Roosevelt
Session 2007-061

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Transcript

Connected on 2007-10-24 10:00:00 from Park Ridge, IL, US

• 8:59 am
• TeacherHey! Tony here.
• Bugscope Teamhi there tony!
• Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope
• Bugscope Teamwe are preparing some presets for your session today. we start in an hour, right?

• Bugscope Teamhi bozo. any relation to the clown?
• Bugscope Teamhi scott!
• Bugscope Teamhey man
• 9:05 am
• StudentSorry, I got confused. I thought I was at my bowling league. Actually, we're just testing to see how students log in. Tony
• Bugscope Teamok, no problem at all. if you have any questions or problems, please just chat it to us.

• 9:10 am
• Bugscope TeamHi Becky

• Bugscope Teamspiracle

• Bugscope Teamthanks scott!
• Bugscope Teamoop I see Cate must be sitting at the 'scope
• Bugscope Teamyep, cate is on the esem, i'm at the bugops pc.
• Bugscope Teamfruit fly

• 9:16 am

• Bugscope Teampresets are done!
• Bugscope Teamsession is unlocked
• Bugscope Teamwe are ready!
• Bugscope Teamthis guy has one of those rostrums -- piercing mouthparts
• Bugscope Teamdid we lose our connection with the school?
• Bugscope Teami think they are just testing the logins.
• Bugscope Teamthe session doesn't start for another 40 minutes
• 9:22 am
• Bugscope Teamhi tony, we see you are logging in and out a lot. is everything okay? just testing stuff out? any questions just let us know. we are ready.
• Bugscope Teamby the way, we are done making presets, and the scope is unlocked.
• Bugscope Teamif you want to try and practice controlling the scope, you are free to do so.

• 9:29 am
• TeacherWe're using Safari. Have you had any issues with this browser?
• Bugscope Teami think safari is one of the better browsers to use.
• Bugscope TeamI am using it as well, from home
• Bugscope Teamsafari and firefox both test out real well.
• Bugscope Teaminternet explorer is ok too.
• Bugscope Teamyou should see controls for the scope on the right side of the browser window.
• Bugscope Teamyou may need to expand your browser window to see all the controls...
• 9:35 am
• Bugscope Teammrs. fallico, we can also give control of the scope over to students that are logged in. if you want us to do that, just let us know when and who.
• Bugscope TeamHi Allison!
• Bugscope Teamonly one person can control the scope at a time though.
• StudentI'm the tech support person here at Roosevelt.
• Bugscope TeamHi allison. Let us know if you have any questions. If you'd like to test the controls we can send them to your machine
• Bugscope Teamwell feel free to take the 'scope for a spin
• Bugscope Teamhi there allison, i'm a sysadmin with our group. a fellow geek!
• Bugscope Teamtest
• TeacherIf kids control the microscope, does it affect what the whole class sees?
  Bugscope TeamYes, everyone's browser updates on a 5 second interval so they all see the same chat, images, etc
• Bugscope Teamthe kids will all see what the person controlling does
• TeacherI'm going to try to drive the microcope now.
• Bugscope Teamcool
• Bugscope Teamcool! look out padestrians. ;)
• TeacherToday, since this is my first go with it, only the teacher will drive the microscope.
• Bugscope Teamsounds cool with us.
• Bugscope TeamThat sounds fine. The students are still welcome to login individually so they can ask questions directly

• 9:41 am

• Bugscope Teamthis is a pill bug a.k.a roly-poly

• 9:46 am

• TeacherWe're just learnng how to drive. Pretty easy.
• Bugscope Teamthat's what we like to hear!
• Bugscope Teamcontrolling this web interface is a bit like controlling the actual scope.
• Bugscope Teamthe best thing to do is drive all over, wherever it seems like it might be interesting, and take the mag up and down as well as adjusting focus. Everything you do will go into your database of images, and you will be able to call it up later.
• Bugscope Teamwhen the session is complete, you can view all the chat and images at your member page: http://bugscope.itg.uiuc.edu/members/2007-061

• 9:51 am

• Bugscope Teamthere is a lot of dirt on this sample

• Bugscope Teamhaltere
• Bugscope Teamlots of dirt everywhere it seems

• Bugscope Teami guess the bugs wanted to roll around in the dirt before i put them on

• TeacherKids should be here in about 5 minutes.
• TeacherThis is COOL!
• Bugscope Teamwe are ready for the kids!

• Bugscope TeamI was reading my desert book, and it said they have found dozens of viable organisms on such things as dragonflies -- mostly single-celled critters
• 9:56 am

• Bugscope Teamlike we just saw some mold spores, and there is pollen... and there is a resting/suspended animation state of some single-celled beasties in which they can be dried to maybe 7% their original volume.
• Bugscope Teamsome critters, when a pond dries up, can exist dry and essentially dead for a hundred years until they get reintroduced to water.
• Bugscope Teamthen their normal 3-week lifespan recommences and runs out
• Bugscope Teamthis is a bug with piercing mouthparts. we have called it a beetle but it is probably a true bug (Hemiptera)
• 10:04 am

• Bugscope TeamMrs Fallico be sure to take the mag down (or up) in some places so you can see where you are.

• Bugscope TeamLike you might want to see where this haltere is in relation to the body of the fruit fly.

• Bugscope Teamor here you can see what the other limbs look like
• Bugscope Teamhello students, welcome to bugscope!
• Studentwhat is this?

• Bugscope Teamthis is the claw of a pill bug.
• Studentwhere can u find these bugs?
• Bugscope Teamthose are those bugs that roll up into a ball. it's also called a roly-poly
• Bugscope Teama pill bug is a roly-poly
• Studentwhy does it have spikes on its feet
• StudentWhat do they eat?
  Bugscope Teamroly-poly's commonly feed on decaying vegetation.
• Bugscope Teampill bugs are Isopoda. iso means the same, and pod means foot -- all of the feet are the same shape
• 10:09 am
• Studentcan the spikes go in and back out
• Bugscope Teamthey have lots of feet, more than insects, and it must be more efficient when you have that many feet to have them be pointy
• Studentcan they pinch you?
  Bugscope Teamno they won't pinch you, they just scare easily and roll up into a ball as a defense mechanism
• Studentwhat time of the the year do they come out
  Bugscope Teamroly-poly's thrive in damp/moist areas, so they probably don't do well in deep cold, or desert areas.
• StudentShould we increas or decreas the magnification?
• Bugscope Teamthe spikes move but not in and out like you would expect
• Bugscope Teamtake the mag down so you can see where you are

• Bugscope Teamthese are so small they cannot bother you
• Studentdo they hurt

• StudentHow Many Legs Do They Have?

• Bugscope Teamthey are also called woodlice
• Studentare they in some type of shell
• Studenthow hard is the shell
• Bugscope Teamlooks like about 14 legs
• Bugscope Teamthe shell is made of chitin, also called cuticle
• Studentdoes it have spine

• Bugscope Teamand it is sort of like armadillo armor

• Studentwhat part should we look at now
• Studentis the shell on its back hard or does it easily break?
• Bugscope Teamon the top of the body (we are looking at the bottom) they do not have spines
• Studentwhat is the population of them in the world
• StudentDoes it have eyes?

• Bugscope Teamwell you could break it but it is pretty strong for its size

• Bugscope Teamyou are welcome to click on another preset if you like. but mrs. fallico has control of the scope.
• Studenthow does it eat

• Bugscope Teamthey are like little raspberries
• Bugscope Teamto the left and right
• Bugscope Teamnot just now though
• StudentWhat are those Little Spikes On The legs?
• Studentwhatn partbare we looking at
• StudentWhat are the stick looking things by the eye?
• Bugscope Teamask Mrs Fallico to find one of the eyes

• 10:15 am
• Studentwath
• Studentwhy are there spots

• Bugscope Teamthis is the forward part of the head
• Studenthow hard is their skin
  Bugscope TeamTheir skin is made out of a material very similar to our fingernails
• Bugscope Teamit is hard like a fingernail is hard

• Studentdo they have antenas?
• Studentare these holes
• Bugscope Teamthe spots are indentations, and the indentations make the whole of the chitin stronger
• Studentare they poisonis
• Bugscope Teamyes we should see antennae, and they are not poisonous

• Studentwhat is this
• Bugscope Teamthis is the arm of a beetle
• Bugscope Teamif you lower the magnification you can see the whole beetle
• Bugscope Teamhere would also be a good place to take the mag down to see where we are
• Studentwhat are those strings
  Bugscope Teamthe strings are a type of hair, called "setae". they help the insect to sense its environment.
• Studentdo those things move around
• Studentis that a a kind of pincher

• Studenthow hard is there skin
  Bugscope Teamthe skin on insects is a lot like our fingernails. so it's a bit hard, but not unbreakable.

• Studentwhat are the flakes
  Bugscope Teamthe bumby things are probably dirt and other kinds of debris, sometimes there are pollen grains or brochosomes
• Bugscope Teamit is not really skin -- it is an exoskeletonl, meaning that the skeleton on an insect in on the outside

• Studentwhy does it look like it has rincles
• StudentWhat is the texture of the skin?

• Bugscope Teamthe flakes are some kind of dirt that probably stuck to it after it died
• Bugscope TeamOOF
• 10:20 am
• Studentdo they have pinchers?

• Studentdo the strings fall off
  Bugscope Teamsome seta (strings) do fall off. but there are many hundred (thousands) of these setae on an insect, so they can afford to lose a few.
• Bugscope Teamthe chitin is textured to make it stronger and more resistant to bending

• Studentdoes it shed its exoskeleton

• Bugscope Teamyeah this does look like a water beetle

• Studenthow do they eat
  Bugscope Teamwater beetles are well adapted to living in the water. i'm not sure exactly how they eat, but they do carry a small packet of air under their body when they are in the water. this helps them to breath for long periods of time under water.
• Studentdoes it have a mouth
• Bugscope Teamwhat we were looking at was filterfeeding apparatus
• Studentare those eyes
• Bugscope Teamwe recognize it as a water beetle because those long setae fan out and allow it to rest on top of the water due to surface tension

• Studenthow many legs do they have
• Studentcan it see very well?

• Studentare beetles realated to roly polys
  Bugscope TeamThey are in different orders, so they are not closely related. Beetles are coleoptera whereas pillbugs/roly poleys are isopoda
  Bugscope TeamOh, sorry, they're even less related: Roly Poleys are more related to shrimp and lobsters (crustaceans), so they're not even insects technically
• Bugscope Teamwe could go look at the eyes now

• Bugscope Teamthe bumpy part here that is round is a compound eye
• Bugscope Teambeetles are insects and rolypolys are not insects, so they are not very related
• Bugscope Teamthe part that is near the side-top of the head

• Studentdo beetles see colors

• Bugscope Teamnow you can see the eye -- good job driving!

• Bugscope Teamyes they can see colors

• Bugscope Teamsome insects can see ultraviolet light as well as visible light
• Bugscope Teamyou could try to turn down the contrast here
• Bugscope Teamwe cannot see in the ultraviolet
• StudentAre all those strings hair?
• Studentwhy is there\ a lot of hair on that area on top
• Studentwhy do their heads look like honeycombs
• 10:25 am
• Studentwhat is the crack in the eye
• Bugscope Teamthe things that look lke honeycombs are the individual eye facets
• Studentwhats that crack there
  Bugscope Teamwhen we put insects into the microscope, they dry out, and quite often that means you'll see some cracks of shrinking of parts of the insect.

• Studentwhat part of the beatle is this
  Bugscope Teamthis is part of the compound eye
• StudentAre the lumps in the eye vanes?
• Bugscope Teamit is cracked because it is drying -- it is an old bug

• Studentwhy does it look like a turtle shell

• Studentwhat are those things sticking out
  Bugscope Teamthose are also setae.
• Bugscope Teamnow we see another compound eye

• Bugscope Teamthose are sensory setae
• StudentWhat are those white things

• Studentwhy does it look like corn stucking outon a basketball
• Bugscope Teaminsects are very "hairy" as you can see

• Bugscope Teamthe setae give the fruit fly information about wind movement
• Bugscope Teamon insects, we call these hairs setae, since they aren't mammals
• Bugscope Teammrs. fallico, try adjusting the focus here.
• Studentwhat are the little dots
• StudentWhat are those bumps?
• Bugscope Teamthe setae are connected to nerves so that they can feel through their tough skin, or exoskeletons, their surroundings
• Bugscope Teamif focus in one diurection doesn't work, then try the other way...
• Studentwhat are the white things used for
• Studentcan it see well
• Bugscope Teamthe little dots are part of the ommatidia -- which is what the eye facets are called

• Bugscope Teamyes this fly can see well
• Studentho

• Bugscope Teammost of its brain is dedicated to processing visual information

• Bugscope Teamyou can tell how much an insect relies on its eyes by how big they are and by how many ommatidia they have
• 10:30 am
• Studentwhat are the sticks
  Bugscope Teamthose are just different kinds of setae
• Bugscope Teamfruit flies have humongous eyes while an ant will have much smaller eyes
• Bugscope Teamnow you can see its antennae, and you can see those bumps on top of the head that are called ocelli.

• StudentWhat does it eat?
• Studentwhat does it eat?

• Bugscope Teamthis is a fruit fly, and it lives on juices from fruit

• Studentwhat are their wings made of
• StudentAre those lumps in the wings vanes?

• Studentwhat are those hairs for
  Bugscope Teamsetae on wings help to stabilize the insect during flight, by giving it more surface area.
• Bugscope Teamnotice that even the wings have the setae (hairs) on them....

• Student what are the bumpey parts on the wings
• Bugscope Teamit is a dipteran, from Diptera. That means it is a fly with two wings. di- means two, and ptera ] refers to wings
• StudentHow thick are the wings?
• Studentthe hairs are way smaller then mine why

• Bugscope Teamthese tiny setae may not be sensory -- they may have a more important function: giving more surface area to the wing with little added weight

• Studentwhat are those hairs used for?

• Bugscope Teamnow you can see scales, which are analogous to feathers on a bird

• Studentthats looks liek a car wash pieces

• Bugscope Teamyou can see that the body is above where we are

• 10:35 am

• Studentwhat is the thing and what is the dots
  Bugscope Teamthe dots are just bubbles in the sticky tape used to hold the insects down
• Studentwhat are the dots
• Bugscope Teamnow we see the mosquito's head
• Bugscope Teamnice driving mrs. fallico!
• Studentwhich way do we go to find the stinger?
  Bugscope Teamthe proboscis, that they use like a hypodermic needles is coming out from between the two big round eyes there
• Bugscope Teamthe dots in the backround are bubbles in the carbon tape
• Teacherthanks!
• Bugscope Teamwe are looking right at the proboscis..

• Studentwhich way do we go to see the stinger?

• Studentwhy is it the stinger curved
  Bugscope Teamif the stinger were really hard, it might break easier. if it has some flexibility to it, then it will survive longer.
• Bugscope Teamyep, you're just about centered on it now
• Studentwhere does the blood go
• Bugscope Teamthe proboscis is a sheath that has the sharp part inside it

• StudentAre they Really So WrinKly??

• Studentdoes it eat anything other than blood

• Bugscope Teamthe sharp part is a lancet, like a tiny lance

• Bugscope Teamthis is a female mosquito, and they are the ones that suck blood
• Bugscope Teamonly the females get the blood
• Bugscope Teamlike vampires...
• Bugscope Team;)
• Bugscope Teamthey need to have a blood meal so they can successfully lay their eggs
• StudentWhat are those triangle like things on the legs??
• Bugscope TeamIt's more of a piercing mouthpart than a stinger because they use it to feed on blood, whereas a bee doesn't do anything with the stinger but inject you
• StudentDo the males eat anything other than blood?
• Studentis it warm blooded or cold blooded
• Bugscope Teamthey need the energy from the blood
• Studentthank you
• Studentthank you we have to go
• Studentthank you
• Studentthank you i will charish this moment forever
• Student(=Thank you (g2g)
• Bugscope TeamI guess it would be cold-blooded, but they are different from reptiles, for example
• StudentThank You! Bye! We Have To Go! :)
• Studentthank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Studentthan soo much byebye
• Studentthanks :)
• Studentbye got
• Bugscope Team thanks guys I hope to see you all again! XD
• Studentthank you we have to go now.
• Studentthank you very much:DDDDD
• Bugscope Teamthey have hemolymph rather than blood
• Student;)
• Bugscope TeamThank You!
• Studentthanks again it was awesome!
• Student=)
• Bugscope TeamB-)
• Studentthanks=)
• Student??????????
• Student:) :0 g2go
• Studentbyebye
• 10:40 am
• Student;D
• Bugscope Team c ya
• Studentg2g
• Bugscope Teamlaterz
• Bugscope Teamhasta la vista
• TeacherAlas, our school days are so Fr aCtureD that our time is limited - - - Dr. Clishem
• Studentyou to!
• Bugscope Teamyou did great mrs. fallico.
• TeacherOn our end, this was about the best session I've ever seen. Dr. C
• Bugscope TeamGreat news!
• Bugscope Teamremember, all your images and chat are on your member hompage: http://bugscope.itg.uiuc.edu/members/2007-061
• Bugscope TeamAwesome. Chas wrote the software and is continuously updating it.
• Bugscope TeamYes, we definitely thrive on feedback
• Bugscope TeamHelps us decide what needs attention most desperately, and sometimes gives us new ideas for how to make the experience more worthwhile
• TeacherIs the teacher feedback on the teacher home page too?

• Bugscope Teamno, to give us feedback, visit this webpage: http://bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/feedback
• Bugscope Teamwell, i'm not sure if the feedback page is accessable from the member page, but just goto /feeback and you'll find it.
• 10:46 am
• TeacherOK. Thanks again. We'll see you in the future. TC
• Bugscope TeamIt's also linked to from the application page and the sign-up-to-participate page
• Bugscope TeamBye, thanks for logging on again!
• Bugscope Teamthanks mrs. fallico, see you soon i hope.
• Bugscope Teamok. i'm going to disable the session now. unless you have any more questions mrs. fallico?
• Bugscope Teamsession disabled. rxl stopped.