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Welcome to Integrate This, your go -to edtech
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podcast where curiosity meets classroom innovation.
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Join your hosts, David Berner and Jeremy Mikla,
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as we explore the rapidly evolving world of educational
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technology. From game -changing tools to insightful
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conversations with today's top edtech voices,
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we're here to help educators stay informed, inspired,
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and ready to innovate. So tune in, level up,
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and let's integrate this. Hey, welcome to the
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Integrate This EdTech podcast. I'm David Berner,
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joined by Manuel Herrera. Very excited to have
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Manuel join us, first guest of the conference.
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Kicking it off. And we've already been talking
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a bunch, but one of the things that I wanted
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to ask you first and foremost is how many times
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have you been at ISTE? I was just talking to
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somebody. I think this is like my 13th ISTE.
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Yeah, Atlanta was my first one. And I don't know
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that it loops back around. to Atlanta, but yeah,
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like 13. It's a lot. Yeah, that is that is a
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lot. I think I'm on three and Jeremy's like five,
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maybe. So yeah. So what what sessions do you
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have coming up here that you're that you're doing?
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Well, I've got I've got a session like an actual
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session in a room with Joe Merrill. We're going
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to be kind of I forgot what we titled it, but
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we're going to kind of mix drawing and tech and
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kind of figure out how we get those two worlds
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to merge. I'm super excited about that. Kind
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of get to introduce drawing as a thinking process.
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And then Joe will come in and show how we take
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those drawings and tie it to technology. everybody
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will get to kind of create a pretty cool little
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project in that session. So that's one of those.
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That's tomorrow morning, I think at eight o 'clock
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or 830. And then after that, we're gonna be doing
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a playground upstairs on the fourth floor. We're
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in playground B. And that's gonna have a lot
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of activities for teachers to come and play and
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listen. We've got some poster sessions in addition
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to some interactive stations for folks. But my
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favorite part is gonna be a doodle booth that
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I'm doing down there. And I'll talk about that
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here in a second. And then I've got... Not a
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session, but I'm going to be in the Adobe Aqua
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booth. I'm really excited about that. I'm going
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to be kind of showing people how to use Adobe
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Aqua. It's a drawing app that Adobe just released.
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So that's going to be really cool. They're going
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to kind of create some characters and get to
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take those with them. And yeah, and then I'll
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do the doodle booth one more time at the creativity
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playground, which is on the bottom floor, kind
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of all the way to, I guess, the east side of
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the building. But I'm excited. I'm excited about
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the two doodle booths. I'm excited about everything.
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But the doodle booths are going to be cool. It's
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amazing that I get to do that considering this
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is a technology conference, you know, but I am
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using an iPad, you know, and I am showing. But
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kind of the purpose of that is just kind of build
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community with folks. So anybody can stop by
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and we'll be there for a couple of hours. Anybody
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stops by, comes and sits with me, we chat, we
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talk about how many times we've been to ISTE,
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what do you do, what kind of questions do you
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have. It's also kind of slash creativity advice.
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So you come in and you're working on something.
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Tell me about it. Let's see what we can do. And
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all while I'm trying to draw your face. But the
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cool thing is once I'm done drawing it, we're
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going to print it out. You'll get a color print.
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I think you're going to get three copies of it.
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And so one will have sticky double -sided tape.
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You're going to stick it to your lanyard. We're
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going to have a large wall that we're going to
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put the pictures on. So we'll have a mural of
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everybody's face. And then the last one, you
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get to kind of trade it with somebody and get
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to know somebody and learn somebody new. So yeah,
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that's what we'll do twice. I'm really excited
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about it. That's cool. Yeah. And we talked to
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this about this a little bit, but the Doodle
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booth, Jeremy and I, we'll have to try and come
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and integrate this one. But actually, what you
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brought up about the technology and drawing,
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one of the coolest things about what Manuel does,
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and I've told you this before, because we've
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talked in times past, but like the... you have
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the whole sketchnoting side. And all that is
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so cool to me, where you're doing all these doodlings
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and stuff. I think the first time I saw you doing
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it was on an iPad, and I think it was in Adobe.
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But some of the cool things that you see at ISTE
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is like, oh, I didn't even expect that. And so
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as far as the conference goes, is there anybody
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that you are looking forward to seeing that you
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maybe only have seen online? You know man, I
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don't know it's kind of I enjoy anybody like
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really to be honest like I either I've got my
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different friends that I have that I want to
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see, you know, it's Kim Zajac, there's Dan Ryder,
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and you know, Stevie Frank, all do incredible
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creative stuff. So I always enjoy seeing them,
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even though I've seen them, I still go watch
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them kind of over and over again. But yeah, it's
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sometimes it's nice just to pop in a session.
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This is probably the first ISTE that I've been
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to that I don't have any other obligations like
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not as far as like just besides sessions, like
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I'm not with the school district or I'm not like
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in a vendor hall. So I'm going to kind of go
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explore some more. It's been a while since I've
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had a chance to really kind of you know, weave
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through the conference sessions and check things
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out. What would you say to someone who is like
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going to ISTE for the first time or what do you
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wish somebody told you the first time you went
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to ISTE? Make a schedule. Make a schedule. Make
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a schedule. I'm a professional. I can roam. I'm
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just playing. Make a schedule. Because if you
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don't make a schedule and you don't look through
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things, you're going to miss stuff. You're going
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to miss stuff. You're going to regret that you
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didn't do it. I think that's important. I think
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go in there, click your favorites, make your
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schedule, and have a plan. You can always deviate
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from that. But if you're not careful, you could
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deviate too long. And before you know it, you
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miss something. But also, I would schedule time
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to just. mingle with people, to just hang out,
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go to the bookstore, run into somebody, go into
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their creative space, come to our playground
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and network and just get to know people. I think
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that's the biggest takeaway for me for ISTE,
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at least every year I come, is just getting to
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connect with educators. Especially if you're
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the only person in the district that's super
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amped about what you do You're gonna be out here
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on the island come here find everybody else and
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nerd out with them because that's what you need
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You know, that's gonna give you a good kickstart
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to the summer that'll hopefully roll into your
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the beginning of their school year But yeah schedule
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schedule stuff and then find time to like network
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and just talk to people I think that's the biggest
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thing because Chances are somebody's doing something
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similar to what you're doing and they can answer
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questions or they can help you in some way Yeah,
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that's what that's definitely what I would do
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and then go to the events that were in the evening,
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you know Take some time. It's not always, you
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know late nights There's events that are right
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after sessions are over so you can kind of go
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grab dinner and go and mingle a little bit and
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get home and Start a brush eight o 'clock tomorrow
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morning. Yeah. Yeah one thing I didn't know my
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first year was the schedule thing because sometimes
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you might be you might be planning to go to a
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session but that your next session is all the
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way across You don't even you don't even know
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like but yeah, I think one of the great things
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about is there is so many different things to
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go to, right? Like go to a session, but then
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go to the playground and go to a poster session.
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There's so many different things to experience
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that are really awesome. Where can people follow
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your work, the things that you have going on?
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Sure. I know you've got manualdraws .com. Yeah,
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that's probably the kind of a great place to
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start. Just go to manualdraws .com. Super easy
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to get to. It just kind of gives you an idea
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of the work I do and what it looks like. There's
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a few videos in there if you want to watch. And
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then also go to my social media. links are there.
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It's just manual Herrera 33. It's a lot of R's
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in Herrera. So if you want to just go to manual
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draws and click on those. And then just you can
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then see kind of the things that I'm doing. I'll
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be taking a lot of pictures here and video. But
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yeah, definitely stop on the website first just
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to get a bearing of like, you know, what's going
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on, what I'm doing and what my work is about.
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Yeah. Yeah. And definitely if we did a podcast
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interview with you too a while back. And so if
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you want to see some of the because you did a
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sketchnoting demonstration for us during the
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podcast too. So on our YouTube channel or even
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listen on Apple too. Cool, well thanks Manuel,
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appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thanks for listening
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Welcome to Integrate This, your go -to edtech
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podcast where curiosity meets classroom innovation.
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Join your hosts, David Berner and Jeremy Mikla,
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as we explore the rapidly evolving world of educational
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technology. From game -changing tools to insightful
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conversations with today's top edtech voices,
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we're here to help educators stay informed, inspired,
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and ready to innovate. So tune in, level up,
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and let's integrate this. Hey, welcome to the
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Integrate This EdTech podcast. I'm David Berner,
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joined by Manuel Herrera. Very excited to have
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Manuel join us, first guest of the conference.
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Kicking it off. And we've already been talking
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a bunch, but one of the things that I wanted
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to ask you first and foremost is how many times
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have you been at ISTE? I was just talking to
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somebody. I think this is like my 13th ISTE.
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Yeah, Atlanta was my first one. And I don't know
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that it loops back around. to Atlanta, but yeah,
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like 13. It's a lot. Yeah, that is that is a
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lot. I think I'm on three and Jeremy's like five,
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maybe. So yeah. So what what sessions do you
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have coming up here that you're that you're doing?
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Well, I've got I've got a session like an actual
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session in a room with Joe Merrill. We're going
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to be kind of I forgot what we titled it, but
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we're going to kind of mix drawing and tech and
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kind of figure out how we get those two worlds
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to merge. I'm super excited about that. Kind
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of get to introduce drawing as a thinking process.
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And then Joe will come in and show how we take
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those drawings and tie it to technology. everybody
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will get to kind of create a pretty cool little
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project in that session. So that's one of those.
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That's tomorrow morning, I think at eight o 'clock
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or 830. And then after that, we're gonna be doing
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a playground upstairs on the fourth floor. We're
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in playground B. And that's gonna have a lot
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of activities for teachers to come and play and
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listen. We've got some poster sessions in addition
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to some interactive stations for folks. But my
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favorite part is gonna be a doodle booth that
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I'm doing down there. And I'll talk about that
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here in a second. And then I've got... Not a
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session, but I'm going to be in the Adobe Aqua
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booth. I'm really excited about that. I'm going
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to be kind of showing people how to use Adobe
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Aqua. It's a drawing app that Adobe just released.
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So that's going to be really cool. They're going
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to kind of create some characters and get to
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take those with them. And yeah, and then I'll
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do the doodle booth one more time at the creativity
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playground, which is on the bottom floor, kind
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of all the way to, I guess, the east side of
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the building. But I'm excited. I'm excited about
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the two doodle booths. I'm excited about everything.
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But the doodle booths are going to be cool. It's
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amazing that I get to do that considering this
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is a technology conference, you know, but I am
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using an iPad, you know, and I am showing. But
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kind of the purpose of that is just kind of build
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community with folks. So anybody can stop by
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and we'll be there for a couple of hours. Anybody
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stops by, comes and sits with me, we chat, we
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talk about how many times we've been to ISTE,
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what do you do, what kind of questions do you
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have. It's also kind of slash creativity advice.
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So you come in and you're working on something.
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Tell me about it. Let's see what we can do. And
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all while I'm trying to draw your face. But the
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cool thing is once I'm done drawing it, we're
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going to print it out. You'll get a color print.
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I think you're going to get three copies of it.
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And so one will have sticky double -sided tape.
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You're going to stick it to your lanyard. We're
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going to have a large wall that we're going to
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put the pictures on. So we'll have a mural of
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everybody's face. And then the last one, you
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get to kind of trade it with somebody and get
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to know somebody and learn somebody new. So yeah,
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that's what we'll do twice. I'm really excited
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about it. That's cool. Yeah. And we talked to
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this about this a little bit, but the Doodle
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booth, Jeremy and I, we'll have to try and come
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and integrate this one. But actually, what you
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brought up about the technology and drawing,
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one of the coolest things about what Manuel does,
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and I've told you this before, because we've
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talked in times past, but like the... you have
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the whole sketchnoting side. And all that is
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so cool to me, where you're doing all these doodlings
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and stuff. I think the first time I saw you doing
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it was on an iPad, and I think it was in Adobe.
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But some of the cool things that you see at ISTE
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is like, oh, I didn't even expect that. And so
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as far as the conference goes, is there anybody
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that you are looking forward to seeing that you
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maybe only have seen online? You know man, I
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don't know it's kind of I enjoy anybody like
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really to be honest like I either I've got my
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different friends that I have that I want to
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see, you know, it's Kim Zajac, there's Dan Ryder,
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and you know, Stevie Frank, all do incredible
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creative stuff. So I always enjoy seeing them,
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even though I've seen them, I still go watch
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them kind of over and over again. But yeah, it's
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sometimes it's nice just to pop in a session.
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This is probably the first ISTE that I've been
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to that I don't have any other obligations like
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not as far as like just besides sessions, like
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I'm not with the school district or I'm not like
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in a vendor hall. So I'm going to kind of go
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explore some more. It's been a while since I've
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had a chance to really kind of you know, weave
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through the conference sessions and check things
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out. What would you say to someone who is like
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going to ISTE for the first time or what do you
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wish somebody told you the first time you went
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to ISTE? Make a schedule. Make a schedule. Make
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a schedule. I'm a professional. I can roam. I'm
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just playing. Make a schedule. Because if you
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don't make a schedule and you don't look through
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things, you're going to miss stuff. You're going
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to miss stuff. You're going to regret that you
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didn't do it. I think that's important. I think
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go in there, click your favorites, make your
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schedule, and have a plan. You can always deviate
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from that. But if you're not careful, you could
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deviate too long. And before you know it, you
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miss something. But also, I would schedule time
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to just. mingle with people, to just hang out,
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go to the bookstore, run into somebody, go into
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their creative space, come to our playground
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and network and just get to know people. I think
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that's the biggest takeaway for me for ISTE,
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at least every year I come, is just getting to
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connect with educators. Especially if you're
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the only person in the district that's super
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amped about what you do You're gonna be out here
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on the island come here find everybody else and
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nerd out with them because that's what you need
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You know, that's gonna give you a good kickstart
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to the summer that'll hopefully roll into your
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the beginning of their school year But yeah schedule
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schedule stuff and then find time to like network
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and just talk to people I think that's the biggest
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thing because Chances are somebody's doing something
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similar to what you're doing and they can answer
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questions or they can help you in some way Yeah,
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that's what that's definitely what I would do
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and then go to the events that were in the evening,
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you know Take some time. It's not always, you
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know late nights There's events that are right
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after sessions are over so you can kind of go
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grab dinner and go and mingle a little bit and
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get home and Start a brush eight o 'clock tomorrow
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morning. Yeah. Yeah one thing I didn't know my
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first year was the schedule thing because sometimes
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you might be you might be planning to go to a
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session but that your next session is all the
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way across You don't even you don't even know
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like but yeah, I think one of the great things
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about is there is so many different things to
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go to, right? Like go to a session, but then
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go to the playground and go to a poster session.
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There's so many different things to experience
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that are really awesome. Where can people follow
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your work, the things that you have going on?
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Sure. I know you've got manualdraws .com. Yeah,
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that's probably the kind of a great place to
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start. Just go to manualdraws .com. Super easy
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to get to. It just kind of gives you an idea
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of the work I do and what it looks like. There's
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a few videos in there if you want to watch. And
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then also go to my social media. links are there.
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It's just manual Herrera 33. It's a lot of R's
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in Herrera. So if you want to just go to manual
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draws and click on those. And then just you can
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then see kind of the things that I'm doing. I'll
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be taking a lot of pictures here and video. But
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yeah, definitely stop on the website first just
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to get a bearing of like, you know, what's going
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on, what I'm doing and what my work is about.
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Yeah. Yeah. And definitely if we did a podcast
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interview with you too a while back. And so if
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you want to see some of the because you did a
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sketchnoting demonstration for us during the
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podcast too. So on our YouTube channel or even
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listen on Apple too. Cool, well thanks Manuel,
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appreciate it. Thanks a lot. Thanks for listening
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