00:00.00 Alan Here we go gang rock guard 77 with Noel and the course of World Rock art out of Southeast Asia and all around the globe noel take it away where does this? How can they get more information on this course. First of all. 00:15.70 Noel Hidalgo Tan Cool so information of the course can be found on our website. It's WWWDotCMeoSEAMEODashSpaSBAFASlashRock art and I'm sure ah will but. 00:31.36 Alan Can you could you do that again. Yeah, do that do that again because I didn't get that. 00:35.32 Noel Hidalgo Tan Yes, ah http://wwwwdotcbodashspffaseameodashspafa.org/rockart 00:47.54 Alan Okay, and if I was going to Google the course. What's it called? What's it called. 00:54.34 Noel Hidalgo Tan And um, rock art in Southeast Asia and the world and I also have a link on my on my my personal website so southeast http://asianarcheology.com/rock art 00:58.93 Alan Okay. 01:04.41 Alan Please please? Um, okay and when does it get started when does it? unveil. 01:11.29 Noel Hidalgo Tan So it starts on second of may it'll run all the way to twenty fourth of June so there'll be seven weeks of of lectures every new lectures come up every Monday about 3 or 4 of them every week 01:18.57 Alan Okay. 01:29.35 Noel Hidalgo Tan And then you can follow them in your own time that most of the lectures are around half an hour long some of them are ah longer but not not not most of them. Um, you follow lectures. You can do the readings if you want and then do a small quiz at the end. In between the in between the course in the team. The lectures. We also have a virtual site visits so we have a virtual site visit to the showveh caves we have a virtual site visit to um guad tambun in Malaysia which is one of the sites that I worked on in in my ma work. And then next next week I'm I'm going out of Bangkok we're going to film a virtual site visit in a place called Saraburi it's ah, there's a rock outside in ah in ah in a province near near Bangkok where you have a buddhist temple but there's also rock art in the in the. But as temple to. 02:27.42 Alan Got you So when they sign up for this. Is there a cost. 02:35.82 Noel Hidalgo Tan Yes, so the the courses is about $30 thirty us dollars it's not terribly expensive but I think it's well well worth for what for what you're getting. You're getting. 02:47.61 Alan No. 02:54.67 Noel Hidalgo Tan You're getting to learn about rock art from around the world from the very experts from that part of the world. 03:01.36 Alan Is the course associated with these sort of academic institutions so they can get course credit or is this considered to be something independent of that. 03:12.13 Noel Hidalgo Tan So the course is is more general than academic but Cio the the spa that the center that I work for. We are a trading institution we we there is a certificate at the end of the course and in fact, we. 03:16.33 Alan Um, okay. Yes. 03:27.45 Alan Okay. 03:30.60 Noel Hidalgo Tan We we have two levels ofertification we have just you know just the generic so certificate of participation. But if you if you do want to get a certificate or completion. You do have to finish all the quizzes to show that you have understood the the courses. 03:34.98 Alan Um. 03:48.14 Noel Hidalgo Tan In the past we have used the 2 levels of of so like for the bones cost that we first did you, you have to get the certificate of completion in order to join our physical workshops in the future. 04:01.63 Alan Oh I see. Okay so the 2 levels of courses. Ah 2 levels of of sort of finishing this? Um, Additionally, what are the what are the questions I am I should I ask you? Oh um, so you said there's about 21 Different sort of Modules or lectures am I correct 21 presentations. Yeah, um, and so there are there multiple per week. 04:25.68 Noel Hidalgo Tan Something like that. Yes, yes, 21 ish 04:33.67 Noel Hidalgo Tan Yes, you you get about maybe 3 or 4 a week and and us. 04:38.39 Alan I see okay and how many of these would they would one have to attend to so to be to be considered that they completed the course is. 04:49.26 Noel Hidalgo Tan All of them you have to finish all the quizzes. 04:55.70 Alan Ah, all right? got you? So it's a rigorous course with an important level of completion. 05:00.66 Noel Hidalgo Tan So I mean it's is it is you know you're gonna have to work for it. So the could or completion. But if youre if you're gonna if you want to be a tourist you can You can just be a tourist you can come in and you know it. So. 05:08.26 Alan Got you got you I like thing hear come in is yeah. 05:18.85 Noel Hidalgo Tan We've designed a course so that you know if you if you want to take it Seriously, you can if you want to just ah, come by the center lectures. You also can. 05:26.84 Alan Great, great and the way these are set up. We can access them basically anytime even if for that week is over I could go back and pick up the ones I missed am I correct or don't okay. 05:38.93 Noel Hidalgo Tan Yeah, there there will be there will be a ah few live events which we're still trying to to arrange so you know like like I said the the last time Ron people really missed interacting with the with the with the lectures so we are we are trying to. 05:44.85 Alan Oh okay. 05:51.98 Alan Yeah, yeah, ah. 05:58.20 Noel Hidalgo Tan To tie in 2 or 3 live question and answer sessions. It's a lot harder. Yeah, it's a lot harder than it looks because everyone's from different time zones. So so we're trying to that has to be live. 06:01.50 Alan So like a Q at Q and a and will that be ah of will it be that has to be lot I Guess oh yeah I Guess that's be live and and it has to be something sort of will it be telephonic. Yeah and it will it be visual as well as. 06:18.67 Noel Hidalgo Tan Yes, it'll be like a webinar so big a a Zoom meeting or ah or a Google so that's so that's that something that that I think I think people missed from the last time so we really want to put that in. 06:18.70 Alan Auditory or no, Ah, yeah yeah, oh ah, how how cool is that I love it this this is well this is a tremendous amount of work you're putting into this. 06:36.10 Noel Hidalgo Tan Ah, it is. 06:37.65 Alan I Mean this is ah I mean I'm I'm thinking about this more and more and I'm going. Oh my word. What Ah what an effort to really convene such a complex platform and probably to to get all of these individuals signed up and committed and and. To get the material available on a singular platform to present this kind of complex multifaceted worldwide series of lectures I'm impressed. Needless to say. 07:08.44 Noel Hidalgo Tan Yeah I I think there's there's also you know ah set time and place has to do with it I Don't think there's any there I don't think there are many organizations around the world that can they can do something like this. So ah because I'm not I'm not a pure academic and I belong to a regional training center. 07:26.87 Alan Right. 07:28.20 Noel Hidalgo Tan So that that allows me this opportunity to convene the course like this because we already do regional trainings. 07:31.35 Alan So you have so you have the sophistication. You've got the platforms. You've got the technology at your fingertips where other other places couldn't couldn't do this. 07:38.55 Noel Hidalgo Tan Yeah, yeah, that's right? And of course you know us coming out of covid where where we've we've come through this two or three years of just hellish being unable to do anything in person so we were were well poised to. You know it was the right time and place to do something like this. 07:58.30 Alan Well I'm I'm I'm impressed. Um, what else should I ask you to assist you in sort of coming together and and capturing the ah imagination and interest in our audience. 08:14.56 Noel Hidalgo Tan Well, you know to to to you who's listening to this I Hope I hope I've I've ah I hope this course sounds like something you might be interested in and I hope to to see you there I Hope you can join us or you know tell your friends because I really. And really proud about the the course that we've put together and I really want to get this word out to everyone. 08:38.84 Alan Is there some sort of ah, an overview ah visual overview of what you've got going on your website or on a platform that when I go there to the website I can see the various people in presentations have you gotten that far? Yes, yeah. 08:53.10 Noel Hidalgo Tan Yes, yes, so the course website has has all the information that you have so it has the the outline of the the course outline has ah profiles of all the speakers. It has information of how you join everything is done through Google classroom. That's that's the easier three there. 08:57.21 Alan Okay. 09:03.46 Alan Oh fantastic. 09:09.57 Alan Look at. 09:12.63 Noel Hidalgo Tan Been able to do it and you know we we are trying to find this way where it's It's it. It is yeah I Don I don't think anyone's had difficulties with it. You know, invariably I Always find you know the the launch days. 09:17.30 Alan Is that a user friendly platform. 09:31.22 Alan Yeah. 09:31.71 Noel Hidalgo Tan The hardest but I've we've done this once before. So I think we've done most of mistakes last time around. 09:38.41 Alan Well, that's good. That's very exciting. Well I'm I'm certainly interested in in attending both as a student and perhaps even a presenter and it's rather exciting to know more about this I was interested when I first heard about it and I yeah. Thought of you again when we you know sort of entertained an ocean to interact and knew that this was gonna be coming up shortly. So yeah, So I So and I'd Recommend. Ah, yeah, yeah, and I'd recommend it to our listeners who want to learn something about rock art on a much more. 10:03.49 Noel Hidalgo Tan Yeah, thanks for having me and thanks thanks for allowing me this opportunity to talk about it. 10:17.18 Alan Broader scale than anything I'm able to produce in a 1 hour ah cap you know capture from a singular individual I think that's it for now. 10:24.89 Noel Hidalgo Tan So I'll add some links to the show notes like I suppose to to direct you to where to go for this course. 10:30.44 Alan app app absolutely and and as I get people that are interested in sending me email I'm going to forward it to you and see if we can get him signed up but the sounds like the investment of $30 is is the biggest bargain this side of the Peco. 10:45.76 Noel Hidalgo Tan Yeah, we we we didn't price it to. We're not making a profit out of this. That's true that the other thing. 10:50.19 Alan I know I don't think so ah but god bless you? that's it for now see you next week gang see on the flip flo. 11:01.29 Noel Hidalgo Tan Thanks bye.