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00:01	Welcome canvas fans to another exciting edition of the live
00:06	stream with our partners on this thursday afternoon , we
00:11	typically do these thursday at 12 30 Eastern time .
00:13	We're super excited to welcome Crystal Delta who actually owns
00:19	the platform , which is what we're going to spend
00:21	a lot of time talking about today . And we're
00:24	joined by our Crystal Delta partner , uh Deena here
00:27	, she is very excited to run this session .
00:30	She's waving . That's fantastic . So everybody knows .
00:32	Uh , and then we have new Caney I .
00:34	S . D . From texas . We were talking
00:37	a little bit about the storms earlier and they have
00:39	been relocated to home because of storms earlier , which
00:43	is uh , not ideal . But um , welcome
00:46	back to welcome back to the home life with Krista
00:49	, Greta Sonya and Melissa with us . We're so
00:52	glad you guys have joined us . And I am
00:54	thrilled because I'll be honest with you as somebody who
00:57	has used a lot of canvas lTI tools and programs
01:01	Laurie I'm not that familiar with . So I'm going
01:03	to be taking a ton of notes and I know
01:05	we have a lot of viewers with us today that
01:06	will be doing the same . So we're going to
01:08	jump right in and talk a little bit about who
01:10	we have today in our session from new Caney I
01:14	. S . D . Again , we have Greta
01:15	Lasagna Krista and Melissa . Greta is the director of
01:19	Digital Learning . Lasagna is the coordinator of digital learning
01:22	christa Learning specialist . Digital learning specialist and Melissa is
01:25	also a digital learning specialist and I have the pleasure
01:28	of introducing team Lori , our product owner here at
01:33	Dina . She is a lorry product owner , so
01:36	we're thrilled to have her as she can tell you
01:38	all about the product before we jump into the session
01:41	and then she'll kind of run things as we go
01:43	. But I appreciate you guys being here . Thank
01:45	you so much for giving us some time to discuss
01:48	Laurie and how it can help people use canvas .
01:52	Awesome . Thank you . Everybody from joining us from
01:55	all corners of the world . Myself included down from
01:58	Melbourne Australia . Uh , super , really quick intro
02:02	, I guess to to myself and the team .
02:05	As Eddie said , I'm the product owner of Laurie
02:07	uh , and we're located down here in Melbourne Australia
02:11	. So Crystal Delta is the company that has developed
02:15	Laurie the product . And I've been working with canvas
02:18	and canvas users for upwards of four years and it's
02:21	really throughout these experiences and these interactions that's led to
02:26	us developing lauri and lauri in a nutshell is a
02:29	wheezy wig course editor that allows educators and course designers
02:34	and Tia's hop into canvas create bold interactive learning experiences
02:40	with absolutely zero code , which was kind of key
02:44	for us watching some people go through those motions .
02:47	I wanted to really thank the new county team for
02:49	joining us today and I'll try and do as little
02:52	talking as possible , which those who know me know
02:54	that's a struggle . Um , but I really want
02:56	to kind of explore new candy and their journey with
02:59	Lori and how it's helped enhance their , their learners
03:04	experience , especially in particular over 2020 . And I
03:09	want to start off by , um , we've done
03:11	sort of a little bit of that high level intro
03:13	with Eddie and the slide , but um , for
03:16	those who don't know , new canny , extremely innovative
03:20	and you guys have been on on the canvas livestream
03:23	circuit before , so you're not newbies like myself today
03:27	, but I know you're forever innovating and I just
03:29	wanted to get a sense of , you know ,
03:31	especially , and in particular the the last 12 months
03:34	, what are some of the tools or one of
03:37	the main tools that you've introduced in your canvas environment
03:41	? That's helped you along the way to deliver more
03:44	consistent content or service . You're educators that little bit
03:48	better . Yeah , so , um , so I'm
03:50	Greta and I'm the director of digital Learning for new
03:53	Caney iced tea . And um , we have been
03:56	canvas users for about six years and um , we're
03:59	a 1 to 1 district and we were pre pandemic
04:02	and then , um , and that was all grades
04:05	, but then great . 6 to 12 took them
04:07	home and elementary , they used to stay in the
04:09	classroom when Covid hit , we decided to send all
04:13	of our devices home . Then we completely went 1
04:15	to 1 P . K . To 12 and my
04:19	team , I have an amazing team . Um ,
04:21	all the ladies that are with me here today .
04:23	Um , and we knew from our past experiences of
04:27	campus where we wanted to go , we had a
04:29	five year plan and creating more consistent of course is
04:33	had more design , interaction . Accessibility was on our
04:37	roadmap and we were just kind of getting to that
04:40	point where we were starting to revamp a lot of
04:42	things , so this kind of propelled us way forward
04:44	on that timeline and um we are heavy users in
04:48	terms of we adopt products that we know that we
04:51	can sustain long term and that we adopt partners that
04:55	are that are partners with us in growing our new
04:58	Caney I . S . D . Visions , so
05:01	when we look at something that we knew we needed
05:04	a design platform , something that was easy to use
05:06	, we had some teachers dabbling in html , things
05:09	would break , things would go a little crazy things
05:11	wouldn't be accessible and we really just needed to have
05:15	some consistency , especially since now we were thrusting our
05:18	parents into the environment and our parents needed to know
05:22	, especially for the little guys , Where do I
05:24	go , what do I click on ? Because canvas
05:26	is amazing in that you can make it look like
05:29	whatever you need . So we can really custom tailored
05:31	things for our pre K students all the way through
05:35	our , our seniors , but still that parent who
05:38	has a peek , a student and a high school
05:40	student needs to know that it's similar in terms of
05:43	where do I go to get the information ? And
05:45	so as a district , we needed to make that
05:48	happen . We knew we needed a tool . Um
05:51	, so we are really big in terms of LTI
05:53	doctors , we have a lot of different tools that
05:55	we use and we really want to make sure that
05:57	we adopt a tool that it fully function . That's
05:59	not just like an LTI light tool that it's a
06:01	deep linking , integrated um tool that really becomes the
06:04	native part of campus . And Laurie , we looked
06:08	at lower , we saw it at in structure come
06:10	maybe a year before . We have a big pretty
06:12	bird and we're like , oh that's really exciting .
06:13	You know , we just knew that it was that
06:16	we could do at that time . Um it was
06:18	kind of like in the back of our minds like
06:19	that , something that we need . Um when Covid
06:22	hit , we really said these are the things we
06:24	need to make this successful , we're going to go
06:26	online learning and we're going to deliver a positive experience
06:30	for all of our users , we have to have
06:32	something . Um so we reached out to Lori ,
06:35	we looked at a couple of different things , but
06:37	Lori by far was just super friendly , easy to
06:42	use . The product team is amazing and support is
06:45	really huge with us and communication um and we're up
06:49	front in terms of like what we get today is
06:52	not what we want tomorrow , We want to know
06:54	that this is a constantly expanding platform and we want
06:57	to be on that journey with you , We considered
06:59	a journey partner together and um after having a lot
07:03	of demos conversations , we really felt that we were
07:07	meshing with with Laurie's vision and it fits with ours
07:10	and they have beyond exceeded our expectations for design platform
07:15	and really listening to our needs , especially coming from
07:18	a K 12 institution . Um I think there were
07:20	already higher end users of Lori , but now we're
07:23	going into the K 12 spectrum and there are things
07:25	that are different that need to be tweeting for us
07:27	to use it and that's really what brought us to
07:29	Lori . And if you look on this slide here
07:32	, you're seeing this is what our homepages looked like
07:35	. Um prior prior to Lori . So it was
07:38	a lot of um we knew it stuff open ,
07:41	we were using tables to put things in , we
07:42	knew that wasn't right and we took tables out and
07:44	we just had buttons and the buttons kind of got
07:47	out of hand with color schemes that it just really
07:51	wasn't a consistent user feel . I felt like students
07:55	were going into courses and somewhere well had a lot
07:58	of lot of buttons , somewhere too many buttons ,
08:00	we really just need it to make it clean .
08:03	Um and so with Lori we were able to ,
08:07	this is our first version of things . Um so
08:10	we wanted a lot too , since we started using
08:12	it . Uh we make district wide home pages .
08:15	So now when a parent goes to a secondary course
08:19	in elementary course there is a homepage , there is
08:21	a consistent flow um and and that makes it ,
08:25	we got a lot of feedback from parents and students
08:28	to and that really helped us to adjust . What
08:31	do we need this to do , what do we
08:32	need to say ? Um and making sure that it
08:35	was something that everybody could follow along with . Okay
08:39	, so I'm gonna let , I'm gonna like chris
08:41	to kind of talk about this . Um Krista and
08:44	and Melissa really are the ones that are Laurie in
08:47	house experts and lasagna and I kind of just give
08:50	a lot of feedback on a lot of vision .
08:51	I'm like , we need to look like this ,
08:53	this is what we need to look like to function
08:56	and they take it run with it . And my
08:59	team is a very collaborative team and I'm gonna let
09:01	them kind of talk about how we went from the
09:04	before to the after . Um using Laurie . Thanks
09:09	to these are actually melissa's designed . So Melissa ,
09:12	do you wanna do your thought process behind taking that
09:15	chemistry ? Uh , the teacher created without Lori and
09:19	into the district wide design that they have now .
09:22	Sure . So one of the biggest struggles we had
09:25	when Covid hit was all of our students . When
09:27	they went remote , they had anywhere from 9 to
09:30	10 courses inside of canvas . And it was finding
09:33	consistency across those courses for our students , especially for
09:37	our special pop students and the language barrier as well
09:40	. Since we have a large dual language population ,
09:42	I'm here in New Katie . And so the one
09:45	on the left is the original . What would be
09:47	an example of a chemistry homepage that the teacher created
09:50	um , with the buttons for the course And then
09:53	the one on the right is the one that we
09:55	were able to develop for the district . So every
09:58	course at the secondary level 6-12 started with the same
10:02	page . When the kids open it , there's the
10:03	header up at the top that will quickly get the
10:06	attention of their eyes so they can see what course
10:08	they're in . And then the buttons are the same
10:10	. So the student always knows where to go for
10:13	teacher contact information where the syllabus is with their assignments
10:17	as well as the modules for all of their work
10:19	. So it added that consistency that we needed ,
10:22	but not just for our students , but now for
10:24	our parents , because our parents , we had more
10:28	and more parents now involved in canvas with their students
10:31	work . And a lot of the support tickets we
10:33	were getting from parents was that they didn't know what
10:36	their students were doing in their class um last spring
10:39	because they didn't know how to find the content .
10:41	So by adding these buttons that were real simple with
10:43	the pops of color , it was able for our
10:45	kids and parents to see exactly what they needed inside
10:48	. Of course . Okay . And you Krista .
10:54	Yeah , so we did , we follow kind of
10:56	the same pattern for elementary and then one thing ,
10:59	um , if we can skip to , let's see
11:01	, slide eight , I think . So , one
11:04	of the other things that we did was we utilize
11:07	those canvas guides , both for students and for parents
11:10	, and we put those into a lorry interactive .
11:13	Uh , so Melissa actually created this page and it's
11:16	in every course across our instance , this navigating canvas
11:19	and it just has a little intro video for them
11:22	. And then we use a lorry interactive accordion to
11:26	build out those links to the guides . And so
11:28	when parents or students need help , this is their
11:31	first place that they go . So if they don't
11:34	know how to submit an assignment , they know that
11:36	they can come to this interactive , they can click
11:39	on the drop down menu for that and then linked
11:43	to the guides there . Um so adding in just
11:46	the aesthetic consistency , but also adding in those um
11:49	canvas help guides and making it really quick and easy
11:52	for them to access them . And these interactives we
11:56	found out were really great by accident because we Melissa
12:00	created this one . And then uh there was the
12:05	the moment in time where canvas had renamed all of
12:09	their help documents . And so some of those links
12:11	changed . Well , Melissa was able to go in
12:14	and change it on that one accordion . Change every
12:17	link one time . And it changed in every location
12:20	across our instance simultaneously . So we have used those
12:25	glory Interactive a lot specifically for that reason and that
12:29	we know we're able to really quickly change and correct
12:32	if there's anything that needs to be switched in that
12:34	information . Uh , so that has been a lifesaver
12:38	this year too . I love during this sort of
12:43	introduction here , you've all mentioned at some point some
12:47	of the different pains that you have incurred along the
12:50	way , whether it be trying to edit html ,
12:53	trying to create consistency using tables and to your point
12:57	christa probably not . Um , you know the most
13:00	exciting way that you could present the content to your
13:03	learners and I wanted to get a real sense of
13:06	seeing the journey that you've gone on . What would
13:09	you say are some of the biggest impact that you've
13:13	seen in establishing consistent look and feel and addressing that
13:17	quality and navigation and across all of your users ,
13:22	beit students or parents or teachers . And have you
13:25	seen an organizational benefit in going down that path as
13:29	well ? I think it's really been beneficial for for
13:33	of course our students , but also I can't underestimate
13:37	the importance of the teacher as well . Um It's
13:41	we're asking our teachers to do a lot right now
13:45	and designing something that doesn't always come natural to everybody
13:49	, but their content masters like our teachers , are
13:51	experts in what they do um in teaching in the
13:54	classroom and giving them templates to work with . And
13:57	that's mean that we're working going forward is providing libraries
14:01	of template so they can just plug in their content
14:03	. It really helps them to see that . How
14:05	do I deliver um an effective online lesson ? How
14:11	do I take it from just being a worksheet online
14:14	? How do I up the rigor of it ?
14:16	How do I make it something that is more than
14:18	that ? Because that's when they were working with our
14:20	teachers as well . It's not just you can't do
14:22	what you did face to face on on canvas ,
14:26	it's not the same thing . Um , yet ,
14:28	now that we're back , um , primarily face to
14:31	face , we still use canvas every day in the
14:34	classroom and all of our , all of our classrooms
14:37	and we need to make it in a way that
14:38	a teacher knows where to click , student knows where
14:41	to click where to plug in my content and then
14:43	give them examples for this is how you use canvas
14:46	in a face to face environment . This is how
14:48	you still have students interacting in a classroom talking .
14:53	Yet they have a device to help them to navigate
14:55	and discover things on their own . So giving them
14:58	these templates and then a structure I think releases some
15:01	of the burden on that teacher to really have to
15:03	come up with all these things . And I know
15:06	that like there's a lot of teachers that we have
15:07	a lot of creative teachers as well and we want
15:10	to incorporate um cute design and things like that .
15:12	But then there are some things that go way too
15:16	far to one side um where its design overtakes the
15:22	importance of the lesson and the interaction and communication between
15:26	the students and teachers . So this really helps to
15:28	kind of pare that down . Um you also give
15:31	them a nice um classroom feel to canvas . So
15:34	I'm gonna let Krista and melissa treatment on that as
15:36	well . And lasagna . Yeah . I was on
15:39	a campus this morning for attending a planning session .
15:43	And I think the one thing that that don to
15:45	me about the importance of the consistency across the across
15:50	all of our instance are instances that it's easier for
15:54	the administrators for them too . Okay , because we're
15:57	going they're going from one grade level to the next
16:01	, and um they just are in and able to
16:04	get directly to the content and the ease of use
16:07	for someone that has to view multiple campus , multiple
16:11	um subjects in multiple grade levels . And so it's
16:15	easy for everyone to navigate that c the different content
16:20	across their campus or across the district , it helps
16:23	with that tremendously . Yeah . Mhm . Mhm .
16:30	Uh I was mute . The tagline of 2020 is
16:37	carried into 2021 . I really I'm loving hearing all
16:42	of the stories and all of the things that you've
16:44	been doing that have helped lead to navigation to ease
16:48	of of use and finding a way around the course
16:51	and also just how important that is for for learners
16:55	, but also to your point greater how the important
16:57	role that educators play in that in creating that really
17:01	remarkable online experience so that it can be mixed with
17:05	face to face and then , you know , learning
17:08	direct from home , you've talked a little bit about
17:10	interactives and how you've used those and greater . You
17:13	mentioned briefly their templates and creating that pack of templates
17:17	and wanting to share that and roll it out .
17:19	Are there any other sort of um either features of
17:22	Lori or other things that you've done using Laurie that
17:26	have helped you establish some of those global best practices
17:29	across new canny ? So I know one of the
17:34	things with Lori two point oh , that , you
17:37	know , we're just starting to roll out two point
17:39	oh , uh , to our teachers because they've they've
17:41	been using Original Lori this year . But one of
17:44	the things that we went through and did is uh
17:47	, we chose uh like our , what are they
17:51	called in here , Adina , Help me out .
17:53	We chose our fonts and kind of made our brand
17:56	kit in there . So like I put in all
17:58	of our district colors , so those colors are available
18:01	for teachers to use . We chose fonts and there's
18:06	thousands . Maybe we've integrated a group of font libraries
18:11	. So there's a lot of them going through and
18:14	finding fonts that are appropriate for our students . So
18:17	, um , with Lasagna . Now we're talking about
18:20	this yesterday with our lower grade . It's it's really
18:23	important for our pre K one students especially who are
18:28	using canvas because they are like our pre K kids
18:31	use canvas . Um , but it's really the font
18:34	is important to them . So a single story versus
18:37	a double story A is important and the shape of
18:40	the tail on a G . Is important . So
18:43	going through and finding those fonts and making sure that
18:45	our teachers and for elementary this year , um ,
18:49	we had a group of writers of curriculum writers in
18:52	canvas . So they didn't have students in a classroom
18:56	, but they wrote lessons in canvas and we pushed
18:59	out to the entire district through blueprints , but making
19:02	sure that they have was the the pieces that they
19:08	need to be successful and then also to provide accessible
19:11	content for all of our students . Um , and
19:13	it's , you know , the single story A doesn't
19:16	seem important until you're talking frequent kids . I don't
19:19	know that letter . Yeah , so I love that
19:23	and I didn't help you out because I didn't want
19:26	to interrupt . But you're referring to the lorry admin
19:28	portal so that ability to set your style manager ,
19:31	your tags you want tell us uh and all of
19:34	that so that it's universal across your whole instance .
19:38	I wanted to you just touched on briefly there christa
19:41	accessibility and I wanted to ask a question around accessibility
19:45	because I know it's something that's really important and has
19:48	become really prevalent , especially during a time where learners
19:51	did not always have they're educated there by their side
19:55	. Over the past 12 months would have been some
19:58	of the accessibility challenges that you faced across your team
20:01	or that you found some of your teachers have faced
20:05	and how have you gone about addressing these ? Mm
20:08	I think I'll start off then I'm going to cause
20:11	it to chris so accessibility is something that um it's
20:15	not new , but but I feel like um making
20:18	things accessible has not been a primary focus for teachers
20:23	. I feel like they didn't um uh they just
20:27	didn't know how to how to what what is that
20:29	, what do we do with accessibility ? Um and
20:32	when we have our students that are at home ,
20:34	we have to think about accessibility for not only our
20:37	student learners but also our parents as well . So
20:40	we needed something that we have to make sure that
20:42	we are thinking of uh you know , our links
20:45	or they put in properly , who knows that it
20:47	is a link . Um is the content appropriate for
20:49	a screen reader ? Do our videos of captions .
20:52	Um it's do RPGS , are they accessible ? Um
20:55	really thinking about those things now , um when we
20:59	choose our content um and choosing things that we work
21:02	with has become a key , it's a vital thing
21:06	. It's like the forefront of what we do now
21:08	as we're building something out . Um Is this something
21:11	that is now accessible for everybody that interacts with canvas
21:15	? So um and that that it was a struggle
21:17	for everybody . Um and we kind of like had
21:20	to put people on the spot and say like we
21:22	can't do that , we got that may look cute
21:25	, but that is not accessible , and that's what
21:27	we're focusing on . We're focusing on making sure that
21:31	our learners are able to access what they need ,
21:34	understand what they're supposed to do . And we wanted
21:37	to do it in a beautiful way . We understand
21:39	that the teachers like really cute , but we have
21:42	to do it in a way that that are that
21:44	are learners and our parents are able to access the
21:47	content so I let everybody else try men on that
21:51	. I know for elementary , one of the big
21:54	things like that was a huge thing for us because
21:57	we wanted to be cute and pretty and um eye
22:01	catching and I love all of that also . But
22:04	when we started in the spring , one of the
22:06	challenges that we face is that we we were putting
22:10	the content out for the students , but we didn't
22:12	know who was at home helping support students what they're
22:16	learning . And so , um , when we were
22:18	, when we initially put things out , like one
22:21	of the things that we had to go back and
22:23	say to our writers that were writing the content ,
22:25	Well , yes , this student may not , but
22:28	we don't know parents or grandma or who's supporting them
22:32	at home . So , um , it's been at
22:34	our floor front . This has helped us tremendously because
22:37	now they say , I know you're going to say
22:39	this , so how , what are some other ways
22:43	that we can do it ? So I'm just proud
22:44	of all of our writers and our teachers , um
22:48	, and how well they adapted in such a short
22:51	amount of time because there is a lot of information
22:54	thrown to them and like chris has said , our
22:56	writing team , um , they've been phenomenal because there
22:59	are lots of changes and it was , we were
23:02	learning as we went and um , now they're fantastic
23:05	. Like they're , the things that they are creating
23:08	are absolutely amazing . I want to ask a bit
23:13	of a maybe loaded question . But do you feel
23:15	like over the past 12 months that you've seen an
23:20	uptake in student engagement and also staff engagement ? Maybe
23:25	parent engagement , especially over the past 12 months .
23:29	And some of the initiatives that you've been doing .
23:31	Yeah . If we look at our usage in uh
23:34	in our programs across the board , um , yeah
23:37	, everything is up and we , we aim to
23:39	put every single thing that we have in canvas .
23:42	Um , so it's a 12 district . We use
23:44	things like clever as well , but we put our
23:46	clever in canvas and we used two weeks and we
23:48	put them in campus so that that is the sole
23:51	point for everything . And um , and we ,
23:54	like I said like Lori is one of the things
23:56	like if we're gonna make this successful , we need
23:58	a design program . This is the one um that
24:00	we need . Uh , so there were several things
24:02	that we add it um , to our library .
24:05	Whenever we add something , we make sure that um
24:09	, like I said , like we're looking at long
24:10	term vision , we're not just looking for short term
24:12	we added and disappears . We wanna make sure that
24:14	our teachers know these are things that are here to
24:15	stay . So we added a number of key resources
24:19	and we talked to our partners and things are like
24:22	, we've never seen usage like this in the first
24:24	year and I understand it's a company here , but
24:26	I think it's also how we design our content .
24:29	Um , in terms of structuring it in a way
24:31	that our students are going to be able to access
24:33	and use it and it's not just like , oh
24:35	, you can go to the portal and click on
24:36	a link there . We , We embed everything for
24:39	our lessons . Um , you know , combined the
24:41	best of every tool that we have and give our
24:44	students lots of different ways to um , to learn
24:46	and interact with the content . So we've definitely seen
24:49	an uptick in um , in our canvas usage .
24:51	I mean we look at our usage numbers , it's
24:53	pretty steady across the board were enrollments about 16,000 And
24:57	so that usage is pretty steady across the board .
25:00	16,000 Logging in on a regular basis . Um and
25:04	they're like , I said , there were primarily about
25:06	like 85% back to school . Now . We have
25:08	just a small portion that's strictly virtual and um ,
25:12	it's still , our usage is still that high even
25:14	faster and they know the importance of it using ,
25:17	making sure that our students are prepared for whatever happens
25:20	in the future . There now prepared for that .
25:22	Um , and our elementary students , you know ,
25:24	I was looking at my , my daughter is a
25:25	first grader and she came home yesterday and she got
25:29	out her from book and she was going , she
25:31	just goes on , goes to canvas , click something's
25:33	our homepage . And she's like , look other than
25:35	this in science . And then she went to some
25:37	little thing they did because it was Saint Patty's Day
25:39	and they did a leper con thing . She's like
25:41	, I want to I want to tell you how
25:42	to catch a leprechaun and she's clicking on her interactive
25:45	books and another in canvas . But she knows where
25:47	to go because the design is so consistent and the
25:52	first grader , she knows like the imagery that we
25:55	put on our our buttons and things . She knows
25:58	that maybe if she can't recall , um , she
26:01	knows that that is her science course and she knows
26:04	that I'm here . It's going to take me into
26:05	my content and what exactly she's she's looking for .
26:09	So as a first grader , she's able to quickly
26:11	navigate and see everything she she gets and she's using
26:14	it on her own . No pressure for mom .
26:16	It's just like , mom , can I show you
26:18	this ? You certainly can . So yeah , we're
26:21	seeing more engagement with our students . And like I
26:23	said , are we perfect , We're not perfect .
26:26	We're beyond , You know , when it's right now
26:28	, every time we strive for what can we do
26:33	, what can we do to be better ? Like
26:35	I said , we have a five-year plan , we
26:36	fast forward at least three years on that in a
26:39	matter of 12 months . Our goal now is to
26:42	really refine what we are doing . Um as terms
26:46	of activities in the classroom , how are we getting
26:48	our students to collaborate more ? How are we getting
26:51	them to be the owners of their learning ? They're
26:53	learning , how are we getting them to be the
26:56	creators and then as teachers learning how to assess what
27:01	they are , what they are able to develop on
27:03	their own , their own path . Um , and
27:06	, and really give them some , um , some
27:08	choice , um , and what they are doing .
27:10	So that's kind of path Ron now . But um
27:13	, Laurie is essentially like canvases , like our foundation
27:15	for everything . Lori is a key fine into that
27:19	foundation that we need , um , to build out
27:22	to make that experience happen inside the campus . Yeah
27:28	, I love that . Did anybody else in the
27:31	team ? Lasagna kristen melissa have any other thoughts they
27:35	wanted to share before ? Maybe we dive into a
27:38	little bit of a demo and get and get a
27:40	sense of how are you using Lori ? What are
27:42	you doing there ? Um , you know , show
27:45	us all , what are some of the things that
27:48	you kind of think about and go through on a
27:50	day to day when you use it all like Lori
27:53	within your cameras space . Yeah . No , I
27:57	think I can share my screen real quick and I
28:00	can run through a quick demo of what our elementary
28:03	writers are currently doing on a daily basis . I
28:07	know we had one of them um , share a
28:09	comment earlier . Like I'm using glory right now .
28:12	Uh , that's exciting . I sent her a message
28:15	and I was like , hey , nice . And
28:16	you know what you're watching on a little webinar thing
28:20	. That's cool . But this here , you can
28:23	see it . It's all in spanish Adina . We
28:25	have a huge dual language program in our district where
28:29	our students receive instruction in both english and spanish .
28:33	And it's , I think For most of it ,
28:36	most grade levels , it's a 5050 split . So
28:38	it's happen English spanish and it just continued its day
28:41	to day . They just switch languages . It's really
28:44	fascinating to me because I could not a magic .
28:47	Um but this is a lesson that was created uh
28:51	pre Laurie . So you can see , you know
28:53	, it looks on the page , I mean all
28:55	of the information is there , but um , we're
28:58	really struggling . This is for I believe kindergarten .
29:02	So as a five year old logging in and seeing
29:04	this like this , this is not holding my attention
29:07	at all . Um so what we did was we
29:10	created than some templates . Uh the templates are are
29:14	really easy or real simple actually , that's what I'm
29:18	trying to say . Not easy . They are easy
29:19	also , but they're they're just really simple um because
29:24	we want them to add in those interactive pieces ,
29:27	whether it's the lorry interactives or one of our other
29:30	programs to make it engaging for the students , but
29:33	keeping it simple on the page and nice and clean
29:37	. So when I train our teachers , I tell
29:39	them to open two windows . Because when Adina did
29:44	this with us the first time she said , Rule
29:46	number one is open to windows . So that's what
29:48	we do . Rule # one , Right , Adina
29:52	. That's pro tip one . You're right the rules
29:58	. So they would just do it . That's just
30:00	not . That's just kind of pro tip on laura
30:02	. I think that's a pro tip on life .
30:06	A and then like our writers , uh well ,
30:12	this is loading our elementary writers are all working with
30:15	one screen all year . And so every time I
30:17	say something I'm like , wait , what do you
30:18	mean ? You only have one screen ? That doesn't
30:20	make sense . How are you functioning with only one
30:22	screen ? But they are . So that's amazing in
30:25	itself . All right . So I'll just open up
30:29	this blank page that I made to rebuild on and
30:34	what we're gonna do is we're going to take this
30:37	content that they created and we're going to put it
30:40	into our Laurie uh Laurie template . So pulling in
30:45	the template is really quick . I created all of
30:47	these at the district level um and push them down
30:50	their global templates that any teacher can access . Let's
30:57	see , this is going to be I created different
31:00	ones . So they have assessment or like if it's
31:05	a quiz assignment direct teach , these are all things
31:08	that they words that they know and are used to
31:12	. And I went ahead and created all of them
31:13	in a one column version and then in a two
31:15	column version . Um So that way they have some
31:20	options there and the teachers can always edit and you
31:23	know , change the number of columns if they want
31:25	to add a third column , whatever they want .
31:28	But this is just a quick starting point for them
31:31	. So I just select my template that I want
31:33	to use and click add . Mhm . All right
31:38	. So now this is kind of the layout for
31:39	the templates that we made . Like I said ,
31:41	we kept it as simple as possible . Um these
31:44	little icons are the things that Greta was talking about
31:47	that her daughter knows what they mean . So they
31:49	know there's a different icon or assignments and assessments .
31:53	So they know that those are by looking at that
31:55	icon and the header right off the bat and that
31:58	banner up there . They know this is something that
32:00	I have to submit and so teachers have gone over
32:02	it with them . If you see this , then
32:04	make sure that you click submit at the bottom because
32:07	that is something that you're gonna have to turn in
32:11	and for our riders , what they're doing currently as
32:15	they are simply just copy and pasting their old continent
32:19	into this template . So we put in our objectives
32:24	and I said earlier before the call , this is
32:27	all in spanish . I don't know if it is
32:30	grammatically correct , I am trusting them , so hopefully
32:36	it is then that they build things and they review
32:46	and I'm just like , wow , yes , I
32:48	understand that . We are looking at our letters .
32:51	That's all I know , like like and one thing
32:55	that's another good thing that's really great about the templates
32:58	for teachers to is to make sure that they have
33:00	all the elements in here . Like they have an
33:02	objective , there are directions and this is where the
33:04	content goes because that's also think it's really important for
33:08	our our parents at home to what are we trying
33:11	to do . So it's making sure that those elements
33:13	are contained within all of our lessons . Yes .
33:17	And then you'll see here this original , the writer
33:20	who did this originally . Um , one of the
33:22	things that we've talked about this is the beginning of
33:25	the year identifying the out the letters of the alphabet
33:27	, But you'll see here , like she has her
33:29	direction spread out around the page . So she has
33:32	like direction number one , and then some content and
33:34	the direction number two and then some content . Uh
33:37	, so as they've been going through and redoing that
33:39	we've been consolidating all of our directions in one spot
33:43	, um , which really helps our parents . So
33:45	it's like , and our and our students to ,
33:47	but with the littles , our parents because now they're
33:49	not like , okay , I did the first step
33:52	and then they click submit at the bottom and they
33:53	didn't notice that there were four other steps below that
33:56	. Um , so this just tells him up front
33:58	like this , we're going to practice our letters and
34:00	then we're gonna watch this video , right ? Um
34:03	, and then I tell them I like to do
34:07	my videos side by side with some content , which
34:10	is why I chose the to column in this case
34:13	. Um , so I'll put all of my letters
34:16	over here as examples and switched to a single story
34:21	A because this is kindergarten , right ? Lasagna .
34:25	Yeah . Great job . Krista . I know Lasagna
34:29	was a kindergarten teacher , she , she's teaching me
34:31	things this year . I have a kindergartner for a
34:33	daughter and I'm like , Lasagna , is this normal
34:36	? Um , but we'll we'll pull in this content
34:40	and then I , instead of putting that video there
34:42	, I actually made a little interactive for us today
34:47	. So let me add that in here . I
34:53	texted a friend and I said , if you're watching
34:56	this , I hope you're proud of me because I
34:57	made a little abc flip card with the A .
35:01	B . CS in spanish to add in here .
35:03	Um so this is a real cute little interactive for
35:06	the littles , especially because , you know , they
35:09	have all their letters and they can be formatted ,
35:11	but you know , you flip it over and you
35:13	have your uh your bumble bee and your picture on
35:16	the on the other side . And so that's just
35:18	something fun for them to do while they practice .
35:21	Um and then for our teachers , we actually use
35:25	studio as our video platform , which is not directly
35:30	linked in Lori . However , we have been able
35:33	to make that work . So what we have our
35:38	teachers do from here , we add our objectives are
35:41	directions , content , everything here on the template and
35:44	then we save , so we tell them , you
35:46	know , I tell them make sure there's two icons
35:48	on the bottom of Lori two point oh , and
35:50	they're very different from each other and it is very
35:52	clear which one is the trash can . So I
35:56	don't like the trash can click the little bull check
36:00	mark that says save to LMS and we'll save that
36:03	over and then we can go view it on our
36:07	page actually . So let me go open this in
36:11	another tab and then we'll look here what it looks
36:18	like on our campus page . It's not over yet
36:23	. Refresh . Yeah , I guess . Yeah ,
36:29	yeah . All right . So on our cameras page
36:31	it looks like this uh the other thing that we
36:33	found really great with Lori and something that was not
36:37	possible before . Lori just are our teachers are not
36:42	coding experts . They cannot create pages that automatically change
36:48	when the window size changes . That is not something
36:51	that , that they have the knowledge to do ,
36:53	nor should they , because that's not their focus ,
36:55	that's not their job . So in Lori were able
36:58	to create these templates and have them put their content
37:01	in there and it doesn't matter what device they're students
37:04	are using , you know , we're 1 to 1
37:06	. All of our students have a Chromebook , however
37:09	, when they're at home , they might be on
37:12	an ipad or they might be on mom's cell phone
37:14	or whatever device they are using to access the content
37:17	at that time . We make sure with this ,
37:20	that it is going to look beautiful no matter what
37:23	size that window that they're looking at . Um And
37:25	that is that has been one of , I think
37:28	, to add to the other list of positive we've
37:30	had come from Lori this year , that's one of
37:32	them , for sure . Um And then from here
37:35	because we use studio , like I said , our
37:37	teachers can go in and edit on the page and
37:41	not change any of the other the other layout here
37:47	. Just leave it how it is , but we
37:49	can add in a placeholder , add that video that
37:53	we uh that we needed to link from studio ,
37:55	so I'm just gonna grab the first video that pops
37:58	up whatever it happens to be , and then we
38:08	save and so now our our students can have access
38:14	to that video , we can have it side by
38:16	side with um some content or some reflection questions ,
38:19	they can watch it here um and see the questions
38:23	and then go below that and do an activity .
38:25	And I could put below this in Lori side by
38:27	side with this interactive , some more questions or examples
38:30	to go along with that . Mhm . And one
38:34	of the things that were we're making sure that the
38:37	students have , they have a way to practice what
38:40	it is that they're learning . So it's not necessarily
38:42	where we're doing something for a grade , per se
38:44	. Not everything has to be a grade , but
38:46	it's a way for students practice their learning to self
38:49	check things like that . Um And it's a it's
38:51	a really great way to add that interactivity um into
38:54	the courses . Did I miss anything in that Dina
39:00	that you wanted to see ? I think that is
39:03	awesome . It's just um yeah , really cool seeing
39:07	other people in there playing and building . And I'm
39:11	looking at some of the comments and I want to
39:13	encourage anybody who might have any questions , please feel
39:16	free to ask them . Either address them to to
39:19	myself . Um The lorry t if you will ,
39:23	or to the new county team . But I really
39:25	just want to thank everybody for joining this session today
39:28	and you touched on on a couple of points during
39:31	the session and one was around um the support ,
39:35	I guess that you received glory and how important that
39:38	was . And I just want to say up front
39:41	honestly , um you know , we did a couple
39:44	of virtual training sessions and and refreshes after , you
39:47	know , the holiday , turkey christmas period , you
39:53	know , when we all come back in my days
39:55	interviews . Um But outside of that , I think
39:58	it's just such a dream watching um you guys dive
40:02	on in and I think more than anything we felt
40:04	like that's supportive friend in the corner going , you
40:08	guys got this , you can do it . Um
40:10	and it's been so wonderful for us to have that
40:13	experience and go on that journey with you . Um
40:16	, and see what you've been able to achieve their
40:19	within the space of 12 months , probably less than
40:22	just under 12 months having worry and , and the
40:26	impact that that has had and made , um ,
40:30	to your learners and , and to your staff and
40:33	to the parents . Um , I just , I'll
40:36	pause for a moment and see if anybody does have
40:38	any questions outside of this session . You can also
40:42	always email or contact us separately . If you do
40:46	want to learn a little bit more Adina , just
40:49	I'm going to just let her run the live chats
40:51	the rest of the day . Way normal . It's
40:58	early there , correct ? It is , it's nice
41:02	and early . It's approaching for 15 . This is
41:07	my prime time though . Hey , we've got lots
41:13	of comments coming in . Thanks for a great session
41:16	. New companies use of lori to facilitate canvas content
41:18	development looks quite impactful , awesome from will on youtube
41:23	veronica here said earlier , I love the templates ,
41:25	keep everything so organized and she's , she's one of
41:29	our writers . We didn't even know , we can't
41:40	even tell if we were doing this . It was
41:41	just magic . Yeah , we've got some thank you's
41:44	coming in and rolling . We obviously appreciate your time
41:47	. We know it's very busy right now in education
41:51	. We hope everyone is doing well and we really
41:54	appreciate Laurie and , and new Caney for being on
41:57	today on our partner Livestream . Until next time we
42:01	have another live stream today . I got to shamelessly
42:03	plug this at the end . Here we're rolling at
42:06	two p.m. Eastern talking career in tech Ed , remote
42:09	learning and career in tech Ed . It's been a
42:11	full day with johnson city schools and we're going to
42:13	do that once again coming up at two o'clock more
42:16	. Thank you's rolling in as always . Thank you
42:19	guys . We really appreciate you being on the livestream
42:21	. Thank you so much . Thank you .

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