Session 2011-086 with Prospect School

Application

The School

The Class

The Project

Miscellaneous

Live Session Transcript

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

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

• 1:25pm

• 1:31pm

• 1:37pm

• 1:43pm

• 1:51pm

• 1:56pm

• 2:03pm
• Bugscope Team presets are all made, and we are ready to roll!
• Bugscope Team Hello Mrs Durham!
• Bugscope Team Where are you from?
• Guest this is too cool! I am doing ec for a college education course!
• Guest I am from Kennewick, WA
• Bugscope Team Welcome to Bugscope!
• Bugscope Team Mrs D I am worried that today's classroom may not log in.
• Bugscope Team I have not heard from them yet, and they were due now.
• Guest why is that?
• Bugscope Team likely 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 Team anyway, I just gave you control of the microscope
• Bugscope Team if they show up I will give them control

• Bugscope Team haha zoom!

• Guest alright! i just need a few minutes!

• Bugscope Team that was the tip of the abdomen of the wasp, earlier
• 2:08pm
• Bugscope Team this is a roach claw, duh

• Bugscope Team this is one of the ants

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

• Bugscope Team you would do a screen capture -- sometimes it's printscreen
• Guest haha
• Bugscope Team this is all being saved but not quite in this configuration
• Bugscope Team http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2011-086
• Bugscope Team that is the member page for this session, and presently you are the only member
• Bugscope Team I can track down one of the ubernerds and ask...
• 2:14pm
• Guest that didn't open anything on my computer!
• Guest I have a prt sc key but it doesnt do anything
• Bugscope Team there'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
• Guest I figured it out!
• Bugscope Team okay you can come work for us now
• Bugscope Team but there are no windows down here in the basement
• Guest so how long do classrooms have this access for?
  Bugscope Team often we are up for an hour for a given classroom
• Bugscope Team we do only two sessions a week, and sometimes they do run longer, even for a few hours
• Guest thats cool, where are you located?
• Bugscope Team this is the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Serious Middle of Nowhere USA
• Bugscope Team we have been doing this for almost 13 years
• Bugscope Team K-12 outreach
• Bugscope Team it is super fun when there are kids on
• 2:19pm
• Bugscope Team obviously, perhaps, you can connect from anywhere in the world
• Guest wow!
• Bugscope Team we've done over 600 sessions
• Bugscope Team mostly with people in the U.S.
• Guest I will for sure be contacting you guys in a year or two when I have my own classroom!
  Bugscope Team when you apply tell us you tried us out one day
• Guest I will, I plan on being a middle school science teacher and this fits in perfectly!
• Bugscope Team there was an article about us in Science recently, and they gave us a prize...
• Bugscope Team that made us super popular all of a sudden, and now we have to book months ahead with classrooms
• Guest whoa! I will look that up!
• Guest I had no idea this existed until a couple weeks ago!
• Bugscope Team on the front Bugscope page you can see notice of it, and there's a link to the article
• Guest I'll check that out
• Guest how many of you are there? that do this?
• Bugscope Team I wrote something that went into Microscopy Today that explains it a little better.
• 2:24pm
• Bugscope Team Right 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 Team it's free...
• Guest I 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 Team I think it's good publicity for the University and the Beckman Institute
• Bugscope Team You can check out the archived sessions.
• Guest Thank you so much! This is an amazing program and I will spread the word on you guys here in WA
• Bugscope Team Thank You, Mrs D.
• Guest I already have done that!
  Bugscope Team ha of course
• Bugscope Team my lone customer for the day
• Guest are you a student?
  Bugscope Team no I'm an electron microscopist, and I manage the Microscopy Suite here at the nerd paradise
• Guest haha well better then nothing!
  Bugscope Team exactically
• Guest way better then a student then!
  Bugscope Team well I have a job...
• Guest thats true!
• Bugscope Team phone call...
• 2:29pm
• Bugscope Team still me, on another confuser
• Bugscope Team okay I am back in the unreal world, whatever
• Bugscope Team I know you have to go to class.
• Bugscope Team see you online, and Thank You, Mrs D
• Bugscope Team I'm shutting down but very much appreciate getting to talk with you.