Connected on 2012-03-01 12:30:00 from , , Turks and Caicos Islands
- 12:01pm
- Bugscope Team we have just finished the presets and are ready to roll
- Bugscope Team yes! good to go!
- Bugscope Team this is a leafhopper
- 12:06pm
- Bugscope Team hi John
- Bugscope Team where are you?
- Guest Hello - Austin Texas
- Bugscope Team haha I am talking w my mom in Austin right now
- Guest :)
- Bugscope Team Dude I gave you control of the 'scope if you want.
- Bugscope Team you can select from the presets, change mag, etc.
- Bugscope Team antenna and eye
- Bugscope Team the eye is lower right
- Bugscope Team compound eye
- Bugscope Team the presets are available on the lefthand screen
- Bugscope Team if you click on one the 'scope will drive to that place on the stub
- 12:11pm
- Guest wow very cool
- Bugscope Team you're a natural
- Guest a former co-worker of mine has done some projects with you before
- Bugscope Team totally cool
- Guest I'm not interrupting anything am i?
- Bugscope Team we're set up to work w a school in Turks & Caicos
- Bugscope Team and I'm off the phone with my mom
- Bugscope Team they're connecting at 12:30, so we're cool, DaddyO
- Bugscope Team would I recognize your coworker?
- 12:16pm
- Guest great. I work with an Education Telecommunications Network
Bugscope Team sweet
- Bugscope Team we've been doing this for 13 years
- Guest Gerri Magalia
Bugscope Team oh not sure I remember
- Guest We are trying to highlight some of these great tools on our website
- Guest I was looking at broadband intensive web applications
- Guest tetnplus.net
Bugscope Team cool I will look it up
- Bugscope Team we do this twice a week, and it is often the most fun thing we do during a week. the kids get really excited
- Guest but we want to add a section on advanced apps like bugscope
- Guest We deal primarily with video conferences
Bugscope Team we purposely don't do video
- Guest is text chat the primary means of interaction
- Bugscope Team the 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
- Guest makes sense to me.
- Bugscope Team a downside is that we do not have benchmarks or measures of how effective we might be. we leave that up to the teachers
- 12:21pm
- Bugscope Team it'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 Team we're set up to work with K through 12, and however the school is equipped, this works
- Guest ?
- Guest so one guest is given control at a time
Bugscope Team yes one person is given control at a time or there would be anarchy
- Bugscope Team in 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!
- Guest lol
- Bugscope Team when the teacher logs in, she or he shows up in red on the righthand screen and has control automatically
- Bugscope Team but we can confer control to anyone we want
- Bugscope Team students log in in blue, and our software is set up to detect that they are in the same domain
- Guest So 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 Team absolutely no problem, John. our biggest trouble is that we have become popular and are usually booked months in advance
- 12:27pm
- Bugscope Team we 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 Team we share the microscope with researchers, so we can do this only an average of two times per week
- Guest I can think of worse problems
Bugscope Team haha Yeah
- Guest Allright, I'll get out of your hair before your classes come in. Thanks for chatting with me
Bugscope Team good to talk with you, John. Thank you.
- Bugscope Team hope they haven't forgotten us
- 12:34pm
- Bugscope Team ...
- 12:49pm
- Bugscope Team I 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 Team I'll save the sample.
- 1:28pm
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- 1:35pm
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- 1:40pm
- Bugscope Team sweet!
- Bugscope Team Hi Fran!
- 1:45pm
- Bugscope Team you now have control of the microscope
- Bugscope Team there are eight presets on the lefthand screen that you can select from, by clicking
- Bugscope Team the microscope will drive to that place
- Bugscope Team I just clicked the preset for the wasp head
- Bugscope Team you 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 Team you can focus and change brightness/contrast as well
- Teacher Hi guys
- Teacher Thanks for setting me up
- Bugscope Team phew I am glad you are on
- Bugscope Team I am so sorry -- I messed the time zones up
- Teacher Have some teachers here with me
- Bugscope Team totally cool
- Bugscope Team please tell them I apologize
- Teacher They are seeing the message....no problem
- Teacher Which insect are we viewing right now?
- Bugscope Team if you click on the lefthand arrow you can see that we have 7 presets from which to choose, right now
- Bugscope Team this is the head of a wasp
- Bugscope Team you can see its compound eyes, and its mandibles, which open side to side like a gate
- 1:50pm
- Bugscope Team you can see that one of the antennae is busted off
- Bugscope Team the little 'feelers' below the mandibles are palps, which help the wasp taste and manipulate food
- Bugscope Team you have the option, because you are driving -- you have control -- to change mag, etc.
- Bugscope Team I just did that, you can see
- Bugscope Team students, if they have computers, as in a computer lab, can also log in
- Bugscope Team students can ask us questions, and they can also be given control if you let us do that
- Teacher they would like to see the entire body of the wasp
Bugscope Team the wasp is so big we cannot see all of it at one time
- Bugscope Team this is the thorax, which is what the six legs are attached to
- Bugscope Team you can see that there is some fungus on its thorax
- Bugscope Team we are still on the thorax
- Bugscope Team this, now, is the abdomen
- Bugscope Team and you can see the wings, folded, to the sides
- Bugscope Team now you can see the stinger, which is dirty
- 1:56pm
- Teacher please let us see the fruit fly
- Bugscope Team this is a closeup of the antenna, showing some of the chemoreceptors the wasp uses when it smells the air
- Bugscope Team the fruit fly is smaller and we can likely see all of it at once
- Bugscope Team this is part of the fruitfly's compound eye
- Bugscope Team the individual facets are called ommatidia
- Bugscope Team the little spikes are said to help the fruitfly sense wind speed and direction
- Bugscope Team there is some dust-like stuff on the surface of the fruitfly
- Bugscope Team this is one of its claws
- Teacher which part is this?
Bugscope Team this is one of six claws
- Bugscope Team there are two hook-like parts and the frilly part is what it uses to help it stick to ceilings, glass, surfaces...
- 2:01pm
- Bugscope Team this is much larger -- the grasshopper's claw
- Bugscope Team one of them
- Bugscope Team this is the leafhopper
- Bugscope Team the bubble to the left of it is silver paint
- Teacher why are grasshoppers poisonous to cattle
Bugscope Team it may be what they eat, or it may be that they simply cannot be digested
- Bugscope Team the exoskeleton is made of chitin, like our fingernails
- Bugscope Team or like a shrimp shell
- Bugscope Team I imagine if cattle eat a lot of them there is a problem digesting the chitin
- Teacher bye guys
- Teacher thank you, we have to go, it was a pleasure, we will sign up for another session and stay in touch
Bugscope Team Thank You!
- Bugscope Team Bye!
