[00:00.000 --> 00:01.140]  You have another couple of minutes.
[00:01.320 --> 00:02.520]  Okay, we have five minutes.
[00:03.440 --> 00:07.660]  We're going to have another couple of minutes and then we'll get started, just to give people a chance to get down from upstairs.
[01:17.260 --> 01:21.700]  Well, this looks like that's about all we're going to get, so let's give it a start.
[01:26.060 --> 01:28.500]  Basically, how did I get involved with Garfield the Cat?
[01:29.560 --> 01:31.560]  I'm a big bad hacker dude.
[01:32.540 --> 01:38.840]  Well, I live in Titusville, Florida, a bedroom community to the Kennedy Space Center, and Cape Canaveral Space Board Station.
[01:41.020 --> 01:51.480]  And a fifth grade teacher gave the web address of my then CheshireCatalyst.com website to his fifth grade class.
[01:52.660 --> 01:54.140]  I got some fan mail.
[01:55.340 --> 02:00.220]  Well, big bad hacker dude does not want to be a role model to fifth grade students.
[02:01.280 --> 02:03.080]  So I couldn't fix this.
[02:03.240 --> 02:04.540]  I had to find somebody who could.
[02:04.540 --> 02:07.400]  And that's when I found Professor Garfield.
[02:08.240 --> 02:18.600]  Now, apparently, if you put glasses on something or someone, they appear to be more professorial.
[02:22.240 --> 02:28.400]  And normally I'm seen with my glasses, so it's not too bad today.
[02:28.400 --> 02:31.060]  But Professor Garfield here does have glasses.
[02:32.540 --> 02:41.280]  And his basic job is to teach his doofus kitten, Nermal, not to be stupid on the Internet.
[02:42.600 --> 02:43.400]  Why?
[02:43.400 --> 02:58.740]  Well, because in this sector of the Garfield universe, his nemesis, Odie the dog, is mean and evil, and wants to steal Nermal's passwords, and basically mess up his computer.
[02:59.800 --> 03:03.000]  So we've got to keep Nermal safe from Odie.
[03:07.580 --> 03:11.560]  Basically, we're teaching Nermal to be safe on the Internet.
[03:12.840 --> 03:19.140]  And if some elementary or middle school students happen to catch the lessons as well, so much the better.
[03:19.760 --> 03:22.640]  At least this big bad hacker dude doesn't have to teach the lessons.
[03:26.500 --> 03:27.300]  Let's see.
[03:28.100 --> 03:29.960]  We are at...
[03:29.960 --> 03:36.440]  If you Google Garfield Foundation, you can find links to this stuff.
[03:38.000 --> 03:47.340]  And unfortunately, ProfessorGarfield.org is off the air currently, which I thought was very embarrassing when I looked it up this morning for my talk.
[03:48.840 --> 03:52.660]  But there's a professor at NYU who's involved with it.
[03:53.600 --> 03:56.180]  Ball State University is involved with it.
[03:56.520 --> 04:03.360]  And Paws Inc., which is, of course, the creator of Garfield, is involved with it.
[04:04.700 --> 04:16.180]  It's very cool that all these people want to help educate the youth of America on how to properly use a computer, and the Internet, and not get messed up.
[04:20.760 --> 04:21.420]  Let's see.
[04:21.560 --> 04:23.860]  That's pretty much the lecture.
[04:24.360 --> 04:26.920]  It's short but sweet, because that's all there is to it.
[04:28.060 --> 04:35.480]  It's go back to your fifth grade students or elementary students or middle school students and send them over to the Garfield websites.
[04:36.060 --> 04:39.140]  Have them go through the comic books that are up there online.
[04:39.140 --> 04:47.480]  Have them learn, as Nermal learns, how not to be taken advantage of by Odie and his ilk.
[04:49.120 --> 04:51.780]  And hopefully, we'll get the word out.
[04:52.580 --> 04:57.840]  The youngsters need to be taught, and not by a big bad hacker dude.
[05:01.080 --> 05:03.380]  Any questions or comments?
[05:06.260 --> 05:12.160]  Yeah, it's a very short talk, but you can see that there really isn't that much to it.
[05:12.240 --> 05:20.260]  Bring up Garfield, go through his stories, and he will explain to your youngsters as to how to be much safer on the Internet than they could be.
[05:21.800 --> 05:23.720]  That's the whole point of the exercise.
[05:24.740 --> 05:26.320]  Make the Internet safe for people.
[05:27.160 --> 05:32.120]  Make them aware of the evil dogs out there that want to mess up their Internet access.
[05:33.780 --> 05:36.360]  And hopefully, they'll have better times on the Internet.
[05:40.040 --> 05:41.780]  Let's see what else we have out here.
[05:47.240 --> 05:50.080]  Some other images of Garfield and Professor Garfield.
[05:52.940 --> 05:53.820]  Literacyworldwide.org.
[05:53.940 --> 05:54.340]  Interesting.
[05:56.400 --> 05:58.420]  For digital safety with Professor Garfield.
[05:58.640 --> 06:00.800]  Can you just go back before it became Garfield?
[06:00.920 --> 06:01.920]  You were saying, what was it?
[06:02.360 --> 06:02.640]  I'm sorry?
[06:02.820 --> 06:06.420]  Before it became child-friendly, what were you doing?
[06:06.420 --> 06:09.220]  Can you give a little more of the back story again?
[06:09.720 --> 06:11.920]  Well, I'm a big bad hacker dude.
[06:13.080 --> 06:21.620]  But also, in Titusville, I hang out in a place called Space View Park for every rocket launch from the Kennedy Space Center right across the river from Titusville.
[06:22.020 --> 06:24.040]  I think that's where I first met this fifth grade teacher.
[06:24.860 --> 06:29.940]  And we probably got to talking and I explained about the Cheshire Catalyst, my big bad hacker identity.
[06:31.680 --> 06:37.100]  And he may have thought it cool to turn it over to a fifth grade class, but it freaked me out.
[06:38.520 --> 06:42.760]  And I just don't want to be responsible for the kids going to the dark side.
[06:44.940 --> 06:51.240]  And I need the help of Garfield the Cat, Professor Garfield, to turn him over to the light side of the force.
[06:56.090 --> 06:57.530]  So, let's see.
[06:57.810 --> 06:59.150]  What else have we got here?
[07:15.490 --> 07:17.110]  Let's do a visit on that.
[07:23.220 --> 07:25.200]  Professor Garfield, and taking a look.
[07:25.840 --> 07:27.320]  Create, read, play.
[07:28.740 --> 07:30.560]  And that's something I believe in.
[07:31.280 --> 07:33.780]  Don't work at learning your computer.
[07:34.460 --> 07:35.340]  Play with it.
[07:36.100 --> 07:37.200]  Try things out.
[07:37.660 --> 07:38.820]  See what it really does.
[07:39.040 --> 07:41.440]  Those drop down menus across the top of your screen.
[07:42.020 --> 07:42.880]  Drop them down.
[07:43.020 --> 07:43.680]  Take a look at them.
[07:44.200 --> 07:45.040]  Try things out.
[07:45.200 --> 07:46.060]  See what they really do.
[07:46.420 --> 07:48.760]  Not just what the instruction manual tells you they do.
[07:49.320 --> 07:50.700]  You might be surprised.
[07:55.660 --> 07:56.480]  Let's see.
[07:57.900 --> 08:00.220]  Professor Garfield's Extreme Comics.
[08:02.800 --> 08:06.880]  So, if you do a Google search on Extreme Comics Garfield, you'll probably wind up here.
[08:15.640 --> 08:17.540]  Ah, more Garfield Comics.
[08:20.640 --> 08:22.660]  And more Professor Garfield.
[08:22.860 --> 08:24.500]  Let's see what this video does.
[08:24.780 --> 08:25.540]  Ah, okay.
[08:29.320 --> 08:29.880]  Lessons.
[08:30.500 --> 08:30.640]  Hmm.
[08:32.440 --> 08:33.360]  One of five.
[08:39.380 --> 08:43.620]  Life skills of cyberbullying, self-esteem, self-control, and peer pressure.
[08:44.500 --> 08:57.800]  Topics that need to be brought up to the kids so that they're warned about them and they know to steer clear of them or otherwise know what's going on.
[09:06.420 --> 09:06.860]  Okay.
[09:07.220 --> 09:07.580]  Okay.
[09:07.860 --> 09:09.260]  It's not going to...
[09:09.260 --> 09:10.720]  Let me do what I want to do there.
[09:41.120 --> 09:42.000]  GarfieldFoundation.org.
[10:02.380 --> 10:04.120]  Let's go and find what we were looking for.
[10:04.520 --> 10:04.840]  Okay.
[10:13.980 --> 10:16.280]  I'm going to have to pop out PowerPoint here.
[10:16.620 --> 10:16.800]  Hmm?
[10:17.280 --> 10:19.580]  Let's just go back to your web browser.
[10:20.000 --> 10:20.100]  Ah.
[10:20.360 --> 10:21.480]  Then you can...
[10:21.480 --> 10:21.680]  Okay.
[10:22.120 --> 10:22.340]  Go.
[10:22.500 --> 10:22.820]  Thank you.
[10:32.230 --> 10:33.110]  All right.
[10:40.180 --> 10:42.000]  Let's look at the student's video.
[10:53.200 --> 10:54.080]  All right.
[11:19.850 --> 11:20.910]  We have a question.
[11:21.290 --> 11:21.650]  Yes.
[11:22.890 --> 11:23.330]  So...
[11:23.330 --> 11:25.870]  So the website is not up and running, right?
[11:26.110 --> 11:26.830]  Apparently not.
[11:27.050 --> 11:27.230]  Yes.
[11:27.450 --> 11:31.510]  So what are some stuff we can expect on the website if it is up and running?
[11:31.790 --> 11:33.610]  Can you tell us a little bit about the content of it?
[11:33.610 --> 11:34.490]  It...
[11:34.490 --> 11:36.470]  These videos I'm trying to bring up should be there.
[11:36.670 --> 11:37.590]  It looks like it's interesting.
[11:38.230 --> 11:40.390]  Ball State University probably has them on their site.
[11:40.610 --> 11:41.670]  So they designed it.
[11:42.050 --> 11:42.290]  It wasn't...
[11:42.290 --> 11:42.430]  Yeah.
[11:42.670 --> 11:43.010]  Okay.
[11:43.350 --> 11:43.730]  All right.
[11:43.930 --> 11:44.150]  Yeah.
[11:44.770 --> 11:48.390]  With the help of Jim...
[11:48.390 --> 11:48.770]  What's his name?
[11:48.990 --> 11:49.630]  Garfield's creator.
[11:49.630 --> 11:50.530]  Nice.
[11:51.010 --> 11:51.550]  Really cool.
[11:51.790 --> 11:52.090]  Mm-hmm.
[11:56.560 --> 11:57.120]  Let's see.
[12:14.850 --> 12:16.850]  Let's see what Wikipedia has.
[12:25.400 --> 12:26.380]  Other media.
[13:04.030 --> 13:06.370]  So let's try something else.
[13:51.870 --> 14:02.410]  Apparently there was a computer game for the Atari called Big Fat Hairy Deal, which is a common expression of Garfield the Cat,
[14:22.530 --> 14:26.670]  and another one called Garfield A Tale of Two Kitties.
[14:28.110 --> 14:30.010]  Known as Garfield Two in Europe.
[14:58.190 --> 15:10.170]  Created as a partnership between the non-profit Professor Garfield Foundation and Ball State University, the site features Jim Davis' famous cat character who acts as a resident educat, or on a lazy spaceship.
[15:10.870 --> 15:16.310]  Robots help kids decide which activities to try first, and there are quite a few of them to try.
[15:16.810 --> 15:21.110]  You might drop by the art bot to watch videos on how to draw Garfield and other animals.
[15:24.420 --> 15:35.220]  So this is on commonsense.org, which I found using Google on Professor Garfield.
[15:55.990 --> 15:58.340]  And, of course, you know that Garfield hates Mondays.
[16:05.990 --> 16:12.360]  Some of you may not be old enough to remember Top Cat, the antivarabaric character of many moons ago.
[16:19.940 --> 16:22.160]  We go back to Crusader Rabbit.
[16:23.720 --> 16:25.880]  We go back to Crusader Rabbit.
[16:25.880 --> 16:26.680]  Okay.
[17:08.790 --> 17:10.190]  Yep.
[17:43.080 --> 17:44.600]  Here we go.
[18:18.540 --> 18:19.420]  Okay.
[18:36.380 --> 18:38.540]  You can't scare me.
[18:38.720 --> 18:39.280]  I teach.
[18:40.960 --> 18:42.920]  Good bumper sticker.
[19:04.360 --> 19:05.020]  Hmm.
[19:07.400 --> 19:15.620]  This one is at appadvice.com, slash app, slash Garfield dash forms of media, et cetera.
[19:20.640 --> 19:22.340]  Again, Google these.
[19:25.480 --> 19:26.940]  You can download it.
[19:28.540 --> 19:31.920]  You can download it, run it for your friends and family,
[19:36.520 --> 19:39.900]  all of these Garfield comics.
[19:41.860 --> 19:47.920]  When I was growing up, my mother surprised the heck out of me.
[19:48.880 --> 19:53.280]  She said she didn't mind my reading comic books, because I had to read them.
[20:53.780 --> 21:05.960]  Professor Garfield on cyberbullying, from 2012, presented in comic book format for iOS and available online for those without an iPod or iPad.
[21:57.600 --> 21:59.420]  I didn't know Garfield had a mother.
[21:59.820 --> 21:59.900]  Hmm.
[22:10.950 --> 22:15.610]  These are at garfield.fandom.com, under category animals.
[24:06.860 --> 24:08.600]  Professor Garfield on healthcare.
[24:11.080 --> 24:11.680]  Hmm.
[24:31.830 --> 24:42.710]  So, as you can see, Jim Davis and Ball State University are trying to, uh, develop a level of understanding by kids using our old friend Garfield the cat.
[24:51.520 --> 24:56.340]  Um, I think that's gonna call it a day right now.
[24:57.220 --> 24:57.580]  Excellent.
[24:57.880 --> 24:58.520]  No more questions?
[24:58.700 --> 24:59.260]  Any questions?
[25:00.720 --> 25:02.280]  I didn't have any in the Matrix chat.
[25:02.600 --> 25:04.800]  So, hey, thank you very much, Cheshire Catalyst.
[25:04.920 --> 25:07.320]  We really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us today.
[25:07.880 --> 25:08.160]  Thank you.
[25:08.160 --> 25:12.300]  And, uh, inform us about this, and we look forward to learning more about it.
[25:12.960 --> 25:13.760]  Thank you much.
[25:14.280 --> 25:14.880]  Thank you.
[25:36.940 --> 25:37.500]  Thank you.
[25:37.500 --> 25:37.760]  All right.
[25:37.860 --> 25:38.740]  Thank you so much.
[25:39.900 --> 25:41.260]  What happened to Garfield?
[25:41.260 --> 25:41.280]  Thank you so much.
[25:41.280 --> 25:41.460]  Team Garfield.
[25:41.580 --> 25:41.740]  Your heart is not 2025.