to tell people or talk about or work with them on the culture, that tone that you set with all of your participants and the logistics for getting them there and making sure they have their boots and their bags, ready to pick a beach trash. Like those three things are still going to apply in the livestream context. And we're going to kind of walk you through how we plan those for live streaming apart one content, this is really easy. And again, you guys, if you're facilitators, and you've done this work, because it sounds like you all have these are going to look really familiar know your audience. So who you're trying to reach your program is for, establish your objectives, what you want those people to do, like get out of your session or your or your live stream. And then the other thing is, is kind of more pedagogical but like give your audience control, how are you going to create student directed learning or student centered learning or how are you going to act like a facilitator instead of a lecturer? And also, please, that we kind of like think about it As you're as you're thinking about these things as we walk through them, go ahead and contribute kind of what you're holding in your head for your own live stream into the chat. I think that's going to help us a lot. Unknown Speaker 21:11 All right, so know your audience. There's a lot of ways to define your audience. Some of them are new, like the word quarantine, like are you under quarantine? Yes. Know, what you know. And that was really relevant because some states have really strict restrictions right now. And some don't. You can define them by profession, family role age needs. When we were looking at preparing this presentation, we thought about some kind of some ideas about how you all might be feeling and thinking. So we thought, well, maybe our audience for this presentation are going to be primarily informal educators who plan on facilitating an in person citizen science experience, but they're not forced to learn live streaming. Or maybe they're experienced facilitators who just would prefer to be doing this stuff in person. And maybe that's the need that we want to fix it or not fix but like a help addresses like that need. You could also all be total weirdos we've never met who probably just kept Cow repeatedly in the chat window. So far, instead of cow, can we type raccoon dog? Of course you can. That's an excellent suggestion. And but like, seriously, this is perfect. This is a great example. Right Good dog. And we're trying to know your audience in advance. We suspected that most of you would be coming from this community of practice around citizen science work and science facilitation. And that seems to be the case. And actually, the reason we mentioned this cow thing is because chat moderation is a huge challenge, especially with young people. So, and that cow event has occurred already in the interest internet sphere. So it's a real example. Okay. If you think if you think you know, your audiences, try to match your objectives to your audience. Again, this is kind of educator one on one but I bet will just remind you so if we said that our audience was probably experienced facilitators who strongly prefer in person stuff, then our objectives for this session are going to be to reassure you Play up the experience that you already have and leverage that. So we want you to see modeled experiences of interaction. We've already been doing a lot of that in the chat. And we want to try to replicate meaningful interactions. Because we want to reassure you that those actually can exist in live streams. We're going to try to give you some tactics for connecting with your audience. And we're going to try to help you be confident that you can do this thing yourself that you can bring your whole practice to your livestream events. You don't have to act like you know, I wrote blue from science Friday, who's presenting in a webinar, like he doesn't sound like that. But like if he did, like, you don't have to put on your radio voice and leave your stuff in check your personality at the door. That's not what this is about. Giving your audience control. This is one of the scariest things, people are freaking like generally freaked out about giving their audience control in other situations, especially in a live stream where there's hundreds of you, because like if you pictured yourself doing that with an audience of 100 people, it might be a little while or in a model that actually Carolyn's gonna model that Unknown Speaker 24:00 Yes, and we're going to do it one of my favorite citizen science projects Stall Catchers. So I'm going to share my screen. And here we go. Alright, so we're on SciStarter.org, forward slash NLM. So that's the National Library of Medicines featured projects page for citizen science month. So these are projects that they selected for you that they thought addressed on environmental and human health and could be really impactful across across a broad span of geographic area. So all around the world and across the United States, as well as projects you can do from home, which are particularly relevant in the times we're living in right now. So Stall Catchers is a project where you can accelerate all timers research by playing an online and the name of the game style catchers describes what it is you're trying to catch those stalls stalled blood vessels, and it's easier for me to show you than tell you so we'll go ahead and continue this StallCatchers. And I'm already logged in, and I'm on Team SciStarter. So once you all make your accounts, your site starter account Your stallcatchers account, you can get all this set up as well. So you're looking right now and a video of a mouse's brain. This mouse has been infected with all timers disease, and you're looking at blood vessels right now. And you can see that they're flowing and the video is playing on a loop. So we look inside the circled area, the orange circle, and we try to see is this blood vessel stalled or flowing and we're able to recognize install when we look at the flow of white. If we see an area that never becomes white, that always stays black, then we know that's a stall. I think this blood vessels flowing, I don't really see any stalls, so I'm just gonna classify it. Oh, my gosh, I'm wrong. Oh, no. Well, that's the power of the crowd because they have a bunch of people looking at each stall. We can count on the annotation and by having these annotations crowdsource by having a bunch of different people all over the world make these annotations of blood vessels saying whether they're stalled or flowing, they're able to speed up the search for a cure to Alzheimer's disease because they're able to test different datasets they're able to use To try different experiments related to blood flow and Alzheimer's. So we're looking we're trying another one. We're looking at the circled area, we look in the flow of white, and we try to see if there's a stall. Okay, I think this one's for sure flowing. So let's try this one. Oh my gosh, I'm wrong again. Maybe you guys will have better luck. So I'll let you all vote in the chat and maybe so she and Ariel can monitor it. If we look in the circled area. You see the flow of white right here. Unknown Speaker 26:28 Okay, let's see. I think this one's stalled. I'll let you guys read the next one. I think it was stalled right there. All right, and Unknown Speaker 26:36 and this is a truly a challenge. So all of you were watching us all right here we're checking it out or thing whether it's stalled or not. Do you think that blood vessel is stalled? Is there flow or no flow ready SET GO circled area we look in the flow of white light coming in. I see. Yes. No flow flow now. Flow. No, no flow. No. STALL The vast majority of folks say sell sell no flow, no flow, stop, sell, sell, sell, sell, sell. I'm actually this is real time no flow, sell, sell, sell, sell, sell, sell. Unknown Speaker 27:09 No flow. Unknown Speaker 27:10 So, Alex tells me I think we've achieved a consensus. It's like Unknown Speaker 27:16 it was blowing. Ah, all right wasn't really. Unknown Speaker 27:21 That's Yeah, okay. Okay, we're gonna do one more. Unknown Speaker 27:24 I feel like that I feel like the the person who said like the one in five or like one in 10 person who said stole or flew on that one to get like a prize. Unknown Speaker 27:34 Yes, we should get trophies. Unknown Speaker 27:36 No, Jenna Walker, you get points. Unknown Speaker 27:39 All right. So we're click play. Unknown Speaker 27:46 This is harder than it like says Lisa. There's a tutorial which helps. That's absolutely true. All right, this one do we say flow or no flow Ready Set, go. Unknown Speaker 27:58 Solid now flow flow flow flowing over Flow flow flow flow flow style flow NO FLOW now flow still flow, no idea. Literally No idea. stall flow, no flow now flow flow flow flow this thing yay flowing. That's awesome. And then Lisa asked a really good question here, which is Do you ever get crickets or not engagement at times in the chat box? How do you encourage folks are quiet? Truthfully, that's a that's a really good question. The short answer is that we usually either extra act extra silly or lower the bar. So you guys, all you had to do is write flow, no flow. That's not that hard. But if we had been like, please explain your answer. We've had like a lot of fewer responses, which, like we'll do it where education can help ourselves but like it's the it's it's kind of an incredible thing, especially with this many people who are this engaged. You guys represent a special audience. But like it's an incredible thing. We can totally make this go and for the most part, it will work. Unknown Speaker 29:01 So, I'm going to share with you guys some more ways to give your audience control. Um, Ariel really quickly Unknown Speaker 29:07 I would add one good thing is is it similar to classroom instruction, where you kind of want to have like a follow up in your back pocket and the five second wait time rule, like give people a little bit of time to start to get engaged, and then jump in with like their silliness or the follow up question or like another factoid, so like, always have that little kernel in your backpack. Unknown Speaker 29:38 Yeah, that's super, that's great advice. And that five second rule with an Internet lag can be stretched to a 32nd rule. So one of the things you guys are going to see in every time we ask for your engagement in this, we almost always have a loaded slide that we can kind of start chatting about as you guys are adding your inputs into the chat, or as you guys are filling out a poll. And that's it. One because we're chatting people. So it's like really easy for us to vamp, but like, also, it's a really good way to like kind of fill that wait time and then return to it to get a greater response. And we've already done a lot of these things that we consider ways of giving our audience control. So we share out your shares, right? Like if you're doing something cool, like we want to, like, we want to share it out in the chat. If you are we've done polling, we've done do a thing, ask what happens, which we're going to do more of later, we can give a word. So I've mentioned who we would give a worse to. And I think that's like all of these things are like pretty easy. It's like Pokemon, so try to catch them all. Go ahead and try to get as many of these ways of giving your audience control in your presentation as you can. It will soak up time, but it will almost always increase engagement. Unknown Speaker 30:51 Part two is culture. And I asked my panelists also to do a time check to see how we're doing here. Unknown Speaker 30:58 We have 30 minutes left, so we're doing pretty well. Unknown Speaker 31:00 Awesome. Okay. Janine asked to, just to before we move on is audience control audience engagement? And the answer is yes. And the two different things, but they're both of them are important. So giving your audience control means helping them dictate content. So we asked you guys, what are things that you really want to make sure we share before the end of the session that's giving you control over the content we're gonna deliver. We're like, like science Fridays doing a bunch of live streams too for citizen science month, and we're planning on actually having everyone vote on the questions that we ultimately ask our expert panelists, because we don't want to waste time on questions nobody cares about. We want to give them control over the content. But we also want to give them opportunities, like with polling, to keep them engaged and remind everybody what's going on. All right. So for culture, here we are, your kids are already immersed in our culture, we've been doing all these things. These are mostly things to remind yourself of, it's really easy to kind of forget culture when you go into a livestream space like that. We kind of just are like, Oh, I have to like switch into Professor mood. That's lame. Don't be lame. Think about things like being yourself and bringing your whole self to this just like you would your work. Think about things like moderation, setting up norms, establishing a tone. We've already like worked really hard to establish a tone, like, "none of this is perfect". And if you guys all go out and do your first live stream and something goes wrong, guess what? That's going to be totally fine. In fact, we've already I had a live stream yesterday where I was providing a training to hundreds of teachers and I got dropped from my own call and I had to call back into the webinar that I was running. And it just went wrong and it was totally okay. And my co facilitators helped with that. So like, if you come into this space with being yourself moderation, and playing with format, you're gonna have a good time. Here's some examples. Be yourself. Think about how do you and this is a question for the chat. And for our Facebook viewers too How do you share your personality with your learners, trainees and participants normally? So not necessary? Not necessarily thinking about live stream but just think about like, what is it that you use to signal who you are as a person or as a scientist or as a librarian? To the people who come to your space and you interact with your programming? And is it you bro personal stories I see merciless personal stories. You admit that you don't know all the things? That's such a good example. I think that's like rock star. Yeah. usually ask icebreaker questions. Don't demean your audience. Some of us lecture for a living and don't like to be references boring. This is true. There are really good lecturers. Thank you Peter for mentioning that. You use silly videos and metaphors. But her vulnerability is important. earrings. So she Caroline, I see some examples of how you brought yourself to the session. So she's showing off just one pair of her amazing earring collection. Also her background That's pretty cool. Caroline, what are you wearing on your head? Unknown Speaker 34:04 I am wearing a gator and if you stop sharing, I can quickly spotlight our video so we can Unknown Speaker 34:09 Yes, let me stop, share, or yes stop. Sure. There you go. All right, Unknown Speaker 34:13 there we go. And so she is our spotlight video at the moment so we can see her beautiful earrings. Unknown Speaker 34:20 Very cool. Unknown Speaker 34:21 All right and I'll spotlight my videos you can see my Gator hat. Go Gators. Unknown Speaker 34:27 He's following me I can show you my dog. Unknown Speaker 34:29 Yes. Unknown Speaker 34:30 Emma is sleeping essential coworker brought to the webinar Unknown Speaker 34:39 and I'm also Go Gators do I've also before us alone so that's totally Unknown Speaker 34:46 so Oh, we says a bunch of science based series. Agreed. I wish I had a record Rebecca but I don't think it would be along with my shepherd. So there's like definitely a lot of there's a lot of things that you guys Already bring to your work. And there's no reason why you have to leave that out of your livestream work. It's t shirts. Yes, we feel that strongly about science, or other other nerdy t shirts, and happy t shirts. So I'll reshare my screen again here and get us back. Whatever it is that you need to do to be yourself is going to be pretty important. Let me see. Are you guys seeing my slides? Yes, yes. Okay, good. Hopefully, I'm not getting a nod from Carolina. So Gee, previous see my slides. Okay. Perfect. Just checking. Um, so we've created a list here, but honestly, it's you. You do whatever you do. If you need like a lectern, or a special pen to feel like yourself in your session, go for it, and go to town, whatever it is. Ah, okay, this is maybe the part we've already received a lot of questions about moderation. So this is one of the parts that we're going to focus on. And again, I think the chats gonna be really important here to surface issues, but monitoring Heck yeah, you have to do it. Don't ignore it. As we start talking about moderation, please voice your concerns that you have about moderation facilitation, the chat, Karolina and Sochi. If you guys can help track those and surface them at the end of ideas that we've already shared here, that would be awesome. The main things you want to make, you're gonna have to make some decisions about moderation early. Whether you go to zoom or Hangouts, or Facebook Live or periscope or GoToMeeting, or any of these things. You should have a sense of what you can handle in terms of moderation. How many participants do you want? If you want to manage a chat with random people, we're recommending less than 100 people should be involved in that chat. You all are experienced people or experienced professionals in a community of practice. So we were like, yeah, we'll do chat for two or 300 people I'll be fine. How much swearing Do you mind? So like, this is a this is a proxy for imagine the worst case scenario And ask yourself if you're okay with that worst case scenario happening. If you can't handle someone cursing in your feed, and you're broadcasting to a bunch of high school schoolers, my strong recommendation would be to not enable chat. High schoolers are awesome, and most of them are totally rad. And some of them also really like profanity is a source of art. I'm that person that was. And while we're on the topic of students, generally, same rules apply as if you're taking photographs at your events, or taking video at your events, try to avoid video or audio of minors without consent. So if you guys are doing a zoom call, and you want all of your participants to be in that zoom window, if they're minors, that that recording had better not go on the internet. It's okay if they see each other if they're all in a class together, right? Like if you're, if you're broadcasting to a Girl Scout troop, where they all know each other, and they're all they're all in there, and you can see all their faces or if it's your AP history classes, meeting, whatever it is, that's fine. The difference is when you put it on the internet and broadcast it to unknown entities. without parental consent, that's not okay. And that is true for audio in a lot of states as well. And so we just said video audio photo of minors without consent. Be careful about that. How are you going to handle technical difficulties, we've already been helping you troubleshoot in the chat right now. So we have a few folks who've had some technical difficulties, some platforms will have more of those than others. Think about whether and how you want to manage those. And then I did this last one, which is why it's in a smaller text. And we're going to visit this later, but know your platforms capabilities in advance. So if you start if you like plan a zoom webinar and broadcast a Facebook Live, but don't realize that that means that almost anyone with that URL will be able to see and comment on it regardless of who they are and where they exist. Then, you might be surprised when some bad people show up in that space. And you have to you have a whole lot of extra homework to moderate or you have to mute your chats. You have to ditch all of your interactive components. So just be really careful about that. Ugly part, expelled, mute and block that actors if you establish norms, enforce them. So, again, this is more important for ultra public facing events. Unknown Speaker 39:20 So for instance, if I was facilitating a discussion on I'm trying to think of what a like really contentious event in citizen science might sound like, but actually flew near us a good example where we blew the topic of vaccination might come up. And you anticipate if you want to have a really robust discussion about food near you and invite a whole bunch of people to the party, you might find that there's a lot of disagreement. And people can get mean when there's disagreement in chats, or in a facilitated Facebook space. So if you don't establish norms early and say, like, be respectful, use nice words. Like you support your arguments with evidence, whatever you want to do. enforce them if it gets out of hand, too. Which means blocking and muting and bad actors. And the converse of that is surf is awesome when people are awesome, tell everybody about it, like you're being awesome, that's good thing to do. So highlight audience input. That's another form of facilitation. That's super critical. And speaking of which, let me just get my last bullet point on staff for moderation. You guys can tell right now that we're staffed to, we're staff of three. But we also have some sleeper staffers in this in this chat too. Darlene is here from say starter he was here from sci fi. We've got folks who are like in there who are like super awesome as well helping facilitate and helping staff the chat. But I'm sad for moderation. Because if you can't, if you look through this list, and you're like, I'm not sure I can do that at all. Then you're you should scale back your participation levels. AND and OR scale back the size of your group to the point where you can facilitate it and you can handle it. Okay, let's go to the chat. What questions do we have about moderation or issues? Unknown Speaker 41:10 Can you designate anyone to be a moderator with expelled me blocked privileges? Or do they have to have an account or be a panelist or host account? That's going to depend specifically for zoom. You need to be a host. But you can have those hosting privileges even as a free user. The nice thing about zoom is that it all at a free look at a free user level, it's going to also have like a limit the number of people that you can do this with at a time. Okay, and Oh, good. We've got another slide where we've actually surface some of those questions here. Oops, and it's not refreshing. So Unknown Speaker 41:47 that's okay. I think what's happening is that needs to be probably refreshed in there. There we go. I'm going to represent one more time. Unknown Speaker 41:56 This is the beauty of Google Slides, everyone you can edit in real time. That's all the chats come in. And you can play the last slide. Unknown Speaker 42:03 Yeah, good job teams. I actually forgot you guys are doing that as so read. Okay, so here are your concerns. moderation, moderating one alone, we kind of already addressed that, but figure out exactly what you can handle and only allow that much to occur. So if you can only handle a moderating chat or a live discussion, verbal, a verbal discussion on camera with 50 people at a time, then that's what you should do, and you shouldn't do it with 500. And also, consider consider how not alone you might be. So, searching I do this a lot. We've got this incredible posse of educators who we've been working with for years. And sometimes they have a free evening and they're willing to work with us as moderators in some of our trainings or webinars. And they can show up and provide organizational knowledge and instruction and insight, and also help flag things that need to be removed in a volunteer capacity or like a hidden Thanks, we'll take it up next time we see you've got a capacity but like whatever that is, you might not be alone. How do you handle moderation after the fact? People do not tune in right away? That's a great question. for better for worse, Layton viewing generally means it's going to be less interactive. That's better because with evergreen content, you can do things like turn off YouTube commenting, or, or new comments on a Facebook thing. And so in some ways, it's actually easier. What's not great is if you really want those comments, you have to develop a workflow for going back regularly and dealing with it. Some situate some. Some things will allow you to like some platforms, depending on how you do it will allow you to preview comments before they're added or before they like go into the hopper and our public facing. But that's generally Frankly, I think that's the exception rather than the rule. Good notes about establishing norms, go ahead and cheat and look for other people. People's norms. I do this all the time I norm shop. Sometimes you can find ones that you really wish you had thought of after the fact you're like, oh, man, I really needed a norm for that. You can also ask people for their horror stories and build norms to prevent those things. And then the third and coolest option is to co create norms with the community of people you're working with. So educators, like when you sit down at the beginning of the year, you don't just say these are the rules, you say? Here's kind of what I was thinking, what rules do you guys want to have to keep each other safe and respectful and have a good time and make sure we don't mess up all our lab equipment, like, whatever. And I'm using analogies that I'm familiar with, but I know that all of you have contexts in which you've established norms before, bring those into this space and think about how they'll adjust. Does anyone want to add to this, like Carolina, Sochi that establishing norms step? Unknown Speaker 44:51 Yeah, I think those are the big ones. Unknown Speaker 44:53 And if you're saving questions for the end, do you have one person writing down the questions as they appear in chat? And then handle them at once. Those of you who can see I've got a notebook on my desk. My iPhone is a panelist right now, and is pointing and I am trying to make sure that like we already talked to, somebody asked a question about Chad removal. Like curating chats, I've seen it where people instead of just creating the automatic PDF that comes out are copying and pasting all of the comments in a feed. They'll copy and paste all the comments and document and then clean up the garbage and leave the surface the ones that they want to surface or highlight for evergreen documents. And that can be really helpful. It's more work, but it's worth the latency, especially if you have a mess or a robust conversation as we like to call it. And the brain and answer in real time or latency is totally up to you. You've seen me do both already. So I will try. I think I have not committed to one or the other those two people have ever fill out photo release waivers like we would in an in person event. So they can you can make that a part of your registration. Link. So you can make any any of these things, you can even just create a Google form and say, like, tell me your name, your email address your zip code, read this paragraph that says that you're cool with me taking a screen capture of our discussion. And also, here's some rules that we're going to have, I'm going to do too. And once you click Submit, you'll get sent a unique URL for this event. And what that will do is that that basically and then you can even have an interest slide at the beginning that says, if you're here right now and your cameras on, you are consenting, the only issue that we the only main change is that between live streamed versus in person is that you won't know if those people are over 18. So like, be a little bit careful with that and know that passive or like implied consent by presence is going to be a little dicey. It's kind of a risk reward trade off and I would again, generally recommend only doing only looking for waivers like that with small communities where you have a known quantity of your audience not with like mega use or public URLs. Can you designate anyone to be a moderator with expel? Me? We I think we talked about that already. We got that because I went through and backwards. Unknown Speaker 47:16 Okay, shall we press on? Unknown Speaker 47:19 Let's do it. And we're about 15 minutes out from in time. Unknown Speaker 47:23 Okay. I think we might have to skip across the top thing. I'll do a quick demonstration, which is really just to point out that you can play with format any way you want. So this is kind of going to our next slide, which is, formats should be variable. We're talking now more about this, like vibe and culture and content format. If you want to do a demonstration, where you demonstrate that like magnets are a really useful tool for figuring out the material that your pipes are made out of Go for it. Like click it in and it looks like my iPhone is probably getting hot, so it's getting a little slow. But like go ahead and do an overhead demonstration. Go ahead and do your scratch test on your imaginary pipes. I didn't I didn't have any pipes that were small enough to bring into my little light booth here but like this desk experiments, making another device like an iPad or an iPhone, or, or any or any tablet or fat smartphone, excuse me. Your like, like co viewer is a really good way as a team of one to change the format quickly. Unknown Speaker 48:28 stop sharing, I'll quickly spotlight your phone. Oh, sure. Unknown Speaker 48:32 Yeah, so like, see my massive, massive desk? Yes. So like, here's the situation and again, it's been a little pokey. But like if I had let's pretend these are all pipes if I have a bunch of mystery materials that are semi metallic or appear to be bringing water into my home, I can help map infrastructure and report data about the service lines to my home to grab the top which is one of those I starter With the official designation, I believe this partner conciliate projects affiliate project. Thank you. So, yeah, so as I started our affiliate project, totally working, if you want to know if it's mounted on something, yes, it is. Right up here. I actually have an in I'm in what's called a lightbox, what was this, like $100 setup that is essentially a little white room with LED lights and a hole at the top where I can set my phone. If you don't have that, you can use a headlamp and a two by four set between a stack of books and it's about as effective. I just like this because I can collapse it and stick it under my second under my bed when I'm done. But you can do these like, you can do a fun scratch test and see if the metal is the same color as a penny or as not. So this is copper, which is pretty rad. It's not magnetic, this one's steel. Unknown Speaker 49:53 This one was absolutely good field service line. Same with our other objects. I'm going to keep this away from my computer so I don't My Drive but Unknown Speaker 50:03 but the long the short of it is mix up the format go with a desk thing if you're a babe just sticky later, you might want to have your hands be a thing anyway. That'd be pretty, pretty cool. Okay, we'll go back to the presentation now here. Unknown Speaker 50:16 For those of you who are librarians, you may want to pick one of those featured projects like around the TAF and you could do just what Ariel did, you could do a demo of it and have people follow along at home. Unknown Speaker 50:28 Yeah, and we also something that we're not doing today, mostly in the interest of time, but if I had an outdoor project, and I still had access to outdoors as facilitators, I would take you guys on a field trip. Right? You guys saw how I like picked up my laptop and I pointed out my dog so you could see my dog. You can do that with the tree doesn't have to be a dog. You can go outside and do it with a you know with a tree that's close to your source of Wi Fi. It might seem silly, but also it may be so appreciated right now think about those kids in apartments that kick it out to a tree at the moment. You know, like Those are those are opportunities for you to provide even an additional service, which is pretty exciting and cool. So go to town. These are some of our favorite examples. There's a doodle together with the guy who did. Don't let the pigeon drive the bus, Mo Willems. There's a whole bunch of concerts if you want to see examples of art, Google, the social distancing festival for examples of how other people are messing with format. Unknown Speaker 51:21 What else can we do? What other Unknown Speaker 51:22 ideas do you guys have for changing format because frankly, PowerPoint slides aren't always it not always the best, they're efficient. But if you're only trying to get one thing across and trying to get folks to do a project, get crazy. You go do that project with them and try to be an or get somebody to be a camera person. Your quarantine buddy is probably looking for a project. All right, we're gonna step into the platform session. What is your favorite platform boat now? We have some of our favorites, which we're going to share with you. And what's really odd is because Unknown Speaker 51:55 we're using it, and people love zoom. Yeah, A Unknown Speaker 52:00 lot of folks are going to be on Team zoom at this at this point, but if you have another or if there's one that you're like, Oh my gosh, I can't believe they forgot my favorite the like Lucky Charms box. Unknown Speaker 52:13 Like, like, tell us in the chat. We can't vote so we're gonna let you guys tell us how it's going. Unknown Speaker 52:21 Alright, well ended in like one second. Unknown Speaker 52:23 Okay cool. Unknown Speaker 52:24 Last chance and and awesome. The people love zoom, the people love zoom Unknown Speaker 52:32 and the girl goes wild. All right so we'll talk a little bit about the zoom functions that we're using today we're using zoom webinar and the zoom functions that are the functions that kind of exist on other platforms. I'm also going to go ahead and encourage you all consider whether you actually need zoom. And so let's talk about why those things are real. Quick disclaimer. What follows are suggestions Paid unsolicited and subjective. So there are people who are professionals at live streaming who have chosen platforms that are not the same as the ones that we've chosen. Also, as professional live streamers, we've all got our things. It's like gaming consoles or operating systems. Like if you're a Mac user, or a PC user, we love you anyway. So like, Whatever you decide is good. If all you're doing is chatting with a handful of people, Google Hangouts is great. Everybody gets it. It's really intuitive. For less than 10 video participants unlimited time, with chatting, screen sharing, linking scheduling, they can join by phone or by URL, just do Hangouts, it's super easy, especially if you've got Chrome users. If you're working with folks who are Google Classroom literate, they're going to prefer this anyway, because it's what they're on all the time. I do context, internal meetings, small quick gatherings, lots of screen sharing. I'm going to rush through this because many of you probably know what this is. The cool thing is is like Google Hangouts is what we used when we had our child because it was the only thing our parents and we could both use. Because they didn't have FaceTime because I had Android devices and we had iPhones. It's that easy that even my seven year old parents could totally get it. So like, that's, I think, the beauty of it. But it also works really well between like two people or four people. It's even it's it's really particularly nice for small groups, and sci fi uses it all the time for internal stuff. If you're trying to do community building with less than 100 people, and if you don't really even have a need for like that long of a session, like say, less than 40 minutes free zoom is awesome. So everybody right now with your personal email address can get a free zoom account and beyond zoom. Most of you probably, if you've done that before, zoom probably remembered you and was like, hey, you're back. And when you logged into this meeting, you can join by telephone or URL. You can give yourself a virtual background. I like to do that. But I'm into it. It's cool. Because I have very little disk space on my computer right now. I'm the thing That all of the things that you guys can do or are doing right now, almost all of those are available in the free version of zoom. So even though we're not using the free version of zoom or zoom pro account with webinar right now, a lot of this stuff is still is like, all of the stuff, you're almost all the stuff you're using right now is, isn't there, and we'll talk about the difference between free and paid versions later. It's really great for communities of non anonymous people. We talked a bit about why camera use can be a little dangerous. So like you don't want someone to like, share inappropriate images or screenshots, something that's not appropriate for all ages or audiences, right. So, which that kind of stuff tends to only happen when people are when people are anonymous, varying levels of internet connectivity, if you saw a little arrow pop up, that's probably Sochi annotating. Yeah. So there's annotation features, which are really cool, which we forgot to put in here. And we talked about screen sharing chat q&a. Hand raising all of that. It's really good for facilitating conversations. And five minutes, so we'll, we'll probably go a little bit over if some of you have to drop off, we totally understand. Yes. And all the slides will be online. Thank you for clarifying. Sorry. Okay. Um, and the good news is if you still only want to serve a community of non non anonymous people, and have less than 100 video participants, but you want that to last longer than 40 minutes, it's only gonna cost you 15 months for the entire month of April to make that meeting last a full hour or two hours. So it may be worth the splurge is you know if it costs you a latte and bagel that you couldn't buy at Starbucks this week anyway, because it was closed, do it. For giant Interactive Events, go with a webinar version has all the same zoom stuff that allows you interactivity with more than 100 people. That's why there's 200 of you in the zoom version of this event right now, Chad Because we went with the fancy version, and you can go really fancy so mega corporations will buy 10,000 participants so that they can host their all staff for their 10,000 person organization. The other thing that we're doing that's webinar specific is broadcasting to Facebook Live. If YouTube is your jam, you can put it there instead Unknown Speaker 57:20 recorded sessions with engagement and retention analytics. Those of you who are running nonprofits, or have to defend your content and your programming, those analytics can be really great. Because somebody is counting heads for you. And while at the end, you can say, and they all stayed, and it was really great. And this is how many people participate in the poll. And those analytics can be really powerful impact mesh metrics, more presentation and moderation tools, though, frankly, most of them you probably wouldn't use unless you're a super user anyway. And really, this just gets you a lot of participants. We like it for trainings, conferences, fee based events. Anytime you want to divide your audiences 20% people you trust. I'm looking at June community to our most least I started friends and 80% random people on the internet looking at your Facebook community. Just kidding, you're all great to whatever if you if you need to divide an audience, the webinar features really nice. So you can go for the big reach in a safe way that doesn't require a lot of moderation. And you can go with high touch for the people that you know and trust that it usually takes two to four people to host moderate and provide tech to I'm seeing a lot of nodding because I'm ignoring the chat at the moment. If anyone would like to surface chat, please bring it in. Unknown Speaker 58:35 Here's the list of things to think about when choosing I just talked about all of these. Unknown Speaker 58:40 The only one we didn't really get to Oh, was the periscope Facebook Live. Sorry, I forgot that one. So she's really excited about that one. Unknown Speaker 58:48 Yeah. I really like Periscope, letting everybody know post. Part of it is because with periscope you can limit chat to your follow people. You Follow. And in that way you can sculpt the chat that's going on or the comments are posting during your stream. But everyone can use the heart reactions or the different reactions. So you can see what the audience is feeling as you go through. But it's another way to curate, like the the comments in chat. Unknown Speaker 59:26 I also will say, many of you might realize already that there could be an age discrepancy in the type of people you get with each of these platforms. Instagram is a younger platform with younger people in it, then Facebook is then Twitter is and so like if you want it to Instagram Live and you have a community in that space, who you know to be younger and most engaged on Instagram, don't force them into some other weird platform, put them into the platform that they're already excited about broadcast again. Thank you all for putting us into your professional learning cycle today. I know a lot of you are headed out. For other webinars, we're so excited, you're here. And thanks for coming. But I think we're actually already are in the homestretch here. This shopping list will be in the slides when we are done. The last thing we'll say is just make sure you try a thing. You try it out, whatever you pick, go and experiment with it. Give yourself some time, attend to stream screen, capture everything. host your own private stream host a practice stream with colleagues after that, you know, like, keep making your mistakes a lot as much as you can with friends and family and then schedule that rehearsal stream and actually hosted to a public livestream, right. So practice, practice, practice, practice, practice. We're doing a lot of that at science Friday, right now gearing up for the start of our live streaming season next week. So and then ask participants how it went. If you're here, and you're still here, please do look for a survey that will send you about how this how this went and tell us if it was helpful. That's really it would be helpful for us. We'll be sure to ask you that. And last but not least, or certainly not least certainly not last. It's okay if you end up being a Jiff. So if everything goes wrong, and it's a little weird, and you look like this lady who's like trying to get this thing to work, Unknown Speaker 1:01:11 it's okay. Unknown Speaker 1:01:14 Do your best. And learn from it and record your learnings and try to move forward because it's going to be great. It's going to be totally awesome. Those of you who are lingering accessibility plan for slow internet, those we don't have too many colors in. I know we still have 220 participants right now in zoom, but some of those are going to be phones but Unknown Speaker 1:01:37 both Unknown Speaker 1:01:38 zoom and hangouts offer calling options which are great for for slow internet, especially if you offer those slides latently or even beforehand. Don't use things like the word accessibility written vertically on the side that's actually not accessible. It's meant to be ironic. Closed Captioning we talked about that. Although I stopped I will try a look I can restart it down at the bottom. We also think about ASL interpreters. We've been so impressed with Skype a scientist for having a sign language interpreter at most of their events that are serving New York City, public schools, and our Department of Education folks and others. We don't you know, they're they can be very expensive or they can also volunteer their time and we just ask that you try to respect their time and be awesome. Avoid loud colors, use high contrast larger is better, make everything available latently post it along with your slides. We will be doing that you guys if you registered for this and also in Facebook will post a link to where you'll be able to find the recording of this presentation. Some of the chat stuff that we talked about the slides themselves and also will share with you some of science Friday's templates for planning the actual content of events so that you can use some of those. And we will be careful with colors that look the same to colorblind people. Totally agree Red Green guys just, and even, even some purples and blues will get you into trouble. That's a good reminder. And thank you. Bonus accessibility tools, Google Slides live captioning demonstrated below, hit the present button, hover on the bottom of your screen, click the CC button and it just does it. This is a really good one, even for your live presentations later. If you want to do a transcription of anything you do online and have a recording otter AI, pretty great automated transcription and you get like 10 hours free or something before they start charging you for it. It's amazing. So provide the transcript for your whole session can give it to everybody. And that's even better way for folks who are who can't hear great or who don't enjoy listening to things. They might just want to read the transcript anyway. Google Translate is one way to translate your stuff into other languages. But also volunteers in your community are really powerful. Ask a biologist it is use a great example where they've built this whole, like volunteer community to help them make multilingual content. And think about tapping volunteers in your community, especially right now, people really want to have purpose and to help with things. So it's a really good time to ask for folks to help out with making stuff more accessible. Oh, Rebecca, that's the nicest thing ever. Thanks for saying we're really happy that you're here. And I think everybody we are like this is it is like truly a heartwarming experience to see so much great expertise, and warm and fuzzies. in the chat. Are we going to do a transcript of this too? I think probably it's gonna take a little time. Give us a couple days. That's the only thing like our in house transcription service we'll have to do. But yes, I think that's I will put that on my list of things to do. Thank you. Unknown Speaker 1:04:50 Do right, take it away, Caroline. Unknown Speaker 1:04:53 Yes, well, so here's our call to action. And thank you for those of you who still have time to figure out citizen science monthly. Let's do this citizen science month is in April. And we want to provide as many awesome remote opportunities for people to engage as possible. And we want you all to help facilitate these opportunities for your community, as well as for other people who might find your event through sigh starter. So number one, find a project or theme to spotlight during your event via citizen science phones.org or Sr. org forward slash NLM. You could do crab the tap like Ariel did. You could spotlights dog catchers virtually for your community. Just find some sort of theme to build your event on. That's number one. Number two, if you don't have zoom, or you need help facilitate your event. I'm here to help you every Thursday at 8am 11am and 8pm. Eastern. I am available for these open calls and we're happy to help you plan some sort of event and help you facilitate it. So please join us we're here to help you as much capacity as we have. We'll do webinars with you on zoom and then number three, add yourself Decide started once you have some sort of virtual event. And if you want participants to find it go to PSI stereo org forward slash add dash event. So we have a database of all these awesome virtual opportunities to connect with people. I know I'm going to be attending a lot of them in April. And here's an example. So Calvin from plein air Carolina, he had an in person event where people were going to monitor air quality in Charlotte, North Carolina. And because of public health concerns and everything that's been happening, he is now having an online event. He's postponing his in person event and taking the party to zoom. And he's working with psi starter to do aq IQ, air quality basics with Calvin. So you all are welcome to join us on April 8. And that's kind of an interesting bonus of having virtual events, you can open it up into a broader range than could have attended your in person and of course, both are awesome. Both are something we want you to do, especially once public health concerns allow us to have more in person events again, but I really hope that we all kind of seize this moment as best we can, it's a turbulent time. You know, we're taking it day by day. But we hope that you're able to still have some fun. I mean, I have my Gator hat on, I'm still having some fun. And we hope that you have impactful meaningful virtual events. Unknown Speaker 1:07:14 And I just we had a few questions about where to find things. Were leaving it now in the open floor. This is the end friends. But just to ask Caroline again to those open calls. It looks like every Thursday, yes, 811 and eight and 11am. Eastern Time, Caroline, for those who want additional support. Unknown Speaker 1:07:33 Yep, that's right. We do have at those times, because we want to help people across time zones, so you never know who in the world is going to tune in. So 8am 11am and 8pm, every Thursday. Unknown Speaker 1:07:45 Awesome. And I love ej Walker, ej Walker's suggestion for a Google Doc of tools and best practices, we'll be sharing a lot of the ones ourselves. We'll have to figure out if we have the bandwidth to moderate a Google Doc but that can be shared and attitude as well but I certainly one that can be shared with And then we'll have to vote. We'll talk amongst ourselves. I know there are a few floating around as well. And thanks, everyone for joining us. I know that we're we're now seeing the numbers fall. Yeah, enjoy. Enjoy the rest of your afternoon. the recorded version will be available to share. And please make sure to share this with anybody else that you think might be of use to all of those resources will be posted alongside it. On site stirs website blog. Yes, Unknown Speaker 1:08:26 yes. On the on the blog and on our places we can post those Yeah, science writing will be visiting a fair bit Unknown Speaker 1:08:34 too. And I think having all of these things together, and also if there are things that we didn't answer for you now, and I think we're like, I still have my notebook, Adam will still be writing so please ask for things. Good luck, Jules. You're having a go at it. Good luck, all of you. We are so excited for the work. You're doing citizen science to more people. It's totally awesome. Unknown Speaker 1:08:57 Round of applause to our friends from science Friday, Eric And safety who in their expertise today? Especially so t who she's lost her voice to US Virgin times Unknown Speaker 1:09:11 facilitator Unknown Speaker 1:09:12 for you know, showing us how the model your cell phone and all this both of you, thank you so much. Unknown Speaker 1:09:18 You bet our absolute pleasure. Thanks for the claps everyone. Unknown Speaker 1:09:24 Yeah. Oh, and the email list. Somebody has asked for a link to join the email list. Unknown Speaker 1:09:29 Yeah, you can. I'll put that in the chat right now. It's nicer. org forward slash citizen science month. FAQ. Okay. Unknown Speaker 1:09:39 I'm surprised more people that didn't write cow throughout the presentation. Unknown Speaker 1:09:42 We actually yeah. And I was, at least I was I was also excited to do we had like an equal number of raccoon dogs to cows and somebody who knew the actual name of a raccoon dog, which I keep forgetting. That's amazing. Unknown Speaker 1:09:53 That's awesome. Unknown Speaker 1:09:56 And the Facebook audience, we haven't forgotten about you either. So We will be circling back to the questions that are lingering there as well. Making sure that we get those answered Unknown Speaker 1:10:08 to Nikki. Thank you, Haley. Unknown Speaker 1:10:12 That's so awesome. Unknown Speaker 1:10:15 All right, well, I think, Unknown Speaker 1:10:18 yes, my next Unknown Speaker 1:10:19 my next webinars starting in 20. So Unknown Speaker 1:10:23 next meeting, do you need to install zoom on your phone to switch to the phone's camera while you're presenting as you did earlier? I did I use the Zoom app? That's a really good question. And it's still presenting if you look in the panelist window, the big caveats I will say is it runs out of battery pretty quickly. So you might want your phone to join late during the presentation. And sometimes it can get hot. So like don't put your phone in the sun and then also zoom for an entire presentation because it will light on fire. Unknown Speaker 1:10:52 At least it's a good reminder. I think I'm going to unjoin my phone. I think at this point, we could probably call it Tim What do you guys think? Unknown Speaker 1:11:00 Yeah, I think thank you again and I'll talk to you all soon. Awesome. Thanks so much. Have a good rest of your day, everyone. Bye, everybody. Unknown Speaker 1:11:08 Bye Transcribed by https://otter.ai