Connected on 2012-03-01 12:30:00
from , , Turks and Caicos Islands
- 12:01 pm
- Bugscope Teamwe have just finished the presets and are ready to roll
- Bugscope Teamyes! good to go!
- Bugscope Teamthis is a leafhopper
- 12:06 pm
- Bugscope Teamhi John
- Bugscope Teamwhere are you?
- GuestHello - Austin Texas
- Bugscope Teamhaha I am talking w my mom in Austin right now
- Guest:)
- Bugscope TeamDude I gave you control of the 'scope if you want.
- Bugscope Teamyou can select from the presets, change mag, etc.
- Bugscope Teamantenna and eye
- Bugscope Teamthe eye is lower right
- Bugscope Teamcompound eye
- Bugscope Teamthe presets are available on the lefthand screen
- Bugscope Teamif you click on one the 'scope will drive to that place on the stub
- 12:11 pm
- Guestwow very cool
- Bugscope Teamyou're a natural
- Guesta former co-worker of mine has done some projects with you before
- Bugscope Teamtotally cool
- GuestI'm not interrupting anything am i?
- Bugscope Teamwe're set up to work w a school in Turks & Caicos
- Bugscope Teamand I'm off the phone with my mom
- Bugscope Teamthey're connecting at 12:30, so we're cool, DaddyO
- Bugscope Teamwould I recognize your coworker?
- 12:16 pm
- Guestgreat. I work with an Education Telecommunications Network
Bugscope Teamsweet
- Bugscope Teamwe've been doing this for 13 years
- GuestGerri Magalia
Bugscope Teamoh not sure I remember
- GuestWe are trying to highlight some of these great tools on our website
- GuestI was looking at broadband intensive web applications
- Guesttetnplus.net
Bugscope Teamcool I will look it up
- Bugscope Teamwe do this twice a week, and it is often the most fun thing we do during a week. the kids get really excited
- Guestbut we want to add a section on advanced apps like bugscope
- GuestWe deal primarily with video conferences
Bugscope Teamwe purposely don't do video
- Guestis text chat the primary means of interaction
- Bugscope Teamthe kids, when they have their own computers, or when they share, like two to a computer, sense that the are being given a lot of freedom in controlling the discourse
- Guestmakes sense to me.
- Bugscope Teama downside is that we do not have benchmarks or measures of how effective we might be. we leave that up to the teachers
- 12:21 pm
- Bugscope Teamit's democratic, in a way, and the kids have more votes. usually there are two or three of us on this end, answering Q's
- Bugscope Teamwe're set up to work with K through 12, and however the school is equipped, this works
- Guest?
- Guestso one guest is given control at a time
Bugscope Teamyes one person is given control at a time or there would be anarchy
- Bugscope Teamin the old days... once we connected with a school in California, and in midsession they said hey it's been great but our principal needs to check his email now, so Bye!
- Guestlol
- Bugscope Teamwhen the teacher logs in, she or he shows up in red on the righthand screen and has control automatically
- Bugscope Teambut we can confer control to anyone we want
- Bugscope Teamstudents log in in blue, and our software is set up to detect that they are in the same domain
- GuestSo do you mind if I direct a few of our teachers here in texas your way with a link and short blurb on our site?
Bugscope Teamabsolutely no problem, John. our biggest trouble is that we have become popular and are usually booked months in advance
- 12:27 pm
- Bugscope Teamwe got some publicity from the science teachers association, and on the heels of that we got an award from Science magazine. our numbers shot way up.
- Guest:)
- Bugscope Teamwe share the microscope with researchers, so we can do this only an average of two times per week
- GuestI can think of worse problems
Bugscope Teamhaha Yeah
- GuestAllright, I'll get out of your hair before your classes come in. Thanks for chatting with me
Bugscope Teamgood to talk with you, John. Thank you.
- Bugscope Teamhope they haven't forgotten us
- 12:34 pm
- Bugscope Team...
- 12:49 pm
- Bugscope TeamI think we (I) screwed this up. I set it up for 12:30 our time, 1:30 their time. We sent a confirmation, but it looks like they'd wanted to work an hour earlier.
- Bugscope TeamI'll save the sample.
- 1:28 pm
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- 1:35 pm
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- 1:40 pm
- Bugscope Teamsweet!
- Bugscope TeamHi Fran!
- 1:45 pm
- Bugscope Teamyou now have control of the microscope
- Bugscope Teamthere are eight presets on the lefthand screen that you can select from, by clicking
- Bugscope Teamthe microscope will drive to that place
- Bugscope TeamI just clicked the preset for the wasp head
- Bugscope Teamyou can also change the mag, and you can click within the image with your mouse to get the image to center on that point
- Bugscope Teamyou can focus and change brightness/contrast as well
- TeacherHi guys
- TeacherThanks for setting me up
- Bugscope Teamphew I am glad you are on
- Bugscope TeamI am so sorry -- I messed the time zones up
- TeacherHave some teachers here with me
- Bugscope Teamtotally cool
- Bugscope Teamplease tell them I apologize
- TeacherThey are seeing the message....no problem
- TeacherWhich insect are we viewing right now?
- Bugscope Teamif you click on the lefthand arrow you can see that we have 7 presets from which to choose, right now
- Bugscope Teamthis is the head of a wasp
- Bugscope Teamyou can see its compound eyes, and its mandibles, which open side to side like a gate
- 1:50 pm
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that one of the antennae is busted off
- Bugscope Teamthe little 'feelers' below the mandibles are palps, which help the wasp taste and manipulate food
- Bugscope Teamyou have the option, because you are driving -- you have control -- to change mag, etc.
- Bugscope TeamI just did that, you can see
- Bugscope Teamstudents, if they have computers, as in a computer lab, can also log in
- Bugscope Teamstudents can ask us questions, and they can also be given control if you let us do that
- Teacherthey would like to see the entire body of the wasp
Bugscope Teamthe wasp is so big we cannot see all of it at one time
- Bugscope Teamthis is the thorax, which is what the six legs are attached to
- Bugscope Teamyou can see that there is some fungus on its thorax
- Bugscope Teamwe are still on the thorax
- Bugscope Teamthis, now, is the abdomen
- Bugscope Teamand you can see the wings, folded, to the sides
- Bugscope Teamnow you can see the stinger, which is dirty
- 1:56 pm
- Teacherplease let us see the fruit fly
- Bugscope Teamthis is a closeup of the antenna, showing some of the chemoreceptors the wasp uses when it smells the air
- Bugscope Teamthe fruit fly is smaller and we can likely see all of it at once
- Bugscope Teamthis is part of the fruitfly's compound eye
- Bugscope Teamthe individual facets are called ommatidia
- Bugscope Teamthe little spikes are said to help the fruitfly sense wind speed and direction
- Bugscope Teamthere is some dust-like stuff on the surface of the fruitfly
- Bugscope Teamthis is one of its claws
- Teacherwhich part is this?
Bugscope Teamthis is one of six claws
- Bugscope Teamthere are two hook-like parts and the frilly part is what it uses to help it stick to ceilings, glass, surfaces...
- 2:01 pm
- Bugscope Teamthis is much larger -- the grasshopper's claw
- Bugscope Teamone of them
- Bugscope Teamthis is the leafhopper
- Bugscope Teamthe bubble to the left of it is silver paint
- Teacherwhy are grasshoppers poisonous to cattle
Bugscope Teamit may be what they eat, or it may be that they simply cannot be digested
- Bugscope Teamthe exoskeleton is made of chitin, like our fingernails
- Bugscope Teamor like a shrimp shell
- Bugscope TeamI imagine if cattle eat a lot of them there is a problem digesting the chitin
- Teacherbye guys
- Teacherthank you, we have to go, it was a pleasure, we will sign up for another session and stay in touch
Bugscope TeamThank You!
- Bugscope TeamBye!
