Steel Wagstaff @steelwagstaff. the Educational Client Manager for @Pressbooks, from Madison, WI. In this epsisode, Terry and Steel chat about his history of working in the open and where he thinks things can go from here. Also revealed is his holy trinity of open educational technologies.

Noted contrarian Jess Mitchell (@jesshmitchell). Senior Manager, Research + Design at the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCADu. Next week Jess will offer up the closing keynote for the Digital Pedagogy Lab Toronto (@DigPedLab). Terry and Jess chat about her thoughts about that upcoming talk and where it's coming from, and the waterfowl that live outside her window.

Amanda Coolidge is the Senior Manager of Open Education at BCcampus. She leads the BC Open Textbook Project as well as the Open Education initiatives. Terry and Amanda chat about all of the wonderful initiatives coming out of BB Campus, her upcoming keynote in NYC, and Jazzercise.

Dr. Ryan Straight(@ryanstraight)co-directs the Ed-Tech program as well as teaches Informatics and Cyber Operations at the University of Arizona. He is also a pillar of the Squad Goals Network (@sqdglsntwrk) and has impeccable taste in thrift store t-shirts. Joining Ryan on air are some latent sounds from Menchi, one of his three dogs.

Dr. Tannis Morgan (@tanbob) is currently on secondment as a researcher in Open Educational Practices @BCCampus, from her role as director @TELTJIBC. Terry and Tannis chat about the research she is working on in Open Educational Practices and maybe find out where to get her favorite Mexican dish.

Chad Flinn (@chadhflinn). at the forefront of Open Education for the trades in Canada and... maybe the world! Terry and Chad have a chat about how Open Educational Resources and Practices can be built in to trades education as its demographics shift and it increases its diversity.

This week Terry chats with Alexis Clifton, a.k.a. Open Alexis! Alexis is the Director of Open Teaching and Learning for the scrappy little organization of SUNY OER Services! They chat about all of the wonderful initiatives SUNY is up to, including their roving band of open educators in the OER Road Show!

Mitch is the Indigenous Pedagogy Designer at Trent University. We chat about how one might go about indigenizing teaching and learning practices through patience, transparency, and respect. Mitch covers some initial strategies to consider for those hoping to work weave indigenous ways of knowing in to their pedagogy.

James Skidmore, Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Waterloo chats about what it's like to focus on teaching at a research intensive university. He also describes how he brought Open Education to his very intriguing new course Truth, Reconciliation, Story. And finally, we discuss his passionate disdain for the overuse of the word "passion".

In this episode Terry Green goes way, way outside of Ontario to hear from Maha Bali at the American University in Cairo. Maha shares insights into the origins of Virtually Connecting and where it is headed next.

Maha also reflects on the beautiful work she did with Catherine Cronin and Mia Zamora last semester in their Equity Unbound experience. Also included is blooper at the end that involves 4 year old Alice, milk, and a laptop.