Session 2007-062 with Carver Elementary

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Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2007-10-22 12:00:00 from Los Angeles, CA, US

• 12:02pm
• Bugscope Team hello bull dog, welcome to bugscope!
• Bugscope Team aHello Bulldog!
• Bugscope Team Oop he is gone.
• Bugscope Team There he is!
• Bugscope Team Hello!
• Guest Hello Scott
• Bugscope Team Welcome to bugscope.
• Guest Thanks
• Guest Thanks
• Bugscope Team Bull Dog where are you from?
• Guest Thank you for letting me see what is happening
• Guest Butler University Indianapolis
• Bugscope Team You are the only participant we have right now -- our school has yet to log in.
• Bugscope Team Would you like to drive?
• Guest OK I will wait
• Bugscope Team You now have control of the microscope.
• Bugscope Team why don't you try controlling the microscope while we are waiting. it's cool to do it! heh.

• Bugscope Team Try clicking on one of the presets to the right, or changing the mag.

• Bugscope Team ouch, went off the stage. bulldog, when driving, click once to start moving, click AGAIN to stop.

• Bugscope Team the holey background is carbon tape

• Bugscope Team yes, or click to center is fine too. good job
• Bugscope Team also, let us know if you have any questions

• Bugscope Team if you want to goto another interesting insect, just click on a preset. that will take you there automatically.
• 12:07pm

• Bugscope Team yeah you are the supreme ruler if the school never shows up, which we are starting to worry about.

• Bugscope Team this is an ant's antenna

• Bugscope Team Bull dog, usually when we have a live session running, there is a constant chat going on between the students and us (the Bugscope team)
• 12:12pm
• Bugscope Team Bull Dog let us know if you have any questions.
• Guest Scott - how do I find another bug on here?
  Bugscope Team You can quick jump to somewhere else by clicking a preset image to the right of the chat lines
• Bugscope Team Go to a preset.
• Bugscope Team That will take you to another bug.
• Bugscope Team presets are in the lower right corner

• Bugscope Team You could technically use the "click to drive" tool to explore as well, the presets are just an easier way of jumping from place to place
• Bugscope Team then you can explore from there
• Bugscope Team we are looking at some pollen grains, i believe
• Bugscope Team you can change the mag to see where these pollen grains on

• Bugscope Team this is a beetle head...i think
• Guest This is alot of fun but I am also willing to let the students take control IF they are there
• Bugscope Team we love it when students drive the scope.
• Bugscope Team it looks like there was some miscommunication about today's session...it is all yours for now
• Bugscope Team Hey Bull Dog (a Beatles song); there will be no kids. Do you have anyone there who would like to drive?
• Bugscope Team there is nothing quite like a 10-15 year old controlling a $750,000.00 microscope!
• Bugscope Team Yeah, if you can find some they're welcome to get on. They can load up the interface on more computers as well
• 12:18pm

• Bugscope Team The book I am reading says that they have collected sometimes as many as 15 viable spores, bacteria, crustaceans in suspended animation, etc., from flying insects such as dragonflies
• Guest Hey Scott - If I can sign up for a session from Indianapolis, can we send you other samples other than bugs?
• 12:23pm
• Bugscope Team Sure. What would you like to send?
• Bugscope Team bye bye
• Bugscope Team We use bugs primarily because they have tiny features that the kids can recognize.
• Guest Maybe the flower petals, or cork, or the inside of a digital camera.
• Bugscope Team Bye Annie!
• Bugscope Team sure that all sounds good. pollen from Stargazer lilies, milkweed seedlings, salt from Wendy's,...
• Bugscope Team the stage is 1.75 inches in diameter
• Bugscope Team so we want to choose small samples
• Guest Do you have any mold images now on your system? Where?
• Bugscope Team preset no 4
• Guest Great - I will go there now.
• Bugscope Team and otherwise they are dispersed through lots of other session datasets

• Bugscope Team there are also bacteria in the spaces between some of the ommatidia

• Bugscope Team this is a good place for click to center

• Bugscope Team but you are doing a great job
• 12:29pm

• Bugscope Team see the micron bar? a bacillus is 2 microns long, generally

• Bugscope Team these are collapsed, a bit, from drying
• Bugscope Team now a tiny change in focus

• Guest Is there asignmentism adustments?
• Bugscope Team no I can do that here
• Bugscope Team scott is sitting at the scope now, working on the astig
• 12:34pm
• Guest OK thanks-excellent - what is your KV and beam Diameter?
• Bugscope Team I took the sample much closer to the pole piece
• Bugscope Team 5 kV, 2.1 nm
• Bugscope Team but the liner tube needs to be cleaned, and I cannot do that myself
• Bugscope Team not without getting in trouble with FEI
• Bugscope Team we were working at a long working distance so the kids could see more of the bugs
• Bugscope Team so conditions were not good for high mag work
• Bugscope Team still it looks crappy
• Guest Great thanks. I meet with Students on Mondays at two high schools in Indianapolis area, how can I schedule a session in the morning or afternoon some Monday?
  Bugscope Team http://bugscope.itg.uiuc.edu/apply
• Bugscope Team go ahead and fill out an online application so we can schedule it officially and give you your own database of images
• Bugscope Team and request the time you want
• Bugscope Team and check out http://bugscope.itg.uiuc.edu for general information about the bugscope project.
• Bugscope Team we are glad to have had you log on today because otherwise all of our effort was wasted
• Bugscope Team any question, send us an email at bugscope@bugscope.itg.uiuc.edu
• Guest OK - I have a 2007 -### but I can not remeber right now, so I will back later about some monday. Thanks.
• Bugscope Team Kendra can schedule time for you
• Bugscope Team I am often out on Monday afternoons, but the morning is good for me
• 12:39pm
• Bugscope Team i can look it up, what is your name?
• Guest Great, thanks again and you can have controll again - Bull Dog - Bob Walson PhD
• Bugscope Team Thanks Bob.
• Bugscope Team we appreciate you getting on and trying it out today
• Bugscope Team I hope to have the 'scope resolving better when you get on
• Guest Will any of these preset images be available on your website and where?
  Bugscope Team yes, the website is: http://bugscope.itg.uiuc.edu/members/2007-062, but to access *everything* in that site, you'll need to login as the teacher, which you can do with the password: elizabeth. any questions about accessing later, just email bugscope@bugscope.itg.uiuc.edu
• Bugscope Team in the 2007-062 session online
• Bugscope Team it will be listed with the school's name as well until we change that
• 12:45pm
• Guest What is the working distance on the present image on the viewer?
• Bugscope Team 7.5 mm
• Bugscope Team actually 8.7 now
• Bugscope Team we have to be careful about short working distances with the taller insects/arthropods in the 'scope
• Bugscope Team and if you were to go to a preset the z would change to the long WD again
• Guest OK - I have an old ElectroScan E3 (now FEI) and use it for undergraduates at Butler U. 7.5 mm is the value we start with also.

• Bugscope Team do you have a W or LaB6 gun?

• Bugscope Team this is a field-emission 'scope
• Bugscope Team and it is an ESEM as well
• Bugscope Team ca. 1999
• Guest We us W and use the high vac ion pump with the W, so the filaments are cheaper and we do not have field emision, ca 1990
• Bugscope Team do you keep it under contract or fix it yourself?

• 12:51pm
• Bugscope Team really? who works out of Texas? Kurt Gunderson? Mike Kearney?
• Bugscope Team Sounds like you have a special deal.

• Guest NO - I will have to look up his name since it has been two years since he visited and helped me and email it to you. my email is rwalson@butler.edu

• Bugscope Team hey no sweat we have a contract and a guy in Chicago, or Kansas City, or Cincinnati or even someone in Arizona

• Bugscope Team sjrobin@uiuc.edu

• Guest What is the sample now?
• 12:56pm
• Bugscope Team i think this is a skipper wing scale...

• Guest Scott - check out the site indianamicroscopy.org - we have a meeting on Nov 7th in Indianapolis that someone there might be interesed in here in Indy.

• Bugscope Team okay I saw today about the meeting
• Bugscope Team Bob if you are done we will free up the 'scope for someone else. But be sure to write or call if oyu need anything.
• Bugscope Team sjrobin@uiuc.edu 217 265 5071
• Bugscope Team no typos there, for a change
• Guest Thanks for everything and I will be saying good bye till I get a Monday time with you again.
• Bugscope Team or bugscope@itg.uiuc.edu
• Bugscope Team Thanks Bob!
• Bugscope Team We appreciate you logging in today.