Hey Everyone!

Welcome to our interactive, relationship games course. This course is set up for interaction between me, your instructor, and you and your fellow students. Feel free to use the discussion forum to post any particular question you might have regarding the games we'll be playing with our dogs, and the methods we will be using. You can also use this forum to share your story, tell us about the dog your using, your goals with your dog, ect.. We love to hear from you on our discussion forum.

If you have any questions on the technical side of things, please emailryan@leerburg.com for help regarding video uploads, and the devices being used.

This first week is a breif refresher on Marker training, with a short quiz at the end. Feel free to brush up on your marker training, and load a test video into the student video tab. Just to be sure things are working for you on the technical side.

Although all of the weeks and thier games and methods are available for you to surf through, we will be taking things one week at a time. Covering each week accordingly. Each week has two games, with the exception of week 3 with restrained recall. You can either load an individual video for each game, or load a video showing your training with both games. We ask that videos are not longer than 2 minutes per game.

Video submissions for each weeks games must be submitted by no later than 12:00am (central standard time) on Sunday evening by the end of each week. If videos are not able to be uploaded by that time, you will have to wait until the 9th and final week for make up videos during our conclusion.

During week 9, you will also have the opportunity to load a compilation video of you and your dog performing the games learned in the course. This video is to be filmed in one clip performing multiple games in the same video. This compilation video is not manditory, but may possibly be featured in a compiled course video in a Leerburg newsletter. Again, this optional video will be loaded at the end of the course in week 9.

This is a pass/fail course, and what we need in order for you to pass are video submissions of the games we are playing each week. Submissions of every video guarantee a passing grade. There is some leeway with pass/fail when certain limitations are in effect like the physical health and condition of the dog and handler, or any potential conflict with long term goals, or past, present and future conflicts in relation to those goals.

We will be hosting a live chat call every Monday evening at 8pm central standard time beginning on Monday, February 9th. This call will continue at this time until the 9th and final week of the course. An email will be sent to you on the Monday of the call with a link you can follow to connect. During the call, we generally devote the first half to the previous weeks work, and the second half to forthcoming weeks work. If you are not able to make the call, it will be recorded and available in the live chat tab the following day.

Feel free to contact me by email, here on the U site, anytime. If you have a dog related question, please think about posting it in the discussion forum so that your fellow students might also gain some insight or be able to relate in some way.

Thanks again everyone!

Looking forward to working with you!

Mark

Hello, everyone!

If you are having trouble uploading your video, please first refer to the info below to see if you might have a simple fix.  If the information you need is not in the text below, feel free to email Ryan@leerburg.com for any other/further issues.

Thanks!

First thing to test if you are having video upload issues is the speed of your connection from the same device and location you are trying to upload from. If you are using your phone to upload it is important that you run the speed test on your phone.

If you are on an iPhone, iPad or Android device go to your app store and find the speedtest.net app. If you are on a laptop or desktop open your browser and go to http://speedtest.net

From these speed tests you will get 3 numbers, ping, upload speed, and download speed. The important number here is the upload speed. Since you are “uploading” your video to our university site. Your upload speed should be 1.0 Mbps or greater. 1.0+Mbps upload (and 4.0+Mbps download) is broadband internet (according to the FCC). Make sure your run the speed test, often advertised speeds are not the speed you are actually getting.

With anything slower than 1.0 Mbps upload you may have issues. If your internet connection is stable, then slower than 1.0 Mbps may work, but it will still be slow. If you are stuck on a slow connection it is best to do your uploading from any freely available Wi-Fi hotspot at local businesses. McDonalds, Starbucks, the Library etc... They will likely have high speed broadband internet. You can run the speed test from there to confirm.

There are some alternative sites you could use to upload your video. One is using youtube.com. YouTube’s uploader may be able to handle slow upload connections a little better than our uploader. When you upload your video to YouTube, make sure you set embedding to enabled on your video. You can take that embed code and paste it into the video discussion forum in your class.
We are working on improvements to our video uploader in early 2015 to improve the experience with the uploading process

If you have any questions/concerns/issues/comments on the uploading system, please email me at ryan@leerburg.com . Make sure to include your speedtest results. Any feedback you offer helps us improve our system!

Hey Everyone!

Welcome to our interactive, relationship games course. This course is set up for interaction between me, your instructor, and you and your fellow students. Feel free to use the discussion forum to post any particular question you might have regarding the games we'll be playing with our dogs, and the methods we will be using. You can also use this forum to share your story, tell us about the dog your using, your goals with your dog, ect.. We love to hear from you on our discussion forum.

If you have any questions on the technical side of things, please emailryan@leerburg.com for help regarding video uploads, and the devices being used.

This first week is a breif refresher on Marker training, with a short quiz at the end. Feel free to brush up on your marker training, and load a test video into the student video tab. Just to be sure things are working for you on the technical side.

Although all of the weeks and thier games and methods are available for you to surf through, we will be taking things one week at a time. Covering each week accordingly. Each week has two games, with the exception of week 3 with restrained recall. You can either load an individual video for each game, or load a video showing your training with both games. We ask that videos are not longer than 2 minutes per game.

Video submissions for each weeks games must be submitted by no later than 12:00am (central standard time) on Sunday evening by the end of each week. If videos are not able to be uploaded by that time, you will have to wait until the 9th and final week for make up videos during our conclusion.   All make up work is to be uploaded in the 9th week's video thread, and not in the original video thread pertaining to that weeks work.

During week 9, you will also have the opportunity to load a compilation video of you and your dog performing the games learned in the course. This video is to be filmed in one clip performing multiple games in the same video. This compilation video is not manditory, but may possibly be featured in a compiled course video in a Leerburg newsletter. Again, this optional video will be loaded at the end of the course in week 9.

This is a pass/fail course, and what we need in order for you to pass are video submissions of the games we are playing each week. Submissions of every video guarantee a passing grade. There is some leeway with pass/fail when certain limitations are in effect like the physical health and condition of the dog and handler, or any potential conflict with long term goals, or past, present and future conflicts in relation to those goals.

We will be hosting a live chat call every Monday evening at 8pm central standard time beginning on Monday, June 9th. This call will continue at this time until the 9th and final week of the course. An email will be sent to you on the Monday of the call with a link you can follow to connect. During the call we generally devote the first half to the previous weeks work, and the second half to forthcoming weeks work. If you are not able to make the call, it will be recorded and available in the live chat tab the following day.

Feel free to contact me by email, here on the U site, anytime. If you have a dog related question, please think about posting it in the discussion forum so that your fellow students might also gain some insight or be able to relate in some way.

Thanks again everyone!

Looking forward to working with you!

Mark