Okay. So I’m going to introduce myself. My name is Randy Radney –that wasn’t an echo that you heard– Randy was not the name my mother gave me, but it’s the one that people usually call me, except in the British context where people tend to refer to me simply as Radney. I sign my email messages as “radney” So if you want to call me, radney, that’s fine. If I’m a teacher in a class and you’re a student, and you prefer to call me “Coach,” that’s fine as well. My title is officially “Doctor,” as in Dr. Radney, but I don’t really like you to use that. If you’d rather avoid it, that’s fine with me. “Coach” is a fine way of addressing me. There are probably also unprintable ways of addressing me that I’d prefer that you avoided as well. I need to let you know something that’s very important to me. There’s a lot of things that are much more important than this, but this is close-to-hand, so I’m just going to show you on camera this little fellow here is called a Yeti. And I was introduced to a Yeti a number of years ago when I asked somebody what I might be able to do, what I might be able to use in a classroom that would allow sound to be picked up from every direction equivalently, and the helpful person at Staples directed me to look at a Yeti Blue. This is the particular model that I’m looking at, and I have used it for a number of years in class when I have class discussions that need to be recorded so that some people can listen to them later, I like using that. So it’s a bit important to me. It’s been useful to me and I like it. There’s a lot more to get to know about me. And you’ll be able to, probably by reading documents that I write, things that are available, and by participating in a class either with me as a fellow student or with me as an instructor in various courses that I teach here at Thompson Rivers University. Thank you very much. Bye bye for now.
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