Prospect School
Session 2011-086

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Transcript

Connected on 2011-11-02 14:00:00 from DuPage, Illinois, United States

• 12:51 pm
• Bugscope Teamspecimen chamber is pumping down
• 1:19 pm

• 1:25 pm

• 1:31 pm

• 1:37 pm

• 1:43 pm

• 1:51 pm

• 1:56 pm

• 2:03 pm
• Bugscope Teampresets are all made, and we are ready to roll!
• Bugscope TeamHello Mrs Durham!
• Bugscope TeamWhere are you from?
• Guestthis is too cool! I am doing ec for a college education course!
• GuestI am from Kennewick, WA
• Bugscope TeamWelcome to Bugscope!
• Bugscope TeamMrs D I am worried that today's classroom may not log in.
• Bugscope TeamI have not heard from them yet, and they were due now.
• Guestwhy is that?
• Bugscope Teamlikely we signed them up a few months ago, and they forgot. I called earlier today and left a message, but I should've written or called earlier.
• Bugscope Teamanyway, I just gave you control of the microscope
• Bugscope Teamif they show up I will give them control

• Bugscope Teamhaha zoom!

• Guestalright! i just need a few minutes!

• Bugscope Teamthat was the tip of the abdomen of the wasp, earlier
• 2:08 pm
• Bugscope Teamthis is a roach claw, duh

• Bugscope Teamthis is one of the ants

• Bugscope Teamyou can take the mag up or down or click to center, etc. looks like you have it figured out
• Bugscope Teamwe start out by giving the teacher control
• Bugscope Teamif she/he logs students in as well, they can type questions to us
• Guestok, can you give the students control?
• Bugscope Teamand if the teacher allows, we can give students control of the 'scope, one at a time
• Guestalright, thats awesome!
• Bugscope Teamjust like I gave you control
• Guestheres another random question, you seem like your techy. how do i take a screen shot?
• Bugscope Teamyou're driving a $600,000 scanning electron microscope from Kennewick
• Guestwow!!
• Bugscope Teamhaha no I am a Luddite

• Bugscope Teamyou would do a screen capture -- sometimes it's printscreen
• Guesthaha
• Bugscope Teamthis is all being saved but not quite in this configuration
• Bugscope Teamhttp://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2011-086
• Bugscope Teamthat is the member page for this session, and presently you are the only member
• Bugscope TeamI can track down one of the ubernerds and ask...
• 2:14 pm
• Guestthat didn't open anything on my computer!
• GuestI have a prt sc key but it doesnt do anything
• Bugscope Teamthere's a way to copy it to clipboard on a windows machine; sometimes you don't realize it's copied 'til you take a look
• GuestI figured it out!
• Bugscope Teamokay you can come work for us now
• Guestlol sweet!
• Guestso how long do classrooms have this access for?
  Bugscope Teamoften we are up for an hour for a given classroom
• Bugscope Teamwe do only two sessions a week, and sometimes they do run longer, even for a few hours
• Guestthats cool, where are you located?
• Bugscope Teamthis is the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Serious Middle of Nowhere USA
• Bugscope Teamwe have been doing this for almost 13 years
• Bugscope TeamK-12 outreach
• Bugscope Teamit is super fun when there are kids on
• 2:19 pm
• Bugscope Teamobviously, perhaps, you can connect from anywhere in the world
• Guestwow!
• Bugscope Teamwe've done over 600 sessions
• Bugscope Teammostly with people in the U.S.
• GuestI will for sure be contacting you guys in a year or two when I have my own classroom!
  Bugscope Teamwhen you apply tell us you tried us out one day
• GuestI will, I plan on being a middle school science teacher and this fits in perfectly!
• Bugscope Teamthere was an article about us in Science recently, and they gave us a prize...
• Bugscope Teamthat made us super popular all of a sudden, and now we have to book months ahead with classrooms
• Guestwhoa! I will look that up!
• GuestI had no idea this existed until a couple weeks ago!
• Bugscope Teamon the front Bugscope page you can see notice of it, and there's a link to the article
• GuestI'll check that out
• Guesthow many of you are there? that do this?
• Bugscope TeamI wrote something that went into Microscopy Today that explains it a little better.
• 2:24 pm
• Bugscope TeamRight now, with Cate out, there's just me. If I need help we have a really good sysadmin, and I can also get Chas, who started with us when he was 15 and rewrote the control software.
• Bugscope Teamit's free...
• GuestI will, well I better be off and get to class. I will for sure be on later when you have another class! I would love to see what a teacher does with this.
• Bugscope TeamI think it's good publicity for the University and the Beckman Institute
• Bugscope TeamYou can check out the archived sessions.
• GuestThank you so much! This is an amazing program and I will spread the word on you guys here in WA
• Bugscope TeamThank You, Mrs D.
• GuestI already have done that!
  Bugscope Teamha of course
• Bugscope Teammy lone customer for the day
• Guestare you a student?
  Bugscope Teamno I'm an electron microscopist, and I manage the Microscopy Suite here at the nerd paradise
• Guesthaha well better then nothing!
  Bugscope Teamexactically
• Guestway better then a student then!
  Bugscope Teamwell I have a job...
• Guestthats true!
• Bugscope Teamphone call...
• 2:29 pm
• Bugscope Teamstill me, on another confuser
• Bugscope Teamokay I am back in the unreal world, whatever
• Bugscope TeamI know you have to go to class.
• Bugscope Teamsee you online, and Thank You, Mrs D
• Bugscope TeamI'm shutting down but very much appreciate getting to talk with you.