Reclaim TV DS106 Radio Summer Camp Special

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Hello, everybody.

How are we doing?

Hello, everybody.

It's really nice to be here.

I think we are on Reclaim TV and DS106 Radio simultaneously.

Oh, for real?

Yes, we are indeed.

Oh, I'm surprised.

I think I knew that.

At least theoretically, I will say--

I will admit I haven't checked the stream yet,

but it says we're live.

So yes.

While everybody who is listening in on the radio

and is not watching us on Reclaim TV or the recording

will introduce ourselves because we

want to make sure we get into the swing of radio etiquette

for the extravaganza that's happening from Monday onwards.

So I'm Maren DeBoel, and I've been

involved in the whole event organizing piece of it.

So hi, Pilot.

Hi.

Yeah, I'm Pilot.

I would say I've been loosely part of organizing,

not nearly on the level that Taylor and Maren have been.

But I'm really excited for this.

I think it's going to be a lot of fun.

I correct that, not nearly on the level that Maren is.

Maren has been doing most of the organizing.

Yeah, there's definitely a tier system.

I do all of the weird, can the website

do this stuff, which is a very small part of the whole

project.

Well, we should also give a shout out

to those folk who can't join us live on air or on the radio

today.

So next week when you see the whole of Team Reclaim in action

at the DS106 Radio Summer Camp, you

will also see Jason on the airwaves, one

of our lunchtime DJs.

Then there is also Meredith, who many of you

will already know as Meredith is one of the longest serving

members of the team at Reclaim here.

Meredith will be hosting some sessions just like us,

and also a radio DJ for lunchtime.

And there's also Amanda joining us

on one of the lunchtime specials, which

I think is just before Pilot's wonderful session

that hopefully we'll hear about a little bit later.

And then also we obviously need to give a big shout out

to Jim Grimm, our camp leader in chief, who

has given us permission to do something completely crazy

for the very first time.

So in true form, we are going to have a world first week

long edtech radio conference.

Yeah, I think it's going to be pretty exciting.

Yeah, I'm really excited about it.

And we have a lot of really amazing--

as you were already mentioning, we

have a lot of really amazing sessions.

When you pitched this idea, Maren,

I think as a team we're all like,

this could be cool for a lot of reasons.

But one of the reasons I think we're most--

we were hoping that this could be cool

was that doing a conference in this format

may bring out some weird ideas.

And I think-- and weird, I mean in a good way, right?

Like some cool themes or out there formats,

things like that.

And I think we are seeing a lot of that just

in the submissions.

Obviously, I haven't heard any of these yet, right?

But just looking at titles and descriptions and things,

I'm really excited for what folks

have in store for next week.

So--

Well, maybe before we jump into the program,

here is just a very quick reminder of how to take part.

Because from Monday, that is August 12, you can take part.

It's completely free, and everybody is welcome.

It's very easy to take part.

We're going to put a link in the chat, in Discord,

and also on the Weekend TV notes on how to register.

But you can basically sign up for free

and go and see the online schedule, which

shows what's on each day, and also

has the link to DS106 Radio.

To listen, all you need is a web browser.

And hopefully, it will be easy for you to catch live sessions.

But we're also going to upload recordings to the sessions.

And we have permission from the speakers

to record pretty much every session.

So those are going to become available via the schedule

site as well.

And we're trying to make the event more accessible

by offering the transcripts for sessions as well.

Now, a little note of caution here with the transcripts.

Now, with the resources that we have, what we can do

is make automated transcripts of all the sessions.

And we'll include the speaker blurbs and their links

to resources as well.

We will try and sanity check, but not with a fine-tooth comb.

And then the last part of the session,

or the part to take part, is really

to join in the conversation.

So we have not the most catchy, but very literal hashtag,

which is #DS106RadioSummerCamp.

And if you go and check that hashtag on Mastodon,

a few brave people have already joined in.

And I don't know, Taylor and Pailet,

if you've read any of the blog posts,

but I've been loving reading what some of our speakers

have started blogging about, which sounds so much fun.

What are both of you looking forward to next week?

Actually, I've already mentioned a couple--

or mentioned overall what I'm excited about.

But I will say, specifically, I'm

really excited to see what Tom Woodward's cryptid hunting,

edtech cryptid hunting is.

I don't really know what that is.

And I'm very excited on that, just based on the title.

So that's one I'm really looking forward to.

I will say, I'm also just genuinely really excited to--

my game plan here is to leave the radio on all week

in my office, essentially.

And I'm very excited to have such a packed concentration

of guest DJs.

We've got full days here planned for each day, including music,

but also sessions.

And there's other sessions I'm looking at

that I'm excited about, too.

But I think I'm, right now, most curious about Tom Woodward's.

Yeah, I think Tom's is really interesting, just

from the title alone.

I'm also looking forward to--

there's a session on Wednesday about digital storytelling,

which--

I don't know.

That sounds really good to me.

I like-- wow, talking.

Digital storytelling, I've seen such interesting things

done with all of the different multimedia aspects

that you can do online.

And so I'm really curious what that session's

going to be like, just from a perspective of,

where do you go with this?

Like, what are you exploring?

How do you want to approach this very big topic, especially

talking past, present, and future?

Are we going to speculate about the future

of digital storytelling?

Well, it's a nice meta thing, right?

Because this is DS106, Digital Storytelling 106.

So it's very appropriate, obviously,

for this format and DS106 in general.

But maybe elements of DS106's past, present, and future

also play here, too.

Yeah, I love that.

And if you guys are up for it, I thought

we could spend a couple of minutes just giving a few

shout-outs to what's actually in the program.

And I know that a couple of our speakers

are in Discord and listening in on DS106 Radio.

And watching us on Reclaim TV.

So here is a bit of a shout-out.

And I wanted to start with Monday, first day in camp.

So we're starting at 10 AM Eastern time.

And there will be some tunes to help you on the road to camp.

But then after lunch, again, Eastern time,

we have a first session with Em, who

is going to be talking about leading change, lessons

learned, and visions for the future.

And I think that's a wonderful kind of session

to kick us off, because it also looks kind of ahead

and has that element of storytelling of what's

happened in the term.

And then there is the Western 106 Roundup

with Mark Wilson, Todd Conaway, and Alan Levine,

which I think Todd has been blogging

about this particular session here on the--

and posted it on the hashtag.

There's a whole sort of Western cowboy thing going on here

that has stories of being in the Grand Canyon,

and country ballads drifting from Nevada,

transistor radio perched on a rock.

I just love--

I love the feel of this.

And then, Taylor, you are moderating

the last formal session of the day,

which is with Terry Green.

Do you want to chat about that briefly?

Yeah, I will say, again, I don't know a lot about Terry Green's

session yet here, but I'm tremendously

excited to help it come into the world, I guess.

Because, I mean, I'm a big fan of Terry and getting air

and the work he does.

And the title here is "Online Learning Could Never Hip Hop

Like This with Terry Green."

So I'm really excited.

I understand that this is a mixed media session, right?

There's going to be some chat.

There's going to be some music.

You can probably guess that based on the title.

And it's a whole live DJ set.

So I'm really excited about that and excited to listen in.

Awesome.

Yeah, and I think we mentioned earlier

that there's guest DJs coming on every day

towards the later part of the program.

So Eastern time, that will be from 6 PM.

And Lauren Haywood is kicking us off on the Monday evening.

And depending on when you listen to, that

might be morning or afternoon.

Then on Tuesday, we have Anne-Marie Scott

with "Nice People with Nice Manners."

On Thursday, it's Paul Bond.

And there's also Joe Murphy on--

no, sorry, on Wednesday, it's Paul Bond.

On Thursday, it's Joe Murphy.

And we have Rowan Peter joining us on Tuesday as well.

And Rowan is going to take to the airwaves

as one of our guest DJs.

So there's plenty of stuff to listen to as well

as the formal sessions.

And yeah, I don't know.

On Tuesday, there was so many sessions.

I'm not sure which one I'm going to give a shout out to.

But maybe there is one that I'm moderating,

which is called "Diversify Your Playlist/Syllabus"

with Daniel Lins, which I think sounds fantastic.

And the session description, I was reading around that.

And it was really interesting to hear.

I think that will be a multimedia session as well.

How about you guys?

Are you wanting to give a shout out to any of the ones

you're moderating on Tuesday?

Yeah, I'm moderating two sessions on Tuesday.

I'm going to be moderating the old EdTech mansion, which

will be at 2 PM Eastern time.

And I will confess, I've looked through the descriptions

of the sessions that I'm moderating.

And I'm really excited to start to understand them.

So the old EdTech mansion looks like it's

going to be a tour of the hosts' experience

over the course of their time working in EdTech

through the metaphor of exploring a house

and with a soundtrack, which sounds super cool.

And I keep trying to visualize it.

And I keep coming up with different stuff.

And I feel like none of it's going to be right.

Whatever I'm guessing, it's going to be more or different.

And then the other session that I'm going to be hosting

is going to be--

on Tuesday-- is going to be with--

I say hosting.

I'm going to be moderating.

I'm not going to take more credit than that.

It's going to be with Dave Cormier at 4 PM Eastern.

So Taylor, that's 3 PM for you.

And this is--

We should have had someone else probably share the schedule.

Sorry.

We're mostly talking East Coast time.

Mine's going to display Central time.

I will just say, though, I'll put this in the Summer Camp

chat.

This is the page, listen.reclaimeded.tech/summercamp.

And if you visit there, it'll show it in your time zone.

Yes.

The site is adaptive, which is really cool.

But yeah, so Dave will be just--

this is another one where I don't really

know that much about the topic.

So I feel unequipped to explain it

beyond reading the description out loud, which is probably not

great stream or radio.

But Dave will be talking about the--

yeah, no, Dave, I can't explain it better than the summary.

So I keep starting, then I keep going, no, I'm

just about to read this to you.

I'm about to read this out loud.

The point is it's--

oh, no.

Someone stop me.

Someone stop me.

Someone bail me out.

I think Dave would be delighted with that reaction

because I think it's an intentionally

provocative and kind of funny take on what

it could be on the radio.

And I think we'll be in for a unique session, that's for sure.

Yes.

I don't know how--

I can't remember if I read the title out loud.

So the title is "A Year of Uncertainty--

Fighting the Fight Against the Rand Corporation"

with Dave Cormier.

I got through that.

That's enough.

I will say I'm also very excited for on that Wednesday--

we're talking-- or is this--

no, we're on Tuesday still.

Whoops, I'm all mixed up.

Another Tim Clark session, actually.

The Austerity Blues Redux.

So Tim actually alluded to this a little bit

in our last community chat of something he was working on.

I don't remember if this was in the recorded part or not,

to be honest with you.

It may have been right before we were recording.

But essentially, I think if you are

someone who works in or around higher ed

and have been in any way affected by budget shortfalls,

cuts, I think this will be something that's perhaps

cathartic and informative.

So I'll just leave it at that based on his description here

and also what he's described it as.

I'm really looking forward to this one too as not only

informative, entertaining, but perhaps giving us

some new angles to chew on for some of these problems

that we deal with all the time.

I really love that some of the people on the program

have really gone with our invitation

to share something beyond the usual successful,

here is my wonderful, glitzy, shiny ed tech project.

This is how it succeeded.

Here are all the metrics.

So I love that people have risen to the challenge.

And I want to move on--

It's a certain narrative in a certain way.

Right, I think so too.

Yeah, I love that.

And I think let's--

I don't want to go through the program step by step,

but I hope on Wednesday that people

are very excited for the session Taylor is doing.

And Taylor, I hear Dr. Oblivion will be in the house.

So I know that there is a lot in store there.

So what's your plan?

Yeah, I'm very excited.

I will say my session is still taking shape.

But what we will be in store for is

I will be interviewing Dr. Oblivion.

He will be answering some questions

about AI and education.

And we also have some call-ins, some voicemail questions

from a potential audience.

So it's really exciting.

We don't get a lot of opportunities

to chat with Dr. Oblivion.

So this is going to be great.

And I'm excited to have him, quote unquote,

in studio for this conversation.

And I am excited what people think.

It's going to be kind of a weird art piece.

There may be theme music.

There may be a little existential meta.

It's weird.

It's a weird idea I had.

And I'm just not--

I'm convinced to not make it less weird.

So I'm hoping people find some enjoyment out of listening

to it.

So--

Awesome.

Well, Pallet, I know you mentioned

one of your sessions that you're really looking forward

to coming up is on the same day, the digital storytelling one.

And I don't want to kind of preempt what you might say.

But I wanted to give a shout out on the session

that you're moderating because it's

the EdTech Groovetacular TRU's Classic Hits and Open Web

Trips with Brian Lamb and the TRU team.

And actually, Taylor and I had the pleasure

of running some sessions with this team

earlier in this academic year.

And it's been so much fun learning

about all the cool stuff that is happening at TRU.

So I think in terms of when this session runs,

I think I may already be offline.

But I'll definitely catch up with the recording.

And yeah, I think, Pallet, you're

going to have a lot of fun in that one.

I think so, too.

I just reading--

I can't keep going back to reading the description.

But reading the description itself

is just fun and exciting.

I think it's going to be a really, really good time.

For me, that's going to be the thing that caps off my day.

So I'm going to just end it on a high note, I think.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Well, I must say, one of the sessions

I'm selfishly looking forward to the most

is on Kickstart Thursday's programming

after the Good Morning Campus session with Jim.

And that's 29 years of ed tech and vinyl

with Martin Weller, who is my partner.

And I am so thrilled because he and I

are going to take all the risks and do live vinyl

casting on DS106 Radio.

Now, just to give you a bit of context

of how this has been unfolding in our home,

we now have a stack of 29 records.

We have, I think, realized that we can't play all of them

in a one-hour slot.

So we now have discussions over breakfast, lunch, and dinner

about which records we might be playing for his session.

And Martin is going to riff off his book and blog

series, 25 Years of Ed Tech, and hopefully give us

a bit of insight into what he's up to at the moment.

But I have devolved all responsibility

for the vinyl part of the casting on broadcasting

and to him.

So no one will quite know what will happen with that one.

Hopefully, you will hear the authentic crackling

of the airwaves.

It's going to be some authentic, real, OG disc jockeying.

I'm very excited.

Actual, real.

How are you all going to like picture--

are you going to put like little--

I've always wondered how people cue up

a specific track in vinyl.

Obviously, you can kind of see it.

But when time is of the essence, or I don't know.

Yeah, that's why I've delegated that to him.

OK.

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Because I--

That's strategy.

That's right.

Exactly, Pilot.

Yeah, I mean, I have the vinyl casting set up

like via USB connection to the record player.

So I have done that before.

And we're just going to have the sort of, in quotation marks,

usual DS-106 set up.

But yeah, so I haven't done like vinyl casting

with a different record for each tune forever.

So yeah.

Slightly nervous about that.

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Oh, do you guys want to give any other shout outs

to sessions on Thursday?

There was so much fun in store there.

I mean, I think we also--

we already talked a little bit about being

excited to find out what AI cryptid hunting with Tom

Woodward looks like.

I-- are you--

Marin, are you-- you're not going to talk about reclaiming--

you and Taylor aren't going to talk

about reclaiming your sessions?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, my god.

That's also on Thursday.

That's on Thursday.

You were like, oh, is there anything else on Thursday

we want to shout out?

I was like, are you for real?

Your session?

You're right.

You're right.

We have a very special guest.

The current CEO of Alt, Kerry Pinney, is going to join us.

And Taylor and I are going to revisit Mission Mastodon.

And Taylor, I hope we can get the theme tune

that we had for that.

It was so awesome.

I believe we still have it.

Last year.

Yeah.

And so we're going to talk a bit about that.

And as you know, Team Reclaim has been out

and about at a lot of conferences

this year sharing our journey on how to really get federated.

And I like to give a shout out to Alan Lewine

with this session as well, because I

think his inspirational GASTA talk at OER 24

this year on Get Federated is definitely

inspired the session.

So Taylor, do you want to add anything to that?

I mean, I'm really excited for it.

And the Mission Mastodon stuff is something

that I think back to quite often when we talk about Mastodon

or social media stuff in general.

So I'm really excited to revisit that.

And yeah, I mean, I got to dig up that theme tune.

That was kind of an amazing surprise, I think,

for at least for Jim and I, who didn't expect that going in.

And yeah, I'm really excited.

I think we've been, in some ways,

settling into Mastodon at Reclaim in a good way this year.

Last year, it was the new, cool, we're

checking it out kind of thing.

And this year, we're just kind of using it.

And that's, in a lot of ways, a really good thing.

So it'll be a nice time to kind of revisit and go back

to that time where we were like, what even is this?

I agree.

And when we recently were on air talking about this,

one of the participants bravely went from being enthusiastic

to being convinced to be a speaker

and having a featured story at summer camp.

So we do want to give a big shout out

to Shannon Houser, who has a wonderful--

yeah, do you want to do that one, Paila?

Well, I guess Shannon's going to be on the radio talking

about what makes good--

you're a little too far ahead, Taylor.

Shannon is before Cryptid Hunting.

But he's going to be talking about teamwork

and what it means to be a successful team, which I'm

really excited to hear about just because the work

that Shannon does, that the whole team at UMW

does with student workers, creating just

like a powerhouse team that also allows the people on it

to learn and grow as they're doing their work.

I think it's really cool.

And I want to know--

Shannon, if you're watching, if you're listening,

you don't have to just talk about what you do.

You can talk about whatever you want.

But I do want to hear at least a little bit about what

you guys do.

I love that.

I love her session title as well of "Dream Teams"

and "Apollo 13."

I think, you know, "Q'd Us."

That is just prime--

it's not alliteration.

I think the term is assonance.

But it's awesome.

It's very good.

I think so.

I think absolutely.

And rounding up the day, another highlight for Thursday

is "Talky Tina Tells Some Tales with Tina Morton."

And that is another session I'm really looking forward to.

And just as we were talking, actually,

I'm realizing that it's going to be so hard to kind of tune

into selectively.

And that's one of the joys, I think,

of radio, what you said earlier, Taylor,

is that you can just have it on in the background

and have that kind of coming in and weaving

in and out of your day.

Because I think everybody will be

glued to their radio wanting to listen into that.

OK, well, we don't want to over-egg it, but I think Friday

is--

just sounds like a kind of all-hits end

of the conference.

So we start today again with "Good Morning, Campers,

with Jim."

So you've had a whole week of waking up

to Jim's dulcet tones on the radio.

So this is going to be a wonderful way

to start the day.

I still think we need to get him a megaphone in real life

that he can use into the mic.

I think that'll sell the experience.

I think by Friday, there won't be a megaphone big enough.

And then one of our all-time favorites

is returning to Reclaim.

Lauren Hanks is coming back to celebrate 11 years of Reclaim.

It was the anniversary of this amazing company

just a few days ago, like at the end of July.

So we're going to be celebrating 11 years of Reclaim.

And we're going to have all kinds of special guests

from Team Reclaim on air to talk about some

of the cool projects that have been happening in year 11.

And then it's blog or die.

The Closing Chem Cleanery, which I love absolutely

the title of.

And what's in store for that is still under wraps.

But Jim is going to be joined by special guests.

And there will be an open invitation to dial in,

I believe, as well.

So I must admit, I'm at fault here for writing the--

or I'm to blame here for writing the description of this session

where I was trying to get the word "blogging"

in as many times as possible.

So hopefully-- yeah, absolutely.

Hopefully that will make someone's day.

But Pilot, I think you have the last session to announce.

And it's your own.

I do.

Yeah.

I have the final session of the whole event, no pressure.

I'm going to be hosting the game, long-time listener,

last-time caller.

And all I can say is, welcome to yourocalypse.

[LAUGHTER]

Yeah, I'm going to do that entire voice for an hour.

It's going to be really good for me, I think.

It'll be good for your throat and your vocal cords.

It'll be good for everyone's ears.

Just good all around.

It's going to be good for the mic.

It's great.

It's the weekend after.

I'll have some R&R time.

Yeah, long-time listener, last-time caller.

Actually, speaking of Shannon being encouraged to sign up

and be on the radio and host a session,

I think I had time on the schedule earmarked

because I wanted to participate, but I had no idea

what I wanted to do.

And a couple of weeks back, we had

the sort of preliminary looking forward to camp,

what are we thinking about type thing.

And on air, I was saying, well, I want to be--

but I don't know what I want to do.

Maybe I'll talk about audio storytelling, radio dramas

and things like that.

And then I went, oh, yeah, there's also a tabletop RPG.

It's not really tabletop.

There's an RPG about hosting radio sessions,

and it's called Long-Time Listener, Last-Time Caller.

I went and looked it up, and it went, oh, this

is for one hour to have people call in.

This is perfect.

And I shared it in the Discord chat,

and Shannon went, oh, I'd play that if you hosted that.

And I went, cool.

I don't even remember what I was going to talk about before.

We're doing this now.

So Long-Time Listener, Last-Time Caller

is a role-playing game.

People can-- participants come in,

and you adopt a persona, basically.

You can adopt multiple personas.

You don't have to play the same character the entire time.

You are calling in to a fictional radio station that

is broadcasting during or after the end of the world.

And the game doesn't give specifics

on how the world ended.

That's something that you come up with as part

of the premise of the game.

It does recommend that you or me, the host,

gives that premise ahead of time so

that anyone who wants to participate

knows the tone of what they're in for.

The example that they give is, you

don't want someone going, oh, we're

going to do a silly zombie apocalypse style.

I'm going to call in with that.

Oh, no.

This was a pretty serious climate apocalypse story.

Oops.

Or vice versa.

Yeah.

Wow, I'm spending-- well, it's my session.

I can spend as long as I want talking about this.

But so long-time listener, last-time caller,

this session is going to be pretty silly.

The sheer physics of music has started to break down the world.

The drum beats causing earthquakes.

The guitar shreds too hard.

It's tearing apart the rainforests kind of thing.

And in the middle of it all is me, a radio host,

who is offering you advice not on fixing the world,

but on fixing the machines that break in this apocalypse

scenario.

This is going to be great because I don't know that much

about machines.

So I have about one week to learn how cars work.

And if you ask me about anything else,

then I will make stuff up.

One week to learn about how cars work.

I love that.

Yeah.

I know how, in theory, to change the oil on a car will get--

I'm going to make it up.

You're coming from a place where, luckily,

some of your advice will be inherently absurdist, right?

It's true.

Yes, exactly.

To be clear, this is not a dig.

I'd be in the same exact boat.

Yeah.

I love that.

And, Pilot, I want to ask--

I know a couple of people listening to this

will want to call in.

So how can you take part?

Yeah.

So for right now, my plan is basically--

long time listener, last time caller is actually--

one of the other things that was great about it

is it's designed to be played remotely.

It's down in the rules in the description, which,

by the way, is linked on the schedule right there.

You can see there is a link.

And that will take you straight to the PDFs of the rules

if you want to figure out more about the game.

It is designed to be played over Discord.

It's designed to be played over Skype.

It can be played in person, but it is

meant for sessions like this.

So if people want to call in and be participants, that's great.

I am looking for people.

Right now, my plan is to collect names, get emails,

get contact information, and then send out

joining info to have people on a StreamYard session

like this one.

And the way the game works is one person at a--

I'll be hosting.

One person at a time will call in.

They'll unmute.

And in their character, one of their characters,

they'll call in with a problem.

And we'll go back and forth and talk about it.

They can then-- when their time is up, they can mute.

It'll be someone else's turn.

And it'll be popcorn style.

We're not rotating.

Nobody's going to be forced to go at a point

where they're not ready.

But that said, it would be interesting to see

if we can get people to join live.

If you're listening to the session,

you-- actually, I have an idea.

I want to be part of this.

I haven't worked that one out yet, which is great.

I should have worked that out by today.

This stream session is when I should

be explaining that to you.

If you want to workshop it a little bit,

we can, during the session-- because they will have to be

live to participate.

But we can drop StreamYard links in the Discord channel.

And people could join from there at that time.

And yeah, that would have a nice, authentic call-in live

radio feel to it.

Yeah, 100%.

Yeah, maybe we would have people DM on Discord.

I feel a little weird about dropping an open StreamYard

guest link into a chat that is being

embedded into a page online.

But yeah, I think the idea of having people just raise

your hand in Discord and say, hey, actually, I want to call

in, cool.

We'll send you the link.

Cool.

Hop on.

Yeah.

I'm curious to you, Pilot, for coming up

with the most inventive format.

I absolutely loved it when I read the description.

And I was completely new to this particular game.

And I thought it sounded fantastic.

So was I.

I think it's amazing.

And it's particularly apt, I think,

because it's a lovely, interactive way

to celebrate the end of what I think

is going to be an awesome week.

So kudos to you.

It sounds fantastic.

I'm really excited.

It's going to be a good time.

[LAUGHTER]

Well, I can see loads of people chatting with us on Discord

already.

And here's just a reminder that there

will be a Discord Summer Camp channel dedicated

for the event for the whole week next week.

And we're going to start having a more live conversation

from Monday.

But I think plenty of people have already started arriving.

And if you're completely new, I wonder, Taylor,

if we should just give people a quick kind of encouragement

to get involved in the community and kind of tell them

a little bit about where they've arrived to wrap up.

Because I know loads of people who are coming to the S106

Summer Camp aren't yet part of the amazing community

activities that you have coming up.

So what do you think?

Would that be a good wrap up?

Yeah, sounds good.

Yeah, so if you're here on Reclaim TV or YouTube,

we're typically streaming here at least--

we're typically streaming here once a week.

But we do a lot of things.

This is just one of the things that we do

as part of our community events.

If you're on DS106 Radio, you can go to reclaim.tv

and see the video feed.

But I'm going to share a kind of one-stop shop web page here,

community.reclaimhosting.com.

This is where you can kind of find everything we are up to,

basically.

And we do things under a couple different banners.

I will say we have some probably updating even of this site

to do in terms of organization and things like that.

So if you go to our EdTech TV--

our EdTech channel here, you can see all of our upcoming events

on the calendar.

So this will be Reclaim TV streams.

We've got events like the summer camp,

which is next week on here.

And then further out, we've got community chat.

We're not doing community chat in August,

because that would fall, actually,

next week during the summer camp.

So we're skipping August.

But you can check out just generally what's

all coming up right here.

And you can click on all of these, of course,

to go to the event calendar and see more detail

about each individual event.

You can also go to our community chats page

and just see the upcoming community chat dates.

And as we pick topics for them, these

get filled in with what it's going to be about.

So that's a good place to stay up to date on community chats.

If you didn't know, community chats

are a monthly open video call that we do.

And we record and post.

And it's really great.

Basically, the format is the team here

comes up with a very basic idea.

And I awkwardly explain the idea at the beginning

of the community chat.

And then very thoughtful people discuss it.

And by that, I mean everyone who attends the community chat

discuss it for about an hour.

And conversations go all places, all kinds of places,

about web hosting stuff, reclaim kind of stuff,

to really deep, higher educational topics,

and people talking about their work,

and what challenges they're facing,

and everything in between.

It's really, really, really great.

I would say if you haven't been or seen

any recordings of our community chats,

I highly recommend checking out.

And please attend.

You can always click this Register button.

And if you put in your email address into this form,

you'll get email notifications a couple days

before each community chat so you don't forget about it.

Other things-- I won't go through literally all of these.

But we do also have tons of--

if video is not your thing, we do

have a blog post happening all the time.

You can see the feed of it here.

But there's really two places that we, as a company,

are posting.

That is blog.reclaimhosting.com and our Roundup,

which is a monthly newsletter.

Both of these are available via RSS or newsletter formats.

This one comes out once a month strictly.

This one comes out periodically, like once or twice a week.

It's just as we have things to announce.

So you can check out either of those places

and easily get emails or in your RSS reader.

Before we move on, Taylor, I just

want to give a big shout out to Pilot,

because Pilot is the voice and the genius

behind Reclaim Roundup.

And if you haven't ever seen this newsletter before,

it has the best gift game on the internet, full stop.

So I am a fan.

I'll take that as a message against Jim's idea, originally.

I guess.

I love taking credit for things.

It's my favorite.

So yeah, thank you.

You do come up with the best gifts.

I think this is the best newsletter ever.

It always makes me smile.

How many newsletters can you say that about?

Yeah, not very many.

And so the Roundup does get its own little channel here, too,

if you're curious.

Like I said, this community page is a really one-stop shop

kind of encapsulation of what we're doing.

We also have on here recent forum posts, support links,

but also recently updated articles,

if you're curious about that, social media links,

which I should review that-- yeah, these are all current.

We have a LinkedIn.

I always forget we have a LinkedIn.

I think Meredith posts on the LinkedIn every once in a while.

Yeah.

And then I've already mentioned Reclaim TV,

but you can also see our latest videos, our archives.

So yeah, we really encourage you to get involved or check out

any of these video things.

We typically, under the EdTech banner,

also will have a couple of Flux courses a year,

which is a sort of deep dive on a particular topic

with weekly video releases and sort of a community discussion

component, blog posts.

It's a small-- I would say it's a small course that

doesn't require all of your time.

So we don't have one of those announced right now,

but we will have one soon, basically.

We've got a lot of upcoming things from the workshop to--

sorry, from summer camp to a actually workshop

in the fall around Domain of One's own and WordPress

Multi-site.

So that's a good place to check out things for that, too.

And then finally, we've got this Say Hello on Discord link.

You can always hang out in our Discord.

Click the link there and join.

It's a good place to keep up with these same things,

but also it's a really great place

to reach out to other folks who are in the community

around Reclaim hosting.

So a lot of educators, a lot of instructional technologists,

a lot of instructional designers.

I-- and are asking questions or talking about things

they find interesting, posting about their work in Discord

from time to time.

And we're always looking to grow that space,

because I always find it really valuable to connect there.

And I hope other people can find that valuable, too.

So yeah.

So that's what we're up to from a community standpoint.

Thanks, Taylor.

I think that's super helpful, particularly

as we have lots of people joining for the DS106 summer

camp that are not yet familiar with the community activities.

OK.

So I think we're coming nearly up to time.

And we've been, I think, successfully on DS106 radio

and Reclaim TV at the same time, which

bodes well for next week when we'll be heading to the airwaves.

I am taking song requests.

So if you are keen to listen to your tune next week

from Monday onwards, send me those in the Discord summer

camp channel.

And I'll be happily adding them to my playlist.

I think that's everything from me.

Do you guys have anything more to add?

No, I don't.

You probably--

I'm going to put in another plug for my session.

Let me know if you want to play.

Yeah.

Message, pilot, or reply to the--

or put something in summer camp.

I'm planning on playing.

I think it's going to be fun.

And I think we have a couple other folks already.

But we'll take all comers there, I think.

100%.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, see you all next time.

And next week--

Yeah, and see you next week at the summer camp.

Bye, everybody.

Bye.