Session 2010-142 with JENKS MIDDLE SCHOOL

Application

The School

The Class

The Project

Miscellaneous

Live Session Transcript

Connected on 2011-01-14 10:00:00 from Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

• 8:48am
• Bugscope Team sample is being coated right now
• Bugscope Team venting chamber
• 8:55am
• Bugscope Team sample is now pumping down, in chamber
• 9:02am

• 9:07am

• 9:13am

• 9:19am

• 9:25am

• 9:31am

• 9:36am

• 9:41am
• Bugscope Team we are ready to roll!
• 9:49am

• 10:32am
• Guest scott, what is her name again?
• Bugscope Team Suzanne
• Guest talking to her now
• Bugscope Team cool
• Guest she's waiting for the computer to boot up
• Bugscope Team Alex if you want to do this from admin, go to the bugscope home page and add /admin
• Bugscope Team and then use your login and normal password
• Guest hi there
• Bugscope Team Yay!
• 10:37am
• Bugscope Team Mrs Giddens!
• Guest welcome to bugscope!
• Bugscope Team hello!
• Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
• Bugscope Team do you see the butterfly head?
• Teacher Yes
• Bugscope Team Mrs G you have control of the microscope now, if you want to drive.
• Bugscope Team do you see the white/blue arrows, left and right? if you click on the left one, the screen will move to the left, and you can see all of the presets.

• Bugscope Team if you click on one of those presets, the 'scope will drive to that place
• Guest that curled up thin thing is the moth proboscis

• Bugscope Team now we are looking at the eye, to the upper left, and as Alex says, the proboscis is the coiled thing
• Bugscope Team the proboscis is coiled, neatly packed away, unless the butterfly extends it to feed
• Teacher Students would like to see an image of the wings, please.

• 10:42am
• Teacher thank you. we found the image thumbnails.

• Bugscope Team this is one of the scales, or a few of the scales, from the white portion of the wing
• Bugscope Team be sure and let us know when you have any questions, about anything.

• Bugscope Team also, if you happen to have more time, we can run longer today
• Bugscope Team this is the edge of the coiled proboscis
• Bugscope Team the proboiscis has tiny spikes on it that help it hold onto the inside of the flower as it hovers

• Teacher Do you have a way, in the future, to investigate the Cabbage White Butterfly's digestive system?
  Bugscope Team well we could cut one open, like a kid with a new drum and a knife, and see what's inside.
• Bugscope Team we could cut one open and see if we can see anything interesting. I did a micro ct scan of a caddisfly larva and I could see the digestive tract really well, but that's a whole other machine.

• Bugscope Team maybe what Cate suggested is a good idea -- we could try that and send you a short movie of the x-ray images

• Bugscope Team this preset moved a bit from the time we made it -- evidence that this is, of course, live imaging
• Teacher That would be great if you could catch images of the digestive tract for us.
• 10:48am
• Bugscope Team Cate has been putting anything interesting she can find into the microCT
• Teacher Andres asks, "If you view things in an electro microscope with vacuum space, how do you keep the subject from exploding?
• Bugscope Team this is the surface of the antenna
• Bugscope Team you can see mold spores on it, but most of the fine features are probably pheromone receptors -- so the butterfly can pick up chemical scents in the air
• Teacher See Andres' question?
• Teacher mold spores! interesting!

• Bugscope Team we only see you logged in Mrs. Giddens
• Bugscope Team I just moved the 'scope to this spore capsule, and you can see the mold spores clustered around it
• Teacher I typed his question. Twice for you.
• Bugscope Team thank you!
• Teacher Andres asks, " If you view tings in an electron microscope with vacuum space, how do you keep the subject from exploding?
  Bugscope Team If a sample is wet, it will not pump down until the water is gone. If there is water inside the sample, like in a spider, it may burst open while we are imaging it, and then the microscope vacuum goes down -- everything shuts off until the vacuum is better
• 10:53am
• Bugscope Team sometimes we will put spiders in the microscope chamber, and their abdomens are still so juicy that they pop/explode
• Bugscope Team so we keep things from exploding by ensuring that they are dry when we put them in
• Bugscope Team Good Question!
• Teacher Thank you for your time. I will reschedule another day/time with you.
• Bugscope Team if you have another computer, or other computers, students can log in. how is Andres logged in?
• Bugscope Team for example, we can run sessions and connect with a whole computer lab full of students

• Bugscope Team I just changed us to a new place...
• Teacher Andres is not logged in,,,,,,,i typed the question for him
• Teacher using quote marks
• Bugscope Team good! I was worried about not having seen his question!
• Teacher we have laptops we could use for our next session.
• Bugscope Team this is from one of the cabbage white dudes you sent
• Bugscope Team the outside of the proboscis
• Teacher Hoping for Technology Gods that day.
• Teacher Students are gone.
• Bugscope Team with pollen on it, one grain of pollen
• Bugscope Team oh no!
• Teacher =o(
• 10:58am
• Bugscope Team Mrs G if you have time to stay you can click through the presets and thus save them to your database so the kids can see them from the archive of your session on the home page
• Bugscope Team or from the home page
• Teacher Look for my next session request. Always cool to participate in this experience with you.
• Teacher -save to database. good idea. thank you.
• Bugscope Team https://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2010-142
• Bugscope Team everything we are doing now, and starting with Alex asking your name as he gets ready to call you, is archived on the page below

• Bugscope Team do you have time to cruise around or do we need to let you go?

• 11:03am

• Bugscope Team Mrs G I drove around and captured most of the other presets so they will show up in your database. I am sorry we had such a short connection with you today.